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Infielder was involved in infamous blown call in 2010
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Jason Donald, an infielder in camp with the Royals, was involved in one of the most controversial calls in recent baseball history. Yet, if the 2014 version of instant replay had been in effect in 2010, it would have been settled immediately and the subsequent uproar avoided.
In short, the Tigers' Armando Galarraga would have had a perfect game on June 2, 2010, because the replay would have shown that Donald, running to first base for the Indians, was out and the game was over.
"There wouldn't have been a second thought about it. They just would've reviewed it and it would have been done," Donald said.
As it was, first-base umpire Jim Joyce called Donald safe as pitcher Galarraga, covering first base, took a toss from first baseman Miguel Cabrera. Joyce blew the call.
"Oh, yeah. I knew the whole time I was out," Donald said.
The perfect game was lost -- Galarraga retired the next batter for a one-hit, 3-0 victory -- and the next day Joyce apologized to Galarraga, who accepted gracefully.
"I felt sorry for (Joyce) too, the way it turned out. But he handled it good, the best way you possibly could," Donald said.
Even so, the fallout reverberated for weeks.
"There wouldn't have been a story," Donald said. "It would've been more boring."
In the long run, that play undoubtedly was a factor in Major League Baseball's expansion of its replay program, which figures to make for more correct decisions but also eliminate many of the animated manager-umpire confrontations.
"That's one thing about baseball, there's that human error. There's that element," Donald said. "It's just always been part of the game. It's kind of weird when you start to change it."
Indeed, some of the color might fade away.
"You're not going to have a manager in the middle of the season coming completely unglued because he's frustrated and tired," Donald said.
Speaking of historical controversial calls that could have been changed with instant replay, there was a certain "safe" call in the 1985 World Series that Kansas City and St. Louis fans are still debating. Hmmm, now what was that umpire's name ... ?
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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In W.Va. 5th-graders, blood pressure, cholesterol, obesity fall
here. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The percentage of West Virginia fifth-graders with high blood pressure dropped significantly in 2011-12, according to measurements by West Virginia University's CARDIAC program.So did the percentage of fifth-graders with abnormal cholesterol."This is fantastic news," said Dr. Ron Stollings, D-Boone, a physician and chairman of the Senate Health and Human Resources Committee. "We may be at a tipping point for child obesity.""Obesity, blood pressure and cholesterol are closely related," he said. When people exercise and become more fit, blood pressure and cholesterol usually drop, and obesity is likely to follow suit, he said.The fifth-grade obesity rate nosed downward to 27.8 percent. The kindergarten obesity rate also dropped sharply to its lowest rate in nine years, 13.6 percent.The CARDIAC program screens fifth-graders, second-graders and kindergartners statewide each year.In 2010-11, one in every four fifth-graders screened had high blood pressure. In 2011-12, the number with high blood pressure dropped to one in five for the first time in CARDIAC's 14-year history.Dr. Bill Neal, CARDIAC program director, cited the school system's statewide campaign to improve school meals and get children more active. "If the schools keep up their efforts to improve nutrition and increase physical activity, I expect we'll see significant drops in obesity next year," he said.Children with high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol and/or obesity are at high risk of future diabetes, heart disease and other costly chronic illnesses, Neal cautioned, so West Virginia still has reason to worry. "This is cause to hope and reason to keep trying," he said. "If these numbers are still down next year, we'll know it's a genuine trend. So this is no time to ease off in our efforts."It's important to remember that one in five 11-year-olds with high blood pressure is still very alarming," he said. "We can't get complacent. But the numbers are going in the right direction."A drop in child obesity -- or obesity at any age -- would be very good news for the state budget, Stollings said. Seven out of 10 state health-care dollars already pay for obesity-related chronic diseases, according to an analysis health-care economist Ken Thorpe did for the Legislature.Thorpe predicted the state's health-care costs will double by 2020 if the spread of obesity cannot be stopped."If we can get kids healthier, we're turning off the spigot, where diabetes and other chronic illness is concerned," Stollings said. "We can't do as much about the water in the pipelines, but if we can turn off the spigot, we're making big progress."CARDIAC has been screening in the schools statewide since 1998. "High blood pressure" means the child's blood pressure is higher than 95 percent of children in a national sample. • In the 2010-11 school year, 24 percent of fifth-graders screened had high blood pressure, one in four. In 2011-12, that dropped to 20.3, one in five.• In 2010-11, 26.1 percent had abnormal cholesterol. In 2011-12, that number dropped to 23.5 percent, a 10 percent decrease.• The fifth-grade obesity rate edged down from 28.9 to 27.8 percent.The kindergarten obesity rate dropped from 17.5 percent of children screened to 13.6 percent, which puts it below the national average.The second-grade obesity rate climbed a point, to 24.5 percent of children screened. "We'd like to bring that down too," said Rick Goff, director of the state Office of Child Nutrition. "The drop in the other numbers shows us we can."In 2011-12, while the numbers were dropping, the school system was increasing physical activity and improving the nutritional quality of meals statewide. School cooks in 26 counties were trained to cook from scratch. Processed food served in the schools dropped sharply, Goff said.Then-Superintendent Jorea Marple spearheaded a statewide push to get kids more physically active. "She deserves a lot of credit for that," Neal said, "and I'm happy to hear the new superintendent will continue the push.""I supported it as a county superintendent and will support it as state superintendent," new superintendent James Phares told the Gazette-Mail.Increasing numbers of parents are also becoming aware of the health risks of obesity, inactivity and junk food, said Stephen Smith, director of the West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition. "We've done 42 community meetings statewide, and children's health is a top priority everywhere. People keep saying kids need to be outside instead of sitting in front of screens."Neal credited the media for stirring up public conversation and awareness."This is very good news," said Delegate Don Perdue, chairman of the House Health and Human Resources committee. 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Nearly a fifth of Botswana's landscape is designated for wildlife protection: we enter Chobe National Park and Moremi Game Reserve to track Africa's greatest animals in their natural habitat. We also stay on a houseboat on the Okavango Delta, a huge freshwater oasis in the Kalahari desert, and visit the raging Smoke that Thunders - Victoria Falls.
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BEING a screenwriter is all about trust.
You have to trust that actors will do your characters justice and when you hand your script to a director you have to trust that they share your vision.
But when Steven Knight wrote the screenplay for Locke he found he could not let it go so easily.
An innovative passion project on a small budget, he wanted to do the film his own way.
"It felt more like an obligation to be honest," said Steven, who is best known for writing Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises.
"When you write a film you see it in your head. You see it in a particular way because that is how you imagined it.
"I've been really lucky to then hand over the script to fantastic directors like Stephen Frears and David Cronenberg and incredible actors who have done such brilliant work.
"But it's different to how you imagined it so in the end you feel obliged to try it yourself and take that film that is in your head and put it on a screen."
Steven worked behind the camera for the first time on the crime film Hummingbird with Jason Statham and that got him thinking.
He told Weekend: "In the process of making that film we had done a lot of testing of digital cameras by shooting from moving vehicles "I found it hypnotic looking at that footage and I wondered if there were other ways of inviting an audience into a room, turning off the lights and having them engage with the screen for 90 minutes. Lots of things came to me at once. I wanted to do a film about the drama of an ordinary life and also a journey where someone begins with everything and they arrive at their destination and they have nothing."
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TomHardy plays a man who has the perfect family and a top job in construction but a past mistake and his choice to drive from Birmingham to London could see his carefully crafted life fall apart.
Steven, who created BBC's Peaky Blinders, added: "I wanted the character to be pretty much the most ordinary person and not one of those monsters and larger than life characters that Tom often plays.
"But that is as much of a challenge as anything else.
"Tom's one of those actors that even if there are other actors on the screen people are looking at him. He just has that magnetic quality and this is something that for obvious reasons you need, someone who is very watchable but also someone who can pull off the performance.
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One of the most intriguing elements of the film is that it is all set in real time as Locke makes his motorway journey and takes and receives calls.
"I wanted to go back to a very basic way of shooting," said Steven, who won a British Independent Film Award for Locke's screenplay.
"We set up three cameras in the car and we had the other actors making the calls in a hotel conference room with a real phone line to the car.
"We had to deal with problems without stopping.
"For example, there was a rattle in the car. Normally you would pull over and sort that out but we carried on and it actually helped for a moment to add to the tension.
"If you invite the chaos of the world you can use it to your advantage. There is a police car that shoots past and there is a traffic jam at the perfect moment.
"The good thing about having the vehicle is that certain metaphorical issues are dealt with just by the reality of where you are.
"The future is down the road and the sat nav is telling you that is where you have to go. The past is in the rear viewmirror.
"So the structure was there already and I wanted the outside world to feel like chaos so we doubled up on the reflections and even trebled the reflections at times to make it feel like this uncontrollable movement of lights."
Steven, who started his career writing and producing radio adverts, said that screenwriting will continue to be his 'day job'.
He is currently working on the script for a sequel to WorldWar Z.
But he told Weekend that he wants to continue directing small budget performance-led films.
Steven added: "There are a lot of rules in film and scriptwriting which everyone will tell you can't be broken.
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FOR some searching through endless pages of job ads is a dull and dreary experience.
So children at Weeke Primary School in Winchester have come up with an innovative way of advertising the headteacher job.
The school council made a YouTube video featuring a tour of the school and students holding flashcards of the attributes they wanted to see in the new head.
Year 6 teachers Ed Allmark and Elaine Mousley organised the video and around 300 children were involved.
Mr Allmark said: "We put out an advert a while ago but there was no appointment from the first round of applicants. So we went back to the drawing board for the new advert and after discussing it with the children we thought this would be a great way to raise the student voice.
"The children all really enjoyed it and we have already had a few enquiries so we hope more and more people see the video and apply. Some of the parents have called in to say it really captured the ethos of the school."
The video was put up on Friday afternoon (Feb 1) and already has more than 2,000 hits. It has also been posted on Twitter and Facebook.
Current head Maggie Hastie is retiring at the end of August after a 36-year teaching career, including 12 as head at Weeke.
She said: "It's a fantastic video. Our children are such a creative and imaginative bunch and we have a really strong team of teachers who are very positive and I would be amazed if we didn't get someone this time round.
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BALTIMORE -- In some ways, Adam Jones wouldn't mind having a few days off for the All-Star break. In that scenario, the Orioles outfielder would head up to the Hamptons for a few days off.
But the allure of the All-Star Game is too much to just shrug it off.
"You want to reel off eight, nine, 10, 11, 12 -- however many you can," Jones said. "I think it's cool when you see people are eight-time All-Stars, 10-time All-Stars."
Fan All-Star voting closes on Thursday at midnight and Jones is closing in on the opportunity to call himself a four-time All-Star. As of Monday, Jones ranked fifth, but he has since closed the gap on Athletics outfielder Yoenis Cespedes and Melky Cabrera, who rank third and fourth, respectively.
According to the MLB Twitter account, Jones has picked up a 20 percent boost on Cespedes and an 18 percent boost on Cabrera.
"I took a picture with a lady out in front, she said she voted over 21,000 times," Jones said. "That's amazing. I wouldn't do that for anybody. For her, that means a lot to me as a player that she would take her precious time to sit in front of a computer and click vote over and over and over."
So as much as Jones would appreciate a few days off, he'd rather be in Minneapolis for the week -- and maybe for more than just the game.
Jones doesn't know why he's never been asked to participate in the Home Run Derby, but he always manages to have fun with it. If Jose Bautista invites him he wouldn't just participate.
"I would win it," Jones said.
With a .307 batting average and 16 home runs, Jones will probably be chosen for the game even if the fans don't vote him in, but he needs more help in the coming hours to insure his spot. And then he has to hope the balloting system works.
"That's not up to me," Jones said. "That's up to whoever's tallying these up. I hope it's not like Florida a couple years ago."
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Almost 300 police officers swooped to tackle a suspected drug dealing ring in a string of dawn raids at more than 30 properties in and around Sutton, Merton and Wandsworth.
The raids, which went by the name Operation Beet, were carried out this morning in Sutton, Mitcham, Clapham, Battersea, Streatham, Waterloo, Wembley, Redhill and Horley.
Twenty-two people were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
Surrey Police led the operation, which involved 270 officers including dog handlers, detectives and rapid entry teams, after receiving intelligence suggesting large scale drug dealing was going on from a number of linked addresses.
Those arrested have remain in custody as questioning continues. One of those arrested was also detained on suspicion of firearms offences.
Superintendent Jerry Westerman said: "Operation Beet has yet again shown how successful Surrey Police is in identifying and dismantling suspected networks of drug dealers who attempt to supply illegal substances in our county.
"It is widely accepted that class A drug abuse destroys communities. Not only are those dependent on drugs harming themselves but anyone who has been a victim of a crime as a result of a user needing to fund their habit are also affected.
"Although the majority of the warrants executed this morning were in the borough of Reigate and Banstead, we also identified the need to target suspected dealers at addresses in London.
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CHIPPENHAM produced a rousing performance to condemn Redingensians to their first league defeat in a year and maintain their fine start to the National Three South West season.
The home side were left hanging on at the final whistle, having roared into a 20-0 lead with a display of commitment and desire that the Rams were unable to match, and it needed a magnificent last-gasp tackle from wing Christian Novik to prevent the visitors from a potentially match-winning try.
But in truth, anything other than a win for Jason Forster's men would have been a travesty of justice as they consistently carried the fight to opponents who have been hotly tipped for promotion this season.
With a crosswind slightly in their favour in the opening 40 minutes, the hosts tore into their rivals, who looked non-plussed by the ferocity of the early exchanges.
Led by rampaging performances from number eight and skipper Bobby Lyons and second row Sam Hill, Chippenham's excellent forwards made a real nuisance of themselves at the breakdown, ensuring visiting ball was frequently slow and occasionally non-existent as they were turned over.
Redingensians did have the upper hand in the scrummage, especially late in the day, but their lineout constantly malfunctioned under pressure.
Even when the ball did reach the away side's three-quarters their opposite numbers, led by monstrous defensive performances by centres Rupert Crockett and Gary Champion, were up quickly to snuff out any threat.
Having dominated the opening 10 minutes, the opening try from Novik, after scrum-half Lewis Surry's excellent flat pass had set Lyons free up the left wing, was the least the home side deserved.
The second score arrived just after the half hour when, from a back-pedalling scrum, Lyons delightfully flipped an underhand pass to Surry, who repeated the trick to send Fijian right wing Aminiasi Titoko over.
In the tricky conditions, full-back Sam Saunders was off target with the conversions but the kicking from hand of fly-half Harry Taylor and Surry kept the increasingly-frustrated visiting side penned back.
The expected fightback appeared to be under way as Redingensians started the second half strongly, but Champion's magnificent smother-tackle with the visitors holding a three to two overlap, got his side back on the front foot.
Hill charged up the left wing and as the ball found its way to Novik, he weaved in and out of the defence to touch down again.
Showing no signs of slowing down, Chippenham poured forward again and a brilliantly-executed rolling drive from a lineout allowed Lyons to touch down for the bonus-point try.
Saunders was again unsuccessful with the conversions and belatedly, Redingensians began to show the form of promotion candidates.
Wing Joe Duffelen reduced arrears with a quick tap and go from a close-range penalty before Andy Amor finished a length-of-the-field move for a second try shortly afterwards.
Two expertly-taken conversions from Guy Swadling put the visitors back in contention and set up a nervous conclusion.
Flanker Ossie Wolf was sin-binned as Chippenham began to creak under the pressure, seemingly certain to crack after a series of scrums close to their own line.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Daytona Beach police say a man was struck and killed by a southbound Florida East Coast Railway cargo train.
The man was hit about 8:30 p.m. Monday. Officials say the train was traveling about 35 miles per hour when it hit the man.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports the victim was identified as 49-year-old Carl Labreck, who police believed was homeless.
Police say the train's conductor/engineer reported the accident.
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Holiday apartment na Sale, Veľká Lomnica, offer no. ZR-17A
Nature Resort Lomnica is a modern recreational and residential resort in the High Tatras, situated opposite a 27-hole golf course in the village of Velka Lomnica.
The project offers modern brick-storey wooden holiday houses with attic designed as a highly efficient low-energy buildings. They are richly glazed and overlooking the main oriented prekrádnu High Tatras. Natural Resort Lomnica is the ideal combination of comfortable recreation or permanent housing, health Tatra nature and profitable investment
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GAZE Film Festival Turns 18, July 29- August 2
18th GAZE Film Festival will run for five days over the August bank holiday in the Light House Cinema. This year's GAZE offers a wealth of features, documentaries and shorts from countries as diverse as Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, China, Sweden, Ireland, Norway, New Zealand, UK and USA. Boasting a jam packed and varied programme the Festival looks both outwards to the international screens and closer to home at LGBTQ work from the indigenous Irish film industry.
GAZE is delighted that the original founder of the Festival Yvonne O'Reilly, is programme director for this the 18th Festival. "Gaze has come of age" Yvonne commented, "the Festival is 18, emerging from its teenage years with a level of sophistication and confidence that is evident in the range of excellent film on offer this year. As the founder of the Festival, I'm proud to see how it's grown over its eighteen years and am delighted to return to programming the festival once more this year".
The 2010 line up celebrates and showcases the quality, diversity and invention which is now evident in LGBTQ film and includes a retrospective of Irish Gay shorts from the 18 years of the Festival, presented in collaboration with Culture Ireland. The 2009 shortlist for best international gay short will also be showcased over the weekend.
Documentaries feature strongly including the Toronto Film Festival award-winning documentary THE TOPP TWINS; UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS. Its themes of life's humour and pathos are shared by REGRETTERS, TWO SPIRITS, and ALL BOYS. PRIMA DONNA: THE STORY OF Rufus Wainwright'S DEBUT OPERA is both a record of an artistic process and an insight into his gifted family including interviews with his sister Martha, his father Loudon Wainwright III and his mother Kate McGarrigle.
GAZE also offers many top-notch feature films over the weekend. One of particular Irish interest is JorDan Scott's CRACKS starring Bond's Eva Green which was shot in Ireland.
At 18 the Festival looks forward but also reflects back on one of the seminal moments in gay history. STONEWALL UPRISING is a moving and definitive portrayal of what was to become a turning point in the history of the gay rights movement. GAZE also highlights a number of themes in the line up such as the fluidity of gender in TO DIE LIKE A MAN, PAULISTA, and THE LAST SUMMER OF LA BOYITA and documentaries like ASSUME NOTHING and REGRETTERS and the coming out story in THE MAN WHO LOVED YNGVE, LOOSE CANNONS, and the closing night film ANDER. There are also a number of truly unmissable debut films to chose from including SOUNDLESS WINDCHIME, LEO'S ROOM and I KILLED MY MOTHER.
Full programme details will be online 8th July www.gaze.ie
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- Mazda's All-New Mid-Size Vehicle Features KODO 'Soul of Motion' Design Language -
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IRVINE, Calif., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoom-Zoom has never showcased wallflower tendencies, so why start now? When the all-new 2014 Mazda6 entered the competitive bread-and-butter world of the mid-size passenger car segment, the vehicle excelled in key consumer needs such as fuel economy, safety technology, performance and driving dynamics. And while bold lines and taut features were noticeably absent from its counterparts, the Mazda6 proudly wears its equally skin-deep beauty also on its sleeve. This unexpected focus on design and style has propelled the vehicle as a recently named finalist for the 2013 World Car Design of the Year Award.
Outlasting Renault, Land Rover and Volkswagen in the latest round of the voting, the 2014 Mazda6 will share the stage with the Aston Martin Vanquish and Jaguar F-Type at the New York International Auto Show where a winner will be announced during a press conference on March 28. With design the sole focus of this award, these unlikely real-world competitors are competitors nonetheless.
An evolution of the TAKERI Concept, Mazda's new mid-size features the brand's KODO "Soul of Motion" design language, which is inspired by the movement of animals in the wild—their ability to showcase power in its purest form combined with agile finesse. KODO's prominent personality, inside and out, easily distinguishes the Mazda6 from competitive people movers, whose personalities seem to have been relegated to match their prudish exteriors. The Mazda6 makes no excuses for its muscular manner nor does it need to. With pronounced sheet metal strokes, the vehicle evokes a controlled intensity, seemingly moving yet standing still. Not meant to be ignored, the stunning Mazda6 presents an uncommon but welcome appeal of emotion to the mid-size segment.
The World Car of the Year awards were inaugurated in 2003 to reflect the reality of the global marketplace as well as to recognize and reward automotive excellence on an international scale, and are intended to complement, not compete, with existing national and regional Car of the Year programs.
A jury of 66 top-level automotive journalists representing nearly every continent selects the finalists every year. For specific categories, such as Green Car and Design, a panel of experts in each field reviews each candidate and provides recommendations for the jurors. This year's design experts are Masatsugu Arimoto (Japan), Silvia Baruffaldi (Italy), Gernot Bracht (Germany), Sam Livingstone (UK) and Tom Matano (United States).
On sale now, the 2014 Mazda6 starts at $20,880[1] MSRP and is the second vehicle in the Mazda lineup to fully incorporate SKYACTIV®[2] TECHNOLOGY, the brand's breakthrough engineering approach toward increasing overall vehicle efficiency. Offering both powerful performance and improved fuel economy, the 2014 Mazda6 features best-in-class highway fuel economy of 38 miles per gallon (MPG). Available with a SKYACTIV-G 2.5-liter gasoline engine, a SKYACTIV-D 2.2-liter clean diesel engine will be offered on 2014 Mazda6 vehicles during the second half of the year.
Mazda North American Operations is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and oversees the sales, marketing, parts and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States and Mexico through nearly 700 dealers. Operations in Mexico are managed by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City. For more information on Mazda vehicles, including photography and
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[1] Starting price is manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) for lowest trim level. MSRP does not include $795 destination charge (Alaska $840), title, taxes, license, options and dealer charges. Actual prices set by dealer and may vary.
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Brandon Phillips making fun of Xavier Paul on that miss in Chicago so funny
Colossal meltdown by the Braves. I hate the Cards but that was still kinda fun to watch. My goodness...
The Braves were closer to having the best record in all of MLB being 4 games off the Nats games than the Cards were to them for WC which was 6 games. But in one and done that is meaningless including the winning 5 of 6 H2H.
epic collapse by the Braves continuing from last season. I don't think the Cardinals can beat the Nationals though
Actually I'm kind of glad I won't have to hear that Braves chant anymore
Why is Jay playing so shallow with a 4 run lead?
Does anyone have a live chicken we can sacrifice ?
"I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench."
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Cards have 6 runs on 4 hits with 2 of those hits a bloop to RF and a GB that the 1B and P got crossed up on that went 80 feet.
Braves had 86 errors all year long and today they have 3 that counted and a few more that were on the mental side.
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The S&P 500: Get Ready for a 15% Loss…or Gain
Ignore, for a moment, the craziness in Washington and let your thoughts carry you back to the happier days when investors were debating when the Fed would slow down its bond purchases. It wasn't that long ago, really, and if the craziness in Washington gets worked out, Ben Bernanke and his Fed buddies might be front and center for markets once again.
And that should bring an end to all the happy thoughts, according to a new Societe Generale report. That's because the end of quantitative easing could cause the S&P 500 to drop 15%, if history is a guide. Soc Gen points to the end of QE in Japan back in 2006, when the Nikkei dropped 20% as the Bank of Japan's assets started to plunge. The Nikkei had gained 62% leading up to the end of QE.
Soc Gen's strategists also point to the end of the first two rounds of bond buying in the US. The first, in 2010, caused the S&P 500 to drop 16% in two months; the second, in 2011, caused it to fall 17% in just one month. So why not 15% this time around?
Don't expect a quick recovery either. Societe Generale notes that the U.S. is one of the most expensive markets in the world based on both Price to Book, more expensive than just about every developed market save Switzerland. For that reason--and others--Soc Gen expects the S&P 500 to fall finish 2013 at 1,600, hit 1,450 by the end of the first quarter of 2014 and bounce around in a range through 2016.
RBC Capital Market's Jonathan Golub and team disagree. On Oct. 2, Golub initiated his 2014 price target for the S&P 500 at 1,950. He explains why:
Since the market's lows in 2009, the S&P 500 has rallied 149% on a recovery in margins and multiples. This, however, should not be confused with a maturing cycle. As a result of an anemic recovery, the economy has tremendous spare capacity, and the Fed remains uber-accommodative. Recent data shows signs of improvement in both the U.S. and Europe (albeit at a slow pace). These dynamics should support higher stock prices on a multi-year basis.
Rising to 1,950 would but the S%P 500 up about 16% from today's price. So, which is it to be? A 15% plunge or a 16% gain?
Notice that neither view depends on what's happening in Washington--even if that's what's dropping stocks today. The S&P 500 has fallen 0.4% to 1,683.36 today, led by a decline in the consumer-discretionary stocks. The Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLY), which has fallen 1% to $603.9. Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) has dropped 3.3%, Urban Outfitters (URBN) has fallen 2.8% to $35.93 and Best Buy (BBY) is off 2.5% at $37.20.


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It's that time of the year when coaster geeks will start drooling over test run videos of the new roller coasters opening this year. A great test video of King's Island's Diamondback has been posted on YouTube by KICentral.
Note the empty pool towards the end of the video. This will be where the train takes a dive into the splash section. Don't expect to get wet though. I've experienced this element on SheiKra and Griffon and the resulting splash just soaked the onlookers on nearby paths, not the riders. The splashdown does give Diamondback some style points as it looks really cool and it's a neat way to slow the train before entering the station.
Check out the Diamondback at Kings Island test video:
Kings Island's Insider, the park's new blog, has a post about the ride's new-ish seating. The trains seats are set up in a winged (middle-two forward, outer-two slightly back) configuration. I say 'new-ish' because this seating arrangement debuted last year on Behemoth at Canada's Wonderland. Kings Island claims the new seating will "allow riders to experience an unobstructed view of all the thrills and excitement."
While I haven't ridden one of these trains, I have to imagine that they will offer great views. B&M hypercoasters already offer elevated seats and trains with no walls. Now with this seating arrangement riders will feel even more like they're "out in space". If you're generally a chicken, sorry, they'll be no place to hide on this coaster. Go here for the latest Diamondback images.
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Chinese Restaurant Almond Cookies
Chinese New Year falls on Valentine's Day this year. To celebrate, our monthly cooking club decided to feature Chinese food. We all brought our creations to enjoy together.
I had actually never heard of Chinese almond cookies, but a couple of the other people in the cooking group had. They all said these tasted like the real thing. I didn't have anything to compare it to, but they sure are tasty. They are light and chewy and have a great almond flavor.
I had some issues with the recipe as it's written on Allrecipes.com. There weren't enough liquid ingredients in the original recipe for me to actually roll the dough into a ball. My adaptation is shown below.
Chinese Restaurant Almond Cookies
Yield: ~3 dozen
2 3/4 cups flour
1 c sugar
1/2 tsp baking sode
1/2 tsp salt
1 c crisco
2 eggs
2 tsp almond extract
1/4 c milk
Preheat oven to 325.
Sift flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl. Cut in the lard until mixture resembles cornmeal. Add eggs, almond extract, and milk. Mix well.
Roll dough into 1 inch balls. Set on ungreased cookie sheet. Place an almond on top of each cookie and press down to flatten slightly.
Bake 15-18 minutes. Cool on rack.
Recipe inspired by Allrecipes.com
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Argentina Big Game Hunting/Dove Combo
Argentina big game hunting as well as World Class Wing-Shooting.
This Argentina big game hunting Outfitter provides first class hunting safaris in Argentina on more than 100,000 exclusive acres.
If you want the excitement of chasing Argentina's roaring red stag and fallow deer, while having the option to shoot hundreds of dove between your morning and afternoon hunts, this is the outfitter for you.
What to expect on this Argentina hunt
If you're thinking of Argentina big game hunting or dove hunting, we are the Outfitter for you. You will find out why we have been chosen by extreme hunters like Craig Boddington to be their choice for an excellent Argentina big game hunting experience."
This Argentina big game hunting outfitter has gathered a crew of guides and anglers which believe in the importance of ethics, conservationism and quality of service.
Hunting with this outfitter gives you total freedom to focus entirely on big game, entirely on dove hunting, or combine the two at a moments notice. Guests can also enjoy fantastic fishing opportunities while on their Argentina hunting excursion.
Because of the flexibility and options that this Argentina Big Game hunting and Dove hunt provides, it is perfect for family and group trips who may have different hunting interests, but love to share their daily experiences over a great dinner each night. Every aspect of your trip will be planed down to the last detail.
Hunting Season
The primary big game animals hunted with this outfitter are red stag and fallow deer. The season for both of these species runs from March 1st to July 15th. Dove season is open year-round and it is possible for a good wing-shooter to shoot over a thousand birds a day.
Hunting Method
Argentina big game hunting is done primarily by using "spot-and-stalk" methods. Sitting over water is also available. Dove hunting takes place near fields and openings in areas where the birds are numerous.
Success Rates and Trophy Quality
The stag and fallow deer trophy quality rival that of true New Zealand free-range animals. Stag scoring 250 inches SCI are common, and several approaching 350″ have been taken. The fallow bucks are equally impressive, and this outfitter has a very high success rate with both species.
Trophy Care
This Argentina big game hunting outfitter prepares all trophies before they leave the lodges so that they are ready for a taxidermist to start working. All capes are salted and completely dried and all skulls bleached before they are handed over either to the exporter or the taxidermist. This ensures each client that is provided with the best possible experience while making sure that their trophies get back home in impeccable condition.
Travel, food and lodging for this hunt
All International flights arrive at Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires where the outfitter staff will meet & greet the clients and take care of the ground transportation to other airports if necessary. Domestic flights in Argentina can be either made in commercial or chartered aircraft; in both cases the outfitter will assist clients with the necessary flight bookings and arrangements.
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Accommodation are rustic lodges where clients will have double bed rooms with private bathrooms, hot water, electricity, laundry service and room service. Clients will also have TV, Internet and TE services available. Games such as a pool table, darts, chess, dice and cards are also available for guests.
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Fashion Resume: Taylor Swift
"Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound." This is from the woman who makes a simple white shirt look profoundly beautiful ("It's a security blanket of sorts") is especially resonant. But Carolina Herrera, a Studio 54 alum, also has a keen eye for fun. "Fashion can be incredibly serious and starved for amusement," she says. "But not here." Indeed, Herrera's joyous lovers' print for the resort season is testament to the fact that after 32 years in business, she's still the life of the party.
"Apart from being a friend, Andy [Warhol] spoke to a generation in a language previously unknown. It would be near impossible not to be encouraged and influenced by his work."
Left: Warhol's lithograph of Herrera hangs in her office.
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Sticky. Toffee. Pudding. When I say these words aloud I see my listeners' pupils dilate, their fingers twitch, their teeth bite vampire-like into their bottom lips. I see I have an audience in my thrall and decide to tease and torture, describing how a warm bath of brown sugar, butter, molasses, and port sauce cascades onto a bed of dark cake that imbibes the glossy liquid. When prodded or scooped, the cake bleeds out helplessly and deliciously.
Traditionally, sticky toffee pudding is made with dates, but I have a soft spot for prunes, despite their For Geriatrics Only reputation. They're velvety and rich, the flesh full and supple. Poached in sweet, tawny port, they plump and become even more luscious.
The drunken prunes are pureed and combined with brown sugar, flour, and melted butter, then baked in a water bath to ensure maximum moisture. Ultimately, this gooey cake seems to make tastebuds get all hot and bothered.
This dessert may be served on its own, but since we're already knee-deep in toffee sauce, add a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a pillow of whipped cream, and a sprinkle of toasted pistachios and Maldon salt.
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About the author: María del Mar Sacasa is a recipe developer, food stylist, and author of the food blog High Heels & Frijoles. Behind her girly façade lurks a truck driver's appetite. Read about her cravings and suffer through her occasional rants on Twitter @HHandFrijoles.


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On the NBA | As good as it could get
By David Aldridge
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Ron Artest finally got traded. A nation pauses to reflect.
It's amazing that so many people:
(a) think the Pacers are fools for waiting six weeks to deal Artest after his initial trade demand, and (b) think the Pacers made a bad deal in acquiring Peja Stojakovic from the Kings.
I'm sorry, were the Heat shopping Dwyane Wade without our knowledge? Did Kevin McHale's Blackberry malfunction while he was offering Kevin Garnett to Indiana CEO Donnie Walsh?
A three-time all-star for a talented knucklehead is about as good as anyone could expect. Especially one who doesn't impact the team's luxury-tax situation down the road.
Trades come about much like houses are bought. You don't make your last, best offer right out of the gate, do you? You try to get the number down if you're buying, or up if you're selling. And teams don't make their best offers the day after someone is put on the trading block as publicly as Artest was.
"We had waited a long time to get the offers we did get," Walsh said by phone on Friday. "They were good. They were a lot better than everybody said we were going to get. The same guys that are writing we got hosed were saying we wouldn't get anybody."
This isn't about Artest's basketball abilities, which are numerous and well-documented (though he is not, as Sacramento co-owner Joe Maloof suggested this way on Thursday, one of the five best players in the game. The Maloofs are so enthusiastic and cute when they talk about their Kings).
This isn't even really about Artest the person, who is big-hearted and utterly without conceit.
But Artest is damaged goods. He's a fixer-upper. He's the Benz after the accident. He's down to his last strike with a commissioner who will throw him out of the league the next time he gets out of line. He knows it. The Pacers know it. And more to the point, the other teams around the league know it.
Not only did Walsh and team president Larry Bird manage the situation well, they shrewdly found a division - the Pacific - chock full of teams that were desperate to get Artest. The Lakers, Clippers, Warriors and Kings each made offers, and if the Pacers couldn't get the player they wanted from one, like rookie forward Ike Diogu from Golden State, they moved to the next team, creating a crabs-in-a-barrel effect.
And people seem to forget: The Pacers would have ended this three weeks ago if Clipper Corey Maggette's foot wasn't so damaged - and, you should know, if he wasn't so hard to get insured as a result.
Once the Maloofs finally decided to pull the trigger on a deal two weeks ago and put Stojakovic on the table, Walsh and Bird didn't wait any longer.
"There was another team I would have gone right to if this didn't work," Walsh said (and my guess - just a guess - is that it was Denver). "But no, I wasn't going to sit around when we were offered a good player and say, 'I'll just wait until the trading deadline.' "
No, the 28-year-old Stojakovic isn't nearly as good without Chris Webber and Vlade Divac. No, he doesn't play much defense. Yes, he's been pouting most of this season, which happens to be a contract year.
But he immediately solves two problems the Pacers have struggled with all season: His arrival allows Stephen Jackson to move back to shooting guard (Jackson's been getting torched trying to guard bigger threes), and he provides Jermaine O'Neal with a legit option when he's double-teamed in the post.
Even with Artest, the Pacers weren't going to beat the Pistons. Detroit is on one of those season-long rolls and has the look of a champion. Indiana is too brittle. (Point guard Jamaal Tinsley and O'Neal can't stay healthy.) Everyone acts as if the Pacers were a finished product. They're not. And they couldn't keep waiting for Artest. Nor could they have him on the roster; O'Neal was not going to play with him anymore. Period.
"I may not want to believe it, but it appears that this thing has knocked us off track this year," Walsh said. "I'd be curious to see if our players get back on track. We're headed in a direction where we can at least get a vision of our team and see where we're going in the future. We had to do something. Jamaal played about 1,300 minutes last season, and Jermaine played about 1,500 minutes. We were doing it on fumes. We still are. Last year was devastating and we didn't recover from it. Maybe we still are."
The Pacers can continue building their team. The Kings, who didn't have anything to lose (they probably weren't going to re-sign Stojakovic at big prices, anyway) get a guy who can guard the likes of Kobe Bryant and Jason Richardson and the division's other big scorers. Maybe they make a run into the playoffs. Maybe they don't.
But with Artest, they won't be boring.
If Artest is smart, he'll keep it down to a dull roar.


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Every other calamity is seemingly on the table for Purdue's senior tailback, who remains bad luck's favorite target, although teammate Robert Marve is a worthy rival.
Even with a three-times-surgically repaired knee and enough bumps and bruises for five players, Bolden is a college force of nature, a big play waiting to happen. He didn't get the game ball in Saturday's victory at Illinois by accident. Does that mean another big-play happening in Saturday's annual Oaken Bucket battle with Indiana that will determine the Boilers' postseason future?
It's not so simple.
Ten days ago full health and opportunity collided at Iowa and Bolden rushed for 102 yards on 14 carries. On Saturday the fifth-year senior needed just seven carries to total 93 yards and, if not for a tweaked hamstring, would have surpassed 100 again.
So what should we expect against the Hoosiers?
"With Ralph, you never know," Marve says. "He might hobble for 100 yards."
Darn right, Bolden says. Bad hamstring or not, sitting out ain't happening.
"I can come back. I've had a lot of injuries worse than this. It's nothing. It's not going to hold me up."
Bolden is 5-9 and 190 pounds of resolve, and he's needed all of it. Some guys go through careers never understanding the difference between injury and pain. In football, perhaps more than any other sport, you play through pain, rehab injury so you can do it all over again.
And so Bolden has, again and again and again.
"I keep pushing. This is my last year. I'm going to give it all for my team, for the coaches, for Purdue."
Bolden showcases the toughness any coach would want, and you'd better believe Purdue's Danny Hope wants it as this season that could have been winds down toward uncertainty.
"I can't say enough great things about him," Hope says. "His teammates admire him. We gave the game ball to him. He was out there with just one leg left. He was giving all he had. He's had lots of miles and lots of rough sledding. He's a warrior. He exemplifies what being a Boilermaker is all about."
Take Bolden's 63-yard Illini-back-breaking third-quarter run. He sprinted to the right, exploded past would-be tacklers to bolt into the secondary and would have had a 78-yard touchdown run except for the hamstring that forced him to go out of bounds.
"As soon as I got through the hole, as soon as I tried to put it in sixth gear, I felt it pop. I decided to hobble and get as much as I could. I was praying they wouldn't touch me, but they caught up to me, so I thought I'd just step out of bounds."
Adds Marve: "That was awesome. I saw him hobbling on one leg. I was hoping he would have run out of bounds a little earlier than he did. He has a big heart. It's awesome playing with him."
How frustrating was this latest setback?
"Whatever," Bolden says. "It's just another injury. Another obstacle I've got to get through."
Bolden missed the entire 2010 season with a knee injury, missed most of the 2009 Bucket game with a pulled hamstring, blew out his knee again in last year's Indiana win to miss the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl victory and then the first five games of this season.
You watch a guy keep getting knocked down and keep getting back up, says Marve, who's blown out his knee three times, and you want to knock down a wall for him.
"We had the Ralph Bolden cheer," he says about Saturday night's impromptu post-game locker room celebration after giving Bolden the game ball. "That was just cool, just to see him smile. I was there against Indiana last year when he tore (his ACL), when he was crying and sad.
"I know what he's feeling. Everyone doesn't talk about you any more. Nobody expects anything from you any more.
"He comes back with pretty much 100 yards in back to back games. That shows how big his heart is. It shows how much he loves the program. I wouldn't have wanted (the game ball) to go to anyone else."
Adds Bolden: "(Getting the game ball) was surreal. Everybody was giving me high-5s. It was very satisfying."
Now it comes down to Saturday. Purdue is 5-6 and must beat Indiana (4-7) to become bowl eligible. If it does, projections have it going to the Jan. 1 Heart of Texas Bowl in Dallas. If it loses, it will join the Hoosiers on the postseason sidelines.
"We figured it would come down to this after we lost a couple of games," Bolden says. "Everybody started picking it up. It's satisfying that we have to go through IU to get where we want to go."
Last year was the same scenario, although this time Purdue has had to gut out three-point road wins against Iowa and Illinois.
Saturday, at least, will be played at Ross-Ade Stadium.
"It's the way we knew we had to go," Bolden says. "We had to win out. We're doing it. We're trying to keep it up."
Boils and locusts, be darned.
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Modular Still Matters
The Process Analyzer Industry and One of Its Largest User Communities Must Get Away from Building "Steel Copies of Wooden Bridges"
"When man invented steel, he did not build steel copies of wooden bridges." — Ayn Rand From the mid-1940s through the mid-1990s, process analyzers were two- to six- cubic-foot devices, "wooden bridges," if you will. In the late 1990s, Siemens introduced the MicroSAM gas chromatograph (www.usa.siemens.com/pa) to the European market and in 2004 to the North American market, as well as the dual-analytic chassis/single-enclosure spectrophotometer, the Ultramat 23. Suddenly, process analyzers were available in one to two cubic-foot devices (perhaps "steel copies" of those "wooden bridges"?). Other major analyzer manufacturers also introduced spectrophotometers offering this format around that same time. Only one other manufacturer has seen fit to offer a miniaturized process gas chromatograph to the hydrocarbon processing and chemical processing industries. This unit is the Calidas micro gas chromatograph by Falcon Analytical.
In 2002, a group of hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) and chemical processing industry (CPI) process analyzer personnel gathered and defined ANSI/ISA 76.00.02 (2002), which is generally referred to as the New Sampling and Sensor Initiative (NeSSI), Generation I. It defined a "universal mechanical format" for process analyzer "modular" sample conditioning system components. The process analyzer industry had entered the era of two- to six-cubic inch devices.
This group also defined NeSSI, Generation II (ConnI), as a Universal Connectivity Instrumentation Format for electrical data exchange and component control between process analyzer modular sample conditioning system components.
The process analyzer industry at this point in NeSSI development ran headlong into proprietary systems that channel purchases to a single supplier rather than systems for the universal advancement of the industry. For example, open standard formats are CANBus (IEEE 1451.6) or Modbus (ISA SP100.11a); i-squared-C was adapted to a Siemens' proprietary version of this universal open standard.
Finally, the NeSSI group defined NeSSI, Generation III (AnNIE), as a Universal Analytical NeSSI Instrumentation Equipment Hardware Format, where the footprint is NeSSI Gen I; the connectivity is NeSSI Gen II; the analytical engine is miniaturized to fit within a 1.50-inch width by multiples of 1.50-inch length and, within reason, unlimited height (NeSSI Gen III); and the analytical performance is maximized by utilization of laser analytical light sources and ASIC PDA (1024 photo diode array) or other miniaturized analytical detectors. Examples include H2scan for a hydrogen-specific analyzer and TOC Systems for a component-addressable non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) spectrophotometer.
The process analyzer industry and one of its largest user communities (HPI/CPI) absolutely must get away from building "steel copies of wooden bridges." In this case, they must get away from building $250,000, NEC/NFPA explosion-proof, climate-controlled 8 ft x 10 ft x 9 ft analyzer shelters to house $25,000, 0.5 ft x 0.5 ft x 1.0 ft process analyzers.
The HPI/CPI communities must provide financial support for the NeSSI generation of process analytical equipment!
The operational model of the HPI/CPI process analyzer system must change. It must evolve from using a relatively expensive, infrastructure-intensive (explosion-proof, climate-controlled, walk-in) shelter/building to a relatively inexpensive integrated infrastructure (NeSSI-format, intrinsically safe, climate-adapted, at-line, 1.0 ft x 1.0 ft x 1.5 ft enclosure process analyzer system).
The maintenance model in this inexpensive integrated infrastructure field application would be an identical, relatively inexpensive NeSSI system available from the analyzer shop as a hot-spare, total-field substitution.
A multi-national refiner considered the NeSSI format and maintenance model for a large chemical plant expansion in Singapore (circa 2007), but ended up only using NeSSI Gen I (basic hardware items in a 1.50-in. x 1.50-in. footprint) in its process analyzer systems for this major expansion project.
Why was this decision made? In this era of high technology devices, ultra-communication capability and Sarbanes-Oxley accounting principles. this decision came down to the classic conundrum of "the chicken or the egg." If this refiner went with "the chicken," here being the process analyzer modular sample conditioning system components (Gen I) and the electrical data exchange and component control between process analyzer modular sample conditioning system components (Gen II), would there be future nourishment ("the egg")?
It managed its risk by applying NeSSI Gen I components. At this point in time, there were (and currently are) three major manufacturers producing NeSSI modular substrate basic (Gen I) components—Circor, Parker and Swagelok —and using classic pressure and flow indication devices to populate the data generation function for control of these many (~400) process analytical systems.
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The rumor mill on Apple's MacBook Pro Summer 2012 update is coming to life, and it's none other than Intel who is doing the stirring. The chip manufacturers appear to be setting up delivery of their Ivy Bridge quad-core processors (specifically, the Core i7) by late April, and are expected to be in the Apple machines shortly thereafter — just in time for a formal announcement at Apple's yearly WWDC event in June. If true, this MacBook revision would be a historical one, seeing Apple drop the optical disk drive altogether in favor of digital data delivered via USB.
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Spring Break Nationals 2006 - Custom Truck Show
A Rockin' Event Mixes Tunes and Trucks
For the last twenty years Paul Papadeas and the IASCA crew have held the world's most famous sound-off in sunny Daytona Beach, Florida. Stereo competitors and car show enthusiasts some 20,000 strong flooded into this famous destination on the East Coast for a chance at escaping the winter weather. You may think of Spring Break Nationals as being more for the tuner crowd, but actually the majority of the sound-off competitors in the lanes this year seemed to be rolling trucks. This probably has something to do with the fact that trucks have more room for speakers, but we would prefer to think that people are just finally starting to catch on.
Spring Break Nats always has something for everyone, from the legendary bikini contest, which featured former Mini Truckin' cover model Nikki Zeno, to all the audio manufacturers' booths inside the Ocean Center, where they handed out free swag on a scale like an East Coast CES (with the models to prove it). On the beach side, there was a spot just for showing your ride if the stereo thing was not your area of specialty. You couldn't have asked for a better and more beautiful venue than on the boardwalk overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Of course, the night life was great, with a few of the truck clubs hanging out and throwing sparks and showing people that there is more to the show than just loud stereos. Sunday rolled around and it was time for the trophy presentations. With over 300 competitors vying for the top positions, being a judge was definitely not easy.
All in all, this year's Spring Break Nats was a great event with plenty to see, hear, and do while escaping the winter blah of the northern states. If you are looking for someplace to go in early February that will get your blood pumping for the coming show season, Spring Break Nats 2007 is a can't miss. For more information, check out www.iasca.com for their upcoming show schedule.


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Wiltshire has missed the worst of the lashing rain and fierce winds which have battered parts of south west Britain as the remnants of Hurricane Bertha sweep across the country.
Winds gusting at almost 50mph struck Cornwall this morning, while nearly a month's rainfall was dumped over parts of Wales in just one night.
A mass ascent of hot air balloons in Bristol has been called off because of poor weather.
The ascent was due to start the final day of the 36th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta which has been attended by hundreds of thousands of people since Thursday.
Vintage air displays were also cancelled but the Ashton Court estate event remains open to the public. Saturday evening's mass launch also had to be cancelled due to bad weather.
The former hurricane had torn through the Caribbean early last week and has now brought Britain's warm, balmy summer to an abrupt end.
Torrential downpours broke out over Wales, where 31mm of rain fell on the port of Milford Haven in the 12 hours until 7am - the average rainfall for the whole of August is 40mm.
There are fears this could trigger further floods, and 13 alerts are in place across the south west, south east, east of England and the Midlands.
Met Office yellow weather warnings telling people to "be aware" of rainfall for England, Wales and Scotland have now also been extended to Northern Ireland.
Rachael Vince, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, said: "It is more of an autumnal storm. The rainfall is fairly persistent over the Midlands, north east and north west of England. While there is more showery rain in the south and west of England and Wales."
She said most of Britain could be hit by 25mm of rain over the day, while the mountainous beauty spot of Snowdonia in Wales could be deluged by 50mm of water.
Britons were warned to batten down the hatches as powerful gusts reaching up to 60mph are expected to hit the south west, south and east of England as the eye of the storm moves across central England and up to the north east.
The Red Cross has mobilised hundreds of volunteers who are on standby to help anyone affected by the storm.
Turbulent weather already wreaked havoc across the east coast of Britain on Friday night, leaving many homes flooded and causing power cuts in 1,400 properties.
Fire crews in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire battled to pump gallons of water out of swamped properties, while marooned drivers had to abandon their cars as they became stuck in flooded roads.
Ms Vince said: "We did have that heatwave in July, so it is feeling distinctly more autumnal this week as a whole.
"But it is a typical British summer - really a bit of rain in August is nothing unusual.
"The centre of the storm will have passed over the coast of Britain by 5pm or 6pm. But we are in an unsettled spell of weather for this week with showers and perhaps some thunderstorms through the rest of the week."
Temperatures will hit highs of 23 degrees centigrade in the south east today, and hover in the mid-teens in the north of England and Scotland.
But the wind and rain will make most of the country feel far cooler.
The start of a prestigious yacht race has been postponed until tomorrow because of the weather, organisers said.
The Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race was due to start in Cowes on the Isle of Wight today, but will now begin at 9am tomorrow.
The Royal Racing Club, which runs the event, had already changed the route from clockwise to anti-clockwise around the British Isles yesterday because of Bertha.
In a statement regarding the postponement this morning, it said: "The race committee took this decision after receiving advice that the low pressure system known as Bertha is moving more slowly than previously predicted, with the result that the forecast winds for the start and the immediate period afterwards includes sustained winds of 40 knots (46mph) with gusts in excess of 50 knots (57mph) in the English Channel.
"The advice is that this delay will allow time for the severe winds to abate as the low pressure system moves north east."
A major cycle event in London and the south east has also been affected by the wind and rain.
The RideLondon Surrey Classic, which sees more than 20,000 cyclists go through rural Surrey before ending on the Mall, has been shortened from 100 miles to 86.
Organisers said they "reluctantly" made the decision after information from the Met Office.
Natural Resource Wales has issued four flood alerts for the country.
It advised people to stay away from the Usk Estuary and Wye Estuary in Monmouthshire, and the River Llynfi and Ogmore in Bridgend.
It also advised people should take care near rivers in the Ewenny and Vale of Glamorgan areas as rain was expected to fall heavily until lunchtime.
Fire crews in Mid and West Wales have been called to three flooding incidents in St David's, Pembrokeshire.


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The following were compiled from reports prepared by the Ukiah Police Department. To anonymously report crime information, call 463-6205.
MAN WITH GAS CAN, HOSE -- A caller in the 100 block of Magnolia Street reported at 2:52 a.m. Saturday that a man wearing a dark hoodie was carrying a fuel can and a hose, and that it looked like he was siphoning gas from various car tanks near Magnolia and Pine streets. Police checked the area and didn't find the man.
THEFT FROM VEHICLE -- A caller on Lorraine Street reported at 12:12 p.m. Saturday that medication and money had been taken from his/her vehicle the night before.
PEOPLE THROWING TRASH -- A caller in the 600 block of North State Street reported at 2:04 p.m. Saturday that transients behind the building were throwing trash into the caller's backyard. The group left on request.
WOMAN YELLING -- A caller at Mason and East Perkins Streets reported at 9:43 p.m. Saturday that a woman with long gray hair and a dark shirt, and pushing a yellow shopping cart, was yelling at passers-by.
DUI -- Police stopped Jacob Garcia, 24, no residence given, at :33 a.m. Sunday in the 300 block of Leslie Street and arrested him on suspicion of driving under the influence and violating his parole.
MAN IN STREET YELLING AT CARS -- A caller at East Gobbi Street and Waugh Lane reported at 7:31 a.m. Sunday that a balding man wearing black sweatpants with white strips and a pink shirt was walking in the street and yelling at cars. Police determined the man was OK.
EMBEZZLEMENT -- A caller in the 200 block of North State Street reported embezzlement by an employee at 4:35 p.m. Sunday. Police took a report.
MAN OFFERING CHILDREN RIDES -- A caller in the 1000 block of Low Gap Road reported at 6:05 p.m. Sunday that a man with dreadlocks and a hat in a red Ford hatchback car had been loitering in the area for hours and offering children rides. He left after the caller left, and the caller requested extra patrol in the area for the man.
The following were compiled from reports prepared by the Ukiah Police Department regarding calls handled by the Fort Bragg Police Department.
HOUSE EGGED -- A caller in the 1500 block of East Oak Street reported that someone threw eggs at her house, and requested extra patrol at night.
PEOPLE WITH FLASHLIGHTS -- A caller in the 300 block of Dana Street reported at 2:27 a.m. Sunday that a group of people were in the parking lot with flashlights. Police arrested a 21-year-old Fort Bragg man for Mendocino County warrants.
Those arrested by law enforcement officers are innocent until proven guilty. People reported as having been arrested may contact the Daily Journal once their case has been concluded so the results can be reported. Those who feel the information is in error should contact the appropriate agency. In the case of those arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant: all DUI cases reported by law enforcement agencies are reported by the newspaper. The Daily Journal makes no exceptions.
The Ukiah Daily Journal reserves this space to correct errors or make clarifications to news articles. Significant errors in obituary notices or birth announcements will result in reprinting the entire article. Errors may be reported to the editor, 468-3526.


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Thursday and Friday of this week represent stunning contrasts. Tradition dictates that Thanksgiving Day is a time for all to take a deep breath, relax and recognize and appreciate our good fortunes. It's a time for turkey dinners and hanging out with family members.
The next day is Black Friday, the start of the holiday shopping season. It's marked by consumerism, materialism, stress, cynicism and an every-shopper-for-himself attitude that has resulted in big-box store stampedes. No, thanks!
If you agree, you're far better off avoiding that circus altogether. Instead, get some sleep, wake up refreshed and do your holiday shopping in your own community.
In case you haven't noticed, downtown Los Altos is becoming more relevant by the day. There are some excellent new retail stores and restaurants dotting Main and State streets. From men's and women's clothing to jewelry and gourmet foods, the merchandise is varied, unique and high quality.
The downtown area also is proving quite an attraction for families and children. The gift options here, from toys to books, are not only plentiful, they're also educational. And among the new additions this year are stores for hobbyists.
Virtually all the stores and restaurants offer comfortable, lower-key environments in which to shop. Best of all, the customer service is far superior to the big-box businesses.
At downtown stores, you're dealing with people who are helpful and know their inventory. Most of them offer complimentary gift wrapping.
Although downtown boasts the lion's share of activity, shoppers shouldn't overlook the other six Los Altos shopping districts. Comfortable shopping also is available at Rancho Shopping Center, Loyola Corners, Foothill Crossing, Woodland Plaza, Village Court and along the El Camino Real corridor.
Despite the parking shortage, shopping downtown is still no hassle compared with the overcrowded national chains. Even so, downtown is scheduled to offer valet parking in mid-December, and merchants will distribute all-day parking passes at shoppers' request.
It's best to walk through town and discover what's here. You'll find lots of pleasant surprises. And you'll keep your sanity.