 in its brick-and-mortar store for field hockey equipment, apparel and footwear, as well as via catalog sales and on the Web. It would also appear as though that company will be hyper-focused on the ancient ritual.
Notably, when you look at BSN Sports’ website, there are individual catalogs for many athletic endeavors such as football, baseball, both genders of lacrosse, and softball. But not field hockey.
Wonder if that may change soon, given businesspeoples’ penchant for mergers and acquisitions?
Alex Danson, a member of the England and Team GB field hockey teams who seemed to have some of her best efforts against the United States in world competitions, announced her retirement early today.
Danson had an international career that began in 2001 as a 16-year-old, and ended with, oddly, a joke. She was on holiday with her husband in 2018 when he told her a funny tale. Danson, according to reports, laughed, lost her balance and hit her head on a brick wall. The resulting post-concussion symptoms lasted nine months, and she could not deal with bright lights or noise.
If you’ve been following news stories over the past decade and a half, from pro football players committing suicide to hockey and soccer players having to retire early, to some athletes having died on the field of play, you know that what Danson had was not a one-off event. I’m certain Danson had a number of closed-head injuries over the course of her 300-game international career, and that this one accidental bump against a wall was just one more bruise that her brain took.
When it comes to brain injuries, they are often fickle. Your Founder is sitting not so far away from the site one of the most written-about traumas in sports history, but for a different reason from Danson’s retirement.
In 1997, a football quarterback named Gus Frerotte celebrated a score for his team by hitting his head against a padded wall at his home stadium. He got a concussion, sprained his neck, and didn’t play another game that season.
Oddly enough, Frerotte, played 10 more seasons in the brutal confines of the NFL without another concussion (that we know of), and eventually helped run a Pennsylvania startup company that uses cloud computing to monitor brain performance.
Danson, it must be said, left field hockey better than when she found it. In a country with more active players than any other on the globe, she helped with moving the game from an amateur sport to one where one could draw a reasonable salary.
And when England Hockey put their minds to it, the fortunes of the national team changed. Before Danson was on the national team, the previous world tournament won by either England or Great Britain was the 1975 International Federation of Women’s Hockey Associations Tournament in Edinburgh, Scotland.
After Danson’s arrival, England won bronze in the 2010 Women’s World Cup and Champions Trophy and in the 2013 World League. As Team GB, they won bronze in the 2012 Olympics, silver in the 2012 Champions Trophy, and gold at Rio 2016.
It’s an awesome legacy, and I hope she will wind up giving back to the game.
Today, this happened.
Immediately, USA Field Hockey took to Twitter, offering to try to expand the reach of the game in the Bluegrass State. “USA Field Hockey is working with leaders in Kentucky to fuel new programs, and has starter packages available,” the social media post said.
With new leadership elected at the US Field Hockey Foundation, I’ll be interested to see the degree to which the sport spreads, seeing as the game of girls’ lacrosse has grown to the point where last year’s national scoring leader comes from a town of about 8,500 located about five miles due west of Lexington.Right now, it's HOI4. Despite all its flaws I find the game very fun.  I'm mainly playing a variety of total conversion mods (Kaiserreich, Equestria at War, Old World Blues, In the Name of the Tsar, etc). I really enjoy following the storylines that the game can tell with the combination of focus trees, events, and decisions.

Overall, I've played EU4 the most by a very large margin. Haven't played it in quite a few months, though. The last game I played, the mana system was really starting to wear on me, and with the tease of the big expansion coming next year, I'm content to wait for a while before diving back in.The Wood Hill Art Gallery in Bolton Landing opened spring 2021.
David Hill stands in front of his painting in the new Wood Hill Gallery (north) in Bolton.
The Wood Hill Gallery of Saratoga Springs has opened a second location in Bolton Landing.
“I’ve always had my eye on this spot,” David Wood said in the gallery yesterday evening. He is a painter who partnered with Sharon Wood Castro, a photographer, over the winter to create one gallery in the Saratoga Springs Marketplace, and now a second on Lake George.
Hill said for an art gallery to work as a business space, it is best to be a short distance away from other buildings. Too many people meandering in can hurt the experience for more serious visitors, he said.
The new gallery does that. He and Castro took up space in the former Serendipity building, at 4950 Lake Shore Drive in Bolton, between Cate’s Italian Garden and Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream. Serendipity has moved across the street.
In this case, the stand-alone blue building is about 30 feet from the sidewalk with a wide brick path leading to it.
“It’s just up and away enough,” he said.
A photographer known for her pictures of Saratoga’s race horses--“My horses sold, and they sold well”--many of her pieces on the walls of the newly-opened gallery, however, are of the lake, wooden boats, the water and trees.
A native of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Wood’s paintings have focused on Lake George and the Adirondacks since moving here 10 years ago. Having a “north” gallery on the lake made sense.
The gallery carries their original photos and paintings as well as the work of others. It includes sculpture, children's books and prints of the works. Hill said they plan to be open all summer and into the fall. Hill said the hope is to stay open at least on weekends to Christmas.
2016 is done, ready, and served. A new year is about to hit the oven, and with it, new resolutions. Here at Pop Pie Co., we are all about goals. We are also about making sure our staff can meet their own goals, by feeling supported personally and professionally. As we forge forward into a new year with many unknowns, we remember what we have accomplished and use those achievements as our guide to do even better. At Pop Pie Co., our new year's resolution is sustainable consistency.
For us it's all about sustainability and that means continuing to provide a consistently delicious product and outstanding customer service. We get asked about growth and expansion quite a bit and though it's something any business owner has to evaluate, we want to appreciate and enjoy what we have and further solidify our place in the community.
We're excited to be launching new business hours effective this Sunday, January 1st. We will now operate daily from 8am-9pm. We have plans to get deeper involved in our community and have a list of organizations we'd like to work with to give back in any way we can. When it comes to our pie family, our employees, we will work hard to retain as many of our core team members as possible. We started with six employees and have grown to thirteen! We recently added medical benefits for full time employees and we're also finding leaders within the group who will be taking on bigger roles. We really are a close group and we want to keep it that way.
Each morning we wake up knowing that we're responsible for the livelihood of 13 individuals and their families and this is something we take very seriously. We keep our finger on the pulse of every aspect of the business and are constantly making micro adjustments to make sure our early successes continue. Our goal with Pop Pie Co. was and is to continue introducing pie to San Diegans in a way that they'd never seen before. Being the first pie specific shop in the area, we felt a strong sense of responsibility to present pie in the best way possible. Our recipes aren't specific to any one region of the world, but rather a collection of pie styles. We did a ton of work and research before writing our business plan and then we began to test our pies in community pop-ups. We believe the community responded so well to what we're doing not only because the product is delicious, but also because they feel the love and passion in everything we do.
We're not serial entrepreneurs making random investments and seeing what sticks. We put our money where our heart is. It does mean we have to work extra hard to accomplish things, but when you're doing something you love, no amount of work will hold us back. If in the future our hard work and dedication allow us to open our hearts to another project, you (our blog readers) will be the first to know.
Happy New Year, from Pop Pie Co. May everything you bake, turn out perfectly.
Hello 2017,
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