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4-6-12 Camden Yards Opening Day
Amy, Olivia and I got up at 6AM today in order to drive to Baltimore to catch the Orioles home opener. Amy and Olivia had never experienced an Opening Day (Amy always has to work them) so they were both excited.
Fellow ballhawk Nick Pelescak teamed up with me on this trip, and we all left around 6:50 AM. After a stop, we arrived at the Camden Yards gates at 11:20 AM and were fourth in line.
It was pretty chilly today, so Nick and I played catch for a bit to stay warm while Amy and Olivia snuggled together. At 12 noon, all of the gates opened. Every gate in the park. There would be no season ticket holder only time today.
PNC Park did the same thing yesterday. However, Camden Yards opened their gates three hours early, while PNC Park opened theirs two.
Upon entering, the Orioles players were playing catch along the first base line, and had yet to begin batting practice.
I was able to get Matt Wieters to toss me ball #1 on the day. It helped that there weren't many other fans around. Fellow ballhawk and Baltimore regular Matt Hersl congratulated me on the first ball of the 2012 season. He told me that ironically, he got the first ball of the 2011 season – from Matt Wieters.
Since I was the first one to get a ball, I decided to move back about 10 rows so the other ballhawks could try their luck. I also thought that maybe a player would see me in my Ripken jersey and long toss me. As I was walking up the stairs I spotted an Easter Egg.
It was only about three rows up, so it likely was an overthrow that the players had while warming up before the gates opened.
Anyhow, I headed out to left field once batting practice got under way. The first Orioles group didn't display much power, but I did snag a ground rule double here:
It actually tipped off my glove, but I recovered to pick it up in the row in front of me.
As batting practice progressed, left field got more and more crowded, so I spent some time going back and forth between left field and center field.
While in center field I glove tricked ball #4:
and ball #5 from the gap:
I saw ball#5 get bobbled by fans in the front row while I was in left field. So, when I used the glove trick, I offered it to the fans nearby, asking if one of them had dropped it down there. They just smiled and shook their heads no. Nice people.
Near the end of the Orioles BP, I noticed that the Twins all came out to warm up. I made my way from center field to the third base line and was able to get this player to toss me ball #6. After throwing me the ball, he headed straight to third base to take grounders. Can I get some help on who this is?
After snagging the ball, I took a closer look at it, and it was an Orioles Park 20th anniversary commemorative ball. That made my day.
The Twins are very heavily left handed, so I spent their entire batting practice in center field. While there, I glove tricked another ball, after which an Orioles staff member came down to speak with me. He wanted to know what I was doing. I explained it to him and he told me how he thought I was lowering things down onto the field to get signed because of the pen that is attached to my glove. I told him, "I just use it to get the balls out of the gap, I'm not putting it on the field, is that ok?" He responded by telling me, "By all means, you're more than welcome to do that. Me and a fellow employee we're just wondering is all."
Everyone is so nice on Opening Day.
My eighth ball of batting practice was a clean catch of a line drive home run here:
There were several arms flailing for it, and I just took a few steps down the stairs and made the clean catch.
It was my 8th ball of the day, which tied a personal best for me at Camden Yards. I had snagged eight there two other times. Batting practice was about over, so I headed over to the Twins dugout to try and get #9:
It didn't happen though, but I was still more than happy with 8:
After BP, Amy, Olivia and I made our way to our seats.
Olivia had her own special seat that 'the Easter Bunny' brought her:
She really took everything in:
One of the cool things about Opening Day is the ceremonies that precede the game. Here are the Twins lining up on the field:
And the Orioles came out of the bullpen area on a long Orange Carpet:
Here's a video of the Orioles introductions:
And the National Anthem. You always know you're in Baltimore when the song reaches the "Oh say does that Star Spangled Banner…" If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch the Anthem:
It was a great Opening Day. The Orioles ended up winning the game 4-2. This was the view from our seats:
And here are today's baseballs:
Amy bought me this shirt:
She's the best!
2012 Stats:
Game: 8 Balls
Season: 13 Balls
Career: 1,557 Balls
Attendance: 46,773 (I think this may be the largest attended game I've ever been at)
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DOVER — Against the recommendation of the state, an East Rochester man will spend just two weeks in jail after pleading guilty to nine counts of possession of child pornography.
At Strafford County Superior Court on Friday, Michael Dufoe, 47, of 71 Franklin Heights, pleaded guilty to possessing nine videos depicting children being sexually abused. He was in possession of those videos in Rochester on June 9, 2011.
According to Strafford County Assistant Attorney Amy Feliciano, Dufoe entered a "naked" plea on Friday, meaning there wasn't a negotiated plea agreement and the extent of his sentence would be up to the judge.
While Feliciano recommended that Dufoe serve time in state prison, Judge John Lewis ordered Dufoe serve 12 months in the House of Corrections, with all but 14 days suspended, meaning that Dufoe will serve just two weeks in jail.
The judge also ordered three consecutive prison sentences for Dufoe, each lasting 5-10 years, but the prison sentences are suspended, meaning Dufoe won't serve time in prison long as he meets several conditions.
These conditions include remaining on good behavior, continuing counseling, having no unsupervised contact with minors, and having no Internet or computer use unless allowed by a probation officer. Dufoe was ordered to obey these conditions while on probation for the next 20 years; otherwise, the suspended prison sentences could be imposed by the prosecution.
At the end of the plea and sentencing hearing that lasted more than three hours, Lewis warned Dufoe to follow all of the conditions in a strict manner.
"There's 15 to 20 years hanging over your head," he said. "If you come (back) before me, you're going to have problems."
At the end of Friday's hearing, Dufoe hugged and kissed his wife while being escorted to the House of Corrections. After he serves two weeks in jail, Dufoe will be put in administrative home confinement, and will be monitored with a GPS device.
After the hearing, Feliciano said she plans to apply for a sentence review, which would involve three judges from across the state reviewing the case and potentially imposing a different sentence.
"I understand what the court took into consideration (on Friday) but I respectfully disagree," said Feliciano.
She said that while Dufoe is going to counseling and has completed a sexual offender program since being charged, the charges against Dufoe are serious, and involved children being victimized.
Feliciano said in her opinion, the nature of Dufoe's charges necessitate a prison sentence.


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee State men's basketball team shot a season-high 92 percent from the free throw line, but fell to the University of Tennessee on Friday night, 88-67.
Patrick Miller led TSU (0-6) in scoring for the sixth straight time with 20 points on 5-of-10 shooting. The Chicago native also recorded season-highs with 6 assists and five rebounds.
M.J. Rhett and Jay Harris each scored in double figures for the Tigers as Rhett finished with 14 and Harris poured in 12. Rhett also added five rebounds.
The Tigers posted a season-low 20 boards, but its five blocks were the most for the team during the 2013-14 campaign
Each team came out of the gates shooting 50 percent from the field during the first five minutes. However, the Vols (3-1) made one more basket and another was a three to lead, 11-8. Miller and Rhett each had four in the game's early going.
Later in the half, Tennessee went on a 10-1 run that spanned nearly five minutes. TSU had three turnovers and missed four shots during the stretch and found itself down, 24-13, with eight minutes left before halftime.
UT strung together two quick layups back-to-back, forcing head coach Travis Williams to burn his second timeout of the half at the 4:09 mark. The stoppage to re-group worked, as Miller immediately made a jumper and Kennedy Eubanks canned the Tigers' first three-pointer of the game on the next possession to make the score, 35-24, in favor of the home team.
Miller's and Eubanks's hoops were part of an 11-3 TSU run to end the half. Jay Harris had the other five points, but the Tigers trailed, 38-30, heading into the locker room.
Tennessee State shot 46 percent (11-of-24) during the opening stanza, but only made 1-of-7 from beyond the arc (14 percent).
The Tiger bench outscored their counterparts, 9-6, and TSU was 7-for-8 from the charity strip for a strong 88 percent conversion rate.
In the second period, Miller poured in a three at the 17:30 mark to pull the Tigers within six, but the Volunteers answered with a three of their own make the score, 45-36.
Tennessee extended its lead to 16 at the 14 minute mark thanks to a 9-0 run and five TSU fouls. Those fouls led to seven of the nine UT points.
True freshman Jamonte Graham scored his first career points with a fast-break layup with six minutes to play. His basket cut the UT lead to 17, but TSU couldn't build off of the hoop.
The Tigers scored the last bucket of the game as Alex Bates hit a jumper with 41 seconds remaining, making the final score, 88-67.
TSU shot 43 percent from the field (20-of-46), but couldn't find its stroke from deep, hitting 3-of-15 (20 percent) from three-point land.
The Tigers will stay on the road and face another SEC opponent in Auburn on Tuesday night. Tigers meet Tigers at 7 p.m.


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SATA Revision 3.0
Didn't take journo's long to drop the "Revision" did it?
Serial ATA 3.0 is go, the Sata-IO industry body announced yesterday. Sata 3.0 doubles the bus' current peak bandwidth to 6Gb/s, improves its power-conservation capabilities and upgrades the standard's Native Command Queuing (NCQ) technology to add streaming and better command management, all designed to make it easier to get …
Is the bus the speed-limiting factor, or is it the speed at which the platter(s) spin?
Are we really looking at netbooks with 6gb/s drive throughput?
If you're looking at external drives, I thought the sata 1.0 sockets were low insertion force...
Personally, I'd rather have an external PCIe connector and leave the rest up to the drive caddy. Then you could add a drive or a graphics card to your notebook.
If you look at the speed of the best SSD drives now, they are already saturating the 3gb/s SATA II bus and are well into SATA III territory already. By the time SATA III is out in volume 6gb/s will probably be too slow for the top-end SSD drives that will be on the market.
Time to think of something else.
As far as standard single SSD drives go (RAID is a different matter), the best SSD read speed top out at about 260MB/s but on average are 200MB/s so there is still room and 600MB/s is not to sniffed at for a storage device interface. If you really want faster throughput then other solutions already exist such as RAM drives but they are not cheap in the slightest. I have not even touched upon the fact that the fastest SSDs are still not affordable for normal consumers.
Have to agree with other comments that making a slimline dvd drive or 1.8" in sata version is not going to change the overall size of these components.
Never mind transfer speeds or encryption.. the biggest problem I have with small external storage is that I'm constantly losing it.
It's never a case of "grab the usb stick and go", it's always "spend 5 minutes finding the usb stick then go".
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The slaughter of hundreds in Egypt this week was horrifying. The response of the United States to that slaughter seemed puny and impotent. The president and the secretary of state offered strongly worded condemnations, and the United States canceled its participation in a military exercise that probably wouldn't have happened anyway, given the unrest.
Around the world critics suggested the United States was either effectively condoning the violence or sending a strong message that it wouldn't penalize the Egyptian military for this or future harshness. It didn't help that after his statement the president slipped off for a round of golf.
The unnecessarily callous optics of the golf game aside, the unsettling reality is that America's options were puny and likely to have very little effect. Indeed, the White House wisely avoided falling into the trap of "feel good measures:" bold gestures that may resonate but ultimately won't work.
Some argue the United States should suspend the delivery of some or all the $1.3 billion in annual aid it sends to the Egyptian government. But this would only further reduce the limited influence we have over the Egyptian military.
It is important to remember that after Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy's overthrow, governments from the Persian Gulf in a matter of days offered the new Egyptian government 10 times the amount the United States gives each year. Not only did this shift the balance of influence away from the United States, but it also raises the possibility that they might well have replaced any funds we withdrew, blunting the impact of our actions.
It is also important to remember that the situation in Egypt is not black and white. While there is no excuse for the kind of massacres that took place this week, the Muslim Brotherhood also has a share of responsibility for the situation on the ground. The Morsy government regularly abused its authority, trampled on basic human rights and was so widely reviled in Egypt that its overthrow was welcomed by tens of millions of citizens.
Indeed, if you are looking for a place to fault the U.S. response, look to our relative tolerance of Morsy's abuses and our failure to strongly and effectively call him out as his government crushed personal freedoms, suppressed the press, threw opponents in jail and stood by as the Muslim Brotherhood actively sought to sow discord throughout the Middle East.
Had the United States been tougher back then and had it worked more with the international community to tie total aid flows to better behavior, it could have helped forestall the current situation. The United States consistently did and said too little too late. It also fell into the trap of overstating the legitimacy that being elected conferred on Morsy, even as he undercut that legitimacy by acting in a perniciously undemocratic way.
This last overall point contains the secret to effective U.S. leverage over Egypt and many countries these days. The United States cannot have much impact acting alone. Unless--in an instance like this-- it can speak for a broad cross section of aid-giving countries and institutions, the impact of any conditions it sets is likely to be limited.
Impact requires purposeful, active political and economic diplomacy at the highest level—including the willingness to pressure friends. It also requires having a clear plan. Finally, those with whom the United States is interacting, be they friends or adversaries, have to believe that it has the resolve to follow through -- and the willingness to take materially positive action if things go the way America wants.
But a United States that is post-Iraq and post-Afghanistan is correctly seen in the Middle East and elsewhere as "leaning back." A trifecta of forces has contributed to this:
The huge costs and damage of our misadventures in the region have left us disinclined to further commit major resources or incur further risks. Our domestic economic problems have led us to turn inward and question how we allocate our resources. And the polarization in U.S. politics has both produced divisions that make action hard and empowered the extreme wings of both parties, groups that for all their divisions happen to share a taste for isolationism.
American inaction in Syria, the growing violence in Iraq, our apparent inclination to get out of Afghanistan at any cost, and our relative silence on the decaying situation elsewhere in North Africa all contribute to the unhelpful perception that we are not going to put our shoulder into much in the region (or elsewhere for that matter).
It's not that we'll be absent. Not that we won't issue statements. Not that we won't take some modest actions. It's just that we will do less where we can do less. We will hesitate more. And with each illustration of this—whether our restraint is soundly based or not—we lose credibility and thus leverage.
This is the hard choice for America: Embrace the risks and costs of real engagement or accept those associated with a much more passive role. This doesn't mean we have to be foolish. We don't need more Iraqs.
But the lesson of Iraq was not to never intervene again. It was to never do so rashly, recklessly or for the wrong reasons. It was to resist the temptation to act alone, to step up to the hard work of real diplomacy, to keep our eye on our nation's need to be a more effective leader in the international community, rather than simply the bullying hyperpower. It was to understand that the trick of leadership is actually getting others to follow, building coalitions, leveraging our power with that of others.
Because as we are now discovering, sometimes the greatest costs of mistakes like the ones we made in Iraq and Afghanistan are the way they limit our ability or inclination to take action in the future when it is truly necessary.


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Looks like Kobe Bryant will be able to get by in the event of an NBA strike, now that an Italian club is offering the guard $600,000 per game.
Bryant who lived in Italy as a youth while his father played pro ball there, would be a huge attraction for Virtus Bologna. The team's owner, Claudio Sabatini told an Italian blog of the offer, which would start on Nov. 13 when the Italian League hoops season opens. The deal would have NBA opt out for when the stateside lockout ends.
Bryant, who speaks fluent Italian, could not be reached for comment. But Sabatini appears to be serious, having also courted San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobli. He said he just needs a little help with cash flow.
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"I can risk by my own the 50% of the total amount of money needed," Sabatini told Il Resto del Carlino. "For the other half, I need the help of private companies, professional associations and the municipality.
Bryant makes $25 million per year under his current Lakers contract. If the NBA season is delayed or even scrapped, he may want to stay in shape and make some money. However, NBC Sports points out that he also may be hesitant to risk injury and jeopardize his quest for a sixth championship ring.


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OXM lists 30 phrases you're very unlikely to hear when blasting through Call of Duty 4's online muliplayer modes...
LOL, I get so much racial abuse for being Scottish.
But its all funny.
'Cause they have never played with me. I feel free to say "good game" to the other guys if they played well. Some days I just get beat by better players. Nothing wrong with saying good game.
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An internal affairs investigation finds a Sarasota Police officer seen on video spinning a man face first into a wall during an arrest did nothing wrong.
The veteran Sarasota police officer who was caught on camera spinning a homeless man face-first into a wall during an arrest late last year received no discipline for conduct that the city manager said then was "clearly excessive force."
The video shows officer Derrick Gilbert swinging Roger Alan Fields into the corner of a metal bus ticket booth — a blow that stunned Fields, split his head open and required a trip to the hospital and stitches to close the injury.
Fields later pleaded guilty to resisting arrest without violence.
Gilbert was cleared of any wrongdoing by the department's internal affairs unit.
The incident occurred the morning of Oct. 6 at the downtown bus depot on Lemon Avenue, and was captured by a security camera.
After viewing the video in his office last November, City Manager Thomas Barwin said it "was clearly excessive force and will be referred to Internal Affairs immediately."
"This will not be tolerated," Barwin, who had been on the job for about three months, said at the time. "I'm getting tired of it."
Barwin called then-Police Chief Mikel Hollaway and ordered him to immediately suspend the officer. Gilbert was placed on administrative leave several hours later.
"It's important for the department and the community to know that despite whatever emotions were in play at that moment, there were two officers there that could have controlled the situation," Barwin said eight months ago.
On Monday, Barwin said his original comments were a mistake.
"Having now read the IA, it was a mistake. I should have said it appeared to be excessive force," he said. "Commenting on a case is always risky. It was early in my tenure here, and I needed to send an important message to the police department and the community, that even when we have drunk, belligerent people that we have to deal with, we still expect our professionalism to rise to the level."
The only fault Barwin could cite was that the two officers didn't work together to arrest Fields.
"My disappointment was that we had two officers on scene, who didn't effect the arrest as a team," he said. "Officer Gilbert thought he had it handled. We reminded our officers to work together on all incidents."
Not excessive force
Sarasota Police Chief Bernadette DiPino approved the findings of her IA investigators in February.
"It was thoroughly investigated. The facts of this case substantiate that the officers acted within the scope of their authority. There was no evidence of any intent of excessive force," she said. "There was no intent on the part of the officers to cause injury."
DiPino acknowledged the public may have "mixed feelings" about her decision.
"Some people will look at it and feel one way, others another," she said. "The biggest thing — nobody cares more than I do about having a professional law enforcement agency. We will thoroughly investigate every use of force, and take into consideration all the facts, not just little tidbits. If I find an officer acted inappropriately, I will handle it."
According to the internal affairs report, investigators concluded Gilbert "grabbed Field's right arm to secure him and Fields subsequently swings into the ticket booth and hits his head on the corner of the window frame."
When describing the video, investigators wrote, "Fields comes off the bench to a standing position and moves forward into the bus terminal booth at 9:27:17 in the video."
Gilbert told investigators Fields' "momentum just carried him into the ticket booth, um it surprised me more than anything that the ticket booth was there."
Gilbert said Fields "staggered" when he tried to take him to the ground, which caused him momentum to carry him into the wall. Gilbert said he never intended to injure Fields.
Fields had a different story.
He told investigators he believed Gilbert intentionally threw him into the metal wall.
"I thought he was doing it to injure me, knock me out," he said.


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NFA, Hand, Matt Walsh es loco en la cabeza, STORYTIME, and 1,814 other words
Very few teams in the state have been running the option as long, and as well as, Staples of Westport.
Sunday, NFA beat the masters at their own game.
The Wildcats ran their option quite well in their 30-28 Class LL semifinal win at Ken Strong Stadium in West Haven. Their defense also came up with a late turnover when Staples tried an option pitch.
"We came out here and out-hit them and out-played them," NFA senior defensive end Tuzar Skipper said. "Don't you agree?"
The Wildcats (12-0), ranked eighth in The Day of New London Top 10 state coaches' poll, earned themselves a shot at two-time defending state champion Xavier of Middletown.
"This is a great feeling," NFA junior Airec Ricks said, smiling through the tears. "I'm just so happy to be in the state championship. This is a dream come true."
Staples (10-1), the division's top seed, made too many mistakes. It had a botched snap on a punt that resulted in a safety and two turnovers.
The Wildcats didn't make those errors, and their tandem of quarterback Joey Paparelli and tailback Marcus Outlow created problems for the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference champions.
Outlow ran 12 times for a game-high 113 yards.
Paparelli had 23 carries for 102 yards and a score.
"They're two great football players," Wreckers coach Marce Petroccio said. "They did a great job and their coach should be very proud of what they did. That's a good football team."
The state has learned the last five days what eastern Connecticut already knew — that Outlow is a talent. He's showed a whole new group of football fans why major Division I colleges are tracking him.
Paparelli had one of Sunday's biggest runs. His team began the fourth quarter with the ball at their 28-yard line.
On second-and-9, Paparelli began to give the ball to Khaleed Exum-Strong, but pulled it back
Paparelli found a crease and raced for a 63-yard gain.
"We don't block the defensive tackle," Paparelli said. "He slammed in on Khaleed, and there was a just a huge window for me. My line blew it up and I was off.
"I'm kind of mad I got caught. It was a long day."
Exum-Strong scored two plays later on a 2-yard run.
"We felt that Joey was going to be the difference in this game," Davis said. "We were setting up that play in the first half because they were playing the stretch all day. So we talked at halftime that we were going to hit some stuff inside with Joey, and he read it well."
Paparelli also completed 3 of his 7 passes for 87 yards, including a 38-yard touchdown to Ryer Caruso.
Staples drove quickly on its next drive to the Wildcats' 3-yard line.
Quarterback Jack Massie ran towards his team's sidelines on second-and-goal looking to pitch to Joey Zelkowitz.
NFA defensive back Airec Ricks batted the pitch away. Teammate Ryan Stowe recovered the ball at the Wildcats' 25.
"We felt if we forced them to pitch that we're going to control the game," Davis said. "We were feathering. That forces the quarterback to keep expanding."
Staples, ranked second in The Day coaches' poll, averaged a state-best 51 points prior to Sunday's game. It also averaged 502 yards, the best of any team that had reported statistics to MaxPreps.com.
The Wreckers got their yardage against NFA (442 yards).
NFA was the first team to hold the Wreckers to under 49 points, though.
"I knew coming in that our defense could play," Davis said. "A lot of the people on the outside, based on what they've seen down in that part of the state (the southwest) and the points that (Staples) put up on the board, hey, could NFA stop them?"
"Our kids are resilient."
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Hand of Madison quarterback Brendan Bilcheck threw a screen to Caleb Ewald on the first play of Sunday's Class L semifinal.
Ewald took it for a 74-yard touchdown.
Ball game.
The Tigers scored on their first five possessions of the first half as they thumped Masuk of Monroe, 42-23.
Hand (12-0), the No. 1 team in The Day coaches' poll, had 399 yards offense in the first half.
"I give a lot of credit to our offensive line," Hand coach Steve Filippone said. "I thought they really, really stepped it up tonight. That's a very difficult front to block. They're sending six guys every time with a lot of blitzing. It took a tremendous amount of discipline with two days of practice to get ready for that, but I felt they did a terrific job."
The Tigers front five is comprised of left tackle Daniel Padelli, left guard Matt Sagnelli, center James Golicz, right guard Richie Byrd, and right tackle Cameron Gravina.
Bilcheck completed 13 of 21 passes for 259 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 34 yards. Ian O'Toole had 10 carries for 69 yards and three scores.
Conor Dowd had 16 carries for 114 yards and two touchdowns for the Tigers while Ewald had five catches for 182 yards and two scores.
The extra bonus for Hand was that it gave Filippone his 200th win. He's been the head coach since 1989 and won six state titles.
"It's something special," Tigers' quarterback Brendan Bilcheck said. "Not many coaches get the opportunity to do that, and there's no better guy who deserves to get their 200th win than him."
Filippone downplayed the mark.
"I didn't win a game," Filippone said. "I've never won a game, and I defy any coach to tell me they actually won a game for their team. You provide structure. You provide some motivation. You do lots of things, but you don't win games. Your players win games and your assistant coaches win games. That's the honest to God truth. That's not being humble. That's the way it is.
"Somebody has got to have their name on the placard. I get to have my name on it, but that's as far as it goes. I really take no great satisfaction in it. I take satisfaction in that our team has won 26 games in a row."
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Hand linebacker Matt Walsh is TOUGHER THAN YOU.
Walsh's helmet came off on Masuk's first play of the game, and his face was mashed by the facemask of Panthers' quarterback Malik Cummings.
Walsh had to leave the game while his blood was wiped off the turf.
"I tried to catch the blood with my hand, but it was just pouring out, so I decided to take a knee," Walsh told Ray Curran of the Milford-Orange Bulletin.
Hand trainer Terri Ajaski managed to stop the bleeding and bandaged Walsh up so that he could return a few minutes later.
Walsh went to Yale-New Haven after the game to have his mug examined.
"All patched up," Walsh tweeted after midnight.
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Masuk could've done without Sunday's loss, but it was the seventh time in eight years that it reached the Class L semifinals.
The Panthers (10-2) made it to the semifinals one year after graduating a talented senior class, including two-time Gatorade Player of the Year Casey Cochran.
"I couldn't be any prouder of any team I've ever coached," Masuk coach John Murphy said. "When we walked off this field last year (a 35-14 semifinal loss to Hand), I don't think too many people thought we'd be back here. For us to be here and give ourselves a chance, I'm really proud of these guys."
Thomas Milone, who'll play baseball at UConn next season, scored on a 70-yard kickoff return, had six catches for 54 yards and a touchdown, and threw a 33-yard pass.
Junior Malik Cummings completed 18 of 23 passes for 168 yards with a touchdown and interception.
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Class LL: NFA 30, Staples 28. Marc Allard of the Norwich Bulletin, Doug Bonjour of Hearst Inc., and Ken Shabby of TEAM DAY reporting.
Class LL: Xavier 30, Glastonbury 13. Tom Yantz of the Hartford Courant, and Joe Pelletier of the Middletown Press reporting.
Class L: Hand 42, Masuk 23. Mike Anthony of the Hartford Courant, Mike Cardillo of Hearst Inc., and the suave Mike Madera of JRC Amalgamated reporting.
Class L: Windsor 27, New Canaan 21. Matt McDonough of the Hartford Courant, and Dave Ruden of the Stamford Advocate reporting.
Class M: Berlin 21, Weston 7. Andrew Frosceno of Hearst Inc., Carl Josephson of the New Britain Herald, and Matt McDonough of the Hartford Courant reporting.
Class M: Hillhouse 48, Montville 26. Marc Allard of the Norwich Bulletin, Manti Te'o DiMauro of TEAM DAY, and Pooch Diggity Dogg of JRC Amalgamated reporting.
Class S: Ansonia 41, Hyde 13. Mark Jaffee of the Waterbury Republican-American, William S. Paxton of Hearst Inc., and Pooch Diggity Dogg of the New Haven Register reporting.
Class S: North Branford 62, Woodland 27. Kyle Brennan of the Waterbury Republican-American, and Dave Phillips of JRC Amalgamated reporting.
Sean Bowley of Hearst Inc. blogged about Sunday.
Also, Chris Brodeur of Hearst Inc. wrote about New Fairfield senior Joe Pacheco. He carries around a piece of his skull.
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YOUR conference playoff scorecard:
Southern Connecticut Conference: 6-1 (three finalists).
Eastern Connecticut Conference: 3-2 (one finalist).
Naugatuck Valley League: 3-2 (one finalist).
Central Connecticut Conference: 5-5 (two finalists, and one win and one loss was when Glastonbury beat league-foe Southington in the quarterfinals).
Pequot: 3-3 (one finalist).
South-West Conference: 2-3.
Constitution State Conference: 0-3.
Another note about conferences. The Pequot gets ridiculed as much as any league. The majority of its teams are small schools and/or co-ops, which hasn't helped their cause in the playoffs.
It's actually a pretty fun league, what with many of its schools in quiet corners.
Check it — since 2009, Pequot Sassacus and CCC Division III teams have squared off six times. Cromwell, Hyde of New Haven and Valley Regional/Old Lyme have represented the Pequot. Bloomfield, Northwest Catholic of West Hartford and Rocky Hill have carried the CCC D-III banner.
The Pequot Sassacus has a 5-1 edge.
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Ansonia's Arkeel Newsome set a state career-record for most touchdowns (116) in Sunday's 41-13 win over Hyde of New Haven in a Class S semifinal. The record was held by former Ansonia running back Alex Thomas.
Newsome ran 15 times for 207 yards and four touchdowns in the win.
Anthony Scirpo from Woodland of Beacon Falls set a state-record for touchdown catches (25) in his team's 62-27 loss to North Branford in the other Class S semifinal. Former Bristol Central star (and current New England Patriot) Aaron Hernandez had 24 touchdown catches in 2005.
Woodland's Tanner Kingsley threw four touchdowns and ended the season with a state-record 51.
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There have been plenty of predictions that Armageddon was upcoming. And in movie theaters, fresh panic is setting in, thanks to "2012" – a blockbuster premised on the "fact" that on Dec. 21, 2012, all hell would break loose.
Or at least there have been plenty of predictions that doomsday was near. In movie theaters, fresh panic has set in thanks to "2012." Its premise is that all hell will break loose on Dec. 21, 2012.
Everything is local when it comes to the world's end. Massachusetts was a focal point when "Triune Immersionists" in Duxbury wrongly forecast "the day of judgment" at least five times.
Well-known predictions – with religious, scientific or other roots – include:
Mayans' bad news
The Mayan calendar runs out of dates, sparking belief that the world will end at the winter solstice of 2012. Also at this time, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years, adding to the mysticism.
Nostradamus knows
Michel de Nostradame was a 16th-century physician, astronomer and astrologer whose four-line poems in his book "Centuries" were said to predict the end of the world in 1666, 1999, 2012, 2096, 3786 or 3797 – depending on whose interpretation you choose to believe.
A study in the journal Science in 2002 said there is a 1-in-300 chance that a large asteroid, 1950 DA, will destroy Earth in 2880.
Black abyss
Some people, including a few scientists, believed that the Sept. 10, 2008, startup of CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland would create a black hole that would swallow the Earth. The machine was designed to collide two beams of protons moving at close to the speed of light, to help scientists understand the makeup of the universe. They hoped to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle" considered the basis of all matter. The collider, which went offline nine days later due to an electrical problem, has been plagued with troubles since.
Y2K hysteria
Many people fretted that the Y2K computer bug – in which many computers and software programs couldn't differentiate the year 1900 from 2000 – would cause systems worldwide to fail.
Second Coming
Christians await the second coming of Christ, and various groups have predicted its date, based on their own interpretation of the Book of Revelation from the Bible. Charles Wesley, the founder of Methodism, believed all would end in 1794; the Shaker movement had said 1792. Jehovah's Witnesses have picked 1881, 1914, 1918, 1920, 1925, the 1940s and 1975. Preacher William Miller led the greatest movement in the US in the 19th century; the last of his several dates for the end became the "Great Disappointment'' of Oct. 22, 1844. Seventh-day Adventists grew from this movement, but do not make predictions.Locally, The Triune Immersionists left Duxbury without witnessing the end in 1909, after failing to witness it in 1844, 1854, 1867, and 1873. Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had declared 1890 the year. Some modern interpretations of the Bible picked 2007 because it concluded the generation (40 years) after Jews reunified Jerusalem. Some believe that 2033, the 2,000th anniversary of Christ's death and resurrection, is the year.
Newton's prediction
Sir Isaac Newton, an early 18th-century English physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher, cited the Book of Daniel in determining that the world would end in 2060, about 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire.
Coded in the Quran
Dr. Rashad Khalifa, founder of United Submitters International – a group that considers itself to be the true Islam (though some Muslims accuse Khalifa of heresy) – claim that the end of the world was coded in the Quran, and that it will occur in 2280.
It's happened before.
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"Battle of Convoys Wharf"
Evening Standard piece on Convoys Wharf by Kieren Long
Published: 26 October 2011
Does it matter what's underneath the pavement? Under our feet, in the earth, are the traces of the 2,000 years of Londoners, their coins and clothes, their trinkets and tools, the remains of their buildings and roads.
The question of whether this material, this soup of memories, should have any bearing on how our city develops is an open one for those building our city today, and one that has sparked an argument over the massive Convoys Wharf site in Deptford, which I visited last week. If Hong Kong developer Hutchison Whampoa gets its way, this 16-hectare riverside plot (the size of about 20 football pitches) in the borough of Lewisham will soon be home to 9,000 people in 3,500 homes, with a new school, shops and space for "cultural uses".
So far, so good. But this isn't just any slice of the river. Convoys Wharf was formerly the King's Yard, built by Henry VIII in 1513 as London's military dock and known across the world. It was the harbour to royal yachts, where Francis Drake was knighted aboard the Golden Hinde in 1581, and where Elizabeth I's Spanish Armada-defeating fleet was built. It is a place of astonishing, nationally important historical significance.
Greenwich, just a mile down-river, with its colonnaded Old Royal Naval College, has become a world heritage site and will officially become a "Royal" borough next year. But it was Deptford that built the boats that made England powerful enough to conceive of and fund that architectural setpiece in the first place.
The plan submitted by Hutchison Whampoa is a regulation piece of urban design by commercial architect Aedas. It's pretty uninspired, with the usual precision about residential unit numbers but vagueness about the kind of public life that might be found there. But the plan tries hard to link into its surroundings, and the proposed development will be much better than the gated communities of riverside west London. There is a recognisable street pattern, a bus route through it, along with a school and an attempt to make a high street with a mix of uses. Broadly, the plan is based on work in 2005 by Richard Rogers, whose principal insight was to try to continue the line of Deptford's high street towards the riverside.
Perhaps most importantly, it also proposes public access to the riverside here for the first time.
But a group of local people accuse Hutchison Whampoa of recklessly ignoring the historical remains, and are pleading with the developers to reconsider their plan. They say the site should be given back more of its original character, that ancient remains below the ground should be available to public view, and that water should be reintroduced to the site by digging out the former Great Basin of the dockyard.
Chris Mazeika, who lives in the Master Shipwright's house on the eastern side of the site, is part of a network of local bloggers and campaigners asking questions of Hutchison Whampoa's proposal. He believes that there is something important about the history of the site that should be drawn out by revealing the remains or perhaps echoing the original layout of the dockyard.
"To reveal the remains would make it a much more distinctive and layered place," he says. "When you walk down a road that has been established by hundreds of years of getting from A to B, and one that's drawn by a planner – it's a very different experience."
The site today is rather eerie, a huge expanse of concrete with a few Sixties and Eighties warehouses still standing. There are no roads and no sense of how it all once fitted together. The riverside is spectacular, though. The wharf juts out into the river and the view from it takes in a vista from Surrey Quays to the west and Greenwich to the east. This timber platform will be transformed into a public park in Hutchison Whampoa's plans, complete with river bus stop.
The Grade II-listed Olympia Warehouse (built in the 1840s) stands in the middle of the site, slightly askew to the riverside, a magnificent iron structure most recently used by Lewisham council as a storage facility for wheelie bins. It is the only historic building left above ground, and the proposals designate it vaguely as a "covered public square". They aspire to something along the lines of Spitalfields Market. This all feels a bit sketchy at this stage, and the developer's preference is to retain just the beautiful iron frame, perhaps adding to it a new glass envelope.
In anticipation of these remains being covered up by the new development, a huge archaeological dig is under way between the Olympia Warehouse and the river. The foundations and remains of the huge Tudor storehouse and the docks are clearly visible in the trenches. Two slipways, complete with timbers used to brace and support ships as they were constructed, look amazingly complete to my untrained eye. All this will be recorded, then covered over again and the new residential buildings built over the top. The remains will never be seen again, or at least not until Hutchison Whampoa's buildings are themselves demolished, which could be 200 years away at London rates of replacement.
It must be said that the King's Yard has long lost its Tudor character. Since the Second World War, successive idiotic owners chose to demolish the remaining buildings on the site and fill in the basin and slipways. Most jaw-dropping of all is that in stages between the Sixties and as recently as the Eighties, a Tudor storehouse was demolished and its foundations concreted over so that huge distribution sheds and warehouses could be built.
It is heartbreaking that so much has been lost.
None of that is Hutchison Whampoa's fault. The group and its architects see Convoys Wharf as an opportunity to create a residential quarter they believe will be "modern and positive". The architects say that the arrangement of the proposed apartment buildings perpendicular to the river somehow mirrors that of the historic slipways, and a proposed park on the site of the former double dry dock will evoke the history of what's underneath, perhaps by using materials that suggest its former use. That to them is enough. My visit to the site convinced me that while the developers are very aware of what lies beneath, they don't feel it of sufficient significance to prevent or slow London's development. Aedas and Hutchison Whampoas have made a judgment that to preserve any remains for public view, or to reintroduce water into the site (as the Rogers plan proposed) would be uneconomical and (they told me) would be a hindrance rather than a help to make it a better place to live.
As for the campaigners, they are vague about what they are calling for and appeal to notions of memory, meaning and history that are not part of the usual property development vocabulary.
Mazeika, like many of us, finds it difficult to describe exactly what difference it makes to resurrect ancient street patterns, to uncover old docks. He favours gradual, incremental development, but that is never going to happen with such a large site under single ownership.
This seems an unbridgeable intellectual gap in today's London. The nuanced understanding of the place that the locals advocate here in Deptford is mirrored all over the city by local interest groups, amateur historians, and concerned residents near large regeneration projects. But it has no way of gaining traction in a development process involving this much money, and that is a failure of our planning system and of imagination of the politicians who are the guardians of our city.
I respect Hutchison Whampoa and Aedas for trying to make a decent, mixed place that links into the surrounding community. I think (unlike some Deptford residents) that the scale and character of the spaces around the Olympia Warehouse will be fine, certainly better than the meaningless public spaces at equivalent developments of a decade ago (Paddington Basin comes to mind). The quantum of development, and its skyscraper-scale apartment towers, aren't a problem to me, and the new public space by the river almost can't fail to be enjoyable.
But in deploying standard urban design tactics the masterplan does find itself ignoring what makes this place special in the first place. I suspect the history of the site will be signalled in branding and signage more than any real, physical or spatial sense. And while it is a very difficult task to capture all these historical and cultural layers of a city in urban design and architecture, good architects should be able to do it.
When Convoys Wharf has been re-developed, the history of the King's Yard will lie in a shallow grave underneath shiny apartment blocks and cappuccino bars. Professionals will move into the residential towers, which will probably be named after Drake's Golden Hinde. And when their dinner party guests ask them where the docks used to be, they will reply: "I don't know."
The East India Company's Deptford Shipyard
Zurker the Zucker(berg) punch…
Still a lot to be worked out but OK, why not gamble on FB not even being here in 8 years (as reported in the SMH today) and join this other (maybe nicer) pyramid scheme social networking site. I'm happy enough to say my invite is from Stewart Home – so get in early enough and it might not fall over on you – link page here: http://www.zurker.co.uk/i-226925-yvgyvoykwn
Piracy as activism
Piracy as activism
In spite of its long and intense presence in the popular imagery, piracy is a concept that has only scarcely and timidly been linked to forms of political activism. Mostly seen through the lens of criminalisation and policing (including also the transgression of the existing order by the heroic pirates) piracy has rarely been analysed in relation to its influence in shaping the everyday life of contemporary communities. Mostly seen through the lens of criminalisation and policing (including also the transgression of the existing order by the heroic pirates) piracy has rarely been analysed in relation to its influence in shaping the everyday life of contemporary communities. Piracy, in the seas or lands or digital networks, encompasses a wide array of practices that shape, and often transform, these spaces and networks.
Free Gaza
Any surprise that Israeli commandos might 'botch' a raid on the boats of the Free Gaza flotilla should be tempered by the recognition that they planned this provocation, at night, with guns.
In response, a new Dunkirk? Another Malta convoy? Send all boats, Send in the navy, The Trident subs to find a use at last. To have the Gaza blockade broken for good would be the only viable response – and a show of what people organised can do against Military Muscular Zionist State Crazies.
Thinking of Ewa J from Goldsmiths, Edda M from the Border Infection event, and many others on the convoy.
(Pic of Lewisham STW on the way to Embassy with thousands – not the hundreds reported in tamed and insipid press)


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Fan Appreciation
|Courtesy: Jim Davis/Globe Staff
Cam Neely is a man in full. If you don't know the first thing about hockey, but respond "Cam Neely" to the question of your favorite player, then you'll undoubtedly get a nod of approval from hockey fans while instantly improving your hockey street cred. And, of course, if you don't know Cam Neely for his hockey exploits, then you might know him for his performance as SeaBass in Dumb and Dumber. As I said, a man in full.
In hockey, a player's career is frequently characterized by his ability, or lack thereof, to elevate his play in the postseason. It's a reality that works to the advantage of certain types of players; to the disadvantage of other types. It certainly worked to the advantage of Cam Neely, and the disadvantage of another former Bruin star, Joe Thornton.
Cam Neely was a goal scorer. He was strong like a bull and had a nose for the net. Unfortunately, his career was cut short by a degenerative hip condition and a knee injury, which, late in his career, prevented him from even taking the ice for practice, but somehow he still managed to get out on the ice for games and score goals. It was gutty, gritty, and remarkable.
Neely's game was direct. He was able, through elevated individual effort and sheer force of will, to make a direct impact on the fortunes of his team. Taking things to the extreme, the nature of his game didn't force him to rely on the play of teammates to directly impact the game. The puck went directly from the tape of his stick into the back of the net. Obviously, more goals scored improves the team's goal differential. An improved goal differential improves the team's win/loss record. Direct.
On the other hand, this reality worked to the disadvantage of Joe Thornton.
Joe Thornton isn't Cam Neely. He's spectacular in his own right, but always struggled to get the type of love showered on Neely by the Boston fans. In fact, he was traded right out of town due largely to the team's postseason struggles. Thornton is a premier set-up man, rather than a goal scorer. His game is predicated not on brute strength and determination, but rather on vision, spacing, and feel. His game is indirect. Thornton elevating his game is about making his teammates better. As a result, elevating his game won't have the same impact on the Win/Loss record unless his teammates finish off his work. An assist is a step (or two) removed from the actual goal. The puck goes from the tape of Thornton's stick, to the tape of a teammate's stick, and only then into the back of the net. Thornton is one step removed from the goal and, consequently, the admiration of the fans.
Because of the nature of their respective games, Boston fans appreciated Cam Neely much more than Joe Thornton. Not because one type of player is inherently more valuable than the other, but because the value of "direct" is easier for fans to appreciate than the value of "indirect". Direct is visceral. Indirect is nuanced and contextual. "Indirect" requires a bit more background and knowledge to appreciate. All of which brings us to the Cincinnati Reds, circa 2013.
Joey Votto and Brandon Phillips
This season has seen all kinds of complaints about the Reds ricocheting around the interwebs, ranging from Dusty's roster construction, Joey Votto's disciplined approach, Jonathan Broxton's contract, Aroldis Chapman's workload, and Brook Jacoby's hitting instruction. The noise of those complaints obscures the Reds real problem, one that may come back to haunt them in the postseason, but more on that in a minute. First, we need to do away with the complaint over Joey Votto's disciplined approach.
This season, Joey Votto is a bit more "Joe Thornton" than "Cam Neely". Fan appreciation has fallen accordingly. Brandon Phillips is more "Cam Neely" than "Joe Thornton". Fan appreciation has risen accordingly.
RBIs are the baseball equivalent of hockey goals, while walks are the equivalent of hockey assists. The walks help you get the RBIs, but fans appreciate the RBIs far more than the walks. RBI are direct, while walks are indirect, never mind that it's infinitely more difficult to get RBIs if hitters aren't getting on base for you. The two are clearly interrelated.
Accordingly, it's ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS to hear praise being heaped on Brandon Phillips for driving in runs, while in the very same breath scorn heaped on Joey Votto for taking too many walks, because they are essentially flip sides of the same coin. Table-setting and table-clearing. Run creation and run production.
It couldn't be more obvious that the main reason why Brandon Phillips has so many RBIs this year is because Joey Votto (and Shin-Soo Choo) are such disciplined, patient hitters. In 2013, Phillips had 492 runners on base during his plate appearances, which was third most in all of baseball. For the record, Joey Votto had 441 runners on base during his time at bat, 51 fewer than Phillips. Prince Fielder (536) and Jay Bruce (500) were the only two hitters with more runners on base during their plate appearances.
It's mere coincidence that all three of those hitters batted behind either Miguel Cabrera or Joey Votto and Shin-Soo Choo, right? Or, maybe, just maybe we can concede that it's easier to pile up RBI when you have among the most RBI opportunities in all of baseball.
In actuality, Brandon Phillips has been a mediocre hitter this year. The only area where he's excelled is in hitting with runners in scoring position. That said, his situational hitting has been undeniably superb.
2013 Situational Batting Average
None On -- .213
Runners On -- .307
Scoring Position -- .338
Bases Loaded -- .611
Whether that's the result of a conscious decision by Phillips, in response to his move to the clean-up spot, to be a run producer or just a small sample size fluke is debatable. The commonly held belief is that hitters can't elevate their performance in certain situations and that's probably the case. If they could, then why wouldn't they elevate it in all situations? But, maybe Phillips is an exception to the rule.
Regardless of the reason, it can't be argued that Phillips hasn't excelled in driving in runs this year. On some level, he has been the ideal compliment to the high on-base rates of Choo and Votto. In some ways, they are flip sides of the same coin. Together they are more than the sum of their individual parts.
The Real Problem!!
The real problem that has plagued the Reds in 2013, and the one that could well be their undoing against the Pirates in the playoffs, is the utter lack of complimentary offensive production.
On the season, of the hitters who received at least 150 plate appearances, the Reds have only 3 above average hitters. Their names are Votto, Choo, and Bruce. This is a lineup that only has three impact hitters, none of whom hits from the right side. It is a limited and unbalanced offense.
In short, this offense is plagued with inconsistency not because Joey Votto is too disciplined, but because he is 1 of only 3 impact hitters. The problem isn't with the top tier hitters in the lineup, it's that there IS NO second tier.
Weighted Runs Created (wRC) is an attempt to quantify a player's total offensive value and measure it by runs. Weighted Runs Created Plus (wRC+) measures how a player's wRC compares with league average. League average is 100, every point above 100 is a percentage point above league average.
2013 wRC+ (Players with 150+ PAs)
Joey Votto -- 156
Shin-Soo Choo -- 151
Jay Bruce -- 117
Xavier Paul -- 106
Todd Frazier -- 100
Brandon Phillips -- 91
Chris Heisey -- 89
Derrick Robinson -- 81
Zack Cozart -- 79
Devin Mesoraco -- 74
Jack Hannahan -- 71
Ryan Hanigan -- 53
For comparison sake, here is how we stack up against the Pirates:
2013 wRC+ (Players with 150+ PAs)
Andrew McCutchen -- 155
Starling Marte -- 121
Jose Tabata -- 118
Gaby Sanchez -- 117
Neil Walker -- 114
Jordy Mercer -- 114
Pedro Alvarez -- 111
Russell Martin -- 101
Garrett Jones -- 97
Travis Snider -- 70
Clint Barmes -- 52
Obviously, McCutchen and Votto cancel each other out. While they have no one who compares with Choo, they have much greater depth of production. They are a more diversified offense than we are, which makes for less streakiness in production. The postseason is a crap shoot, but in today's one game playoff it'll come down to our star driven offense against their diversified attack.
For more context, the Red Sox have 11 out of 12 qualifying hitters with wRC+ numbers of 109 or higher. The A's have 7 hitters at 114 or higher and 10 of 14 qualifying hitters at 101 or higher. The Cardinals have an astounding 6 hitters at 132 or higher and 8 at 105 or higher.
The Red Sox took a lot of heat for their offseason free agent acquisitions. I didn't agree with what they were doing either, because they were paying top dollar for second tier type players. The more common strategy is to pay top dollar for star players and go cheap on complimentary players. The Red Sox were doing the opposite, paying good money to obtain certain second tier production. A large part of the A's success has been driven by complimentary production instead of star talent. The success of both teams illustrates the importance of complimentary production.
Unfortunately, the Reds problem isn't one that will be naturally covered up in the playoffs. If a team is short on pitching, then the postseason can help hide that flaw. The shorter series means that you need fewer starters, allowing you to minimize the contributions of lesser pitchers. There is no such relief for a team short on impact hitters. That's a flaw that the Reds will have to overcome throughout the postseason.
Final Thoughts
Reds fans are appreciating the wrong player. Phillips has done some nice situational hitting, but Votto is one of the best hitters in all of baseball. Still, the fact that Phillips' contribution is more direct, while Votto's is, in some ways, indirect, means that fans are overvaluing Phillips.
In some ways, Joey Votto and Brandon Phillips have perfectly complimented each other this year, with each filling in the weaknesses of the other. Of course, Joey Votto had a borderline MVP caliber season, while Phillips was a below average hitter. So, Votto had more holes to fill in Phillips' game than Phillips did in Votto's, but Votto could have done a bit better job driving in runs. That much is true.
Still, the real problem on the Reds this year is lack of production from the complimentary players. This is a three hitter offense. That's the problem that should be the focus of the fans. That's the problem that may very well sink us against the Pirates. That's the problem that needs to be addressed this offseason, especially since we are likely to lose Shin-Soo Choo to free agency.
Joey Votto is the farthest thing from being the problem with this team and treating him like he is only obscures the real issue: The team needs someone other than the top tier to step up during the postseason. We may need to hear some broadcaster shout: "Zack Cozart for President!"


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Classic books encourage young readers to explore "Picturing America" theme in 2010 school year
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today that 4,000 public and school libraries will receive a free collection of classic books for the sixth annual We the People Bookshelf. Libraries across the nation each will receive 17 hardcover books for young readers (K-12) related to this year's theme, "Picturing America." The Bookshelf includes Spanish translations to accompany three of the selected titles, as well as bonus materials for readers of all ages. Each library will use its set of classic books to develop educational programming and events that engage young readers in the "Picturing America" theme.
"Since 2003, the We the People Bookshelf has introduced young readers at more than 13,000 school and public libraries to great literature and has helped them explore themes central to America's history," said NEH Acting Chairman Carole M. Watson. "Through the Bookshelf, the Endowment aims to provide additional high-quality educational resources to our nation's libraries. This year readers at 4,000 libraries will be able to gain insights into our nation's story through the 'Picturing America' Bookshelf."
"Picturing America" Bookshelf awards announced today will go to public and school libraries in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Awardees include public libraries in cities, towns, and neighborhoods, as well as libraries at public, private, charter, and tribal schools, home school consortia, and correctional institutions. Educational programs to accompany the Bookshelf will be conducted in libraries between May 1, 2009, and April 30, 2010.
A state-by-state list (including the District of Columbia and U.S. territories) of the public and school libraries selected to receive the We the People Bookshelf on the "Picturing America" theme is available in six Adobe PDF files, located in the box above.
The Bookshelf is awarded through the NEH We the People program, which supports projects that strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. The Bookshelf offers libraries and local communities additional educational resources that may not otherwise be available. Each year the Bookshelf provides an opportunity for readers to examine themes important to America's history such as freedom, equality, and the pursuit of happiness. This year's theme, "Picturing America," explores the premise that a nation's literature, as well as its visual art, can be a window into its history, aspirations, and ideals. NEH will announce the theme of next year's Bookshelf in September 2009.
The We the People Bookshelf on "Picturing America" is a literary complement to NEH's Picturing America (SM) program—a free education resource that provides reproductions of 40 works of great American art to schools and public libraries to help educators teach American history and culture through our nation's art (PicturingAmerica.neh.gov).
The "Picturing America" Bookshelf features the following books:
- Kindergarten to Grade 3: Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley; Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull; Cosechando esperanza: La historia de César Chávez by Kathleen Krull (translated by Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy); The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Sweet Music in Harlem by Debbie Taylor.
- Grades 4 to 6: The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich; American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne; On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck; Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet; The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe by Roland Smith.
- Grades 7 to 8: The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving; La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (translated by Manuel Broncano); Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
- Grades 9 to 12: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis; Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange by Elizabeth Partridge; Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck; Viajes con Charley - en busca de América by John Steinbeck (translated by José Manuel Alvarez Flórez); Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.
- Bonus: Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out by The National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance; 1776: The Illustrated Edition by David McCullough.
In addition, each library receiving the "Picturing America" Bookshelf will receive supplementary programming materials, including bookplates, bookmarks, and posters.
The Bookshelf titles are selected by NEH in consultation with members of the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the ALA. The NEH We the People Bookshelf and programming materials are distributed through the ALA, which is working in partnership with NEH. For information about the ALA, please visit www.ala.org.


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On January 26, 1861, the New York Times published a short article which stated simply, "PROVIDENCE, Friday, Jan. 25. The House of Representatives have concurred with the Senate in repealing the Personal Liberty bill. The vote stood 49 to 18. Five members were absent."
Rhode Island, like many northern states, had passed a personal liberty law to frustrate efforts by slave owners seeking to reclaim slaves who had escaped into that state. The legislature passed its original personal liberty law in 1848, which forbade Rhode Island's legal machinery from getting involved in fugitive slave cases.
The 1848 law aimed at interfering with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. Its effectiveness was hampered by the tougher Fugitive Slave Act of 185o, which among other provisions significantly lessened the need for the cooperation of state governments to recover fugitive slaves. In 1854, the Rhode Island legislature passed a new personal liberty law, primarily written to discourage slave catchers from operating in the state.
This law stayed on the books until late January 1861 when, hoping to end secession in the South, Rhode Island's legislature repealed it. Its action proved futile, much like one spouse desperately trying to appease the other, even as the second spouse is moving their things out of the marital abode. Yet Rhode Island also demonstrates how far some white Northerners were willing to go, on the eve of the Civil War, to protect slavery in order to keep the South in the Union and how little sentiment in favor of emancipation existed in the North at that eleventh hour. We will see more examples of this sentiment next month.
To read the key text of Rhode Island's 1848 and 1854 Personal Liberty Laws, see: John Codman Hurd, The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, Vol. 2 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1862), 47-48. This book can be accessed via Google Books.


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Elevation Burger Opening in NYC Next Month
In 2009 Virginia-based organic burger chain Elevation Burger announced plans to open in Lower Manhattan by the end of the year, then changed the plan to open near Union Square by May 2010. And then...that didn't happen.
But franchisees are finally opening Elevation Burger for real next month, aiming for the first weekend of December, at 103 West 14th Street (between 6th and 7th avenues). Elevation Burger uses freshly ground 100 percent USDA-certified organic, grass-fed, free-range beef, and serves fresh-cut fries cooked in 100 percent olive oil. They also use environmentally friendly, renewable, non-polluting materials in the construction of their restaurants.
We haven't reviewed Elevation Burger on AHT before, but reactions from AHT-ers are mixed. What do you think of Elevation Burger?
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Who was/is Junior Wels ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
Junior Wells
Strutting across the stage, cocksure like the blues' answer to James Brown, Junior Wells owned one of the most dynamic voices in Chicago blues. He was as confident belting brassy soul as he was doing lowdown blues, his wide-toned amplified harmonica excursions always compelling. Before joining forces with Buddy Guy, Junior teamed up with light-fingered guitar master Earl Hooker at Mel London's Chief and Profile Records. It was a match made in blues heaven
Amos Wells Blakemore was born December 9, 1934 in West Memphis, Arkansas. He found a kindred spirit while growing up on his family's farm. "His name was Junior Parker," said the late Wells. "We was raised up together, and he was playing the harmonica. I said to myself, if he could do it, I could too." But the bright lights up north beckoned. "I came to Chicago in 1941," he said. "My mother, she was already in Chicago.
"When I got to Chicago, I met all the older musicians--blues singers, I should say--and they took up so much time with me. Like Muddy Waters, Big Maceo, Tampa Red, Johnny Jones, Sunnyland Slim, Big Bill Broonzy, the original Sonny Boy (John Lee Williamson), and the late Rice Miller. But the late Rice Miller was the thing that set my soul on fire with the harmonica." The fun-loving teen hooked up with guitar-wielding brothers Louis and David Myers in 1950; along with drummer Fred Below, they formed a band called the Aces.
"Me and the Aces, we go way back as kids," Wells said. "I was living at 22nd and Prairie, and they came over to some friends of theirs across the street at a house party. The people that had the house party came over and asked me to come over," he said. "So I went over, and they asked me, do I want to sit in and jam with 'em? So we started to jamming, and it came out pretty good. Then after that, we decided maybe we would try to do some things together. We started doing house parties and stuff like that. The first little gig at a club we had, we went in there and did a thing there for three nights. We was making like $12. That's for the whole group."
Wells briefly joined Muddy Waters' combo in 1952, replacing Little Walter, before making his solo recording debut the next year with a romping Cut That Out for Leonard Allen's States label (he encored with his first version of Hoodoo Man). After four States singles in all and then a lengthy hiatus, Junior joined London's fledgling label setup in 1957, waxing Two-Headed Woman and I Could Cry for Chief. A '59 date for Profile resulted in the national hit Little By Little (I'm Losing You).
"Mel London and Willie Dixon was the ones that was doing the singing on it. They're backing me up. I thought it was a tremendous thing, because I didn't think it was hittin' on too much when we first started off to doin' it," said Junior. "But after I listened to it when they played it back to me, it was great."
A talented composer, savvy producer, and commercially astute label boss, the Mississippi-born London wrote Wells' sassy signature song Messin' With The Kid, cut October 17, 1960 at Chicago's Universal Recording. Its killer instrumental hook, inserted at the end of most choruses, was played by impeccable lead guitarist Earl Hooker. He was joined in the band by saxists Jarrett Gibson and Donald Hankins, pianist Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker, bassist Jack Myers, and drummer Fred Below (Wells left his harp in his pocket). Hooker did a sublime instrumental version, Rockin' With The Kid, the following year for London's Age imprint.
Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois
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