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Wilson Ramos leaned on a fence as four pitchers – Stephen Strasburg, Gio Gonzalez, Ross Detwiler and Drew Storen – lined up side-by-side and threw bullpen sessions, the start to the Nationals' first workout of spring. Wearing silver shin guards and a silver chest protector, Ramos watched them finish and then stepped behind the plate as the next group arrived.
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Ramos, sitting by his locker with a bag of ice wrapped around his knee, felt his knee tire more today than it would have prior to his injury. Duke threw two balls in the dirt during his session, and rather than try to slide on his knees and block, Ramos only flipped his glove to stop the ball.
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A Malayan tiger. Woodland Park Zoo will unveil to media on March 22 design plans for new Malayan tiger and sloth bear exhibits.
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JoJo, the zoo's 20-year-old, female Sumatran tiger, will enjoy a morning meat-and-bone treat in the zoo's current, 60-year-old exhibit. Nearby, large-scale exhibit renderings and a complete 3D tabletop scale model of the new, 2-acre complex will show how the space will be transformed into a state-of-the-art, naturalistic environment more than three times the size of the current exhibits.
Using sustainable design, the new exhibits will provide tigers, sloth bears, Asian small-clawed otters, and other species representing the biodiversity of tropical Asia with a naturalistic, enriching environment that evokes lush forests and encourages natural behaviors. Tigers will stalk "prey" as they chase a lure line that runs through the exhibit, jostle trees to retrieve snacks, nap under the roots of a tropical tree, splash in a shallow pool and care for cubs in a spacious exhibit built to accommodate multiple generations.
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International Demand for U.S. Assets Declined in June
International demand for U.S. financial assets fell in June from the previous month's inflows, as investors saw Europe's leaders moving toward a resolution of their financial crisis.
Net buying of long-term equities, notes and bonds totaled $9.3 billion during the month, a drop from net purchases of $55.9 billion in May, the Treasury Department said today in Washington. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News projected net buying of $40 billion of long-term assets, according to the median estimate.
Including short-term securities such as stock swaps, foreigners bought a net $16.7 billion in June, compared with net purchases of $121.3 billion the previous month. Net foreign purchases of U.S. Treasuries fell to $32.4 billion in June from $45.9 billion the previous month.
"The U.S. was not the safe haven it was earlier in the year for global funds as questions over the sustainability of the U.S. recovery cropped up," Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. in New York, said in an e-mail after the report was released. "Credit concerns seemed to be paramount as the selling of corporate bonds has been sizeable."
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U.S. assets have been attractive to investors this year as European Union leaders face a worsening debt crisis. The euro- area economy shrank in the second quarter and tougher budget cuts forced at least six nations into recessions. Gross domestic product in the 17-nation currency bloc fell 0.2 percent from the first quarter, when it stagnated, according to European Union data released yesterday.
Mike Englund, chief economist at Action Economics LLC in Boulder, Colorado, said purchases of Treasuries in June remained "relatively large" even if net buying of U.S. assets was "fairly modest."
With the world's largest economy and deepest financial markets, the U.S. has been a shelter for investors at a time when Europe is struggling to contain its sovereign-debt crisis and Chinese growth is slowing.
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Estimates of foreign purchases of long-term U.S. assets in June ranged from net buying of $20 billion to $85 billion, according to six economists surveyed by Bloomberg before the report.
Treasuries fell today, sending 10-year yields to an almost three-month high, on speculation the Federal Reserve will put off more stimulus measures. The 10-year yield rose as much as five basis points to 1.79 percent and was four basis points higher at 10:16 a.m. in New York.
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One down. Four to go. As unlikely as winning the next four may be, it's possible. You have to win round one before you can win round two.
And win they did with a convincing victory over a very short-handed St. John's team. Pitt scored over 70 for just the fifth time in Big East play this season against the Red Storm. But they other 71 points will likely be forgotten in place of one ally-op dunk from Tray Woodall to Nasir Robinson (via the PG):
Robinson's flush came in the midst of a game-defining run late in the first half and gave his teammates the momentum necessary to run away from St. John's for a 73-59 victory in the first round of the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden.
"I didn't know he could dunk," sophomore Lamar Patterson joked in the locker room, just loud enough for Robinson to hear him. "He surprised me. I never saw him dunk before in my life."
But Patterson wasn't joking when he said the play turned the tide of the game. It came on a fastbreak with 15 seconds remaining before halftime, and it capped a 13-2 run that left Pitt with a 33-28 lead at intermission.
"We needed that momentum and we just brought that momentum out in the second half," Patterson said. "It was a big play. A senior gave it to us, and it's what we needed."
A bit more on the banged up Robinson's dunk (via the Trib):
"For four years he's been bothering me," Woodall said. "I definitely knew he was ready for that."
Robinson, who has his knee drained a few times per week, gave Pitt a 33-28 halftime lead with the dunk, which ended a 13-2 surge.
"I always tell (Woodall) at practice (to throw the alley-oop)," Robinson said. "Sometimes he doesn't throw it. Sometimes he does. Today, I made eye contact with him, and he threw it up and I got it."
Sophomore J.J. Moore said the rest of the team was surprised to see Robinson, generously listed at 6-foot-5, elevate so high.
"At practice, he never really does that much because his knee is bothering him," Moore said. "We hopped up off the bench, and we were hyped. That just got the team ready."
But the story of the game might have been Pitt's defense, which finally performed at a high level. Pitt held St. John's under 60 points and under 35% shooting. Their shooting numbers were propped up by Big East Rookie of the Year Moe Harkless, who was 10-for-16 with 25 points. It's been a tough year for St. John's between Steve Lavin's absence due to his fight with cancer and having just a 6 man rotation. It may get even tougher for the Red Storm as Harkless is set to test the NBA waters already.
Leading the scoring for Pitt was Ashton Gibbs and Nasir Robinson who finally won their first Big East Tournament game and scored 35 total. Lamar Patterson and Flipp scored nine, while JJ Moore scored eight on a poor shooting night while played only 17 minutes.
Pitt was once again let down by their big men, with Taylor, Zanna and Gilbert combining for seven points and 11 rebounds despite St. John's having no real inside presence. Steven Adams can't arrive fast enough.
Tray Woodall was also bad, turning the ball over six times.
But a win is a win is a win. A rematch with Georgetown is next.
(A look at today's game against Georgetown after the jump)
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So Pitt lives to fight another day. Today, they'll take on Georgetown at 2:00. ESPN2/ESPN3.com or 93.7 The Fan. For what it's worth, Georgetown has struggled as of late away from DC, including their loss in Pittsburgh (via the Trib):
Georgetown (22-7), which received a first-round bye, is 6-3 since losing to Pitt. That includes a 14-point win over Connecticut, a 30-point win against South Florida, a 21-point win over Villanova and an 18-point victory against Notre Dame. All of those wins were at home, and the losses came on the road — at Syracuse, Seton Hall and Marquette.
"They are a very experienced team," Dixon said. "They are very patient and skilled."
In the first game against Georgetown, Nasir Robinson scored a season-high 23 points, making all nine of his field-goal attempts. Lamar Patterson scored a career-high 18 points and added seven assists. Georgetown's top scorer, Jason Clark, made three baskets in 38 minutes to finish with nine points, going 0 for 5 from 3-point range.
Pitt, which never trailed, had assists on 20 of its 25 baskets. The Panthers, who are 5-1 in their past six games against Georgetown, shot 52 percent and outrebounded the Hoyas, 35-23.
"In (rebounding and defense), we were awful," Georgetown coach John Thompson III said after that game. "They got everything they wanted and, when they didn't, they got the rebound. And that's the difference."
To get to the finals, Georgetown has to go through Pitt, Cincinnati and Syracuse, all three teams the lost to in the regular season (via the Washington Post):
In fact, it could be argued that the Panthers are the one team Clark and the Hoyas didn't want the face in their first game, because it was Nasir Robinson and Pittsburgh who picked apart Georgetown's vaunted defense en route to the victory earlier this season.
Miscommunication left gaping holes that Robinson and fellow forwards Lamar Patterson and Talib Zanna exploited for wide-open shots around the rim. Robinson shot 9 for 9 from the floor and the Panthers connected on 52.1 percent of their field goals.
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I'm a huge fan of the practice of sonification. As a musician and science lover, I find it captivating; so anytime I catch it in the news I get very excited.
What is sonification?"Sonification is the use of non-speech audio to extract information from data. It represents the sound analogue to graphical visualization. The method is applied in several disciplines from economy to medicine to physics." [1]
How is it useful?
I found a wonderful explanation of the potential of this technology in the same paper quoted above, published back in 2005.
"Sonification offers the chance to detect structures in the data sets that have been hidden to the methods applied so far. Data analysis through sonification might especially be useful for displaying results depending on multiple parameters and/or belonging to higher space-time dimensions."
Here is the relevant current event:
News out of University of Michigan applauds the new sonification efforts of doctoral student Robert Alexander.
"Listen to solar storm activity in new sonification video"
"The researcher who created it is Robert Alexander, a University of Michigan design science doctoral student. Alexander is a composer with a NASA fellowship to study how representing information as sound could aid in data mining."
-Nicole Casal Moore University of Michigan
Video Credit: University of Michigan / Robert Alexander
Released by University of Michigan found via Space.com
I really don't want to put the team down, but I think the presentation of information in this article is misleading. The end product is both fascinating and useful, yes. The article, however, seems to suggest that sonification as applied to current science is a novel thing.
The author quotes Jim Raines, a lead mission operations engineer in U-M's Space Physics Research Lab.
"Robert is giving us another research tool," Raines said. "We're used to looking at wiggly-line plots and graphs, but humans are very good at hearing things. We wonder if there's a way to find things in the data that are difficult to see."
This kind of talk is extremely dumbed-down, and seems very strange to me. Human pattern seeking tendencies indeed allow us to spot some anomalies quicker than data crunching.
Alexander's methodology, or perhaps the application of the process to different subject matter may be a new development, but sonification has been around at least since the invention of the geiger counter, as the author of the article mentions.
In this video from late 2010, "ptolemy2000" shows us an animation set to the sonification of an LHC collision at CERN. It's a very exciting crescendo. All the sound is data translation, except for the filming of the control center in the beginning (which is a little high pitched.)
"Sonifying the LHC at CERN"
Video Credit: CERN/LHC/ ptolemy2000
Wonderful, isn't it?
CERN, in a paper released in 2010, reveals at great length the sonification used for the data analysis of experiments with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC.)
"...[The particle beam] oscillation frequencies range from a few tens of Hz to a few kHz, therefore they are audible without any further processing. With this sonification, many details of beam dynamics can be monitored by listening, in parallel to standard observation usually done in the frequency domain by performing real-time Fourier analysis of the beam signals." [2]
(20Hz-20kHz is the audible frequency range of an undamaged human ear)
They later explain the setup as experienced by the scientists monitoring the audio signal. Personally, this blows my mind.
This is a visualization for the following description:
Scheme of the Sonification"The listener is virtually placed in the center, where the beams collide. The two read-out chambers are situated to the left and right hand side. The strings in the center of the read-out chamber are shorter and higher pitched. The tracks start playing in the point of collision and evolve simultaneously to the left and right hand side. The volume of the sounds represents the charge deposit of the electrons. And finally, in order to not confuse tracks that are close to each other, they sound slightly different - as different instruments of an orchestra. If more electrons are hitting wires within a short time, the sounds overlap and auditory grouping happens. Thus we hear a continuous and coherent sound for each track rather than single tones for each single hit." [2]
Related to sonification is the processing of "infrasound" into audible signal. Infrasound actually is audio signal, but we can't hear it. This data is, as with the techniques shown above, processed in such a way for us to hear what we otherwise couldn't.
I've written about this technique a couple times before. Once on infrasound resonating the eyeball to create visual artifacts reported as ghosts:
[ Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Vic Tandy on Ghosts and Infrasound ]
And another bit, more recently, here:
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"Cougar" Ad For Air New Zealand Is Equal Parts Funny And Offensive
Off-fun-sive? Hilari-sexist? Don't mind me: I'm just trying to think up a word to describe ads that I know demean women, but I actually think are pretty funny. Take this commercial for Air New Zealand, a faux-nature documentary about "cougars" and their prey. I'd be happy if I never again heard the word "cougar," "puma" or "cheetah" to describe a sexually active woman in her 40s—but at least these folks are tongue-in-cheek about it. What do you think? [YouTube]


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Dantel Pension is a welcoming hotel in Antalya, a renowned historical city on the southern Turkish coast. The city boasts a deep cultural and historical heritage and lots of places worth to be seen.
Dantel Pension enjoys an amazing location in Antalya,ensures its' valued guests quick and easy access to allof the city's major sights and attractions and it is the ideal starting point to explore Antalya and its surroundings, travelling around the ancient ruines of past civilisations.This family-run property welcomes its valued guests in a warm and cosy environment, offering nice and fully equipped rooms as well as other enjoyable facilities.
Dantel Pension offers comfortable accommodation single, double and triple guest rooms (Double rooms
come equipped with a double bed, twin beds can be arranged upon request),
all with private bathroom..Non-smoking rooms and rooms for disabled guests are available upon request.
Every detail has been cared for to ensure guests the utmost comfort in a harmonious and serene atmosphere.
Guest amenities at Dantel Pension, a restaurant, a panoramic roof terrace,garden
a free private car park, a shuttle service from/to the airport or bus station as well as a friendly staff always at your disposal to give you useful advises on how to get the best from your holiday in Turkey
A continental Turkish breakfastis served in our lovely garden from 8 a.m. until 10.30 a.m.
Room Service is available 7/24.
Room amenities include individually controlled air-conditioning, heating facilities and TV.FREE high-speed wireless Internet access,You can ask for ironing facilities and hair dryers at the reception.
Roof terrace has overlooking view the mountains and the sea.
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we arrived late in the evening and the guesthouseboss were very friendly,gave us our room and talked with us -during drinking a beer- about all around the world. it is an old house with a few nice rooms and really a wonderfull place in the center of the old town kaleici,clean, quiet and simply the best :0)!!!
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I am sorry, I cannot answer. This man discredits your agency. And of course I'll never again will appeal to your services to make a reservation.
When I arrived to his place he asked me to wait till he could find the reservation. Then, he asked me to show the confirmation with the price. Next he invited me to move, he took my luggage and conducted me to Pension Özman, because the price we had agreed upon was too low. He told me in a very rude manner that if I didn't like it I could start to look for something else.
Pension Özman : extremely basic, no hot water, no heating working, very small room. Good location.
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the location was great. in heart of charming old city. the pension was clean and not bad. but what destroyed my impression and i will never book in this pension again, is the manager, Yaman. he was nice at first, but if you ask him questions to clarify, he is kinda rude and very impatient.
it gives you a feeling that you can't ask for clarifications. Also, we booked a room for 4 people. Then after paying he tells us only a room is available for 2 people and he booked my 2 sons in another pension nearby. The pension where my 2 sons were booked was not as nice as the place we booked, but it made up, because the manager of that other pension was a lot nicer than Yaman.
It's a pity, cuz the place was nice, but with an impatient manager, who needs to book there.
Good thing it was just an overnight stay.
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Unisem, a global provider of semiconductor assembly and test services, today announced that it will be exhibiting at the following conferences this Fall:
- MEMS Industry Group's Shanghai 2014 Conference on Sept 11 in Shanghai, China.
- iMAPS 47th International Symposium on Microelectronics on Oct 14-15 in San Diego, CA.
- 2014 MEPTEC Semiconductor Packaging Technology Symposium on Oct 23 in Santa Clara, CA.
- International Wafer-Level Packaging Conference on Nov 12-13 in Santa Clara, CA.
The company will also participate in IEEE-CPMT's ESTC 2014: 5th Electronics System-Integration Technology Conference on Sept 16-18 in Helsinki, Finland but will not be exhibiting.
About Unisem
Unisem is a global provider of semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) services for many of the world's most successful electronics companies. We offer an integrated suite of packaging and test services such as wafer bumping, wafer probing, wafer grinding; a wide range of leadframe and substrate IC packaging; wafer level CSP; and RF, analog, digital, and mixed signal test. Our turnkey services include design, assembly, test, failure analysis, and electrical, mechanical, and thermal characterization and modeling. Unisem is an established MEMS OSAT with several years of experience in volume consumer and automotive production, in addition to a broad package portfolio covering multiple applications. The company has factory locations in Ipoh, Malaysia; Chengdu, People's Republic of China; Batam, Indonesia; and Sunnyvale, USA. Unisem is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
For additional information on Unisem, please visit: www.unisemgroup.com. Follow Unisem on Twitter and on Linkedin.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Calligo, an innovative cloud service provider offering mid-sized companies the highest levels of data privacy and security, has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo ®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Calligo offers unparalleled application performance guarantees, commercial flexibility and a personalised support service from its globally located cloud plat...
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IoT is at the core or many Digital Transformation initiatives with the goal of re-inventing a company's business model. We all agree that collecting relevant IoT data will result in massive amounts of data needing to be stored. However, with the rapid development of IoT devices and ongoing business model transformation, we are not able to predict the volume and growth of IoT data. And with the lack of IoT history, traditional methods of IT and infrastructure planning based on the past do not app...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that DXWorldExpo has been named "Global Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Digital Transformation is the key issue driving the global enterprise IT business. Digital Transformation is most prominent among Global 2000 enterprises and government institutions.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Datera, that offers a radically new data management architecture, has been named "Exhibitor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo ®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Datera is transforming the traditional datacenter model through modern cloud simplicity. The technology industry is at another major inflection point. The rise of mobile, the Internet of Things, data storage and Big...
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With tough new regulations coming to Europe on data privacy in May 2018, Calligo will explain why in reality the effect is global and transforms how you consider critical data. EU GDPR fundamentally rewrites the rules for cloud, Big Data and IoT. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Adam Ryan, Vice President and General Manager EMEA at Calligo, will examine the regulations and provide insight on how it affects technology, challenges the established rules and will usher in new levels of diligence...
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Sudarshan Krishnamurthi, a Senior Manager, Business Strategy, at Cisco Systems, discussed how IT and operational technology (OT) work together, as opposed to being in separate siloes as once was traditional. Attendees learned how to fully leverage the power of IoT in their organization by bringing the two sides together and bridging the communication gap. He also looked at what good leadership must entail in order to accomplish this, and how IT managers can be the ...
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DX World EXPO, LLC., a Lighthouse Point, Florida-based startup trade show producer and the creator of "DXWorldEXPO® - Digital Transformation Conference & Expo" has announced its executive management team. The team is headed by Levent Selamoglu, who has been named CEO. "Now is the time for a truly global DX event, to bring together the leading minds from the technology world in a conversation about Digital Transformation," he said in making the announcement.
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As businesses adopt functionalities in cloud computing, it's imperative that IT operations consistently ensure cloud systems work correctly – all of the time, and to their best capabilities. In his session at @BigDataExpo, Bernd Harzog, CEO and founder of OpsDataStore, presented an industry answer to the common question, "Are you running IT operations as efficiently and as cost effectively as you need to?" He then expounded on the industry issues he frequently came up against as an analyst, and ...
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Everything run by electricity will eventually be connected to the Internet. Get ahead of the Internet of Things revolution and join Akvelon expert and IoT industry leader, Sergey Grebnov, in his session at @ThingsExpo, for an educational dive into the world of managing your home, workplace and all the devices they contain with the power of machine-based AI and intelligent Bot services for a completely streamlined experience.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that SkyScale will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. SkyScale is a world-class provider of cloud-based, ultra-fast multi-GPU hardware platforms for lease to customers desiring the fastest performance available as a service anywhere in the world. SkyScale builds, configures, and manages dedicated systems strategically located in maximum-securit...
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"Outscale was founded in 2010, is based in France, is a strategic partner to Dassault Systémes and has done quite a bit of work with divisions of Dassault," explained Jackie Funk, Digital Marketing exec at Outscale, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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In the enterprise today, connected IoT devices are everywhere – both inside and outside corporate environments. The need to identify, manage, control and secure a quickly growing web of connections and outside devices is making the already challenging task of security even more important, and onerous. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Rich Boyer, CISO and Chief Architect for Security at NTT i3, discussed new ways of thinking and the approaches needed to address the emerging challenges of security i...
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Movie Title – Ferrari Ki Sawaari
Film Critic: Goher Iqbal Punn
Star Cast – Sharman Joshi, Ritwik Sahore and Boman Irani
Director – Rajesh Mapuskar
Producer – Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Screenplay by – Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajesh Mapuskar
Music Director – Pritam
Edited by – Deepa Bhatia
Cinematography– Sudhir Palsane
Distributed by – Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions
Genre – Sports / Comedy
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Ferrari Ki Sawaari, the film which has been oozing out quite high in the media and on the channels, eventually hits the screens today. The first time director Rajesh Mapuskar comes up with a unique subject to make a movie on. The banner of Vidhu Vinod Chopra always brings up something different. The movies made under this banner show that through work has been done before putting them on floors. Story and scripting is done very carefully in Vidhu Vinod Chopra's movies and since the script is the life of any movie, they take special care of it. This is the reason the movies churned out at VCP's platform are regarded high for creatively scribbled down screenplays. Majority of this production house's films work big time at the box office.
Ferrai Ki Sawaari is the production of Vidhu Vinod Chopra and this time around once again the story and screenplay have been given special attention and care. Rajkumar Hirani chooses a brilliant plot to make an interesting celluloid saga for the audiences who always seek something enticing from the house. The intelligent writer-director Rajkumar Hirani is famous for creating alluringly luminous stories and this time again he very intelligently generates a masterpiece for the director to do execution on.
Bollywood has now started growing wider and we witness variety of subjects on silver screen, which is a good sign and has to be applauded. Experimentation is being done that is imperative for an industry to grow worldwide and tread along with the counterpart 'Hollywood'. Vidhu Vinod Chopr's productions are the active parts of the experimentations in the industry.
Kayo (Ritwik Sahore), a 12 years old boy, is inspired by the cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar and he always dreams of playing cricket at the Lord's Cricket Stadium. Rusy (Sharman Joshi) is his father who is an honest head clerk. His only concern in life is to see his son happy but he is unable to fulfill his son's dream. Kayo's grandfather Deboo (Boman Irani) is a hopless and frustrated man. For a training camp at Lord's Cricket Stadium, Kayo gets selected and now the funds are needed to send him there. An incident happens which changes the thinking of Deboo and he too joins in his son to fulfill his grandson's sweet dream. To fulfill his son's dreams, Rusy does a small act of dishonesty for the first time in his life. He borrows a swanky red hot Ferrrari. The trouble is that he does not inform the vehicle's owner. There starts off a wild, puffing and bouncy ride of Ferrari that leads to horde of amazing characters.
Script is really enthralling though there are a few of faults but those are utterly ignorable when the overall product is scrumptious. Rajesh Mapuskar and Vidhu Vinod Chopra have done brilliance for writing such an amazingly catchy screenplay. The characterization, emotions and entertainment quotient all are found in the flick which lure the souls.
Rajesh Mapuskar shows off his dexterity as a brilliant storyteller. The execution is awesome and you find yourself glued to the screens extracting joys out of the film. Pritam scores feel-good music for the album and the songs work with the listeners. Vidya Balan's item number is already much popular among the audiences. Sudheer Palsane's cinematography is catchy. Deepa Bhatia's editing is good. Rajkumar Hirani impresses with dialogues writing.
Sharman Joshi shows his class with this act of a father of a kid. His acting skills are brilliant. We can witness his selection in Best Actor's category in upcoming movie awards. Boman Irani is in his usual best. Boman is a true asset of Hindi film industry. Whatever character is given, he enacts with such ease that you start loving him. Ritwik Sahore, a classy discovery, essays his part with gusto. Paresh Rawal does brilliance with his cameo. Rest of the cast too enacts well.
Final Verdict by the Critic:
A sensitive story, Ferrari Ki Sawaari is a luminous effort which must be applauded. Recommended.
Movie Details:
Ferrari Ki Sawaari marks the debut of Bollywood actor Sharman Joshi as a lead actor. Sharman for the first time in his career plays the lead role in a movie and Boman Irani will be there by his side playing an important character in the film. Ferrari Ki Sawaari basically is a sports film and will release during the Indian Premier League season. Vidhu Vinod Chopra has written the script of this movie and is producing in this movie under his own banner and the person handling the responsibility of direction for the movie is Rajesh Mapuskar. It is a small budget movie but definitely has a story that will appeal to masses.
Sharman Joshi and Vidhu Vinod Chopra have worked together before for the movie '3 Idiots' and it was a huge success, Sharman even won the award for best supporting actor for the same film at a prestigious award show in the year 2010. Sharman's acting skills have always been appreciated by the critics and since it is his first film in the lead he has been trying hard to give his best performance till date. According to Sharman Joshi this movie is just not all about laughter and comedy, it even has an heart touching story to it and a message to convey to the audiences and he is quite sure about the fact that this movie will appeal to masses of all ages and will be loved by them as they loved his previous movie '3 Idiots'.
In this movie Sharman Joshi will be seen driving a red Ferrari at some point of time. This Ferrari belongs to the Bollywood Superstar Sanjay Dutt. As Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Sanjay Dutt are close friends, Vidhu requested Sanjay to lend his Ferrari for the shooting purpose and Sanjay Dutt gladly accepted it. He not only gave his Ferrari for the shooting purpose he also gave driving lessons to Sharman Joshi in person as the later wasn't acquainted with driving a Ferrari. But after a few lesson from Sanjay himself, Sharman quickly learned the skills and became a pro at it. Later on Sanjay Dutt even offered Sharman to drive his Ferrari whenever he felt like.
Ferrari Ki Sawaari is going to be a good movie with a soul in it. People can definitely expect something good out of the movie as the people in it and working on it are really talented and have given some amazing movies and performances in the past. Though Ferrari Ki Sawaari is releasing in the midst of Indian Premier League, it still won't loose at the box-office and will do good business.


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Government Shutdown Impacts Local Lakes
Thinking about taking your boat to the lake this weekend? The government shutdown may determine which lakes are open and which are closed.
All federal government owned-and-run reservoirs are being closed because of the government shutdown. Pete Lucero, with the Bureau of Reclamation, says this will have an impact on one local area.
"Reclamation has determined that our recreation areas that are government managed will be closed for the duration of the shutdown. New Melones Lake, all of our camping, hiking, biking, access to the picnic areas, camping areas and boat launch are all closed," he said.
Lucero says the same goes for Lake Berryessa near Napa. Other reservoirs like Folsom, Shasta or Oroville, which are federally owned, but managed by State Parks may be experiencing some closures as well. All national parks, monuments, and federally owned areas are shutdown for the duration.
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WASHINGTON — A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that some companies with religious objections can avoid the contraceptives requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the first time the high court has declared that businesses can hold religious views under federal law.
The justices' 5-4 decision, splitting conservatives and liberals, means the Obama administration must search for a different way of providing free contraception to women who are covered under the health insurance plans of objecting companies.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his majority opinion, over a dissent from the four liberal justices, that forcing companies to pay for methods of women's contraception to which they object violates the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act. He said the ruling is limited and there are ways for the administration to ensure women get the birth control they want.
But White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the decision creates health risks for women, and he said Congress should take action to make sure they get coverage.
"President Obama believes that women should make personal health care decisions for themselves rather than their bosses deciding for them," Earnest said. "Today's decision jeopardizes the health of the women who are employed by these companies."
Contraception is among a range of preventive services that must be provided at no extra charge under the health care law that Obama signed in 2010. Nearly 30 million women receive birth control as a result of the health law, the government has said.
"This is truly a great day in America. The Supreme Court has reaffirmed the most basic principle upon which our country was founded: the free exercise of religion," U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said in a prepared statement. "Obamacare's contraceptive mandate was always unconstitutional, and I'm glad the Supreme Court defended this most fundamental freedom today."
U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, said on Monday, "Freedom of religion and our First Amendment rights must be protected and respected.
"The president and congressional Democrats supported this federal mandate, which conflicts with Louisiana values," Cassidy said. "It's not the government's responsibility to tell business owners the extent of which they can practice their faith in everyday business decisions. I applaud the Supreme Court's decision to stop Washington bureaucrats from taking away this religious liberty. This is a sacred freedom that must be preserved."
Benefits experts say they expect little impact from the ruling because employers use health benefits to recruit and retain workers. But one constitutional law scholar, Marci Hamilton of Yeshiva University, cautioned that more than 80 percent of U.S. corporations are closely held and she said they could "now be able to discriminate against their employees."
Two years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts cast the pivotal Supreme Court vote that saved the law in the midst of Obama's campaign for re-election. On Monday, Roberts sided with the four justices who would have struck down the law in its entirety, holding in favor of the religious rights of closely held corporations, like the Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and-craft stores that challenged the contraceptives provision.
Hobby Lobby is among roughly 50 businesses that have sued over covering contraceptives. Some, like the two involved in the Supreme Court case, are willing to cover most methods of contraception, as long as they can exclude drugs or devices that the government says may work after an egg has been fertilized.
But Monday's ruling would apply more broadly to other companies that do not want to pay for any of the 20 birth control methods and devices that have been approved by federal regulators.
Alito said the decision is limited to contraceptives. "Our decision should not be understood to hold that an insurance-coverage mandate must necessarily fall if it conflicts with an employer's religious beliefs," he said.
He suggested two ways the administration could deal with the birth control issue. The government could simply pay for pregnancy prevention, he said. Or it could provide the same kind of accommodation it has made available to religious-oriented, not-for-profit corporations.
Those groups can tell the government that providing the coverage violates their religious beliefs. At that point, creating a buffer, their insurer or a third-party administrator takes on the responsibility of paying for the birth control. The employer does not have to arrange the coverage or pay for it. Insurers get reimbursed by the government through credits against fees owed under other provisions of the health care law.
That accommodation is the subject of separate legal challenges, and the court said Monday that profit-seeking companies could not assert religious claims in such a situation.
Roger Villere, chairman of the Republican Party of Louisiana, released the following statement from regarding Monday's verdict: "Today's ruling by the Supreme Court reaffirms one of the most basic American rights — the freedom of religion protected by the First Amendment. The ruling is a victory for all Louisianans who believe strongly that the government should not be able to force people to violate their deeply held religious beliefs."
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was part of the majority, also wrote separately to say the administration can solve its problem easily. "The accommodation works by requiring insurance companies to cover, without cost sharing, contraception coverage for female employees who wish it," Kennedy said. He said that arrangement "does not impinge on the plaintiffs' religious beliefs."
Houses of worship and other religious institutions whose primary purpose is to spread the faith are exempt from the requirement to offer birth control.
In a dissent she read aloud from the bench, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the decision "potentially sweeping" because it minimizes the government's interest in uniform compliance with laws affecting the workplace. "And it discounts the disadvantages religion-based opt-outs impose on others, in particular, employees who do not share their employer's religious beliefs," Ginsburg said.
Leaders of women's rights groups blasted the decision by "five male justices," in the words of Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
The administration said a victory for the companies would prevent women who work for them from making decisions about birth control based on what's best for their health, not whether they can afford it. The government's supporters pointed to research showing that nearly one-third of women would change their contraceptive if cost were not an issue; a very effective means of birth control, the intrauterine device, can cost up to $1,000.
The contraceptives at issue before the court were the emergency contraceptives Plan B and ella, and two IUDs.
A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 85 percent of large American employers already had offered such coverage before the health care law required it.
Most working women will probably see no impact from the ruling, corporate health benefits consultants expect. Publicly traded companies are unlikely to inject religion into their employee benefit plans, said Mark Holloway, director of compliance services at the Lockton Companies, an insurance broker that serves medium-sized and growing employers.
"Most employers view health insurance as a tool to attract and retain employees," said Holloway. "Women employees want access to contraceptive coverage, and most employers don't have a problem providing that coverage. It is typically not a high-cost item."
It is unclear how many women potentially are affected by the high court ruling. Hobby Lobby is by far the largest employer of any company that has gone to court to fight the birth control provision.
The company has more than 15,000 full-time employees in more than 600 crafts stores in 41 states. Hobby Lobby is owned by the family of David Green, evangelical Christians who also own Mardel, a Christian bookstore chain.
The other company is Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. of East Earl, Pennsylvania, owned by a Mennonite family and employing 950 people in making wood cabinets.


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Apple's latest App of the Week: Spark Camera
The native iOS camera app keeps things simple, alright, but it can be a bit too simple for users in some situations, and leave a lot to be desired then. There are barely any options to shoot videos differently, in particular. That's where third party apps come in, and one of them, namely Spark Camera, is Apple's latest App of the Week. Read on below the break to know more about it.
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Yesterday's Rosary procession from Westminster Cathedral to the Brompton Oratory produced lots of prayers, or course, and lots of nice photos as well. Here is a link to a flicker collection.
Yesterday's Rosary procession from Westminster Cathedral to the Brompton Oratory produced lots of prayers, or course, and lots of nice photos as well. Here is a link to a flicker collection.
I'm like 98.8% certain my priest, who's on vacay in Europe right now, is in those pictures.
I wish we could have huge giant processions like that through the city here. Heck, the city royally messed with our Masses on Mother's Day to the point we had to cancel at least one just so they could have some sort of a run and shut down the streets. I want to take over the streets in a huge public profession of something traditionally Catholic. Something a little bit bigger than the parking lot and sidewalks outside the church. Things like these are cool, and they grab people's attention and remind them of that Old Time Religion.
Nice to see Fr Ronald Creighton-Jobe in the forefront of the photo. If you don't know him, you should make the effort his biography is very similoar to that of your own!
"This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque 'salon' with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West "saloon" with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven." – Fr. Z
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My CHALLENGE COINS for my 25th Anniversary of Ordination (26 May 1991) arrived.
I'll make a number of them available for exchange and in gratitude to special benefactors.
- Nehemiah 4:18
Joseph Ratzinger - The Feast of Faith"In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty. ... If all Catholics are obliged to oppose the legal recognition of homosexual unions, Catholic politicians are obliged to do so in a particular way, in keeping with their responsibility as politicians." CDF 2003
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God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith by Robert Card. Sarah
Buy it. Get one for your parish priests. UK HERE
- St. John Paul II
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We are now near the north fence of the cemetery. Beyond the fence is a stretch of woods, and, to the west, a pond; a few hundred feet beyond this is 143rd street, which passes between two wooded areas.
Over the years, various witnesses have reported encounters with phantom cars while driving past the cemetery.
A typical version of the story has the witness driving at night - possibly unaware that they are about to pass the cemetery - when they see a dark car of a model from several decades ago, either moving or parked alongside the road. As the mysterious car is approached, it suddenly vanishes without a trace, leaving the spectator mystified.
Local ghosthunter Richard Crowe experienced this phenomenon firsthand in 1975, driving past the cemetery at 10 pm and seeing a parked car evaporate as he passed it. He had another encounter in 1976, seeing a car vanish after entering the forest preserve entrance - in spite of the fact that there was a chain stretched across the driveway.


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Apple-cranberry crumble with lemon custard
Prep time
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Cook time
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Total time
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Apple-cranberry crumble with a luscious lemon custard.
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8 cups sliced, peeled apples
8 tablespoons dried cranberries
¼ cup granulated sugar
2 tablesooons custard powder
2 eggs
1 cup milk
zest of one lemon
1 teaspoon lemon extract
⅔ cup rolled oats
½ cup packed brown sugar
¼ cup whole wheat flour
4 tablespoons flax meal (ground flax seeds)
3 tablespoons butter, cold and cubed
Preheat oven to 350˚F
Lightly grease 8 small ramekins.
Layer apples and cranberries in the ramekins.
Whisk together sugar and custard powder.
Whisk in eggs, milk, lemon zest and lemon extract until frothy, pour over the apples.
In a bowl, combine the oats, brown sugar, flour and flax meal.
Add the butter cubes and, with your fingers mix well until the butter is pea-sized and well combined.
Sprinkle crumble over apples and custard.
bake until the apples are tender, the custard is bubbling and the crumble cripsy - about 35 minutes.
Serve warm or cold with whipped cream or ice-cream
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Hello, I'd like to help you with your question.
May I ask- how old is your husband? And have there been any recent difficulties or stress he has been through?
Thank you,
He turns 40 next month.
He was miserable at work and quit 2 years ago. We moved to a new state and he returned to school using his GI bill. He has since earned 1.5 masters degrees but has been unable to find a good job.
It sounds like your husband's symptoms could have many causes. The first one to explore is a physical cause. You always want to rule that out first because many physical disorders can cause emotional symptoms. So ask him if he will see his doctor. And if you feel your husband might not let the doctor know what is going on or if you just want some input, contact the doctor ahead of time. They may not be able to share with you what happens, but you can tell them anything you need to. That helps the doctor know what to look for.If your husband is cleared medically, then you are probably seeing an emotional reaction to something. At his age, it is unlikely that he would develop a serious mental health issue. So more than likely, he is having trouble with something going on in his life. The symptoms you describe sound closest to depression. Difficulty sleeping, changes in goals, eating habits and loss of interest in family and activities that he previously was interested in are all signs of depression. It could be that the changes he made a few years ago have not turned out the way he wanted them to. Or he could have other stressors going on that he has not shared with you. Either way, your husband would benefit from a full evaluation by a mental health therapist. That way, it can be determined what he has so he can receive treatment. Another way to find out what he might have is through resources and self help. Here are some links that can help you (and him) pinpoint what he might be feeling:http://www.helpguide.org/mental/depression_signs_types_diagnosis_treatment.htm http://www.medicinenet.com/depression/article.htm http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/problems/Mental_Illness_Mental_Disorders.htm Use these links to explore what you are seeing with your husband. And if he will participate with you, all the better. It can give you an idea of what he may be struggling with and with that, you will have a direction to help him.I hope this has helped you,Kate
Not enough information. I need some specific ideas not generalities.
I know he is depressed. I need to know what to do or say to him to keep him from leaving his family. He won't talk to anyone and is incapable of identifying any specific reason for his lack of interest in everyday life. He is a kind, courageous, strong man and his disinterest in all things good has me worried for his life.
Thanks for the additional information. It was not clear from your original description that you were aware that he is depressed or that he is considering leaving the family. I am sorry to hear that.
It can be very stressful when you cannot get someone to talk to you. And if your husband is depressed, keeping his thoughts and hurt inside can be part of why he won't share with you. Getting him to talk about his feelings can seem overwhelming.
What you can do is to keep encouraging him to talk. He may not seem to listen, but it may take several tries to get him to open up. And if you feel he will not listen to you, ask someone who he might listen to such as a close family member or friend. It is too hard to go this alone and support can help a lot.
Also, try talking to his doctor to see if he can help. Your husband may listen to him.
And if you feel your husband might hurt himself, then it is very important to talk to a professional about your husband's situation. His doctor or the local ER can help.
He may not be able to tell you why he feels as he does. Depression can build up over time or it can hit all at once. He may not know himself why he feels this way. And motivation is a huge factor with depression. So with that in mind, being there for him has more impact than you think. Just sitting with him or offering to help him may help. Here is a link to help:
Most of all, take care of yourself. It is very stressful to cope with someone who is depressed. Talk about how you feel, consider therapy for yourself, get as much support as you can. Spend some time away from home and enjoy yourself for a little while. It can give you time to organize your thoughts and to approach the situation with less stress.


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Birkenhead MP Frank Field is asking Parliament to make it illegal for the Church of England to discriminate against women when appointing bishops.
On Tuesday evening, the Church of England's Synod voted against changing the Church's rules to allow for the consecration of women as bishops.
The proposed legislation needed to gain two-thirds majority in each of the synod's three houses. But it fell short by just six votes in the House of Laity, despite overwhelming support for the change being voted for by the vast majority of diocese.
The Church of England, as with other religious organisations, enjoys exemption from some provisions in the Equality Act 2010 which effectively means they are not breaking the law by barring women from holding certain positions in the Church.
In response to the vote, Mr Field, a former member of the Synod, yesterday tabled a "Presentation Bill" in Parliament which seeks to remove from the statute book the exemptions from equality legislation that the Church of England enjoys.
The procedure allows an MP to give notice of his or her intention to present a Bill at a future time.
If passed, the Bill would make it illegal for the Church of England to discriminate against women when appointing bishops, as they currently do.
Mr Field said: "This [the Synod vote] is a terribly disappointing result, which goes against the firm wishes of the vast majority of Church of England members.
"Parliament has a role in agreeing to or rejecting the Synod's decisions, and I believe that MPs should now use this role, in a helpful way, to ensure those firm wishes are complied with."
Mr Feild's Bill is supported by MPs Diana Johnson, Natascha Engel, Elfyn Llwyd, Andrew George, Nicholas Soames, Roberta Blackman-Woods, Eleanor Laing and Helen Goodman.
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Which mainstream film critic said THIS about Steven Spielberg's Munich? Today's movie culture has so thoroughly written off the concept of sin that any movie ridiculing it (from Hellboy and My Summer of Love to Squid and the Whale) is guaranteed to be widely praised. This fondness for transgression might explain the trouble Spielberg has run into with Munich. He explicates a grievous sense of wrong-doing that communicates best to those who are open to an Ecumenical view of life (or if that term … [Read more...]
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|Dixie Baseball: 11-and-under Cats headed to Texarkana; 7-and-8 coach pitch still going strong
|From Staff Reports
July 11, 2005 - MOUNT VERNON - The 11-and-under Sulphur Springs Cats made short work of their Dixie District Baseball Tournament last week, ending every game by the 10-run rule en route to the district championship.
The Cats, coached by Jason Frazier, Mike Gibby and Jerry Crawford, went 5-0 in the tournament, outscoring their opponents 74-8, to qualify for the state tournament in Texarkana, which begins this weekend.
Game 1
SS Cats 21, Cumby 1
Austin Buck and Hayden Sickles both had a pair of hits, scored twice and drove in four runs to lead the Cats to their first victory of the tournament.
The Cats had 14 hits in all, including a three-hit game from Canyon Gibby, who also had two RBI, and two hits and three RBI from Rowdy Sachs.
Buck's hits included a double and home run and he also walked once. Sickles also doubled along with Gibby, Collin Crawford and Sachs.
Colton Frazier had a hit and scored twice, Connor Cooper added a hit and two RBI, and Collin Williams and Brad Macek each hit safely as well as saw time on the mound.
Williams started and picked up the win while Macek pitched two innings of relief. They combined on an eight-strikeout no-hitter.
Game 2
SS Cats 14, Franklin County 3
In the first game between the two teams - they would meet again in the championship - the Cats used 11 hits and eight walks to provide their offense.
Zach Miller, Buck and Williams each accounted for two hits, including doubles by Buck and Williams. Frazier, Gibby, Crawford and Colin Dennis each added one hit. Frazier and Crawford also walked twice, as did Macek.
On the mound, Sachs picked up the victory by pitching into the third inning, striking out three and walking four. Gibby and Buck pitched the final 2 2/3 innings of one-hit relief.
Game 3
SS Cats 12, Delta County 2
Miller had a three-hit, two-RBI game, and Williams added a two-hit, three-RBI outing to lead the Cats to their third straight run-rule win.
Gibby, Crawford and Buck had two hits each. Gibby's game included two RBI and three runs scored, while Crawford and Buck each knocked in a pair of runners.
Dennis, Cooper and Frazier added one hit each. The Cats also stole five bases: one each by Frazier, Cooper, Gibby, Crawford and Williams.
On the mound, Cooper, Crawford and Buck combined to give up four hits and four walks while striking out eight in five innings.
Game 4
SS Cats 13, Commerce 0
Gibby and Crawford belted back-to-back home runs in the third inning to provide all the offense the Cats would need in the shutout.
Sulphur Springs had its lowest hit production of the tournament, with seven, but Sachs and Garret Vickery combined on a four-inning one-hitter for the Cats.
Frazier, Cooper, Sickles and Buck all had one hit and one walk each, while Dennis also contributed a hit and a run. Buck and Gibby each drove in two runs, while Frazier and Crawford had one RBI each.
Championship Game
SS Cats 14, Franklin County 2
Gibby and Crawford combined to strike out eight batters while surrendering just four hits and one walk in six innings.
Offensively, Williams and Sachs went 3-for-3, while Gibby and Crawford accounted for two hits each. Frazier, Miller, Sickles and Vickery each had one hit.
Frazier, Gibby and Sickles drove in two runs each.
For the tournament, the Cats had a .432 batting average (60-for-139). They had six hitters with averages over .500, including Crawford (.778), Frazier (.714), Gibby (.692), Buck (.636), Williams (.615) and Miller (.545).
Cooper and Gibby led the team in runs with nine, while Buck led the team in RBI with 11.
PITTSBURG - The Sulphur Springs 7-8 Coach Pitch team had to use both is offensive and defensive abilities in the first two games of the Dixie State Tournament this weekend to move into the tournament quarterfinals.
The Wildcats, coached by Robert Cody, won its first two games by a total of three runs. They are scheduled to play against at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Pittsburg's Barnwell Field against either Grand Prairie or Broken Bow, Okla.
Game 1
Sulphur Springs 2, Van Alstyne 0 (6 innings)
It's not often the score is tied at 0-0 after the regulation five innings in the coach pitch league, but that's what happened Saturday.
"That was the best defensive game I've ever seen for that age group, both teams," said Cody. "Van Alstyne caught seven fly ball outs, and we had five."
The deciding runs were scored in the top of the sixth when Kade Hudgins' two-run double brought in Ben Brooks, who had reached on a fielder's choice following Tyler Williams' single, and Landon Brock, who had singled. Both runners moved up on Cain Cody's fly ball.
Then, in the bottom of the inning, the Wildcats pulled off a pair of defensive gems to hold onto the victory. Williams, in left-center, doubled a runner off of second for the first out, then the next batter hit a ball to Hudgins at third, who got the force out at second, but the relay throw to first went wide. When the batter tried to go to second base, Cody threw to C.J. Stephens at second for the final out.
The defensive highlight of the game, though, came in the bottom of the fourth when Van Alstyne had runners on second and third and the Wildcats' Joseph Moreno made a diving catch of a fly ball in right field to end the inning.
Sulphur Springs committed just one error. Hudgins, at third, had six put-outs and shortstop Landon Brock registered four. Cody and Stephens had six assists each.
Game 2
Sulphur Springs 8, Denton County 7
Larry Pryor Jr. scored the winning run for Sulphur Springs in the top of the fifth after singling, going to third on Stephens' ground out and scoring on a throwing error.
The Wildcats scored one run in the top of the first as Aaron Smith's RBI single drove in Landon Brock. But, the Wildcats had to fight back from a deficit after Denton County scored four runs in the bottom of the inning.
In the third, SS put up three runs on Pryor's RBI single, which drove on Cody who had singled, and Moreno's two-run single, which plated Hudgins (single) and Pryor.
In the fourth, Hudgins belted a three-run home run to bring in Ben Brooks and Brock, who had both singled. But, Denton County scored once in the bottom of the fourth to tie the game.
The Cats finally ended the game when Hudgins caught a foul ball with two on and two out in the bottom of the fifth.
Pryor had five put-outs from pitcher and Cody had six assists at first base. Hudgins led the team with three hits, while Brock, Pryor, Cody, Hunter Crowson and Brooks had two hits apiece.
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Hey, hey! It's rainy and gross again, and I just might stay in my pajamas for the next five hours. I hope you're well -- last night I went out for a little post-work beverage and then came home to watch Gossip Girl and eat a bagel for dinner. So it goes!
Some headlines for you:
- Conan O'Brien will appear on 60 Minutes Sunday.
- They're remaking The Monster Squad? How do you feel about that?
- Vanity Fair talks to Glee's Chris Colfer.
- Is the music video back?
- Courtney Love made a really cheap (and NSFW) video for Hole's Skinny Little B--ch.
- Here are details about Max Headroom: The Complete Series on DVD. Yay!
- AfterEllen interviews Sarah McLachlan.
- Roger Ebert has posted his 1977 screenplay for a Sex Pistols movie.
- It's no surprise that Daniel Radcliffe is Britain's richest actor under 30.
- The Tim Burton exhibition was MoMA's third-biggest ever, behind Picasso and Matisse.
- Even if Ghostbusters 3 is "just a myth" (according to Bill Murray), it's a fun myth to think about.
- Here's a little interview with Bill Murray from the Tribeca Film Fest.
- Paul Reubens as Jokey Smurf sounds like perfect casting to me.
- Keith Richards says he's growing up.
- Here's a list of awesome senior citizens in the movies.
- This has been done a million times, but here's another list of 25 of The Simpsons' best moments.
- IHOP's cheesecake pancakes sound like a pretty intense way to start the day.
- Scripps has sold the licensing rights for Peanuts for $175 million -- but it's a good thing, and the Schulz family will own part of the business.
- Can I be invited to Rebecca Mader's Lost finale party?
- And finally, don't believe the Internet rumors: Bobby Brown is not dead. (I hadn't heard those rumors.)
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The Cleveland Indians didn't wait for the free agent market to open. Instead, they acquired Derek Lowe from the Atlanta Braves for minor league pitcher Chris Jones and cash.
The Braves will also absorb all but $5 million of the Lowe's $15 million salary in 2012.
Lowe, 38, is coming off perhaps the worst season of his 15-year career. He lost a major-league high 17 games and ended the season with an 8.75 ERA in September.
Lowe is consistent. Since he was converted to a starting pitcher in 2002, he made at least 32 starts and recorded at least nine wins over each of the last ten seasons. He's also among the top ground ball pitchers in the game, posting a 59% rate last season.
"He's a quality pitcher with durability, pitching 180 innings or more every year since 2002," Indians general manager Chris Antonetti said. "The last time he was on the disabled list was 1995. In addition to his durability, there's some leadership potential. His experience will complement a very young rotation. One of our goals was to improve our starting pitching.
"This goes a long way towards that. Stability is important. Also, he can be a positive influence on young starting pitchers with similar skills."
In the three years with the Braves, he was 40-39 with a 4.57 ERA in 101 starts.
For the Indians, Lowe joins Justin Masterson, Fausto Carmona, Ubaldo Jimenez and Josh Tomlin in the starting rotation.
Lowe returns to the American League for the first time since winning the World Series with the Boston Red Sox in 2004.
Jones, 23, was 7-1 with a 3.36 ERA in 43 appearances for Class A Kinston Indians.
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