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I like team Srilanka not for any other reason other than that I'm an Srilanka myself and know the Srilanka players well.How about you?
I like team Srilanka not for any other reason other than that I'm an Srilanka myself and know the Srilanka players well.How about you?
England, old chap.
I prefer Verizon
India, solidarity with my programmers, now if they would explain the game to me.
England Pity we are gonna finish the series 1-1 tomorrow when South Africa wrap up the win.
Oh and you dont need MASSIVEEEEE Gloves to catch in Cricket
Wear gaudy colors, or avoid display. Lay a million eggs or give birth to one. The fittest shall survive, yet the unfit may live. Be like your ancestors or be different. We must repeat!
Thats the strange thing with baseball that I sometimes dont get. Growing up watching & playing cricket I think nothing of catching a hard leather ball with bare hands. Since I have got into baseball (big time over the past 5 years) I dont really appreciate some of the catches that are on baseball tonight (webgems ?)
Yep some are great but some I feel would have been easier to catch than drop. I have never wore a glove so unsure how easy catching with them it actually is.
Here's another great catch on the boundary
Those catches were rediculous. I'm no expert, but the main difference in thos catches vs. "Web Gems" have to do with range and speed. Not trying to take away from cricket catches because they look to be as hard or harder than Baseball catches. The thing is that with a glove, baseball fans would expect the players to make those catches. Also, when you have a glove on, you can full out dive without worrying about your hand wrapping around the ball.
You can't really tell from those videos, but it would seem to me that baseball players hit the ball harder. Again, I have no idea and if someone has facts to prove/disprove that it wouldn't suprise me either way.
The diving catch in baseball is almost routine anymore and players seem to go to the ground way more often than is actually needed. That is what I enjoyed so much about those cricket catches. They didn't dive unless they absolutely had to. Thanks for sharing that video.
Which sports you like most?
I like cricket and football.
What about you?
I like Baseball, Football and Cricket so much. I also like Tennis and Basketball.
In Cricket, my favorite team is cricket team of Australia because it is No. 1 team in ODI cricket.
Well Radith I totally agree with you. Their playing style and team spirit are awesome. They managed to hold the world cup in 2006 under the captaincy of Arjuna Ranatunga. Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayewardana are my favorite cricketers from Sri Lankan cricket team.
Apart from Sri Lankan team my second choice goes to England. There my favorite player is Andrew Strauss.
I've mentioned before that there is a weekly pick-up cricket game at our local park on one of the baseball diamonds (that go empty from the end of June on). Looks like mostly Indians but I'm not very good at distinguishing nationalities.
On my walks, I've sometimes watched them play. Spirited play. There is one young lefty hurler that I think the Reds ought to look at.
There is also a pickup soccer game with the Hispanics that is awesome to watch.
American kids are in their basement playing video games.
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams
And fairytales
Very cool video. How many hours would you have to watch to see a play like that?
Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?
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A look back at everywhere we ate this week.
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New Scientist has an interesting article that talks about the following 11 steps that you could take to improve your brain.
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Stephanie Seymour in a swimsuit: Mostly still hot!
Here's somebody I had completely forgotten about: Former supermodel Stephanie Seymour. Back in the day, Stephanie was up there with the likes of Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer, and she was one of the original Victoria's Secret Angel. You might also remember her as Axl Rose's girlfriend who he beat the shit out of then tried to sue for $100,000 after they broke up. In case he forgot, I included two pics just for Axl (Here and here.), so he can cry a little bit harder the next time he fails to bang Kelly Osbourne. Merry Christmas!
NOTE: Added the classic Guns N' Roses video "November Rain" featuring Stephanie and the greatest Slash solo ever after the jump.
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September 5, 2012
The Lineup Card
12 Stats We Wish Were Readily Available
1. Pitch Counts from the "Old Days"
2. Minor-League PITCHf/x Data
3. Historical Pitcher Throwing Programs
4. Player Perception of Time
What happens when you have a job that doesn't have that sort of 9-5 regularity... like a baseball player? I often wonder how players segment off time. Probably the most salient marker of a new period of time beginning is the three-game series. Afterward, you switch cities and opponents. But even the little markers in a week don't happen. You play the same game every day. It's not like you have a standing "I get to play second base" day on Thursdays. I wonder how players handle that lack of landmarks and whether they create artificial ones (or whether creating these at the team level would help.) It's nothing that a few well-formed questions asked to a few players couldn't answer. But, of course, while there's plenty of data on what happens on the field, there's no portal for asking a player what's going on between his ears. If there were, though, imagine the advances that could be made in understanding how players perform. —Russell A. Carleton
5. Bat Speed for Every Pitch
6. Reliable Radar Readings on "Fastest" Pitchers Ever
It's tempting to say that modern pitchers must throw harder than their ancient colleagues, who didn't have the benefit of modern nutrition, training, medicine, mechanics, or the general trend of human beings getting bigger and stronger. But that doesn't account for the possibility that one or more of these old timers could have been some genetic freak and pitching savant.
But ultimately, we can't know who the fastest pitcher ever really was because we don't have reliable velocity readings, only subjective descriptions from much of the 20th century. If I could have only one stat, it would be PITCHf/x or, at the very least, reliable radar gun readings from every pitcher in history, so we would know how Johnson matched up to Paige matched up to Feller matched up to Ryan. And so that I would finally know if Steve Dalkowski was actually faster than them all. —Michael Bates
7. PITCHf/x for Luis Tiant
As a data analyst living in 2012, I'd be thrilled to have what Sam Miller asks for, but I would also love to see my friend Harry Pavlidis having to classify a few seasons of El Tiante's one million different pitches. —Max Marchi
8. True Distance of Home Runs Hit in the 1990s and Earlier
Since 2006, ESPN's Home Run Tracker (also known as Hit Tracker Online) has been calculating the true distance of every home run hit in the majors, using speed off the bat, angle of launch, and other physical properties. In those seven years and (roughly) 33,500 home runs, can you guess how many home runs have actually traveled 500 feet? One. That's right. This one. With all the great home-run hitters we've seen since the White Sox won the World Series—Prince Fielder, Adam Dunn, Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols, Manny Ramirez, Barry Bonds, Miguel Cabrera, Giancarlo Stanton, and so many others—only one has been able to reach 500 feet. Even with steroids, smaller ballparks, crappy pitchers, juiced balls, the league's deal with the devil and a once-in-a-generation talents like Big Mac, I still find it very, very unlikely that so many 500-foot home runs were hit in such a short period of time. That's what you get when you have to rely on press box estimates in an era when chicks dig the long ball. If we could get true Hit Tracker-style home-run distances from the past, we might have a better idea of just how powerful that era was.
At the very least, we'd finally be able to know just how far the likes of Mickey Mantle, Dave Kingman, and Josh Gibson could hit the ball. —Larry Granillo
9. Biomechanical Video Analysis of Current and Former Players
10. Historical Caught-Stealing Totals
Yet through all this, nobody (or at least nobody in power) thought it might be interesting to track the number of times players unsuccessfully tried to swipe a bag. Not for a long time. It was 1920 before the caught stealing became an official statistic, and after six years of that, the National League inexplicably decided they just weren't worth it, dropping the stat again to start 1926. The fact that that year's World Series ended on Babe Ruth's caught stealing still wasn't enough to convince them that this might be a good thing to know after all; they didn't pick the stat back up again until 1951.
So we know the original Sliding Billy stole 100 or more bases four times and 97 another, but we don't know if they came in 110 attempts or 200. We know Ty Cobb led the league in steals six times, but can't really say whether he had a talent for it or just a combination of on-base ability and bravado. We can guess the latter, based on the unofficial caught stealing stats from 1912 and 1914-16, which have him leading the league in CS twice, plus once more (officially this time, at age 40) in 1927; it seems unlikely that he would've had sterling success rates during the 11 years of his career for which the data is still absent.
It becomes less important as you get into the NL's inexplicable holdout of the 1920s, '30s and '40s; nobody was running much then anyway. Still, it's at least a bit odd that in all of Paul Waner's long career, save 10 games he played with the Yankees in his mid-40s, we have no idea how commonly he was thrown out trying on the way to his 104 career SBs. The same goes for Mel Ott and his 89 career steals; his 22-year career happened entirely in the NL, and at no time during it were caught stealings considered a thing by that league. Then there's young Jackie Robinson, one of the most dynamic players the game had ever seen; he led the league twice in steals in his first four years, and we can guess based on his later numbers that he was very efficient, but we'll never know exactly how efficient. It's small in the grand scheme of things, and even in the grand scheme of baseball things, but it's the kind of thing that nags at me much more than I'd usually like to admit. —Bill Parker
11. Bullpen Pitch-Tracking Technology
The information might not be equally useful for every arm, and there could be some unintended consequences to making pitching decisions based on pre-game activity. How would pitchers react to the possibility of a Minority Report-style punishment for in-game crimes not yet committed? Would the psychological benefit of knowing with certainty when one is scheduled to start outweigh any advantage that could be gained by going with a (so to speak) hotter hand? Plenty of confounding factors would make it difficult to derive value from the data, but there could still be some signal lurking amidst all the noise.
We don't need another reason to envy team employees' access to information, but this is yet another area in which the information gap between industry insiders and outsiders is about to grow. TrackMan—a company that tracks the complete trajectory and spin rate of both pitched and batted baseballs via three-dimensional radar—has already developed a portable product (seen here during a demonstration at the Sabermetrics, Scouting, and the Science of Baseball seminar last month) that it hopes all teams will want to install in their big-league bullpens. According to one source I spoke to, at least one major-league stadium already has one in place. Using the TrackMan system or some other pitch-tracking technology, teams could get a sneak preview of a pitcher's performance before he throws an official pitch. And seeing just a little bit further into the future than your opponent probably can't hurt. —Ben Lindbergh
12. Batter Reaching On Error For Historical Players
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Put my vote in for genetic data on healing factor. Knowing who heals faster means more supermen like Pujols.
Sep 05, 2012 06:10 AM
I'd want to know how fast Mickey Mantle really was home to first, because the stories written are just goofy.
Sep 05, 2012 06:37 AM
Home Run Tracker for MiLB so we can more easily judge power between parks, leagues and levels.
Sep 05, 2012 06:54 AM
Roy in Omaha
Those home run record assaults and home runs for distance were, IMHO, not the result of PEDS at all at that time but resulted from MLB monkeying with basball construction, something I believe that they did to try to counteract the severe economic effects of the '94 strike, and the owners just sort of fell into being able to use PEDS (and thus, the players) as a scapegoat for the whole thing.
Sep 05, 2012 07:24 AM
"We would benefit if more was known about the days that pitchers did not get the ball, what they did between starts"
Sep 05, 2012 09:02 AM
Richard Bergstrom
I'd like BP to have the kind of detail, flexbility, readability and sortability that baseball-reference does. It's also kind of disjointed with a hit tracker here or a fantasy tracker there. I can't even find platoon splits here either.
Sep 05, 2012 18:25 PM
At least as much statistical data about players in the Negro Leagues as is available for their MLB contemporaries.
Sep 06, 2012 10:26 AM
Richard Bergstrom
Though it would be nice, I'm not sure if it can be done. As a comparison, there isn't as much high school, college, independent league, summer league or minor league data as there is for major leaguers. For example, trying to find pitch count data at anything other than the major league level is very difficult.
Sep 06, 2012 14:04 PM
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Unacosamedarisa: No ahab. I didn't say good on them for burning and killing... but good on them for protesting against the film.
Ahab: free speech
daf's long lost son: which isn't even factual
Unacosamedarisa: The Burning and killing is terrible... as is the film.
Ansob: Free speech entitles them to protest against the film.
Ahab: bhy killing people?
Ahab: and burning shit
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Unacosamedarisa: NO AHAB. Stop and read.
Ansob: 17:50 - Ansob: No one has been burned or killed because of an anti-muslim film.
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®|Vorrin: howdy
Ahab: you want the pics?
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Ahab: fine
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Ahab: one sec
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Ansob: Ahab: go read up on current affairs.
Unacosamedarisa: Burning, killing = bad. Protest = good.
®|Vorrin: anyone in list for hawken's beta here ?
Ansob: Ahab: if you did, rather than spouting ignorant bullshit, you would find out that the US consulate in Libya was a rocket attack. Capernatious: Wasn't liked to all that mess, then?
Capernatious: *linked
Ansob: And that the leading theory, believed by the US and pretty much everyone else, is that al Qaeda or some other group used a peaceful protest as cover for said rocket attack.
daf's long lost son: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10...rty-fist-nose/
Capernatious: Mhm, what I thought, Ansob.
Ansob: As revenge for the US taking out one of the al Qaeda lieutenants a few weeks back.,
Unacosamedarisa: The protests have been hijacked and the people have been incited to go beyond normal protest. Remember, this happened on Sep 11th.
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Unacosamedarisa: But... that doesn't mean that protesting against the film is bad.
Egg651: This was after that guy from the US embassy got killed in libya http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...48_964x637.jpg
Capernatious: Of course not.
Egg651: Oh god, I linke dthe daily mail
Ahab: http://cryptome.org/2012-info/bengha...-consulate.htm
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Egg651: I'm sorry! It was from google images, I swear!
Sky Captain Sidorenko: Leave quietly, Egg
desertfox: Crap EA wants me to activate Alice.
Sky Captain Sidorenko: Just leave
Ahab: rocket attack LMAO
desertfox: oh crap.
Ansob: Ahab: your penalty for not reading the last few lines of chat is to get the fuck out for a day.
Ahab: no that's burning shit
You have been banned from the chat by Ansob.
LMAO ah lord ansob please explain the meaning behind
"Ansob: Ahab: your penalty for not reading the last few lines of chat is to get the fuck out for a day."
the last few lines don't say we aren't allowed to talk about it so what exactly are you referring to? the fact someone disagreed with you? Shame it's to long to put in my sig ;)
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Oh, and unless youve lurked here for years, Bhazor and I have been here for longer than you have, so we do have seniority (as much as I hate agreeing with a pony).
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You are not making things easier by making this public.
Your best bet is the ask the wise lord Nullkigan.
Making a public, poorly formatted and...pointless thread. [I really can't see the point in putting this here] over a 24 thread... well. It's not the best way to deal with a ban like an adult.Jaketucker.com
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Texas Republican David Bradley: God Does Not Exist
That is, according to Mr. Bradley's own reasoning, God does not exist.
Here's the story:
Bradley and his so-called "Christian" Republicans, who control the Texas Board of Education, have led the TBE to rewrite American history and economics to suit their own personal fantasies.
And what fantasies would that be? That separation of church and state in America never happened, and unfettered free markets are to be worshiped. Bradley and his allies even managed to censure Thomas Jefferson from Texas textbooks because Jefferson dared talk about separation of church and state.
That these so-called Christians would want to remove Jefferson and Baptists - the greatest champions of separation of church and state in colonial America - out of American history is rather strange. If not for Baptists of the 17th and 18th centuries, Bradley and his allies would quite likely be living in a nation in which the government mandated their religious beliefs. Yet bizarre as it seems, that is just their point: Bradley and his ilk are theocrats who want government to cater to their personal religious views and impose them on everyone else.
Not surprisingly, historians and other observers are outraged that Bradley and his allies have emasculated American history in order to serve their own personal interests.
And what does Mr. Bradley have to say to those who object to his fantasies-in-action? "I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state," he declared. "I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution."
Mr. Bradley obviously has never heard of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which clearly establishes - thanks to the untiring efforts of our Baptist ancestors (and yes, they were liberals in their day) - the separation of church and state.
Every American who believes in the First Amendment should each claim the $1000 that Bradley offered to anyone who could locate separation of church and state in the Constitution. Beyond that, SOMEONE needs to introduce David Bradley to the U. S. Constitution, a document - his arrogant pronouncements notwithstanding - which is seemingly quite foreign to him.
"But wait," you say, Mr. Bradley? You mean that since the words "separation of church and state" are not in the Constitution, the concept does not exist? You only believe it if the exact wording is in the Constitution?
Ah, that is why you believe God does not exist! God is not mentioned in the Constitution ... and therefore God does not exist!
Well, Mr. Bradley, in secular America, you as an opponent of Baptists, worshiper of unfettered free markets, and apparent atheist, are free to practice your own peculiar fantasies, and even to label those fantasies as "Christian." And you're even free to try and draw others into your fantasy world. But if you insist on trying to force the government - local, state, or federal - to give favoritism to (and/or promote) your personal beliefs that you pass off as religion, those Baptists whom you've written out of the history books are gonna come back to haunt you one day.
And while in your constitutional world God does not exist, it is doubtful that your blindness and deafness to history is the last word about what is and what is not.
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- LKS said...
Bruce, the e-mail address I had for you (at Mercer) did not work, so I am writing you here. Congratulations on your new position as executive director of the Baptist History and Heritage Society! I know you will do well in that position. What does this mean for BaptistLife.com?
- Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 7:57:00 AM EDT
- Bob Cleveland said...
I don't have enough faith to be an atheist. If it means a belief that God doesn't exist, then it's a belief that..
A) I know every form God could possibly manifest Himself in.
B)I can see everywhere in the universe, all at the same time.
C) I can see all those places God might be, in the universe, and can attest that He is not in any of them.
What a HUGE chunk to bite off, let alone chew and digest. Maybe that's why God says it's a fool that says He doesn't exist.
If he's saying, on the other hand, that he doesn't believe in some picture of a god that he's conjured up in his own mind, well, I probably don't believe in THAT god, either.
- Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 9:53:00 AM EDT
- Marcus said...
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- steve said...
Interesting Blog I have come across. You must be a journalist as the article is written like so many I read stating things that Bradley never said (at least that I could turn up). He did say that the phrase "seperation of church and state" doesn't appear in the constitution. And well he is right it doesn't. The concept has grown since the writing of the constitution to now include one's own beliefs. I think Mr Bradley was expressing his frustration with the left bent view to irradicate the mere mention of God from anyone holding a public office. That of course was something Jefferson never intended.
- Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 12:07:00 PM EST
- Bruce T. Gourley said...
Steve, I suspect you're a good enough reader to digest what I wrote:
David Bradley argues that since the words "separation of church and state" are not in the Constitution, the concept does not exist. That's a lie, and he probably knows it, but he repeated it anyway.
But, by his reckoning (if the words are not in the Constitution, it does not exist), he of necessity also denies the existence of God ... who is not in the Constitution.
As to you and Bradley's personal beliefs about separation of church and state, you both have placed your faith in myths.
- Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 12:50:00 PM EST
- steve said...
I'm not arguing that there is not a concept of separation of church and state and I don't believe Bradley truly believes that either, nor do I think he is lying. I think he was just expressing his frustration with what he sees in the news every other day how it would appear that God is under attack all over the place.
I believe the concept of separation of church and state is an important one. But as with all ideas it can be misrepresented. When used as intended so that our beloved federal government is prohibited from creating laws on the books in regards to any particular religion it is used appropriately.
In regards to the myth link you posted. Nice page, I agree with it wholeheartedly. But I think it is prudent to understand that there are people living in the USA that would like to see even the mere reference of the word God removed from any public view.
- Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 2:08:00 PM EST
- Bruce T. Gourley said...
There are also "people who are living in the USA" who would demolish our secular democracy and set up a "Christian" theocracy ... and I think (as did our Baptist ancestors) that these folks are much more dangerous than those who would remove references to God in public life.
Also, I would be interested in your list of Americans who would remove references to God ... or Allah ... or Buddha ... or (name your deity) ... in public life.
- Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 8:28:00 PM EST


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"We can't control the ball going in the basket," Florida senior center Patric Young said. "But we can control our effort and energy on the defensive end, sticking to our cues, helping the helper, the same things we hear every single night."
As one of last season's two SEC newcomers, Texas A&M (12-8, 3-4 SEC) is making just its second trip to the O'Connell Center and first for a conference game. The last time Texas A&M visited was in 1992, when the elder George Bush was president and M.C. Hammer was still too legit to quit. The arena had a Kevlar bubble roof back then, and the Lon Kruger-coached Gators knocked off Texas A&M 73-46.
Florida enters today's matchup an 18-point favorite, but preparing for the second straight week on short rest, UF is concerned about some of Texas A&M's offensive standouts. Junior guard Jamal Jones, a junior college transfer, scored 20 or more points in three of his first four SEC games. Senior guard Fabyon Harris is averaging 6.8 points off the bench for the Aggies and sophomore point guard Alex Caruso is leading the SEC in assists (4.7 per game).
"They're a very good team," UF coach Billy Donovan said. "They have a lot of different pieces. Jones is as good a player as there is in this league. (Kourtney) Roberson is a veteran frontcourt player, he's been in the league for a long, long time. Caruso's a year older now, leading the league in assists. They have very, very good personnel."
Florida wasn't great offensively in its 62-51 win Thursday night at Mississippi State. The Gators went through a 5:38 scoreless stretch to end the first half and missed 11 free throws (8 of 19).
"We didn't do a great job of moving the ball around and going with our style of play," Young said. "We were trying to go one-on-one, and we're not a one-on-one team. We're a move-the-ball-around and utilize-each-guy kind of team. We picked that up in the second half a lot better."
UF's ball movement improved as the game progressed. Florida finished with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 14 to 9 and has posted a positive assist-to-turnover in each of its last three games.
"We missed a lot of baskets in and around the rim," Donovan said. "And I thought the same thing for them, they missed a lot of layups and shots inside the paint at point-blank range. Both teams were affected."
Walker debut upcoming
Florida freshman McDonald's All-American forward Chris Walker will make his debut Tuesday at the O'Connell Center against Missouri. But Donovan offered little information when asked about Walker's reaction to being cleared or how he plans to work the 6-foot-10 forward from Bonifay into the lineup.
"We're just getting ready for A&M right now," Donovan said. "We'll address that once the game is over with. I'm sure Chris is excited, but he's obviously not playing tomorrow so our total focus is going into this game with the guys that are going to be able to play."
Donovan said he hasn't fully read the NCAA's report, which stated that Walker received impermissible benefits that included free cell phone service, $270 cash from two different agents and free travel for himself and family members.
"Chris is a really, really good kid," Donovan said. "I think one of the things that is very difficult in these situations is really whether they know the rules or not. I'm sure Chris didn't know a lot of those things. I think obviously if Chris knew some of those things were a problem, I would believe he wouldn't have done those things."
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G Michael Frazier II 6-4 So. 12.2 ppg, 3.4 rpg
G Scottie Wilbekin 6-2 Sr. 12.2 ppg, 3.7 apg
F Casey Prather 6-6 Sr 16.7 ppg, 5.5 rpg
F Will Yeguete 6-7 Sr. 5.2 ppg, 5.2 rpg
C Patric Young 6-9 Sr. 10.7 ppg, 6.3 rpg
G Shawn Smith 6-4 Fr. 5.8 ppg, 3.3 rpg
G Alex Caruso 6-5 So. 8.9 ppg, 4.7 apg
G Jamal Jones 6-8 Jr. 11.7 ppg, 3.9 rpg
F Antwan Space 6-8 So. 6.2 ppg, 4.4 rpg
F Kourtney Roberson 6-9 Jr. 9.7 ppg, 7.0 rpg
Notes: Florida is 3-1 all-time against Texas A&M and 2-0 vs. the Aggies under Billy Donovan. … The Gators return home to start a three-game homestand that will continue with games against Missouri (Tuesday) and Alabama (Feb. 8). … Florida's 12-game winning streak is its longest in-season since winning 17 in a row to start the 2005-06 season. … Senior forward Casey Prather ranks ninth in the SEC in scoring (16.7 ppg) and has scored in double figures in all 18 games he's appeared in this season. Prather has an SEC-high 113 2-point field goals, ahead of LSU center Johnny O'Bryant III (111) and Missouri point guard Jordan Clarkson (110). … Texas A&M returns three starters from a team that finished 18-15 last season and 7-11 in its first full season in the SEC. Florida routed Texas A&M 68-47 in College Station, Texas, last season.
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I have spoken many times about the HBO movie 'Taking Chance', which chronicles the military procedure for escorting a fallen soldier home. The movie starred Kevin Bacon and is the most emotional movie I have ever seen. I literally cried all the way through it and you will to when you see it. Recently, a plane landed in Los Angeles with a fallen soldier on board.


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Valbuena's homer not enough; Cubs fall in extras
Third baseman rips two-run shot in 13th; Reds rally in bottom half
CINCINNATI -- Every loss is tough to take, but Monday hurt a little more for the Cubs because they did nearly everything right.
Cesar Izturis' walk-off single with two outs in the 13th gave the Reds a 5-4 come-from-behind victory over the Cubs, who had taken a two-run lead in the top of the inning on Luis Valbuena's two-run homer.
"We battled all game," Chicago starter Travis Wood said. "They're a good ballclub over there and their guys did what they needed to do to pull out a win."
Valbuena connected off Alfredo Simon in the 13th, scoring Welington Castillo, who reached second on an error by third baseman Todd Frazier. For once, it looked as if the Cubs could capitalize on another team's mistakes.
But Xavier Paul singled to lead off the Reds' 13th against Michael Bowden, and advanced to third on a double by Brandon Phillips that right fielder Dave Sappelt couldn't snag.
"In my mind, I knew I had to make a web gem to win the game," Sappelt said. "I came up short."
Paul and Phillips both scored on Jay Bruce's double into the gap in right center. Did Cubs manager Dale Sveum consider walking Bruce?
"I did," Sveum said. "I didn't want to put the winning run on the base and he hadn't been swinging that good anyway."
Two batters later, Izturis lined a single over shortstop Starlin Castro for the game-winner.
"I'm proud of the way they played today," Sveum said. "They had good at-bats all night long, played good defense, pitched, and came up short. [The Reds] hit the ball hard the last inning. Besides the one blooper that fell in and changed things, other than that, they swung the bats there. No walks -- they swung the bats to beat us."
The Cubs had opportunities, but stranded 12 runners. In the 10th, both Anthony Rizzo and Alfonso Soriano reached on errors, but Sam LeCure struck out Nate Schierholtz to end the threat. Chicago loaded the bases with two outs in the 11th, but J.J. Hoover got Castro to line out to right.
"[Castro] had a great at-bat that one at-bat with the bases loaded -- he hit that missile to right field," Sveum said. "Those kind of things bust games open, but when things aren't going good they go right at people, too."
Cincinnati had runners at second and third with two outs in the 10th, and Carlos Marmol continued his dominance of Joey Votto, striking him out to end the inning. Votto now is 1-for-15 with nine K's against Marmol.
"I'm worn out from thinking," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "We were double-switching and trying to keep the pitcher in the game as long as we could. We were about to run out of them. That was a good one to win. It was a great one to win. That's one of the great comebacks I have ever seen. That's what you call a reverse takedown. That was some victory."
David DeJesus got things started for the Cubs with his 13th career leadoff home run, lining a 1-1 pitch from Cincinnati's Mike Leake down the right-field line. Chicago made it 2-0 in the third when Darwin Barney singled, moved to second on Wood's sacrifice and, one batter later, scored on Castro's single that extended hit hitting streak to 14 games.
Wood located his pitches well and held the Reds to two hits over six scoreless innings, then served up Bruce's leadoff homer in the seventh. Two batters later, Chris Heisey singled to chase Wood.
"That's a great ballclub all the way around over there," Wood said of the Reds. "To keep them at one run for six-plus innings, it felt good. We had the one-run lead, and unfortunately, we weren't able to hold onto it. We have to figure out a way when we're right there to either hang on to it or pull it out."
Reliever Shawn Camp took over for Wood, and was called for a balk during Devin Mesoraco's at-bat, and Heisey moved up. After Mesoraco flew out, James Russell entered to face Jack Hannahan, who lined a triple into the right-field corner to score Heisey and tie the game. Looking at replays postgame, it appeared that a fan reached over and interfered with the ball.
Cubs starting pitching has been the most consistent aspect of the team, and now boasts a 3.10 ERA. This was the 10th quality start by a Chicago pitcher, but they only have three wins in those games.
"It's hard to be down," Wood said about the loss. "It's easy to be down, but also hard to be down. It's not like we're getting blown out every game. We're right there. We just have to come together as a team and figure out how to pull them out."
Fifteen of the Cubs' 18 games now have been decided by three runs or less, and the Cubs are 4-11 in those games.
"They are tough just because you know you're doing everything you can and for some reason the ball isn't going our way," Wood said. "You just have to hang in there and ride it out. Tides will turn."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Did you know?
Many of the 'African Angels' come from very poor rural areas.
At first glance, the little Karoo town of Cradock seems an unlikely place to start a beauty therapy school called African Angels. Why here, in this rural area among merino sheep, angora goats, fields of lucerne, pecan nuts and maize?
A hundred years ago, the reasons might have been clearer. In those days Cradock was renowned as a health-giving place where those suffering from tuberculosis (often referred to as consumption) went to recover.
The altitude, the dry, clean air and the exhilarating, bacteria-killing cold of winter helped restore those with weak lungs, and some of Cradock's foremost citizens today are descended from people who came for its healing powers.
When Lucille Ferreira, a health and beauty therapist with 12 years' experience, moved to Cradock, she immediately saw its potential. She also saw there was a crying need for disadvantaged young women to be offered opportunities.
And so the 'Hum and Sun' ritual came about. As tour groups arrived at the historic Victoria Manor hotel with its street of restored 1850s houses, so visitors were offered a welcoming ritual.
The Xhosa women would sing, and while the visitors relaxed in the Karoo sun, the trained women would massage their hands or tired feet.
It was highly popular, and has now been expanded to greater training opportunities for more young women – who are called African Angels.
A formal training school is to be set up for the first 20 of them in beauty therapy and cosmetology. They are trained for three years and their first 'tasks' involve working with hospice and hospital patients, in maternity wards and at old age homes – anywhere that pampering and the laying on of comforting hands is appreciated.
They then carry on to exercise their skills through corporate functions, wellness tents, private functions and the like.
Several private game reserves in the Eastern Cape, like Amakhala and Kuzuko, take the African Angels on for several months at a time.
It's a win-win arrangement. The Angels get experience, and guests love it.
In addition, a wellness sanctuary is being envisaged for Cradock – which would neatly close the healing circle that first made the town famous so many years ago.
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Who to contact
The Comfort Zone, Cradock
Lucille Ferreira
Tel: +27 (0) 82 773 5083
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How to get here
From the airport at Port Elizabeth, it's about 250km or 2-and-a-half hours' drive on a good road - the N10 - to Cradock. You'll go over a mountain pass, the Olifantskop pass, and you will notice a dramatic difference in vegetation on either side as you move further into the Karoo.
Best time to visit
Midsummers are very hot (December, January and February) and it's very chilly in mid-winter (June, July and August). The rest of the time, the weather is mostly dry, sunny and delightful.
Around the area
A short drive out of town (about 12km) is the Mountain Zebra National Park.
What will it cost
A half-hour treatment from an African Angel will cost approx R160. But you could also rent an African Angel for the entire day (handy for a large group) including products and equipment, for approx R500. If you would like to sponsor an African Angel's studies for a year it will cost approx R15 000 - and with that money, 2 other community members are taught handcraft skills as well.
Length of stay
Cradock is a good centre to explore various nearby attractions. Stay at least 2 nights.
Where to stay
The most famous option is the Victoria Manor and Tuishuise in Cradock's Market Street.
But there are also several guest houses, self-catering cottages and bed & breakfasts. You could also stay at the nearby Mountain Zebra National Park.
What to eat
You're in the Karoo, where the sheep nibble on fragrant, herbed bushes. Foodies are crazy about Karoo lamb and mutton. In winter, try the venison.
Best buys
Cradock falls within the Mohair Meander - you'll find good-value angora fleece here, woven into socks, blankets and beanies.


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When indirect grilling on the gold D, the recommended method is to light the 2 outer burner's and place food over the unlit middle burner. If you wanted to do several item's at once using this method, that would, because of the area they cover, extend over the direct flame somewhat, could you use just use one outer burner for the heat source and place the food off to the side over the other 2, as you would do on a 2 burner grill?
I haven't played with the grill enough yet to see if 1 outer burner will maintain 350 deg., but If it does, I was thinking that maybe I could rotate the food 1/2 way thru the cooking time, i.e. place that that was furthest from the heat source closest to it.
Off hand, does anyone know if 2 beer can chickens & 2 bbq head's of cabbage will fit on the " D " simulatiniously, using the standard suggested burner setup for indirect grilling?
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About the Book
This is the first time I have attempted to echo my own artwork in poetic form. The poetry in this book has been inspired by an obsessive desire to search out my inner most thoughts and feelings from my everyday life experiences.
Some of the words are based on my own feelings but most are just life moments & observations that we all have experienced at one time or another.
The artwork in some cases was developed with a definite purpose in mind and others were developed through a process of exploration & experimentation. These are the artistic endeavors I enjoy the most.
The combination of my poetry and artwork hopefully leaves enough room for the reader of this book to explore my perspectives and also draw on his or her own interpretations & introspective viewpoints.
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- Category Fine Art
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
72 Pages
- Publish Date Nov 13, 2011
About the Creator
In my travels around the world I am always on the lookout for interesting subject matter. As a professional videographer, cameraman and a graphic design graduate of the Ontario College Of Art In Toronto Ontario, I have acquired a large of amount of visual elements that I can later combine and use in interesting ways to express what I felt at the time I captured that perfect moment with my camera. I enjoy searching for new material and can't wait to get back home to explore the new potential that computer technology has brought to creative expression.. All my work is original throughout the combined medias I use and completely hand painted and executed by use of the electronic pen and a wacom tablet. The incredible brushes that can be assigned to this pen can simulate the painting feel and action of watercolor, oils, pastels, you name it but the expression itself is still in the control of the hand and the eye of the creator for the enjoyment of the beholder.
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