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Love Seeing Baldelli in Rays Blue!
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I granted him that, and did tell him that Boston was the only team I could see him in their jersey and not think about booing or even scoffing Baldelli because of that lifetime dream of wearing those colors. But I quickly remind my absent-minded friend of the respect and admiration Baldelli had for this Rays organization and the soft spot they had in his heart too. My rival friend did acknowledge that the Rays might have provided and given Baldelli an better chance to show his early Major League talents and early chances to strive as an outfielder with the young Rays, but that Boston took him to the promised land (playing with a "B" over his heart).
I still remember standing near the back of the room under the stands of Progress Energy Field on March 12, 2008 when Baldelli met with the local media and announced his existing condition, and his plans to possibly leave the Rays and seek immediate extended medical treatment for his condition. I still remember some of his statement that day very vividly:
As far as my baseball career, I'm not here to stand in front of you telling you I'm retiring. We're still going to pursue every avenue that we can to try to figure out what is going on, have a better understanding of what is going on. But at this time, throughout all of the extensive testing that we've done, we don't have a concrete answer. The doctors' consensus is that these are the problems that I'm experiencing and there's a lot of medical proof of these things, but they've been unable to specifically identify an exact reason or an exact problem down to a specific name.
That's kind of frustrating, but that's why we're going to continue along with the team's help to find out what's going on. I feel comfortable about this because the team has been so good to me and supported me in every possible way I could imagine. Without that, I don't know really where I'd be right now, because this is as probably as difficult and frustrating a thing as I've ever had to deal with as a person.
My friend was a bit astonished that I could recite or even retain any pieces of that statement with any sense of clarity. But then again, he forgot that Baldelli was the center of that first class of Rays farmhands to finally breakthrough in the early 2000's. But I also got to admit it, I surprised myself too. The pure fact that Baldelli (to me) along with Carl Crawford were the "young gun Rays". That loss of innocence on that afternoon cut deep to my inner core. But I also knew of the extra time and extended efforts of people like Rays Head Trainer Ron Porterfield took to personally attend and research Baldelli's medical needs and his extended rehabilitation to normalcy on the ball field was amazing.
I also knew of the extended olive branch by the Rays for Baldelli to stay within touch of the Rays organization as he searched for his initial medical treatment options not only showed the respect and the admiration the Rays entire organization had for Baldelli, but showed the friendship ties and bond that could not be easily broken by such a medical imperfection. The Rays knew they found a rare person is the player once so prominently compared to Yankee legend "Joltin' Joe" DiMaggio. My rival friend forgot how Baldelli struggled out of sight of the baseball world that day and finally returned in Seattle during a Rays series to play again in the sunlight of Safeco Field bearing the Rays colors.
And certainly my baseball buddy here had his selective memory card swiped clean to forget that Baldelli on October 13,2008 against his beloved team went 1 for 3 with 3 RBI in the confines of Fenway Park in the American League Championship Series. And he surely forgot Baldelli also went 1-3 during Game 7 of the ALCS hitting a single in the bottom of the fifth inning that plated Willy Aybar with a decisive run in the contest. Baldelli had finally seen success wearing the Rays colors, and that you can never take away from a player. But my friend quickly used one of my same lines from a Janet Jackson song, "What have you done for me lately? Wooo wooo hooooo hoo"
My "B" tattooed buddy was unaware that Baldelli was still involved in the world of baseball before I calmly stated to him that Baldelli was a frequent visitor to the Rays clubhouse and had taken more than a few turns in the Batting Cages within Tropicana field before Rays games this season. I also knew that recently he had been working out with Rays Strength and Conditioning Coach, Kevin Barr to get physically able and ready to maybe in the near future partake in another round of Major League Baseball games. That the prognosis I had heard showed great promise and resources that Baldelli was both physically and medically willing and able to play again at this level.
My uninformed buddy got all giddy and began to remark that he would look great again in the Red Boston # 5 jersey and spoke of the outfield epidemics that had plagued his Red Sox in 2010. I let him ramble on a bit before I stopped him and asked why Boston released him after the 2009 season. He had no real concrete answer, but thought it might have been for the best at that moment in time. I then popped the old news to us Rays fans that Baldelli had actually been in a Rays dark blue sweatshirt as early as February 28,2010 when the Rays pitchers' and catchers' first reported in Port Charlotte.
That Baldelli was currently "employed" by the Rays as a Rays farm system roving outfield and hitting instructor while also working himself into shape after his shoulder injury in 2009. Baldelli had entered the Spring with some lingering effects from his shoulder aliment, and the Rays aw it as an opportunity to rehab someone with distinctive Rays history and fan appeal in case of an emergency later in the season. This fact stunned my Bostonian friend and he was stammering that Baldelli had no reason to go back to his Rays roots after being in the splendor of Beantown. He had played in the big city and now he should have rewarded Boston first with any return to the MLB discussion.
I reminded him he might have asked the Boston brass for the same set-up as he rehabbed his shoulder but do not officially know if Baldelli might have gotten turned down by the Red Sox. In the long run, Baldelli came back to his Rays roots were he not only knew would he get treated great by the entire organization, but also had fond and awesome memories within its brief history. I ended up the conversation with my rival friend that I think we will see Baldelli again in a official Rays jersey before the end of the 2010 season. For Baldelli is rising again like the Phoenix in Tampa Bay and will again have a role on this team making its way towards the playoffs.
My friend quickly scoffed at the notion as he went towards the stairs in Section 144 to gain a Batting Practice baseball. But before he got out of sight I reminded him of the times before that Baldelli had been on the canvas and the referee might have been counting him out, but he rose to fight another day and showed the tenacity of a warrior. My friend laughed as he quickly ascended the stairs out of sight. I then popped my head out of the stairwell near Section 138 and looked towards the Rays dugout.
Standing next to the rail signing an autograph was a familiar sight. It was Baldelli talking and leaning against the rail. The Rays had finished B P and were no where in sight, but Baldelli lingered for a few moments talking with a few fans before also disappearing towards the Rays clubhouse. Just that momentary sighting brought back a wave of emotion, not just from that March 12th event, but from the multitudes of highs and lows that had evolved since the Rays took him in the First Round back in 2000. Baldelli was officially sighted again within Tropicana Field…Hopefully it will not be the last time in 2010.
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LOL Double R ~ I love it when people get a Total Recall on matters, like you and your knowledge of Baldelli. Good show by you! R.Baldelli is no doubt a granite pillar of the Rays Franchise. Everything started changing with him.
Guess I am lucky enought to only have a 12 year memory of Rays events.
But have seen some great moments come and go and do not regret a single second of it all.
Baldelli is a special player to this franchise, and glad the Rays front office and their Coaching staff see and partake in using his expertise to the fullest.
Still think we will see a number 5 jersey on the Trop's turf in September….Just my hunch.
Rays Renegade
Cliff, I can't say I blame anyone for being glad to see Rocco in a Rays uniform. We welcomed him as a Red Sox, esp. as he is a New England native, but it almost felt like we were welcoming a guest. We were happy to have him, and we certainly wish him the best. But Rocco looks most at home in a Rays uniform. Good for him, and good luck to him!
Take care, Cliff!
I just gets a bit weird to see guys in other unifroms sometimes.
I saw Omar Visquel come to bat in a White Sox jersey tonight, and it looked odd for him not to be in Indians jersey.
Still got an Indians/Pepsi bobblehead with him on it I got the first time I went to Jacobs/Progressive Field.
I got a fever for some # 5 posting up at DH by the end of the year.
Rays Renegade


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One Pudding serves two people. All you will need is the following:
An even amount of fresh Strawberries, Red Currants, Black Currants, Blueberries and Raspberries.
1Tbsp of Sugar
A splash of water.
A load of medium sliced White Bread.
Fresh cream and fresh Fruit to garnish.
Begin by simmering the Strawberries, Red Currants, Black Currants and Blueberries in a saucepan, on the hob with a splash of water and the sugar. It is important that you don't allow the mixture to boil. The fruit should become soft, but not mushy.
Once off the heat, add the Raspberries and leave the fruit to cool.
Meanwhile, cut out tops and bottoms for your puddings, using whatever vessel you are going to use for a mould as a guide (Sheila uses glass trifle bowls). Also cut out strips of bread to form the sides of your puddings.
When your fruit mixture has cooled, pour into a colander and capture the juice in another bowl. Soak your bread pieces in the juice. Do not throw any excess juice away; you will use it when serving your puddings.
Fit your bread pieces around the moulds and fill until they are bursting full of fruit. Place the bread lids on top.
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Head Coach Bill Taylor announced the team awards and season honors for the 2012 Lipscomb Track & Field season.
"We have a tradition of awards that represent our core values within the cross country and track & field programs" said Taylor. "These are big honors for our athletes as it means they represent the best of what we are and lead the way in making our program one of the best in the nation in every way, which creates a very unique and special environment."
Most Improved:
Women – Kendra Lobley (Freshman – Poland, Maine)
Kendra not only improved incredibly this season, she put together the best distance season in women's track team history. She improved her high school personal-best in the 5000m from 19:48 to 16:41. She also improved from 5:03 in the 1600m to 4:57 in the indoor mile, and 11:25 for 3200m to 10:40 for 3000m. She won two Atlantic Sun Outdoor titles, a very tough double of the 3000m Steeplechase and the 5000m. She had only run the steeplechase once in her life (earlier this season) before winning the gold. Her steeple time at A-Sun qualified her for the NCAA Division I National Championships Preliminary Round. She also earned A-Sun honors in indoor track for the mile and the distance medley relay. She broke school records in the indoor mile, the outdoor 3000m, 3000m steeplechase and 5000m. For her performances at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships she was voted Freshman of the Year, the first ever honor for Lipscomb in track & field. It was an inspiring season to watch and an example of what can be done by our athletes when they buy in to what we do and what they are truly capable of.
Men – Andrew Wolf (Freshman – Puyallup, Wash.)
This award could have gone to a lot of different men. In fact, four men were within one point of each other in the voting. Andrew Wolf wins the award this year. Andrew came out and worked hard. While his early season results were modest, he believed and he kept working to improve. At the A-Sun conference championships he brought his best performance of the year, earning All-Conference honors in the 400m hurdles with an all-time personal-best. The hurdles are a very difficult event for men to transition from high school. The hurdles are taller, and in most cases, high schoolers are used to the 300m hurdles instead of the 400m hurdles. Andrew kept working to improve, and adapted throughout the season. Andrew is a great athlete and has a very bright future!
Fightin' Bison (the person who demonstrated the most guts, mental toughness and physical toughness):
Women – Dani Walker (Sophomore – Wichita, Kan.) and Kendra Lobley
Dani had to fight hard this season. Recovering from a snapped bone in her foot in cross country, Dani still came out early and ran better than last year. But you could tell it didn't feel right for her. Then through the whole season she dealt with compensation injuries that really put her in pain. Yet she kept fighting throughout the season and it paid off big. She earned All-Conference honors in the 1500m and 4x400m relay, and then two weeks later broke the school record in the 5000m with a big new PR of 16:38. That time qualified Dani for the NCAA Division I National Championships Preliminary Round. Dani showed how important fight and perseverance are.
Kendra rightly deserves this honor. Her achievements this season have been noted already. You would have had to have seen her run and practice to understand how she improved so much. Kendra is a fighter. She was brave in races, pushed herself to the limits in practice, and earned every single thing she got this year. Her mental and physical performances day in and day out are a key example to our team of what it takes, and what will happen when you are all in.
Men – Matt Deery (Freshman – Phillipsburg, N.J.)
Matt attacked everything he did this year. As a young multi-event athlete as well as a stand-out hurdler and vaulter, Matt never complained and eagerly pursued anything asked of him. He was the guy that would do five or six events at a meet, preparing for the multi's, then be asked at the last minute to run a leg of the 4x400 relay. He would not only do it with a terrific attitude, he would post a fast time. Every time Matt competed, the whole team could see that he held nothing back. He has the upmost respect from the coaches and his teammates for his fighting spirit, toughness and attitude.
For the Team (the best teammate, the most positive and caring):
Women – Tessa Hoefle (Sophomore – Winnebago, Ill.)
Tessa was voted 'For the Team' for the second time this year, after earning the same award for the cross country season. As a leader Tessa brings a terrific combination of high expectations, along with genuine care for her teammates. She strives with all her might to be the best she can be, yet it is very clear that she cares about her teammates and the team's success even more. Tessa cares about her team, each individual, and the overall team's success and enjoyment so much and it makes a huge positive impact on what we are. Tessa served as a team captain this 2012 track & field season.
Men – Geoff Musick (Junior – Nashville, Tenn.)
Everyone knows that Geoff wants the best for everyone. He works tirelessly to unite the team, take care of the team, inspire the team and to do whatever it takes to make everyone better. His heart for people is huge and his desire to be a part of the best program in the nation, in every way is apparent. He is helping make that more of a reality every day. Geoff has previously been voted Total Commitment (2011 track & field and 2010 cross country) and Heart of Gold (2011 cross country). Geoff served as a team captain this 2012 track & field season.
Heart of Gold (the person who demonstrates the highest character, who doesn't compromise, who does the right thing every time, even when nobody is looking):
Women – Ashley Lehman (Senior – Harrisonburg, Va.) and Maggie Lawrence (Sinking Springs, Pa.)
This is the fourth time Ashley has been voted for this award in cross country or track (2009 track, 2011 track, 2011 cross country). Ashley is an emotional and spiritual leader on the team. She cares deeply for her teammates, and served as the Director of our Discipleship and Outreach Commission this year. The D.O.C. is our spiritual growth component for the team. They lead the team in planning and having team devotions, doing service projects in the community and doing a mission trip each year. Ashley has a huge heart for people and wants to help them grow spiritually. She has served that role incredibly and has always been there for all her teammates. Ashley has also been voted Freshman of the Year (2008 cross country) and Most Improved (2009 cross country).
Maggie is just one of those people that bring light into the room when she arrives. She truly has a heart of gold, has a smile on her face almost all the time, and an attitude and personality that lifts other people up. She wants to help all people and wants this team to be amazing in every way. She inspires and makes people laugh, while getting them to be their best. This is a well-deserved award for an up-and-coming leader in our program.
Men – Isaiah Greer (Junior – Johnson City, Tenn.)
This is the second year in a row that Isaiah has been voted Heart of Gold. Isaiah serves as a team captain and is a terrific example of doing it right. He works hard, inspires others and shows he cares. He is an essential part of our success and strives to learn and lead better all the time. He is also a guy the other guys can come talk to about their running or their life. Isaiah has previously been voted for many awards, including Fightin' Bison (2009 cross country, 2010 Track, 2010 cross country, 2011 cross country), Freshman of the Year (2010 Track), and MVP (2011 cross country).
Total Commitment (who did it right, did it all, did it all the time, and did all the little things):
Women – Tessa Hoefle and Kaitlyn Llewellyn (Freshman – Perrysburg, Ohio)
Tessa has actually won this award all four of her seasons at Lipscomb now (cross country 2010, Track 2011, cross country 2011). I think that is exactly what you want from one of your team captains. Although she leads verbally as well, it is easy for the team to listen to Tessa because she walks her talk. She leads by example and does everything in her power to be the best she can possibly be, both for herself and for her team.
Kaitlyn is willing to do anything and everything she can to be great. She listens, she works super hard and does all the little things that ultimately make the big differences. What is most impressive to me about Kaitlyn is that she didn't have the year she expected or wanted this past year athletically. Yet, that didn't demotivate her or take anything away from her commitment to the team or her desire to succeed. She just keeps working. And it will pay off big in the near future.
Men – Kenny Smith (Freshman – Etowah, Tenn.)
Kenny is a friend to everyone on the team and one of the hardest workers on the team. As we were putting together projected 4x400m relay teams during the season, Kenny was never in the top four. I'm sure he got kind of irritated that he was usually listed at 5 or 6, but he just kept working, gave everything he had, and when his opportunities came, he made them pay off big. Kenny's hard work got him on the varsity 4x400m indoor and outdoor teams at the A-Sun Championships. The result? Both teams earned All-Conference honors, with the Outdoor 4x400m relay team winning the A-Sun Championship. He also earned all-A-Sun honors on the 4x100m relay, and helped set school records in all three relays.
Freshman of the Year:
Women – Kendra Lobley
This was an easy vote. Kendra won this award overwhelmingly and rightly so. If you are voted A-Sun Freshman of the Year, you are probably also going to be Lipscomb Track Freshman of the Year. She had a freshman track season to remember, and has not only shown what a freshman can do, she has motivated our whole team.
Men – Matt Deery
Matt put together terrific indoor and outdoor seasons. He earned A-Sun honors in the indoor heptathlon and the pole vault, and the outdoor 110m hurdles. He set school indoor records in the 60m hurdles, the pole vault and the heptathlon, and outdoor school records in the 110m hurdles and pole vault. He competed in so many different events and competed fully in each. He's a great guy, with a positive attitude and a huge desire to succeed. Matt has an incredibly bright future."
Women – Kendra Lobley
There isn't much left to be said about Kendra. On an incredibly talented and motivated team, Kendra was voted Most Improved, Fightin Bison, Freshman of the Year and MVP. She made a gigantic mark on our program this year, and I am excited to watch her get better and better, as she helps lead this team to bigger goals yet.
Men – Tucker Peabody (Sophomore – Memphis, Tenn.)
Tucker built upon his excellent freshman season last year, by breaking school records in the 55m, 60m and 200m indoors, and the 200m, 4x100m and 4x400m outdoors. He also tied Robert Smith's 100m school record set in 1976. Tucker won the conference championships in the indoor and outdoor 200m. He also led off the A-Sun Champion 4x400m Relay team. I am especially proud of him for that, as he has been reluctant to run the 400m. So when he did, he gave his best and was rewarded with another conference title. Tucker also earned A-Sun honors this year in the indoor 60m, the outdoor 100m and the outdoor 4x100m relay. His time in the 200m this season (21.14) qualified him to the NCAA Division I National Championship Preliminary Round. It was another terrific season for Tucker, and a season in which he grew a ton. We look forward to his next two years in the sprints!
2011 Track & Field Team Captains:
Women – Tessa Hoefle, Catherine Beals, Dani Walker, Taylor Mason
Men – Isaiah Greer, Geoff Musick, Benton Reed
ASUN Honors:
All A-Sun First Team
Women – Kendra Lobley (3000m steeplechase), Kendra Lobley (5000m Outdoor)
Men – Tucker Peabody (200m Indoor), Tucker Peabody (200m Outdoor), Tucker Peabody (4x400 Outdoor), Kenny Smith (4x400 Outdoor), Bobby Bassett (4x400 Outdoor), Colin Dempster (4x400 Outdoor)
All A-Sun Second Team
Women – Kendra Lobley (Mile Indoor), Dani Walker (1500m), Ashley Lehman (10,000m), Valerie Winkler (4x400 Outdoor), Dani Walker (4x400 Outdoor), Brenna Thompson (4x400 Outdoor), Sara Stephens (4x400 Outdoor)
Men – Matt Deery (Pole Vault Indoor), Ryan Whitley (4x400 Indoor), Kenny Smith (4x400 Indoor), Bobby Bassett (4x400 Indoor), Colin Dempster (4x400 Indoor), Colin Dempster (400m Outdoor), Matt Deery (110m Hurdles), Ashton Fisher (3000m Steeplechase)
All A-Sun Third Team
Women – Dani Walker (Mile Indoor), Kendra Lobley (DMR), Brenna Thompson (DMR), Katie Bunker (DMR), Dani Walker (DMR), Taylor Mason (Javelin)
Men – Tucker Peabody (60m), Matt Deery (Heptathlon), Houston Ward (Shot Put Indoor), Colin Dempster (400m Indoor), Isaiah Greer (5000m Indoor), Andrew Wolf (400m hurdles), Tucker Peabody (100m), Colin Dempster (4x100m), Bobby Bassett (4x100m), Kenny Smith (4x100m), Tucker Peabody (4x100m).
A-Sun Outdoor Track & Field Women's Freshman of the Year: Kendra Lobley
A-Sun Track & Field Scholar-Athlete Team
Women – INDOOR: Tessa Hoefle, Katie Bunker OUTDOOR: Tessa Hoefle, Ashley Lehman, Brittany Duerk, Katie Bunker
Men – INDOOR: Geoff Musick, Isaiah Greer, Logan Ray, Tucker Peabody OUTDOOR: Austin Ray, Isaiah Greer, Geoff Musick, Ben Wright, Tucker Peabody
A-Sun Track & Field All-Academic Honors Spring Semester (Must have a 3.0 GPA) (* = 4.0 Spring semester GPA)
*Brittany Duerk
O'Neisha Smith
Anna Bowers
Catherine Beals
Anna Belner
Katie Bunker
Missy Dowd
Minna Fields
Reba Francisco
*Tessa Hoefle
Ali Keith
*Maggie Lawrence
*Ashley Lehman
*Kaitlyn Llewellyn
Kendra Lobley
*Emily Longden
Melissa Matis
Megan McClain
Jaimie McFarland
Renee Menzie
Alyssa Miller
Alex Newby
Lacey Printz
Amanda Twigg
Louisa Van Batavia
Dani Walker
Katie Collier
Abby Dodson
Taylor Mason
Julia Shrewsbury
Sara Stephens
Natalie Stewart
*April Terry
Brenna Thompson
Valerie Winkler
Benton Reed
Ben Ashley
Dan Coleman
Ben Fennell
Ashton Fisher
Ryan Gadsey
Tyler Glenn
Isaiah Greer
Tate Honaker
Andrew Jones
Cliff Long
Alexander McMeen
Tim Muller
Geoff Musick
Aaron Todd
Zak Vruwink
Ben Wright
Mike Yang
Adam Austin
Matt Deery
Kevin Floyd
Bradford Lineberry
Caleb Love
Tucker Peabody
Austin Ray
Logan Ray
Dillon Seigenthaller
Kenny Smith
Houston Ward
Andrew Wolf
A-Sun Athlete of the Week Honors:
May 9 – Dani Walker
April 18 – Katie Bunker
April 18 – April Terry
April 18 – Houston Ward
March 28 – Kendra Lobley
March 21 – Kendra Lobley
Feb. 15 – Tucker Peabody
Feb. 15 – April Terry
Jan. 18 – Tucker Peabody
Coach Taylor's Post-Season comments:
"This was another incredible year for our program. The stats and press releases speak for themselves. 2012 was the best track & field season in women's history, and the best men's season in the NCAA I era for sure.
"Thirty-four different school records were set this year. We qualified the first men and women in Lipscomb history to the NCAA Division I National Championships Preliminary Round. We had our first woman win two A-Sun titles in the same meet, and repeated as A-Sun champ in the women's 3000m steeplechase. Tucker won indoor and outdoor 200m titles.
"We had the most ASUN honors in school history, more ASUN athlete of the week honors than ever before, scored the most points in school history and posted the highest team finishes for the ASUN Men's and Women's Outdoor Championships and the Men's Indoor Championships.
"Kendra Lobley became the first ever Lipscomb A-Sun Freshman of the Year honoree.
"We continue to produce among the best in the nation academically, with fifteen earning a spot on the A-Sun Track & Field Scholar-Athlete Team, and almost the entire rosters earning All-Academic honors.
"And there is more to tell. But more than all that, we have the most incredible team environment and people on our teams.
"Yes, we excel athletically and we get dramatically better every single year. And yes, we are always one of the top academic programs in the nation. We do these things because our student-athletes are incredible people.
"The attitude, character and personality of our teams are second to none. We enjoy being around each other. We support each other and motivate each other to succeed. We care about each other.
"So at the end of the day, I see the points and the times and the honors as a product of what type of people we have, and what type of program we build at the foundational level. And what I am most proud of is who these athletes are as people, and what we (coaches) can do to help them become even better in every way.
"Congratulations 2012 Lipscomb University Track & Field for an incredible and historic season! Let's take it to yet another level in 2012!"
All quotes used in this article were provided by head coach Bill Taylor.


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Health clubs near Fort Drum, NY, are experiencing an increase of memberships as 2,600 soldiers in Fort Drum's 3rd Brigade begin to return from Afghanistan.
The Watertown Family YMCA, located less than 30 minutes from the military reservation, has seen the increase of military and their families in its facility. According to the Watertown Daily Times, with a number of programs offered exclusively for military families, including discounts on memberships and free child care services, military families make up about 25 percent of the club's 9,000 members.
Steve Rowell, branch director for the Watertown Family YMCA, told the newspaper that the military programs are a part of the YMCA's mission to serve the community's needs, and Fort Drum is a large part of the community.
Just two miles down the road, Page Fitness Athletic Club offers training programs more commonly seen in the military to cater to the influx of military members.
Co-owner Chris Page told the newspaper that rather than being a traditional health club model with membership fees, the facility offers boot camp-style classes, core exercise and weight-loss classes. The niche workouts have attracted their share of new members, with returning soldiers and their families making up one-fourth of the people enrolled in the classes.
"We offer a totally different type of strength-and-conditioning training that soldiers are used to," Page told the newspaper. "And the programs keep you accountable because when you sign up for a class, you have to come to work out at least three times a week."
Watertown Health & Racquet Club offers more of a family-friendly atmosphere to new members with its four racquetball courts and two indoor tennis courts.
Offering membership discounts and free racquetball lessons as an incentive for military families, Watertown Health co-owner Nancy Gray says she expects health club memberships will reach a record high as all three brigades return to the area in the coming months.


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Reds fans saddened by loss to Giants
Loyal fans look ahead to next season
There was a collective sigh just after 5 p.m. Thursday as the high hopes for the race for the pennant came crashing down.
But in spite of it all, Cincinnati Reds fans end each thought of the post-season defeat with a positive note for the next year.
"I went to the game Tuesday, then today, my mom picked me up early from school to come down here," said Keith Cooper, who watched the game at Fountain Square.
Keith and Ethan Cooper traded study hall for baseball. They wanted to be downtown for what they believed would be a big victory moment.
"My hat is a good-luck charm for the Reds," Keith Cooper said.
Garey Faulkner turned to superstition, too, convinced it was his face painting that led to losses Tuesday and Wednesday. He watched with a clean face.
"It didn't work out in our favor," Faulkner said.
Dozens perched in Fountain Square, clinging to every play on the big screen, until towel ringing faded to a moment of throwing in the towel.
As the last pitch struck down World Series dreams, Reds fans cleared out quickly.
"I'm still disappointed, but I'll still love the boys until the end of time. I'm always a Reds fan. I'll be there next season. Hopefully, we can ring it in," Reds fan Liz Bartelt said.
It wasn't the hats-off moment Rob Johnson had hoped for.
"(I'm) devastated. We had a 97-win season go down the tubes within three games," Johnson said. "The good thing is we fought back. We always fight no matter what the score was."
But before the last player left the field, Johnson joined many loyal fans in looking to the on-deck season.
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (Friday, February 22, 2013) – The Colorado Rapids played to a 0-0 draw in a 75-minute scrimmage with the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) on Friday night in the first game of a doubleheader at Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara. The best chance of the match came after 58 minutes, when a scrum in the box resulted in Rapids trialist forward Cesar Romero getting a shot off, which hit the post.
UCSB had the better of play in a quiet first half, and could've been up a goal after just 90 seconds when a forward got into the box but placed his shot just wide. Colorado forward Andre Akpan got the best look for the visitors just before halftime, but his left-footed shot from 18 yards was high and wide.
The second half was much more open, with Colorado dominating play and quality chances coming for both teams. The Rapids had more opportunities, with Akpan, Romero and trialist David Cortes all getting good looks at goal, but failing to hit the net. On the other end of the field, recently signed goalkeeper Clint Irwin held strong on a few UCSB chances, including a stop on a breakaway in the 63rd minute. Trialist midfielder Machael David played the full 75 minutes for the Rapids against his former university team. Davy Armstrong (picture above), played his first preseason match after missing the last few weeks with back spasms.
Tonight's scrimmage against UCSB was played immediately before an exhibition match against the LA Galaxy.
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Disciplinary Summary:
COL – Davy Armstrong 70 (caution)
Colorado Rapids lineup: Clint Irwin, Davy Armstrong, Marcello Castro^, Brenton Griffiths^, Anthony Wallace, Machael David*, Nathan Sturgis, David Cortes*, Cesar Romero*, Stefano Pinho^, Andre Akpan
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IBM has been manipulating particles in the atomic scale since the beginning of the 1980s. They created a machine called a Scanning Tunneling Microscope to study atomic magnetism back in 1981 and 32 years later, the tech has advanced to the point of being able to precisely move individual atoms. In the search for a method that could maximize the density of digital memory, a research team from IBM San Jose decided to use the STM to have a little fun.
Lead by principal investigator Andreas Heinrich, IBM scientists set off to create a stop motion film. The set of the movie is a tiny copper plate smaller than one centimeter square. The actors are made out of the essential building blocks that make every single actor and everything else, atoms. In this case, carbon monoxide molecules were used.
The copper 111 plate and carbon monoxide atoms were chosen because they interact stably. This allows the CO molecules to naturally stay on the Cu plate so that the team could create 242 frames needed to create the stop motion movie. Each shot had to also be cleaned up of extra CO molecules to produce each frame. The entire process took two weeks.
The film, A Boy and His Atom, tells the tale of a boy who finds an atom and sees it appropriately change to make different things. From a bouncy ball to a trampoline, the atom entertains the boy before it goes zipping across the clouds like a molecule of gas.
The stage, inside the STM, is a vacuum chamber at a temperature of around 5 degrees Kelvin. This microscope magnifies the atoms 100 million times and uses an electrically charged needle, 500 nm long and a few nanometers wide, to create a small difference in potential between it and the copper plate, to move atoms without having to touch them. The researchers say they can hear when each atom moves, through the STM.
The team manipulated about 100 atoms per frame and more than 5,000 atoms during the entire film. Viewers will notice ripple-like patters created around each of the CO molecules. This is due to electron displacement between the CO and Cu atoms, according to commentary in a "Making Of" the movie video.
The film was made to showcase advances in atomic manipulation being made toward production of high-density atomic memory storage for digital devices. One bit in our current devices is stored in about 1 million atoms. However, the IBM team used the STM to prove that a cluster of 12 atoms is all that is needed to create a magnetically stable arrangement that can store one bit of information. This cluster acts as a single magnetic unit so it will not interfere with surrounding atoms. It can be changed from representing a 1 or 0 by rotating the magnetic polarity of one atom 180 degrees and the rest flip accordingly.
The film was also made as a tool to inspire the young scientists and engineers that will make atomic memory possible in the next 10 to 30 years; the results of which will be staggering. Atomic memory storage will increase memory density by 100 times over hard disk memory, 160 times over NAND Flash memory, 417 times over DRAM, and 10,000 denser than SRAM, according to IBM.
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Threats to pollinators abound, but so too do the everyday conservation efforts being taken to protect them.
This 25th Anniversary Edition celebrates Naturalist as a modern classic.
Reposted from the Worldwatch Institute's blog with permission.
In this installment of the occasional series, we hear from Cristina Eisenberg, author of The Carnivore Way.
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(CNN) — One week after Superstorm Sandy beat up the Northeast, tearing apart homes and lives in New Jersey, New York and other areas, there's another worry on the horizon: A nor'easter is coming.
Rain will start to move in early Wednesday morning and will gradually become heavier, according to CNN meteorologists. As the day goes on, the weather will get worse with temperatures hovering in the 40s — bad news for about 1.2 million people who are still without power in the area.
The primary concern from the nor'easter — defined by the National Weather Service as a strong low pressure system with powerful northeasterly winds blowing in from the ocean ahead of the storm — is the impact it could have on the ravaged Jersey Shore. Coastal flooding and beach erosion are possible.
The storm is not another Sandy, and its path and severity could change throughout the day, according to CNN meteorologists.
"I haven't even really thought about the nor'easter," Ryan Hanley said.
The 27-year-old's chief worry is the home she had to abandon in Wantagh, on New York's Long Island. It's 4 feet deep in water. All of her belongings are on the curb.
"I cannot think right now about voting (in Tuesday's presidential election) either," she said. "I don't even know where to go if I wanted to vote."
Voters in some New York counties may get an extra day to cast ballots if disruptions caused by Sandy prevent enough citizens from voting, a state official said Sunday. And New Jersey announced that residents displaced by Sandy can vote in Tuesday's elections via e-mail or fax, the first time civilians in the state have been allowed to vote remotely.
There are other signs that New York is making progress. Construction work has started again at the 9/11 ground zero site, which was flooded by Sandy.
But in everyday lives, progress can't come fast enough.
Hanley is living with her boyfriend's family a few towns away from Wantagh, and her confusion about where to vote is a secondary concern right now.
"I've heard from neighbors who are still around there that we've had looters," she said.
"What am I supposed to do right now? How do I deal with that?" she said. "I don't have electricity, so I cannot pump the water. It is just sitting there. Whether someone takes what we have … I have no control over that. I have no control over any of it."
Hanley has been talking with her insurance company. But she said she hasn't been able to reach a real person with the Federal Emergency Management Agency yet.
"We have not been directly contacted, nor can we reach anyone when we call," she told CNN.
FEMA has defended its response to people in need.
While Hanley struggles with the bureaucracy of post-disaster life, many others are receiving help from the Red Cross, which has opened 190 shelters along the Eastern Seaboard. The organization has hundreds of disaster workers on standby with emergency supplies.
'It's a humbling experience'
Katie Fairley, a Staten Islander who lives in New Dorp, one of the harder-hit areas, said she's seen people sleeping in their cars.
A 51-year-old vice president for finance at a health care facility, Fairley said lines for food and for gas are blocks long.
"Thank God, we have each other here," she said, insisting that Staten Islanders have been forgotten.
Another Staten Islander, Tara Saylor, spent her weekend volunteering to hand out clothing and food. The 25-year-old works at a Manhattan interior design showroom. She and her home on a hill in St. George escaped Sandy's wrath.
Helping people touched her deeply.
"I was almost crying when people are thanking me," she said. "(They were) throwing their family photos out in the middle of the street. It's a humbling experience. You really begin to appreciate what you have."
In the Long Island community of Floral Park, Kevin Cordova's family members tried cooking hot food to stay warm and wore their coats indoors. His house is uninhabitable, thanks to Sandy.
"There's really no amount of blankets that can stop you from being cold in 30-degree weather," the 28-year-old said. "We feel a little homeless right now. We have our house, but we can't really use it."
Teacher: 'I want them to tell their stories'
To the southwest in Red Bank, New Jersey, about a 90-minute drive from Floral Park, Chris Ippolito has been luckier than many folks. So far, he's only had to wrestle with sporadic power outages. But his mother-in-law's home was severely flooded.
Her historic house, more than 100 years old, sat a block from the ocean in Monmouth County.
Her family built it, and she spent her childhood there.
She left the house before Sandy hit, so she's physically all right. But she's devastated by the loss.
"It's incredibly difficult for her," Ippolito said.
Things are returning to some semblance of normalcy, he said.
CNN reached Ippolito shortly after he'd delivered food and supplies to a local firehouse.
"Businesses are breathing back to life," he said. "Schools are limping back to life."
Ippolito is a high school teacher. His district is closed for now, but he's thinking about all of his students.
"I want them to tell their stories, to feel like they can open up if they want or need to," he said.
He'll use his free time Tuesday to cast his vote for president.
"I understand that voting isn't the priority for a lot of people who are dealing with more immediate needs," he said. "But I'm not going to miss it."
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Tim Morrison of Time.com recently conducted an interview with legendary guitarist Slash. You can now watch the chat below.
Slash's second solo album, "Apocalyptic Love", sold approximately 38,000 copies to debut at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday morning (May 30). The disc, released through Slash's own label, Dik Hayd (Decayed) Records, follows up 2010's self-titled solo debut, which moved 60,000 copies in its first week of release.
Although he plays material from his previous bands, GUNS N' ROSES and VELVET REVOLVER, in his live show, Slash told The Pulse Of Radio that fans have no problem listening to the new songs as well. "I'd say probably about 50 percent of my set makes up of new material and the other 50 percent is old stuff, and so they take the new stuff with the old stuff pretty well —fortunately, you know," he said. "The new stuff is as inspired as any material I've ever done, so I just go out and do it, and I think probably 'cause I have the balls to just go out and do it and not care, people sort of go, 'Oh, okay.'"
Unlike Slash's solo debut, which featured different vocalists on each track and a number of guest musicians, Slash has recorded all of the new CD with his touring band, MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS.
Slash and his band have embarked to Europe for a month-long tour before starting a new North American run on July 12 in Portland, Oregon.


text: kayakerinme and I headed to New Hampshire yesterday to attend the event, in memeory of LandRocket. Caching during the day with Foxgloves, we grabbed a few caches, one of which took us to Castle in the Clouds, which was a great place to view Lake Winnepasaukee. The Falls below were just gorgeous and well worth the long hike. But the real story was the nighttime activities. There were probally 50 or so at the dinner for the 6:30 buffet and stories to be shared of Ron. Chris his son was there and alot of familiar names that called Ron a friend. 8:00 pm and the race was on for the REAL festivities. Night caching LandRocket style. 8 new caches to be found, from micros to " fire tack " walks in the woods. The 3 of us started out and quickly picked up a NH cacher Jim who was pleased to tag along. Foxgloves had the first FTF and I had the 2nd. Then it was time to do Jim's 1.25 mile walk in the woods. We found the parking spot and headed into the woods, now there were 6 of us. Following the sparkling " fire tacks" ( with LED flashlights they are barely visible ). Still the walk under a clear and almost full moon was magical. You almost knew Ron was watching us from above. We found the cache and had to have a code to unlock the ammo can. Luckily we had done things right, (remember we had the cache owner with us) and logged the cache around 11:00pm, I think. Time now to head back east towards Maine. Picking up a few more caches before leaving NH, the last logged find was 12:02am April 1st. Home for me was just after 2am. A very long day, a milestone cache, and a ton of stories. Thanks Foxgloves and kayakerinme, for going along for the ride. I will remember this event and the night caching " LandRocket style " for a very long time. I wonder if Jim's wife will believe the stories he is telling her?


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danielthepoet necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 340 diseños de 76 diseñadores freelance.
Wellspring - Wellspringdfw
Our church exists to help people grow in their friendship with Jesus and friendship with one another, and to use the gifts of the Holy Spirit to extend both of these friendships.
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Game 43 vs. NJ: Jazzle Dazzle
The sun might not really be shining and the birds might not really be singing, but all is good in the world. Top to bottom, start to finish, this was just an outstanding effort by the Jazz, who connected on 21 of their first 25 shots (84-freaking-percent through 1.5 quarters) and led 60-42 at the half on 71% shooting.
It's not that the Nets played bad in the first half. They shot 50% from the floor and from the three-point line, but unfortunately for them, the Jazz were shooting over 70%. In the second half, you started to see the team that's only won three games this season. With 6 minutes remaining in the 3rd quarter, Yi and Lopez only had one board each (I noticed this because I have both Yi and Lopez on my fantasy team, and I really needed boards today), and New Jersey's starters had four rebounds total.
It was extremely encouraging that the Jazz maintained their 30+ point lead throughout the game, and were able to avoid their usual late collapse. They were playing loose, having fun, and team chemistry looked as good as I've ever seen it. At the same time, I was feeling so sorry for the Nets. Losing night after night can't be fun, and I don't think they're as bad as their record. It's just that–as the Jazz have shown over this past year–losing sometimes becomes an attitude or a culture. The Nets might not have much of a bench, but their starting lineup is definitely above average. Mark my words: they're going to get a good draft pick, win 30-40 games next season, Kiki is going to win Coach of the Year, and be fired within six months. You heard it here first.
Oh, and —NEWSFLASH–The lead threshold for Jerry pulling the starters before the three-minute-remaining mark is apparently 30 points.
Some individual/group accolades:
Ronnie Price is just pure, plain, unadulterated hustle. He had a dunk that was identical to this one, and my mind just totally projected Carlos there standing beneath the basket.
AK didn't play in the second quarter after injuring his hand, and came back out in the second half with some kind of hand brace on. I was steeling myself for "injured AK," but less than two minutes into the half, he had a vicious dunk that told me everything was A-(O)K (middle picture is AK smiling after landing back on earth). And yeah, Deron liked what he saw.
Our bigs: Memo (best he's played all season offensively, and 3 blocks to boot), Boozer (simply just "on"), AK (dunking, blocking, and thieving all over the floor), and Sap (showing off a stunning array of And-1 circus shots) combined for 29-41 (71%) and 29 boards.
Ronnie B scored 15 points on 5-5 shooting, and honestly, everything was clicking to the point where we didn't need much from DWill, who had a very Jason Kidd-esque night (1-4, 5 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals).
All in all, this was the Jazz I've been waiting for all
season [last] year.
Where did the Nets find Chris Quinn? Aren't there child labor laws in the United States to protect 12 year olds?
Final note: I was thisclose to making a long distance phone call to KFAN during the pre-game show listening to the two guys that were on air butcher Yi's name ("Why John Long"? Seriously?). In an era when information is so readily available and easily obtainable, how do you not check before speaking? And double demerits for the comments about how the Nets are funded by the Russian mafia.


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Addicted to speed
Our columnist may not be squandering his children's inheritance at the roulette table – but he is slightly troubled by an embarrassing addiction.
Everyone has their own secret, their personal vice, their dark side. And that's good, because at the core we're all fragile, corruptible beings, and even the strongest amongst us have their weaknesses.
My wife doesn't know everything about me. She knows a lot, such as the fact that I have what others might consider a serious pickled gherkin habit; she knows that shopping for socks invariably drives me round the bend because I can't decide whether to buy socks sized 39-42 or 43-46 because my shoe size is 42.5; she knows that I have a serious aversion to – nay, a phobia – of centipedes and will shriek if I spot one. She knows a lot – but not everything. I have a secret. It's not a particularly dark secret. I'm not having an affair with a world-famous actor or indulging in some hanky-panky with a neighbor. I don't gamble in casinos and neither do I smoke crack. To some, I may seem like an ordinary guy, possibly even verging on the dull: just your average human, father and man. But I do have a small confession to make. I love games. No, not in gambling dens or online poker sites… I am familiar with men who will go to bed with their wife, turn off the lights, say "Goodnight, honey" or a variation thereof and will wait until the spousal breathing becomes reassuringly regular or turns into a gentle snore. Then they whisper, "Are you awake, honey?" If they don't get a reply, they slip out from under the sheets and tiptoe out of the bedroom under cover of darkness like a spy in an old black-and-white movie – only to spend the next few hours in front of a garishly illuminated screen. They gamble, play poker or any of the myriad games available online until the next day dawns, placing bet upon bet until they're exhausted – and thousands of euros poorer.
That's not for me – it's far too much hard work. My particular vice is much tamer and the costs are no way as high. I have a weakness for video games. Or rather, one particular game. It's called Gran Turismo and is a pretty amazing racing simulator with an incredible choice of cars. The first version launched in Europe in 1998, and the seventh release arrived not long ago. My name's Max and I am a Gran Turismo addict. There – now it's out!
It's probably to do with the fact that I was once a child … and still am a child to a large extent. In my youth, two things were important: playing and cars. I was a complete car freak. I'm older and more disillusioned now: I drive a deeply unglamorous estate car praised in all the reviews for its sturdiness and value for money. I have kids, and the last thing you need is a Lamborghini for obvious reasons related to practicality… the boot is laughably small and the rear view? Honestly, forget it!
The video game costs under 100 euros, and for this modest investment you get to drive all the cars you dreamed of as a youngster. The newest release, Gran Turismo Sport, offers a staggering 150 models, which is a pretty impressive fleet. And I can drive every single one without harming the environment or contributing to overcrowding on the roads. There's never a ticket under my windscreen wiper.
These days, I trot cheerfully to my small office in the best of spirits – which surprises my wife no end, as I am notoriously not a morning person. But rather than booting up the computer, I switch on the games console, plant myself in front of the screen, joyously returning to my youth, driving computer-generated cars, fast and furious, my working day officially ends. Then I call my wife and say, "Honey, I'll be back a little later today."
Not that I would ever admit it. The shame of it! An adult playing a car game instead of working; wasting valuable time when he could be creating something meaningful – how childish! Never, ever will I reveal my secret. My wife will never know. It's mine to take to the grave. And now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go for a drive …
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Sunday, July 19
Tom Watson and Golf's Tragic Consequences
"THIS AIN'T A FUNERAL, YOU KNOW," Tom Watson quipped, sort of, in the interview room following his playoff loss to Stewart Cink at the British Open in Turnberry, Scotland.
Actually, it was.
No, no one died. Just one 59-year-old man's improbable dream of a sixth Claret Jug, which would have tied him with the great Harry Vardon. Also dead: the hopes of who knows how many casual and serious golf fans who were pulling hard for the new Old Tom.
Cink is a fine player and deserving major winner. I like "Stewie." A lot. And yet it was an unsatisfying result, wasn't it?
Center of the green and two putts on the 72nd hole and Watson would send the scribblers on a mad search for words to put the whole affair into a suitable sports-history context. Alas, it turned into a funeral. The playoff was almost too painful to watch. I felt embarrassed for Tom. But he is a gallant man and true champion, and always carries himself as such.
So as I was mowing my lawn—I don't usually mow on Sunday, but I didn't know what to do after the unsettling conclusion to the Open—it occurred to me that golf is, in large part, a tragedy.
Every week 130 or so players tee off. Only one wins. Many players come agonizingly close to winning on their way to losing. Golf is ridiculously hard and often fickle, a real heart-breaker, a tragedy waiting to happen.
With all due respect to Stewart Cink, the year's champion golfer, the 2009 British Open will be remembered as Old Tom's Tragedy. His loss was my loss, and maybe yours, too. It sure felt like a funeral.
−The Armchair Golfer
Tom Watson Tops News About 59-Year-Olds
Tom Watson Is a Shock to My Golf Senses
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- PureGolfJourney said...
It definitely feels like a funeral right now, Neil. But I'm sure once this sick feeling leaves my stomach, in time I will come to appreciate this week for the inspiration it gave me."What can I accomplish in another 35 years?" was the question running through my mind this morning.
Tom's grace and sportsmanship, the way he handled himself- its easy to see why he's one of the greatest golfers in history and so revered, even by his long-time rival, but great friend Jack Nicklaus.
Once the dust settles, I'm sure I'll find a way to block out that last approach to 18 in regulation, the ball just not stopping no matter how much I begged it to, the putt up the hill that just didn't read the script...Aaaaah I'm not over it yet!
- Patricia Hannigan said...
The problem is that America always wants the Hollywood ending. Nothing else is palatable...or commercially sound. And that's too bad because Hollywood endings don't happen often in real life. There wasn't one at Turnberry this year. At 58, Tom Watson played amazingly well, gained many fans and undoubtedly had an awesome experience. In the end an affable, if unlikely, player twenty years his junior grabbed the championship.
I know it's not the Hollywood outcome many wanted but it's far from tragic, as far as I can see.
- Hack said...
There's nothing to be bummed about...it would have been great to have seen history happen. But Stew was more than deserving and I think it's a bit of a bummer that his win is tainted in any way by people viewing this as one Tom 'lost' vs. that something Stewart won. He won it flat out.
At 59 the original T-dub had nothing to hang his head about and I am appreciative to him for basically saving The Open from being another 'ho-hum' major event.
Don't know what to say. It was an awful moment seeing Tom up to his knees in the rough on that playoff. I remember watching di Marco come so close, against Woods, where he seemingly couldn't get anything to go his way. But that wasn't a fraction of what happened here. That weird bounce on the 18th was agonising. All credit to Cink; but he had no power over that bounce. We can only hope there's some higher order where that awful moment was somehow something other than what it seemed. It was a blow for all who have felt their most supreme efforts in life go unrewarded. It was a bitter taste of the indifference of causality. But it was also a wonderful reminder of what can at least be possible. And Tom's graciousness (in what must have been a totally gut-wrenching defeat... he surely knew he was unlikely ever to come back and get another chance) was deeply inspiring. Sometimes one feels 'hell, it's just golf! - sports, money, fame... so what?' But yesterday was too human for that. I almost wish that players finishing on the same score would share the title.
Mario (London)
Being an avid golf fan and watching this the whole way through, I can only add it broke my heart. One image we can carry as a good lesson for behavior during good times and bad is the grace and sportsmanship exhibited by Tom Watson. No wonder the fans loved and supported him. Thank you Tom for it all.
- John Boyd said...
I'm a casual golf fan who felt for Tom Watson yesterday, having been born on exactly the same day, September 4, 1949.
I would like to cherish my memory of yesterday, at the moment when Tom stepped forward to take the putt to win his 6th Open Championship, on the 18th in regulation play...
But congratulations to Stewart Cink. Remember, as Gore Vidal said: "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
Tom Watson -a true gentleman and great sportsman.
John (Edinburgh, Scotland)
As the great sportswriter Grantland Rice once noted:
For when the one great scorer comes
to write against your name,
He writes not that you won or lost
but how you played the game.
How can you play the game any better than Watson did? He was nothing short of magnificent.


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Series note: Western New York sent more than 4,400 soldiers to Gettysburg, Pa., to fight in the three-day Civil War battle waged from July 1 to 3, 1863. The Buffalo News retells the stories of four local men who took part in the epic confrontation 150 years ago. This is part three.
By Scott Scanlon
News Staff reporter
The second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, fought 150 years ago today, started with the future of the United States very much in doubt – and a key point on the battlefield in the hands of a Western New York artillery battery commanded by a former Buffalo tax collector.
If that wasn't harrowing enough, Battery I, 1st New York Light Artillery, was among the Union Army of the Potomac units that had struggled against the Confederates in earlier battles. As night fell, it would come face-to-face with one of the most feared Rebel infantry units of them all: the Louisiana Tigers.
The Tigers had become legends long before the Confederate and Union armies would spend much of the sizzling daylight hours of July 2, 1863, digging into their positions, refortifying their lines after the heavy fighting on the first day at Gettysburg and preparing for another engagement.
This was supposed to be a "civil war," and most soldiers preferred to use gun and cannon fire from a distance to inflict suffering on the battlefield, said Scott Good, a Civil War re-enactor and historian who grew up outside Gettysburg and graduated from Medaille College in 2010.
Not the Louisiana Tigers, who liked to get up close and personal, with bayonets.
"Other units, just by the sight of them on the battlefield, would break and run," Good said.
Their arrival on Pennsylvania soil a couple weeks earlier hardly went unnoticed, according to the writings of Terry L. Jones, a history professor at the University of Louisiana. "Over the previous two years, the Tigers had gained as much notoriety for their thievery and drunken, violent behavior in camp as they had for their bravery in battle," Jones wrote in a paper titled "The Tigers Invade the Union."
Civil War-era accounts talk of the Tigers and other Rebel units helping themselves to food, livestock and anything else that might strike their fancy. They "paid" for what they took with Confederate money, which was worthless in the North.
As daylight waned on Day 2 of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Louisiana Tigers stood at the foot of East Cemetery Hill on the southeastern edge of town, joined by units from North Carolina.
A battery of 141 German immigrants from Western New York, some of them part of a former state militia commanded by Capt. Michael Wiedrich, were already hard at work at the top of the hill.
Wiedrich, 42 at the time, immigrated to Lancaster in 1837 from Alsace-Lorraine and joined the New York State militia four years later. By the end of 1860, he was a major in an artillery battery, a force in the local Republican Party, co-publisher of the daily German newspaper Buffalo Freie Presse and the new tax collector of Buffalo.
He was charged with putting together a light artillery battery after the Civil War started and culled his men from the farms and trades in Buffalo and Lancaster. Like Wiedrich (pronounced WEED-rick), most of them had immigrated from German territories in the two decades before the war. Many had been on the losing side of a revolution in the German Confederacy in 1848 and tended to be "liberal," in 19th century terms, said Richard Rosche, vice president of the Buffalo Civil War Roundtable. They had fought for civil rights, free and fair elections, and freedom of the press and religion, and in America, they tended to be anti-slavery supporters of President Abraham Lincoln.
Battery I got its first taste of defeat since the old German war days at Cross Keys in Virginia in June 1862, coming up against the Louisiana Tigers. Three of its members were killed and six wounded, according to records with the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs. They struggled in several confrontations with Rebel armies afterward, losing men, horses and equipment, including at Chancellorsville.
Four men were killed and 10 wounded in that battle, exactly two months before this fateful day at Gettysburg. They were "compelled to leave two of the guns on that field, all the horses of one gun being shot, and nearly all the men on the other wounded," according to a state report.
At Gettysburg, on East Cemetery Hill, they were determined to bring about a different outcome.
"The Army of the Potomac at that time was at its height," Rosche said. "Most of the units, including the units from Buffalo, were first-year and second-year volunteer units. … They were true believers in their cause, and on top of that, the Union had been trounced by Robert E. Lee on several occasions before, so the Army of the Potomac was primed to fight bitterly and to win this battle. Plus it was their home turf."
As night began to fall, Wiedrich's Battery – as it was called – was ready for a fight, with a full complement of equipment, fellow light artillery units beside them, and the weapon of choice for artillery batteries on both sides of this bloody war: canister.
The Western New York battery had double canister rounds at the ready. About the size of two coffee cans laid end to end, each canister round contained iron or lead balls, as well as any nuts, bolts or other metal scrap that industrial plants could scrape up to cram with sawdust into a shell casing. When fired, its force was that of a super shotgun blast.
"If you were shot by canister at close range, you were pretty much obliterated," said Rosche.
At about 9 p.m., as the Louisiana Tigers and North Carolina infantry regiments charged up the hill, Wiedrich's Battery was among those to rain canister fire upon them. What happened during the next half-hour or so has been subject to debate by historians for a century and a half, but some things are agreed upon:
• The rebel soldiers made a furious march up the hill as Union musket and cannon fire thinned their ranks. These soldiers got within Wiedrich's Battery, and one of them – from the 6th North Carolina – planted the unit's battle flag among the caissons.
• Wiedrich's men fought hand-to-hand. "The enemy stood with tenacity never before displayed by them," a Southern commander wrote after the battle, "but with bayonet, clubbed musket, sword, pistol and rocks from the wall, we cleared the heights and silenced the guns." Wiedrich, his men and other Union artillery men fought back, according to New York State archives, with "sponge-staffs, handspikes and stones," as well as fence rails and pistols.
• When the smoke cleared, Wiedrich's Battery, with help from reinforcements, had captured the North Carolina flag, reclaimed its battery and pushed the Tigers and North Carolinians off Cemetery Hill.
Three men from the battery were killed at Gettysburg, including two officers, and 10 were wounded.
"Stopping the Tigers might have been the turning point in the Battle of Gettysburg," Rosche said, and many other Civil War experts agree. Keeping the high ground – at Little Round Top, Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill – in Union hands helped the army protect its supply routes, as well as the headquarters less than a half-mile east of Gen. George G. Meade, whom Lincoln named commander of the Army of the Potomac just three days before the battle began.
Wiedrich and his battery would go on to fight in several more battles, and they distinguished themselves a year later at Peachtree Creek in Georgia while serving with Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman.
After the battery returned to Buffalo, Wiedrich again served as tax collector of Buffalo, and he worked as an insurance agent in a building along Broadway, overlooking Lafayette Square. He was a member of Bidwell Post No. 9, Grand Army of the Republic, and, along with many of his former soldiers, became active in veterans affairs in the region. In the 1880s, they were part of the effort to build a new Sailors and Soldiers Monument in Lafayette Square, in honor off all of those in the region who fought in the Civil War.
Likenesses of a cavalryman, infantryman, sailor and artilleryman stand on four sides of that monument. Wiedrich saw to it that the artilleryman faced the window of his office, according to members of the Buffalo Civil War Roundtable. He died in 1899 and was buried in Forest Lawn, the Buffalo cemetery that is home to more than 2,000 Civil War veterans, including 536 in a Civil War section.
Part of the "Neighbors" exhibit of the Buffalo History Museum features memorabilia that help tell the tale of the contributions various ethnicities have made to this region's cultural and social identity. The exhibit includes butter lamb products, the story of Kwanzaa, and Romanian and Croatian clothing.
It also includes a plaster mold of Wiedrich's Battery.
The bronze relief made by the mold sits in one of several monuments on Cemetery Hill, across Baltimore Street from Gettysburg National Cemetery, which President Lincoln helped christen in November 1863 with "The Gettysburg Address."
The monument overlooks the sprawling field where the fate of a nation would hang in the balance on Day 3 of the Battle of Gettysburg, a day when arguably the greatest Western New York hero of the battle would give his life to help preserve the union.
WEDNESDAY: A hero so popular two towns would fight over his lineage, but whom Congress continues to snub.
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A $20,000 grant from the Comcast Foundation to the Education Foundation of Sarasota County will accelerate a new digital literacy initiative to reach young people at agencies across the county.
As a result, hundreds of students will gain access to digital tools, training and tutoring in safe environments this school year.
With the Comcast Foundation funds, the Education Foundation's Texcellence Program will launch its newest Digital Learning Lab in partnership with Alta Vista Elementary School.
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The first Education Foundation Digital Learning Lab was installed in April to enrich Laurel Civic Association's after-school, weekend and summer programs.
Other Digital Learning Labs are planned for at least 10 locations, including YMCA's Triad sites, Sarasota Housing Authority, Sarasota County libraries, Boys & Girls Clubs, and 21st Century Community Learning Centers.
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Derek Cooper, vice president of Government and Community Affairs for Comcast in Florida, said, the Education Foundation of Sarasota County has worked with Comcast for several years to help students and their families bridge the digital divide by participating in Comcast's Internet Essentials program.
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Comcast also sponsors the foundation's annual Evening of Excellence student art program. In addition, the company's local employees volunteer on school remodel and improvement projects through "Comcast Cares Day."
Since 2007, 6,621 Sarasota County students in need have received a home computer, training for the family and ongoing low-cost technical support.
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Be apart of a growing brand! We need 2 flyers or "sell sheets" for our two different types of customers. Needs to be persuasive, creative and flashy to grab attention and make the sale. Can you finish off the sale?
Freightview is a place where shippers post truckload freight loads and carriers bid on those loads. It is also a transportation management system that shippers use everyday to manage their freight. Carriers use it to find "backhaul" loads. Carriers have scheduled routes to specific locations - they go to load boards to find these backhaul loads because they don't have a regular way to get back. For more information, see the previous brochures listed below.
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Southeastern softball slipped slightly in the NFCA Division II Top 25 after a 2-2 weekend series, dropping to No. 5 in the poll released on Wednesday.
The Savage Storm are 21-6 on the season, but are coming off a four-game=split in its weekend series against Henderson State which dropped their Great American Conference record to 6-2.
SE was unable to take advantage of then-No. 1 Valdosta State dropping two games on the week, which would have opened the door for SE to take over the top spot.
Instead West Texas A&M at 19-1 on the season jumps from No. 3 to No. 1 in the poll with 393 points and 13 of the 16 first place votes. The Storm handed the Buffs their only loss of the season at the NFCA Division II Leadoff Classic.
VSU drops one spot to No. 2 with 377 points and retains two first-place votes with a 20-5 record on the year.
Indianapolis (Pa.) also leapfrogs SE, going from No. 4 to No. 3 with one first place vote and 368 total points with an 18-2 record on the season.
Armstrong Atlantic jumps from No. 6 to No. 4 with a 17-2-1 record and is just four points ahead of the Storm at No. 5 with 339 points.
This marks the fourth-consecutive week that Southeastern has been ranked in the top five nationally.
SE also remains the only GAC schools in the top 25, while two other Central region schools remain in the rankings.
In-state rival and current MIAA member Central Oklahoma moves up one spot in the poll this week from No. 9 to No. 8 with a 14-4 record, while fellow MIAA member Fort Hays State jumps into the poll at No. 21 with a 13-3 record.
Southeastern will be back on the diamond March 15-16 for a key four-game GAC series against Arkansas-Monticello beginning with a double-header at 1 p.m. on March 15, followed by another twinbill at noon on March 16.
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Yanks receive gift, turn triple play for wild win
Club plates three decisive runs on dropped ball; CC fans nine in 8 IP
NEW YORK -- One of the stranger weeks in recent memory continued for the Yankees on Friday, as New York capitalized on a three-run error and turned a crucial triple play to extend their winning streak to four games with a 5-2 victory over the Orioles at Yankee Stadium.
Playing for the first time in three days after back-to-back rainouts in Cleveland, the Yankees knocked off the division-rival Orioles behind another dominant outing from CC Sabathia and a pair of wacky plays on a cold, blustery night in the Bronx.
The drama started in the seventh inning, when Vernon Wells stepped to the plate with the bases loaded, two outs and the game knotted at 2. Wells drilled a pitch from Pedro Strop to straightaway center field, where two-time Gold Glover Adam Jones had trouble handling the ball and dropped it on the warning track, allowing all three runners to score.
"The way the ball was carrying tonight ... I thought he was going to be able to run it down," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "The chances of [him dropping it] are slim, slim, slim, but we caught a break."
What happened next was even more shocking.
After the Orioles started the top of the eighth with back-to-back singles to bring the potential tying run to the plate, Sabathia ended the threat -- and his outing -- by inducing the first triple play of its kind.
With Nick Markakis on first and Alexi Casilla on second, Orioles third baseman Manny Machado roped a line drive to second baseman Robinson Cano, who fielded it on a short hop. Cano flipped to shortstop Jayson Nix for the first out, and that's when things got really interesting.
Instead of turning the routine double play, Nix -- knowing Casilla had to freeze momentarily on the line drive -- pivoted and rifled to third baseman Kevin Youkilis. After exchanging throws with Nix, Youkilis tagged out Casilla then -- seeing Machado had rounded first base -- fired across the diamond to first baseman Lyle Overbay. Overbay relayed it back to Cano, who tagged out Machado sliding into second base to complete the first 4-6-5-6-5-3-4 triple play in Major League history.
"You're not going to see stuff like that happen at a crucial moment," Girardi said. "You're going to see some triple plays, [but] it's not always going to be a crucial moment in the game."
In the other dugout, Orioles manager Buck Showalter knew it was simply the nature of Machado's hit that put the baserunners in an unfortunate predicament.
"The two lead runners made the right play. It's a line drive short-hop," Showalter said. "You can't go anywhere because, if he catches it, then he does get multiple outs. We just made a mistake on the trail runner trying to get a little over-aggressive, a young player. But Manny's one of the reasons why we were in that game."
Machado, in the third inning, had singled home the first run of the game to stake the Orioles to an early 1-0 lead. That run, however, would be the last earned run allowed by Sabathia, who conceded just one unearned run over the remainder of his eight innings of work while striking out a season-high nine batters.
"I thought he was brilliant tonight," Girardi said of Sabathia, who was also on the mound for the Yankees' last triple play in 2010. "I thought he had a great sinker and a great changeup and a great slider tonight. I think that was probably the best stuff he's had all year, and that's encouraging as we go on."
Sabathia settled in after allowing the third-inning run, retiring the next eight hitters, including notching five consecutive strikeouts in the fourth and fifth innings. With the southpaw dealing on the mound, it looked for a while as if a fifth-inning RBI single by Cano that put the Yankees ahead, 2-1, might hold up as the difference.
However, that all changed in the seventh inning on yet another unusual play.
With the Yankees clinging to the one-run lead, Orioles catcher Matt Wieters reached on a Youkilis error to start the frame then advanced to second on a controversial balk call against Sabathia. After Sabathia struck out Chris Davis, Baltimore shortstop J.J. Hardy singled up the middle to plate Wieters, with Sabathia still visibly disturbed by first baseman Larry Vanover's balk call.
"I didn't look at the tape yet, but I know I didn't move my front side," Sabathia said of the balk. "I always wipe my hand off [on my pants], and that's something that I do pretty much every pitch. It's just one of those things. But I know I didn't move my front side."
One inning later, though, Sabathia's frustration had turned to jubilation as he pumped his fist and ran off the field and into the dugout celebrating alongside Cano and Youkilis, among other teammates, following the historic triple play.
"It's special," said Youkilis, who went 3-for-3 with an RBI and an intentional walk to extend his hitting streak to nine games. "It's one of those things where it's a job and it's a grind at times, but when stuff like that happens, you feel like you're back playing Little League again. That's the fun part about it."
There's been plenty of fun for the Yankees of late, as Friday's victory pushed the club above .500 for the first time this season at 5-4. Though only nine games into the season, the four-game winning streak and triple play-type chemistry developing on the field are positive signs in Sabathia's eyes.
"It's good to have a winning streak," Sabathia said. "It's early, but we've still got to keep going, keep playing. We've been playing well, though, so hopefully we keep it going."


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