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Nov. 8, 2006
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The Santa Clara University men's and women's soccer teams, which both earned West Coast Conference championships this season, dominated the WCC year-end awards that were announced by the conference on Wednesday. Head coaches Jerry Smith and Cameron Rast were both named the Coach of the Year, while senior Marian Dalmy was named WCC Player of the Year on the women's side. Bronco freshman Stephen McCarthy earned Co-Freshman of the Year honors on the men's side. Overall, the men's and women's teams combined to have six first-team All-WCC selections, three second-team All-WCC picks and 10 All-WCC Honorable Mention selections. Four freshmen earned spots on the All-Freshman team.
"I am ecstatic for our players and they are well deserving of the honor," said Smith. "When you have five players on the first team that speaks to the depth on our team. That depth has helped carry us to the conference championship and to a number one seed in the NCAA Tournament. I never want to be a team that relies on one or two players and our success this year shows that having depth makes you a better team."
Dalmy becomes the fifth Bronco in program history to be named WCC Player of the Year. Leslie Osborne was the last SCU recipient of the honor, winning in both 2003 and 2004. She finished the regular season with six goals and six assists while contributing to a defense that allowed only 13 goals in 20 games and posted 11 shutouts. A finalist for the M.A.C Hermann Trophy, Dalmy was named WCC Player of the Month in October.
"Marian has been dynamite for us on both sides of the ball," said Smith. "Her primary responsibility is defending and she has been great in that regard. Offensively, she is tied for second in conference games which is very rare. She has been able dominate a game from the defense which is not typical either and she has provided great leadership for us. I think that she is very deserving of the award."
Joining Dalmy on the All-WCC First Team are freshman Kiki Bosio, sophomore Amanda Poach, junior Meagan Snell and senior Lauren Zealear. Snell led the team with 11 goals in 2006, while Bosio was the team leader in assists with eight in her first season at SCU. Bosio also earned a spot on the All-Freshman team. Poach followed up her stellar freshman year with another great campaign in her central midfield role this season, while Zealear, a central defender, was another one of the keys to the Broncos suffocating defense that posted a 0.64 goals against average.
Junior Brittany Klein was the women's team's sole representative on the All-WCC Second Team, while junior Jordan Angeli, sophomore Meagan McCray and sophomore Dani Potts earned honorable accolades.
On the men's side, along with Rast's coach of the year honor, 11 other players were recognized by the conference, a program record.
"I am very pleased that we had so many players recognized with all-conference honors," said Rast. "I am glad that Keith (DeVey) earned his place on the first team with his excellent play this year. He has been a great contributor for four seasons. Erik (Ustruck) and Peter (Lowry) are also very deserving of their selections. I thought that we may have even gotten a few more guys onto the first or second team."
After a stellar rookie campaign, McCarthy was recognized as the top freshman joining Adam Eyre as the only Broncos to earn that distinction. The central midfielder from Colleyville, Texas started 19 games for SCU and provided a great presence both offensively and defensively. His ability to move the ball got the Broncos offense started while his work rate kept opposing attacks off balance.
After two seasons as an honorable mention selection, senior Keith DeVey was named to the All-WCC First Team for the first time this season. DeVey scored six goals and notched one assist to lead the team with 13 points, while moving himself into the top 10 all-time in goals scored in program history. Junior Peter Lowry and senior Erik Ustruck each earned second-team All-WCC accolades for the second time in their careers. Lowry previously earned the honor last year, while Ustruck was recognized in 2003.
Along with DeVey, Lowry and Ustruck, seven more players received honorable mention recognition. Goalkeeper Joseph Buttitta, junior Matt Hatzke, freshman Amaechi Igwe, sophomore Brian Martin, McCarthy, sophomore Jide Ogunbiyi and junior Jamil Roberts all earned recognition. Ogunbiyi received the same honor in 2005. Igwe and McCarthy are joined on the All-Freshman team by midfielder Jeff Cosgriff.
Below is a complete list of the All-WCC honorees.
Men's Soccer
Player of the Year: Rob Valentino, USF
Defensive Player of the Year: Luis Robles, POR
Co-Freshman of the Year: Ciaran O'Brien, USD; Stephen McCarthy, SCU
Coach of the Year: Cameron Rast, SCU
First Team
Nick Blanco, LMU; Bobby Burling, LMU; Michael Caso, USD; Keith DeVey, SCU; Matt Fitzgerald, SMC; Ryan Guy, USD; George Josten, GON; Kevin Meissner, USD; Luis Robles, POR; Christopher Sanders, POR; Rob Valentino, USF.
Second Team
Diego Barrera, LMU; Alex Elliott, POR; Dylan Leslie, SMC; Kevin Long, USF; Peter Lowry, SCU; Ciaran O'Brien, USD; Chris Rodd, USF; Geremy Uhl, USF; Erik Ustruck, SCU; Collen Warner, POR; Austin Washington, GON.
Honorable Mention
Desmond Brooks, SMC; Joseph Buttitta, SCU; Aaron Chandler, USF; Alex Christlieb, SMC; Matthew Dallman, POR; Jawaan Delaney, LMU; Tim Grey, USD; Matt Hatzke, SCU; Amaechi Igwe, SCU; Brian Martin, SCU; Stephen McCarthy, SCU; Jide Ogunbiyi, SCU; John Palladino, GON; Sam Reeder, USD; John Reha, GON; Jamil Roberts, SCU; Ben Sawyer, GON; Junior Ybarra, LMU.
All-Freshman Team
Conor Chinn, USF; Jeff Cosgriff, SCU; Logan Emory, POR; Tim Grey, USD; Amaechi Igwe, SCU; Dylan Leslie, SMC; Stephen McCarthy, SCU; Ciaran O'Brien, USD; Tye Perdido, GON; Ryan Peterman, USD; Collen Warner, POR.
Women's Soccer
Player of the Year: Marian Dalmy, SCU
Defensive Player of the Year: Joslyn Slovek, LMU
Freshman of the Year: Michelle Enyeart, POR
Coach of the Year: Jerry Smith, SCU
First Team
Kiki Bosio, SCU; Marian Dalmy, SCU; Michelle Enyeart, POR; Stephanie Lopez, POR; Amanda Poach, SCU; Leigh Ann Robinson, USD; Lindsey Redlin, PEP; Joslyn Slovek, LMU; Meagan Snell, SCU; Angie Woznuk, POR; Lauren Zealear, SCU.
Second Team
Cori Alexander, POR; Veronica Ambort, USD; Kelsey Baker, PEP; Jaime Bell, LMU; Chelsea Hunt, USF; Brittany Klein, SCU; Rachel Rapinoe, POR; Lisa Sari, POR; Whitney Temple, LMU; Emily Wynne, PEP; Lauren Zuckerman, GON.
Honorable Mention Jordan Angeli, SCU; McKeena Belzer, SMC; Kara Breithaupt, USF; Jen Brewer, PEP; Kendra Chandhoke, POR; Sarah Churchill, SMC; Jessica Duty, USF; Kari Evans, POR; Kimberly Feeney, LMU; Hilary Fisher, USF; Katie Hodgson, USF; Hallie Huston, USD; Katie Kimure, USF; Mallory Lee, SMC; Nanda McCormick, GON; Meagan McCray, SCU; Sophia Medina, PEP; Christine Mock, USD; Danielle Potts, SCU; Tana Smothermon, LMU; Christine Soma, GON; Vanessa Vella, USD.
All-Freshman Team
Kiki Bosio, SCU; Kendra Chandhoke, POR; Michelle Enyeart, POR; Kimberly Feeney, LMU; Taylor Hall, GON; Tiffany Harrison, LMU; Hallie Huston, USD; Sophia Medina, PEP; Christine Mock, USD; Courtney Price, PEP; Jessie Thalman, GON.


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IN Northern California, East Coast transplants are producing crunchy, chewy, dense bagels on either side of the bay. The water may not be New York's, but some argue that the bagels are as good.
Dan Graf, a genetics major who dropped out of Rutgers University, founded Baron Baking in Oakland after working in a delicatessen. Blake Joffe and Amy Remsen, transplants from Philadelphia, opened Beauty's Bagel Shop, also in Oakland, a few months ago. And a former Brooklynite, Deepa Subramanian, and three friends started Schmendricks, which has sold bagels at pop-up sites around San Francisco that recall bagels from the Bagel Hole in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Mr. Graf, the son of a Bergen County contractor, grew up accompanying his father to jobs on weekends. Stopping for bagels was part of the ritual. After moving to California, he worked for two years at Saul's Restaurant and Delicatessen in Berkeley. Fascinated by baking, he said, he "tried my hand at bagels but they didn't taste like what I ate at home." So he turned to "Crust and Crumb: Master Formulas for Serious Bread Bakers" and "Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavors," both by Peter Reinhart, and a Web site called The Fresh Loaf.
Peter Levitt, an owner of Saul's, encouraged Mr. Graf to take some time off and experiment with the recipes. Mr. Graf baked in his tiny apartment until he took a batch to a community meeting at Bar Dogwood in downtown Oakland and impressed the owner enough to be invited into her commercial kitchen in Berkeley.
When he took some bagels to Saul's, his former boss was delighted. "They have a shiny crust like a real bagel," Mr. Levitt said, flicking his finger against one to show the blistering and cracking. Saul's became Mr. Graf's first commercial account.
There are all kinds of bagels; Mr. Graf's has a chewy bite and an almost pretzel-like crust.
He starts with a high gluten organic flour from Central Milling Company, mixing a poolish, or starter, of yeast, flour and water, which he lets sit for about 10 hours. "To the poolish I add flour, more yeast, salt and diastatic malt that provides enzymes that help break down the carbohydrates in the flour to give it a sweeter taste and adds natural sugar that the yeast can use," he said. The dough rests overnight in the refrigerator; how long depends on Mr. Graf's access to the commercial kitchen.
After forming the bagels (an art in itself, as he stretches the dough before cutting and shaping it into 3-ounce, 3 1/2-inch rounds) he refrigerates them for 18 to 24 hours. "The long retardation is essential so the bacteria in the dough can grow," he said. "The bagel has a crispy crust because of the longer fermentation time."
Mr. Graf boils his bagels in a lye water sodium hydroxide solution, which makes the outside sticky, allowing toppings to adhere better. (For the home cook, the accompanying recipe skips the lye and the fancy dough-pulling; the bagels are still great.) Rather than adding honey or malt to the water, which some purists think is the secret to a good bagel, Mr. Graf boils his bagels in heavily salted water.Continue reading the main story
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For 17 seasons, Ray Lewis was a mainstay in the middle of the Ravens defense. The future Hall of Famer could do everything in his prime -- run, hit, cover and blitz. That's why the inside linebacker rarely took snaps off.
Now, as the Ravens look to fill the void and choose another starter to replace free-agent departure Dannell Ellerbe, we could see the Ravens do things a little differently when it comes to their inside linebackers when the season begins. We could see a few different players manning the position depending on the situation.
In the first week of training camp, we saw four different inside linebackers take snaps with the first-team defense. Albert McClellan and Josh Bynes, who were with the team last season, have taken a lot of reps with the top unit. The newcomers, Daryl Smith and Arthur Brown, will be working to unseat them this summer.
"That group right now, you can basically clump a lot of them together, and they're all fighting their tails off for two or three spots," linebackers coach Ted Monachino said on Sunday. "Whether it's a spot on early downs or a spot in the sub packages, the competition is high all the way from our oldest veteran in Daryl and all the way down through our new rookie in Arthur Brown. So, it's a very good room."
Whoever ends up starting for the Ravens will play many of the snaps, but different down-and-distances call for different things from your insider linebackers, which is why three or maybe even four players could take on significant roles.
Smith is 31, but if he can play similar to how he did with the Jacksonville Jaguars before a groin injury limited him to two games in 2012, he might be the most well-rounded member of this quartet, making him a good candidate to start. He is reliable against the run, can drop into coverage and he can blitz if you need him, too. Plus Monachino, who coached him in Jacksonville, compared his preparation and football intelligence to Lewis.
McClellan is more of a downhill player, but he is reliable against the run and might bring the most out of this bunch as a blitzer after being moved from outside linebacker this offseason.
Bynes worked his way from the practice squad to the 53-man roster last season and made the final tackle of the Super Bowl on special teams, and his experience in that phase is an asset as he looks to stay on the squad. His strong suit is plugging the run, which could get him on the field in short-yardage situations, but he hasn't displayed quality coverage skills.
The wild card is Brown, the team's second-round draft pick back in April. We have only seen a little bit of the rookie, but he is decisive defending the run and his speed is impressive. His coverage skills could at the very least earn him a spot in sub packages for passing downs, and if he shows that he is strong enough to shed NFL blockers, he could start at some point.
(Jameel McClain could also factor into this group, but he remains sidelined with a bruised spinal cord and it is unclear if and when he will be cleared to return to full-contact football.)
Some outside The Castle wonder if the Ravens can get by with that group (though the position isn't as prominent as it was when Lewis was at his pinnacle), but the Ravens aren't concerned. They may not have jack of all trades like they once had in Lewis, but they think that with a few guys bringing a little something different to the table, they will be just fine.
"Obviously, we love our guys," Monachino said. "It's been a great addition to have Daryl Smith in the room. He's a veteran presence. He's a guy that the game has slowed down for already, so he sees it a little differently than a lot of the other guys might. It's been really good. They've meshed really well together. The chemistry is good in there right now."


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Voters overwhelmingly support EPA air pollution rules
WASHINGTON -- A new, nationwide poll shows that by a wide margin, voters of both political parties and in all regions of the U.S. disagree with Congress' anti-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agenda and support the EPA's new rules to limit air pollution from coal-fired power plants. Two-thirds of the respondents – 67 percent – oppose Congress delaying implementation of the air pollution rules, according to the national survey of 1,400 voters conducted by Hart Research Associates and GS Strategy Group and sponsored by Ceres.
"American voters, both Democrats and Republicans, are unified in backing prompt EPA action on the clean air rules," said Ceres president Mindy Lubber. "Regardless of affiliation, voters want a healthy environment and an end to foot-dragging to upgrade dirty power plants. Despite the rhetoric in Washington, clean air is not a partisan issue among Americans, and Congress would do well to take notice."
"Although some in Congress oppose these rules, the level of support from Republican voters is surprisingly strong," said Greg Strimple of GS Strategy Group, a Republican pollster who jointly conducted the research. "The research clearly demonstrates Republican voters are willing to support new rules to reduce harmful emissions in order to improve public health. Republicans like clean air, too."
The poll, conducted August 31 - September 7, gauged voters' feelings about two EPA clean air rules — the Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) and the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Rule (aka Utility MACT). The first rule will require significant reductions in harmful power plant emissions, mostly from coal-fired generators, that drift hundreds of miles downwind and across state lines. The second rule will require power plants to curb toxic emissions of mercury, lead, arsenic and acid gases by 2015. Many of the power plants impacted by these rules are more than 50 years old.
These are the same two rules that Ceres and the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute evaluated earlier this year with respect to economic and job-creation benefits the rules would bring across the United States: www.ceres.org/resources/reports/new-jobs-cleaner-air.
Among the poll's key findings:
- 88% of Democrats, 85% of Independents, and 58% of Republicans oppose Congress stopping the EPA from enacting new limits on air pollution from electric power plants.
- 67% of voters support the CSAPR and 77% of voters support the Toxics rule.
- 65% of voters surveyed are confident that the health and environmental benefits of air pollution standards outweigh the costs of complying with them.
- 79% of voters agree that the rules are important to enact for health reasons.
- 75% of voters believe a compelling reason to implement these rules is the boost to local economies and thousands of new jobs that will be created from investments in new technology.
Geoff Garin, president of Hart Research Associates, which jointly conducted the poll observed, "Despite the vitriol coming from Capitol Hill, the research shows that not only do voters see that it is an important issue, the undeniable consensus is that they support these rules. The fear of not having clean air is a clear-cut issue according to the voting public. And, not only do voters overwhelmingly support the EPA's clean air rules, they firmly believe EPA should be allowed to do its job without interference from Congress."
Support Extends Across Party Lines
This poll found that support for the EPA air pollution rules extends across the political spectrum. By three to one (75%) the public believes that the EPA, not Congress, should determine whether stricter limits are needed on air pollution from electric power plants. This is a view supported by members of all parties, with 85% of Democrats, 62% of Republicans, and 79% of Independents in agreement.
Key Regional Findings
Across the country, voters support CSAPR, with 71% of voters from the Northeast, 66% of voters in the South, 62% of voters in the Midwest, and 71% of voters from the West in favor. Similarly, support for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Rule is high nationwide: 80% of voters in the Northeast, 75% of voters in the South, 72% of voters in the Midwest, and 83% of voters in the West in support.
Voters Recognize the Benefits
Voters see threats to water and health as the most important reasons for enacting new EPA air pollution rules. In fact, 80% of voters surveyed feel it is important to enact new rules because coal-burning power plants contribute to water pollution via deposition of airborne pollutants that eventually settle in our water bodies. 79% of voters agree that the rules are important for health reasons, as power plant pollution is responsible for more than 24,000 premature deaths, 38,000 non-fatal heart attacks, and more than 550,000 asthma attacks each year.
These rules will save lives and, according to research sponsored by Ceres on the economic impact of the rules, create 1.4 million new jobs over the next five years through investments in pollution controls, new plant construction, and retirement of older, less efficient power plants as the country transitions to a cleaner, modernized generation fleet. Seventy-five percent of those surveyed believe job creation from these rules is an important reason to enact them.
That report, "New Jobs-Cleaner Air: Employment Effects under Planned Changes to EPA's Air Pollution Rules," found that installing modern pollution controls and building new power plants creates a wide array of skilled, high-paying installation, construction and professional jobs, as well as jobs at companies that manufacture pollution controls and other required construction/maintenance equipment. The report was prepared by Dr. James Heintz of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Survey Methodology
Hart Research Associates and GS Strategy Group conducted this online nationwide survey, among 1,400 voters, between August 31-September 7, 2011. More details about the poll can be found here.
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Ceres is a leading coalition of investors, environmental groups and other public interest organizations working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change. Ceres also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a network of 98 investors with $9.5 trillion of collective assets focused on the business impacts of climate change. www.ceres.org
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GOSHEN — Crisostomo Angel's smile welcomes the sunlight warming rows of vegetables and herbs stretching across his Black Dirt farm.
"No more rain, no more rain!" he says with a laugh on this crystal-clear day in an unusually wet growing season. "The tomatoes need sun!"
The Angel Family Farm off Indiana Road represents a new twist in the fertile Black Dirt region. Like the legions of Polish immigrants who came to till the soil generations ago, a new wave of immigrants, some Latino, some Asian, has arrived with the same dreams and tenacity.
Angel and his wife, Ana, are among several farmers in the mid-Hudson region to arrive via a New York City farmer education program. It was through the New Farmer Development Project of NYC Greenmarket that the Angels, who still call Brooklyn home, arranged to lease a plot of the Black Dirt seven years ago.
"We started with 3 acres," Crisostomo Angel, 42, recalls on a recent morning. "We had no equipment. Nothing. We did everything by hand."
And his hands weren't all that experienced.
"I worked in restaurants; I managed a store," Angel said. "My wife grew up on a farm in Mexico, but this was a big change, a very big change for me. It was what she always wanted, and I was a little scared. But she always said, 'We're going to make it; we're going to make it.'"
He smiles when recalling his first trips hauling produce to Greenmarkets in Queens and Brooklyn.
"I had a Geo Metro, and I'd have 30 cases in the car, and more on top, on the roof," he said. "People laughed when they saw me coming."
Angel's confidence grew along with the first plantings.
"It was a very good year, and by our second year, we had our first tractor," he said, pointing to a shiny John Deere parked nearby.
The farm has since expanded to a dozen acres, which the Angels first leased and now own. They also have two box trucks for deliveries. The couple beams when showing off a second new John Deere tractor equipped with a payloader.
A trailer they installed on the property doubles as an office and temporary home when the family's not in Brooklyn.
The Angels met in Brooklyn after coming from Mexico when he was 15 and she was 17. They have four children: Lizbeth, 22, attends Brooklyn College and handles the farm's accounting and computer needs, Henry, 19, makes deliveries and goes to the Greenmarkets when he's not studying at the College of Staten Island. The youngest, Jennifer, 11, and Maria, 8, help out on weekends.
Ana Angel helps subsidize the farm for now by running a child-care business in Brooklyn four days a week. That helped see the family through the damage wrought by back-to-back tropical storms Irene and Lee.
The family grows more than 50 varieties of produce to guard against losing an entire crop to a single storm.
"Everything we grow, we grow in a small amount," Ana Angel says. "We want to harvest everything."
Crisostomo Angel points to verdant rows of 2,000 staked tomato plants. Ana Angel leads a visitor toward a 600-head lettuce patch. That's about how many heads they sell weekly. Zucchini flowers are popular at the markets these days, too, as is fresh-picked corn.
Ana Angel doesn't hesitate when asked what she foresees in five years.
"I want a permanent building with a commercial kitchen," she says of plans to cook a portion of the crops into a variety of dishes for sale. That's called value-added agriculture, a step farmers use these days to boost the bottom line with prepared foods like preserves, salsas and breads.
For the Angels, there's no turning back.
"We had no water at first, and we still have no electricity," Ana Angel says, "but I feel lucky. We have the trailer, and I feel proud. We did what we had to do."


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If you haven't heard by now, Manny Ramirez abruptly retired on Friday. Apparently he tested positive for performance enhancing drugs a second time (which would result in a 100-game suspension) and retired rather than having to deal with it. Whatever your feelings on Manny (I mostly agree with Joe Posnanski's take on him), his antics, and how his career ended, I think we can all agree that he was an amazing hitter.
That got me thinking: where would Manny rank on the Mets offensive leaderboard? The Mets have long been known as a pitching-first franchise (think Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, and Dwight Gooden, among others), so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Manny absolutely dominates the leaderboard. John Olerud would still own the highest average and OBP, but Manny would lead in OPS, runs scored, hits, total bases, home runs, doubles…you name it, Manny would lead it (and it's not especially close).
It's fairly unrealistic to act as if one of the greatest right-handed hitters of all time suddenly played his entire career with the Mets. But what if the Mets had claimed him off of waivers in the fall of 2003? As you may remember, the Red Sox put Manny on irrevocable waivers that year: anyone could have taken him had they been willing to pay his full contract. Nobody claimed him then, but what if the Mets had?
Well, they would have gotten seven-plus years of miserable defense in left field. But beyond that, they would have gotten 1,251 hits (trailing only Ed Kranepool's 1,418), 2,289 total bases (242 more than Kranepool), 262 doubles (1st all-time, though David Wright has 261), 254 home runs (two more than Darryl Strawberry), 670 walks (90 more than Straw), and 725 runs scored (63 more than Straw). Olerud would still hold the highest batting and on-base averages, but Wright (.305) and Dave Magadan (.391) would drop to second behind Manny's .308 batting average and .411 on-base average. Mike Piazza's .542 slugging average would fall to Manny's .564 and his .975 OPS would be almost 50 points higher than Olerud's. And did I mention that he put these numbers up between the ages of 32 and 39? That's just ridiculous.
Going further down the rabbit hole, Manny was worth 23.7 rWAR (Baseball-Reference.com's version of WAR) during those years. That would place him eighth on the Mets all-time list, below Piazza's 24.6 but above Jose Reyes' 23.3. That total wouldn't get his jersey retired, but it dwarves the total put up by Mets left fielders since 2004. Cliff Floyd (5.4 rWAR in three seasons and a personal favorite), Moises Alou (1.9 rWAR in two seasons), and Jason Bay (1.2 rWAR in one season) played the most left field during those seasons (2008-09 saw 10 different players get more than 10 games each in left field; I didn't bother adding up their rWAR totals).
What would Game 6 have looked like with Manny Ramirez starting in left? Endy Chavez' catch, one of the most iconic moments in franchise history, never would have happened, but would Manny have hit a home run to match Scott Rolen's blast? Or, in the most alternate universe I can think of right now, what would have happened had Endy started the game (thus making his awesome catch) but Manny appeared as a pinch hitter instead of Cliff Floyd? How loud would Shea Stadium have been if Manny delivered the game winning hit, and how would Carlos Beltran haters denigrate him today if he never had to face Adam Wainwright's wicked curveball? Would the 2007 Mets have made the playoffs? Would we be looking back on an era with multiple division-winning teams? Have I gotten carried away?
If you've read this far (thank you!) I'm sure you've noticed that I haven't accounted for park factor. You're right: the numbers listed above were compiled when Manny played most of his games in Fenway Park, a notorious hitters' haven (although he did play 223 games as an LA Dodger during those seasons). Also, there's the not-so-small matter of Manny's salary during those seasons: he's made more than $140 million since 2004. So, no: this is not the most likely scenario. But isn't that the fun of asking "what if?"


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Chapter 12: The Sea Witch Revealed.
Nina counted to ten in her head before telling Talise what she had already told her about John before; he wasn't the same person he used to be.
" Talise," Nina said, "people change. John is repentant for his past. He doesn't use woman anymore. He has only dated women who want to date him and he likes, in the past few years.Some relationships aren't meant to be. He loved and lost his first girlfriend when he was twenty-five. John said the wrong words, as he sometimes does. He lost Tia forever and she disappeared. But he has paid for his mistakes with Tia everyday of his life." Nina smiled meaningfully at Talise. "John and I make each other happy Talise. Every person deserves to be happy at least some of their life. All humans make mistakes and suffer the consequences. Better to enjoy life while we are able."
Talise laughed darkly." You think you and John are meant to be? Malcolm tells me you've only known each other not even a week at best."
" I'm taking my relationship with John day by day. Our relationship has blossomed quickly. It's none of your business actually. I've told you way more then I should have, but I feel bad for you because your stuck at a place in your life which was obviously a difficult time for you. But I believe it would be best for you to move on." Nina cautioned Talise.
"I feel something life changing with John. I have never felt like this for any guy I've dated before, even when the relationship lasted a year or more. John feels the same as I do for him, for me."
Talise flushed in anger. She was frustrated with Nina and upset Nina was ignoring her heartfelt advice." Just leave," Talise shouted at Nina. The people around Nina looked at Talise curiously when she shouted. Talise's eyes were a stormy green and she looked murderous.
Nina glanced at the large door of the warehouse which remained open when the weather wasn't too cold at the market. She smelled the distinctive scent of rain before it began to drop outside. It was noisy and harsh against the warehouse made from metal sheeting.
Nina moved away from Talise and closer to the entrance to see outside. The sky was taking on a blackish- purple hue. The wind was blowing against the building with bursts of intense noise and outside a storm awoke. Hard pebbles of hail clanged against the warehouse of the market. A few men struggled to close the metal doors to keep out the wind, hail, and rain.
Nina searched for John amidst the dismayed crowd. She spotted John and he was yelling at Talise. " Tia is that you?" he asked with surprise and distress. "After all these years? You've finally come back to see me? To ruin my life more!" John loathed Tia for what she had done to him. Living a life where everyday something dreadful or sad happened was harsh.
John was a meter away from Nina in the crowded market but she could see he was transfixed by Talise. He was staring at Talise with a mixture of emotions on his face, his hands gripping his hair. She could see the expressions on John's face as he went through the emotions of regret, pain, anger, and abborance.
Talise sauntered around her table of scarves to John and whispered something in John's ear. Her actions were flirtatious and she touched John as a lover who knew him well. Nina felt the first stings of jealousy beginning to threaten but John's manner towards Tia was stone cold. John wasn't about to forgive Tia for all the suffering he, his family, and old girlfriends had endured. John backed up from Tia with revulsion and he looked for Nina fearful for her safety. When he saw Nina he realized she had observed his reunion with Tia, short for Talise.
"Stay away from that woman Nina," John said rushing to Nina and sternly gripping her upper arms."She's a witch, a sea witch. I can't believe it. After all this time . . .Tia is back, and you're wearing one of her scarves!" John's words were incensed and loud. He had to be loud to be heard over the storm battering the warehouse. John's temper was making it difficult for him not to be irritated with Nina. The words flew out of Nina's mouth as she tried to explain to John she was on his side.
" I didn't know Talise was Tia. I meant her at the fundraiser yesterday. Talise told me she's dating Malcolm, an editor at Mergers. It's her friends scarves and she's only filling in. I hope the vendor of the scarves booth is actually a friend. I hope Tia didn't hurt the woman so she could be here to tell me to stop seeing you." Nina said fervently.
"Tia keeps warning me away from you John. She told me bits about her relationship with you. She said you threw her away. I didn't understand why I saw her at the fundraiser and here today, but I do now. If Talise is Tia, she hates you John. Time has only made her deteste you more."Nina was talking so fast she had hardly breathed.
"You saw her at the fundraiser?" John said horrified. " I knew she was there. But whenever I tried to get a look at her she turned away. She's trying to reach me through you. Please don't speak or be with her again alone Nina. Never, she's cunning and desperate." John warned.
"She hates you John. But at the same time, I think she wants you back. She is jealous of me, I can tell."
"Of course Tia is jealous," John raged. "She only wants for me to suffer. To live without another woman's love until I die. I'm not going to do that. You and I, we have something together. Leave Talise or Tia to her schemes." John was passionate as he spoke. Nina glanced behind her to see the beautiful Talise waving at Nina with a smirk on her face. Talise was probably gloating because Nina hadn't figured out she was John's first love Tia. Nina had even told Talise about Talise's own past. Tia disappeared eerily into the crowd.
"What did Tia say to you John, when she was whispering. I saw her talking to you?" John grimaced and looked at his feet. He started to talk but couldn't complete his words. He tried again with a look of frustration and sorrow in his bright blue eyes:
"She says my heart or yours, Nina. I don't know what she means yet, but I think Tia has a violent streak. She wants revenge and she wants me back. Errrr….last night I had a nightmare. Tia was in it and she said to me the same phrase she whispered to me a few moments ago." Nina gasped.
"Why is she still so angry at you John. You've suffered so much. How can she be so malevolent? Does she literally want my heart out of my chest?"
John nodded grimacing. He held Nina in his arms and stood behind her. He kissed the crown of her head. "I won't let her hurt you," John murmured over and over again, soothing Nina and himself. The storm raged on outside.
Without warning, the roof of the aluminum warehouse started to lift with a powerful gust of wind. The wind was blowing produce, goods, booths, and tables around the inside of the warehouse. The people at the market were left to huddle low to the ground and attempt to avoid debris the wind had picked-up. Many people sported cuts, bruises, and even broken bones. Nina glanced at John as smaller objects streamed around them. John had been gripping a couple of their bags full of produce in his hands, his knuckles white with anger as they crouched on the floor.
Abruptly, the table of scarves blew over. Scarves fluttered everywhere like displaced butterflies and the table was caught in another giant gust of wind. Everyone caught in the warehouse crouched low, their hands shielding their faces. Nina dove with her bags to the ground with John, when they were almost hit by a former fruit booth.
Nina looked around her hoping the worst was over. With fear in her pale blue eyes, she observed the table from the scarves making a pathway right for her before she could think to move. The table bashed Nina in the side of her head and landed on the cement floor. Nina was stunned and felt blood oozing from an open wound. She felt a searing pain as she lay on the floor miserably, her hand trying to stop the bleeding in her blond hair.
The storm passed away as fast as it had arrived. The roof sat awkwardly half-back in place on walls of the warehouse. Nina lay on the floor beneath her bags including John's apple pie. She tried not to cry and held her head as she sat up feeling nauseous and sick. She felt dizzy as she attempted to locate John. This time, he hadn't been able to protect her. But Nina had a feeling this event was more a product of Tia's rage and not a product of John's curse. Nina hurt everywhere and her eyes kept closing without her being able to stop them. Nina felt herself sliding back to the floor. She faded into unconsciousness.
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Assistant OpinionJournal.com editor Allysia Finley on Scott Brown's potential comeback if President Obama nominates John Kerry to a cabinet position. Photo: Associated Press
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After hearing her screams, searchers on Thursday rescued an 18-year-old woman who had been lost since going on hike a four days before in a rugged terrain in Orange County.
Rescuers located Kyndall Jack just before noon in a steep ravine amid heavy brush in the Falls Canyon area of the Cleveland National Forest, officials said.
About 15 hours after her companion, Nicholas Cendoya, 19, was found and airlifted, Jack was also hoisted by helicopter and transported to a hospital.
"She's been rescued and she's alive," said Lt. Jason Park of the Orange County Sheriff's Department. "She is responsive...She is weak."
She was taken to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, where she was found to be "hypothermic, confused and showing signs of dehydration," hospital spokesman John Murray said. Jack had many bruises, cuts and scratches on her lower body, he said.
During the rescue, an unidentified Orange County reserve deputy volunteering for the search fell 60 feet and seriously injured his head. Rescue crews temporarily had to divert resources from Jack to help the injured deputy, who was hospitalized in intensive care with non-life-threatening injuries, Park said.
The reserve deputy was awake, alert and moving arms and legs, sheriff's Lt. Erin Giudice said during a news conference a Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, where the man was being treated.
Jack, meanwhile, was found to be in good condition with no major internal injuries and will be moved to an intensive care unit for observation, Murray said.
Jack's parents did not have a comment and asked media to respect their privacy, Murray added.
"They're relieved," Murray said.
An inexperienced hiker, Jack had ventured into the wilderness wearing only board shorts, a T-shirt and tennis shoes, her aunt Mandy Eamello said.
"Definitely not what you're supposed to wear," said Eamello, who added that her niece had only planned a short dayhike.
Cendoya was likewise unprepared for an emergency stay in the wilderness overnight, authorities said, and friends reported he did not often hike. He was scratched over much of his body from trying to stay warm in brush at night while he was shirtless.
"He said he would pray every day and every night to give him the strength to get out of there. But he said he got so tired and exhusted from hiking around that he lost all of his strength," said Dr. Michael Ritter, Mission Hospital medical director.
The pair's 911 call to authorities on Sunday night had prompted a massive search effort involving professionals and hundreds of volunteers that Park said had paid off. Law enforcement officers and volunteers used dogs to search a network of trails while helicopters searched overhead.
"It's exciting. Right now everybody is celebrating for our success, regardless of how hard they worked, how tired they are, how hungry they are ... it's a tremendous victory for them," Park said.
Cendoya had been rescued just after 9 p.m. Wednesday, when he was found shoeless, dehydrated, disoriented and incoherent. He was about 200 yard up a ridge off Trabuco Creek Road, not far from near where he and Jack had parked their car, authorities said.
Jack was found in the same area, just over three-quarters of a mile from the car, after searchers heard her cries, Park said.
"I could not see her, and so I asked her to wave an arm. She said she could only wave one arm, so I said, 'Well, wave it,'" said Mike Leum of Montrose Search and Rescue. "She started waving and arm and I saw her."
Leum said searchers had asked all the female rescue workers to remain quiet to better distinguish Jack's voice.
"We climbed up to her, and she was in a lot of pain ... going in and out of consciousness," Jim Moss of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. "We just told her not to move because she was in a pretty precarious place."
To rescue Cendoya in the dark of night, searchers had to cut through extremely thick brush. Visibility was less than 10 feet, Park said.
Capt. Jon Muir of the Orange County Fire Authority said there was "a message" from the extensive rescue effort.
"If you're going to go hiking, we want you to be safe. We want you to plan and prepare," Muir said. "Bring lots of food and water. Make sure you dress appropriately. Make sure you have communications – tell people that you're not going on the hiking trip that you're going hiking. And stay on the main trails and don't go on off-trails so that you don't get injured."
Both Costa Mesa residents, Cendoya and Jack were hiking within the Holy Jim Canyon, part of the broader Trabuco Canyon area. Falls Canyon, where Jack was found, feeds into Holy Jim Canyon and is about a mile from the Holy Jim Trail.
The pair's cellphone battery wore down and authorities could not get an accurate GPS "ping" from the phone to pinpoint their location, prompting an intense search, Giudice said.
The two had become separated on Sunday night, officials said.
Cendoya was recovering in serious but stable condition at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, where the deputy injured in Jack's rescue was also taken, a hospital spokeswoman said.
"His family and he are extremely relieved and very, very grateful to hear Kyndall has been found," said hospital spokeswoman Tammi Sharp.
Authorities had said the fairly mild overnight conditions in the area were survivable, even when temperatures drop overnight. But the terrain off-trail can be difficult in the canyon, and fresh spring growth made is difficult to travel – and to search for the hikers.
Moving through the dense brush could be exhausting, officials said.
"This is an amazing, lovely place, but it's a very dangerous place," Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer said. "These two individuals ... are very, very lucky people."
Hundreds of volunteers had descended on the area, hoping to help in the search. Jack's parents on Wednesday evening had pleaded with unprepared volunteers to stay away and let professionals and experienced hikers conduct the search.
Russ Jack, the teen's father, described the scene as "modern-day circus" even as he thanked friends for their efforts.
A couple of volunteer searchers had gotten lost Wednesday afternoon, and in a separate incident in a nearby canyon, a hiker unrelated to the search was also airlifted out after slipping and falling near a waterfall.
On Thursday, Russ and Dawn Jack learned of their daughter's safety.
"They were extremely happy. It was an emotional couple of moments for them," Park said. "It was very easy news for myself and Capt. Muir to deliver."
There was no estimate on the cost of the extensive search, Park said.


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Some of the best race vantage points on the bike course can be found in the Camden Haven, just a 20 minute drive South of Port Macquarie via the Pacific Highway. The following hot spots will be buzzing on race day from 8am - 3pm, make sure you get along to one of them and enjoy the beautiful Camden Haven.
Bonny Hills - at Bonny Hills Caravan Park& Bonny Hills Plaza
The Bonny Hills community are well known in IRONMAN circles for putting on a good party when it comes to race day. Leading on from this the community will have their very own dedicated hot spot for the first time this year! Make your way to the North Coast Holiday Park to get in the swing of things with a bbq and music kicking off the festivities. Cheer on the IRONMAN athletes as they make their way through Bonny Hills and don't forget to keep a look out for IRONMAN giveaways!
**A FREE water taxi will also be running on race day from Laurieton (in front of LUSC), Dunbogan Boatshed and North Haven from 7am - 1am**
IRONMAN Live will feature live and exclusive online coverage of IRONMAN Australia and 70.3 Port Macqaurie. With live race updates, photography and athlete tracking – IRONMAN Live will have the event covered. Tune into www.ironman.com for all the latest updates and information.
Please note the following to avoid potential disqualification of your athlete.
Riding, running or driving beside a competitor on any part of the course is not allowed, is considered outside assistance and can lead to disqualification of that competitor.
Permanent paint or crayon for graffiti on any road is strictly forbidden. Chalk is acceptable but where permanent paint graffiti is identified to a competitor, that competitor will be disqualified.
Ensure your competitor has read and knows the Triathlon Rules pertaining to this race, and has thoroughly read this booklet.
Ensure your competitor keeps his/her Competitor Bib # secured to clothing and takes his/her timing band on race morning as this race is timed with a chip.
Please visit our Changed Traffic Conditions Page, for more information of Race Day Access.


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Microsoft Launches Popfly: Appscout Invokes Infield Fly Rule
The folks at Microsoft were kind enough to give us a preview of Popfly, last night, and we're equally impressed and confused by the app. One half of the launch, Popfly Creator, uses Silverlight, MS's Flash-killer, for the service, which is something of a Google My Maps-killer, with a sister site, Popfly Space (Get it?) that is, in its own unique way, a mini-Myspace killer. We got a quick run through, and while it all looks neat, we have yet to see anything that really convinced us that this killer is indeed, well, killer.
At its heart, Popfly Creator is a simple way for the non-code savvy among us to design their own Web pages and mashups (yep, Microsoft has begun tossing off the word mashup with reckless disregard for the safety of themselves and other). The service's use of Silverlight is certainly unique, and while the whole idea behind the service is to make programming more accessible, watching someone design even the simplest of mashups in the service is, at least at first, a bit like watching someone program in an alien language.
There are blocks. Big, red, 3D, blocks, all assigned to different aspects of the potential mashup. One block, for example, represents Flickr, another might be Live Search, and a third, let's say, is that old favorite, Twitter. Connect them together, and you've got a map of Twitter entries, complete with pics. It's potentially very neat, and is perhaps a bit more intuitive, once you actually use the thing--we'll let you know, via a full review, in the near future.
The Web site designer is a bit more straightforward, using Office Live Web Designer, WYSIWYG-style. You get to choose from 150 different themes, add some code, if that's your thing, and embed those mashups that you just made.
Popfly Space is where the social networking aspect comes in. Members can share their apps, rate them, 'remix' them (oh, Microsoft), and embed them on blogging platforms like Typepad, Windows Live Spaces, and Blogger.
This is all in closed Alpha, at the moment, on an invite-only system like Gmail ('probably' the first time MS has rolled out a program like this, according to the representative we spoke with). The biggest sign of all that Microsoft is getting a bit hipper with this thing, however, is the fact that they've made expressly made the thing compatible with Firefox on both Windows and the Mac.
Oh, and of course Carol M. had to ask about the ducks. According to the MS spokesman, the point of the rubber shooting gallery is: "if you want to be a magenta duck with a green bill, you should get to be a magenta duck with a green bill." Makes sense to us. Sorta.


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This deliciously dark stop-motion animated 3-D feature from Tim Burton could transfix many kids 10 and older who like scary stuff, but it could also petrify some, as it surely will many under-10s.
Burton has always let his dark side show, even in films for kids ("Alice in Wonderland," PG, 2010; "Corpse Bride," PG, 2005; "The Nightmare Before Christmas," PG, 1993).
This tale about a sad boy who brings his dead dog back to life is even darker than those — a reinvention of Burton's PG-rated 1984 live-action short. It is as gothic and expressionistic as 1950s (or older) black-and-white horror films. It is gorgeously rendered and very witty, but always with an undercurrent of weirdness and melancholy.
It unfolds in a town where the kids look and sound like horror-movie characters. Talk about childhood alienation! Young Victor Frankenstein (voice of Charlie Tahan) is a quiet, friendless science whiz. When his beloved dog Sparky runs after a ball and is killed by a car (screeching brakes; nothing shown), Victor grieves.
Then his new science teacher (Martin Landau) demonstrates how electricity can jolt a dead frog's muscles. Victor is inspired. He digs up Sparky, stitches him back together (nothing graphic), then raises the dog up into an electrical storm.
Sparky comes back to life, sweet as ever. Victor tries to keep his experiment a secret, but soon less talented classmates hear of it and start experimenting on other dead animals. They create monsters.
THE BOTTOM LINE: With an unusual film like this, parents really need to think about what their own children can handle on a big screen and in 3-D. When the other dead animals are transformed, they emerge as monsters — giant lizards, huge turtles — and terrorize the town. The adults react like a mob and get Victor's teacher fired. While no one is shown being hurt or killed, the whole atmosphere, though animated, is definitely old-style horror.
"Taken 2" PG-13 — This time it's former CIA operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) and his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) who are abducted by Albanian criminals, and their 20-ish daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) who must help rescue them.
This sequel to "Taken" (PG-13, 2008; released in 2009 in the U.S.) maintains the original's fast-paced formula, but there's still time to giggle at the breathless improbability of it all. Nevertheless, the gunplay and scenes of nongraphic but strongly implied torture may be too harsh for middle-schoolers.
Though he's chained and held incommunicado when first abducted, Bryan has skills and gadgetry, so he can direct daughter Kim's actions as the thriller unfolds in the back alleys of Istanbul. At the start, we learn that the father (Rade Serbedzija) of one of the thugs Bryan killed in Europe three years ago wants revenge.
Back in Los Angeles, Bryan, ever the controlling parent, has been sweating the small stuff, checking out Jamie's new boyfriend (Luke Grimes) and prepping her for her third driver's license test. He's also trying to reconcile with Lenore. Only after mother and daughter surprise him in Istanbul, where he's had a freelance job, do the black vans and bad guys close in.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The mayhem features much plaster-shattering gunplay, but with little blood. Bryan also kills several people with his bare hands and the fights are intense. The dialogue includes occasional mild profanity (the S-word in particular). Bryan makes reference to the fact that the young Albanian men he killed in the first film were kidnapping girls to sell into prostitution. At several points, Kim, too, faces mortal danger and her mother sustains injuries.


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Today Google announced a new and exciting[?] image format, called WebP (pronounced "weppy"), with hopes of improving the web by reducing image sizes and in turn also reducing the massive amounts of data that flow through data centers such as Google's.
While this likely won't affect the average internet user any time soon, it has the potential to make significantly important changes, especially with Google's push and massive web influence. So what, more specifically, is WebP and why should you care? Read on to find out.


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Capitals are preparing for potential Garnet Hathaway suspension
'It's something you just don't do': Garnet Hathaway spits in Erik Gudbranson's face during Ducks-Capitals scrum
DGB weekend power rankings: Which team represents Canada's best hope to end the Stanley Cup drought?
Capitals' first quarter evaluation: 'We're going in the right direction'
Duhatschek Notebook: Surprises, disappointments and meaningful moments from the NHL's first quarter
Why you might find Caps' Tom Wilson in your local boxing class: 'It does fit the mold'
DGB weekend power rankings: Early-season surprises slow down, Caps and Blues stay hot and Don Cherry thoughts
Q&A: Caps legend Peter Bondra on being traded, having his number retired and the Hall of Fame
An early look at the top candidates for the 2019-20 Norris Trophy
The beauty of a good night's sleep can be elusive for many NHL players
Let's talk about the Washington Wizards, the best offense in the NBA
The Athletic's NBA Power Rankings Week 4: Luck of the Irish?
Teaching and schooling, Kara Lawson is a true coach with the Celtics
Isaiah Thomas wants more than a big paycheck. He wants a home
The Athletic's NBA Power Rankings Week 3: The #WashedKing looks clean
Thomas Bryant's shot selection, Isaiah Thomas' defense, Bradley Beal's shooting and other Wizards thoughts
Darius Garland and Bradley Beal meet on the court and off it: 'I love him. He's my brother'
A reminder of why the Wizards got Rui Hachimura — and why they're not going away from him, no matter his minutes
Aldridge has questions: On Iguodala's destination, Nunn's emergence and a look at the Wizards, Kings and Rockets
Isaiah Thomas on becoming a Wizards starter: 'It can't storm forever. The sun has to come out'
The NL MVP: How writers from The Athletic voted, and why
'I don't know if it's rooted in paranoia, or fact': MLB GMs on sign stealing, precautions and crossing the line
Stark: The 10 numbers that defined baseball in 2019, revisited
Can the Nats afford Stephen Strasburg and Anthony Rendon? On payroll, expectations and being unafraid of the luxury tax
Bowden: What each of the 30 MLB teams will be looking for this offseason
Rosenthal: Who will win? Who should win? Start the debate – here are my choices for the MLB awards
Rosenthal: Storylines to watch this offseason, from the Boras Brigade to the Red Sox's decision on Mookie Betts
Stick to sports? The Nationals' White House visit shows it's not so simple
Bowden: Ranking the top 35 free agents, and predicting their contracts and best fits
Nationals offseason blueprint: After winning the World Series, they have tough decisions to make
NFL Power Rankings: Week 11 brought out the best in the Ravens, the very worst in others
The Redskins have been hampered all season by not having a go-to tight end and there's no end in sight
Bill Callahan was the right coach to finish out 2019, however, he is not the right coach to the lead the team in 2020
'We have to find a way to get better because close isn't getting us nowhere': On the Redskins road to reality
Dwayne Haskins' growing pains are on full display, but are they encouraging? Depends on how you view his play
Redskins' defense suffers even more coverage busts and the Jets take advantage
Live Q&A: Ben Standig answers your Redskins questions on Tuesday, Nov. 19
From whiteboards, to 'make a mistake, fix it,' QB coach Tim Rattay breaks down Dwayne Haskins' preparation
Trent Williams discusses boxing, Dan Snyder's hand in him going on NFI and says 'I'll never be a Redskin again'
Beat writer breakdown: What to expect from the Jets-Redskins Week 11 showdown
Birds With Friends is your twice weekly look at the Philadelphia Eagles with Bo Wulf, Zach Berman, Sheil Kapadia, & special guests.
The Athletic's Dan Duggan dives deep into the New York Giants in this exclusive podcast.
The Athletic's Pittsburgh Steelers podcast with Ed Bouchette and Mark Kaboly.
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Not only does 'Short Order' boast locally raised, organic, artisanal, handmade products, but it has a full bar equipped with dehydrated apple slices and candied ginger, too. You know, the usual, insouciant ingredients that you can't imagine living without at midnight on a Friday. But for real, the menu and the restaurant are distinctively awesome.
The waiters wear striped henleys, the patio is surrounded by lavender and wild flowers, and upstairs the bartender, with his ponytail, mustache and vest, spices up your drink with szechuan pepper corn syrup and rose water. The space is new, but feels vintage, reminiscent of a time when things were built to last and food came off the farm.
Something else to look forward to? There are a couple of tasty salads available for those of us feeling the lighter menu during this indian summer. Also the brunch menu will be available Jan 1 and it looks like a high falootin good time to me. I'll be back way before then for a hot dog in a pretzel bun because who doesn't love pretzel bread? Silverton plans to open 'Short Cake' bakery next just around the corner from Short Order. For now, the bread at Short Order is delivered from the La Brea Bakery, where Silverton is head baker and where she has done wonders re-popularizing sourdough and artisan breads in LA.


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Computex: Microsoft Highlights Windows 8 in "Biggest Year Ever"
Microsoft Corporate Vice President Steven Guggenheimer, who heads the company's OEM relationships, gave a Computex keynote this afternoon. He showed many demos of Windows 8 and reflected on the huge variety of solutions the company is encouraging with its partners. He called this Microsoft's "biggest year ever," and said it isn't just about Windows 8, but also the embedded version, Windows Phone, a new version of Office, and many others. Still, the focus of the talk was on Windows 8.
Guggenheimer started by talking about how separate ecosystems for PCs, phones, and TVs are now coming together as single platform. He compared Microsoft's ecosystem to Apple's, which doesn't allow any other company to have a brand, and Android's, which makes each vendor do much of the work toward creating individual ecosystems.
He showed a video with many of the devices running Windows 7 since its October 2009 debut. Microsoft has sold more than 600 million Windows 7 licenses so far, and Windows 7 is running on about 40 percent of Internet connected devices worldwide. This is all leading up to Windows 8, which he described as a complete re-imagination of Windows. Windows 8 was first publicly shown at Computex one year ago and the company issued the Release Preview last week.
Aidan Marcuss, senior director of Windows and Windows Live, did a demo of the Release Preview, showing a variety of features. He began with Picture Password, then moved into some of the built-in applications, such as the new Mail app in Metro, including pinning a particular folder and then clicking on a mail attachment and opening PowerPoint on the desktop.
Above: Aidan Marcuss, senior director of Windows and Windows Live
He showed Skydrive and its ability to access files remotely on another PC. He also shared applications, ranging from Bing Travel to a currency application, Dr. Eye for local language search, an application that showed multiple drink recipes, and Wikipedia, which takes advantage of Windows 8 gestures. He brought up a news application, searching for Computex, finding a PCMag.com story, and sharing it on Facebook.
He also showed how different people can have different accounts on the same machine.
He displayed a Star Chart application, and brought up Internet Explorer 10 to play a Flash game on pbskids.org; and demoed a Microsoft application called Fresh Paint. All of these apps are currently in the Windows Store, he said.
Marcuss talked about how Windows 8 is enabling Mail, Word, home remote access, full screen applications, and all of the existing Windows applications on one device, providing a "Windows 8 no compromise experience."
He also discussed ecosystem readiness, including Microsoft's efforts to make sure systems (components), peripherals, and apps are all working right on Windows 8. Microsoft will have support for over 50,000 certified peripherals, will have tested over 13,000 desktop applications for compatibility, and currently has both hardware and application certification kits available today. Marcuss pushed developers to get their systems, peripherals, and applications certified, and for software developers to certify their desktop apps and start work on Metro Apps, and then submit them to the Windows Stores.
Guggenheimer came back to show some of the Windows 8 hardware, very quickly moving through a large range of machines. He started with all-in-one machines from Samsung, Asus, Acer (with a swiveling design), and Lenovo (which lies flat).
He then went on to show traditional high volume standard 13- to15-inch keyboard and mouse-based notebooks from HP, Sony, Asus, and the Dell XPS. In particular, he pointed out a Toshiba model with a 21:9 screen and a very thin Acer machine on which you push a button and the ports drop down.
For touch-based laptops, he showed units from Samsung and Asus, as well as an Acer notebook that uses special glass to provide rigidity for the screen with a particularly nice hinge design. For convertibles, he showed the Lenovo Yoga prototype, as well as units with removable keyboards from Samsung and Fujitsu, a very thin Asus tablet with a dockable keyboard and a new design from Acer. He ended showing the single Windows RT unit, a convertible tablet from Asus powered by a Tegra 3 process, with a 10.2-inch screen, weighing about 500 grams.
Guggenheimer gave special notice to component makers, who he said are helping computer markers create differentiated products, in particular pointing to new kinds of glass and a number of innovative hinge designs for both notebooks ad convertibles.
Consumers who buy Windows 7 machines between June 2, 2012 and January 31, 2013 are eligible to get a copy of Windows 8 Pro for $14.99.
Platforms and Embedded Systems
While the focus was Windows 8, Guggenheimer started his keynote by talking about other markets Microsoft competes in, like the server and embedded market. He discussed Microsoft's goal to deliver a "best-in-class hybrid cloud," and how Microsoft has both traditional servers for private cloud or on-premises technology such as Windows Server and SEL server, and public cloud infrastructure, just as Windows Azure ad services such as Hotmail, Skype, and Xbox live.
He talked about a "Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track," effectively a private cloud box based around Widows Server 2012 that hardware OEMs could sell. He showed a machine from traditional ODM (original design manufacturer) Quanta designed for this.
On Windows Embedded, he talked about how there are more than one billion embedded devices sold each year, in a wide variety of applications. In particular, he highlighted the automotive market, citing the company's Ford Sync partnership, and digital signage. He also talked about how Microsoft is working on an embedded version of Windows 8, with a new preview edition out today.
On Windows Phone, he didn't announce any new news, but talked about partnerships with Nokia, Samsung, HTC, LG, Acer, Fujitsu, and ZTE. His examples included Bing and a translator application for Windows Phone that can translate a menu from Mandarin to English on the fly.
A more interesting demo came from Microsoft's Ryan Asdourian, who recapped an E3 announcement of a service to connecting Windows Phone and a tablet to the Xbox, thus controlling a TV. The demo included taking a video from a tablet, moving it to the Xbox, and using the phone to control the video, and then also using the phone as a game controller.
Above: Microsoft's Ryan Asdourian
Guggenheimer talked about the importance of component technology in this area as well, showing off curved glass for a phone, a machine that rolls out glass, and a variety of hinge designs for tablets. In particular, he demoed a new touch screen technology from Sharp that uses a standard pencil instead of a stylus, and also works with a glove. He and Asdourian also showed a demo from Microsoft research of people creating a document together using a pen.
He ended the keynote talking about how Windows 8, Windows Embedded, Windows Server, Windows Phone, Windows 7, and Widows 8 are all working together.


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A couple of posts that I simply must point out to readers. Firstly, Steve M is back in the saddle at Climate Audit, reviewing his recent visit to the AGU and making some disturbing revelations about the AGU's welcoming back of Peter Gleick into the fold.
Gleick's welcome back to AGU prominence – without serving even the equivalent of a game's suspension – was pretty startling, given his admitted identity fraud and distribution (and probable fabrication) of a forged document. Last year, then AGU President Mike McPhadren, a colleague of Eric Steig's at the University of Washington, had stated on behalf of AGU that Gleick had "compromised AGU's credibility as a scientific society" and that his "transgression cannot be condoned". McPhadren stated that AGU's "guiding core value" was "excellence and integrity in everything we do" – values that would seem to be inconsistent with identity fraud and distribution and/or fabrication of forged documents, even by the relaxed standards of academic institutions.
Meanwhile, Tallbloke and his readers have uncovered a downwards revision in the Met Office's temperature projections. It's interesting to wonder why a statistically insignificant rainfall trend was worthy of a Met Office press release while a major reining back on the projections wasn't.


text: I wanted to start this thread to share the wonderful things I see in my backyard. Just this morning, I saw a deer and it's fawn walking across our backyard. I tried taking a picture, but they nestled behind our pine tree to nap. The fawn still was so young with its white spots. So cute!! Here are some pics of what we see here...some were taken last Fall. I really love where we live. Hope to take some pics of some of the other animals that cruise thru our backyard soon!!


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OctPoWriMo Day 12 is a poem on theme of imagination. It also has a special poetry form called a Sestina. I'm combining this prompt with Michael from MindLoveMisery's Menagerie Tale Weaver prompt of a reluctant princess.
"A sestina is 39 lines, 6 stanzas with 6 lines each plus a tag. Begin with 6 words of your choice.Take those words and rotate them at the ends of your stanzas. They rotate in a round with the last word of the last line being the last word of the first line in the next stanza. Your lines can be any length, though it just looks nicer if they're quite regular."
Princess wishing for saving but her mind,
Changes thought after awhile left waiting.
Time goes by and the princess, she contrives —
Better plans to be herself, to fulfill dreams.
Caring not if Prince Charming's attractive,
She drugs the dragon, starts ever-after.
In boy's clothes, leaves for her ever-after,
Princess shunning a dusty castle mind —
Focused on the path past the moat, awaits,
Challenges, aspirations, contriving —
And listing, all she desires to do, dreams —
A life that is hers, no dull prince, unattractive.
She swims easily through water not attracting —
Guard who had watched her forever-after.
She climbs past the moat, into sunshine, mind —
Reeling at the brightness of dawn; she's waiting,
To slip into the forest contriving —
Survival though sheltered, planning her dreams.
Who should come to ruin her heartfelt, desired dreams?
But a mean grumpy prince so unattractive —
Manners, pretty, not her ever-after —
She kicks fragile parts; she has a sharp mind —
Laughing, runs to whatever in life awaits,
Inexperienced but smart, she contrives —
Her new life, with hidden coins she contrives —
To buy a home, train for job of dreams.
Country home and teaching school, sounds attractive,
Her imagination's wild ever-after,
It's the person she is, needs no prince, minds —
Respecting him — an awful fate waiting,
Though the dumb prince chases her, she's waiting —
When he's down she escapes and contrives —
New methods for hopeful life, while dreaming —
Plans to go where she'll not attention attract.
Off to the Americas ever-after.
Away from being controlled, at peace in mind.
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