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A team of scientists that includes two Colorado researchers will take images of Mars June 27 with the Hubble Space Telescope to check the weather conditions in preparation for the July 4 landing of NASAs unmanned Pathfinder spacecraft.
The team includes Steve Lee of CU-Boulders Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Todd Clancy of Boulders Space Science Institute, Phillip James of the University of Toledo, Mike Wolff of the Space Science Institute and Jim Bell of Cornell University. The researchers will take high-resolution color images of the side of Mars harboring the landing site in the early morning, mid-morning and early afternoon to see how cloudy the region will be on July 4.
HST and microwave observations taken by the team in March, April and May indicated the planet was cold and cloudy, said Lee. Those climate conditions are in stark contrast to the relatively warm and dusty conditions that existed when NASAs unmanned Viking and Mariner 9 spacecraft visited Mars in the 1970s.
The team anticipates having the images processed and ready for release just prior to Pathfinders landing, said Lee. The team will continue to monitor Mars with HST for several months following the landing.
Pathfinder, which consists of a stationary lander and a tricycle-sized surface rover, will descend on the planet with the aid of parachutes, rockets and airbags. Both the lander and rover will carry a variety of scientific equipment and cameras and beam images back to Earth beginning July 4.
The lander will touch down in an ancient floodplain known as Ares Vallis, some 500 miles southeast of where the Viking 1 spacecraft landed in 1976.


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Fifty miles northwest of Memphis, in a Depression-era farmers colony that was once a New Deal experiment in improving people's lives, the white clapboard home where Johnny Cash learned to sing still stands. And in an effort to revive the town, the house is being restored to showcase Mr. Cash's mother's piano and sewing machine, and the place where the country singer grew up, picking cotton with his parents.
The Cash family will help raise money with a music festival next month to meet the needs of the cost, which is expected to cost $3.5 million, reports the Wall Street Journal.
The opportunity to view the home will not just give an inside peek into the home of Johnny Cash, but will also bring tourists back to a time when poor Southerners were working tiny little plots of land in the name of their own survival.
In the works: a parking lot sized for tourist buses, in a field next to the Cash home. Visitors will also be able to watch an informational movie at the theater where Mr. Cash once frequented.
Some residents doubt the project will be able to attract tourists, and only time will tell. Mr. Cash died in 2003 at the age of 71.
Read the full story on the Wall Street Journal.
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Virginia native rapper Pusha T is finally here with his long awaited debut studio album, My Name Is My Name.
Pusha T first emerged on to the rap scene with his brother Malice, in the rap duo Clipse, which has dropped several great albums including the underground classic, Hell Hath No Fury in 2004. After the duo went on hiatus in 2009, Pusha went on to start his solo career with multiple mixtapes before being signed to Kanye West's label G.O.O.D. Music, and dropping two acclaimed and praised verses on the classic Kanye album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in 2010. Read More →


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Four-time Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon received one of NASCAR's highest honors Thursday, winning the National Motorsports Press Association's Myers Brothers Award.
The award, named in honor of former NASCAR competitors Billy and Bobby Myers, recognizes individuals who have provided outstanding contributions to the sport of stock-car racing.
Gordon was presented the award at the annual NASCAR NMPA Myers Brothers Awards Luncheon at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas.
Gordon has 87 career Cup victories and won four Cup titles (1995, '97, '98 and 2001), all with Hendrick Motorsports. He also is well-known for his many charitable contributions, including the Jeff Gordon Foundation, which aids children battling cancer. The foundation supports the Jeff Gordon Children's Hospital in Concord, N.C. and has committed to help fight cancer in Africa.
Gordon's also helps his sponsor, AARP, with its Drive to End Hunger program, which brings awareness to hunger among Americans 50 and older.
"Jeff Gordon is an ambassador for NASCAR," NMPA President Rea White said. "He has not only brought excitement to the sport on the track, but has brought awareness and aid to the children who most need it. He is truly a champion in every respect."
Gordon won two Sprint Cup races this year, including the Nov. 18 season finale at Homestead, and his 87 career wins are third all-time. He finished 10th in the final Cup standings.
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Just getting started, couple rounds only so far. 30s male RHBH, some ultimate experience.
Distance Driver: (I just practice with these on the soccer field, don't use during a round)
Monarch 172 - for rollers, tomahawks
Valkyrie DX 171
Valkyrie DX 167 (found, probably beat in)
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Leopard DX 150 - getting better with this all the time, some nice "S" flights, using to tee of with for some longer holes
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Shark DX 168 - my "go to" for most shots off the tee and anywhere a putter won't reach
Shark DX 150
Wolf DX 175 - understable, goes pretty damn straight for me right now
Buzzz D 168 - haven't thrown yet
Stratus D 160 - haven't thrown yet
Dart DX 172 - approach shots
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"He spent hours fretting whether to ask for help or wait it out. Some day the slump was bound to go, but when? Not that he was ashamed to ask for help but once you had come this far you felt you had learned the game and could afford to give out with the advice instead of being forced to ask for it. He was, as they say, established and it was like breaking up the establishment to go around panhandling an earful. Like making a new beginning and he was sick up to here of new beginnings. But as he continued to whiff he felt a little panicky. In the end he sought out Red Blow, drew him out to center field and asked in an embarrassed voice, 'Red, what is the matter with me that I am not hitting them?'"
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You know that queasy feeling you get when you're watching a movie and you know a character you like is about to get caught doing something fraught with irreversible regret? It's a strange sensation that makes you want to crawl under the carpet, or close your eyes and plug your ears. That's what it was like watching Adam Dunn last year.
White Sox general manager Kenny Williams signed Dunn late in 2010 to be the missing piece in the everyday lineup. Chicago won 88 games the year before but faded down the stretch after leading the AL Central for a month during the middle of the season. There was a glaring hole at designated hitter, where occasional appearances by Paul Konerko and Carlos Quentin couldn't make up for the lack of production by the rest of a revolving DH cast that included Mark Kotsay, Manny Ramirez, Andruw Jones, and Mark Teahen. The hole was opened the previous offseason because, at the behest of former manager Ozzie Guillen, Williams allowed beloved slugger Jim Thome to leave as a free agent. While the White Sox searched all season for that one additional big bat that could get them over the top, Thome went out and hit .283/.412/.627 for the division champion Twins.
Dunn was coming off his seventh consecutive season with at least 38 home runs. In six of those seasons, he drew over 100 walks and slugged over .500. In his last season in Washington, Dunn posted a career-high strikeout rate, a career-low walk rate and reached 30 years of age. It's easy to say that Williams should have heeded those red flags before handing Dunn a four-year, $56 million contract. But no one really knew what was to come. In Baseball Prospectus 2011, Dunn's comment addressed the strike zone indicators, saying, "The concern is that these developments might be symptoms of slowing reflexes, not just a change in approach, but as long as he's slugging for an isolated power in the .270s, questions won't get asked."
It was a reasonable comment, and it seemed like even if Dunn's production was on the ebb, he'd still be an upgrade for a White Sox team that harbored division title aspirations. What happened instead will forevermore be fodder for baseball history books, featuring events too fantastic not to retell.
Other players have failed in spectacular fashion, even some who had played at All-Star levels, but Dunn's failures were singular and unprecedented. That's what makes it so difficult to know what to expect from him in 2012. Certainly, concepts like regression to the mean and player aging patterns tell us that statistically speaking, he should bounce back to a certain degree. That is to say, his numbers should move towards his career standards. He's just 32 years old, and there was no physical reason for his problems. Yet, because we've never encountered a case like this before, we just don't know what to make of it.
There have been 1,122 big-league seasons in which a player slugged at least .536 over in least 400 plate appearances, which is what Dunn did in 2010. Aside from Dunn, who hit .159/.292/.277 last season, just two others have also posted a season with a .300 slugging percentage, or worse, in 400 trips. The first was Ron Santo, who hit .221/.293/.299 in his only season with the White Sox. It turned out to be his last year in the majors and came eight years after his last big slugging season. The other player on the list is Brady Anderson, author of one of the game's all-time fluke seasons. He slugged .637 in 1996 when he hit 50 homers for Baltimore. Five years later, at the age of 37, he hit .202/.311/.300 in 430 plate appearances for the Orioles. He played in 34 games for Cleveland the next year, and then his big-league jig was up.
As much as we want to look to history as a bellwether for Dunn, we can't do it. Santo and Anderson were on their way out of the game when their numbers cratered, and it happened several years after they had produced at a high level. Last year, it was as if Dunn had been thrown from a plane without a parachute, only the thud wasn't quite so pleasant. There just hasn't been anything exactly like it.
One hopeful comp for Dunn may be the case of Jimmy Wynn. "The Toy Cannon"— as he was known because he was just 5'9", 170 lbs.—had a four-year stretch from 1967-70 when he hit .267/.384/.476, averaging 31 homers and 104 walks per season. He was 28 years old in the last of those campaigns. When you adjust for the fact that at least the first two of those seasons were played in extreme pitcher-friendly contexts and he played his home games in the cavernous Astrodome, those four seasons rivaled anything Dunn has accomplished.
In 1971, Wynn's age-29 season seemed to come out of nowhere: .203/.302/.295 in 404 plate appearances. He went deep just seven times. Wynn was fine physically but claimed to have personal problems that had been dragging him down. Entering the 1972 season, he told Dick Peebles of the Houston Chronicle, "I was just going through the motions. But I've got myself straightened out now. There are no problems. Everything is beautiful."
What else was he going to say? But to Wynn's credit, he bounced back with a season that was right in line with his peak years. He began to decline after that but still displayed plenty of power and patience in his last four years as a regular. White Sox fans can only hope Dunn does as well.
Dunn's season actually got off to a nice enough start. He doubled and homered in Chicago's 15-10 Opening Day win in Cleveland. After four games, he had four hits, four walks, five RBIs, and a 1.045 OPS. Then on April 6 in Kansas City, he underwent an emergency appendectomy. It didn't seem too serious at the time, and Dunn said he was still hoping to play in the White Sox's home opener two days later.
Instead, Dunn didn't return until April 12, making his home debut against Oakland. Five days later, the White Sox had dropped the last four games of their homestand, and Dunn had gone 2-for-19 with 11 strikeouts in 22 plate appearances. He'd missed five games because of his medical procedure and then gone straight into the lineup. Everyone just figured that he needed a few games to regain his timing. After the season, Williams said the decision not to send Dunn out on a rehab assignment was his biggest regret of 2011. Still, there were no alarm bells sounding at the time for Dunn.
"It's weird. I don't feel bad," Dunn said. "I feel fine, I just stink. I have no reason for it. I looked at film, and I'm swinging at a bad pitch at the wrong time and taking the right one. I'm not worried. I know it'll come around. Hopefully it's tomorrow."
If you trim the full-time middle infielders and catchers from the list, there have been very few sub-.600 OPS seasons posted by players who at one time or another were selected to an All-Star roster. Twenty-one of them, in fact. Dunn made the NL squad once, for the infamous tie game in 2002. Many of the rest of the players on the list were excellent glove men like Brooks Robinson, Paul Blair, and Ed Kranepool.
One player to earn his way into this group was Eddie Joost, a utility man for the early part of his career when he played for the Reds and Braves before World War II. Joost had a number of rotten seasons to begin his time in the majors, and it seemed like he would never amount to much. Through the age of 30, he had a career average of .225 with 13 home runs in over 600 games. He walked quite a bit, but after he spent the entire 1946 season in the minors, where he posted solid numbers, it seemed like his big-league career had run its course.
Surprisingly, Joost got a call from Connie Mack in February of 1947. According to Danny Peary's excellent oral history We Played the Game, Mack told Joost that he'd purchased his contract and planned to use him as his starting shortstop and leadoff hitter.
Mack kept his promise at first, but after Joost struggled to start the season, he was dropped in the batting order. Joost was hitting under .200 well into August when he decided to tell Mack about something he'd kept carefully hidden: he needed glasses. At the time, players were terrified to let their teams know about vision problems, because it was assumed that once a player donned spectacles on the field, the next stop was the minor leagues. Instead, Mack simply said, "So?"
Despite discovering the miracle of clear vision, it was too late for Joost to salvage his 1947 batting average, but he led the AL in walks, and his career took off. Over the next five years as Philadelphia's regular shortstop, Joost hit .257/.399/.423 with 96 home runs and made two All-Star teams, earning himself a spot in Dunn's test group.
Yet unlike Dunn, there was an explanation for Joost's two-sided career. He couldn't see. As Dunn's season grew increasingly dire, he was often asked if he needed to get his eyes checked. He scoffed at the inquiry every time, saying at last check he had 20/10 vision. Somebody should have told him about Eddie Joost.
By the time Chicago returned from its 3-7 road trip in late April, Dunn's line read .162/.305/.279, almost exactly what his season-ending numbers eventually looked like, which gives you an idea about how long his torment persisted. There was a theory going around that he was having trouble adjusting to the DH role, so one day Ozzie Guillen decided to give him a start in the field. The day before, he had a walk and two hard-hit outs against Baltimore, surely signs that he was about to break out.
"I've been feeling good the last five or six games," Dunn said. "At least I'm going up there having some competitive at-bats to where I feel like I can do some damage. It'll come. If I can continue to do this, it's just a matter of time."
That's the way it was for Dunn, and Chicago fans, for most of the summer. Despite his numbers, he really wasn't booed that much at U.S. Cellular Field until late in the season. Every time he would stroll to the plate, it felt like he was one big swing from getting it going.
One big swing that never came, or when it did it didn't lead to anything. Dunn was given a "mental break" by Guillen in early June, then returned to the lineup and hit a two-run homer against Oakland in Bob Melvin's first game as the Athletics' manager. Before the game, Guillen told reporters about his advice for Dunn: "I asked, 'Could you please have a good day so then they don't have to ask me any more questions about you? Please have a good day so (hitting coach) Greg Walker doesn't have to drink a bottle of wine to forget about your bad night?'"
Dunn homered again in the Oakland series, and a couple of days after that, he raised his OPS to .671, the highest it would be for the rest of the season.
"I feel good now, after the two benching days that I had," Dunn said. "I've felt good since I've been back."
Like everyone else, he was looking at every remotely positive result as a false harbinger of glorious days to come. After that day against the A's, Dunn hit .133 and struck out in 38 percent of his plate appearances over the rest of the season. More often than not, it seemed like he emerged from the dugout with two strikes on the scoreboard.
The terrible numbers just kept piling up. He struck out 16 times in 25 at-bats in one stretch. At one point, he was 1-for-52 against lefties. In the pressbox, some started counting the strikeouts, trying to figure out if his whiff total would eventually exceed his batting average points. It did—177 to 159.
No one could remember seeing anything quite so painful to watch, but to his credit, Dunn answered the questions dutifully game after game. The same questions and the same baffled responses. By August, however, it became increasingly difficult to find Dunn before and after games. He often disappeared into the back to watch his young son while he played in the Jacuzzi. He even grew a scraggly beard, which under the circumstances just looked like another form of hiding. When he went onto the field, he looked slump-shouldered and defeated. Dunn earned a chief place in Jay Jaffe's dreaded Vortices of Suck and even become a target of Stephen Colbert.
So no one blamed Dunn for becoming a bit more scarce, but he really didn't need to be. In what was probably the upset of the year, the Chicago media eventually tired of asking him the same questions and simply stopped.
Until early August, Guillen continued to write Dunn's name in his lineup in the middle of the order, even against lefties. Finally, someone asked him if at the very least, he might want to consider dropping Dunn down a few spots.
"What I have behind him is not better," Guillen said. Then he challenged the gathered media to come up with a better solution. "Send me the lineup. Please."
It's wasn't exactly a glowing endorsement by Dunn's skipper, who also said, "He makes the most money, so he's supposed to be 'The Man.'"
Sometimes, Guillen would make jokes about Dunn's performance—off the record, of course—but that was part of the Ozzie Show. He made off-color jokes about his wife, kids, and just about anything else that popped into mind and slipped out of his unfiltered mouth. Once, Guillen made a crack about Dunn, then looked quickly over his shoulder to see if his 6'6", 285 lb. DH was standing within earshot. He wasn't.
Dunn's playing time eventually was usurped by guys like Alejandro De Aza and Brent Lillibridge. During the season's last days, Dunn would wander into the clubhouse kind of late, unshaven, very quiet. He looked more sluggish than slugging; more menaced than menacing. He'd pull on his pregame attire—a t-shirt, shorts, flip-flops—and slog through his ritual ablutions in preparation for a game in which he almost certainly wouldn't appear. He'd chat briefly with Gordon Beckham, his clubhouse neighbor, who habitually did crosswords puzzles before each game until Dunn arrived.
Since Chicago kept holding Dunn out of the lineup, his season was at least saved from historical database searches based on the "qualifier" parameter, but that was a small consolation. Once, Guillen used him as a pinch hitter in a key spot. After Dunn struck out, a fan in front of the press box yelled, "Ozzie, you should be fired right now!"
No silver lining emerged to give Sox fans hope heading into the winter. Over his last eight games, Dunn went 0-for-22 with 13 strikeouts. It just never got better. On the last day of the season, the media were lined up outside of the clubhouse, waiting to get the go-ahead to enter. Many of them talked about wanting to get some final comments from Dunn before he headed out of town.
Dunn was the first player to emerge from the clubhouse, fully dressed and carrying his bag. He walked across the corridor over to where his wife and kids were sitting with the rest of the players' families. They rose together and walked away. They passed by the line of hungry media and didn't say a word.
Here's a player to give Dunn some hope: Scott Brosius.
Brosius posted a career-best .909 OPS for the A's in 1996. The next season, at the age of 30, he put up a .576 OPS. His strikeouts skyrocketed, his walks plummeted, and after the season, Oakland sent him to the Yankees for Kenny Rogers. In an interview after he retired, Brosius told Prodigal Magazine about his thoughts following his miserable 1997 campaign.
"I can't do this again," Brosius told his wife. "I can't play like this. If this is what baseball's going to be, I'm going to walk away from it."
Brosius didn't walk away and instead hit .300/.371/.472 in his first season for the Yankees and made the AL All-Star team. In the postseason that year, he hit four homers and drove in 15 runs in 13 games, helping New York to a World Series victory. He was named MVP of the Series. He won a Gold Glove the year after that and remained a regular for Joe Torre until he retired after the 2001 season.
Brosius scraped bottom during that last season in Oakland, but no one is really going to remember that. They'll just remember the home run off Trevor Hoffman in the 1998 Series, or the Game Five game-tying homer against Arizona in 2001.
Unlike Fitzgeraldian American lives, ballplayers can enjoy a second act. Adam Dunn certainly hopes so.
It was a winter of change on the south side of Chicago, with Guillen heading for Florida and the White Sox parting ways with stalwarts like Mark Buehrle and Carlos Quentin. Dunn didn't go anywhere, of course, because you're not going to find a taker for the last three years of a $56 million deal when a player hits .159.
Dunn went home to Texas for the winter, where he worked out on his own. Williams said his advice to Dunn was to stay as far away from baseball as possible and to prove his point avoided calling him all winter.
Dunn returned to Chicago for the club's annual fan convention in late January. After missing the opening night festivities, he arrived the following day and faced the media for the first time since the previous season. He looked svelte, and while he still wore a beard, it was at least well manicured. He was shepherded into a back room where the gathered media awaited, carrying a tall coffee in a paper cup. He took his place in front of a White Sox backdrop that had been erected and set his coffee on the carpet, off to the side.
"If the season started today, I'd be ready," he said. "I'm just ready to get back on the field and quit talking about it. The first week after the season, I can't even put into words how much it was needed (to get away from baseball.) After a week, I was ready to get back to doing stuff. I thought I wouldn't. It's not exactly how I thought I'd handle it.
"I thought I'd be able to shrug it off like I do with everything, but I wasn't able to do that. It was hard. For one thing, I couldn't go anywhere without someone asking me what was wrong or what happened. Once the offseason went by, all can say is it's over and I can't wait for the season to start."
When Dunn finished talking, he exchanged handshakes and pleasantries with the reporters, who began to sneak away to type up their reports or edit down their sound bites. When Dunn found himself with room to breathe, he leaned over to pick up his coffee. The cup was on its side, the contents pooled on the carpet.
What can you say? It's been awkward for Dunn in Chicago from the start, but they could have at least let the man drink his coffee.
Bradford Doolittle is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Didn't Dunn rush back after a spring appendectomy? Or so I recall. Not saying there's any evidence that this is a smoking gun, but it could be a contributing factor at least anecdotally.
Mar 09, 2012 04:33 AM
I think you are overlooking the obvious. Peavy has his #44. The mental anguish of having to play with #32 takes its toll.
Mar 09, 2012 07:15 AM
It's even worse than that. I mentioned Beckham lockers next to Dunn, but I failed to point out who is on the other side: Peavy. There might be something to this No. 44 theory.
Mar 09, 2012 15:16 PM
Hank Aaron, Reggie Jackson, and Willie McCovey. Peavy needs to let Dunn pay his respects.
Mar 10, 2012 06:32 AM
There's a little too many "ifs" on this White Sox club for my liking. If Dunn can hit 30 home runs and hit over .225, if Rios can bounce back like he did two seasons ago, if Beckham can reproduce his rookie numbers, then the Sox might just compete for the division. I've already waited too long but I'm giving Beckham one more year or I am completely giving up hope (it's 90% gone as we speak).
Mar 09, 2012 07:38 AM
We get everyone's season slash line except Dunn's. .159/.292/.277 really needs to be in the article somewhere.
Mar 09, 2012 09:53 AM
I would hope Dunn swallows his pride, has his eyes examined, goes to an internist for a full workup, talks with a sports psychologist. Anything. There's something wrong, not just a bad case of Regression to the Mean (his Mean is 40 HR!), and he owes it to himself and the club to find out what it is.
Mar 09, 2012 15:39 PM
I couldn't understand Dunn's unwillingness to have his eyes checked, unless there still is some bizarre stigma attached to corrected vision in today's game. (Not likely.) In any event, a vision test is a standard part of the workup when players report to spring training and as far as I know, his went fine last month. Haven't heard anything to the contrary, anyway.
Mar 09, 2012 16:25 PM
Drop the "don't" from that. Geesh. Time to call it a week.
Mar 09, 2012 16:31 PM
Does anyone know if these kinds of sluggers ever try a lighter bat when it seems it may be slowing down? Or heavier if they seem to be coming through the zone too soon. I know ballplayers are superstitious by nature and somewhat hesitant to make changes to what was successful for them, but in most any other professional sport the athletes are changing equipment or their method of attack consistently. It would also seem Dunn could have had a couple of long post-game dinners with the Big Hurt to discuss the transition to DH. Any evidence this ever happened? The Sox have probably the best right handed hitter of his time right there in town and I never heard of he and Dunn chatting. Anyone?
Mar 10, 2012 11:36 AM
Good question on the bat weight, which I can't answer. Sounds like a good topic, tough. I'll add it to the list.
Mar 10, 2012 12:34 PM
Lou Doench
I think the Big Kid is comeback player of the year. I've been a fan of Adam's his whole career and I'm rooting for him to bounce back. Now if we could only figure out what happened to Austin Kearns . then many mysteries would be solved...
Mar 10, 2012 15:22 PM
Bradford, thanks for this immensely enjoyable article. I've been a fan of Dunn for years, and really felt a lot of sympathy for him for his 2011 season, and I appreciated the mix of historical references with personal anecdotes and finding out more about the human side. A really, really great read.
Mar 11, 2012 04:27 AM
I knew a scout who once told me: "Beware of players with one and only one killer skill. They lose that, they lose everything." Sounds like Adam Dunn to me.
Mar 11, 2012 12:26 PM
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Teheran takes tough loss with no margin for error
Misplay on chopper proves costly in shutout vs. Corbin, D-backs
PHOENIX -- One day after matching a season-high 10 runs, the Braves encountered one of baseball's hottest young pitchers and were reintroduced to the offensive inconsistencies that have frustrated them through the early part of this season.
Patrick Corbin proved to be a little better than Julio Teheran as he completed seven scoreless innings and benefited from a soft double in a two-run third inning that proved decisive in the D-backs' 2-0 win over the Braves on Tuesday night at Chase Field.
"It's a shame that Teheran gets the loss on a night that he pitched pretty well," said Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez, who had seen his team win each of the previous six games started by the young right-hander this year.
Teheran continued to show his tremendous potential as he limited the D-backs to two runs and seven hits in six innings. But while facing Corbin, who allowed just three hits, Teheran had no margin for error or the misfortune that he experienced in the third inning.
Cliff Pennington opened the bottom of the third with a single and then raced to third base when Gerardo Parra's one-out grounder bounced between Teheran and Freddie Freeman before eluding Dan Uggla and stopping on the edge of the outfield grass. The play went into the books as one of the softest doubles ever recorded. More importantly, it set the stage for Didi Gregorius to follow with a two-run single that doomed the Braves, who have lost four of their past five games.
"[Teheran] just had that one inning where he got in a little trouble," Braves catcher Gerald Laird said. "He left a pitch out over the plate and the guy kind of fisted it out in the outfield. But other than that, I thought he threw the ball great."
Teheran might have actually been more efficient than Corbin, who pitched around Reed Johnson's first-inning double and five walks on the way to improving to 6-0 with a 1.52 ERA through his first eight starts. But the Braves hurler was not as fortunate as he fell victim to his team's sixth shutout loss and the consequences of the wacky third-inning grounder.
"I think I had my good stuff today," said Teheran, who has allowed three runs or fewer in each of his past four starts. "I had my good pitches. I was getting ahead on the counts. It was just one difficult play."
Freeman and Teheran both broke toward the speedy Parra's grounder before both gave way with the assumption the other was going to field it. The ball then got past Uggla, who slipped while attempting to redirect himself after nearing the first-base bag.
"I was going to spin and throw to second to try to get the forceout there," Freeman said. "I saw Julio come in and put his glove up. So we both pulled back at the exact same time."
If Freeman had been fortunate enough to retire Pennington at second base, the Braves might have escaped the third inning without allowing a run. But Freeman was among those who acknowledged he might not have had enough time to record that out.
"The only play for me was if Julio catches that ball and then beats Parra to the bag," Gonzalez said. "That's the only play he had. If we catch it, it's first and second and who knows what happens after. It's just a shame Julio pitched a pretty good ballgame and gets the loss on that play there."
Meanwhile, Corbin benefited from three double plays. The most unfortunate double play came after Johnson walked to begin the sixth inning and then got caught too far off the bag when first baseman Paul Goldschmidt caught Freeman's line drive.
"That guy is tough," Laird said of Corbin. "It seems he is effectively wild. Even on the video, it seemed like he is around the plate and then he pops you in there. He is pitching well right now. You've got to tip your cap."
The Braves, who have scored one run or fewer in three of their past four games, attempted to mount a threat when Andrelton Simmons snapped an 0-for-21 slump with an eighth-inning single off David Hernandez. But Hernandez responded with consecutive strikeouts against pinch-hitter Brian McCann and Justin Upton, who went hitless following the four-hit performance he had in Monday night's homecoming.
When Freeman reached on Goldschmidt's error to start the ninth, the Braves had a chance to take advantage of the D-backs' bullpen, which has endured a Major League-high 11 blown saves. But Heath Bell, who moved into the closer's role late last week, retired the next three batters he faced.
"It was a great plan of attack against [Corbin]," Gonzalez said. "We hit some balls hard. That's all you can do."
Mark Bowman 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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Over the course of 2012, BroadwayWorld's Pat Cerasaro interviewed many among the best and brightest of stage and screen. Whether you missed an interview the first time around or just want to look back at some of the stars' insights, take a look back at 2012's InDepth InterViews below!


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Sartore's main goal was to photograph our honey badgers, which are rare in zoos. While here, he also snapped our blue-crowned hanging parrots, hunting cissas, black storks, Ruppell's griffon vultures, banded mongoose, wildebeest and other species.
Sartore photographs each species on a black or white background, which provides a stark contrast for the complex beauty of each animal. In the photo at right, Sartore photographs one of our black storks in a white "tent" built especially for this task.
Nearly half of the world's fauna are threatened with extinction on some level.
Sartore hopes his Photo Ark will one day hold images of all species present in North American zoos, documenting them before they disappear. About 2,400 species have been photographed so far.
We're honored to be part of this educational and inspiring project. See all Fort Wayne Children's Zoo animals in the Photo Ark.The zoo job fair will take place 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday in Pavilion No. 1 at Franke Park, in the 3400 block of Sherman Boulevard.
Join our team and help provide an amazing zoo experience for our 500,000 annual guests! The zoo is looking for friendly, outgoing individuals to fill our seasonal Guest Service positions for 2013, and we'll fill many of those positions at the Zoo Summer Job Fair.
All openings are temporary, seasonal positions, ranging from 15 to 40 hours per week.
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Dave Ludwig is a Content Developer for Office.com.
In this week's webinar, you'll learn about Office Mobile for Android phones. We'll go over how to get started and how to access, view and edit Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations.
Can't view this video? It's also available at Microsoft Showcase. Need a sneak peek? Here's a 30-second trailer.
What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar
- How to get Office Mobile for Android phones
- How to access and open Word, Excel and PowerPoint files – either from the cloud or from email messages
- How to read and navigate files
- How to edit files and add comments
- How to save files
References for this webinar
- Office Mobile for Android phones (blog post)
- System Requirements for OneNote and Office Mobile for Android Phones (how-to)
- Install Office on your Android phone (how-to)
- Questions about subscriptions, family member's phones, and more (FAQ)
- Advanced IF functions (training)
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Walden plays long toss, expects to return next week
ATLANTA -- Jordan Walden might not be quite ready to come off the disabled list when he becomes eligible for activation on Monday. But the right-handed reliever is confident his ailing right shoulder will be strong enough for him to rejoin Atlanta's injury-depleted bullpen at some point next week. Walden's confidence grew after he completed a couple of pain free rounds of long toss on Tuesday afternoon at Turner Field.
"[My shoulder] is strong right now," Walden said. "I played catch today and it was better than it has been almost all season."
This is certainly good news for the Braves, who have seen Jonny Venters and Eric O'Flaherty undergo season-ending Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery over the past week. Venters, O'Flaherty and Walden entered the season projected to serve as closer Craig Kimbrel's top setup men.
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said Walden will complete a bullpen session later this week and then make at least one Minor League rehab appearance before being activated.
Walden was placed on the disabled list on Friday (retroactive to Sunday) with right shoulder inflammation. After producing a pair of impressive scoreless outings against the Nationals on April 29 and May 2, the 28-year-old reliever allowed at least one run in each of his next three appearances.
"I tried to pitch through it," Walden said. "But it gets to a point where you are just hurting the team and hurting your arm."
When Walden returns, he could team with left-hander Luis Avilan and right-handed sidearm reliever Cory Gearrin to serve as Kimbrel's top setup men.
Mark Bowman 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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ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL -- After two years of rumors and hype, Namco America Inc. reports that Pac-Man Battle Royale is now shipping. News about the first four-player competitive Pac-Man game leaked in December 2009, when it became known that Namco filed for a "Pac-Man Battle Royale" trademark.
In early 2010, Namco released a teaser video about its new Pac-Man coin-op game on YouTube. The video reportedly got 12,000 views during its first 24 hours. Then in March, the manufacturer showed Battle Royale to the coin machine industry during the Amusement Expo in Las Vegas. The display also kicked off the 30th anniversary celebration of Pac-Man. The Pac-Man celebration and publicity continued at last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, where the arcade game was among the biggest hits at a show that's all about console and mobile games.
In Battle Royale, the original Pac-Man concept takes a cannibalistic twist. Up to four players can position themselves around a videogame table to try to eat each other. Players maneuver their Pac-Men through the classic maze, swallowing "pac-dots." The goal is to eliminate opponents by eating them.
When a player eats a power pellet, his or her Pac-Man "powers up" by doubling in size and increasing in speed. In a powered-up state, a Pac-Man can easily overrun and consume other men and enemy ghosts. Players of the same size simply bounce off each other, and ghosts eat Pac-Men, unless they're powered up. Eating a piece of fruit or all of the pellets resets the maze with a fresh new set of power pellets.
The last Pac-Man standing wins the round.
At the end of the game, statistics are displayed for each player. They include "Won Most Rounds" and "Ate Most Pac-Men," among other notable accomplishments.
More information on Pac-Man Battle Royale can be had by visiting namcoamerica.com or calling (847) 264-5610.
Separately, Namco America is offering iPad and iPhone apps in conjunction with the release of Pac-Man Battle Royale. The free iPad app, which is a game demo featuring a single round, will be available at the iTunes Store on Jan. 28.
After the round, iPad and iPhone users are directed to the Pac-Man Battle Royale Facebook fan page where they can find nearest locations to them with the real games. The iPhone app, which will have a similar demo and location finder, will be available in mid-Feb.
The application allows operators to register locations. It also permits players to "drop a pin on the map" to identify new Battle Royale locations that they find.
"Pac-Man games have always been one of the most popular mobile apps," said Namco vice-president Frank Cosentino. "Tapping into the huge Pac-Man fan base through their mobile devices in order to introduce them to this brand new coin-op experience is something we have been looking forward to. Since Pac-Man Battle Royale is a completely new type of Pac-Man gameplay, we wanted to expose the concept to as many new players as possible. What better way than to give them a free taste on their iPhone or iPad then drive them to a location to complete the experience. Once the fans get a taste of eating other Pac-Men, they never stop!"
The original dot-munching arcade hit officially turned 30 on May 22, 2010. Namco game designer Toru Iwatani is credited with creating Pac-Man in 1979. It was sold in the U.S. by Bally-Midway. Last year, both Pac-Man and Masaya Nakamura, founder of Namco, were inducted into the International Video Game Hall of Fame. | SEE STORY
Named "best arcade game of all time" by PC World magazine, Pac-Man has reportedly been played more than 10 billion times. It's also recognized by Guinness World Records as the "most successful coin-operated game" ever made. The song "Pac-Man Fever," by Buckner & Garcia, cracked Billboard's top 10 chart in 1982 and Pac-Man himself graced the cover of TIME magazine. More recently, Pac-Man reportedly will become the star of reality TV series that will be produced by Merv Griffin Entertainment.
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A day after wedding in a Miami Beach court, rapper T.I. (real name Clifford Harris) and longtime girlfriend, singer and BET reality star Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, exchanged vows a second time in an intimate ceremony on Star Island off the coast of Miami Saturday.
The bride wore Valentino; the groom wore a custom-made Prada tuxedo.
Among the guests: The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss (Tiny's 90's R&B group Xscape bandmate), TLC's Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, Tiny's BET costar Antonia "Toya" Carter, T.I. protege Young Dro and rapper Yung LA.
The newlyweds plan on returning to their hometown of Atlanta for a reception Saturday afternoon before jetting off to Las Vegas to celebrate with friends into the wee hours.
It is all part of their elaborate three-city ceremony, which UsMagazine.com reported Friday.
They plan to return to Atlanta early next week.
The two -- who have been dating since 2001 -- have two children together (the rapper has three children from previous relationships).


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Somewhere between the film versions of Mortal Kombat and Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Hollywood should have come to a realization: Video games make lousy movies.
Maybe it's the weak, drawn-out plots, or it could be the over-reliance on breakneck, hard-to-follow action. That's because video games, by their very nature, focus more on play mechanics than plot. They are interactive experiences, unlike the passive medium of cinema.
So it looks like director Edgar Wright has decided to make a movie into a video game, just to see if that works.
Adapted from Bryan Lee O'Malley's six-volume graphic novel, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is the tale of a 22-year-old (played by 22-year-old Michael Cera) forced to do battle with a prospective girlfriend's "seven evil exes" in order to secure her love. The movie came out Friday. The 8-bit-style, anime-ish video game adaptation was released Tuesday on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.
The movie is not directly descended from the game, but the logic and ground rules of gaming form the bones of the story.
Whereas the idea of Scott being forced into Street Fighter-style death matches with the castoffs of his beloved Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is absurd at best, there's something to be said about a movie that in many ways defines the generation it targets.
You see, Wright has made a movie using conventions that shore up modern pop culture. He has practiced this before, with zombie movies the focus in Shaun of the Dead and cop movies in Hot Fuzz. This time, it's the nods at the conventions of gaming that form the core of the movie.
Older film critics are skewering Scott Pilgrim for being creative, but not all that good or easy to follow (Times film critic Steve Persall gave it a C). But the target audience — people who grew up addicted to and overwhelmed by a junk culture of comic books, sitcoms and, yes, video games — will likely slip into the story as if it were an old pair of shoes.
"We're at a point in history where several generations have nostalgia touchstones for video games they grew up with," co-screenwriter Michael Bacall told the Kansas City Star. "We tried to touch on every era of the gaming culture, which at this point a lot of people can identify with."
It's telling that a comic book adaptation is getting the bulk of its notoriety from its similarities to digital entertainment. Back in 1982, when Disney's TRON was released, video arcades and home consoles were new enough that anybody past legal drinking age shrugged and yawned, ignoring all the movie's cultural prophecies. Two years later, The Last Starfighter, which centered on a teenager becoming an intergalactic fighter pilot by defeating a video game, was the first full-length feature to solely use computer animation for its space battles.
These days, the big movie news is the sequel TRON Legacy and a remake of Starfighter, neither of which was based on a game itself. Now that sounds like a familiar formula.
In many ways, movies created video games, with loose narratives and action sequences forming the core of most software since the days of the Atari 2600. Now that creative circle is closing — Scott Pilgrim is the hero, Ramona Flowers the princess and the evil exes the stages of the game. Meanwhile, new games like Heavy Rain and Alan Wake truly are turning narratives into interactive entertainment, with intricate plots and near-lifelike graphics so seamlessly blended, players feels as if they are a part of the story. Somewhere, sometime, the twain shall meet.
For every gray-faced film critic who denounces gaming as a waste of time, there are millions of real people who see it as part of the fabric of their upbringing. That's wholly illustrated by Wright's vision of Scott Pilgrim.
"Twenty-somethings and under will swiftly embrace this original romancer, which treats (young love) as if there were nothing more important in all the universe, though anyone over 25 is likely to find director Edgar Wright's adaptation of the cult graphic novel exhausting, like playing chaperone at a party full of oversexed college kids," Variety's Peter Debruge warns. And he liked the movie.
But like cell phones, talkies and automatic transmissions, gaming as an entertainment medium is gaining acceptance among audiences. It is no longer an element of the vocabulary; it has turned into the vernacular itself.
If you're older than 35, give or take, you'll have to deal with it — or just be as mystified as everyone else.
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Diamond Select Toys was in full force at Comic-Con, with their usual substantial booth getting as much attention for its display cases as it did for the new products it was showing off! Late on Sunday Marketing Supervisor Zach Oat hosted the official DST Panel, and weve got the scoop. Slides were shown in rapid succession (which you can see HERE), and here are quick notes on what we saw:
- 1966 TV Batman: busts starting with Adam West Batman and Burt Ward Robin (no photography allowed). More to come after the initial two.
- Femme Fetales: 2nd Lady Death, Invincibles Atom Eve, Star Trek Voyagers 7 of 9
- Ghostbusters: 24 inch vinyl Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, light and sound Ghostbusters Headquarters
- Knight Rider: 1/15 scale Super Pursuit KITT with new parts and appropriate sounds, then KARR
- Lenore: PVC figure set
- Lost in Space: B9 robot
- Marvel Silicone Trays: Spider-Man, Iron Man, Mjolnir
- Marvel Select: movie The Wolverine (with 3 alternate heads and sets of hands - no base), comics Silver Surfer (with intricate base and removable board), then Thor: The Dark World Thor and Jane Foster (with connecting Dark Matter bases)
- Marvel Metal Bottle Openers (with magnets to display on your fridge): Ghost Rider next
- Munsters: Series 3 in the Fall with 4 figures. Gilbert will only be available at specialty stores, and the other three will appear there in select versions with parts to build the staircase and Spot. Also the upcoming Glow in the Dark Koach reminscent of the old model kit.
- Star Trek Electronic Light and Sound Ships: U.S.S. Excelsior coming up, then DST is working on a reissue of the Enterprise-A (and putting a lot of work into it)
- Star Trek Select Figures: Picard with a Borg-themed base
- Star Trek Other Products: 10 inch vinyl banks of classic Spock and Kirk, reissue of vibrating and sound Tribbles, Enterprise and Kirk Granix art, The Next Generation silicone tray
- Star Wars Bust Banks: Appo, Clone Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi, Thire, Cad Bane, Clone Wars Darth Maul
- Star Wars Bottle Openers: Darth Vader then Boba Fett
- The Walking Dead Banks: Black & White Zombie, Full Color Zombie, Michonne Pet Zombie, Rick Grimes
- The Walking Dead Bottle Openers: One-Eyed Zombie, Michonne Pet Zombie
- Universal Monsters: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Due by Halloween, the Select version will feature interchangeable parts to display as either character, additional parts, a base, etc. Meanwhile, the Toys R Us version will be Hyde only. Next up will be the Hunchback of Notre Dame (with Select and TRU versions) and a TRU-only Mole Person. Beyond those will be Son of Frankenstein, a new Creature from the Black Lagoon with increased articulation, and a wholly new Van Helsing
- Universal Monsters Legacy Box #3: Phantom of the Opera, Invisible Man, Metalluna Mutant
- Universal Monsters Banks: Bride of Frankenstein, Wolfman
- Universal Monsters Retro Series: Phantom of the Opera, Metalluna Mutant
- Aliens: nothing was shown, but they mentioned Minimates, vehicles, and housewares
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- The new Van Helsing will represent a departure from the Universal Monsters line with a figure not from any film. A new lineup will explore new monsters with historical or fantastic backgrounds, with a potential Jack the Ripper coming later.
- Lost in Space is a B9 (robot)-based license, so expect to see that character in all of DSTs usual formats. There may be a few things representing the family, but not a lot.
- The guys at DST would love to make a Marvel Select Apocalypse, but its not happening any time soon (too many movie properties to cover over the next few years).
- Days of Future Past movie Minimates? Hopefully, but its tough to get reference photos. Theyd like to do a boxed set at least.
- Star Trek lines will definitely continue. They have plans for more ships, some based on previous releases but others are totally new! More Select figures will come as well, but slowly.
- For Aliens, could there be Star Trek scale light up/sound vehicles? Theyre not sure if they could sell 40,000 Dropships... Tell them if you think theyre wrong!
- Domo will be fully represented with a new bank, pizza cutter, silicone tray, and bottle opener. The Domo license plate frame has been cancelled.
- No more Back to the Future Minimates. As for the 3rd movie DeLorean, DST was unsatisfied with sales of the others. If the tooling has been done on the last version they might release it, but if not it will never happen.
- Invincible may yield more Minimates down the line, but thats probably it. There are no other characters popular enough for the Femme Fatales line, and DST does not have the license to make action figures.
Finally, Zach showed us a very cool demo of the Excelsior with sound clips featuring George Takeis Captain Sulu!
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Helton belts homer after making long trip
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Rockies first baseman Todd Helton felt good enough to brave the hour or so it took to navigate the Phoenix-area traffic Friday afternoon and get ready to play a game. Call that yet another important step in the right direction.
Helton, whose history of back problems means he often is excused from Spring Training bus rides, was in the lineup for Friday night's game against the Reds. This was a night after he went 4-for-4 with an opposite-field home run in a Minor League game against a D-backs Double-A contingent.
Those are positive signs for Helton, who not only has long-running back issues but underwent surgery last August to repair a torn labrum in his right hip and had a surgery in November to repair cartilage in his left knee.
Helton, 39, added another reason for optimism Friday -- a two-run homer to right-center field off Reds starter Johnny Cueto in the fourth inning.
Helton says he is more interested in how he feels than his numbers. Before making the trip to Goodyear, Helton said he is happy with where he stands physically, as well as with the never-ending project that is his swing.
"Whenever you're working on something and you're able to execute it in games, you've got to be happy about it," Helton said. "Even if you do it in BP [batting practice], you're happy with it. To do it off of live pitching is even better.
"I feel really good physically. I'm in season mode, where I lift weights when I can but I'm just trying to stay where I'm at right now. I'm not trying to gain any more muscle and get in more baseball shape. I feel like I'm bouncing back pretty good right now."
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Hardball in the Rockies, and follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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No international buyers please,however I will ship to Canada but shipping fees will be higher than listed shipping cost.Please contact me BEFORE BIDDING to get shipping cost.USPS PRICES HAVE GONE UP ON 1/19/ 2016.NEW PRICES ARE BELOW.PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF THIS INCREASE AS IT APPLIED TO ALL MY LISTINGS.Please refer to my "About Me" section for up to date shipping and insurance fees.Items are shipped on Mondays after cleared payment is received due to my work schedual.There may be occasional exceptions for this due to holidays,days off,ect.Auto-matic payments are not available with my auctions due to various reasons.Some items are not up to date with postage fees,buyer cannot use a buyer discount on multiple wins.Please wait for MY invoice to be sent,usually within 24 hours.Items are usually shipped by the following Monday after payment is received for Paypal and M.O. payments.Checks will ship by the 1st Monday after it has cleared my bank.I will notify if there is any other delay in shipping.I prefer a check or m.o. as payment but will accept Paypal.PAYPAL POLICY : You must have a confirmed shipping address with paypal payments to me as seller protection is not eligible without a confirmed address. PLEASE NOTE: I reserve the right to NOT ship to an unconfirmed address with Paypal. This means if your address is NOT confirmed with Paypal I can/will refund payment and you may send payment using a different method or you can confirm your address with Paypal and then resend payment.Paypal is for all(combined)sales less than $300.00 US dollars and for credit card users.Send only ONE PAYMENT for all items won.MULTIPLE PAYMENTS WILL NOT GET COMBINED SHIPPING.Please wait until I send you an invoice so I can reduce shipping for multiple wins.CC only accepted thru paypal.Sales over $300.00,I will split paypal fees with buyer.For instance an item sells for $500.00,paypal fee is approximately $15.00 US.Buyer to pay an additional $7.50 to help with their fees.Please ask any questions before bidding.All items are shipped in bubble mailer.Thank you for looking and happy collecting!!!!Additional single cents,nicks,dimes and quarters won under $10.00 ship for only .25 each with halves and dollars are .50 each.Common date wheats under $10.00 are only an additional .10 each plus any additional insurance desired.Tracking is included with listed shipping fee for all items.Insurance($2.20 up to $50.00) is included for items over $20 and optional for items under $20.00 but highly recommended as I am not responsible for usps delivery after I have had it scanned in by them.I will send you a note asking if you want insurance and adjust invoice USPS rates as seen below.Thank you.Please do NOT SEND any paypal payments for an item under $20.00 until you receive an invoice from me through auction site or it will be returned.If a payment has to be returned in full for any reason,0.30 will be deducted from refund as paypal now keeps this amount on returned payments.Insurance and tracking are included on items over $20.00 with the listed shipping fee.Combine wins and save on shipping!!!Some pics have been lightened to show quality better.This will be stated in description if so.Shipping fees as follows.Single loose or carded uninsured coins are a minimum of $3.25 as of 1/19/2016 due to increase from USPS.All coins over $20 are a minimum of $5.50 insured.Additional single loose or carded coins over $20.00 are a minimum of $1.00 each with slabs an additional $1.50 each minimum,plus any additional ins needed.Additional rolls ship for an extra .60 each.Can use flat rate box on multiple roll wins to ;reduce shipping costs.This will be reduced further the more wins you have.This applies to ALL MY LISTINGS as I don't have time to edit all of them.Checks and m.o.'s always welcome.Domestic Insurance Prices Amount for Merchandise Insurance Coverage Desired Price $0.01 to $50 $2.20 $50.01 to $100 $2.75 $100.01 to $200 $3.50 $200.01 to $300 $4.60,300.01 - 400.00 $5.80,$400.01 $500 $7.00 and $500.01 - $600 is $9.45. maximum liability is $5,000) $9.25 plus $1.30 per $100 or fraction thereof over $600 in declared value.Combine wins and save on shipping!!!I will send you an invoice within 24 hours usually and a reply within 72 hours is required as there are to many non-paying bidders out there.No contact within this time period,item will be re-listed and appropriate feedback will be left.Payment is due within 7 days of auction closing.I have a 7 day return policy on coins returned in unopened or untampered with flips,less shipping and ins.All bullion items,slabs,rolls,and any item in an encapsulated state including original govt packaging are final sales,no returns on those items.I must be notified and item(s) postmarked within this time period(7 days) that item(s) will be returned.If items are returned without following these guidelines,I will consider them gifts.All pics are of ACTUAL coins up for bid unless stated.All items are subject to offsite sales.
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Kudos & Kindness: Ernie's hosts fundraiser for school
November 8, 2012
Thank you Paul and Judy Bruso of Ernie's Coffee Shop for hosting another (I believe it is about their 120th for the community) burger night for the Two Way Immersion Program at Bijou Community School. Thank you also to Ernie's staff who came to donate their time and allow us a great community gathering and fundraiser. The parents, teachers and students sincerely appreciate the continued support of the Bruso family and its employees! Thank you for your continued support of so many organizations and children in our community!Kathy HavenSouth Lake Tahoe


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We Need to Get Our Kids Out of the Sand
There are simply too many unsolved questions that need to be addressed before we can truly be effective in protecting young athletes from the unethical and possibly criminal actions of coaches:
The American Association of University Women released survey results revealing that during the 2010-11 school year, 48 percent of students in grades 7-12 experienced some form of sexual harassment in person or electronically via texting, email and social media. The survey asked 1,002 girls and 963 boys from public and private schools nationwide whether they had experienced any of various forms of sexual harassment including unwelcome sexual comments, being called gay or lesbian in a negative way, being touched in an unwelcome sexual way, being shown sexual pictures they didn't want to see, and being the subject of unwelcome sexual rumors. 56 percent of the girls and 40 percent of the boys said they had experienced at least one incident of sexual harassment during the school year.
What prohibited behaviors are commonly included under definitions of hazing, initiation rituals, and physical punishment?
A: Athletic teams commonly justify rituals or behaviors as rites of passage for team or group acceptance. These activities commonly make the athlete feel humiliated, embarrassed, or devalued or may even threaten the athlete's safety or dignity. Following are examples of activities that should be classified as hazing, initiation rituals, and physical punishment and be prohibited:
What is Bullying?
A: When an adult or another athlete who is bigger, stronger, older, or in a position of power tries to make an athlete do something wrong, directs verbal taunts at the athlete to make the athlete feel worthless, makes fun of the athlete in order to embarrass him or her or make the athlete feel bad. Bullying is also when someone yells at an athlete in a disrespectful or belittling way, calls an athlete names, uses profanity in addressing an athlete or physically tries to intimidate the athlete by pushing, shoving, punching, pinching or hurting him or her in any way. Bullying may also involve saying things via text messaging, using email or other forms of social media to make the athlete feel like he or she is a bad person or is an effort to encourage others to dislike the athlete.
Should coaches be permitted to have personal relationships with athletes they are coaching?
A: Sexual, intimate, romantic, or similar close personal relationships between a coach and an athlete should be strictly prohibited, even if that athlete is an adult, because creates the appearance or actuality of favoritism and special treatment. Examples of other inappropriate behaviors that should be expressly prohibited include:
What constitutes physical abuse by coaches?
A: Some of the more common forms of physical abuse include when a coach:
Penn State Officials Fail to Report Child Abuse by Former Football Coach
In 2002, a Penn State University graduate student told the university's head football coach, Joe Paterno, that he witnessed one of Paterno's former assistant coaches, Jerry Sandusky, sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in the Penn State football facility's showers. The next day, Paterno told his athletic director. Neither the athletic director nor the president of the institution, who informed of the report, contacted the state's Department of Public Welfare as required by law. But this wasn't the first time for Sandusky or Paterno.
Disclosure of Sexual Abuse in Sport Organizations: A Case Study
Sylvie Parent of Laval University examined 3 Quebec sport federations and 3 Quebec sports clubs each affiliated with those organizations respectively to examine the interventions used in cases of sexual abuse and the perceptions of 27 stakeholders within these organizations regarding this issue. Several factors were identified which impeded the process of disclosure and caused victims to remain silent: prejudice, beliefs, and myths that seemed to perpetuate a culture of inaction and silence.
What is considered to be emotionally or verbally abusive coach behavior towards athletes?
A: Coaches and athletes constantly engage in verbal interactions. It is the coach's responsibility to use such interactions for instructional and motivational purposes. Emotional or verbal abuse of athletes should be expressly prohibited.
Should coaches be allowed to physically touch athletes?
A: Not unless the Athletes says Ok– only in these generally accepted ways - when correcting physical form for skill or strategy execution, injured or congratulating an athlete for a good performance. Always ask the athlete first. If it does feel ok, it isn't ok.


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Prize Recipient
John F. Brady
California Institute of Technology
"For his seminal contributions to the rheology of "complex fluids", for creating the Stokesian Dynamics technique for predicting the macroscopic properties of concentrated supensions under shear, and for his services to Fluid Dynamics as Associate Editor and Editor, respectively, of two top journals."Background:
John F. Brady is the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He received his BS in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975, which was followed by a year at Cambridge University as a Churchill Scholar. He received both an MS and PhD in chemical engineering from Stanford University, the latter in 1981. Following a postdoctoral year in Paris at ESPCI, he joined the Chemical Engineering department at MIT. Dr. Brady moved to Caltech in 1985.
Dr. Brady's research interests are in the mechanical and transport properties of two-phase materials, especially complex fluids such as biological liquids, colloid dispersions, suspensions, porous media, etc. His research combines statistical and continuum mechanics to understand how macroscopic behavior emerges from microscale physics. He is the co-inventor of the Stokesian Dynamics technique for simulating the behavior of particles dispersed in a viscous fluid under a wide range of conditions.
Dr. Brady has been recognized for his work by several awards, including a Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Professional Progress Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology. Dr. Brady served as an associate editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and editor of the Journal of Rheology. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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Tom Corke, Chair; Julian Andrzej Domaradzki; Elisabeth Guazzelli; Sandra Troian, Tony Maxworthy; Neelesh Patankar; Henrik Alfredsson; Pirouz Kavehpour


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Do you have big dreams for retirement? If the dreams include things such as traveling to fun places, winter in warm spots, some golf and spoiling the grandkids, then you'd better have a budget to match.
A survey by Ameriprise Financial of people ages 50 to 70 showed that 72 percent hope their retirement includes fancy toys and expensive vacations, but only 38 percent are confident they will be able to afford this kind of life.
"There is a very big disconnect between what people hope that they are going to be able to do in retirement and what they are likely to actually be able to do," says Suzanna de Baca, vice president of wealth strategies for Ameriprise.
Ameriprise has the usual suggestions for fixing this. These include figuring out what your dreams will cost, creating a plan, and buckling down to save or earn what it will take to turn the plan into reality. But even if you do everything right, retirement planning is still a crapshoot. De Baca calls this "the certainty of uncertainty."
Is there anything you can do to tilt the odds in your direction? Ameriprise has three suggestions.
Pay off your mortgage. If you own your home free and clear, you will have a lot more money-management flexibility.
Get a grip on health care costs. Health care is likely to be the biggest expense that any of us will face in retirement, and according to Ameriprise Financial, health concerns are the biggest fear of 53 percent of those surveyed. The Employee Benefit Research Institute calculates that by 2020 a 65-year-old married couple without retiree health insurance and with median drug expenses will need between $365,000 and $454,000 to pay for Medicare Part B and Part D premiums and out-of-pocket drug expenses, plus a Medigap supplemental insurance policy. Understanding what Medicare costs and what it pays and earmarking money to pay those bills as you face them will give you important peace of mind.
Understand the impact of inflation. Historically, inflation is about 3 percent a year, which means the cost of living doubles in 24 years. While Social Security is indexed for inflation, pensions and fixed annuities usually aren't. If you don't want to run out of money, it's important to figure out where the money to pay these rising costs is going to come from.
These steps sound simple enough, but figuring out how to take them isn't. If you can't see your way clearly, get some expert help. In the long run, it will be money well-spent.


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Crash Into Your WorldRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I can be as blue as the sky or have a white top.
I roll through my world and crash into yours.
I can be as gentle as a newborn puppy or as vicious as an angered bull, ripping through anything I find.
I will topple anything you put in my way if I am strong enough.
What am I?
AnswerA wave.
A wave can have what is called a white cap.
A wave will roll through the ocean and crash into the beach.
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It can topple almost any boat.
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Torn City is a free MMORPG(massively multiplayer online role playing game)that is played on an internet browser.
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Cron makes most of short stint in Minors
ANAHEIM -- Angels first baseman C.J. Cron's recent trip to the Minors only warranted a few nights in a Salt Lake hotel.
Cron normally stays with a college friend during extended stays in Triple-A, but he played just two games with Salt Lake before being recalled Wednesday to replace infielder Grant Green, whose lumbar strain landed him on the disabled list.
Cron was just 3-for-26 in his last six games with the Angels, which sent his average from .295 to .269. He only had one home run in his last 52 at-bats after thumping five in a six-game stretch in late June.
"When you're doing well, you feel really comfortable, and when you're struggling, something seems just a tick off," Cron said. "If we knew what it was, we would fix it overnight, but sometimes it doesn't work that quick."
For Cron, it almost worked that quickly. In two games with Salt Lake, Cron went 5-for-8 with a RBI and a walk.
"I know it was a little bit of a slump, but I didn't want to change much," Cron said. "In the past, my swing works, so I don't think it's anything mechanical, more just seeing some pitches I can hit and seeing some balls through some holes."
The 24-year-old rookie was sent down on Saturday to make room for Huston Street on the active roster. Players cannot be recalled within 10 days of being optioned unless someone goes on the DL.
Cron did not play on Wednesday but was back in the starting lineup on Thursday, hitting eighth and serving as the designated hitter.
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez. Matthew DeFranks is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @MDeFranks. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Theater for the New City Extends SKYBOX Through December 9
A one-week extension has been added for "Skybox," a new comedy by Walt Stepp and directed by Lissa Moira. The play's premiere run was originally scheduled for November 8 to December 2, 2012. After Hurricane Sandy struck, the opening was postponed to November 15 to accommodate production delays. Now the closing has been extended through December 9 to make up for lost performances. So the new production dates are November 15 to December 9 and critics are invited to all performances.
If "Adam's Rib" and "Moneyball" mated and begat a play, it might be "Skybox," a comedy of class warfare and the battle of the sexes that is set in the luxury box of a major league baseball park. The play, written by Walt Stepp and directed by Lissa Moira, is the successor to their collaboration on "Siren's Heart: Norma Jean and Marilyn in Purgatory," a play by Stepp which started at Theater for the New City and is now running Off-Broadway at the Actors Temple Theatre.
In the play, a one-percenter named Richard Gunn, owner of a struggling Major League Baseball team, is caught canoodling with a young woman in the team's skybox by the Channel 8 Skycam. Being wealthy and influential, he's able to contain the news break, but not the accident that the young woman--his smart talking personal assistant, Kelly--has lost her diaphragm case among the cushions of the couch in the skybox. Her search for the item activates the suspicions of Richard's trophy wife, Rachel. The loyal stadium facilities manager stands ready to take the fall for his boss, but Rachel incites a confrontation that could bring down the whole ball club.
The play lashes out wittily at the chutzpah of of the moneyed class. Acerbic observations of two of the stadium staff, an Hispanic man and a Black woman, cast the hypocrisy of the owner into sharp relief as they taunt the old gent for his affair with "Baby Doll." A sex farce could ensue, but doesn't as the wife and mistress ironically bond and turn the tables on the smitten billionaire. Surprisingly, a genuine friendship and affection has developed between Richard and the would-be gold-digger that richly complicates the usual farce equation. When the rich couple are reconciled at the end, the trophy wife assumes a new dignity thanks to the reformed "other woman," who has also opened Richard's eyes a bit to what wealth has done to him; nevertheless he remains unreformed.
Walt Stepp (playwright) is author of "Siren's Heart: Norma Jean and Marilyn in Purgatory" (2011), which began at Theatre for the New City and is currently playing at the Actors Temple Theatre on W. 47th St. It imagines Norma Jean Mortensen in Purgatory as a happier and healthier woman than she was in real life, wondering who was the woman was who played Marilyn Monroe. Stepp is also author of "Why We Shot Jack" (2006), which tells the story of the JFK assassination from the view of congressional conspirators; "View From K-Street Steakhouse" (2007), about the weird psychology of Washington lobbyists; "Mark Twain's Blues: a play with Twainsongs" (2008), which imagines the author communing with Huck and Jim; "Only Love Will Do (2009), a gay/straight romantic comedy; and "Lotte Latina and the Dominos - A Watergate Musical," which conjoins the Fanne Foxe-Wilbur Mills Affair with the Watergate Trials. Stepp was raised on the Navajo Reservation in northern New Mexico and Arizona. He has taught English at Nassau Community College for the last thirty years or so. Beside TNC, his plays have been produced by Altered Stages and Broadway Tomorrow.
Lissa Moira (Director and Dramaturg) is a playwright, screenwriter, director, artist and poet. She is two-time Jerome Foundation grantee and OOBR Award-winning actress. She directed and was dramaturg of Walt Stepp's "Siren's Heart, Norma Jean and Marilyn in Purgatory," which enjoyed a seven-week run at TNC in 2011 and is now in its fourth month Off-Broadway at the Actors Temple starring Louisa Bradshaw. Her play, "Time It Is" (1998), made the final ten in the Chesterfield Paramount screenwriting competition (from over 5,000 submissions worldwide). She co-wrote "Dead Canaries" (2002), a feature film with Charles Durning, Dan Lauria, D. Wallace-Stone and Joe Higgins. Her direction of "Cocaine Dreams" at the Kraine in 2002 was described by the NY Post (Chip Deffaa) as "inspired." At TNC, she spearheaded "The Crysalis," a play development project that included over 40 directors, writers and actors. She directed her play, "Before God Was Invented," which received a nomination for a Susan Brownell-Smith Award in 2007, and its musical adptation at TNC in 2010. She has also directed a series of plays she co-wrote with Richard West. These include the long running hits "Sexual Psychobabble" (1994-1996) and "The Best Sex of the XX Century Sale" (1996-1998), both of which ran for 18 months. Their Dada Noir musical comedy, "Who Murdered Love" (TNC, 2008) was also produced by the 2012 Fringe NYC. Moira says, "I would like to thank Crystal Field for her continuing faith in me, both as a writer and director, and for allowing me to have the opportunity both to direct and to present my own new works. Walt Stepp's play, 'Only Love Will Do,' started in The Chrysalis at TNC, and this brought him to TNC. So the theater has been an indispensable launching pad for both of us."
The team owner is played by Bill Tatum, who is known to TV audiences as Arthur Clayborne on "As The World Turns." His recent plays include "Court-Martial At Fort Devens" by Jeffrey Sweet at the CastilloTheatre and "Mark Twain's Blues," The Chosen Wife" and "The View From K Street Steak" at The DRII and Altered Stages. He is a board member of the WorkShop Theater Company, where he appears frequently in member-written plays. His other TV appearances include "Law & Order," "The Office Party" and "On The Water."
The wife is played by Rachel Daye Adams and the assistant/mistress is played by Chelsey Clime. The facilities manager is played by Steve Brustein. The class-conscious stadium staffers are played by Kenny Steven Fuentes and Maisha Azadi.
Set design is by Mark Marcante. Lighting and Sound Design are by William Giraldo. Costume Design is by Litza Colon. Voice overs of the Baseball Announcer are by Zen Mansley.
The production runs tonight, November 15 to December 9 at Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave. (at E. 10th Street). Presented by Theater for the New City in association with Cinna Productions, the show plays Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM, Sundays at 3:00 PM, plus three Wednesdays: Nov. 14 & 28 and Dec. 5 at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $15 general admission. Box office (212) 254-1109, www.theaterforthenewcity.net. Runs :90. Critics are invited on or after November 10.


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I was contacted by Giveaway Scout recently to see if I was interested in their services. From their website's about page:
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Activate MMS on iPhone v1 (2G)
Why the hell didn't Apple made MMS feature available in the new iPhone OS 3.0 for iPhone v1 users ? Well, you got it, it's pure marketing, all they want is sell new iPhones at huge prices! Common Apple gives us all the neat features to us poor iPhone v1 users.
Anyway, here is how you can activate MMS on an iPhone v1 :
- You need to install iPhone OS 3.0 of course, doh !
- Jailbreak it : link
- Open Cydia
- Install the application ActivateMMS2G
- Reboot your iPhone
iPhone v1 user : 1 – Apple : 0