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Caleb, yeah, first you have to keep it 'til Friday. Then just do as Wink did, announce before the round that #1 is up for grabs for the best score of the entire league. On card challanges for you are null and void for the round.
Here's a scenario I wanted to know how to handle. Say there are 3 players with bag tags playing on a card in league. Tag #'s 4, #50, and #260. Say the #50 and #260 tie (both shoot 54), but both players beat the #4 bag tag holder (shot 56). Who gets the #4 tag? Clearly the former #4 who shot 56 gets #260 in this scenario. But I couldn't figure out who gets the lowest tag since both of the other players have a claim to it.
So I just wanted to see how everyone play tags. I play my current(2013) till the end of the year. I will also play my 2014 when I buy one at club elections. I thought maybe waiting till Ice Bowl to play 2014 but I ALWAYS play for tag, so from now till end of year I'll play for both. What do yall like to do with tags?
It's essentially a rating system. Tag #1 means you're really good. Tag #328 (my tag) means you just bought one a couple weeks ago, haven't played anyone for it, or I suck. All three are true. Does anyone have a tag number higher than mine? I'll play them for it. If I can't be first, I may as well be last.You can buy them for $5 from Disc Golf World in KC. They have a bottle opener on them, so they're versatile.Any time you play a round with someone else with a bag tag you're supposed to "wager" them. Low score on the round takes the lowest bag tag, highest the highest bag tag, and everyone else in between. The rules are likely on page 1.


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered an unwavering defense Wednesday of the Obama administration's response to the 2012 assaults on U.S. government posts in Benghazi, Libya.
Clinton again took responsibility for any security lapses in Benghazi but praised the response from her department and other government agencies.
She said the attacks "are part of a broader strategic challenge to the United States and our partners in North Africa" because of the emergence of violent extremism there.
As she began her testimony, Clinton became visibly emotional as she recalled meeting relatives of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans who were killed in the Sept. 11 assault.
"I stood next to President Obama as the Marines carried those flag-draped caskets off the plane at Andrews [Air Force Base]," she told senators, choking back tears."I put my arms around the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters."
Her appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had valedictory overtones, as she plans to step down once Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) has been confirmed as the new top diplomat.
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After listing a battery of government reactions to the Sept. 11 assault in Libya, she praised the work force of her agency.
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Clinton also is scheduled to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the Benghazi attacks.
That hearing, like its Senate counterpart, will be public.
The grueling day of testimony comes as Clinton recovers from a month of health problems that began with a stomach virus and ended with her hospitalization for a blood clot near her brain. She has been back at work for two weeks, holding meetings, placing phone calls and making several abbreviated public appearances.

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Is this still working?
Obviously I've not been around for a long time.
I left BRB in a state such that anyone could sign up, but new people's posts don't show up without moderator approval. This works very, very well for finding spammers (their posts give it away), but means without moderation there's no new blood.
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With Valentine's Day creeping up on us, Russel Stover of eat-my-f'ing-chocolates fame should look into getting into the automotive industry by teaming up with Andy Pag and John Grimshaw, two blokes who recently drove a modified 1989 Ford Iveco Cargo from the United Kingdom to Timbuktu, all on biodiesel created from... chocolate. Mmmm... Timbuktu is in West Africa, by the way. Some info for those (like myself) who had no idea prior.
The mission was more than just showing off the chocolate truck—the pair delivered a biodiesel processing unit to a charity in Timbuktu to allow the locals to create their own biodiesel from sustainable resources. The journey took the pair a month to complete.
All equipment created and used was salvaged from scrap yards; the inventive duo will be leaving the chocolate truck in Timbuktu. This made me think of chocolate bunnies, those hollow Easter treats that we all love to decapitate. How about a real chocolate truck, confected along the same lines as the bunny, to celebrate Pag and Grimshaw's achievement? [Boing Boing]


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Posted by Elliott on October 10, 1997 at 18:17:01:
In Reply to: Affidavit of truth. Re: IRS. posted by Steven Pattison on July 10, 1997 at 12:28:35:
: July 4, 1997.
: Affidavit of truth.
: I, Steven (first name) Wayne (middle name) Pattison (surname), (sovereign, grantor, principal, elector) being of or am of lawful age who has attained to or past the age of twenty-one years. I, Steven Pattison, am in full and in complete control of my sound mind and my sound body, do hereby make the following declaration:
: 1. I, Steven Pattison, first meet Glenn Hughes on May 31, 1997. Glenn Hughes told me that the court ordered him to produce records to the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE on May 30, 1997.
: 2. I, Steven Pattison, witnessed a meeting that Glenn Hughes had with Earl Hickam, an INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE agent, on June 13, 1997. The location of the meeting was 3730 Elizabeth Street, Independence, Missouri. The time of the meeting was on or about 12:30 PM.
: 3. Earl Hickam, was asked "Youĺre part of the Federal Government, are you not?" He did not say "yes", and he did not say "no". Earl Hickam said, "I am a INTERNAL REVENUE agent." He was asked again, "Youĺre not part of the Federal Government?" Earl Hickam replied "I didn't say that." Earl Hickam was told "Well say it, say yes or no." He refused to answer the question.
: 4. Earl Hickam, the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE agent, was served with lawful paper work on June 13, 1997. Glenn Hughes did not produce his records to Earl Hickam, the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE agent, during this meeting and as far as I know Glenn Hughes did not produce any additional records after May 30, 1997.
: 5. On June 16, 1997, I, Steven Pattison and a witness served lawful paper work on the Judge, Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr.
: 6. On June 26, 1997, Glenn Hughes, faxed me ôMotion to Dismissö papers that he had received in the mail from United States Attorney.
: 7. United States Attorney states, in the ôMotion to Dismissö papers that "Respondent has sufficiently complied so that the need for judicial enforcement of the IRS summons is moot." ôFurthermore, Petitioner no longer seeks contempt sanctions for Respondentĺs failure to comply with this Courtĺs enforcement order in No. 96-MC-9012-2, compliance having been obtainedö
: 8. The Judge, Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr., signed the ôMotion to Dismissö papers.
: I, Steven Pattison, hereby do solemnly swear and affirm with a firm Reliance on the protection of Divine Providence of Our Creator that my "Affidavit of truth" is true and correct to the best of my knowledge as of this date:
: ____________________
: Steven Pattison.
: Commentary:
: The reason Earl Hickam, the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE agent, could not say "yes" was we were video taping him at the time and if he had said "yes", he would have had to provide his oath of office as provided by Article VI of the Constitution of the United States. The last time we asked the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE agent and they said yes, we called 911, when they would not produce their oath of office.
: He could not say "no", because the fraud would have been video taped and then everyone would have known the fact that employees of the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE do not work for Federal Government (United States Government).
: OK, you say this does not prove anything! If he was, as everyone believes, an employee of the United States Government, why didn't he just answer the question by saying "yes"? If you ask the same question of an INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE agent and he does say "yes," ask him/her to provide you with their oath of office as provided by Article VI of the Constitution of the United States, which states in part: "... all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE agents do not have an Oath of Office.
: So, why didn't Earl Hickam just answer the question. There is no other rational answer then the ones' stated above.
: Earl Hickamĺs final words were: ôThe Judge is the one that told Mr. Hughes to be here today to produce the documents that were summoned.ö ôWell you can take it up with the Judge because thatĺs where weĺre heading.ö
: I guess he was wrong!
: This was not the first round, for Glenn Hughes, with the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE. He has been using the INTERNAL REVENUE CODE (IRC) and the use of these codes almost got him put in jail for contempt of court.
: The IRC are not for people inhabiting the several states (50 united States of America) and if you inhabit them you should not be using the IRC to defend yourself. Just read the IRC and if you can understand all the double talk, you to will see for yourself, that it is not for you, unless you work in ôStateö or ôUnited Statesö as defined in Section 3121(e) of the IRC.
: IF you would want my explanation of the IRC, please ask and I will e-mail it to you. It is easy to understand and it is only three pages long.
: Our proper paper work is in Common Law and we used the proper English language to convey to the court that Glenn Hughes was an inhabitant of one of the Several States, period. The reason that the Judged signed the court order to dismiss was that he will not disobey the Law of the Land if it is conveyed properly.
: Steven Pattison
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I always thought that it was redundant to take a digital file, dub or convert it through an analog format, and then import it back into your computer as a digital file again. It was obvious that the postproduction world needed a better choice. It seemed natural to create a bridge between digital formats to facilitate digital-to-digital media transfer.
I was knee-deep in the challenge of trying to pull out the digital footage to which I needed access when I started talking about the situation with a fellow editor. Fortuitously, he had recently run across a product called Cinematize and suggested that I try it out. Cinematize is now one of the most used pieces of software in my "editing toolbox."
Miraizon's Cinematize is specifically designed to pull the digital files from a DVD into a multitude of formats for a variety of uses. Make no mistake; this is not a DVD ripper! Cinematize gives you the power of creativity and lets you utilize your DVDs in a way you've not yet considered—or at least not considered possible.
Miraizon's Cinematize is specifically designed to pull the digital files from a DVD into a multitude of formats for a variety of uses.
How it WorksThe Cinematize interface is very user-friendly, yet deceptively powerful and efficient. You load in your DVD or image file, launch Cinematize, select the clip to extract from your DVD, select extraction options for video, audio, and subtitles, then extract and save. Done.
Another perk is that Cinematize can decode to any code supported by QuickTime. That means that regardless of whether you're working with an AVI file or a ten-bit uncompressed DVCPRO clip, Cinematize will decode to any format you have loaded into your computer.
Cinematize also has the flexibility to let you select in and out points within the same chapter or in a different chapter. One of my favorite functions is a built-in viewer that instantly allows you to view your selection. It's all about giving you choices in an accessible manner. You can also select video or audio alone or concurrently. Need audio from one part but video from another? You can do it with Cinematize.
What I believe is one of the really powerful features of Cinematize is its ability to decode DVD elementary streams. It does so by extracting the file that was burned on the DVD and storing it on your hard disk as an M2V file ready to be used with most DVD authoring programs. You can also choose to decode an MPEG-2 file if that's your authoring format of choice.
The beauty of this process is that it's incredibly fast—around ten times real time. In no time you'll have a digital copy of the original file with no quality loss, and you'll have decoded it to an authoring format that you can use (no additional MPEG compression needed).
If you need to re-edit footage off a DVD, Cinematize gives you all the options that you'll need. Cinematize can decode to any QuickTime-supported format and is not restricted to Mac or Windows. That gives users working in Premiere or Final Cut Pro (with myriad codec choices) the ability to decode a high-quality digital file with Cinematize.
Applications Another way that I frequently use Cinematize is to create "presentation" files. Bonus: You don't need to re-edit the footage and you don't need to re-author the DVD.
This is done by creating a PowerPoint movie from a part of the DVD. Before I discovered Cinematize, this would have been an involved four-step process. Once Cinematize hit the market it became a non-issue.
Choose the in and out points from the part of the DVD that you want to extract, select the format (size, frame rate, etc.), and save the clip. The possibilities are endless; from an iPod movie to a Web-streaming file, Cinematize will make quick work of your DVD project.
PerformanceAs I already mentioned, the Cinematize user interface is easy and straightforward. Unlike a lot of programs, you really can't get lost figuring out what to do. The most obvious benefit when comparing speeds depends on the decoding work that you're asking it to perform. For an elementary stream or MPEG file, performance is very fast, since it's mostly reading the data off your DVD drive. However, when you are decoding to another codec, such as MPEG-4 or its H.264 variant, the speed varies a lot depending on your CPU.
Cinematize can create a single movie file with audio and video or separate them into their own files, depending on your needs. It also has the ability to extract the subtitles from a DVD, but I can't speak to how well it accomplishes this feat, as I have yet to test the feature. Because it does not extract from encrypted DVDs there is no need rush to your nearest video rental store in the hopes of pirating a slew of new releases. I imagine this feature helps to keep the Hollywood lawyers off their back as well.
For the few times that I needed to contact tech support, they proved knowledgeable about their product and quick to respond. On both occasions I simply needed a quick update with the latest patch to address the issues I was having.
DVD WorldWhether we like it or not, the DVD format has become the quickest and most widely accepted playback format in the history of electronics. Because of its ability to retrieve and manipulate existing DVD content, Cinematize will continue to meet the needs of video producers for a long time to come.
Cinematize also works well in conjunction with some of the newer devices. There are some exciting new features being seen in late-model DVD recorders, as seen in Anthony Burokas' recent article, Stacking the DVD Decks. However, to date, none of them are able to give you dynamic menu options. Cinematize lets you have your cake and eat it too, by allowing you to use the quality and speed of your real-time DVD recorder and then decode the file back into your computer to author a new DVD without any quality loss.
Cinematize not only has a home in the postproduction world, but Cinematize customers also include doctors, lawyers, schools, churches, etc. The common theme among them is that they are all using DVDs as a part of their workflow—and not just on the final export end of the process. Cinematize is one of the only applications that gives you the opportunity to pull material off a DVD and work with it.
One improvement that I'd like to see in Cinematize is greater support for decoding AC-3 files. Otherwise, Cinematize delivers a rare combination of ease of use, performance, and high-quality output. If you use DVD as part of your workflow, then I strongly suggest that you take a look.


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You're on defense, zone defense. You pick up a loose ball and look for the outlet pass. You see it, throw it, and go down the middle on a fast break, taking the return pass. Now you're looking for a three-on-two or a two-on-one before they can set up their defense. Too late, they're settled—man-to-man. You're still looking for a two-on-one, but it's more complicated. You see and sense everybody—where they are, where they're headed, as things develop in almost constant motion. You watch for a backdoor cut, and for someone posting up. Maybe go for an outside shot. The coach is yelling his mantra, "Look for the open man!" There is no open man. Wary of a double-team, you give up the ball with a bounce pass. One player to the next, the ball moves two, three, four times before you set a pick, roll, take a no-look pass, and go to the hoop for a layup. Are you playing basketball? No.
You could be, of course, every term and move alike. But this is lacrosse, which is essentially the same game—an assertion that loses a good deal of its novelty in the light of the fact that James Naismith, best known for inventing basketball, in 1891, and writing and publishing basketball's original rules, in 1892, was a lacrosse player. A Canadian, he had played lacrosse in the eighteen-eighties at McGill, and also for the New York Lacrosse Club.
Lacrosse and basketball are siblings of soccer, hockey, and water polo. When the rules of ice hockey were written, in the eighteen-seventies, a model they followed was lacrosse. The transfer of lacrosse from Iroquoian to European culture had occurred in Montreal in mid-century, and while the white sport was to emigrate and develop most emphatically in the eastern United States, Canadians would retain it strongly here and there—"here" being southeastern Ontario, "there" consisting of some great leaps over territory unfamiliar in the game. Paul and Gary Gait, twins who played for Syracuse (1987-90) and who constitute in themselves a hall of fame within the Hall of Fame, grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, a hotbed of lacrosse. David Mitchell, Cornell '07, a prestidigitational stickhandler who plays in both professional lacrosse leagues (indoor and outdoor), grew up and went to high school in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Wayne Gretzky, ice hockey's historically greatest star, grew up in Brantford, Ontario. As winters wore on, Gretzky has said, "I could hardly wait to get my lacrosse stick out and start throwing the ball around. It didn't matter how cold or rainy it would be, we'd be out firing the ball against walls and working on our moves."
In lacrosse as in hockey, Gretzky was at home in the power play, also known as "man-up" and "e.m.o."—the extra-man opportunity that results when somebody is sent out of the game for a time as a result of a violation, such as "slashing," an unambiguous term common to hockey and lacrosse. Hockey's power play is still a bit rough-hewn—for example, one player, in close, acting as a screen, the others stitching around him a silhouette of slap shots—and in evolutionary terms has not progressed nearly as far as the fast-weaving passes of lacrosse, which gradually tease apart an open man. Water polo—whose fakes and shots will translate into the other games—uses the e.m.o. to punish various torts, like taking your opponent to the bottom of the pool. In lacrosse, advancing the ball from one end of the field to the other is known as clearing, and the defensive attempt to stop the clear is known as riding. Soccer coaches have said that soccer consists of lacrosse's clearing and riding. The basketball term for riding is "full-court press." The most difficult pass in lacrosse traverses the field from one side to the other while both players are running. Soccer calls that square ball. Of these five games—with their picks and screens, their fast breaks and rotational defenses, their high degree of continuous motion—water polo, in its sluggish medium, is surely the most awkward, and lacrosse, at the other extreme, creates the fastest and crispest accumulation of passes and is the prettiest to watch.
Four of these sports are played in the Olympics. The other is lacrosse. There is a Bulgarian Lacrosse Federation, a Korean Lacrosse Association, a Deutscher Lacrosse Verband, an Österreichischer Lacrosse Verband, a Nederlandse Lacrosse Bond, a Suomen Lacrosseliitto ry, Lacrosse Polska, Schweiz Lacrosse, and similar organizations in Spain, Hong Kong, Latvia, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Bermuda, Scotland, Ireland, England, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic. A few years ago, the Princeton lacrosse team finished its season by touring Japan, because there were fifteen thousand lacrosse players in Japan. To the Japanese, a visiting Division I American lacrosse team was an educational opportunity. Near the end of the visit, Princeton was asked to play, against assorted Japanese teams, eight complete lacrosse games in one day. Bill Tierney, Princeton's coach, was uncharacteristically at a loss for words. Like American football teams, lacrosse teams usually play once a week and need the time to recover. Holding up a pair of fingers, Tierney said, "Two."
As lacrosse has spread to the Far East, the Far East has entered the cerebral cortex of lacrosse. Dave Pietramala, the head coach at the Johns Hopkins University, has studied Sun Tzu on military strategy. Sun Tzu dates from twenty-five centuries ago, in the time of Aristotle and Alexander the Great. After reading Sun Tzu on deception ("All warfare is based on deception"), Pietramala looked more favorably than ever on the Hopkins defensive fake slide. Like his ancient mentor, Pietramala preaches patience. Sun Tzu: "If it is to your advantage to make a forward move, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are." Hopkins has won nine N.C.A.A. championships since the N.C.A.A. began its tournaments, in 1971. (Before then, national champions were declared.) Pietramala achieved his first in 2005. In 1928, in a premature attempt to sell lacrosse to the Olympics, Major General Douglas MacArthur, the president of the American Olympic Committee, organized a lacrosse tournament to determine what American team would demonstrate lacrosse in matches against Great Britain and Canada at the summer Games in Amsterdam. Hopkins defeated Maryland for the honor.
The International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations has held a World Cup tournament every four years since 1982. The first was in Nottingham. The most recent one was in Annapolis, Maryland (Australia 14, U.S. 7), and the next one is in Prague. Men's World Lacrosse Championships have been held every four years since 1974, most recently in London, Ontario, where Team U.S.A., which had won the tournament seven of nine times, got past the Iroquois, 21–13, but lost in the final to Canada. The populationally outnumbered Iroquois hold their own in these tournaments, usually finishing well up in the column. They do not seek membership in the Indian National Lacrosse Federation. At a bar in Dublin late last spring, a manager of the English national men's lacrosse team remarked that some Iroquois have two sets of sticks, modern ones and old "woodies," "and man do they hurt when they check with them." He said, "They really do hold their own as a lacrosse nation." In 2006, after narrowly beating England, "they took the Australians apart; they bring something special to every World Championship—they are the life and soul of our sport."
I was in Dublin with the Princeton men's lacrosse team, of which I am a Faculty Fellow (an official position, not unlike shaman, that was thought up some years ago by the university's athletic director, Gary Walters, who can think up just about anything). Earlier, we had been in southeastern Spain, near Cartagena, at a high-rent sporting club called La Manga, where Spanish Open golf tournaments have been played, where a tennis stadium is surrounded by twenty-seven outside courts, and where a spread of cricket pitches and no fewer than eight state-of-the-art soccer fields have attracted cricketers and footballers of the highest level. Manchester United warms up there. Princeton—scheduled to play two games on consecutive days against the English national lacrosse team—arrived on the eve of the first match after a long bus ride to J.F.K. that included streets of midtown Manhattan, a night flight to Dublin, a 6 A.M. departure for Alicante, which is as close to Dublin as New York is to Minneapolis, and, finally, an hour's bus ride from Alicante to La Manga, where the team arrived with ample time to change into their uniforms, get into other buses, and ride to a field to practice. Goals, grass, sidelines, restraining boxes, end lines, creases—everything was perfect, and perfectly marked. Bill Tierney ran his team for two hours. They didn't seem at all sleepless, and he finished them off with wind sprints. Then he called them together for a word: This was no Roman holiday; these were games of importance to international lacrosse, and they were to play with finesse, not flash, proving how well they could play, not how showily. Looking around, he didn't need to add: No behind-the-back passes, no behind-the-back hot-dog shots at the English goalie. Since they apparently thought sleep was what other people do, he told them to make curfew, and he would be around to see that they did. "Give this team a good game," he said. "They have better sticks than we do."
What that meant was that the English would pass, catch, shoot, scoop, and cradle with more stickhandling skill than their American opponents. Really? Really. In the first game, an English midfielder, sprinting up his left sideline to take a pass on a clear, looked over his shoulder and saw that the ball was headed wide, low, and out of bounds. Without breaking stride, and keeping his feet always inches inbounds, he extended his left arm and lacrosse stick far over the sideline, lowered the head almost to the ground, and turned the pocket backward. Seven feet from the player's shoulder, six inches above the ground, the ball went into the pocket, then, still running full tilt, the English midfielder flipped the head of the stick and brought it up into shooting position as he veered toward the Princeton goal.
A lacrosse stick is a rigid slingshot. American toddlers learn to handle lacrosse sticks in certain locations more than in others—notably, in Baltimore. Manchester has been called "the Baltimore of English lacrosse." The Mancunian press has called Baltimore the Manchester of the United States. That English midfielder was a Mancunian. Some seventy-five per cent of English lacrosse players are natives of Greater Manchester. Men's world championships have been and will be held in Manchester (2010). In the eighteen-nineties, at the British lacrosse championship, a Mancunian donated a trophy for the winner, calling it the Iroquois Cup.
After the lacrosse games in Spain and a third game a few days later against England in Ireland—after the Princeton players got into their buses and went back to their rooms—Bill Tierney stayed on, at the request of the English nationals, to conduct clinics for the English players. It being his opinion that they were long on stickhandling and short on strategy, he told them that they expended too much energy "running east-west and not enough running north-south." He told them he was "seeing a lot of green down the middle, down that alley," and they were not taking advantage of it. "When you dodge and run, head to the far pipe. Going for the far corner of the pipe is a mental idea." He talked volubly, rapidly, with the absence of hesitation of someone completely grounded in his subject, and he showed no concern for his American accent; he was speaking lacrosse. If he mentioned isos, they understood that he meant isododging—one against one. "North-south" is parallel to sidelines, "east-west" is parallel to end lines. You don't accomplish much running east-west; you attack by running north-south.
"The guy who makes the play is often not the guy who got the assist or the goal. It starts two or three passes earlier. We all get the goal."
"Lacrosse is essentially a matter of looking for a two-on-one. You get it by dodging, passing, or picking."
"If you hear the word 'switch,' put your shoulder in it and go for the goal."
"Get outside your comfort zone—go left."
"Number 40, you used your shot fake enough times to make it ineffective. Use it when it counts."
Tierney himself seemed to have been trained in some sort of diplomatic clinic. He had many genuine compliments for the English players, seasoned with deprecations of his own players (who weren't there). On the craft of scoring, he said, "You shoot to the opposite knee." On the art of precision shooting, he said, "If my guys could hit the corners, I would tell them to shoot there. But I tell them to shoot for the knees or the shoulders. Then they'll hit the corners." (He has had players who could hit a falling leaf.)
"If you shoot from square, you can't get everything on it that you want." (When you shoot from square, a line drawn between your feet would be perpendicular to the direction of your shot.)
"Do your inside roll. Feel the pressure of the defense."
"Do the rocker step, come back up top."
"Split hard to his top foot." (Make your dodge and pass the defender on the side where his foot is more advanced.)
"That's about as far as you are going to get to go before they double you."
Setting up drill lines for two-on-twos, he taught them a pick-and-roll variation that he called Kodiak, because Princeton invented it for a game against Brown. It was reminiscent of the confined space, tight maneuvering, and superb stickhandling of Iroquois and Canadian indoor lacrosse, transposed by Tierney to the outdoor game. Occurring topside (in front of the goal), it could result in various achievements, such as causing a long-stick defenseman (a "pole") to be replaced by a defender with a short stick, or producing a maneuver resulting in a score: set the pick, and after the roll "make that little Kodiak-type pass, over the shoulder."
Both figuratively and literally, the most exploitable dimension in the game of lacrosse is the more than eight thousand square feet of playing space behind each goal, the focus of which is an area known as X. Tierney mentioned various dodges crafted for coming out of X, the simplest of which was pure speed—the "speed dodge," the "rush dodge," the "bull dodge."
"You just sprint to get topside. Gauge your defenseman. If he can't run with you, you're going to beat him all day." (Defensemen, who were once burly and slow, have become burly and fast—or especially adroit at changing direction.) "Don't run curving routes. Make sure that whatever you can do is in straight lines. Sprint to seven and seven." The numbers refer to a topside locale called the island—seven yards wide of the goal and seven yards in front of it. What to do on the island? "You have four options: Turn and shoot with your opposite hand; for example, spin right and shoot left-handed. Split and go under. Plant, and inside roll. Rocker step, then shoot from topside." The English faces suggested nothing short of complete comprehension until Tierney added, "Five and five is what you really want when you say seven and seven. It's like saying the curfew is at 1 A.M. and they get in at three."
In Dublin, most went to the Guinness brewery, some visited the Book of Kells, and I missed the bus to the lacrosse game. One moment, two buses were waiting—at Jurys Inn Christchurch—and the lobby was a sea of orange-and-black equipment bags and uniformed players. I went up to my room for something I had forgotten, and when I returned the lobby was vacant and the buses were gone. I had nothing on paper that said where the game was to be, and I don't text-message anybody. The Irish Times did not know where the game was. The Irish Times does not know lacrosse from camogie or hurling. I went to the front desk and asked the clerk where the buses had gone. She was an intern from China, and she did not understand me. She said this was her first full day in Ireland. I asked a male clerk. No comprehension (Bucharest). I consulted my cash position. Two euros. But money was the least of my problems; I knew nowhere to go.
Into the rising panic, three remembered letters came forward from who knows where—initials detached from the context in which they had been spoken: "U," "C," "D." I went out onto Christchurch Place and asked someone where I might find the nearest A.T.M.
In the smoke shop past the corner.
I ran to the smoke shop past the corner. The A.T.M. was down. I kept going, along Lord Edward Street, toward Dublin Castle. In a stone wall I found an A.T.M. The wall was stuffed with euros. What seemed like blocks later, I reached the Dame Street Taxi Rank, near Trinity College. To a kindly, graying driver, I said, "U.C.D." And where would I be going at U.C.D.? he asked. It's a great sprawling place, more than three hundred acres, and lying several miles from the city center.
"I don't know. I missed a bus. I'm supposed to be at a lacrosse match. Can you help me?"
It was a long ride, but not nearly long enough for the conversation that developed. At the first stoplight, he said, "And what might lacrosse be?"
I said it was football, basketball, and ice hockey in an advanced stage of evolution. It was played with a solid rubber ball weighing a third of a pound and carried in a small basket at the end of a stick. If you grasped it like a hockey stick (hands apart) or even like a baseball bat (hands together) and swung it with full leverage, you could throw a lacrosse ball more than a hundred miles an hour. You could kill somebody. So players wear genital cups, pads, helmets, face masks. The idea is to throw the ball past a keeper into a netted goal.
How does a match begin? Does it begin like football?
It's like nothing you ever saw.
The ball is set on the ground at the center of the field. Close over it, two men face each other. The referee says, "Down!," as if he were addressing mastiffs. They go into deep knee squats with their stick heads back to back, inches apart but not touching the ball. After the referee blows a whistle, the face-off men grunt against each other and attempt by various maneuvers to gain possession of the ball. The face-off in women's lacrosse is more scenic. There is nothing collisional about women's lacrosse—no contact. The ball, held at shoulder height between the two opposing sticks, is flung upward as if on the jet of a fountain. Players converge from all directions and someone gains possession. Tribal face-offs were once quite similar to women's face-offs today. To begin a lacrosse game, Iroquois teams of the eighteenth century formed facing parallel lines, and a beautiful maiden (according to Samuel Woodruff, of Windsor, Ontario, writing in 1797) put the ball down on the field. Players from each team went to the ball "and with united bats raised it from the ground to such an elevation as gave a chance for a fair stroke."
In an ice-hockey face-off, the referee throws the puck down between two players and they fight it out. When my father, who was born in 1895, played basketball in high school and college, the referees tossed the ball into the air between two players after every score, and also at the start of each period. Basketball's face-off is known as the tip-off, and now, in college play, you see it only as it starts a game or in overtime. In lacrosse there is no more important play. After a score, the scored-upon team is not simply awarded the ball. It has to fight for it in a face-off, and teams that are good at facing off can score multiple consecutive goals while the other team, again and again, fails to gain possession of the ball. Because lacrosse substitutions are unlimited, many face-off players have become so specialized that they are known as FOGOs: Face Off, Get Off, to be replaced by a midfielder more skillful at attacking or defending. In the words of the professional midfielder Matt Striebel, of the Philadelphia Barrage, "The FOGO has become one of the most highly sought-after positions in lacrosse, the object of intense recruiting. It is the most important position on the field, besides goaltending. A great FOGO is like a great place-kicker."
A FOGO's repertory includes but is not limited to the basic clamp, the pinch clamp, the rake, the jam, the plunger. Some FOGOs hold their sticks with the motorcycle grip (both palms down), the better to roll the head and clamp the ball. Danny Brennan, of Syracuse, the 2008 N.C.A.A. champions, has said that the pinch clamp was his best move: "I try and suck my stick down low and beat his clamp. I use it a lot." A great general athlete is not going to be intimidated by a FOGO. The midfielder Kyle Harrison, of Johns Hopkins's 2005 national champions and now a professional with the Denver Outlaws, told Inside Lacrosse magazine, "FOGOs are almost always very quick to the ball. So instead of trying to beat him to the ball, I forget the ball and focus on crushing the head of his stick with the shaft of my stick between my hands. Notice how I've slammed the shaft of my stick into the top part of the scoop of his stick. If I hit my shaft into the right part of his head, he's got no chance of stopping his head from spinning in his hands. So once I've pushed his head away from the ball I can use the shaft of my stick to pop the ball behind me where I can cut him off and get to the GB first. Just remember when you do this move do it hard and fast and relentlessly. There's no room for nice guys on face-offs." A GB is a ground ball. In 1888, Princeton's face-off man was Edgar Allan Poe. His granduncle (ibid.) wrote "The Raven."
As in the sibling sports, once you have the ball the idea is to free up someone, or free up yourself, to shoot—by picking and rolling, by dodging half a dozen ways, and even by resurrecting basketball's old-time weave (Hopkins's spaghetti offense). A ball thrown with such power that it does not even begin to curve toward the ground is called—as in baseball—a frozen rope. The N.R.A. would call it a round. As it passes above one or the other of the goalie's shoulders, he might not notice it. The lacrosse goal is vastly smaller than a soccer goal, of course, but—like a basketball hoop—it is larger than it seems to be. The apparent degree of difficulty of a parabolic basketball shot is diminished by the knowledge that the diameter of the hoop is nearly twice the diameter of the ball, which, as it drops in and begins to swish, occupies scarcely twenty-seven per cent of the targeted area. The lacrosse goalie defends a square plane, six feet on a side, framed by metal pipes. The surface area occluded by a goalie's body and the head of his stick is twenty-five per cent of the goal plane, give or take some fat. That leaves seventy-five per cent of a goal open at all times. A shooter has twenty-seven square feet always open, if not always in the same place.
Shooters aim for the lower corners, the upper corners, and the "5 hole" (between the goalie's legs). Good scorers can catch and shoot in a single motion. Good feeders make that possible. If an attacking player with his back to the goal takes a high feed and in one continuing windmill motion brings the head of his stick down past his knees and fires a shot into the net behind him, he has done a Canadian egg roll. An elevator is a shot that starts low and ends high. A wormburner is a shot that is low all the way. A bounce shot can be hard to stop, especially if it has sidespin on it. Bill Tierney complains that his Princeton players resist learning to put sidespin on a shot. (There have been exceptional exceptions.) Sidearm, sidespinning shots bounce higher, even past a goalie's shoulder. When a shot misses the goal and goes all the way over the end line, the ball is given to the player—attacker or defender—who was nearest the ball as it went out of bounds. In Tierney's words, "It's the only game in which if you miss the goal you get the ball back."
Goalies bait shooters. Goalies stand way over against one pipe and wait for some sucker to shoot into all that empty space—which has just been filled by the anticipating goalie. A shot that is fired straight into the pocket of a goalie's stick is a gumball. It is also called popcorn. The shooter should stay after practice and practice shooting. Goalies are so quick that they can sometimes "stuff" a point-blank shooter. An unguarded shot from three feet out can be caught by a goalie. Most shots, of course, come from greater distances, and when the goalie has the ball in his stick his eyes go back immediately to the source of the shot, because the goalie's teammate who was guarding the shooter will have turned upfield and is the first choice to receive the outlet pass. The shot, the stop, the outlet pass—the complete reversal of direction—will have taken as much as two seconds.
Of course, I didn't blurt out all this right there in that Dublin taxi—only the essence of it, of ninety per cent of it, in response to the driver's questions, which came one upon another and suggested a lifetime of attention to sporting games no matter how outlandish they might be. After we had been through Ranelagh and were just passing Royal Hospital Donnybrook, he asked if I had ever played lacrosse myself.
Once, I told him, but only for a season, at Deerfield Academy, in western Massachusetts—a postgraduate year between high school and college, my mother's map of a route to maturity. I played basketball, compensating with quickness for a grave lack of height, and after a close and raucous game one Saturday night a teacher came through the departing crowd, stopped me on my way to the locker room, and said his name was Mr. Haviland, and that he was the coach of Deerfield lacrosse. He said come spring he would like me to try out for his team.
I might have been less surprised if he had asked me for a tip on the third at Gulfstream Park. In any case, that dialogue at courtside with him seems impossible, but this was 1949, when, nationally, about one-hundredth of one per cent of the population of the United States had ever heard of lacrosse, and five-thousandths of one per cent had ever played it. There had been no lacrosse at my high school, or, as far as I knew, at any other public high school in New Jersey. Besides, I had been on the high-school tennis team. I told Mr. Haviland that I had fiddled around with lacrosse sticks maybe ten times ever while I was growing up in Princeton, but I didn't play lacrosse, did not know how to play lacrosse.
His response was that I had just been playing it, in a sense, and that I could learn fairly quickly to play in the midfield, where defense would be much the same, and I could also learn quickly to scoop up a loose ball, after which my job would be to carry it to the other end of the field and throw it to a teammate who knew what he was doing. He said he thought I could be a real hoover, a ground-ball machine, and he would teach me the Baltimore crab (a twisting scoop on the dead run, also known as the Indian pickup). He said if I didn't learn to cradle well (create centrifugal force to keep the ball in my stick) I could hold the stick straight out in front of me, pocket up, ball inside it, as I sprinted up the field (a move known as walking the dog). "All you need to be is inn-terr-esst-edd," he said. I would before long be aware that the word "interested," pronounced in four discrete syllables with the accent on the "esst," was not only a criterion statement of what a player had to be but also the highest compliment Mr. Haviland had to give.
All through spring vacation, I threw lacrosse balls at anything that would send them bouncing back to me. Some things didn't. They broke. On the high-school level in New England at that time, there was so little lacrosse that we had on our ten-game schedule only four high-school teams, and one of them—Manhasset—was from Long Island. The three others were Mount Hermon, Phillips Andover, and Phillips Exeter. Lacrosse had been played at Andover and Exeter in the eighteen-eighties but was not really established at either school until the nineteen-thirties. Andover's first modern coach was renowned for dancing nude in his living room while accompanying himself on the violin. Deerfield 10, Andover 6.
Absent other secondary schools to schedule, we played the junior-varsity team of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the freshman lacrosse teams of Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Williams, and, at West Point, the U.S. Military Academy plebes. Everybody was interested, one syllable at a time, and we won all those games. We were undefeated. We beat the plebes, 10–9, on the Plain. We beat Manhasset, 17–3, a scant six months before the unstoppable Jimmy Brown—by longtime consensus the greatest lacrosse player in the modern game—entered Manhasset High School as a freshman. Phew!
Jimmy Brown was born on St. Simons Island, off mainland Georgia. From the age of eight, he grew up on Long Island, where his mother worked as a domestic servant. At Syracuse University in the nineteen-fifties, he became, yes, the greatest football player in the school's history (on his way to becoming the greatest running back in the history of the National Football League), but he was not, in the usual manner, a football player who played lacrosse. He was a lacrosse player who played football. He loved lacrosse, called it his favorite sport. "Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played. . . . I could express myself fully in lacrosse. I could run two hundred yards at a stretch. I could duck between players. I could feel free to make the plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football or basketball, where coaches tell you what foot to put down." He had grown up in lacrosse—Manhasset High School '53. He was not a massive defenseman with a long stick killing intruders. He was a massive midfielder with a four-foot stick that looked a lot shorter in his hands. Cradling with one wrist, he would lower his left shoulder, and—in various versions—say, "Look out! I'm coming through." Bob Scott, the head coach at Hopkins then and for twenty years, remembers Jimmy Brown as "a man playing with boys." Scott continues, "He weighed two-twenty-eight. Holy mackerel! The thighs were huge. I don't think anybody would try to take Jimmy Brown. Mt. Washington guys threw body checks at him—at a brick wall. You couldn't double-team him. He'd just go through it. He just went by people and fired it in the goal. He startled the lacrosse world, he was so good."
Our sticks were fashioned like shepherd's crooks from steamed and bent hickory. For every team then playing the game, they were made almost exclusively by the Iroquois. Where sticks were available from sporting-goods companies, they had been bought wholesale, primarily from Onondagas and Mohawks, Iroquoian tribes. The Iroquois made tens of thousands of sticks a year, each stick requiring about a year to cure, steam, bend, and string. It was not a particularly expandable industry. On average, the lower trunk of one good hickory yielded eight sticks, and this tended not only to affect the oak-hickory ratios in climax forests of northeastern America but also to limit the growth of the game. Sticks were idiosyncratic, as different as thumbprints. It was said that certain high-level lacrosse teams had the best sticks because the coaches had curried favor with the Indians. The pocket was shaped from woven stiff rawhide and leather thongs. As a result, the ball was harder to handle than it is now and spent more time loose on the ground.
Ask a modern player what he has in his hands, and, typically, he might say, "Cyber head on a black Swizzle Scandium." Next player: "A Penitrator head on a Gait Anarchy shaft." Next: "An Evolution 2.0 on a Kryptolyte shaft." Shafts are made of patented aluminum alloys, of graphite, of vanadium, of zirconium, of weapons-grade titanium. The teardrop heads are plastic and are bilaterally symmetrical (forget the shepherd's crook). The heads fit snugly and are secured with a screw. The revolution from wood to plastic took place in the nineteen-seventies, in a factory in Boston and another in Baltimore owned by a lacrosse all-American who had carried a wooden stick. The event is sometimes called the plasticization of lacrosse. It changed the game to the same great extent that pole-vaulting was changed when fibreglass replaced bamboo. With the new stick, a lacrosse player could do a great many things more surely, rapidly, and precisely—shoot, pass, pick up a loose ball, cradle to protect it. The fastest of running games became even faster, and even prettier to watch.
The custom stringing of tennis racquets is abecedarian compared with the subtleties that have developed in the stringing of lacrosse sticks. Nobody over nine uses a factory pocket, or so it seems. Some players carry around with them as many as seven heads. They bake their heads and reshape them. They carry different heads for different weather, because moisture changes the webbing. The "traditional pocket" of woven thongs is still in use, but more than ninety per cent of players go for nylon mesh, woven in various geometries, for the most part in vertical or horizontal diamonds. The ball rides in a pocket of assorted legal depths, and when it is thrown it first moves over the mesh toward the top of the stick. In the high and widest part of the mesh—woven in and out, from side to side—are the shooting strings, almost all of them laces made for hockey skates. There the ball trips, backspins, and fires. Out she goes in three digits, if you've got the rhythm and the muscle to make that happen. Lacrosse shops are not unlike fly-fishing shops in the bewildering range of what they have to offer, and players carry the topic forward into preoccupation, cryptoscience, and voodoo. They boil their mesh. They use Jergens lotion on their mesh. They buy pocket pounders and pocket screws that shape the mesh and hold it in place, like blocking a hat. They tune their shooting strings according to the kinds of shots they anticipate making. They tighten a "shooter," loosen one, take one out, thread another in the shape of a U. They string and otherwise shape the pocket to control its softness and legal depth.
This craft is too advanced for most lacrosse players, who turn to "stick doctors" for assistance. Usually, there is at least one on any team. Charlie Kolkin and Alex Capretta are the incumbents at Princeton. Others describe their work as having gemlike characteristics. The University of Virginia has had its lacrosse sticks strung in California, by, so to speak, a plastic surgeon. His name is Lyle Tomlinson and he wore the number 34 when he played the game long ago. His "Pocket 34" is world famous—well, lacrosse-world famous. If a pocket can be called a sack—a real bag—it is deep and soft and will release a ball with a lot of "whip." Ask a lacrosse player how much whip is in his stick and he'll say something like "seven on a scale of ten." The more whip, the faster the shot. The more whip, the more erratic a throw is likely to be. Among other things, whip tends to bend trajectories downward. Bill Tierney is wary of whip. "It can cause bad passes," he explains. "Most mistakes are bad passes—thrown too low, for example, because of the whip in the passer's pocket."
These are things that players have confided to the writers of Inside Lacrosse:
I keep my pocket high in the stick, right under my bottom shooting string. I like a lot of hold at the top so I can take a deep windup when I shoot. If you're a middie who shoots hard off the dodge or a guy who does most of his damage on set shots, you might want to have a decent amount of whip in your stick. It helps lock the ball in place under the shooting strings so you can really reach back and sling it. . . . If you want a lot of whip, tighten the top shooting string. My best chance at scoring is by having a huge whip. . . . My theory is that if I don't even know where my shot is going, how the heck is a goalie going to guess where it's going?
Off Stillorgan Road, we turned in at University College Dublin, and the driver got out at a security hut to ask where, if anywhere, at U.C.D. we might find a lacrosse match between England and a team from America. There was no immediate response. Then: "Lacrosse?"
"Lacrosse," the driver affirmed, in a yes-of-course tone, as if suggesting that Cuchulain himself had played the game.
Security made calls on a mobile phone. At length, he seemed vindicated. No one else at U.C.D. knew from lacrosse. The one possibility was a sports ground on the far side of the college, and we would have to drive around the college to find it—about two miles.
So we started off again, the taxi-driver asking how an aboriginal game had acquired in the first place such an unfathomable name.
The etymology has a lot of whip. A player's stick is also called a crosse. It is said that when the black robes of the seventeenth century saw the sticks of the Iroquois they thought of ecclesiastical crosiers. In some parts of France, cricket has been called la crosse. A game more or less like field hockey developed in France and was also called le jeu de la crosse. Prairie La Crosse, where the La Crosse River enters the Mississippi, is where the Winnebagos played, and where La Crosse, Wisconsin, is now.
Off Clonskeagh Road, we turned once again into the college, and a quarter mile later came upon a large parking area—buses, cars—and a fenced pitch covered with lacrosse players in red-and-white and orange-and-black. The driver said he would like to stay and watch. ♦


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Lovelady spent 5 years restoring car
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Ever since he was old enough to drive, Bub Lovelady had old cars to tinker with. For a few years in the mid-1990s, he went without working on a car.
That was until 1996, when his wife, Linda, saw an ad in a car directory for a 1931 Chevrolet coupe. Lovelady figured that if it had been in remotely good condition, it already would have sold. Nonetheless, he was curious enough to drive to Wichita to see the car. The ad hadn't included a phone number, only an address.
When Lovelady arrived, the owner was taking the car out of his garage to go for ice cream. It hadn't been sold yet, and Lovelady made an agreement to return the next day with money to buy it. When he returned another prospective buyer was waiting to see whether Lovelady returned.
It had all original parts and had sat in a barn for 45 years.
Lovelady dismantled the coupe down to the frame then began rebuilding and customizing it. He completed the project in 2001.
"You can't buy parts for it," he said, "so rebuilding it took a lot of custom-made parts. Probably the hardest part is finding the money to do it."
Lovelady takes the car to shows throughout Kansas and neighboring states. He always drives it rather than taking it on a trailer.
"The biggest pleasure I get is driving to a show and listening to people talk about it," he said. "It's the way I wanted to build it."
He gets many questions from people who are trying to decide whether it is worth their time and money to fix up an old car.
Watching people at car shows, he can tell what kind of cars they like. Some people will walk right past his car and spend a lot of time looking at 1950s cars, while others won't give a second look to cars from the 50s, preferring older models like Lovelady's.
He said he always wanted to fix up a Chevrolet because most of the restored cars he sees are Fords.
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Bucs' offensive woes keep up in Cole's strong outing
ST. LOUIS -- Given the struggling offenses of both teams, the Pirates and Cardinals could have played first-team-to-score-wins baseball on Friday night at Busch Stadium.
That plot would have held up. The Cardinals pushed across one run in the first inning against Gerrit Cole, and Shelby Miller and the relief gang protected it for a 1-0 victory over the Pirates, their 11th loss in 14 games and easily the most aggravating.View Full Game Coverage
ST. LOUIS -- Given the struggling offenses of both teams, the Pirates and Cardinals could have played first-team-to-score-wins baseball on Friday night at Busch Stadium.
That plot would have held up. The Cardinals pushed across one run in the first inning against Gerrit Cole, and Shelby Miller and the relief gang protected it for a 1-0 victory over the Pirates, their 11th loss in 14 games and easily the most aggravating.View Full Game Coverage
"The one opportunity they got, they scratch a run in the first and make that stand -- who'd have thunk that?" Pirates manager Clint Hurdle wanted to know.
Pros do not grind teeth. They do not sulk into the night. Pros turn the other cheek, and turn to the next game.
"Why you play 162 of these," Cole said, with a stiff upper lip. "Stuff happens, and it doesn't always go your way."
Five days earlier, Cole had given Milwaukee one run in eight innings. Friday, one run in seven innings. No wins. And the upper lip quivers a little.
"Does it hurt, sting a little more, when you do everything you can, leave it all on the field, and don't get results? Yeah, it hurts," Cole said. "I've got nothing left. It's all out there."
Cole spent the evening not on a mound but, in Hurdle's opinion, in a boxing ring.
"It was a fist fight," Hurdle said. "He pitched his backside off. Great job. Fun to watch."
When it wasn't torturous, that is.
St. Louis got its run as Matt Holliday's one-out double scored Matt Carpenter, who had led off with a bunt single pushed to third base and moved up a base on Jon Jay's grounder to first.
"We keep facing these types of pitchers, and we realize we're not going to get a whole lot to scratch," said St. Louis manager Mike Matheny, calling Cole's effort "a nice job."
"He's a solid starting pitcher. He did a great job of competing, keeping his team right there. Fortunately, Matt got a big hit when we needed it. And great idea by Matt Carpenter getting on base and taking advantage of the infield positioning."
Miller, winless against the Pirates in five prior career decisions, walked across a tightrope for 5 2/3 innings, allowing three hits and walking four.
"We didn't get the big hit," said Hurdle, summing up the difference for Miller. "He didn't make any mistakes. He pushed through it. Out of nine frames, we had only three shots to put runs on the board, and weren't able to do it."
Cole outlasted, and perhaps even outpitched, Miller. The Buccos right-hander went seven innings, giving up six hits and the run, while walking there and fanning four.
The Bucs' offensive funk was on vivid exhibit in the third inning, in which Miller struggled mightily before a most unlikely escape. The righty gave up singles to Cole and Jose Tabata, then loaded the bases by walking No. 2 hitter Neil Walker.
At that point, Miller had labored through 21 pitches in the inning, and there was still only one out. Andrew McCutchen ripped No. 22 about 10 feet to the left of the second-base bag -- where shortstop Jhonny Peralta gloved it and started an inning-ending double play.
"The quicker you accept it, the quicker you get over it," McCutchen said with a weak smile. "Once you make that swing, you can't control anything after that. I made the contact, hit it hard, hit it right at him … oh, well. Quicker you get over it, the quicker you can move on."
Then, just to accentuate the out-of-sync dilemma, next time up, McCutchen lashed a double to left.
There was more frustration to come, in the eighth inning, long after Miller had turned the game over to his bullpen.
The inning began with Starling Marte, left out of the starting lineup, doing Starling Marte things. Pinch-hitting for Cole, he got hit by Carlos Martinez's pitch. Tabata, in the starting lineup because he rakes in Busch Stadium, doubled Marte to third. Having runners on second and third with none out looked like a golden opportunity for overdue satisfaction. Looks can be deceiving. It turned out to be a prelude to despair.
Marte got hung up off third base on Walker's hard comebacker to the right of the mound, and was quickly tagged out, much too quick to allow the other runners to move up.
"When a hitter gets a secondary lead," Hurdle said, characterizing Marte's stroll down the line, "that puts him in peril if a play like that happens. The ball is hit back to the pitcher on that said of the diamond, now [the pitcher] sees the guy."
"When I got the ground ball, the first thing that I thought was to throw to home plate and try to not allow the run to score," Martinez said . "After that, I felt I could breathe better. I like to be in those situations. I know it's a close game, but that's what I like. I like to feel the pressure."
The runners still were able to move up, on a wild pitch, which simply gave the Cardinals an excuse for intentionally walking McCutchen to load the bases, with one away.
A called third strike to Pedro Alvarez made it two. A checked-swing third strike on Chris Stewart made it three -- and made for an extremely irritating Pirates evening.
"We're in position now …," Hurdle began, searching for words, "… it's not working."
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) was an English mathematician and scientist (a "natural philosopher") who developed the fundamental laws of motion students learn in high school:
- An object at rest will remain at rest, and one in motion remain in motion at the same velocity (speed and direction), unless acted upon by an external force;
- The force on an object is proportional to its mass times its acceleration (or, in appropriate units, F = ma).
- For every action (force), there is an equal and opposite reaction (opposing force); and
He is responsible for the law of universal gravitation and conservation laws for linear momentum and angular momentum. Newton also made important contributions to optics and other areas of physics, as well as inventing the entire field of mathematics called calculus (independently of Gottfried Leibniz).
Religious and metaphysical views[edit]
Much is made of the fact that some very famous scientists have believed in God (see Argumentum ad verecundiam). Newton not only believed in God, he wrote extensively on religious and occult matters, especially Biblical interpretation. He tried to find hidden messages in the form of what are now known as Bible codes. He also established a date for Jesus's crucifixion (April 3 in the year 33) as well as a rough estimate of when the apocalypse would occur (no earlier than 2060).
In his General Scholium, he wrote:
- "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent being."
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This is a possible cover to my next novel, Times of Trial, but it probably could use some tweaking or something altogether different. I could use some feedback if anyone's willing to give me some. I would appreciate it.
The novel is a parallel novel to Times of Trouble. A preacher and his family, the Tyler's, have a church that is dying in Arizona, and they take care of the remaining senior saints, including the ones in nursing homes, etc. The remaining family, the White's, leave the same church and head to Wyoming to live in a community that was originally started by Doomsday Preppers back in the early 2000's so they can attempt to escape the increasing persecution of Christians. Meanwhile, President Collins orders the activation of Camps across the country that will house believers who he thinks are a threat to his rule. His patron, Michael Collins, places a new man in charge in Iran, who consolidates his power and attempts to take a swipe at Israel. Israel strikes back, but the rest of the world sympathizes with Iran. The Tyler's end up with others in a Camp in Arizona, the White's and the community they live in get attacked, other events happen that also occur in Times of Trouble, and Evans continues to manipulate events as the Rapture takes the Christians, and he gains ultimate power.


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By Danielle Szabo
Having grown up in Athens, Ohio, Susan Ackerman understands how fortunate she was to be able to attend Ohio University after high school. In recognition of that opportunity, Ackerman, who graduated in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in education, established the Ackerman Appalachian Scholarship. The gift supports students accepted into the Appalachian Scholars Program, a program that provides academically qualified Appalachian students with not only financial support but also a support system designed to help them succeed.
According to the Appalachian Scholars Program website, only 12 percent of Appalachian Ohio residents have a college degree, compared to the national average of 28.5 percent. Sixty-five percent of Appalachian high school seniors lack the finances needed to attend college.
"Susan was one of the first to support the Appalachian Scholars Program from its inception," said Executive Director of Development, Scholarships and Special Projects Ellen Fultz. "Having grown up in the Athens area, she understands the challenges that students from Appalachia sometimes face. We are most grateful that she has decided to endow an Appalachian Scholarship. Without a doubt, her gift will have a significant impact on students for generations to follow."
"I love Ohio University, it's in my blood," said Ackerman, who lives in Sarasota, Florida, and who serves as a Trustee of the Ohio University Foundation Board. "I always knew if I was going to give substantial gifts to anything, it was going to be to education. Helping a person provide for themselves is one of the more rewarding things for me and, hopefully, for the student as well. Education is something no one can ever take from you."
Ackerman comes from a long line of Ohio University alumni, beginning with her grandmother, Alice Wilkinson, who attended Ohio University briefly in the summer of 1918. Prior to serving on the Foundation Board, Ackerman was on the Ohio University Alumni Association's Board of Directors, and for one year, served as its president. Ackerman retired from Nationwide of Columbus in 2004.
Ackerman's gift is a part of Ohio University's The Promise Lives Campaign, which seeks to raise $450 million by June 30, 2015, and already has secured more than $441 million toward its goal in support of students, faculty, programs, partnerships and select facilities at Ohio University. Learn more at www.ohio.edu/campaign or to give to the Appalachian Scholar's Program click here. You may also mail your check, payable to The Ohio University Foundation (be sure to write "Appalachian Scholars" in the notes section) to The Ohio University Foundation at P.O. Box 869, Athens, Ohio 45701.


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1. Kick the Habit
Although we all know that smoking isn't good for you, there's yet another reason to avoid or kick the habit: decreased fertility. Both women's and men's reproductive systems appear to be affected by cigarette smoke--whether inhaled directly or as secondhand smoke. Many harmful substances found in cigarette smoke including nicotine, carbon monoxide and carcinogenic and mutagenic compounds. Panayiotis Zavos, PhD, University of Kentucky, says: "The argument against smoking holds true for anyone wishing to conceive, but it is particularly imperative for individuals (male or female) having difficulty in conceiving." (1)
In England, researchers report that smoking diminishes fertilization in women by two-thirds. A study by the University of Bristol and St. George's Hospital Medical School revealed that cotinine, the main by-product of nicotine, is a long-lasting substance that concentrates in the follicular fluid of the ovaries (2) and affects conception.
Women who smoke harmed their ovaries, according to a University of Iowa study. Cigarette smoke decreased the number of eggs a woman produces each month. This may be partially due to the higher levels of male hormones such as androgen and testosterone found in smoking women. Smoking also tends to decrease estrogen, the hormone responsible for producing fertile mucus and making the cervix more receptive to sperm (3).
Smoking also interferes with reproduction because of its effect on nutrients. For example, vitamin C levels decrease 20 to 40 percent in men who smoke one pack of cigarettes per day. When vitamin C drops, a man's sperm are not only more sluggish, but they tend to clump together. Less vitamin C also results in more abnormally formed sperm and fewer sperm overall.
A Galveston, Texas research team decided to test the effect of vitamin C supplementation on male smokers. On average, the subjects' semen contained 43 percent less ascorbic acid (vitamin C) than what is generally found in healthy young adults. However, when two of the test groups received either 200 mg or 1000 mg tablets of vitamin C each day, these levels improved within the first week. The supplemented men showed weekly recovery in sperm health. Most impressive, however, was the substantial sperm health improvement the 1,000 mg group exhibited over the men taking only 200 mg of vitamin C. Overall, the men taking more vitamin C experienced an average improvement of 40 percent in six different sperm qualities. Those taking 200 mg improved by 15 percent. There was no change in the placebo group (4).
Nicotine and its by-products can hurt reproductive tissues. If the vitamin C depleted due to smoking isn't replaced, this nutrient can't do its job and repair the damage. Of course, men should quit smoking rather than try to compensate for the harm smoking does to their reproductive systems.
2. Dump your Diet
Debates rage on about the safety and effectiveness of weight loss diets. When considering the pros and cons of dieting, you need to include fertility.
Recent evidence indicates it's not only fat, but where fat's distributed on the body that influences fertility. A Dutch research group studied 500 women who came to their clinic for artificial insemination. They discovered women whose hips were larger than their waist were more likely to get pregnant than women whose waists were wider. This abnormal fat distribution is associated with a masculizing effect on the body and may be responsible for decreased fertility. The researchers point out, however, that a woman of normal weight is more fertile than one who is either too fat or too thin (5).


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For a long time, I thought you couldn't set a break point in a Jasmine test running in Karma. Heck, I even said that in a blog post. I recently learned this wasn't true. Once you know how debugging in Karma works, it seems really obvious, but I think I'm probably not alone in missing this entire feature or understanding how to make best use of it.
So let's start out by looking at a browser running Karma. When I first launched Karma with my first expect(true).toBe(true) test, I saw pretty much what everyone sees:
Of course, I clicked that honking obvious Debug button, and I got this:
Oh, thank you so much. What am I supposed to do with that? So I assumed like every end user since ever that the developer had screwed up and of course I wasn't missing something.
Meanwhile, I had the problem that all those console.log statements I kept dumping into Karma got really hard to read if it was set up to constantly rerun every time I changed a file because when I'd scroll up it was very difficult to find the beginning of any particular run. So I set Karma up to just run once and then exit so I could enter "cls" (clear screen) between runs. So the browser window closed after each run and for sure there were no break points being set.
Fast forward to the past couple of months and I've been working in Angular 2. Angular 2 and TypeScript are, in my opinion, a hot mess in terms of being able to figure out what's going on, so I've been researching hot and heavy into getting more insight when creating and running tests. So far none of that research is actually helping me with Angular 2, but when I recently worked on a coding challenge for a major software company--I am available for hire by the way--in AngularJS, all this research was pretty useful.
So let's unpick a few things that are really helpful to know:
- There is a reporter, karma clear screen reporter, that will clear the console at the beginning of each test run, which means you can let karma run continuously. Once you are at that point, you now have your Debug button back.
- When you open the Debug window, you're expected to use the browser's debug tools by pressing F12 or opening the developer tools however your favorite browser wants you to do that. At that point, you can set your break points and refresh the debug window to get access to all that debugging goodness.
- If you let Webstorm set up your Angular project for you, it does kind of a junit thing that by default runs karma only once every time you click the "run" button (don't use the debug button or you can't see the tree of your unit tests), but it leaves the karma browser window open. This leaves a nice clean terminal display, still gives you access to the Debug button, and shows you colorful little icons that indicate the status of your tests.
My mother like to say "the obvious, isn't." This was a lesson for me in how true this is. I hope this helps someone not go quite so long making the mistakes I did.


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Il Yong Kim
Goldilocks and the 288 Batteries: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold
Electric vehicles are regularly touted for their lack of emissions; the absence of anything like the noxious fumes generated by internal combustion engines. One thing they do emit, however, is heat; specifically, the heat put out by hundreds of on-board batteries that store energy for such vehicles. Managing this heat has become one of the key challenges to the success of these vehicles on the road.
And while heat is a normal consequence of the electrical current these batteries provide, performance is also affected by the surrounding temperature. The search for an optimal operating condition is something like Goldilocks' taste for porridge that was "just right." For batteries, that means around room temperature, 25-45 degrees Celsius. When it is much colder, say -20 degrees Celsius, resistance within the battery increases and its output diminishes. When it is much warmer, up to 60 degrees Celsius, the chemicals within the battery begin to degrade at an accelerated rate, decreasing its ability to return to a full charge after just a few dozen re-charging sessions. The battery's life will be significantly shortened, compromising the long-term value of the vehicle it powers.
In other words, manufacturers have a vested interest in keeping batteries warm when it is cold outside, and cool when the battery becomes hot during operation. For just this reason, General Motors asked Dr. Il Yong Kim, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, to examine the best way of applying this Goldilocks principle.
"They have a good vision of long-term research," he says, noting that the firm is the only auto-maker to have a technical research centre based in Canada.
The reference design of Kim's work is the battery array for the company's flagship electric car, the Chevrolet Volt. This structure is made up of 288 flat lithium-ion battery cells stacked together in the shape of a "T"; at 1.8 metres long and weighing some 190 kilograms, it is one of the vehicle's largest single components. Its ability to store electricity determines how far the vehicle can travel without charging; its ability to hold a charge repeatedly determines how long this part of the vehicle will last without expensive maintenance.
The housing around the battery already contains a heating and cooling system that pumps liquid through channels to raise or lower the temperature in order to maintain the best performance. Although the system works well enough, GM approached Kim several years ago to take a closer look at the design of battery thermal management systems for next-generation electric vehicles. The topic, he explains, represents a frontier of automotive development.
"This research is still in its infancy," Kim says. "At this point there are multiple design concepts – fundamental design concepts – for the thermal management of electrified vehicle battery systems."
For example, while the Volt uses liquid to manage heat flow, a competing electric vehicle, the Nissan Leaf, uses only air. It remains unclear which approach is more effective.
Kim is addressing this question from the perspective of his speciality, a field called design optimization. Through intricate computer modelling, he and his colleagues are examining the physical characteristics of a battery array design that will provide the very best performance.
Among the details to be considered is the shape of the channels between batteries, where heat is conveyed to and from the array. Such studies represent a classic problem in computational fluid dynamics, a well-established engineering discipline that attempts to come up with quantifiable mathematical descriptions of complex flow patterns.
That task has always been difficult, although less so in recent decades as increasingly powerful computer technology processes these intricate mathematical models. Even so, when it comes to finding the optimal version of a temperature management system, it might be necessary to run through such models thousands or even tens of thousands of times to get an accurate picture of how a particular design would perform under real-world conditions.
"This could take as long as a year, for one optimization, unless you use an efficient method," says Kim, adding that this kind of timeline can stretch the patience of a commercial operation like GM.
There is more at stake than improving the vehicle's efficiency. If a battery gets too hot, it can generate additional heat, creating a feedback loop of continuously rising temperatures. This state, known as thermal runaway, can lead to fires and even explosions. Early in 2013, inadequate heat-venting in a much smaller array of lithium-ion batteries led to thermal runaway and an in-flight fire aboard one of Boeing's latest passenger aircrafts, the 787 Dreamliner. The entire fleet was grounded until this design shortcoming could be resolved.
Kim is conscious of such disasters as he considers the batteries in electric vehicles. One preventative measure is a system of cooling plates inserted between batteries, with openings to drain excess heat before thermal runaway can begin. Yet these plates add weight, necessitating the need for a larger array – and more plates – to compensate.
"In a real-world design, it's a really complex problem," he says. "You want to minimize the weight, but at the same time your battery needs more power."
Far from being daunted by this complexity, Kim welcomes the chance to move into uncharted design territory. He is preparing for the next phase of the project, which will take the already sophisticated computational models for the temperature dynamics of individual battery cells and combine them with the equally sophisticated models of the entire battery array. This unified model, he observes, will be unprecedented.
"That has never been done before," Kim concludes. "I can say this with confidence."
Counting the Uncountable
Tracking the flow of liquids and gases is a game with infinite possibilities. In order to cope with those possibilities in a practical way, engineers such as Il Yong Kim resort to a method known as finite element analysis, which combines large numbers of relatively simple mathematical functions into a more complex function that approximates the behaviour of an actual flow. In order to obtain this approximation, the curved, unmeasurable lines of this flow are rendered in the form of a large number of short, straight, and measurable lines. By carrying out these calculations over and over again – thousands of times, if necessary – the results get closer and closer to a correct picture of the desired flow.
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In an effort to educate prospective Ohio University students and their parents, as well as the University community, about a new, innovative tuition and fee structure, University Communications and Marketing (UCM) is announcing the second video launched as part of a series designed to answer basic questions about the program.
Ohio University is preparing to make the switch in fall of 2015 to a level-rate tuition and fee program, named The OHIO Guarantee. The program is the first of its kind in the state of Ohio.
The new video, focusing on "The OHIO Guarantee and Financial Aid," is available now on the The OHIO Guarantee website. The first video in the series, "The OHIO Guarantee and You," is also available for viewing through the site. The series is a UCM production and utilized student talent, both on-screen and behind-the-scenes.
Three additional videos will be rolled out through the middle of July. Compass will announce each as it is made available.