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As part of a four-part series Perfect Game will highlight the top 10 storylines from the 2013 MLB Draft (Patrick Ebert), from Perfect Game's Showcase and Tournament events as well as those from both College (Kendall Rogers) and High School (Todd Gold) baseball.
The 39 Perfect Game showcase 2013 season kicked off in Fort Myers, Fla., with the 16th annual PG World Showcase last January, and will conclude with the PG National Underclass Showcase-Main Event. Other 2013 PG showcases were staged in such far-flung locales as McKinney, Texas, Kannapolis, N.C., San Diego, Calif., San Juan, P.R., and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The 41-event PG tournament schedule also kicked off last January but on the other side of the country in Glendale, Ariz., with the 14u, 16u and 18u Perfect Game MLK Championships. After dozens of stops in places like Fort Myers, Marietta, Ga., Tomball, Texas, and, yes, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it concluded with the 15th annual PG WWBA World Championship during a five-day run of glorious late October weather in Jupiter, Fla.
What follows is a look at some of the more newsworthy storylines to come out of 2013 PG tournament and showcase schedules:
West tops East at PG All-American Classic; Nick Gordon receives Jackie Robinson Award
The 11th annual Perfect Game All-American Classic presented by Rawlings was played on a calm and cool Southern California evening for the fifth straight year at the San Diego Padres' Petco Park. The West team out-ran the East Team, 8-6, to take a 6-4-1 lead in the premier event's all-time series.
In a nip-and-tuck affair that saw the West leading 5-4 after five innings and 6-5 after eight, the Westerners finally put the game away with a pair of runs in the top of ninth inning. West catcher Jakson Reetz from Hickman, Neb., was named the game's Most Valuable Player after going 2-for-4 with a double, two RBI and a runs scored.
"I'm really honored to be one of the guys to get this (award), playing with the 50 best guys in the nation," Reetz said after accepting his MVP trophy from Classic Honorary Chairman Trevor Hoffman. "This has been a great experience for me and I just have to keep working hard and keep going with my career. … I just had fun playing baseball with these guys and it was an awesome experience for me."
Eighteen of the 19 pitchers that took the mound threw 91 or harder, with nine of those pitchers (Tyler Kolek, Dylan Cease, Touki Toussaint, Grant Holmes, Kodi Medeiros, Brandon Murray, Luis Ortiz, Sean Reid-Foley and Zack Shannon) touching at least 95 mph. Kolek's 99 mph fastball set an event record, previously set at 98 by Mychal Givens in 2008.
"It's a privilege and an honor just to be here," said East team coach Chan Brown, the head coach at Parkview High School in Lilburn, Ga. "Being around the talent that we're getting chance to see; just watching them take BP is a 'Wow!' factor just to begin with. You can't ask for anything better than coming here and seeing the talent and the facilities, and the way Perfect Game runs things, it's the way to go."
Shortstop/right-handed pitcher Nick Gordon from Windermere, Fla., received the coveted Jackie Robinson Award, which recognizes the Perfect Game Player of the Year. Gordon was stellar at 22 PG events between 2010 and 2013 and rose all the way to the top of the national class of 2014 prospect rankings.
"This is a blessing and I love it," Gordon told PG after accepting the award at the PG All-American Classic Awards Banquet the night before the game. "The feeling that I had when they called my name nothing can explain it except that it was pure joy. Thank you Perfect Game for this award and thank you for inviting me to this event; I love it."
The other finalists for the Jackie Robinson Award were Alex Jackson (San Diego), Jacob Gatewood (Clovis, Calif.), Grant Holmes (Conway, S.C.), Jack Flaherty (Studio City, Calif.), Dylan Cease (Milton, Ga.), Tyler Kolek (Shepherd, Tex.) and Michael Gettys (Gainesville, Ga.).
This year's other award winners were:
Kolek, Baseball America Pitching Prospect of the Year; Gatewood, EvoShield SWAG Award; Alex Jackson, Baseball Prospectus Prospect of the Year; Derek Hill, Rawlings Defensive Player of the Year; and Devin Smeltzer, Nick Adenhart Award.
"It's been amazing," Gordon said. "It's been very competitive and a lot of hard work; everyday you've got to go out there and you've got to give your best and you can't go out there expecting to take a day off. Going out there and playing against these guys, it's tough every game you go out so you just have to go out and give your all."
Pitchers dominate at PG National Showcase; take over 2014 top-15
It had been known for at least two years that the high school grad class of 2014 was top-heavy with top-notch arms and dozens of those arms were put on display inside the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis in mid-June at the 2013 Perfect Game National Showcase.
Many of those arms were known commodities before they stepped out onto Mall of America Field. But at least three others used the PG National as their national coming-out parties and vaulted into the top-eight in the PG national prospect rankings.
Six-foot-five, 230-pound Texas right-hander Tyler Kolek smoked a 97 mph fastball while sitting 92-96 while also showing a "hard biting" slider that topped out at 81 mph. Kolek, who had pitched in only one other Perfect Game event almost a year before the PG National, was named the event's top pitching prospect. His brother Stephen Kolek had been named the top pitching prospect at the PG Junior National Showcase only a few days earlier.
Tyler Kolek is ranked No. 4 nationally behind primary position players Michael Gettys, Nick Gordon and Alex Jackson. Gettys and Gordon are also accomplished right-handed pitchers, however, and both have delivered 94 mph fastballs at PG events.
Hawaii native Kodi Medeiros, a 6-foot, 180-pound left-hander from Hilo, provided the most discussion among scouts. Perfect Game scouts got their first look at the talented Medeiros when he walked out to the mound as the first pitcher at the showcase and promptly delivered a 94 mph fastball while also showing an outstanding slider.
Performing in front of hundreds of scouts, Medeiros vaulted into the national consciousness. The Pepperdine University recruit is now ranked No. 5 nationally and is regarded as the top Hawaiian draft prospect since the St. Louis Cardinals took 2007 PG National Showcase alumnus Kolten Wong in the first round of the 2011 MLB amateur draft out of the University of Hawaii.
"It's been life-changing, really," Medeiros said of the PG National Showcase experience while still in Minneapolis. "I didn't really expect the kind of things that are happening to me right now. Just from me pitching and everything, just from that it's really kind of changing my life."
California right-hander Luis Ortiz was another kid that had attended only one other PG event before arriving in Minneapolis and that was an underclass tournament three years previously in 2010. He, too, flashed a fastball that sat 92-95 mph but it was his 84 mph slider that really had scouts salivating. He has leaped to No. 8 in the national prospect rankings.
Nine of the top 15-ranked prospects in the class of 2014 are primary pitchers and all of them pitched at the PG National Showcase.
When asked about the time he spent at the PG National, Ortiz said: "It was a great experience going out there and competing against the best players in the U.S.; it can't get any better. You're playing the top level and those are the guys you're going to see later down the road."
Gettys, Gordon, Jackson vault to top of 2014 rankings after PG National Showcase
Top of the line performances at the Perfect Game National Showcase in Minneapolis in mid-June secured the top-three spots in the 2014 national prospect rankings for two-way standouts Michael Gettys from Gainesville, Ga., and Nick Gordon from Windermere, Fla., and for catcher Alex Jackson from Escondido, Calif.
Gettys, an outfielder and right-handed pitcher, rose to No. 1 after one of the most memorable performances in the PG National's 13-year history, The Georgia recruit threw an event-record 100 mph from the outfield, delivered a 94 mph fastball, ran a 6.43-second 60-yard dash and showed "big over-the-fence power potential" at the plate.
"I had heard this was the biggest showcase with a lot of scouts here, along with the best players in the country," Gettys told PG. "It's great to get out here and show what you can do; it's just a blessing to be out here. … I came in here and I set my goals very high – be the fastest runner, throw the hardest from the outfield (and) be the best hitter."
Gordon, a shortstop and right-hander who spent some time in the No. 1 spot over the course of the year, threw 94 mph across the infield, produced a 92 mph fastball, ran the 60 in 6.68 and showed the ability to spray line drives all over the field. He is the son of former big-league pitcher Tom "Flash" Gordon and a Florida State recruit.
Jackson sits at No. 3 in the rankings and showed off his athleticism at the PG National by throwing 98 from the outfield and 91 from behind home plate with a 1.75 Pop time, while also running a 6.83 60 – very impressive for a 6-foot-2, 210-pounder. Jackson has committed to Oregon.
All three players were selected to play in the 11th annual Perfect Game All-American Classic presented by Rawlings.
EvoShield Canes' strong pitching leads to PG WWBA World, 17u PG World Series titles
Armed with a pitching staff anchored by Perfect Game All-American Grant Holmes and 19 roster spots occupied by the same top NCAA Division I prospects, the Virginia-based EvoShield Canes claimed prestigious Perfect Game national championships at the PG WWBA World Championship and the 17u Perfect Game World Series.
Additionally, the underclass EvoShield Canes 16u beat the EvoShield Canes North 16u in the championship game to win the PG WWBA 16u National Championships, giving the organization four top-two finishes at three PG national championship events in 2013.
Winning the exclusive 85-team PG WWBA World Championship title in Jupiter, Fla., the final week of October was the Canes' crowning achievement. They finished the tournament with a 7-0-1 record after beating the Florida Burn, 4-3, in the championship game. The average score of their eight games, including a 1-1 tie, was 4-1.
The storyline was much the same at the elite 16-team 17u PG World Series played in Goodyear, Ariz., in late July. The Canes started out pool-play with a 2-0-3 record before rattling off four wins over the course of 24 hours, including a 2-0 win over the South Florida Elite Squad-Louisville Slugger in the championship game. The pitching stat lines at both tournaments were telling.
Canes general manager-owner and head coach Jeff Petty used 13 pitchers to work 58 innings at the 17u PG World Series, and they combined to give up 10 earned runs (1.21 ERA) on 32 hits with 76 strikeouts and 29 walks. At the PG WWBA World Championship, 11 pitchers combined to throw 52 sparkling innings, giving up six earned runs (0.81 ERA) on 35 hits with 54 strikeouts and 25 walks.
Lanky left-hander Ryan Avidano, a 6-foot-7, 215-pound high school senior from Fayetteville, Ga., and a Georgia commit, earned MV Pitcher honors at the PG WWBA World Championship. Avidano was the winning pitcher in the championship game against the Burn, and pitched six innings overall, allowing one earned run (1.17 ERA) with 12 strikeouts and no walks.
"We have a great (defense) behind us and they really pick us up when we're down," Avidano said. "It's a team effort, really. Coming down here and playing for such a big team like the EvoShield Canes, you expect to go far but sometimes the championship still feels like a dream."
Holmes, a 6-foot-2, 190-pound right-hander from Conway, S.C., who is ranked No. 6 overall in the class of 2014 PG national rankings, was named the Most Valuable Pitcher at the 17u PGWS. He won a pair of decisions while working eight innings, and allowed one earned run (0.88 ERA) on two hits with 16 strikeouts and three walks.
"It was a lot of good baseball and a lot of hot weather, and I felt better than I ever did before," Holmes said of the PGWS experience. "This is my first year playing with (the Canes) and it really paid off."
2014 right-handers Blake Bivens and Brett Daniels joined Holmes and Avidano as the Canes to earn all-tournament pitching recognition at both tournaments. Third baseman Charlie Cody, a 2014 Virginia recruit from Chesapeake, Va., was named the 17u PG World Series Most Valuable Player. The Canes' roster also included 2013 PG All-American Justin Bellinger.
"These kids play together every weekend (during the summer) so they're like brothers," Petty said after the PG WWBA World Championship. "They travel all over the East Coast together; they probably played 100-plus games together this year. It's a grind on the parents traveling every weekend, but it's a really close-knit, family type group."
The EvoShield Canes 16u and EvoShield Canes North 16u finished a combined 23-1 after meeting in the championship game at the PG WWBA 16u National Championship in Marietta, Ga., in July. They combined to place 15 prospects on the all-tournament team, including MV Player Danny Blair and co-MV Pitcher and left-hander Logan Allen from the Canes 16u.
Allen, ranked 108th nationally, also earned all-tournament honors at the 17u PG World Series. He shared the MV Pitcher award at the PG WWBA 16u National with Canes North 16u left-hander Connor Eason, the No. 94-ranked prospect in the 2015 class.
Orlando Scorpions win three PG national championships, four titles overall
The Florida-based Orlando Scorpions organization made 2013 "The Year of the Scorpion" by collecting Perfect Game national championship rings at the PG WWBA 17u National Championship, the PG WWBA Underclass World Championship and the 16u Perfect Game World Series. It picked up a fourth championship at the PG WWBA 18u Labor Day Classic.
In addition to the four titles, the organization also snagged runner-up trophies at the PG WWBA Underclass World Championship and the PG WWBA 18u East Memorial Day Classic, and was third at the prestigious PG WWBA World Championship.
The Scorpions' organization's overwhelming desire to achieve greatness was never more evident than at the PG WWBA 17u National Championship. Unrelenting rain forced PG officials into making the premier event a 280-team single-game elimination tournament and the Scorpions Prime responded with nine straight victories to claim the championship. Three of those wins came by one run, including a 3-2 victory over FTB Chandler in the title game.
"We've won several Perfect Game events but we've never won this event, and we talked about that going into it – how we wanted to get a banner so that when every walks in (to their headquarters) they see that banner – and we did it," Scorpions owner and head coach Matt Gerber said. "They're a great group; they compete and have fun."
Another defining moment for the organization came at the PG WWBA Underclass World when the Orlando Scorpions '15 Prime met the Scorpions '16 Purple in the national championship event's title game. The '15 Prime – basically the same team that won the 16u PG World Series – came out on top, 14-2, after rolling through the stout field with an 8-0 record.
"When I walked (into jetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Fla.), I felt like a proud dad," Gerber said. "This (2015) group is obviously very talented. They won the (PG) 16u World Series and we came into this with one thing in mind, and that was to win."
Catcher Nick Fortes from Deland, Fla., a Mississippi recruit ranked 46th nationally, enjoyed a terrific summer and fall with the Scorpions '15 Prime and was named the Most Valuable Player at both the 16u PG World Series and the PG WWBA Underclass World Championship. He was also all-tournament at the PG WWBA 17u National, the PG WWBA Florida Qualifier and the PG WWBA East Memorial Day Classic.
2015 right-hander Logan Crouse from Valrico, Fla., was named the MV Pitcher at the 16u PG World Series.
Shortstop Brendan Rodgers from Longwood, Fla., a Florida State commit ranked the No. 2 overall prospect in the class of 2015, was stellar all summer and fall and was named to all-tournament teams at four events, including the PG WWBA 17u National and the PG WWBA World Championship.
"I'm just basically looking forward to getting better; I want to show off my talent and the things I've been working real hard for," Rodgers said at the PG WWBA Florida Qualifier in early October. "I want to represent the Scorpions (well) by showing everyone that we're trying to be the best team we can be."
Other top performers included 2014 outfielder Adam Haseley, all-tournament at both the PG WWBA World and PG WWBA 17u National; 2014 middle-infielder Logan Warmoth, also all-tournament at both the PG WWBA World and PG WWBA 17u National; and 2014 left-hander Foster Griffin, the Most Valuable Pitcher at the PG WWBA 17u National and a PG All-American.
2016 southpaw Drew Parrish was named the MV Pitcher at the PG WWBA Underclass World while pitching for the Scorpions '16 Purple and was named to three other all-tournament teams throughout the summer.
Banditos dominate younger age groups; Dodgers, Pats strong there, too
The Texas-based Houston Banditos behind organization founder, owner and head coach Ray DeLeon, ruled the roost at PG's younger age-group tournaments, only to be pushed time and again by Tennessee-based Dulin Dodgers and Texas-based Dallas Patriots teams.
Young Banditos squads won championships at the 14u Perfect Game World Series July 30-Aug. 3, in Fort Myers, Fla., July 30-Aug. 3, and at the 13u PG BCS Finals June 20-26, also in Fort Myers. They were second at the 14u PG BCS Finals July 4-10 (Fort Myers), and third at both the 15u PG World Series July 30-Aug. 3 (Fort Myers) and the PG WWBA 15u National Championship June 21-28 in Marietta, Ga.
"This is our future; this is one of the best teams in our organization," DeLeon said after the Houston Banditos beat the Georgia Jackets in the championship game at the 14u PG World Series. "These guys are the guys and they've got to learn to be in the grease at an early age. Perfect Game enables us to come out here and who that we're the best in the country; we can honestly say that we are the best team in the country today."
2016 outfielder Tyler Hicks from Spring, Texas, was named the 14u PGWS Most Valuable Player while 2016 right-hander Landon Miner from Tomball, Texas, earned MV Pitcher honors. They were two nine Banditos named to the event's all-tournament team.
Miner, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound sophomore at Bryan High School ranked No. 92 nationally in the class of 2016, was also named the Most Valuable Pitcher at the 14u PG BCS Finals. In five starts at those two PG national tournaments, Miner combined to pitch 24 2/3 innings and gave up one earned run (0.28 ERA) on 15 hits with 34 strikeouts and just two walks.
The Houston Banditos Black shared the 13u PG BCS Finals championship with Chain Stealth after rain and lightning forced the cancellation of the tournament during the playoffs' semifinal round. The Banditos and Stealth were named co-champs because they were leading their semifinal games comfortably late and because they were the playoffs' top-two seeds.
Staying in the younger age groups, the Dulin Dodgers won the title at the PG WWBA 15u National Championship June 21-28 in Marietta, Ga., and got a third place finish from Dodgers team at the PG WWBA 14u National Championship June 29-July 4, also in Marietta.
Riley Self, a 6-foot-4, 215-pound 2016 right-hander out of Grenada, Miss., earned Most Valuable Pitcher honors at the PG WWBA 15u National. He was one of seven Dodgers named to the event's all-tournament team.
The Dallas Patriots won the 15u Perfect Game World Series national championship behind the play of tournament MV Player Mike Neustifter (2016, Carrollton, Texas) and MV Pitcher Alex Scherff (2017, Colleyville, Texas). A total of eight Patriots were named to the all-tournament team.
"Our guys, at the end of the day, they just played as a team," Patriots founder and head coach Logan Stout said. "We don't pick guys up, we just bring our group and it's a group that has been part of our program all year. I'm just proud of how they executed; they just played together as a group of people all trying to accomplish the same goal."
In the older age groups, the Banditos won the PG WWBA South Qualifier; the Dodgers won the PG WWBA 18u National Championship and finished third at the PG WWBA 17u National Championship; and the Patriots were runners-up at the PG WWBA South Qualifier and ran third at the 16u PG World Series.
Perfect Game/EvoShield National Championships continue to grow out West
What has become an annual gathering in the west Phoenix suburbs for most of the top upper class and underclass teams from the western Plains states to the Pacific Coast on consecutive weekends in September, continued to grow in size and stature in 2013.
The Perfect Game/EvoShield Upper class National Championship and the PG/EvoShield Underclass National Championship have emerged in the past three years as the premier PG tournaments for West Coast teams that don't want to travel to Florida and Georgia for other PG national championship events.
Played on first-rate, major league spring training fields in Goodyear and Glendale, these events have become "must do" for many elite level teams in just three years time.
This year's PG/EvoShield Upper field consisted of a record 76 teams from 12 states and Canada, with 44 of those teams from California. Garciaparra Baseball Group (GBG) Marucci Navy, based in Los Angeles, slipped by the two-time finalist So Cal Bombers 2014 Black in the championship game to complete the tournament with a 7-0 mark.
GBG 2014 left-hander Kyle Smith from Torrance, Calif., was named the tournament's Most Valuable Pitcher while 2016 infielder/right-hander Spencer Steer from Long Beach, Calif., earned Most Valuable Player honors. Twelve GBG prospects were named to the all-tournament team, with Steer being named as both a hitter and pitcher.
"I'm really, really proud about this (championship) because every single player that played in this one was a player that was from our program," GBG founder and head coach Mike Garciaparra said. "We didn't borrow (players) from any other team … and my father (Ramon) and I – and we as a staff – are extremely excited that every single one of these players GBG players from the start of the summer until now."
Sixty-four teams – up from 48 in 2012 – competed for the PG/EvoShield Under title, and perhaps one of the finest underclass teams ever assembled for a PG tournament proved to be too much for the rest of the field, including the So Cal National Travel Team, which it edged 4-3 in the championship game at Goodyear Ballpark.
The SACSN National Team, a team constructed specifically for this tournament by program founder and head coach Frank Torre Jr. and loosely based in Palm Beach County, Co., started the tournament with a roster that included seven 2015 prospects ranked in the top-58 nationally. Outfielder Dazmon Cameron, the class of 2015's No. 1-ranked prospect, was among them.
SACSN left-hander Max Wotell from Marvin, N.C., ranked No. 58 in the 2015 grad class, was named the tournament's MV Pitcher. So Cal NTT catcher Jack McPherson from Mountain Brook, Ala., was named the Most Valuable Player.
Top 2015s, '16s make gains at PG Jr. National Showcase; PG Underclass All-American Games
While No. 1-ranked 2015 prospect Dazmon Cameron decided to not attend any PG showcase events in 2013 – he was on rosters at 11 PG tournaments held between early June and late October, helping the East Cobb Astros to the 17u PG BCS Finals title – several other top 2015s and 2016s climbed the rankings due to their participation in the premier 2013 PG Junior National Showcase and PG Underclass All-American Games Showcase.
Florida shortstop Brendan Rodgers and Georgia outfielder/shortstop Jahmai Jones were both terrific at the Junior National at the Metrodome in Minneapolis in mid-June, and climbed to No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, in the class of 2015 PG national rankings. Jones made the biggest splash as the Junior National provided him with his first big-time exposure in front of the scouting community, and he didn't disappoint.
"I'm just glad that I was fortunate enough to be invited to go to this showcase; it's just been a blessing to be here," Jones told PG in June. "I just thank my parents and my coaches and everybody that's been around me for helping me get here right now."
2015 Colorado shortstop Nicholas Shumpert attended four PG showcases between early June and early December – the Rocky Mountain Showcase, the Junior National Showcase, the Underclass All-American Games Showcase and the National Underclass Showcase-Session 1 – and was named to the Top Prospect List at all four. The University of Kentucky commit rose to No. 8 in the national rankings.
Texas catcher and Oklahoma recruit Michael Hickman climbed to No. 12 in the class of 2015 national rankings after showing exceptional power hitting potential at the PG Junior National.
Shumpert wasn't the only top 2015 prospect make some hay during the PG Underclass All-American Games at the University of San Diego in mid-August. Pennsylvania shortstop John Aiello, a Wake Forest commit, made the long trip to the West Coast and was named the event's Top Prospect; he jumped to No. 5 in the national rankings.
Las Vegas right-hander Nolan Kingman was rated as the top pitcher at the Underclass All-American Games and moved up to No. 11 in the 2015 rankings.
No. 3-ranked Georgia outfielder Seth Beer and No. 15-ranked Utah right-hander Dakota Donovan were the top 2016s to come out of the Junior National Showcase. No. 5-ranked California outfielder Blake Rutherford was among the top 2016 prospect at the Underclass All-American Games.
Perfect Game launches PG Super25 tournament series
On June 3, Perfect Game announced the creation of the PG Super25, a nationwide series of qualifying, regional and super regional tournaments that will culminate in the crowning of a true national champion in nine age groups, 9-and-under through 17-and-under.
By the first of November, the first three of what will eventually be 225 teams had already earned berths in their respective PG Super25 National Championship tournaments held at five sites in late July and early August, 2014.
The Perfect Game Super25 tournament series is distinctive in that it emphasizes the concept of "TEAM" in that the same roster must be adhered through the entire series process, from qualifier tournaments all the way to the nine 25-team national championship events.
"The Perfect Game Super25 mission is simply to keep baseball a 'Team Sport' for decades to come," Perfect Game founder and president Jerry Ford said. "By keeping teams together from the qualifying tournaments through the regional tournaments and onto the National Championships, the Perfect Game Super25 emphasizes team commitment, integrity, chemistry and the reward of winning as a team."
The year 2013 will always be remembered as the year the PG Super25 tournament series was launched. Look for the PG Super25 to firmly establish itself in 2014 and beyond.
17th annual PG World Showcase sets 2013 showcase calendar in motion
Keeping with a tradition that began at Terry Park in 1997, the Perfect Game World Showcase got the PG showcase ball rolling for the 17th straight year Jan. 5-6, 2013, right back at venerable old Terry Park near historic downtown Fort Myers, Fla.
Nearly 700 alumni of this event – designed as a wintertime holiday season getaway for high school seniors where they can once again perform in front of the MLB scouting community – have been drafted during its long run, including 27 2013 attendees who went on to be selected in MLB First-Year Player Draft six months later.
Five of those top 2013 prospects were selected in the first 10 rounds of the draft, and all five of them signed: catcher Jon Denney, third round, Red Sox; shortstop Jan Alexis Hernandez, third round, Phillies; right-hander Cory Thompson, fifth round, Reds; shortstop Malik Collymore, 10th round, Cardinals; and third baseman Ian Hagenmiller, 10th round, Braves.
A pair of 2013 alumni from the Dominican Republic – Jose Almonte and Jacob Constante – signed amateur free agent contracts after the event. Almonte, an outfielder, agreed to a $1.8 million signing bonus from the Rangers and Constante, a left-handed pitcher, received $730,000 from the Reds.
More than 100 2013 PG World Showcase alumni committed to colleges, including many of the players that were drafted.
The PG World Showcase is not restricted to only high school seniors and top Latin American prospects. Counted among the top 2014 prospects in attendance last January were No. 2-ranked Nick Gordon and No. 31-ranked Milton Ramos, a pair of standout middle-infielders who played alongside each other during the summer and fall for FTB Chandler.
Florida's Venice Senior High School wins inaugural PG High School Showdown
Perfect Game put on its first PG High School Showdown in Fort Myers, Fla., in early April and Venice (Fla.) Senior High School proved why it had climbed into the top three in PG's National High School Rankings.
The PG High School Showdown debuted as an eight-team event, with four of the top programs from Florida squaring off in head-to-head competition with four counterparts from Georgia. The four Florida entries were Venice, Montverde Academy, Mater Academy and Sarasota. Parkview, Blessed Trinity, Cartersville and Savannah Christian represented Georgia.
Each team played a single pool game against the teams from the other state and Venice was the only team to sail through with a 4-0 record. Sarasota and Mater Academy were both 3-1 against their Georgia foes and Florida wound up dominating the tournament with an overall record of 11-5.
Venice Senior, which finished the season ranked No. 2 in PG's National High School Rankings, not only went unbeaten at the Showdown but also un-scored upon. The Indians outscored their four opponents by a combined 19-0, including a 9-0 win over Blessed Trinity in what turned out to be the championship game.
Eight Venice pitchers combined to allow no runs on 14 hits in 28 innings, with 25 strikeouts and 10 walks. Just as impressively, the Venice defense committed only two errors in 112 chances in four games, and its base-runners stole 11 bases.
Five Venice Senior players were named to the all-tournament team, including 2013 standouts Nick Longhi, Colton Lightner and Tyson Albert. Highly ranked 2014 prospects Dalton Guthrie and Michael Rivera were also named.
Guthrie and Rivera, both Florida signees, were among at least eight Venice Senior High players that helped the Mark Guthrie-coached Florida Burn teams win four Perfect Game tournament championships in the past two years, including the 18u PG WWBA East Memorial Day Classic this year.
Current Venice seniors Guthrie, Rivera, Brandon Elmy, Ryan Miller and Kade Hunkapiller were on the Florida Burn roster that finished as runner-up to the EvoShield Canes at the PG WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Fla., in late October.
Rivera, a 5-foot-10, 180-pound catcher, is among the most decorated PG performers over the past two years. He was named to the all-tournament team in nine of the last 14 events in which he's played, including the PG WWBA East Memorial Day Classic, PG High School Showdown, 17u PG BCS Finals, PG WWBA Florida Qualifier and PG WWBA World Championship in 2013.


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It's been a week since Microsoft took its two fledgling Kin smartphones for a ride and left them sleepin' wid da fishes. The fallout is still coming.
(OK, "smartphones" is too strong. Average-intelligence-with excellent-citizenship-grades phones is more like it. Read JR Raphael's mock Kin obituary for the ugly details.)
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Depending on whether you're a glass half-full or glass half-empty type, you can see the Kin killings as a positive sign (Microsoft is finally getting serious about the mobile market) or further examples of Redmond's ineptitude (no. 347 in a series).
Me, I'm more of a "this glass is cracked and it isn't what I ordered anyway -- where's the damned vodka?" type, so I see the Kin debacle as yet more evidence Microsoft is a deeply schizophrenic company that should have been institutionalized a decade ago. Yet it continues to stagger on, supported by the enormous profits from enterprises locked in a Windows and Office stranglehold.
What exactly was wrong with the Kin? Peter Bright at Ars Technica writes:
Kin, like the Sidekick before it, was a device aimed at teenagers and young adults. It should have been cheap to buy and cheap to operate. But it wasn't. The pricing was, frankly, nuts: $150 for the Kin One or $200 for the Kin Two (albeit with a $100 mail-in rebate available for both) along with call plans that started at $60/month. From day one, it didn't stand a chance. Though the hardware prices were slashed, the plans remained prohibitively expensive.
Over at Mini-Microsoft, a kind of blowing-off-steam blog for anonymous Redmond refugees, they're saying the Kin may replace Microsoft Bob as the lamest Microsoft product ever released. I'm not sure I agree with that, but it certainly belongs in the same conversation. (Don't worry, Bob, you'll always have a special place in our hearts.)
Mini-Microsoft offers a sobering view into what the Microsofties really think about their company and its prospects in the mobile arena, where its market share has dropped like a bowling ball in a wet shopping bag. In 2008, three out of 10 smartphones ran a Microsoft operating system. These days, it's about one in 10, and as more groovy Android phones come out, that number will only shrink.
So now Microsoft is putting all its chips on Windows Phone 7, due to arrive some time this fall -- though InfoWorld's Galen Gruman reports it's also laying aside a few Ben Franklins for Windows Embedded Handheld OS, to support those poor enterprises saddled with Windows Mobile 6.5.
Here's what one anonymous Softie had to say about that at Mini-MSFT:
Windows Phone 7 has two years of development under [senior VP Andy Lees'] watch. Based on his past performance, 99 percent chance this is also going to be a total catastrophe. It further doesn't help that much of the Windows Phone 7 leadership team was kicked out of Windows when they screwed up Vista.
Ah, so now Microsoft is betting its future on the braniacs who came up with Vista. Do you still own any Microsoft stock? Now might be a good time to sell. Go ahead -- I'll wait.
In the past, Microsoft has always been able to rely on the corporate market to bail it out. IT departments don't want to support multiple operating systems across different platforms, so they imposed Windows Mobile on their BlackBerry-packin' road warriors. Business types generally used Windows phones because they had to, not because they wanted to.
But with the iPhone and Android, most of them don't have to do that any more. Once again Microsoft will have to compete on the merits of its products, while attempting to overcome the huge advantages of the RIM operating system (market share), Apple iPhone (mind share), and Android (sheer quantity of devices), as well as the enormous disadvantage of being, well, Microsoft.
I think Microsoft will remain dull and profitable for decades to come. But unless its mobile division separates from the mother ship and becomes an independent entity, the company will be increasingly irrelevant. Soon it won't even be fun to mock the company any more.
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Best practices when configuring an HTTP Proxy Server for splunkd
You can set up an HTTP proxy server for splunkd so that all HTTP/S traffic originating from splunkd flows through the proxy server.
Points to Remember
1. Splunk supports only non-TLS proxying. Proxy servers listening directly on HTTPS are not supported.
2. Verify your proxy settings for accuracy and make sure they comply with your organization's network policies.
3. For performance issues with the proxy server, see the performance tuning tips below.
Performance Tuning with Apache Server
If you have a large number of clients communicating through the proxy server, you might see a performance impact for those clients. In the case of performance impact:
- Check that the proxy server is adequately provisioned in terms of CPU and memory resources.
- Use the different multi-processing modules (MPM) and tune the following settings depending on the requirements of your environment. Check the Apache documentation for additional information.
ServerLimit <Upper limit on configurable number of processes> StartServers <Number of child server processes created at startup> MaxRequestWorkers <Maximum number of connections that will be processed simultaneously> MinSpareThreads <Minimum number of idle threads available to handle request spikes> MaxSpareThreads <Maximum number of idle threads> ThreadsPerChild <Number of threads created by each child process>
Performance Profiling with Squid Server
If you have a large number of clients communicating through the proxy server, you might see a performance impact for those clients. Please make sure that the proxy server is adequately provisioned in terms of CPU & Memory resources. Please check the Squid profiling documentation for additional information.
Configure splunkd to use your HTTP Proxy Server
Use Splunk Web with a reverse proxy configuration
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Specializing in All Makes & Models of
New Overhead Garage Doors & New Garage Door Openers
Trying to find the right garage door service company can be exhausting. That's why, here at Ace Garage Doors, we will make sure that any type of garage door service you need will get done fast.
We pride ourselves on offering you the great selection of garage doors, quality parts and comprehensive services available. Our team is trained and equipped to service any style or model door whether at your private residence or commercial property.
The services we offer include:
For your garage door to function properly, it is imperative to have it maintained each year. One of our highly trained technicians will come and perform routine maintenance on your equipment. They will assess if any parts that need to be replaced. If any of your garage door parts aren't properly lubricated and tuned up, the entire assembly of your garage door can fail in time.
While at your home or office, our technicians will do an inspection to determine any safety hazards that may exist. Once they have completed the inspection they will discuss with you the potential risks you might face in the near future with your garage door.
Our technicians are available any time of day or night and even on the weekends. A team member is always on call in case of an emergency and will be at your property within about an hour after the call is placed. Our techs are prepared and trained to perform any type of repair or replacement needed at your property.
There are many various parts to a garage door, ranging from mechanical to electrical. Regular use can cause wear and tear to these components over time and can cause your garage door to malfunction.
Some of the parts replacement services that we offer include:
- Drums, cables, and springs
- Hinges and brackets
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Our highly trained technicians are trained to make repairs to or replace any make or model garage door and its parts. Once we have acquired the replacement part needed, we will perform the repair that very same day.
We have a large variety of garage door models, all of which have customizable options, for you to choose from. From swing-out carriage house style, to roll up models and more, we have the style to fit your needs. Our team will be happy to help you choose from great option for your home, will help you to place the order and have one of our technicians come to the site to perform the installation for you.F
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Radio Broadcast Console
Compact - intuitive - automagic. The crystal success story continues: after more than 1,000 installations in radio facilities and small broadcast applications, SNG and ENG vans, and TV production suites, Lawo has developed a yet more powerful crystal console. The cost-effective entry point into the Lawo world of mixing offers all of the flexibility and customizability for which Lawo is renowned, and provides a future-proof investment for both commercial and public broadcasters. With crystal, RAVENNA / AES67 compatibility is available today. Smart technology, ready to use.
The new crystal mixing console comes with VisTool, a powerful touchscreen optimized PC software for extended visualization and control of crystal installations. In its basic version, VisTool is designed for clear visualization, while the unlimited version of VisTool can be completely customized to meet any requirements, displaying all parameters or only those that are essential.
Smart technology: ready to use
crystal consoles come fully operational, with a preset that meets the general demands of a wide range of radio applications. In addition, it allows an unparalleled degree of customization, offering a pool of features that is second to none. Being the perfect choice for stand-alone operation as well as for networked environments, crystal ensures maximum efficiency for on-air operation and production in all aspects of everyday work.
What's new?
Based on feedback from the users of more than 1,000 crystal mixing consoles, the new crystal offers extensive improvements. The console's user surface is completely re-designed, providing a clear layout in a slim and classy chassis. A new hand rest increases the console's ergonomics, and the re-designed buttons improve the readibility of their labels. The new preset configuration facilitates quick and easy use, and is the perfect basis for further customization. In addition to other features, crystal provides all fader sources, a general bus configuration, a control room and guest monitoring.
The newly designed Compact Engine features power supply redundancy and optimized expansion slots for even more convenient addition of I/O cards. New functions like the integrated AutoMix and AutoGain provide outstanding ease-of-use, especially to journalists and presenters in self-op situations.
State-of-the-art technology and ultra-slim construction
The crystal console is a genuine eye-catcher in any studio. But it is not just the appearance of the console that is impressive. The build quality and integral attributes of crystal will meet the highest demands – from its superb all-metal case and 100 mm faders with integral dust shield, to its excellent signal processing capabilities.
Ergonomic design for optimal workflow
Apart from its modern appearance and renowned Lawo build quality, crystal will also impress with its outstanding ergonomics. Two high-visibility OLED displays per channel provide an ideal overview. Various functions can also be assigned to multipurpose buttons (e.g. PFL, on/off, start/stop, mute, conference, talkback). Multi-color LEDs indicate different functions by color schemes. In addition, a set of four user buttons on each fader strip can be assigned with dynamic functionality that is labeled in the OLED display.
Even though crystal consoles come with a working preset, they offer a high degree of customization and an unparalleled pool of workflow optimizing functions and features.
The console provides all of the comprehensive functionality found on a conventional mixer, as well as an integrated matrix of up to 288 I/Os. These I/Os can be pre-packaged from a broad range of modules including RAVENNA Audio-over-IP, MADI, AES and Mic/Line.
The control surface is available in variants offering from 4 to 16 faders. All pushbuttons are illuminated with RGB LEDs enabling users to work with color schemes for different functions – e.g. giving every signal processing function its own coloring (blue for EQ, magenta for DYNAMICS, etc.).
Nearly every button on the user interface can be configured to meet the individual requirements. Custom functions can be easily labeled using exchangeable inlays.
The possibilities for system administrators are countless. They range from small n-1 set-ups to a full-blown conference matrix, and from a single control room monitoring to multiple monitoring buses. Or from a few internal console snapshots to unlimited console and channel snapshots in a database, and from a fully accessible console to a restricted user interface defined by user rights management.
Control Surface
- Control surface variants with up to 16 faders
- Compact design with case height only 35 mm (1.4")
- Long-life 100 mm faders with dust protection
- OLED displays (160° viewing angle)
- Buttons with multi-color backlight (RGB)
- Ambient light sensor for automatic brightness control
- Fully stand alone operable
System core
- Compact Engine 19" / 1 RU with control system, signal processing and audio interfaces
- Integrated routing matrix (non-blocking) with up to 288 inputs and 292 outputs
- Active cross ventilation, system-controlled
- Integral wide-ranging power supply 100 – 240 V AC and 12 V DC connection with redundancy switch over
Signal Processing
- Up to 24 fader channels with input gain (max. +18 dB) and pan/ balance
- Up to 100 definitions for sources and summing buses;mono or stereo, 5.1 surround
- 16 Equalizers: 3 fully parametric bands and 2 filters (mono or stereo)
- 16 Dynamics units: gate, expander, compressor (mono or stereo)
- 16 Limiters (mono or stereo)
- 16 De-esser / AutoMix (mono equivalent)
- 16 Delays, up to 320 ms (mono equivalent)
- 48 parallel mix inputs (mono equivalent)
- 32 Summing buses (mono* including PFL)
- 32 Minimixers (2 x 2 mixers for monitoring, stereo-to-mono, etc.)
- Internal tone generator
(*crystal mode)
- Programmable logic core (red light, fader start, broadcast button, talkback integration etc.)
- Integrated n-1/conference logic (2 independent systems)
- Interface for integration with radio automation systems (serial, TCP/IP)
- Networking via TCP/IP (Ember+)
- Wordclock input and internal generator
- Optional sync via MADI or slot 1 (AES3 or RAVENNA)
- 48 kHz and 44.1 kHz
- 4 Analog mic inputs (incl. bass cut, stereo coupling possible, also usable as line inputs)
- 4 Analog line inputs
- 8 Analog line outputs
- 2 Headphone outputs (stereo)
- 4 AES3 inputs (stereo) with sample rate converter (SRC)
- 4 AES3 outputs (stereo)
- GPIO (8 optocouplers, 8 silent cmos relays)
- Optional MADI extension with 4 ports (max. 256 mono channels)
2 slots for I/O extension
- 4 Analog mic in / 4 Analog line in
- 8 Analog line in / 8 Analog line out
- 4 AES3 in with SRC (stereo) / 4 AES3 out (stereo)
- RAVENNA / AES67 Audio-over-IP
Configuration and Maintenance
- Software for system configuration and logic programming
- Integral web server for system diagnosis
- Dedicated SW tool for software updates
- Remote maintenance using dedicated remote access tool
- Software for the enhancement of the control surface, support of touchscreens
- Visualisation of DSP parameters, loudness, signal levels / states
- Additional functions and controls (e.g. timer, snapshots)
- Min. PC requirements: Intel i5 or higher (CPUBenchmark min. 1350 Points @ www.cpubenchmark.net/), min. 2GB RAM, Windows 7 or higher
Panels (option)
- Several panel variants (19"/1 RU) with illuminated buttons, LCD-keys, potentiometers and GPIO
- Control of logic functions and level adjustment for e.g. conferences, talkback and monitoring
- Connection of up to 30 panels via CAN-Bus (opt. TCP/IP)
Subject to change without prior notice, no responsibility is taken for the correctness of the details provided.
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Last winter I was frustrated by what felt like pockets of cold air in various parts of my house. Sometimes it was easy to confirm (like if there was a breeze), other times it might have been my mind going crazy. This year I ordered the kintrex infrared thermometer instead of going to the psychologist and boy has it made a difference.
Use Case #1: Take the closet in an older part of our house where the exterior wall is brick. The closet is always cold, some of which i attributed to being cut-off from heat vents. After shooting the wall and seeing that its temperature was 15 degrees colder than an insulated wall in a different closet I immediately picked up some rigid insulation. With the rigid installed over the brick closet wall the temp was 10 degrees warmer.
Use Case #2: a long, long duct run in my basement supplies heat to our great room. Shooting the duct near the furnace showed the metal was around 90 degrees, however 35 feet down the run toward the great room the duct metal was only 72 degrees. So clearly i'm able to quantify the heat loss from the long run in the colder basement and thus this is motivating me to insulate the duct. I'll post the update after i do the project, but the point is that i would never have known the heat loss was so great without this device. (see pic below)
If you're paranoid about energy efficiency in your house and need to validate your paranoia for yourself or a loved one this is the tool. Runs about $50.


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CommuniGate Pro Real-Time Communications 4.2
This is a carrier-grade Internet mail server with multi-platform support.
The software features an array of built-in services, including standards-based SMTP, POP, IMAP and Web mail. It also contains an integrated LDAP directory, a Web server, calendars, scheduling options and a list server. The included SIP Server allows users to communicate in real-time via VoIP, video, instant messaging, and desktop/application/whiteboard sharing using a variety of SIP compatible third-party devices and utilities.
The open interface allows integration with billing, provisioning, and security applications. It also acts as a central IMAP message store for a variety of integrated messaging applications including fax, voice and SMS/MMS. The program provides anti-spam functions, options for third party anti-spam and anti-virus plug-ins, Web administration, multiple-domain support, dial-up support, IMAP multi-mailbox features, IMAP4rev1, ESMTP, POP3, WebEmail, MailList, LDAP, ACAP, SSL/TLS, CLI, SASL, SNMP and personal Web pages with automated publishing.
The optional clustering solution operates as a group of front-end and back-end servers, accessing domain and account data on a shared file server. The architecture enables load balancing and server redundancy.


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One word. So simple. So powerful.
Oh, how my life has changed.
It's time my writing did as well.
I have more clarity.
More purpose.
More light.
More joy.
More love.
I became a mother.
I haven't looked back.
The joy motherhood has brought me is deeper, and more primal than I could ever have imagined.
It's been well over a year since I last wrote. My life, my work, and my family lifted me up and carried me away. I don't regret it, and I make no excuses for it. It's important to walk away, gain perspective, and figure out why you write.
There are so many stories, feelings, and words taking over my brain these days, I need to share them again.
My passion is still local food. New England has my heart, and I cannot wait to introduce this precious little boy to all of it. However, I feel like just focusing on local food puts me into a box. What about family recipes that have my heart, full of stories and emotion? What about all the emotions and thought I have on family?
It all deserves a place.
From this point forth - the blog will change. I have a lot of thoughts running around my brain. There will still be food and recipes. For me, every life moment is marked by some kind of food. I thought of overhauling everything, name, look, all that stuff. Let's be honest here, I don't have time for that right now. I just want to share and write. So it begins.
The posts and recipes from Lighter and Local will stay right here, and I'll still share recipes of local flavor and flair, but the box doesn't fit anymore.
Or more correctly, I don't fit the box.
I'm hoping you will continue with me on a new journey, one filled with food, family, and adventures. My adventure is just beginning. My baby is on the brink of being a toddler. He's 11-months-old, he's walking, and a force to be reckoned with, just like his mama.
I'll begin with a family recipe, tucked into a box, written in my Nana's own script. It's fitting to kick this off with a recipe both she and my own mother, treasure. I hope Jake will stand beside me, his hands covered in flour, helping me make them one day. I can't wait.
Lemon Bars
Yield: 24
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups flour, sifted
- 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 2 cups of sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 4 tablespoons of flour
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Cream butter and add flour, sugar, and mix.
- Press mixture down in pan (ungreased) and bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown, checking every 10 minutes.
- Take out of oven and set aside. (Keep oven at 350 degrees)
- Combine well-beaten eggs; sugar, salt, and lemon juice
- Mix baking powder and flour, add to egg mixture
- Spread topping on hot baked crust.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 30-35 minutes or until set.
- Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar, allow to cool completely, and cut into bars.


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Series 2500
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Crossings and switches can easily be implemented with the direction-independent turnability. Driven and non-driven conveyor segments, e.g. packing tables, assembly tables and feeds to processing machines. Particularly suited for softer materials such as cardboards.
Easy installation and use
Easy installation on round and hexagon shaft. With low mass and easy running gray wheels, the omniwheel can easily be moved in all directions. Several omniwheels can be coupled with one another. Corrosion-proof due to the use of stainless steel pins. Drive in one direction when used with a hexagon shaft.


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Combine Windows 8 with a fast SSD and a UEFI motherboard and you have a system that could POST in two seconds and boot in seven. That's fantastic until you want to go into Windows' boot menu to fix a problem, or tell the firmware to boot off the USB key you just plugged in. The fast booting means that you have just a few hundred milliseconds to press space or F8 for the Windows boot menu—or F1, F2, F12, delete, or whatever your motherboard vendor picked this week to get into its boot device menu.
Fast-booting UEFI systems are still a rarity today (though slow-booting UEFI systems have become commonplace), but they're expected to be abundant once Windows 8 ships. Also abundant will be systems that make it impossible to hit the keyboard keys fast enough, because they won't have any keyboard keys at all; they'll be tablets. To address both of these problems, Microsoft has changed the way the boot menu works in Windows 8, as detailed in the company's latest Windows 8 blog post.
Windows 8 will do two things to help out. If you know that you want to use the menu before you even shut down (for example, to tell the system to boot off a USB key or optical media), you'll be able to elect to do so before you reboot. There will be three different ways to do this: the Settings applet has a button to reboot into the menu, you can hold down shift when rebooting from the regular shutdown menu, and there's a new option for the
shutdown.exe command-line program.
Secondly, Windows 8 will be smarter about going into the menu automatically when things go wrong. Windows will already show the boot menu under certain circumstances, such as if it doesn't shut down cleanly. However, that's not perfect; Windows doesn't always know when things aren't working properly, even if it's obvious to the person sitting at the keyboard. An example Microsoft gives of such an issue is a driver problem causing the login screen to be blank; as far as the operating system is concerned, it's booted successfully and is waiting for a user to log in. It's just unusable to any human being.
Windows 8 will be better at detecting these problem scenarios, and will show the boot menu when they occur.
As for the boot menu itself, it's a new, graphical, touch-friendly affair. The menu will be substantially the same across BIOS and UEFI systems, though some options—in particular, the ability to choose to boot off alternative media—will only be available on UEFI machines.


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The Central Connecticut men's cross country team finished 17th out of 34 teams at the NCAA Regional Championships on Friday hosted by Yale University and Fairfield University at Hammonassett State Park in Madison, CT. The team completed the 10K race earning 492 points and was led by junior Colby Delbene, who placed 30th overall with a time of 31:09.5.
Iona won the title with a score of 45 and Columbia, Syracuse, Dartmouth and Providence rounded out the top five teams in the race.
Delbene was followed by junior Andrew Hill who placed 91st with a time of 32.10.0. Sophomore Patrick Hubbell came in 114th, crossing the finish line in 32.38.6 and was followed just five seconds later by classmate Brian Biekert who placed 124th. Redshirt freshman Matt Walker completed the scoring for the Blue Devils. He crossed the finish line in 33:02.1 for 147th place.
Also competing in the race for Central were freshmen Tyler Raymond (167th) and David Scheibenpflug (174th) who posted times of 33:27.0 and 33:39.2, respectively.
The top five team scores were Iona (45), Columbia (72), Syracuse (73), Dartmouth (144) and Providence (154). CCSU was the highest scoring NEC team with Quinnipiac finishing in 23rd with 620 points and Sacred Heart earning 926 points, good for 32nd place.
The NCAA Regional Championships wraps up a successful season for the Blue Devils, who earned their fourth consecutive NEC Cross Country Championship on Saturday, Oct. 27.
For complete meet results, click here.


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Skull Shaver® is known for its highly effective and patented horizontal electric shaver body/handle, versus the traditional electric shaver vertical handle. The design of this handle allows one to reach the back of their head or leg, or other parts of their body, much more easily than ever before. Our shavers also feature large, round concave-shaped shaver head which can pivot, and they also consist of five rotary cutters with individual flex action. This allows the shaver to automatically adjus


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A Calendar of Events letting you know what, where and when is happening throughout the Chopin Year:
A wealth of information about Fryderyk Chopin's life and work:
An inspiring guide helping children to enter the exciting word of Fryderyk Chopin's music:
Engaging social networking initiatives revolving around the Chopin Year.
An archive of past episodes of the Chopin2010.pl show broadcast on TVP1 plus.
A platform for exchanging information between institutions, journalists and organisers of jubilee events. Brings you official information about:
Chopin 2010 Press Office
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Registering at the portal chopin2010.pl brings you the possibility to:
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Visit a virtual exhibition of "Painting Music" by Bogusław Lustyk.
Browse through our artProjects section - a pool of artistic and education projects marking the Chopin Year.
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This webcast is part of The Conference Board Director General Series. A series of briefings with senior officials from the EU Commission. Our guest speaker for the January webcast is Director General for Energy, Philip Lowe.
During this webcast, Mr. Lowe will give the following overview of upcoming policies and legislation in energy policy (during 2013):
- New climate and energy framework for the period up to 2030
- Steps towards completion of the internal energy market
- Energy infrastructure
- Communication on energy technologies and innovation
- Nuclear energy
- Environmental climate and energy assessment framework to enable safe and secure unconventional hydrocarbon extraction
- Energy efficiency
- Renewable energies
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Local Missoula Beers – Our Top 5
Even though Missoula didn't make it on the "drunkest cities in the nation" list, it does not mean we don't enjoy our "barley pop." Missoula actually has some of the best microbrews in the Northwest. Here are some of our favorites...
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Faceplant is a beer brewed at Bayern Brewery here in town. Bayern is locally owned and operated and has been brewing beer since 1987. The Brewery is known for having authentic German beer. According to their website: "Owner and Brewmaster, Jürgen Knöller, is a German Diploma Master Brewer. He began brewing in 1978 at age 16. The education that he received in Germany was a rigorous and lengthy one. Combine his education, experience and personal dedication and you have amazing beer."
Faceplant is a beer the Germans call a "Doppelweizen." The Bayern website describes it as a " top-fermented, unfiltered Wheat Bock beer (that) is the counterpart to Bayern's famous Doppelbock Lager and is decoction-brewed, a technique used often in Bavaria but seldom in the U.S. The recipe uses five types of malt (Wheat, Pilsener, Carmel, Munich and Chocolate), producing a stout 7.5 % Alc. by Vol."
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Doppelbock is another featured beer in Bayern's arsenal. It is one of their seasonal beers and is only brewed during the cold months of the year. Available late October through February, it is a cousin of our No. 1 voted beer. According to the Bayern website: "'Doppel' means double and this beer is double in every way. This hearty German dark lager does not have the rough bite of a porter or a stout." Its alcohol content ranges between 7.8% and 8.4%. Making it one of the strongest on our list.
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Dump Truck
Bayern brewing locks down the top three beers on our list, according to your votes. Dump Truck is one of the only beers at Bayern that strays away from the Bavarian roots. Dump Truck is Bayern's summer seasonal brew. The Bayern website describes it as "brewed using the old-fashioned decoction mash brewing method. The recipe for this light, unfiltered, lager bock beer uses German sauermalt, organic Montana 'Spitz malt,' Pilsener malt, plus three hoppings using Hallertauer Perle and the rare Tettnang aroma hops (both imported from Germany)."
This one packs a 6.0 % Al. content.
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I'm not a huge fan of dark beers. But, when given the choice of local beers I always seem to lean toward Coldsmoke. It is an ale brewed at The Kettlehouse. The Kettlehouse is Missoula's first Brew On Premise (BOP) brewery. Their website defines BOP as "a place where customers could come in and brew their own beer." The Kettlehouse has been hooking up microbrews since 1995, and is the first place in town to introduce the tasty jugs of happy we know as "Growlers."
Coldsmoke is an award-winning beer and The Kettlehouse website describes it as:"Formulated with Montana grown 2-row barley, northwest Goldings hops, and lotsa love, this hearty ale drinks very smooth. Not bitter at all and not too sweet either." A hint of roasted barley lends a slight coffee-like smoky finish."
Coldsmoke is 6.5% Al. and can be found in 16 oz. aluminum cans.
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Moose Drool
Moose Drool is a beer that some people believe put Missoula beers "on the map." You can find this beer everywhere from its site of creation (Big Sky Brewing Co.) to gift shops around the state. When you first hear the name, you may think "Ewwww." When most people think of Moose Drool, they may picture a huge brown critter with an endless amount of "slobber" spilling out of its mouth. That is not the case with this local brew. Big Sky Brewing Company began in 1995 and according to their website: "was started by Neal Leathers, Bjorn Nabozney and Brad Robinson. Neal and Brad specialized in brewing English style ales, they felt that an ale brewery would be producing very different beers than Bayern Brewing Company did. Neal agreed, and the two began to work on starting up a brewery."
Moose Drool is considered a brown ale. It has a slight hoppy taste with a little touch of spice and a creamy texture.
It is one of my favorite local beers. With a 5.3 % Al. content, the only issue is that it's tough to drink too many without getting full.


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During our first drive of the 2008 Smart ForTwo we enjoyed its small size in the big city, but we would have really enjoyed some extra power. This Lorinser-tuned ForTwo may not be a sports car in the traditional sense, but with 101 HP from its turbocharged 3-cylinder, it's a nice improvement over the stock mill. However, even though the car weighs just 1700 lbs, 0-62 MPH still takes almost 10 seconds, likely due in part to the sluggish semi-automatic gearbox. Sure, you get a Lorinser body kit and some spiffy rims, but we'd still rather just build ourselves a 'Busa Smart. Humorous ESL press release after the jump.
Sales start for the Lorinser Fortwo with 101 HP After the fast-moving study, Sportservice Lorinser is now bringing the series version of the Fortwo on the road: it was worth waiting, as the look and driving experience of the power dwarf remain almost unfiltered. 101 HP (74 kW) – more than in any factory version – provide a smart power caracteristics in any situation. After all, at only around 800 kg vehicle weight, the "horses" have an easy job. The conversion is based on the three-cylinder petrol-fuelled turbo engine with its standard 84 HP (62 kW). With the power training from Winnenden, the small vehicle with the rear-wheel drive accelerates to 100 km/h in under ten seconds, and is therefore over one second faster than the standard vehicle. The Lorinser upgrade for the basic petrol-fuelled vehicle with previously 61 HP (45 kW) is just as nippy. 71 HP (55 kW) are now being mobilised, just like with the average series motorisation, which in turn has an output of 82 HP (60 kW) after its power was increased by the famous customiser. All Lorinser models achieve a regulated top speed of 160 km/h, which is more than the fastest factory version. That's why the speedometer also receives a discreet update. The interior may be small but the looks are great. Lorinser has the following design parts in stock for you: a black leather steering wheel with aluminium, an accented parts set for instruments, centre consoles, ventilation and handbrake lever, pedals and footrest in aluminium. You don't have to worry about the necessary overtaking prestige either. The wide spoiler bumper of the body-kit appears to virtually soak up the road with its U-shaped air inset, which houses a sporty mesh. In addition, Sportservice Lorinser will soon be offering a 4-pipe exhaust system that cheekily protrudes out of the well-proportioned rear bumper and leaves no doubt that we're dealing here with a real little bundle of power. On the other hand, an extremely muscular "back" is the optical identifying feature for the Lorinser wing extensions. A total of 55 millimetres of width increase create space for giant 8.5×17 aluminium rims with tyre size 225/35R17 on the powered rear axle. In the front it is 7×17 inches and 205/40R17. The Speedy design with the six spade-shaped spokes is a real eye-catcher that signals distinct dynamics even when at a standstill. No empty promise, as the Fortwo allows high curve speeds thanks to the wide tyres. All that's left is the question to the pursuers: who's getting Shorty?


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Home runs from Pedroia, Ellsbury not enough for Sox
Blue Jays 4, Red Sox 3
Clay Buchholz expected to hand the ball to Bobby Valentine when the Red Sox manager made a ninth-inning visit to the mound.
Valentine, however, was only checking on Buchholz, not pulling him from the game.
"I just wanted to make sure he believed like I did, that he had enough. He said, 'Guaranteed,'" Valentine said of his conference with Buchholz with one out in the ninth. "All year long, Clay's been totally honest with me every chance. After eight, he felt great. He wasn't really stressed there in the ninth."
Buchholz remained in the game until Omar Vizquel hit a sacrifice fly to left, driving in the go-ahead run and Toronto held on for a 4-3 win.
The reeling Red Sox have lost 11 of their past 12 games and are in last place in the AL East.
Buchholz (11-6) allowed four runs on seven hits over 8 2-3 innings, walking three and striking out four.
Rajai Davis started the ninth-inning rally with a blooper and Anthony Gose followed with another single, prompting Valentine to visit him on the mound.
Buchholz had thrown 113 pitches and believed that was it.
"I thought he was coming out to get me and he was like, 'Oh, I was just coming to check on how you were doing,'" he explained. "I was like, 'Go back to the dugout and I'll try to get a ground ball double play right here.'"
After intentionally walking pinch-hitter Kelly Johnson, Buchholz left a cutter over the middle of the plate that Vizquel drove just deep enough to left to score Davis from third, ending Buchholz's afternoon.
"If somebody's going to give up the runs, I'd rather it be me, because I know when relievers come in, they give up the inherited runs, they feel pretty bad about it," Buchholz said. "I'd rather put it all on me and that's what I did."
Jacoby Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia homered for the Red Sox.
Reliever Brandon Lyon (2-2) got the win and Casey Janssen picked up his 20th save.
Toronto entered the series in last place in the AL East but left Fenway Park two games ahead of the Red Sox. The Blue Jays have won four straight overall and six in a row against Boston.
James Loney singled to open the Boston ninth and Cody Ross nearly won it on a drive to left that was just foul. Ross ended up striking out on a pitch he felt was outside enough that he was trotting toward first when umpire Clint Fagan called it a strike.
Ellsbury flied out to deep center for the second out, then Mike Aviles hit a foul pop that catcher Jeff Mathis got under easily to complete the sweep for the Blue Jays.
NOTES: Boston activated OF Daniel Nava, who had been out since Aug. 25 with a sprained left wrist that has been nagging him this season. Nava pinch hit to lead off the eighth and grounded out. ... The Red Sox are in last place in the AL East, marking the latest in a season they have held at least a share of last place since September 1997 ... Boston 3B Will Middlebrooks, on the DL with a right wrist fracture since Aug. 11, turned 24 Sunday. ... Toronto tied a franchise single-season record with its sixth straight win against Boston, matching the club record set from June 2-11, 1988. ... The Blue Jays improved to 10-5 against the Red Sox this season, clinching their first season series victory against Boston since 2006.


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Title: John Freeman papers
Dates: 1991-1992
Collection Number: 93102
Creator: Freeman, John.
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Abstract: Photographs, annotated photocopies of photographs, and news reports, relating to the alleged bombing of a monument to the Sandinista leader Carlos Fonseca in Managua, Nicaragua, in 1991.
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It's been a year since Billie Flanagan — a beautiful, charismatic Berkeley mom with an enviable life — went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. No body—only a hiking boot—has ever been found. Billie's husband and teenage daughter cope with her death the best they can: Jonathan drinks, Olive grows remote.
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Life After Teaching: Horst Richter
By Anna Fiorentino
October 2012 • CoolStuff
Horst Richter may have retired from teaching in 2008, but he still occupies office number 114 in Cummings Hall. The long-time fixture—and Thayer School's first director of undergraduate studies—took a few minutes to reflect on three decades of teaching courses from Thermodynamics, his favorite, to one he created for all Dartmouth students called Technology of Sailing, and his current role as a researcher and advisor.
What have you been up to since retiring from Thayer?
As a retired professor, I have the unique advantage of working patiently, and slowly, on an interesting project I stumbled on at Thayer—one that very few have explored. I am attempting solve one of the problems of cold spray technology.
What exactly is cold spray technology?
In thermal and cold gas spray systems, small particles are injected into a gas stream. This gas-particle, two-phase mixture is accelerated to supersonic velocities in a converging-diverging nozzle, basically a spray gun, that is aimed at a substrate to be coated. In a process similar to spray painting, the particles have high velocities at the point of impact on the substrate so they deform plastically and adhere to the surface. In order to design the cold spray nozzle correctly, we need to understand the momentum and heat transfer phenomena for small particles at supersonic or transonic velocities. In collaboration with Dr. Chi-Yang Cheng from ANSYS, Inc., we have been developing mathematical models and running numerous computer simulations in an effort to put together a set of heat transfer correlations for these particular flows. These transport phenomena are also of interest in explosions, if small combustible particles are entrained.
What brought you to Thayer School in the first place?
In 1972 I came to Thayer from Germany to research for a year, after I was invited by former professor Graham Wallis. In 1975 I took a faculty position and moved here permanently. Since then, for nearly 40 years, I have been going back to Germany at least once a year, sometimes to visit friends and extended family and other times to do work.
What work brought you back to Germany?
Thirty years ago, a Germany colleague of mine and I initiated and continued to be involved with Thayer's first German study abroad program in Aachen, Germany, and every year we had three students coming from Aachen. It ceased to exist in 2004 when the German government stopped the program. Now, we do a separate German exchange program with a university in Hamburg, which I also initiated with another colleague in Germany.
Can you tell me about your experience with the America's Cup?
From 1995 to 1998 I worked with the America's Cup syndicate, called Young America. We were the first to introduce fluid dynamics evaluations of sail performance with a computer code. Two graduate students assisted me by computing the flow around sails and improving sail shape. Later in 2003, with the help of sail manufacturer North Sails, we did computations for other America's Cup syndicates like Stars & Stripes and Luna Rossa.
Why is it important to you to continue working at Thayer?
Thayer has gotten bigger every year since I arrived, but I would say the atmosphere has not changed at all. It is still the small collegial school that I initially fell in love with, and will continue to be a part of as long as the dean provides me with an office.


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|SARAH HARRIS FAYERWEATHER -- Born, Canterbury, Conn., 1802 -- Died, Kingston, R. I., 1868
The larger portion of the nineteenth century covered a period of great political activity in the United States, slavery being the foremost topic of discussion. Very much was then being said and written concerning the "peculiar" institution. Antagonists and apologists seized upon pulpit, press and forum to aid in moulding public sentiment to be utilized as barricades in defense of respective positions. From the earliest days there was launched and extended, a campaign for the emancipation of the slaves, the elevation of free colored people, and the practical application of the fundamental principles underlying humanity and justice in the administration of government. Naturally colored people in the free states had the condition of their brethren in bondage very near to their hearts and thought but little of the trouble and nothing at all of the risk and cost involved in making their oppressed fellow creatures objects of solicitude and devotion.
The record of the "Underground Railroad" disclose how the bondmen who were able to think at all regarded their anomalous state of existence. The creed and procedure of abolition and anti-slavery societies were in harmony with the sacred idea of human brotherhood. Tradition, which is verified through unwritten history, furnishes ample testimony to the race loyalty of the many who daily as it were had the fact forced into inner consciousness that they, too, suffered a thraldom none the less vicious because invisible. Any average man or woman living under such a disability might properly serve as a type to illustrate the
At Canterbury a select school for girls was kept by a Quaker lady, Miss Prudence Crandell. The Harris sisters were entered there as pupils. This philanthropic high-minded woman who received them upon precisely the same terms as she did other village pupils, later became a victim to the meanest sort of persecution. Disgusted with a sporadic outburst of race prejudice in her native state, Miss Crandell tried for a while to maintain a school for colored girls exclusively. Finally she emigrated to Kansas toward which all eyes were then turned as a presumptive "free state."
In earliest youth Sarah Harris became the wife of George Fayerweather, who was descended from French West Indians named Monteflora. He was a blacksmith as was his father before him and one of his sons, C. Frederick Douglass succeeded him in the business. Their eldest daughter, another Sarah, was so deeply impressed by the Crandell episode that it influenced her entire life. She
In the quiet precincts of a model New England village, Kingston, R. I., the Fayerweathers built a home and reared a family. After the formal, reserved habits of the day, they were trained in politeness and obedience. They were expected to study, to perform manual labor, keep early hours, and follow the strict practices of the Congregational Church.
Artisans, in days of yore could do well for and by their families, for the doubtful custom of living beyond or even up to one's means, had not as yet in rural localities become fashionable. Had this family been burdened only with the natural responsibilities attached to their position, affairs would have moved on easily and smoothly as in a groove. But they were "colored people" and that significant epithet embodies a "true tale" of sadness, sin, and sorrow.
The opponents of slavery have been divided into three classes, those who made appeals verbally and in writing to influence public sentiment, those who gave full financial support to aid in the propagation of the doctrine of personal liberty, and those who gave secret service of time, thought, and strength to make effective the attempted escapes of slaves. Almost without exception our men and women were numbered in at least two of these divisions. Douglas, Remond, Sojourner Truth, Sarah Lenox, Frances Harper, won world wide fame for their eloquence and aggressiveness. Countless obscure, though loyal adherents, worked differently but as effectively in a cause which to them had all the sacredness and importance of a latter day crusade. In many a household like that of Sarah Fayer-weather, a portion of the income was duly set aside to be devoted to the forwarding of this work. The people responded to any call however sudden, cheerfully and with
Under such conditions, so continuous, so tense, the elders in a family could not fail in being thoughtful, cautious and full of rescources; the youthful members caught the reflected spirit and only awaited a signal to become participants as well as sympathizers in a work which they gradually began to know was being carried on. This missionary work as they understood it to be, was not disclosed to them in all its details until the age of discretion had been attained. Though no dawning intellect could be entirely oblivious of the sudden additions and as sudden subtractions to the household numbers, yet a premature reference to anything out of the ordinary was never hazarded.
Upon the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law there was a tacit understanding among the lovers of freedom, that the iniquitous statute was to be regarded in the letter only. The most sensitive New England conscience felt that in the spirit it ought to be violated with impunity. In a way, so far from being a hindrance, it gave fresh impetus to the effort of helping those who were encountering all sorts of risks to escape slavery.
In large cities like Boston where anti-slavery meetings were regularly held, they were not only attended by the townspeople, but by those living in outlying towns like Canterbury and Kinston. Persons traveled miles to hear the scathing indictments of a Garrison, the impassioned oratory of a Phillips, the pathetic pleadings of a Lucretia Mott, the dignified utterances and unassailable logic of a
For men it meant sudden, often dangerous trips, midnight watchings and waitings that sorely taxed body and mind. None knew until the very last moment when action would be required, but each one was aware that almost every day some would come seeking good offices. This was the responsibility undertaken by Sarah Fayerweather, and the discipline resultant made her alert, discreet, sympathetic, untiring. In addition to the ordinary wear and tear of family support and oversight, came the exigencies of this extraordinary current of under life.
Each family had silent advisers and informers in the guise of the newspapers of the times; the "Liberator," the "Anti-Slavery Standard," the "Colored American," and "New York Tribune," kept them in touch with the trend of affairs. No child old enough to have any measure of confidence reposed in him ever hesitated to take the usual lengthy walk to and from a village post office; to read any portion of a newspaper was ample reward. In such an atmosphere of unselfish service a spirit of race consciousness was developed. One daughter for many years a successful teacher in Wilmington, Del., transmitted to a second generation all that was valuable in the training she had received from her parents who upheld an ideal of self-respect and self-sacrifice. The eldest son, Prof. Geo. H. Fayer-weather, was for a long time a member of the Board of Education at New Orleans, La. His assistance in the conduct
Mrs. Fayerweather's sisters were fortunate in their children, who wherever they located, became valuable residents of their respective localities. The daughters of Mrs. Celinda Harris Anderson, were not only successful in teaching, but won reputations as devoted race women. As such they are still remembered in Washington and New York City.
Within the precincts of the Fayerweather homestead noted groups often assembled. Wm. Wells Brown and Wm. C. Neal enjoyed infrequent, brief vacations there. Leading anti-slavery women paid visits to Kingston exclusively to talk with "Friend Sarah." There the famous Hutchinson family sang their songs of freedom while all the neighborhood entered fully into the spirit of the occasion.
Personally, Mrs. Fayerweather presented a very distinguished appearance. She was tall, fine looking and had a voice of peculiar sweetness. Her favorite attitude was sitting erect with clasped hands (while her stead gaze seemed to pierce far below the surface of things. She made a beautiful picture with abundant gray hair framing an almost colorless ivory face, whose smile redeemed it from severity. She could listen as well as converse and had the happy faculty of eliciting confidences unasked.
This woman was representative; such were to be found everywhere. Their lives presented a grand illustration of faith reinforced by fidelity. This makes the memory of Sarah Fayerweather and her noble band of sisters a precious legacy to our women of today and should incite in them a spirit to do, to dare, and to suffer, and to become strong.
Our country has not yet attained the supreme position of a consistent republic. The "duty of the now" is the teaching of an axiomatic doctrine. "So long as one chained and oppressed man in any part of the world remains bound


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