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League of Nations - Contributors from around the globe who have made New York their second home in order to cover the best in sports.
Original content and links to the work of the founding contributors to Keez On Sports. The League of Nations represents the best New York sports has to offer: a great team from around the globe.
The talking never stopped from Adrien Broner.Read More
Sports aren't just about the game being played. It's about the players, team, staff, stadium and fans. We try our best to take the shots, conduct an interview and write the articles that give you the full experience.
Contributors from around the globe--Japan, Spain, Australia, Puerto Rico and native New Yorkers--who have made New York their second home to cover the best in sports.
Our goal is tell the stories we are interested in seeing in hopes that you will be, too. In accordance with that, we are trying something new. We have articles in English, Spanish and Japanese. The internet has made us all world citizens. Rather than translate, for example, an article from Japanese to English and risk losing it's meaning or feel, we're leaving it as it was written.


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Recap of the June 7th N/NE Quadrant SAC Meeting
Jun 12, 2012 at 12:07 PM
Meeting overview
At their June 7 meeting, following a presentation discussion and public comment, the N/NE Quadrant Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) endorsed the I-5 Broadway/Weidler Interchange Improvements Draft Facility Plan by majority/minority vote. A minority report will be prepared to capture the views of the 3 SAC members opposed to the plan.
The SAC also received updates on ongoing discussions about adjustments to maximum building heights along NE Broadway, and zoning proposals in Lower Albina. Those topics and more will be covered in a draft of the N/NE Quadrant Plan scheduled to be released during the week of June 18. This draft plan will be the subject of discussion at the next SAC meeting on June 28. An extended public comment period will be provided to take comments on the draft, after which the SAC will be asked to endorse or give direction on the goals, policies and actions proposed in the plan.
For more information, see the June 7 meeting packet.

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Continuing the with the 'Jet-Age' motif, this series is inspired by the printed airline routes and schedule brochures of the past. A bold three-letter code, travel map, and schedule are cleanly and minimally designed to fit within one 11" x 17" sheet.
The map illustrates all road trip routes for the upcoming 2019 season, radiating from the location of the home field. A full 2019 calendar shows the team schedule, highlighting both home and away games.
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For many college seniors looking to land a job upon graduation, this is the time to start worrying.
Career consultant Tom McGarrity has seen it before. As spring graduation looms, students turn not just to papers and exams but to how they're going to start their futures in the working world. This is where McGarrity can help.
In time for the annual end-of-college crunch, McGarrity has launched Center of the Bullseye Consulting in Greenwich, aimed at helping seniors translate their four-year educations into jobs.
A retired advertising executive, McGarrity has spent the past 15 years volunteering his services to students at Colgate University, his alma mater. Part of what Bullseye offers is a vast network of former students who, over the past 15 years, have found employment across a spectrum of industries. McGarrity's advertising career started with help from a Colgate alumnus, and he's never forgotten it.
"It had a big impact on me, so I always felt I had to give back," he said. "I've been doing this for 15 years, and what struck me was how great these kids were at being students but how lacking they were in skills involved in getting a job. College career centers are pretty terrific, but they often don't have people employed there who have worked in the business world."
To be a professional consultant, McGarrity became certified to perform the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, to determine what jobs match clients' personalities. MBTI results might not fit exactly what the client wants to do, he said, but it's just the first step for anyone seeking mentoring.
In his 10-hour course, McGarrity urges clients to identify companies to contact, gives pointers about interviews, reviews resume writing and offers workplace guidance.
In this sluggish economy, finding a job can be "challenging at best and daunting often," said Mike Sciola, associate vice president for advancement and director of career services at Colgate.
"Often students are at a loss on how to translate their academic achievements into clear career objectives and steps to gain employment," he said. "Tom McGarrity brings a wealth of experience and connections to his work as a consultant for young professionals eager to enter the work force that is invaluable."
The impetus must be with the client, McGarrity said. It's not just about getting college seniors jobs but rather about teaching them how to get a job. It's also about sparing parents the anguish and expense resulting from a child's unemployment or long stay at home.
"I can get someone a job -- I don't guarantee jobs -- but the onus has to be on them," McGarrity said. "How I see it is that my value is not only am I out to help the young person, I'm also out to help the parent."
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Math iPads and Hunting for Geometric Shapes
Teachers can use iPads in their geometry classrooms to encourage students to apply mathematical concepts to real world examples. By creating presentations on their iPads (as shown in this activity in which students look for concentric circles) students play the role of teacher, explaining what they have learned through their own research into math and its application in the real world.
|Submitted by
|Julie Hersch, Temple Israel of Hollywood Day School
|Grade level
|3rd- to 4th-grade math
|Students learn about the properties of concentric circles by
relating them to objects in the real world.
|iPad 2 (or higher); iOS 5.1 (or higher); presentation app such
as Keynote, iMovie, ShowMe, Explain Everything
|Materials needed
|Anything in the immediate environment
Using visual prompts, students break into groups and discuss the properties that distinguish and define concentric circles. Once they arrive at a consensus, students are sent on a scavenger hunt in pairs to find examples of concentric circles around campus and take photos of them.
Students return with examples that include sink drains, door knobs, cart wheels, clocks, and more. Each group prepares a narrated presentation of the images that they found.
One interesting departure was that some students wanted to create a quiz with their images, some of which looked like concentric circles but weren't. As one example, there was a series of hula hoops hung up on a wall that looked like concentric circles but didn't actually have the same central point.
It's interesting how students were able to deepen their knowledge of a concept by presenting patterns that actually didn't match the required definition.


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Designated Marksman Rifles (DMRs) fill an important operational niche. Chambered in 7.62 or greater, they lob more firepower than a 5.56 close-quarters carbine, but unlike the surgical precision of a one-shot bolt gun, they are semi-automatic so you can put multiple rounds on target. And fast. Out to 800 yards or more, if you like.
Indeed, these things give new meaning to the expression "sniper fire."
And just in the nick of time for the annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show in Las Vegas, Heckler & Koch (HK) is highlighting a trio of new 7.62 NATO (.308 Win.) semi-automatic rifles built around this very concept.
The news comes after the German company was awarded a contract to produce the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle (IAR) for the United States Marine Corps.
That rifle — which weighs in at 11.62 pounds as a complete weapons system including all ancillary equipment — is a variant of the Heckler & Koch HK416 used by military, law enforcement, and special operations units in the U.S. and throughout the world. It replaces the much heavier Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW).
Debuting at SHOT Show 2012 is Heckler & Koch's much-anticipated MR762A1 rifle (in caliber 7.62 x 51mm). It joins the 5.56mm model (MR556A1) that was released in 2011. The new MR762A1 rifle is inspired and influenced by recent Heckler & Koch piston driven rifles, including the new HK G28 designated marksman rifle developed for the German military.
A semi-automatic rifle originally developed from the fully automatic HK417, the MR762A1 uses the same HK proprietary gas piston operating system found on current HK rifles and carbines, using a "pusher" rod in place of the gas tube normally found in AR15/M16/M4-style firearms. This method of operation virtually eliminates malfunctions that are common to direct impingement gas systems since hot carbon fouling and waste gases do not enter the receiver area. According to HK, this key feature is deemed critical by leading military and law enforcement customers.
The MR762A1 uses many of the same assemblies and accessories that originated on the HK417 including the HK free-floating four-quadrant rail system. This handguard system allows all current accessories, sights, lights, and aimers used on M4/M16-type weapons to be fitted to the MR Series.
The HK rail system can be installed and removed without tools and returns to zero when reinstalled. Like their HK military counterparts, the MR (for Match Rifle) series rifles use barrels produced by Heckler & Koch's famous cold hammer forging process. The rifles are reputed to use the highest quality steel, known for producing a long-life barrel and superior performance with minimal degradation of accuracy and muzzle velocity even during prolonged use.
The barrels are manufactured in Germany and finished in the USA. MR762A1 rifles are produced in the USA from a combination of American and German-made components. Suggested retail price on the MR762A1 is $3,995.


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Sprouse: It's an acceptable tax
Re: "Breckenridge's bag tax: To pay or not to pay?" Robert Johnson, letters
As the ski season ends, a few weeks of spring sunshine melting away the snow will reveal what the tourists and our own citizens have forgotten. Cups, single gloves, dozens of single-use handwarmers and, of course, plastic bags. It is disheartening to see how much refuse is left behind, and as a response the community comes together for a town Clean-Up Day to keep Breckenridge and Summit County beautiful. Why not take it one small step further?
So here's my plan: continue to use the reusable bags I keep in my car, use the dozens of plastic bags I have faithfully stored to reuse as trash bags, and never worry or need to pay the tax. When my stock of bags does run out, I know a dollar's worth will be cheaper than buying a box of trash bags, and I will consider it another purchase to add to my grocery list.
By continuing to shop in town, I will save the gas Mr. Johnson plans to spend traveling to another town (to save a difference in .5 percent of sales tax, and Silverthorne has the same tax rate as Breck!) and will keep my community employed.
For those with dogs, the town already provides degradable pooh bags. In the end, I will accept this tax as what it is: an incentive to make us locals think twice about single-use items, and a tax for the negligently lazy and excessively wasteful vacationer.
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Wetterhorn Peak (Colorado) Climber's Log
ctruscot - Jul 11, 2004 8:39 pmRoute Climbed: Matterhorn trail head Date Climbed: September 2003
Nice climb end of September - colors were fanatastic.
mpbro - Jul 10, 2004 11:37 pmRoute Climbed: Matterhorn (SE Slopes), Wetterhorn (SE Ridge) Date Climbed: 9 July 2004
Well, unlike "Ratballs", we were wearing clothes, so call us boring! We did the standard routes on Wetterhorn and Matterhorn. Matterhorn was easy and enjoyable. Wetterhorn proved a dandy little scramble on excellent rock! We hiked in the previous night from West Fork Cimarron trailhead and camped east of the 12500' pass east of Matterhorn Peak. Planned to take a 3-day trip to do Uncompahgre, but it seemed better to look at than to climb, so we just did Matterhorn and Wetterhorn and hiked out. Long day, but good fun.
Ratballs - Jun 22, 2004 3:42 pmRoute Climbed: South ridge from Matterhorn Creek trailhead Date Climbed: 31 August, 2003
Highest Naked Man in America:
I headed down Crestone-wards in the evening, but the weather there looked so appalling that I just kept on going, bearing generally towards the southwest. Midnight found me deep in the San Juans, pulling up to the Matterhorn Creek trailhead, where I truck-camped for the night. I backpacked in at 8AM, set up my tent just below the Matterhorn slopes, and then hiked around the shoulder across the open plains of tundra to Uncompahgre, which I climbed up a frustrating scree-filled couloir on the west side.
It felt so damned good to be back up high that I practically skied back down Uncompahgre and ran over to Wetterhorn--beating by twenty minutes, I might add, the summit-to-summit time of Matt Mahoney, the ultra-runner (I know, because he recorded his time in the summit register). It was 4PM, and the latest I'd ever summited. On Wetterhorn, the weather was so clear that I took all my clothes off and wandered naked around the summit for a half-hour or so.
I'm fairly certain that for 30 minutes, then, I was the highest naked man in Colorado, if not the country. Of course, by the time I got back to my tent (fully and appropriately attired), it was still only about 5:30PM, so I backpacked the whole damned thing down again and drove the 380 miles home--I never did camp.
mountainmota - Jun 15, 2004 7:31 pmRoute Climbed: Southwest Ridge Date Climbed: July 2003
Fun 14er!
bc44caesar - May 16, 2004 2:08 pmRoute Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: 15 May 2004
Climbed solo from Matterhorn Creek in conjunction with Uncompahgre. Ascended the ridge from a snow couloir on the west side. The final pitch was covered in snow and ice - very treacherous!!
Ryan Kowalski - Apr 19, 2004 5:04 pmRoute Climbed: From Matterhorn Peak Date Climbed: June 29, 2003
What a joy! Over from Matterhorn Peak. Fully enjoyed the smallish summit. Another beautiful June day in CO. The scrambling was great and solid for the San Juans. One of my favorite CO peaks. Such a distinctive mountain.
JonBradford - Nov 9, 2003 9:53 pmRoute Climbed: South Ridge-Standard Date Climbed: September 1, 2000
I love Wetterhorn. My favorite fourteener by far. I climbed it with my brother. We took turns dog sitting the giant Jax near the Ships prow as we did the third class portion. Neat Neat Mountain. I almost wish it wasn't a fourteener.
Jon Bradford
Steven Cross - Sep 29, 2003 3:10 pmRoute Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: september, 22, 2003
This was my 4th 14er. The top 200 feet was not as bad as I thought it would be. It very exposed, but the solid rock made it quite easy. Somebody told me that it is very intence and told me to bring a rope. Didn't bring a rope and there is no reason for one. The part of the climb that scared me was below where the rock is loose and slippery.
Overall it was a fun climb.
Not a cloud in the sky!
big_g - Sep 27, 2003 9:53 pm Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2003Route Climbed: SE Ridge std route
Awesome route. I was tempted to leave my first ascent as a snow climb of the face in the spring but the pictures of the ledges just looked too cool. This was my favorite 14er climb until the next day when I did Sneffels.
Little tiring after doing Matterhorn first though. Dropping that 800 feet and picking my way through the boulderfield took quite a bit of time.
Guess when the Matterhorn summit log was put out there.... 21 Aug 2001!
RyanS - Aug 22, 2003 3:50 pmRoute Climbed: Standard route Date Climbed: August 15, 2003
A strange weather day made for a quick climb: 2 1/2 hrs. from TH to summit! What a blast! A trip report is available here.
Matt Mahoney - Jul 27, 2003 10:16 pmRoute Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: July 9, 2003
Started from Capitol City and climbed Uncompahgre first. Nice weather even at 2 PM. The last bit of exposed class 3 was scary but not hard.
jvoss - Jul 9, 2003 6:53 amRoute Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: July 1, 2003
Perfect day for climbing! We left the trailhead about 6:45am and had summited by 9:15am. Not a cloud in the sky when we began and only a few appearing on the way down. Trail was WELL marked all the way to the top. The last pitch was a lot of fun for our group of 3, kind of like picking your way up an uneven set of stairs. Rocks were firm and footing/handhold options plentiful. Lazed at the top for over an hour in the beautiful day and was actually able to place cell calls as well.
Happy climbing!
Diggler - Apr 2, 2003 2:50 pmRoute Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: August 2000
Got an early start after sleeping near the trailhead in the car, and kept a fast pace to avoid potential bad weather. I passed a guy from Texas who'd made a goal of climbing all of Colorado's 14ers (even more respectable for an out-of-stater!) and caught up with a father-son duo from Gunnison. We continued to the summit together. It was a fun climb to the top, and the view from the summit was great, too. With dark clouds closing in, though, I decided to forego an Uncompahgre summit bid. I felt better about my decision when I heard thunder higher up when I'd attained lower elevations.
Grant - Jan 24, 2003 2:38 pmRoute Climbed: Matterhorn Creek - 10,400' Date Climbed: July 27,2001
We started at 7:30am up the trail and it was very easy hiking. We started to hiking away from Wetterhorn so at about 12,000 feet we decided to head west toward Wetterhorn. We found out later that we actually passed the turnoff up to Wetterhorn but it sure wasn't marked very well. Soon we were at the ridge and knew after this was where the difficult part started. Roaches description of the route is pretty good and we stuck to the route and made it to the flat area just below what's called the "ships prow". We dropped our packs and at this point we had to climb up a 10' rock to get to the top of a big slanted rock slab. There we sat and looked up at the hardest part of the hike. It was the 150' class III pitch that looked like a big ladder and this was the easiest way to the top. We started climbing up the rock face. The rocks were very stable and I didn't have any problems finding hand and foot holds. After about 10 minutes we were past the ladder and at the summit. After about ten minutes on the summit we headed back down. Going down was a more difficult than going up but not that bad and I thought that the exposure wasn't there like I've read in other reports.
mtnhiker13 - Dec 11, 2002 6:57 amRoute Climbed: Standard Route Date Climbed: July 31, 2002
We started the day with an ascent of nearby Matterhorn which provided excellent views of Wetterhorn and the route we would then follow. Two people in our group skipped Matterhorn and went directly to Wetterhorn. With difficulty we followed their progress through the tundra as they made their way which assisted us in finding a route from Matterhorn over to the ridge on Wetterhorn without too much difficulty. The ascent of Wetterhorn was a blast especially the last 150 foot section. I definitely would like to climb this mountain again. Next time I would like to get on top of the Shark's fin. In retrospect, I don't think it would be that difficult to do and would probably provide a very unique perspective.
rmjwinters - Oct 6, 2002 1:35 pmRoute Climbed: Matterhorn Creek Date Climbed: August 25 2000
Great climb on a scenic mountain in the San Juans. Ledges were fun and felt closer to class 3 than class 4, but I'm sure that's due to the exposure. Lightning chased us from the summit earlier than we had hoped.
xskier77 - Jul 5, 2002 6:42 pmRoute Climbed: Matterhorn Creek Trail Date Climbed: July 3, 2002
Attempted this amazing San Juan peek the previous day combined with Uncompagre but were forced to turn back due to a nasty lightning storm. As we found out the following day it was a good idea to turn around because the final 3rd class pitch to the summit is one that you don't want to be on with wet conditions unless you are using a rope. The final pitch was however very fun in dry conditions and proved to be one of the most exciting 14ers I've climbed yet. I will certainly return to Wetterhorn to attempt the 4th class ridge from Matterhorn.
Bob Bolton - Jul 5, 2002 4:53 pmRoute Climbed: Matterhorn Creek trail Date Climbed: July 4, 2002
The weather started cloudy and threatening, but we went up anyway. It didn't start precipitating until we reached the summit. Downclimbing the summit pitch on fresh corn snow (or whatever you call that stuff) was only mildly disconcerting, but it rained on us all the way down so we were thoroughly soaked by the time we returned to the TH. We were happy to attain another 14er even as the area finally got some much-needed rain.
ChrisChupka - Mar 20, 2002 1:19 pmRoute Climbed: standard summer Date Climbed: July 2001
My first fourteener asides pikes peak cog train when I was 10. My brother stopped right before the "keyhole".
Absolutely spectacular. Two groups with ropes on the way down. Did not think was so bad. Uncompahgre seemed worse with all the people on it. I forgot to sign summit log. Adrenalin makes me forget stuff. I guess it was on the side of the little two foot wall. I was pretty nervous after I looked around on top for a while and forgot where I came up.
The hike up the muddy steep trail to the ridge was then scariest part.
Zeke - Jan 16, 2002 7:54 amRoute Climbed: Matterhorn Creek route Date Climbed: October 2001
Alot of fun, route finding on top is great!


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An open casting call for "Anchorman 2" in San Diego on Saturday turned out to be kind of a big deal.
Thousands of locals showed up to the open call, held from noon to 4 p.m. at the Doubletree San Diego Mission Valley, for their chance to work as an extra or background actor in the sequel to the 2004 comedy hit starring Will Ferrell.
The movie, about Ron Burgundy -- a local news anchor with an affinity for polyester suits and scotch -- will continue filming in San Diego this month, according to Central Casting.
"Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" has already filmed a few scenes in Atlanta. Original "Anchorman" actors Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and Christina Applegate will all return for the sequel.
Earlier this week, rapper Kanye West reportedly joined the "Anchorman 2" cast for a cameo in the flick, filming a fight sequence with Ferrell in which West wore a wig and used a hockey stick as a weapon in the onscreen rumble.
Actors Kristen Wiig and Harrison Ford have also joined the star-studded cast.
San Diegans Claudia Zoumaras and Christian Cadanas showed up to the open casting call around 9:30 a.m. with their hearts set on landing a background role in the movie.
"It's just on my bucket list. It's something to do that's fun. My son is an actor, and I've just always wanted to be in a movie," Zoumaras told NBC 7.
"I love the movie 'Anchorman.' I'm a big Will Ferrell fan. It's a great opportunity to come out here in this beautiful city. I'm grateful to be here," Cadanas added.
Both said they were having fun meeting fellow aspiring extras while waiting in line.
"Anchorman" fan Rachel Taylor told NBC 7 she was ready for whatever the casting call might bring.
Taylor said she had brought along her resume and headshot, and was prepared to sing or recite a monologue if casting directors called for it.
Local Erica Swick hoped to impress casting directors with a special, fiery talent.
Swick, who practices fire poi dancing, told NBC 7 one of the questions on the "Anchorman 2" casting call sheet asked whether actors performed any type of fire breathing or fire acts.
Swick said she was hoping to gain an edge over the competition by showing off her fire performance skills alongside her boyfriend, an aspiring actor who also practices fire poi.
As San Diegans came out in droves to audition for the movie, casting directors were thrilled with the turnout.
Judy Bouley, director of marketing for Central Casting, told NBC 7 that people began lining up for the noon casting call at 6 a.m.
Bouley said the massive crowd proved San Diego's devotion to the "Anchorman" franchise.
"San Diego must love 'Anchorman' because we were already completely overrun by 6 a.m. We've already seen about 1,500 people out here," said Bouley.
At this point, Bouley says the best way for aspiring actors to try out for the movie is by sending their information to Central Casting via email at email@example.com.
This particular casting call is only open to San Diego residents.
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Love Petco Park
Citizens Bank Park has been a good home for the Phillies, a place where they have compiled an impressive record. And, the fans love the place.
But, the home ball yard needs to take a back seat to Petco Park. The Phillies completed a four-game sweep of the Padres there yesterday, their 11th straight win in San Diego's park. That's the longest road streak in the majors. Last loss there was August 16, 2008. In the history of Petko, the Phillies are now 22-4 which makes it their pet park. (Sorry, that is really corny).
Phillies pitchers gave up three runs in the four games and lowered their road ERA 1.90, the stingiest in the majors. Overall, their 3.00 ERA trails only the Marlins (2.98) and Padres (2.95).
Doc was outstanding again, raking up 14 strikeouts and losing a shutout in the ninth inning. Antonio got a one-pitch save. Other Phillies pitchers who have fanned 14 include Chris Short, Jim Bunning, Steve Carlton (five times), Terry Mulholland and Curt Schilling.
Offensively, the Phillies seem to score enough to back up the pitching.
Inside The Park
Shane's inside-the-park homer was the first of his career in the majors. In Phillies history dating back to 1900, there have been 244 such homers by 115 players. Club record for a season belongs to catcher Red Dooin, 5, in 1904. Outfielder Sherry Magee is the Phillies' career leader with 19.
Good Thing
It's a good thing that the Phillies have a deep and experienced starting rotation.
With Jose joining Brad and J. C. on the disabled list, the bullpen is a bit thin and less experienced. Ryan becomes closer #3 on the season which means the others in the pen need to step up. So far Antonio is doing that.
D-Backs Next
Chase Field in Phoenix has been a different story for the Phillies as they are 19-25.
Diamondbacks come into the three-game series (night, night, day) with a team batting average of .258 which is in the middle of the pack and a 5.16 ERA which is last in the NL.
Because of continued NHL and NBA playoffs, the Phillies games on Tuesday and Wednesday have been switched from Comcast SportsNet to The Comcast Network.
Down On The Farm
Lehigh Valley was 2-1 over the weekend in Buffalo, winning the last two games by the same 7-5 score. 1B Jeff Larish hit three homers (#4-5-6) . . . Reading was 2-0 in Akron. Wins went to RHR Michael Cisco (3-0) and RHS J. C. Ramirez (3-0), seven shutout innings. SS Freddy Galvis was 4-for-9 . . . Clearwater was 1-1. RHP Jonathan Pettibone (3-0) was Saturday's winner with 7 shutout innings . . . Lakewood was 0-2 and outscored 21 to 18 at Asheville. (Reading, Clearwater and Lakewood were not scheduled on Easter).
What Would You Have Done?
What profession or occupation might you have chosen if you didn't play baseball? The question has been posed to Phillies Alumni.
"I thought I wanted to be an architect, but I couldn't draw a straight line," INF Kevin Jordan (1995-2001).


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Paper accepted at ICPR 2012
monday 18 june 2012
We have a paper on image categorization accepted at ICPR next November. This is the other part of the Work Romain Negrel has been doing with VLAT. This time it's about efficiency in image classification. We tried to put every tricks of latest image categorization techniques (like dense sampling, spatial pyramid, and so on) into our VLAT while still retaining small size signatures.
All in all, we managed to achieve 61.5% mAP on VOC2007, which is not bad at all considering we used a single feature and a linear classifier (a stochastic gradient descent from Leon Bottou). Actually, if you put the throttle a bit further, you can expect better results, but then it becomes very heavy computationally speaking. As usual, some code is available here, although it's only for the Holydays dataset right now. At least you can produce the features and then use your own machine learning library (or mine, of course!).


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In the moments before Gorilla entered the boxing ring, he paces the floor, terrified for his future.
A four-months-old Achilles' tendon injury is hurting, much more so than he is letting on to anyone outside his inner circle.
"I was going in there blind," said Aaron "Gorilla" Green, a gentle giant inside a hulking 6-4, 275-pound frame. "I didn't want to show it, but … I didn't know what to expect."
But Green, an up-and-coming boxer in Minnesota at age 31, has become accustomed to chaos. He takes a deep breath and heads toward the spotlighted entryway, knowing this is just another exacting leg in the journey — one impassioned man's struggle to make his mark in an industry that routinely chews up and spits out its eager participants.
At Hinckley's Grand Casino Friday Night Fights this past weekend, one professional boxer was significantly battered in a lopsided fight, taken simply for the money. Another was led away by police; with a warrant for his arrest, the promotion posters gave officers the only lead they needed. Like most fighters in this stage of their careers, Green's body is hurting. He's tired. The Golden Valley resident toils through a second full-time job — working security overnights — to make ends meet.
Physical, financial and emotional aches are steppingstones to the glory many dream about, but few have the dedication, talent and toughness to realize.
After another victory, his squinty-eyed smile returns in full force as Green — now 12-0 with 10 knockouts as a professional — practically bounces around his designated locker room. In one of the most dangerous, difficult and unrewarding sports, nothing is for granted, even for the smartest athletes.
For Green, it makes it all the more worthwhile.
Career transition
One February night in 1990, a young Green was planted on the living room couch in his family's Hinsdale, Ill., home, unable to believe Mike Tyson, his boyhood idol, could lose. Tyson did lose that night — in a memorable bout against Buster Douglas — but it only further drew Green to the sport's excitement. Boxing became an obsession, but stayed just that with most of Green's free time taken up by basketball, the sport he would play in college as a scholarship athlete.
Seventeen years later, Green was 25 and a recent college graduate, working as a personal trainer at a local gym. A pair of fighters who occasionally trained there rekindled the boxing flame, and after talking to them, Green started taking a weekly hourlong beginner class. The more he did it, the more he loved it. Outside the ring, he was understated and soft-spoken. Inside the ropes, he got to be a different person.
Eventually, organized fighting made sense. Green's wife, Frances, a former Division I golfer, understands competitive desire, so they never had an official conversation about his transitioning career. It just began.
Green's first two amateur matches were held at Uppercut Boxing Gym in northeast Minneapolis, where he now trains. In the second, Green knocked out his opponent in only three rounds. Afterward, Lisa Bauch — Uppercut founder/owner and now a member of his team — approached Green's trainer at the time, demanding to know just how many fights his pupil really had.
After grilling Green and his trainer, Bauch's anger turned to astonishment. Was it possible he'd only had one previous fight?
"And if that's the case, we need to get him here," she said.
Double life
At 11 p.m. on a typical Thursday night, Green is behind the front desk of the DoubleTree hotel in St. Louis Park, glancing down at a clipboard full of notes.
"Time to lock this place up," he says.
Looking like the Clark Kent version of Superman — in a black suit and tie with black, thick-framed glasses — Green strides through the building. Monday through Friday, he'll work here until 7 a.m., fighting off sleep rather than punches. Often, when day breaks and his shift is over, Green will head directly to the gym to spar.
His salary from DoubleTree, combined with the one Frances makes as a consultant for 7 Medical Systems, helps the two live comfortably in a modest apartment. Since going pro in October of 2010, Green has averaged about four fights a year and makes anywhere from $2,500 to $4,000 at each event. Some of that is contingent on selling the ticket allotment the promoter gives him — typically around 100-150.
Percentages of the purse go to Bauch; Pete Daszkiewicz, his head trainer and son of legendary Minnesota boxing trainer/manager Papa Joe Daszkiewicz; and Heath Roth, his co-trainer. The rest is mostly used for travel, equipment and doctor bills. But even if Green's boxing career someday becomes profitable, which he anticipates, he still has no plan to quit his night job.
Before all this, Green swears, he wasn't quite so tough.
"If you can do that, you can do anything," Frances said. "The mental toughness that he's had to go through the last couple of years, doing that schedule, you can't get that anywhere else."
In the DoubleTree, Green locks the double doors to Terrace Ballroom 1, grins and slowly turns back.
"I'm kind of a sucker for pain," he said.
No more quitting
Former North Dakota State assistant coach Todd Koering still laughs when he remembers Green approaching him with his plea to play point guard. Even in basketball, he wanted control.
Basketball probably contributed to his excellent footwork and gave the first hints of his toughness — in the post, Green would take elbows to the face and shrug them off. But after three seasons, Green's frustrations with the team were too much for him to handle and he left.
"He's so internally motivated, so intrinsic," Koering said. "He was the guy that sometimes we would say, 'I don't know if basketball is good for him' because you have to tolerate teammates and coaches and opinions and direction that maybe he didn't totally agree with."
Green transferred to South Dakota State with a new vision, but the frustrations remained. One day during a practice, Green got mad and simply walked out. Later, regretting his temper, he returned to practice — but the coaches told him he wasn't welcome back. Green swore he'd never quit anything like that again.
Ready for battle
Three hours before striding out to the ring Friday, Green — sporting a new fauxhawk haircut — sits elbows on knees, head in hands, intently watching film of opponent Stacy "Bigfoot" Frazier on Daszkiewicz's laptop. Daszkiewicz sat next to him, Bauch knelt behind; both offered analysis.
"He's sloppy with that left hook," Daszkiewicz said. "It's his favorite punch, but he's sloppy with it."
Later, at the casino, three boxers and their entourages cram into one locker room. Green chooses the short hallway between the bathroom and the lounge as his territory: earbuds in, jogging in place, squatting, stretching, mostly pacing.
Daszkiewicz drops the gauze he's laying out to wrap Green's hands — a good-luck charm, he says. Every time he's dropped the gauze on a fight night, Green has knocked out his opponent. Still, everyone is nervous. No one wants to let on, but everyone is feeling it.
In April, Green tweaked his Achilles' tendon. A $300 out-of-pocket experimental treatment that was supposed to help him recover in six weeks has not worked. The problems have only compounded, creating a host of other issues.
"I thought I was going to have to end my career," Green said. "I kept telling Pete, 'I don't know if I should take this, I don't know if I should take this.' "
But fresh in his mind is the promise he made to himself years ago.
"I can't quit," he said.
In the ring
At the opening bell, Frazier comes in throwing punches. Green cups his gloves at his nose, deflecting the attack. He always spends the first round feeling out his opponent, but in this bout, his trainers are especially sensitive to early signs. Frazier is the aggressor; Green is retreating. Several rows beyond the ropes, a tall, blonde figure is standing, sticking out from the crowd.
"Keep those hands up, keep those hands up, watch the left hook!" Frances screams.
But midway through the fourth round, the momentum switches. Green lands two right hooks; Frazier's pants are falling off. They dance to the middle before Green works his opponent into a corner. A right jab to the face connects; it's enough to stun Frazier for a second, which is all Green needs.
He starts the battering — 19 punches before a bruised Frazier is able to escape. Before the fifth, referee Mark Nelson warns Frazier to show him something if he's to keep the fight going. But Green attacks again, delivering a devastating blow to the liver. Frazier wails, and Nelson comes running in to stop the match as Green, smiling for the first time, lifts his gloves and gallops around the ring in victory.
Afterward, a combination of relief and exhilaration overwhelms the locker room.
"I was scared," Daszkiewicz says. "I was scared because I knew that Aaron wasn't comfortable with where he was at with that injury, and he was questioning himself."
When the celebration calms, Daszkiewicz clears his throat.
"I wasn't going to mention this before," he says. "We've got a chance to fight on Sept. 21 up in North Dakota, and I'm going to say no."
Green, who has consumed so many 5-hour Energy shots he surely wouldn't sleep, shrugs. "I don't know," he says. "I think I might be fine."
Daszkiewicz can only shake his head.
"You see this?" he says, half-incredulous, half-impressed.
A couple of hours later, as Bauch drives back to the hotel, she looks realistically at the fight offer and Green's injury. "I don't want him to take it," she says. "It's too soon."
So much of Green's future is still unsure, although promising. He's built a foundation around his career; a barrier so that he'll never have to take bad fights, as some boxers do. Still, there's the call of passion, an obsession that never goes away.
"Probably the worst disease a person could ever get is the love of boxing," Daszkiewicz had said earlier.
Green is infected. But in the moment, anyway, he doesn't want a cure. Back in the locker room, red welts gracing his forehead, he struts around, with more spring in his step now than seems possible.
This feeling is the only thing boxing has ever promised him.
And for now, it is enough.


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Acura has unveiled its NSX Concept car at the International Auto Show in Detroit, revealing it to be a considerable stylistic departure from its famous predecessor, and that it'll use a V6 hybrid powerplant.
The resurrection of the NSX name has been rumored for some time, and now we've seen it for real, it does indeed appear that Tony Stark will be adding one to his collection of toys in the upcoming Avengers movie.
Like the original, the NSX Concept uses a mid-mounted, direct-injection V6 VTEC engine, joined by one of Acura's new Sport Hybrid SH-AWD units. As the name suggests, the new car will have all-wheel drive, achieved here using the electric motors and something called a "bilateral torque adjustable control system."
A reporter for Wired spotted a diagram which explained this, suggesting the VTEC would power the rear wheels, while two electric motors would deal with the fronts when needed. We'll have to wait for performance figures though, as none were provided in the press release.
Acura – or more accurately, Honda – always viewed the NSX as a true lightweight "driver's" car, and according to Honda's CEO Takanobu Ito, its successor has been developed in the same way. He promises excellent handling, a favorable power-to-weight ratio and high performance, while also "responding positively to environmental responsibilities."
In terms of design, there's little to link it to the 90s version, and in fact it appears to be inspired by the Audi R8.
Set to be manufactured in Ohio, the new NSX Concept is expected to go on sale sometime in the next three years.
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Berlin to Munich by DB - ICE - The German High Speed Trains
The ICE. Deutsche Bahn's fastest train: The ICE (Intercity-Express) is the fastest and most comfortable way of travelling on the Deutsche Bahn network, reaching speeds of up to 320 km/h, and new standards of excellence.
1st Class
A quiet atmosphere, space and comfortable seatings on 1st class ICE services. It´s ideal for work or a relaxing trip
In 1st class If you want to take the opportunity to work while travelling, you will finda desk available at your seat that can be used for business activities. The comfortable seatings offers a legroom and confortable distance from your neighbours.
Many seats have a laptop power outlets and specially designated areas that will provide interference-free reception for your mobile. Look out for the mobile phone symbols in the carriages.
Quiet zones are reserved for passengers who want to travel in peace. Experience the feeling of being personally attended to in 1st class. Our specially designated staff are there to welcome you with a smile and help you with any questions you may have regarding your trip.
At-Seat service
We want you to feel comfortable throughout your whole journey. Special staff have been assigned for 1st class passengers at the train stations and on board the ICE trains and are happy to look after and attend to each individual passenger.
2nd Class
A comfortable journey guaranteed: All ICE trains offer a wide selection of seats. All ICE trains are user and family-friendly, offering special facilities for the disabled and changing stations for families with young children.
The ICE. Deutsche Bahn's fastest train: The ICE (Intercity-Express) is the fastest and most comfortable way of travelling on the Deutsche Bahn network, reaching speeds of up to 320 km/h, and new standards of excellence.
The different trains
DB Bahn's first ICE made its debut in 1991 and today there are 5 varieties. ICE 1,2,3,T, and Sprinter. Each operates between several major cities including international destinations in Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Cross platform interchanges from ICE to ICE are possible at many stations without long walking distance in between. The comfort and convenience of the ICE are sure to win you over. ICE trains are fully air-conditioned and have a low noise level
Berlin Hbf to Munich Hbf by DB - ICE
|Fare Description
|2nd Class
|1st Class
|Saver Fare
|One Way
Saver fare
Book at least 24 hours in advance.
Railway Company: ICE
Includes seat reservation.
Seat reservation guaranteed.
No refundable
No exchangeable
e-tickets available.
Subject to availability.
|One Way
Flexi fare (full fare)
Railway Company: ICE
Includes seat reservation.
Seat reservation guaranteed.
80% refundable up to 2 business days before departure date
Exchangeable up to 1 day before departure date at the train stations only.
e-tickets available.
Subject to availability.
|One Way
Child fare
Child: between 6 and 11 years old (inclusive)
Railway Company: ICE
Includes seat reservation.
Seat reservation guaranteed.
80% refundable up to 1 day before departure date
No exchangeable
e-tickets available.
Subject to availability.
|One way
Passholder fare
Requires a valid rail pass that includes Germany.
Railway Company: ICE
Includes seat reservation.
Seat reservation guaranteed.
No refundable
No exchangeable
e-tickets available.
Subject to availability.
|Trip Duration:
Departures from Berlin: 06:39||07:54||08:40||10:41||12:43||14:40||16:40
Departures from Munich: 11:21,13:20,15:16,16:19,17:16
Ticketless - How use your etickets:
As soon as your booking have been processed, you will receive a booking confirmation, including a PNR number (reservation code) , by email.
How retrieve your etickets at train station:
Proceed to the self-service kiosks available in the German train stations.
If retrieving from a kiosk at a Regional-Station (S-Bahn) (example: Frankfurt Airport) please click on the "DB" button and then select "long distance" from the following menu in order to get to the correct prompts to retrieve your ticket.
- In the selection menu on the screen, please press "Pre-booked tickets".
- On the next screen, select "Collection of Pre-booked tickets".
- On the following screen, select "Identification with Order Number".
- Enter your e-ticket # or PNR, which is a 9-digit number combination uniqueto your trip, and is included in the email confirmation you receive from Euro Railways.
- On the next screen, select "Confirm". This screen shows all the information related to the order you have selected.
- Then, select "Print Now" and retrieve the ticket(s).
Important: Arrive at the train station at least 20 minutes prior to your departure time to allow ample time to print your tickets and board your train.
Also, the etickets retrieve instructions are sent attached with the booking confirmation email
a) Seat Reservations: The train tickets include the seat reservations.
b) Promotional Fare: No refundable. Exchangeable at train station prior the booked trip date.
c) Adult Full Fares and Children Fares: Children fare are valid for persons under 12 years old. Children under 4 years old travel free. 80% refundable up to 3 days before the travel date. When printed tickets should be returned to our office. *Exchangeable at train station.
d) Seat Reservations, Passholder fare: Requires a valid rail pass. We only can book it for travelers who have purchased their rail passes through our company. No refundable. No exchangeable.
e) All tickets are subject to confirmation. The tickets have a variable horizon for booking, normally 60 to 90 days within trip date. A booking confirmation will be sent as soon as the booking have been processed.
f) All fares are per person in US Dollars, subject to to change before the booking processing
g) E-tickets: The way for retrieve or use instructions will be sent with the booking confirmation by email. The tickets should be retrieved and printed at train station or printed at home as instructed in booking confirmation.
h) Physical Tickets (optional): The tickets are sent by FedEx, with the selected shipping option to the informed shipping address.
i) Tickets Protection: An good option for you travel in peace in mind. Reimbursement and General rules as described at General Terms and Conditions.
j) Handling fee: all bookings are subject to US$ 8 handling fee
Rail Passes & Tickets OptionsRail tickets & passes options for travel multiple times through a single or multiple countries.
Single Country
To explore a country:
- France: France Railpass
- Austria: Eurail Austria
- Czech Rep.: Eurail Czech
- Switzerland: Swiss Rail Passes
Multi Countries
To Explore all Europe:
- Europe(up to 28 countries): Eurail Global Pass
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Useful Information
Berlin Central Train Station - Berlin Hauptbahnhof:
The Berlin Central Train Station, considered the biggest train station in Europe, opened March 28, 2006. This state-of-the-art station has countless conveniences for travelers including a suspension system for its platforms, greatly reducing vibration and noise. You will find yourself enjoying this station as much as your German train ride!
Address: Invalidenstrasse 10557 Berlin
View location on map: Google map
Transportation from/to Berlin Central Train Station:
To the Berlin Brandenburg airport:
- The express buses X7 and X11 connect BER and U-Bahn Rudow, the underground line U7, every five minutes
To other railway stations from the Berlin Central Train Station:
- Train: S Bahn S5, S7, S75, S9
- Bus: 120, 123, 147, 240, 245
Telephone access:
- Telephone stands
- Location: main concourse
- Codes
Country Code: 49
City Code: 30
Wi-Fi service:
- Hotspot
Tourism office:
- DB Travel Centre
Hours: 6:00am to 10:00pm
Location 1: 1st floor, between the S-Bahn and long-distance train platform
Location 2: 1st lower level, passageway to the U-Bahn
Baggage consignment:
- Hours: 24 hour service
Location: 1st upper floor, east side
Cost: 3 Euro per day
Berlin Ostbahnhof Train Station - Berlin Ostbahnhof:
The Berlin Ostbahnhof train station translates to East Station. As the name suggests, the station is located in Friedrichshain, which is in East Berlin. Travelers will appreciate the cleanliness of this station, as well as the friendly atmosphere. The station is easy to get around and when it's time to board your train it should be trouble-free. The Ostbahnhof station provides S bahn service also which is covered with a German Rail pass.
Address: Koppenstr. 3 10243 Berlin
View location on map: Google map
Transportation from the Ostbahnhof Train Station:
To the Schoenefeld airport:
- Train: Airport Express RE4/5
- Travel Time: 30 minutes
- (S-Bahn) lines: S3, S5, S7, S75 and S9
- Warschauer Strasse lines:U1, U15 and U12
- Alexanderplatz lines: U2, U5, U8
- 140, 147, 347
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ICE - DB Bahn Assistance
Passengers with reduced mobility can now order Deutsche Bahn's Mobility Service even more easily. Whoever needs assistance with boarding, alighting or changing trains during their journey - for example a wheelchair platform lift - can do so conveniently with immediate effect on the Internet as well.
The local service staff will be pleased to assist you when boarding, alighting or changing trains. Owing to the short stopping times however, they are unable to accompany you to your seat.
To order, please fill out the form at: http://www.specials-bahn.de/_pdf/english/antrag_hilfeleistung.pdf and send it to us by 20:00 (MET) one working day before your departure at the latest.
Will be required your coach and seat number on long-distance trains so that we can make sure you receive the assistance you require. On local trains, please indicate where you will be sitting instead of the reservation - e.g. 1st coach/front of train.
You can book your tickets and make reservations for you and, if you wish, also send them to you. You can order those by telephone on +49 (0) 1806/512 512 (calls charged). You can contact us every day from 06:00 to 22:00 (MET).
For any further information, send them an e-mail at: firstname.lastname@example.com or contact us them the telephone number given above.
- The express buses X7 and X11 connect BER and U-Bahn Rudow, the underground line U7, every five minutes
Munchen Hauptbahnhof (Munich HBF) is located in the centre of Munich, the Munich Main Train Station (Munich Hauptbahnhof) is close to Marienplatz. This station is one of the largest in Germany and provides both regional and international service. S Bahn service, which is covered with a rail pass, is also offered.
Transportation from The Munich Main Train Station:
- Trains:
- S Bahn, 1, 2,5, 6, 7, 8, 27
- U Bahn: 1,2,4,5
- Bus:#58 -
Location: main entrance
- Station Address: Bayerstr. 10a 80335 Munich, Germany
View location on map: Google maps
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Munich - National Rail Enquires
On the platforms and at every underground platform, there are tactile guide rails for the blind. Central Station is served by all S-Bahn and tram line as well as undergrounds U1, U2, U4, U5, U7, and U8. No-barrier access is available.
Lifts: To the central S-Bahn platform, on the outer edge of the S-Bahn mezzanine, i.e., right next to Starnberg Wing Station (for a maximum of one wheelchair since space is limited)
- On the northern side of Central Station / Arnulfstrasse exit, taking you directly to a taxi rank, to the tracks in the main hall, and the S-Bahn mezzanine
- On the northern side of Central Station / Bayerstrasse exit, taking you directly to the mezzanine, from where there is a separate lift the the underground platform
- At Bahnhofsplatz in front of the main entrance, taking you to the mezzanine, where you will find two additional lifts taking you to U1/U7 and U2/U8
1. Central Station Mission (register a minimum of one hour in advance): Phone +49 / 089/59 45 76 or +49 / 089/59 45 77 or +49 / 089/59 45 78
2. "3s Zentrale Munich Central Station"", Phone +49 / 089/13 08 10 75 55 (for blind persons)
3. German Railroad Mobility Service Call +49 / (0)1805/51 25 12 (14 cent/min. from a German landline, max. 42 cent/min. from mobile networks in Germany), register by 6pm on the previous day or by Saturday, 3pm for Sundays and Mondays.
- Trains:


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Pete's Dragon is a beautifully revived and embellished idea that had gone lost in humdrums of life. Disney digs up a lost tale, primps, preens and touches it and lo! It turns green. Green's a pun-wink of course.
Enchanting direction! The depth of David Lowery's direction is simply mind-boggling. His images speak of a winsome quiet, a rare calmness that allows you to feel the warmth of every scene that he tries to show. It is not rushed and retains plentiful focus. It allows you to feast on the magnificence of his settings.
He manages to whisk it beautifully with Elliott's, the Dragon's puppy like demenaour. His ideas can be read through his frames, those that canter on the strides of "What would be the next possible course of action?" He does a fine blend of what is plausible and whimsical and manages to elicit a stunning feat that looks good both in imagination and theory.
Pete's Dragon brings in the vanguard Oakes Fegley of the Fort Bliss fame, cashes in on his forever seeking eyes. He makes his character quite endearing to watch with that sad comportment he carries. We see him in that mood often throughout the movie, and the yen in his eyes to be home, the longing in his eyes as he looks up searching for Elliott, will have you feel sorry for him on numerous occasions.
Bryce Dallas Howard's gargantuan affairs continue as she finds herself wrapped in the totem of another reptilian movie right after she did Jurassic World last year. She plays Grace, the lady who tries to help the lost boy in the woods. Her's is quite a relatable character something you would love to do any day – care for a child who has no whereabouts of his family or, for that to matter, life itself.
Karl Urban as Gavin brings home that nefarious element to the Dragon tale, claiming his pointless right over what he finds and captures. His is a comprehensible role, that you can put a pin to, and get along with, given the circumstances.
Wes Bentley could be found so much engaged in his acting, that you don't find him doing much in the movie. Robert Redford as Meacham has Dragon glories to share, and his thoughtful comportment will have you listening to him just as kids listened to him in rapt attention. Oona Laurence plays Natalie quite convincingly too, and supports Pete right from the moment she finds him.
Last but not the least: The Dragon Elliott. If you have a thing for dogs, you are going to fall for it instantly. Elliot's acts are just like a dog's, with its postural manners, playful acts, seeking eyes; everything is going to put it into a contour of an adorable puppy. Its disappearing act comes straight from the 1977 movie, which Disney decided to go with. There are sporadic moments of tranquility when the green dragon flies to show nature at its true flair to Pete. Those images leave you with a sense of contentment. Love Elliott has is unconditional. But it becomes ungainly thoughtful too.
If you are in the right rhythm of the movie, there are some instances there that you cannot certainly miss. Like the time Pete ends up in town only to storm away in his rare window of opportunity. You can read him well in those fleeting instances where he is cornered by a pacifying Grace, as he howls, nay, wails in pain. That yelp is meant for Elliott but gets lost in thin air. It is so impactful that it will definitely hurl you towards a whirlwind of sympathy for the poor child.
I loved the direction where the falling of Pete with a thud gets followed up brilliantly by the waking up of the Dragon. You can almost feel their connection. Also, the way the movie begins, with that abysmal tragedy that has been so beautifully shown through Pete's perspective inside the car. The book that Pete carries "Elliott Gets Lost" literally defines his life, and stays at all times, well complemented by the surreal creature.
The fact that the dragon sneezes a bucketful of mucus instead of fire brings home that elemental twist of humour that is laughable. But he is a dragon after all, and he can only take so much. That monstrous mien in the end is aptly fit and only once, just when things begin to head south. However, Disney doesn't fail to celebrate Elliott with all the goodies, finding its soul to forgive it in a split second.
This is where the movie truly scores as well. Not only is the score simply soothing to the ears, but it constantly puts you in a room full of jocularity. It has beautiful songs well edited. Lowery places them in right areas that accentuate the theme of Petes Dragon further. One of the most gorgeous songs that the movie retains is the Petes Dragon Song by Bonnie Prince Billy the lyrics of which you can find here: Lyrics of Dragon Song. It will make you fall for it at once. So soothing and artfully written.
If you pay attention to the CGI of the movie, it fails to touch the levels of culmination you might have had in your head, given today's heightened age of visual effects. Elliott appears to be more fantastical and imaginary. It doesn't have that primal realism feel to look at, like all those successful reptilian movies in the past that had so beautifully triumphed in visuals.
You can't also oversee the fact 6 years in the wild, and the child still behaves in normalcy. When he finds a group of people coming, he doesn't run away in sheer fear, also puts things under clouds of doubt. His reaction on finding new things for the first time in town doesn't get milked enough. He comes straight from the savage world. But still doesn't carry that bewilderment gaze whilst running and hopping over things he had forgotten all about. Things like that don't go overlooked when perceived from a pragmatic vantage.
Screenplay of Pete's Dragon goes to and fro. At times drops us brilliant lines, then most of the times lets its characters speak from their eyes.
Another downside stays with the plot of Pete's Dragon. It is something you have been constantly fed when a misunderstood beast story is considered. So you see every bit coming. Pete's Tale is a clichéd story likes of which we had already seen in the form of The Good Dinosaur that Pixar did last year.
But you can't shake off its backdrop either. It is very plausible which makes it an interesting fiction. It is quite remarkable how every open end in its story gets conjoined.
Pete's Dragon is a spectacular retelling of the tale that saw the light for the first time in 1977. It doesn't go dark being a Disney movie, but subtly skips through that part (in the beginning). Petes Dragon incessantly capers around the happy theme that it intends to walk on. Of course, Lowery's direction makes it all the way better.
If you don't delve into the clichéd side of it, you are going to love every bit of it. If you are a kid, there is nothing in the world you would want than being bestowed upon a friendly dragon for a pup.
Petes Dragon carries a stunning amiable tone that is outright perfect for your kid. It goes without saying, it is great for the fanciful whims that lurk inside you. A highly recommended movie for everybody.
Check out the trailer of Pete's Dragon here:


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Hello Everyone
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Watching old Avs games: Colorado at Boston, March 24, 2001
Before I dust off another old VHS tape and provide a running dialogue, thanks to the many well-wishers over my recent, um, colonoscopy. It was certainly an interesting experience. To all of those who absolutely dread the thought of it, there are only two truly abysmal things about it: drinking the JUG of turbo-laxative solution the night and morning beforehand, which will send you RUNNING to the bathroom at least 15-20 times about an hour after swigging it, and the dreaded hospital gown that must be put on right before you get wheeled in. As Dave Barry so perfectly put it, the designer of those gowns obviously was a combination sadist/pervert.
As for the procedure itself, I remember almost none of it. The drugs they give you are most powerful, and while I was awake for the whole thing, they give you such amnesia that you literally forget everything the second it's happening. And you don't feel a thing.
I got a clean report on my pipes, and now I don't have to think about getting another one for at least a couple years now. So, if it's getting to be that time in life to get a colonoscopy but you are dreading it, don't. Take it from a world-class worrywart: it's no big deal, and NOT getting it done is the worst thing you can do, because all that colon cancer stuff is totally preventable if you just get checked out.
So, thanks again, and also to Dr. William Berry and the nice staff at Exempla Good Samaritan hospital. Thanks also to them for not openly laughing at the sight of me in a hospital gown.
Now, on to today's time-capsule beat writing. We bring you a game between the Avs and Bruins in Boston, on May 24, 2001 – the one and only game Ray Bourque ever played in Beantown as a visiting player.
This goes down as one of my favorite games I ever covered, and not just because I grew up in New England and a big B's and Bourque fan. And, one of the most memorable, but not just because of the game. It's also the time when, a day before the game, I hit a patch of New Hampshire, I-93 South ice and flipped my rental car down into a ditch, landing upside down in deep snow.
I'll take the colonoscopy anytime over this experience. One second you're driving along, humming a tune to the radio, and the next second you're fish-tailing in the back and sliding off the road. I remember thinking, "Wait a second, I'm about to go flying off the highway here" and the next thing I knew, I was unbuckling the seat belt upside down, rolling down the window and tunneling out of deep snow. The car was totaled, but somehow I escaped only with a bit of a sprained wrist.
Lucky. I drive like an old lady in snowy conditions now.
This was an ABC game of the week, so it's Gary Thorne and Bill Clement doing the work in the booth here. They did a great job all those years for ESPN, and I still miss listening to Clement. When I saw him during the most recent Finals, he was only working as a freelancer here and there. If he doesn't get snapped up by someone, either for a network or a team's local TV station, there are some seriously dumb people out there.
But, whoops, speaking of dumb, we have our first Bruins and ABC blunder of the day. Joe Sakic just scored nine seconds into the game, and the network missed it. Somehow, they didn't join the game live during the opening faceoff – an NHL house ad was still playing, with Martin Brodeur talking about how great the game is – and the men in the truck missed Sakic taking the opening draw, coming down the left side and beating goalie Byron Dafoe with one of the softest goals you'll ever see (or, in ABC's case, not see).
As Thorne and Clement make apologies to the viewers, Sakic accepts congrats from the bench, and it's 1-0 already. Right through the 5-hole on that one, a wrister from about 40 feet. Truly, an awful goal for Lord Byron.
Don't forget, folks, this is the first time I've ever seen this game on TV, and don't remember much minutiae from any game I covered, so I feel like I'm seeing this all again for the first time.
This game, obviously, had a lot of hype leading up to it and rightly so. Bourque played more than 20 years for the Black and Gold, never winning a Cup but providing countless great memories for Hub of Hockey fans. My favorite remains the time he manhandled Mats Sundin of the Maple Leafs in one of his rare fights.
It was truly an emotional experience for Bourque going back to Boston, and his Avs teammates were not about to let him lose this one. Especially not goalie Patrick Roy. When Roy went back to Montreal the first time, he put $10,000 up on the board to be used for a team party at the end of the year, but only if the Avs beat the Canadiens, which they did.
I'm not sure how much Bourque put up for this one, or if he did at all. Just imagining that happening – Ray Bourque celebrating with a team party over a victory against the Bruins – would have branded you a witch in Salem during Colonial times, absolutely an unthinkable thing.
But even Bourque got tired of Harry Sinden's and Jeremy Jacobs' penny pinching at the end, and we all know what happened after that. But that's the one thing I'll still never believe: that Ray Bourque played in Denver and won a Cup here, and that I got to be the beat writer of that very team. Unbelievable.
Wow, there's Andre Kovalenko getting a good shot early on for the B's against Roy. Of course, Avs historians know that the Russian Tank was one of the three players dealt to the Habs for Roy in 1995. I'll never forget, during his brief time with the Avs, when a disgusted Marc Crawford literally chased Kovalenko into the dressing room at the Avs' old practice facilities at DU, for allegedly dogging it on the ice.
Thorne just said Chris Drury was a Boston native. Well, no, Trumbull, Conn., is your correct answer, but Drury did play at Boston University. Obviously, the ABC crew is off to as rough a start as the B's here.
Hey, we've got a mike on Bourquie for the day. Nice job, ABC. I never knew that at the time, otherwise I would have included that in my notes for the Post that day! The first sound bite we have is Bourque telling teammates during warmup: "We'll see. We'll see whether it's my barn or not." It'll always be your barn, Bourquie.
And we've got a 2-0 game here, at the 2:57 mark. Dan Hinote makes it 2-0 with an easy rebound goal in front, set up by a nice rush around left end and shot by Scott Parker.
"Good pursuit by the Sheriff, Jeff Parker," Clement says.
Whoops. Hey, I still say Thorne and Clement did a great job all those years together. But this is getting a little embarrassing for the ABC folks here.
Now the B's take a penalty on the goal, an Andrei Nazarov roughing call. Bourque is on the point along with Drury, with Sakic, Peter Forsberg and Milan Hejduk down low. Yikes. What a power play that was.
Good lord, it's 3-0 at the 4:01 mark. Drury slaps home a one-timer from the left point, off a Sakic feed. The game is four minutes old and Bourque is a plus-3. Take that, Sinden and Jacobs. Oh, and nice job letting Bobby Orr finish his career as a Chicago Blackhawk, too. Real good PR there fellas.
"What a clinic by the Colorado Avs," Clement says. And, what an awful exhibition of goaltending by Lord Byron too. Drury's shot was really a knuckleball from far out. How about a hook, Mike Keenan?
We've got some nice footage of Bourque driving to the rink here, courtesy of the ABC crew. Good stuff, except for the huge sweat stain underneath Bourquie's right armpit here. Try Degree next time, Raymond.
He's talking about how Chris Drury likes his Dunkin' Donuts coffee, and how if he brings him a medium light cup, it'll guarantee him two goals and a win. Dunkin' Donuts coffee, by the way, is easily the worst tasting coffee in the land. For some reason, New Englanders love it, though, and it's one of the longest-running and most successful businesses in history there. I never figured out why.
The B's go on the PP here , on a Drury infraction, and, wow, I forgot what pretty damned good personnel the B's had on the PP then. You've got Bill Guerin, Joe Thornton, Jason Allison and Brian Rolston out there. Not bad, but this turned out to be a bad Boston team for some reason. Maybe it had something to do with the goaltending and defense on display so far here.
The B's do nothing on the PP, with Jumbo Joe looking disinterested and Kovalenko turning the puck over toward the end.
AND HERE GO THE SHERIFF AND NAZZY IN A FIGHT AT CENTER ICE! Good lord, what a pounding administered by the Sheriff here. Despite standing about 6-7, Nazarov is tossed around like a feather in a tornado, finally being dumped to the ice like tea into Boston Harbor at the start of the American Revolution.
This was one of those "Gee, I didn't mean to hurt him that bad" kinds of fights, where a somewhat embarrassed looking Parker heads to the box and B's teammates are left to scrape Nazzy up off the ice.
There are no poundings of the sticks against the boards on the Bruins bench here. More like looks of "If this is supposed to be our tough guy, no wonder we've having a @$%$% season."
Nice shots of the Bourque family in the stands while the refs sort out the fight penalties. There's wife Christiane, a very classy lady. Another nice piece of video here, with Bourque's first career goal against Winnipeg in 1979 shown. Wayne Cashman and Jean Ratelle are raising their sticks after Bourque's shot bounced in off a Jets defender. My god, that looks like prehistoric hockey, complete with the Jason-style goalie mask on the Jets netminder.
And the B's are on the board at the 8:51 mark. Jumbo Joe gets the goal, right in front of Greg de Vries, after a nice wheel-and-dish play by Sergei Samsonov.
Roy makes a great skate stop by Rolston seconds later, and the B's are looking like they don't want this to be one long party for Bourque and Co. anymore.
One thing you immediately notice watching this old Avs team is how much they had the puck. That obviously was a big reason why they went on to win the Cup, and the B's are just chasing them around here, hoping to get it away. And this was a day the Avs played without Rob Blake, who was hurt.
Oh wow, here's a clip of Drury taking some batting practice at Fenway Park, in a RED SOX uniform. I never saw this either! I'll have to give him some grief next time I see him. He's a die-hard Yankee fan, but obviously he sold his soul to take some cuts at the Green Monster.
The B's are really coming on here, but Roy holds the fort to keep it 3-1. His best stop was a doorstop chance for the Russian Tank. Kovy hasn't scored in 23 straight games, according to Thorne.
Dafoe comes out of his coma to actually make a nice couple saves at the other end, and now we have a good, competitive hockey game. Forsberg has a couple of brilliant shifts, drawing an "Oh MAN" out of Clement. Any time you see old highlights of Foppa, you tend to have that reaction. What a player he was. We were lucky to see it, Denverites.
The B's go back on the PP with 3:14 left in the period, but Bourque does some nice work on the PK, and it stays 3-1 as the first intermission horn sounds.
Here's Denis Leary in the ABC booth as the second period opens. Leary, a big hockey fan, has done a lot of voice-over work for the NHL, as you might recall. Leary hopes Bourque does well, but he badly wants a Black and Gold win here, he says. "We're only four points out of the playoffs," he says.
Apparently, the last rites applied to Nazzy weren't needed and he's back and nearly scores on an early shift. The Avs have clearly let up after their easy start, and right now it's target practice on Roy. But the B's are squeezing the sticks some, and she's still 3-1 as we play on.
The Avs have a fifth- and sixth D-man unit of Bryan Muir and Nolan Pratt here, and until now, I had completely forgotten that Bryan Muir even was an Av.
The game is almost half over now, and the only thing missing is the heartfelt video tribute to Bourque that, if there is any justice in the world, should have happened by now. I was at this game and seem to remember such a tribute, but I thought it had happened by now. We'll see when/if it does. I was probably re-living my brush with death from the day before to remember much from this game anyway.
Now we've really got a game. Allison makes it 3-2 with 12:13 left in the second, on a brilliant goal. Leary makes a "Yeah!" sound in the booth, and yellow pom-poms (embarrassing, B's fans) are sent to fluttering.
The B's nearly tie it up, and Thorne gives the obligatory "they're back on their heels" cliché about the Avs. But now the Avs are on the PP after a Kyle McLaren penalty, where he appears to have seriously injured Stephane Yelle's knee with a hip check. Actually, the hit looks pretty clean, but off to the box McLaren goes. The Avs do nothing.
Parker tries to get McLaren to fight, but McLaren won't drop the gloves. Probably a smart move. An out-of-town score here: Detroit 5, Rangers zippo, at the Garden.
Christiane Bourque is being interviewed in the stands, by Brian Engblom. "It's been a mark on our calendar," she says of this game. Ryan Bourque, Ray's youngest, offers a "Yeah, I think it is" as his only comment when asked if this is a special day for his dad. First rule in TV: never interview a little kid.
Roy is single-handedly keeping this a one-goal game still, as the B's have taken over. Bob Hartley is starting to look a little peeved on the Avs bench, barking something at de Vries after one spotty shift. Roy robs Allison with 3:29 left, and then the B's go on the PP after a BOURQUE high-sticking penalty against the Russian Tank. The pressure on Roy is ceaseless, but somehow the puck stays out of the net and the Avs have a very fortunate 3-2 lead entering the third.
As we pick it up in the third, the B's go back on the PP four minutes in, but overpass and come up with nothing. You can sense that they've let the Avs off the hook here and will pay for it, and that's just what happens at the 8:40 mark, when Steve Reinprecht scores on a rebound of Shjon Podein's wraparound attempt.
It's 4-2, and one thing I do recall from that Cup season was that the Avs NEVER blew a third-period lead.
They didn't here either, as the game ends in a 4-2 final. With about a minute left, the Boston fans stand and start cheering for Bourque, a classy move. Bourque is on the ice as the horn sounds, with the puck right on his stick. He picks it up and accepts a thunderous last ovation from the crowd.
Bourque waves to the fans, does a circle around the rink and disappears into the tunnel.
Now, reading my game story from that day, I am brought up to date that the video tribute to Bourque was before the game. Oh yeah. Here's the lead few graphs from the game story of the March 25, 2001 Denver Post:
By Adrian Dater
Denver Post Sports Writer
BOSTON – As players from the Boston Bruins and Colorado
Avalanche skated in the warm-ups Saturday afternoon, Aerosmith's
new hit song "Jaded" blared from the FleetCenter speakers. As a
group, Boston sports fans have quite a reputation for being like
the song says.
Not this time. Not when Raymond Bourque took to the ice. This
time, thousands of usually cynical Bostonians put their hands
together, and perhaps dabbed a tear or two from their eyes, to
welcome back a player they never could find much fault with for 21
The message on the scoreboard before Bourque took to the ice
said it all: "Thank you, Ray. 21 years."
And when the game was over, when the last of the many long
ovations from the fans was done, it was Bourque who was moved to
My three stars from seven years later: 1. Patrick Roy – Kept the Avs ahead after a lull that lasted from early in the first to midway through the third. 2. Ray Bourque – Two assists in his return to Boston. 3. Jason Allison – Tough all day against the Avs.
Until our next trip down memory lane….


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BALTIMORE – UMBC women's soccer travels to cross-town rival Loyola (Md.) on Tuesday, Sept. 10, in a battle of the dogs. Game time is set for 7 p.m. at Ridley Athletic Complex, with live video and stats available.
The Retrievers (2-2-1) are coming off a 2-1 victory on Friday night against Robert Morris, UMBC's first home victory in over two years. Sophomores Amira Walcott (Beltsville, Md./Eleanor Roosevely) and Alexa Quaranta (Baltimore, Md./Perry Hall) helped the Retrievers hand the Colonials their first loss of the season. Walcott assisted the game's opening goal, a score from Quaranta, and went on to register her first collegiate goal, the eventual game-winner to help lead UMBC to victory.
Junior forward Lilly Rydon (Stirling, South Australia/Concordia College) added her second assist of the season on Friday night, helping to set up Quaranta's goal in the 58th minute. She leads the team with four points on the season, ranking sixth in the America East.
Senior goalkeeper Lauren Kadet (Oakville, Ontario) has seen all the action in net for the Retrievers on the season. She is allowing 1.15 goals per game through the first five games and has tallied 18 saves and one shutout. She remains 13 stops shy of becoming the program's all-time leader in saves.
After opening the season with a 2-1 victory against Towson, Loyola has dropped two straight overtime contests to fall to 1-2 on the year. In its latest matchup, the Greyhounds fell to Delaware, 2-1, and were outshot 20-6 by the Blue Hens. Freshman back Nicole Wahlig recorded her first collegiate goal for Loyola's only score of the night.
Three different Greyhounds have scored thus far in 2013. Redshirt senior forward Katelyn McFadden holds the squad's only game-winner and has registered a team-best three points on a goal and an assist.
Senior goalkeeper Didi Haracic made her first appearance of the season versus Delaware, recording 10 saves on the night. Junior netminder Colleen Folan saw all the action between the pipes in the first two games of the season, surrendering two goals and making nine stops.
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-UMBC and Loyola meet for the first time since Sept. 22, 2010, a 2-1 overtime loss for the Retrievers.
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-UMBC's second win of the season, helped the Retrievers surpass its win total from the last two seasons combined (2012 1-11-5, 2011 0-14-3). A win on Tuesday would mark the most wins for the Retrievers in a season since 2008 (3-16-0).
-Goalkeeper Lauren Kadet is 13 saves away from becoming the squad's all-time leader. She looks to surpass Nadine Henchcliffe (1993-95), who amassed 339 saves in her career.


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Some neat stuff at Michael's. They were still loading up the shelves when we got there.
Here's the stuff we bought:
Friday, July 31, 2009
Michael's Halloween
Some neat stuff at Michael's. They were still loading up the shelves when we got there.
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- Countess VonRauber said...
The curtain panel looks nice!
- July 31, 2009 at 5:02 PM
- Nev said...
Thanks for the shots!
The curtain is awesome and flickering candle lights?!
Wow... I can think of a lot of projects for this.
- July 31, 2009 at 5:03 PM
- Rot said...
The curtain is pretty classy I think. Not cheesy at all. Looks neat and creepy.
Can't believe they had strings of those glass flame bulb lights.
We picked up two boxes and there were a ton more.
- July 31, 2009 at 5:05 PM
- woofboy111 said...
Still too early!!!
- July 31, 2009 at 5:28 PM
- jay's shadow said...
You guys are lucky to have a good michaels!
Bet the curtains look great from the outside
- July 31, 2009 at 6:11 PM
- jay's shadow said...
i need to get some of the skeleton garland this year
- July 31, 2009 at 7:25 PM
- The Frog Queen said...
The curtians do look lovely, classy and elegant....but how, tell me, did you pass up a sparkly purple kitty! :D
Cheers! :)
- July 31, 2009 at 7:35 PM
- Rot said...
That skeleton garland was a little annoying. Check them first because most of them were missing feet or arms and I had to dig for one with all the bones. Then when I opened it up, the tiny knots all came undone.
- July 31, 2009 at 9:25 PM
- Pat said...
Wow I know what I will be doing tomorrow after work lol I'm probably going to pick up a few tombstones but knowing me more than that!
- July 31, 2009 at 9:53 PM
- Nev said...
I just took all my skeletons out and popped them into my garland. Some arms that weren't attached etc I just had sticking out of the garland randomly. Looks great.
- July 31, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- JHMDF said...
Just picked up a ton of rebar from home depot... the price was about half off from last year! My murder of crows section should be a lot thicker this year!
- August 1, 2009 at 4:29 AM
- The Captain said...
Sweet I need flicker bulbs! What I really need is a second job to support my Halloween habit.
- August 2, 2009 at 11:29 PM
- Chase Davis said...
I'm going to Micheal's again and buying some of those bottles for a mad scientist display; the electronic haunted houses were sold out in the middle of September last year.
- August 16, 2009 at 6:29 PM