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Taking risks is part of the Joffrey Ballet's history. Founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino had grand ambitions: reviving masterworks of the past as well as performing new works, always a risky business.
As Joffrey audience members in the 1960s and '70s, our retinas still burn with the images of Christian Holder and Max Zomosa as Death in Kurt Jooss's 1932 ballet The Green Table. (This masterpiece is to be revived by the Joffrey in the 2012-2013 season. The ballet was created between World Wars I and II and unfortunately will always be relevant. ) And who could forget Ballets Russes's 1917 work Parade (those wild costumes by Picasso!)? Or Nijinsky's Petrouchka?
But the Joffrey performed new works back then, too, that were surprising in their day: the rock ballet Trinity or the dance in which a man in a suit, sitting as part of the audience, stood up and walked onto the stage to dance under the siren call of the title goddess, Astarte. While new works are sometimes startling and popular in their day, they don't survive their time in history to become classics.
So Artistic Director Ashley Wheater deserves credit for bringing newer works into the repertoire. And you can predict if the three ballets on this program will pass the test of passing time and changing tastes to become classics.
For those who prefer to receive info visually/auditorially, there's a brief video before the performance. Artistic Director Ashley Wheater comments on the evening's works while you catch glimpses of the dancers rehearsing. You'll miss the little note in the program, though, that warns you that the music might be a bit loud for your taste—earplugs are available.
The program comprises three pieces, all done on a bare stage with minimal costuming. There's a good deal of imaginative movement done at a high level of technical skill.
William Forsythe's 1987 In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (a Joffrey premiere) opens when the lights suddenly blink on to show the dancers in turquoise and black leotards and tights, looking very small in the high, wide space on and above the stage. A quick series of intense duets and solos is filled with beautiful, fluid movements that wind into satisfying completion only to slide into something new. There are changing patterns of individuals and groups going in and out of unison, interspersed with relaxed walking or jogging to a different spot.
Neither the music, a percussive score by Thom Willems in collaboration with Leslie Stuck, nor the movement build to a climax, however, and the dance ends abruptly with a blackout.
It was a pleasure to hear the brief tune-up of the Chicago Sinfonietta, with the promise of live music. Alternating between dramatic urgency and sweetness, Arvo Part's music adds depth as well as inspiration for Christopher Wheeldon's beautiful movement in After the Rain, enjoying a welcome return to the Joffrey stage.
The backdrop suggests lowering clouds over a field of dark blue. After the striking opening pose of three couples in a receding line, the women bending forward with right leg jutting out in second position, parallel to the floor, hovering over the men on the floor, the dance spins out one arresting image after another: the women's legs like clock hands sweeping around; the man walking backwards across the stage, carrying a woman whose legs are bicycling away.
For the second half of the ballet, the forbidding backdrop lifts, and the stage is bathed in soft pink light to match Victoria Jaiani's pink leotard. The piano's tolling bass compliments the violins, notes falling like rain dripping from leaves.
Fabrice Calmels's large, powerful body (with no shirt, so you can see his back muscles working as he bends over and lifts his partner) makes a startling foil for Jaiani's delicacy. It's the dancer's trick: to look fragile while having the powerful muscles to propel yourself off the floor and the strength to make a controlled and soundless landing.
The gentle placement of her hand in his, the achingly slow lift in which she spirals down and around him, his framing the line of her arabesque with his hands and running away from her, carrying that line, extending it across the stage: each tender movement etchs beauty into the air. The simplest gesture conveys emotional content.
The music doesn't build in After the Rain, but its simpler scoring (piano [Paul James Lewis] and violins [Paul Zafer, Carol Lahti]) and emotionally rich content offer a very satisfying ground on which to dance. The piece is shorter than its companions on the program, too, which means it may have escaped dancer Doris Humphrey's caution: "All dances are too long." The dance and the dancers (Valerie Robin, Matthew Adamczyk, April Daly, and Rory Hohenstein as well as Jaiani and Calmels), deserved the bravoes and standing ovation.
Infra, by choreographer Wayne McGregor, is the U.S. premiere of a 2008 work for the Royal Ballet in London. For the ballet, artist Julian Opie designed an LED screen the hangs above the back of the bare stage, providing electronic figures that walk back and forth singly and eventually in crowds. They're the identity-free pedestrians, the strangers we pass in the street, just as they pass us.
Under the LED screen (under the pavement, under the skin? "Infra" means "under" in Latin.), the dance opens in the wide, dark space of the stage. The melancholy music has an overlay of train sounds, urban noise, the scratchy, mechanical background of city life and group living.
A trio of men is very busy, scrambling about. The twelve dancers move singly, in pairs, undulating, wrestling, surging, dealing with their own problems. Six boxes of white light appear on the floor, each with a male/female pair in its own unknowable story until the women are dragged backward into the dark.
The dance has one moment of raw emotion, when a woman, standing over a stricken man lying on the floor, convulses into sobs. She grieves, alone, as strangers walk by.
We're told that McGregor created this ballet after the London subway bombings in 2005, and the program quotes from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land:
Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn.
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
So when a crowd of pedestrians, the real-people equivalent of all those LED dots, walks across the stage, not in leotards and tights but in everyday clothing, someone in an overcoat, a woman carrying a purse, flowing across the stage, it makes a powerful visual statement--so many, so many—and it would have made a powerful ending. Except that a "hopeful" duet is the last movement we see as the curtain lowers.
Photos by Herbert Migdoll
The Joffrey Ballet's "Winter Fire" program runs Wednesday, February 15 through Sunday, February 26. The complete schedule is as follows: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 7:30 pm; Friday, Feb. 17, 7:30 pm; Saturday, Feb. 18, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm; Sunday, Feb. 19, 2:00 pm; Thursday, Feb. 23, 7:30 pm; Friday, Feb. 24, 7:30 pm; Saturday, Feb. 25, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm; Sunday, Feb. 26, 2:00 pm
Single tickets range from $25 to $149 and are available for purchase at The Joffrey Ballet's official Box Office located in the lobby of Joffrey Tower, 10 E. Randolph Street, as well as the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Box Office, all Ticketmaster Ticket Centers, by telephone at (800) 982-2787, or online at www.ticketmaster.com.


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FORT HOOD, Texas - Attorneys who are advising the soldier accused in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage have been allowed to leave trial for the day so they can challenge the judge's refusal to scale back their duties.
Maj. Nidal Hasan is representing himself as he faces numerous charges for the attack on the Texas military base.
The military lawyers ordered to help Hasan believe he is trying to win himself a death sentence. They say supporting such a "repugnant" defense strategy violates their rules of professional conduct.
The attorneys had asked the judge to scale back their duties or let them take over the case.
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"Life and work have taken Indiana Humanities President and CEO Keira Amstutz all over her home state of Indiana," notes the Indianapolis Business Journal. Amstutz, a 1991 graduate of DePauw University, is cited as a "2012 Woman of Influence" in the publication's latest issue.
Marc and Martha Allan write, "Amstutz grew up in Hamilton, in the northeast corner of the state. She found her way to Indianapolis through a Governor's Fellowship from Evan Bayh after graduating from DePauw University, where she studied political science. In the governor's office, she managed a program called Capital for a Day, in which the governor would take his top executives to different places around the state for a day or two. 'I fell more deeply in love with Indiana through that process and learned an awful lot more about the state,' she said."
The article details how Amstutz earned a law degree and worked as an attorney before running the first Indianapolis mayoral campaign of Bart Peterson. She later served as deputy mayor, chief counsel and director of policy in Peterson's administration, and since 2000 has worked for Indiana Humanities, "and is widely credited with boosting the independent not-for-profit organization's visibility and finances. Indiana Humanities, which she describes as 'like a sister to an arts council,' gives grants to support humanities programming throughout the state -- initiatives designed to 'touch people's hearts and connect them deeper with their communities.' It also puts on programs of its own."
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In late 2009, consumer goods giant Unilever—a $61 billion company—announced a challenging goal: to double the size of its business.
Unilever's strategy depends on expanding its presence in global markets, especially in emerging economies. Executives were aware that growth on that scale would require waves of new hiring across those markets. To deliver high levels of performance cost effectively, Unilever is looking to manage these employees in ways that are aligned with a global approach to employee services, while also complying with different statutory requirements and respecting local differences in how people are motivated, developed and paid.
On the other side of the world, Huawei Technologies Co.—a $28 billion Chinese networking and telecommunications equipment supplier—is extending its global reach. As it increases its presence around the world, it is looking to create a talent infrastructure attuned to different markets while building a global culture of shared values and a human resources capability that can support the company's business operations worldwide.
Tracking the routes to corporate globalization these days is like watching the contrails of jet planes: They come from anywhere and go everywhere. Yet whatever direction a global expansion takes, companies face common challenges, all related to how their people—who ultimately execute business strategy, innovate and serve customers—are sourced, developed and managed.
As executives now understand, cultural differences really do matter. Labor laws vary in what sometimes seem to be irreconcilable ways; attitudes and policies toward workers that are common and accepted in one nation are not necessarily appropriate in another; and leadership styles that are successful at the home office—whether in São Paulo or New York or London or Beijing—may only undermine the operation of those parts of the organization that are an ocean away.
As companies in almost every industry stake a large portion of their growth plans on global expansion, the precision and consistency with which they approach talent management capabilities, HR policies and leadership development must increase. Attracting and retaining skilled workers, stabilizing the labor force in a new market, increasing productivity, structuring an organization so that credible and competent leadership is placed in the right locations, fashioning a culture that is consistent but also accommodates local differences—these are now the activities and competencies that are critical to success.
One of the most profound but also subtle issues companies face as they expand—from West to East and vice versa—is adopting a genuinely neutral global perspective, without presumptions about whose role is dominant.
Julian Dalzell—recently retired after 43 years in HR leadership roles with Royal Dutch Shell, and now on the faculty of the Darla Moore School of Business in South Carolina—sees cause for concern about whether Western companies are sufficiently prepared to meet these challenges. People have grown up with presumptions about their own country's economic dominance, but other centers of power and influence are rising. "Future executives of our companies," says Dalzell, "must now be groomed to operate and lead in that environment, whether it's in terms of new business management skills or simply the emotional and psychological mindsets needed."


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Closer, catcher among Rangers' questions in 2014
Despite big-name additions, offense could hinge on young hitters' development
ARLINGTON -- Manager Ron Washington was asked at the Winter Meetings what would happen if his general manager told him there were no more moves to be made and the Rangers were done for the winter.
"Then we're done," Washington said. "We'll take the team we have and we'll go to war with it, and we'll feel good about it when we do that."
The Rangers weren't done. They ended up being one of the big players in the free-agent market when they signed outfielder Shin-Soo Choo for seven years and $130 million. That is the third-largest contract handed out to a free agent this season behind Robinson Cano ($240 million) and Jacoby Ellsbury ($153 million).
Whether or not they make any more moves, there are still some big questions facing the Rangers while everybody is toasting the New Year.
10. Who will be the closer?
Joe Nathan is now with the Tigers and the Rangers will have a new closer in 2014. They will likely settle the issue by going back to the old closer. Neftali Feliz had the job during the World Series years of 2010-11 before being derailed by Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery.
Feliz appears to be healthy again, which puts him in position to be the Rangers' closer coming out of Spring Training. If Feliz is not ready, the Rangers could turn to premier setup reliever Tanner Scheppers or former Royals All-Star closer Joakim Soria. All are potentially good options but right now the job is Feliz's to lose.
9. Look at me, I can be, center field
Leonys Martin had a good first full season in the Major Leagues as the Rangers' center fielder in 2013. They are expecting better. Martin is a tremendous talent but he is still learning to play the game under Washington's high standards. The Rangers are hoping he is more than just another Oddibe McDowell.
8. This may not be a classic quarterback controversy but ...
In Soto and Arencibia, the Rangers have two catchers who have been everyday players in their careers. Soto was signed first this offseason with the belief that he would be the No. 1 catcher. Arencibia, signed during the Winter Meetings, knows that going in but is used to being the No. 1 catcher while with the Blue Jays, so pardon him if he believes he can unseat Soto on the depth chart.
One thing needs to be made clear. Both catchers need to raise the level of their game before they have any right to claim clear title to the No. 1 job. Both have a chance to do just that.
7. Can the good get better?
Pitcher Derek Holland and shortstop Elvis Andrus have been a big part of the Rangers' success over the past four years. Both have shined in big moments on big stages. Both have the security of multi-year contracts that have made them a big part of the Rangers' future.
They have been good players. At times they have been very good players. The Rangers wouldn't mind seeing both really take off.
6. Is this rotation really set?
On the surface, yes. The rotation is led by Yu Darvish, followed by Holland, Matt Harrison, Martin Perez and Alexi Ogando. But ...
Harrison missed almost all of last season because of back surgery and Ogando was limited to 18 starts and five relief appearances because of his ailments. Perez has yet to pitch a full season in the big leagues despite a new multi-year contract. So maybe it might not be set after all even though the Rangers say they are getting good health reports this winter.
The Rangers' depth right now includes Nick Tepesch and Lewis, who both have had their own injury problems the past two years. Left-hander Robbie Ross will be given another chance to start as well so there could be some competition for at least one spot. There could also be more signings this winter.
5. Left on left in left
The Rangers signed Choo because of his high on-base percentage and ability to score runs. They have no concerns about his defense, which doesn't rank high in the latest trendy defensive metrics, and he does not have good splits against left-handed pitching.
His arrival pushes aside Choice, the prodigy acquired from the Athletics. But there could still be a role for Choice as a right-handed-hitting complement to Choo in left or Mitch Moreland at designated hitter.
4. Little Big Man
After all the debate, Jurickson Profar is now the Rangers' second baseman. He still has to earn it but the Rangers have at least figured out a way to get Profar into the lineup at one spot as a potential everyday player.
3. The mega-deal. Who won?
This is a two-part answer as to who had the upper hand in the trade of Fielder for Kinsler. Kinsler is signed for four more years while Fielder has seven years left on his contract. So they go head-to-head for the next four years and then the Rangers see what Fielder has left for the final three. But they are both exceptional offensive players. Unless the Rangers have badly miscalculated, Fielder, who turns 30 on May 9, should still be a premium power hitter and run producer for several years to come.
2. Who is the next prodigy?
Catcher Jorge Alfaro, 20, is ranked No. 1 in the system by MLB.com but spent most of last season at low Class A Hickory in the South Atlantic League. He played well in 19 games in the Arizona Fall League, hitting .386, so the Rangers may try to push him to Double-A Frisco and get him ready by 2015. The Rangers also have two excellent middle-infield prospects in Luis Sardinas and Rougned Odor.
Beyond that, there are two things to watch in the Rangers' system. First of all, Luke Jackson leads a talented group of young pitchers who will have a chance to impress at Frisco. The other is how quickly will come the impressive list of young hitters in the lower levels of the system, a group that includes Joey Gallo, Ronald Guzman, Lewis Brinson, Nomar Mazara, Nick Williams and Jairo Beras.
The Rangers are loaded with offensive talent in their farm system but the big hitters have not yet made it to Double-A. It will be worth watching how fast those players come this season.
1. Are the Rangers still a playoff team?
Still too early to tell. They have the foundation for a terrific pitching staff if everybody stays healthy. Despite their high-priced additions, their offense will likely depend on how fast some of their young hitters develop, most notably Martin, Profar and Choice. A breakthrough year from Moreland would also be huge.
The Rangers are in the mix with the Athletics, Angels and Mariners but are no longer the clear-cut favorite in the division. Far from it.


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This game begins from the ending portion of the 007 Skyfall's opening scene. The player will witness a cinematic view of 007 fighting someone on top of a train when a sniper from the MI-6 group successfully hits 007 which results in him falling off the train and into the nearby water. After some flashbacks, the player will begin to play the game.
The player may use stealth to their advantage to sneak past enemies but they can also fight off enemies whenever need be by utilizing a wide variety of weaponry. The player may use the Wii U game pad while in battle to swap out their weapons and may also tap the Wii Remote to change the weapons as well. Alongside the stealth, players can perform melee sneaking attacks or may also take advantage of their silenced weapons or shock darts if the moment calls for it. Once the player takes an enemy down, they will need to properly hide the body so that a patrolling guard or security camera doesn't spot it.
One of the most exciting points of the game is that the developer made it a point to incorporate the most important aspects of the films and story into the gameplay experience so that the player gets a fully immersive James Bond experience that spans several time periods. There are also other moments in the game that give the player an adrenaline rush. For example, there are moments in the game where the player may be required to utilized QTE commands to successfully defeat an enemy or get past a certain point. These exciting moments add to the gameplay experience and make the player feel more involved as the James Bond character. Once the player makes it to the end of the level in the game story they happen to be playing, they will encounter that story's main villain.


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Phillies Bombard Rays 10-2
I thought I might not hear that familiar wail or whine in this series. I was hoping it would be the wind and not some fan shoving doubt into people's minds, but sure enough I heard the words I have been expecting from bandwagoners' for about 3 months now. "we are done, stick a fork in us."
I would love to stick a fork in the bandwagon fans and people about to jimup off the boat becuase things are not going your way. I would really like to be alone in a room with some of them and s cold them like a little chid for being so fake, and so unreal for younger fans to see. This is the time in a series, and in your lives that you stand tall for what you believe and hope, prays, meditate, whatever gives you good karma to send the boys' some luck.
Some of the guys have been suffering during the season, others have been playing and hustling like it was still Spring Training. But tonight is the night. As the expression goes, "It's all or nothing." The White Sox have ebbn in this spot this year, the Red Sox still believe the series is playing in their heads and they are winning, but Tampa Bay fans now have to believe.
Even if the worst happens tonight, we have to be focused and know that the boys' did their best and that there will be more chances in the future to secure the prize. This season opend alot of doors for the Rays and we will see them in the poststseason again in less than 330 days. The winning spirit is new in this part of the baseball world, but the true fans will be the one still wearing Rays gear tomorrow. And the true fans will be the ones counting down the days until pitchers' and catchers' reposrt in the Spring.
But best of all, true fans will be wondering how the boys are doing.
Four Blind Plays
You have to admit, the umpires have been pretty colorful in this years Wotld Series. They have been animated behind the plate and have made some unusual, and down right incredible calls. But, the ones that stick out on our minds are not the calls over the corners of the plate, or even seeing through a play and calling out a baserunner, they are the wild and zany plays that were missed by replays and by fans all over baseball.
Every game has had its own one play that has defined the game. Take Game 1, when Cole Hamels apparently went towards home, but threw to first base. His foot was not facing the plate, but his momentum was shifted forward, not to the side……….Balk or great play? Or how about the play in Game 2, where the phantom bat did not break the plane for Rocco Baldelli and we strooled to first…………checked swing, or did he break his wrist on the play?
And then you get to the really fun ones up here in Philly. You know, rain on Sat. night blurred the vision a bit just 6 feet from the bag. In Game 3, it must have been the mist that made the umpires miss the pplay where Jamie Moyer was sprawled on the wet turf and uses his glove like another appendage to twirl the ball to a bare-handed Ryan Howard to ctach speedy Carl Crawford a nano second before he hit the bag. I will admit that one got me. I was expecting the hammer to come down for an out, then the umpire just threw the safe signal and the Phillies bench went bananas.
Then there was the play in the 1st inning of last night's game. Jimmy Rollins camped at thrid base and a ball gets hit into the infield and taken by the pitcher, Andy Sonnanstine. Everyone in the ballpark thinks the ball is going to 2nd, but he twirls around and catches Rollins mid stride between 3rd and home. The chase is on and Sonnanstine gets him to within about 6 feet of the bag and throws the ball to Evan Longoria.
Longoria pops Rollins on the booty and leaves a red clay mark on the poor guys butt. We then hear the words that will reverb in our heads for a week…….."safe". Are you kidding me, did you not watch the ball, or were you watching the hand go towards the bag and not the ball and the possession and progression of it to the posterior of Mr. Rollins. It has been a small upgrade nightly into the insane and the blind that has led people to wondering about the state of the umpire world. Last night's blight was an oversight and an embarassment to umpires everywhere..but maybe there was a raindrop still in his eye from Sat night.
Top of the Lineup
There has been talk this entire series of guys trying to force things to happen for the Rays. That the firsy 4 guys feel it is their duty to carry this team. Some of the top 4 have done a great job getting into position to score or even pop the occasional needed blooper or double to get some action going in the game. Others have just had a slump from which there will be no exit this poststeason.
Carlos Pena was getting into a great groove when the ALCS ended. He seemed to be fianally seeing the ball and finding his storke at the right time for the Rays. It looked as if the series would be his playgorund. But instead it has become his own personal hell into the slight adjustments and overswining of the post injury Pena who's timing and stride were lacking. He might find his way, but will it be in time to save his young team's dream of hoisting the Commissioner's trophy this year.
Evan Longoria is another story. I do not think there has been another rookie who has had so much pressure on him in the poststeason to lead his team into the promised land. I know he has won 2 championships at Double-A, but this is far more pressure and far more talented pitchers' than he ever saw at Montgomery.
For the World Series, Longoria has a dunkin Doughnut, a gooseegg, and "o" for offensive. Evan Longoria is the second rookie to go hitless in his first 16 at-bats of a World Series. The only other rookie to begin a World Series with an 0-for-16 streak was Flea Clifton of the Tigers in 1935. (Clifton was 0-for-16 for the entire series.)
I have been watching his at bats the past few games and the kid is pushing his strikezone outward. Players et their own personal strikezones as to what pitches they feel they can smash or take to the oppositie field. Right now, Longoria is searching for that one flare, blooper or even a ground ball with eyes to make his mind free up and play more relaxed. He had better find his spot soon, or not only is he going to have all Winter to profect it, he might be on the bench for Game 5 to relfect and waork in the under the stands cages for a few inning tomorrow.
C C Has Found the Power Button
When you are known for your speed sometimes you get a gift out over the plate and you just have to jump on it. That has got to be the mindset of Carl Crawford right now. The baseball are becoming bigger and bigger every game, and yet he is hitting the cover off the ball and stealing bases. Last night he might have only gone 1-3, but that one hit sparked a few smiles in the dugout.
In the 4th inning, with 2-outs in the inning, Crawford took an 1-2 count hanging high fastabll into the rightfield stands to put the Rays on the board. The run pulled the Rays to within 1 eun, 2-1 at the time. It was Crawford's second homer of this series since he hit that game 1 blast off Cole Hamels in Tropicana Field/
Akinora Iwamura's Wild Ride
When you only committed a handful of erros all eyar at your new position, and have solidified the position for your team, you never expect a night like this can happen on such a huge scale. Aki has been one of the most consistant infields' this season for the Rays. You could count on him day and night to make the plays and get the outs without hesitation.
But what happened to him on Sunday night is not suppose to happen to Iwamura. Chase Utley was at the plate to lead off the 3rd inning for the Phillies. Aki was back in his role in the shift used all series long against Utley for the at bat. Utley hit a nasty ball that took a bad hop on the clay and came up and hit Iwamura's glove on the heel and rolled into rightfield. Aki was charged with an error, only his 1st of the World Series.
Then in the top of the 4th inning, Jimmy Rollins hit a hard ball up the middle and shaded a bit to right that caught Iwamura flat-footed and popped in and out of his glove wihtout a throw to first. Another error for Iwamura.
And it did not matter that he made an impressive and outstanding play on a hard liner hit right to him by Carlos Ruiz in the 7th inning. That Iwamura turned and fired to Carlos Pena at first and Pena had to go crosshand style and get the ball to double =up Pedro Feliz at first and end the inning for the Phillies. It was na amazing play, but it was also an inch away from another disaster of heading to the Phillies dugout and another error get charged to Iwamura.
The Mind of Joe Maddon
You have to admire a guy who can quote and attribute so many lines and sayings in his daily life. Rays Manager Joe Maddon is an intelligent manager to say the least. But what he did Sunday night can not go unnoticed either. He sent up three pinch-hitters on the night, and 2 came away with hits, one of them an exciting moment for Maddon and Hinske.
Eric Hinske was told as few days ago by Cliff Floyd to be ready to play. He was not sure why he was told this, but being the pro he is……he worked hard to get his timing down in the batting cage. On Sunday, the Rays made a move on their 25-man World Series roster taking off Floyd, who had a bad shoulder, and putting on the hard-hitting Hinske.
Hinske saw no action while on the ALCS roster, and he did nor expect anything different for the World Series roster. But in the 5th inning he came on to hit for Sonnanstine and hit a monster deep into centerfield. The ball was hit so far it hit the ivy-covered centerfield wall beyond the playing field. This wall was about 20 feet further than the wall where Shane Victorino stood looking up at the blast. Iy started a upward slow rally for the Rays.
Then in the 7th inning, Willy Aybar came up to pinch-hit for Edwin Jackson and hit a nice single into rightfield. He was stranded on base for the inning, but it made Maddon 2 for 2 tonight with his pinch-hitters. Maddon pressed his luck in the 9th inning when he sent up Rocco Baldelli to pinch-hit for Trever Miller, and Rocco struck out to end the game for the Rays.
Andy Was Not Dandy Tonight
Coming on and pitching with alot of pressure can work both ways in a baseball game. Sometimes it worls to your advantage and it pumps you up to the point of giving you some extra speed on your pitches and makes you believe more can happen on the mound.
Then sometimes you have what happened to Andy Sonnanstine on the mound tonight. You can have your stuff tonight and just get rocked by a team that is well scouted and prepared for you that night. you are not pitching any better, or any worse than normal, they just have your number that night.
Both of the above could be found in Sunday nights game, but the end result is that the Phillies exploited Sonnanstines weaknesses to their advantages. They set him up on a few pitches and the result was the umpire giving Andy a new ball while they made their ways around the bases for homers. Pair that with a reduced strike zone and you have the firm recipe for disaster on your hands.
Sonnanstine started out by giving up the first bases loaded walk of his career in the 1st inning to score Rollins, who should have been sitting on the bench becuase of an earlier blown call by the umpire at thris base, Tim Welke. So he gave the Phillies an early 1-0 lead, and the Rays never got close again. He went pretty smoothly from there until he watched as Utley was on base because of an unsual error by Iwamura behind the first base bag.
Then Ryan Howard got a single to right to put 2 Phillies on with no outs in the inning. Feliz the hit a RBI single to left that scored Utley cleanly and the Phillies had a 2-0 early lead on the Rays. The 4th inning started with Rollins again getting a single to rightfield to lead off the inning. Sonnanstine then walked Jayson Werth, but got a quick out on Utley.
Howard then stood in the box and smashed a 3-run shot to right to put the game out of the Rays hands at that point.Sonnanstine got through the inning with no more damamge, but his night was ended with the Rays down 5-1 at that point. Sonnanstine went 4 innings and gave up 5-runs on 6 hits and only 1 home run to Howard.
Tampa Bay Rays' Bullpen Blues
For the most part of 2008, the Tampa Bay Rays Bullpen has been the linch-pin to a majority of their wins. they have ebnt and not broken and have been a consisitant cog in the Rays victory machine. In the Wrold Series, this part of the Rays magic has been tarnished a bit by hitters getting the bestter of the unit.
In tonight's game, Edwin Jackson came on the in t 5th inning to releieve starter Sonnanstine and threw 2 inning of ball for the Rays. During his time on the mound, Jackson gave up a homer to newly found blaster Phillie starter Joe Blanton to leftfield. For Blanton, it was his first major league homer and came on his last at bat of the season. Blanton actually bookmarked his season getting a single in his first at bat, and now a homer in his last 2008 at bat for the Phillies.
Dan Wheeler came on to pitch in the 7th inning and did not fare any better for the Rays. Wheeler was the recipient of the amazing play by Aki at first in doubling up Feliz to get Wheler out of a jam in the inning. In the 8th inning, Rollins hit a double off the rightfield wall to put a man early in the inning in scoring position for the Phillies.
Werth then hit a 3-2 count hanging breaking ball out if the ballpark for a 2-run homer to futher put the Phillies ahaed, 8-2. Trever Miller came in to relieve Wheeler and walked Utley before giving up a colossial shot to left by Howard for a 2-run shot of his own to put the score at 10-2 Phillies


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The world first tax will be applied to all products on the Kogan.com website when accessed through IE7.
"Internet Explorer 7 has long since passed its use-by date. It's a constant source of frustration for our web guys and we're sick of burning cash on a browser that hit the market nearly six years ago. It goes against everything Kogan stands for," said Ruslan Kogan, Kogan founder and CEO, in a statement.
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Kogan, which recently made the switch to IPv6, has rationalised that for every month since IE7 has been released, it has applied a 0.1 per cent tax, totaling 6.8 per cent.
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Earnhardt Ganassi Racing switching to Hendrick engines for 2013
FORT WORTH, Texas — Earnhardt Ganassi Racing will switch to Hendrick Motorsports engines in 2013 after using Earnhardt Childress Racing engines the past four years, a team spokesman confirmed Friday.
Earnhardt Ganassi struggled the past two years while using Earnhardt Childress engines. Team owner Chip Ganassi called his team's performance in 2011 "pathetic" after Juan Pablo Montoya finished 21st in the standings and Jamie McMurray was 27th.
Ganassi vowed that his teams would be greatly improved in 2012, but it hasn't happened. McMurray is 20th in the standings and Montoya is 22nd, and neither driver has won a race since 2010.
Richard Childress Racing, which also uses ECR engines and houses the engine shop, also struggled this year. Of the three RCR drivers, only Kevin Harvick made the Chase. None of the three has won a race. Harvick is 11th in the Chase standings; Paul Menard is 16th and Jeff Burton 19th.
Both EGR and ECR will keep their affiliations with Dale Earnhardt Inc., which no longer has race teams but is a racing technology company owned by Teresa Earnhardt, widow of seven-time Cup champion Dale Earnhardt Sr.
When DEI and Chip Ganassi Racing merged following the 2008 season, Ganassi closed his engine shop and began using Earnhardt Childress Racing engines. ECR was formed in May 2007 as part of a merger of the DEI and RCR engine shops.
Ganassi, who controls the day-to-day operations of EGR, said last July he wished he had more horsepower, so the move to Hendrick engines wasn't a total surprise.
"They had been dealing with Hendrick for a while so it wasn't a surprise," Richard Childress, owner of RCR and co-owner of ECR, said Friday at Texas Motor Speedway. "(Our engine program) is as good as it ever was. We just hired two new (fuel-injection) people and (we're) still growing it."
Childress said Teresa Earnhardt's involvement with his engine shop and Ganassi's race team (headquartered at Ganassi's North Carolina location) are separate deals.
ECR has leased engines to Furniture Row Racing and Tommy Baldwin Racing and will lease engines to more teams next year, Childress said. It also provides engines to teams in other series and will not be significantly impacted by the Ganassi decision.
"We've still got a very strong company," Childress said. "We've still got a lot of good customers and some new customers. We'll be fine."


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International Communications Group (ICG) and Boeing completed an installation of the ICG NxtLink Series ICS-220A Iridium system on a Boeing 747-400. The EL AL Airlines aircraft is the first of several being outfitted to fly international routes using Future Air Navigation System (FANS-1/A) over Iridium (FOI) services, the company said.
"This is the second Boeing model to have an ICG Iridium system installed under a Boeing Service Bulletin (SB). It provides the flight crew with reliable and global voice and data link services via the Iridium satellite network," said Armin Jabs, president of ICG's Commercial Aircraft Systems Division. "For Extended Operations (ETOPS) and Polar route operations requiring long range communications, Iridium is the least expensive and only truly global system available to the industry today."
A derivative of the ICG NxtLink ICS-220A communication system was developed to meet the requirements for the Boeing SB program. The device was approved by Boeing under the 747-400 Type Certificate for installations on the 747-400 airframe and listing in the Boeing Service Bulletin as Buyer Furnished Equipment (BFE). Having successfully completed FOI certification on both the MD-11 and 747-400 airframes, ICG is supporting Boeing efforts to develop similar SBs for other Boeing airframe models.
The ICS-220A provides communications for both flight deck data link requirements, including Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Contract (ADS-C) messaging, and flight deck voice communications via conventional aircraft audio systems and call control, utilizing ARINC 739a compliant Multifunction Control Display Units (MCDU).
ICG's NxtLink ICS-220A is a three-transceiver device which combines dual L-Band Transceivers to provide two channels of global voice with a Short Burst Data modem dedicated to data link services. It offers restoration and redundancy services in the event of data link or voice channel failures. It operates with ICG's new external Configuration Identification Module which contains the Iridium SIM cards as well as the system configuration information, making it a true Line Replaceable Unit.


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I'll show you mine…
If you show me your giant vegetables. Here's one of mine, or rather, one my wandering eyes didn't spy until it started to get really big. Actually, my best friend and garden mentor and loaner of land is the one who nurtured and watered it — and the one who photographed it with her phone (I never seem to have my camera when I should — or if I do, it's out of juice).
I suspect my garden buddy has a thing for giant veggies. This is a French breakfast radish. I couldn't stand it any longer and pulled it, and when I brought it in she joke-pouted and said, "You big meanie!" Then we sliced it and wagered on whether it would be woody and ate it. It was a tad tougher and spicier than your average FB — and neither of us had eaten breakfast yet — so after a quick nibble we let it sit there on the cutting board and mourn its own foiled ambitions to hugeness.
But now I know my garden pal's weak spot. There's a Rond de Nice zucchini in the squash patch that's as big as a small pumpkin, and it's been really tough to make myself NOT pull it, but she wanted to see how big it would get. My cooking fingers itched for it, but since I still have zucchini on the counter waiting to be cooked, I smacked my hands and let it be.
Who out there's got giant tomatoes? Cukezillas? Kite-eating corn plants? Porcine peppers?


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Easy to Get Down About Islam
Whenever I hear stories about Muslims doing evil, I get a down about Islam (ex. murdering family members for disobeying the man, death penalty for gays, oppression of minorities, etc). I have also had negative experiences with multiple Muslim men who might not have been evil but who were doing things that are bad and linking at least part of their behaviour to Islam. And then I have experience with a lot of Muslims, mostly converts, who take Islam in a way that I believe is completely against its spirit. They become judgemental, negative people who are in no way flexible to the ways of life of others...
With all these things done "for" Islam or "because of" Islam, I feel sometimes like I don't want to be a part of it all. With all the things done for ANY organized religion, I don't want to be part of any of them to an equal degree.
I want to be a spiritual person, connected with God and connected with His creation in a positive way.
Being Muslim is important to me and my spiritual journey but it is not important to me socially. I'm closer to God when I'm away from other Muslims to be honest. That's not to say that I'm closer to God when I'm with non-Muslims because that's not true either... I'm just definitely not close to God when I'm around people who frustrate me with their views on Islam or people who are flat-out doing wrong in the name of Islam (which is just the worst thing) and I can't seem to find a community of Muslims that inspire me to be better.
I hope that someday I can find that but in the meantime, I feel the need to focus on my religion in a personal, private way.
What will be transmitted to my children will hopefully be that everyone is on equal ground. There's no automatic superiority because you can never know what a person believes or even what they do. That God knows everything, humans don't. That any effort to be good and do good is an effort worth making. That you cannot depend on others to always be responsible for you and that you are responsable for your own actions and beliefs in the end. That love and mercy are important.
I don't know what point I'm trying to make. I don't really have one. This is just a personal post about where I'm at right now in November 2012. Who knows where I'll be in another few months or years... It changes little by little and as time goes by I grow as a person. I stall too, but that's just the way it goes.
I have some issues I need to work out about this religion. I find it very easy to get down about it all based on what idiot Muslims do in the name of this beautiful, pure religion. It's sickening... I always come back to it: Is Islam more than what Muslims are/do? It has to be... Because if it's not, then I'm surely not a part of it.


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Pamela McClintock wrote:Gareth Edwards' Godzilla debuted to a monstrous $93.2 million from 3,952 theaters at the domestic box office, giving the iconic giant lizard a new lease on life and delivering the second-best opening of the year.
Godzilla, finally launching a Hollywood studio franchise headlined by the giant lizard, is a defining moment for Legendary Pictures, which spearheaded the reboot. Thomas Tull's Legendary financed 75 percent of Godzilla, with Warner Bros. putting up the rest of the money.
"Thomas Tull and his team did an incredible job and have delivered a new franchise," said Warners president of domestic distribution Dan Fellman.
Legendary no longer has a first-look deal with Warners -- it is now Universal's partner -- but the two companies will team on any further Godzilla movies, insiders say, adding that a sequel is already in the works.
"The tone of the movie was effectively communicated through the marketing," said Jon Jashni, Legendary's president and chief creative officer (Legendary and Warners worked on the campaign in tandem). Regarding a sequel, Jashni said Legendary will have to wait and see how this movie holds up.
I guess my short list of potential return candidates in sequel would be something like (and in no particular order) Anguirus, Rodan, Varan, Baragon, and Titanosaurus. Perhaps follow the classic team-up formula of having Godzilla and the returning kaiju battle each other mid-way through the movie and then join forces against the new kaiju for the climactic battle.
Legion wrote:I'm reeeaaaallly not ready to play the speculation game again so soon...
william newell wrote:I would like to see one good, uninterrupted, battle in broad DAYLIGHT! C'mon guys, if a little Korean movie like "Dragon Wars" could do it, I see no reason why a big budget Hollywood picture couldn't.
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lhb412 wrote:Have Ghidorah show up from space in the third film - the other monsters being corralled into fighting him by Mothra (making Mothra the Nick Fury of the Godzilla universe).
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This "pop art" toaster (so clever, these marketers) comes with six preset designs, and none of them feature any religious iconography that'll net you 10 grand on eBay. Which begs the question: Why would you want to burn lame, cutesy designs like flowers into your toast? They just make your toast taste burnt. If I wanted burnt toast and cheese, I'd make a grilled cheese, not drop $35 on this toaster.
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Actually, let's take those in reverse order.
Here's the deal – I have a love/hate affair with organic wines. I love the fact that they're organic and environmentally-friendly; I hate many of the wines because they're not any good.
And I'm convinced that enough wine consumers have reached a similar conclusion that they actually avoid buying wines labeled as Organic, which is why many good wines that could be labeled as officially organic don't bother to mention this on their labels (see Alder Yarrow's take on the subject of Organic wine labeling).
It's not all organic wines that suck, and there are many excellent, premium wines that farm organically or biodynamically. But the extreme cases have a loooooong way to go before they will appeal to the average consumer.
Take Stellar Organics for example. Amazing things they're doing for the environment and their community. BUT… they make a line of 'No Sulfites Added' wines (essentially, the only sulfites in the wines are those produced naturally in the winemaking process), and the samples I tried of those wines just aren't very good. To the mini-review tape:…


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Despite the warm hotness that is the CTS-V, the words "Cadillac" and "small" go together like "male porn star" and "small." Cadillac obviously forgot to learn that lesson back in '81, when they released the "Cimarron by Cadillac". The badge-engineered Chevrolet Cavalier — complete with in-line four and four-speed manual — was the smallest, nastiest, most heinously over-priced Cadillac ever produced — followed closely by its replacement, the Catera. (People watching Saturn's decaying orbit should note that the Catera was a rebadged Opel Omega, imported from Germany.) And now, finally, the Cimmaron has a proper suck-cessor: the BLS. It's a Euro-only model, and Motor Trend's de-capitalized paul horrell likes it.
Cadillac remains one of those American things that just keeps getting lost in translation, especially in Europe, where the Standard of the World sold just a couple of thousand vehicles in 2005. If Cadillac is to get itself dug in over there, it needs a compact sedan. That's where all the other luxury brands maintain their balance- and a small car by itself just isn't enough.
Quick question: What the Hell is he talking about? Is horrell saying Cadillac is so quintessentially American that them snobby ferriners jest don't git it? As his ironic use of the Caddy's tagline suggests, foreign disinterest in the brand probably has more to do with the fact that the Standard of the World is not even the Standard of Passaic anymore (Tony Soprano's wife drives a Cayenne fer Chrissake.) And who (other than GM's beleaguered press corps) says Caddy needs a compact sedan to compete in Europe? That's like saying McDonald's needs roast duck to compete in China. Along the same lines, horrell's assertion that Europe's luxury playas need a mid-sizer to complement their small cars is irrelevant. Cadillac doesn't HAVE a small car in Europe.
But it has a re-bodied Saab 9-3. Well, now it does. Rather than attack Cadillac for badge-engineering a product for a thoroughly disinterested overseas market — when their North American operations still haven't quite got the measure of that whole corner-turning thing — horrell worries if the BLS will cannibalize Saab sales abroad. If only.
Well, if you rely on looks alone, the new Cadillac is sufficiently differentiated not to cause the Swedes too much angst. Of the skin, only the glass and roof are shared; and some cunningly applied matte black paint disguises the greenhouse similarity quite nicely.
An automotive journalist giving a Cadillac credit for disguising its SAAB DNA is like a straight guy telling a transvestite he would have never guessed, you know, if he hadn't. Badge engineering aside, is the BLS capable of cunning stunts?
A modern six-speed auto should shift smoothly every time, but this one occasionally stumbles. The front-drive tires are overwhelmed if you give it the max in a tight corner; otherwise you can take curves with little roll. Steering is accurate, too, though entirely without the feedback you'd want in a European sports sedan. The recompense is the ride, which is one of the most placid in this class.
Oh joy: a numb, herky-jerky, understeer-prone, floaty-drifty badge-engineered Saab. Sounds like Mercedes, BMW, Audi, VW and the rest of the top tier Euro sedans ought to be looking over their shoulders. With binoculars. Surprisingly (given the inanity of this entire endeavor), Cadillac knew enough to stick a diesel into their entry level model (how sad does THAT sound). We can surmise from other reports of the BLS junket that horrell didn't drive the oil-burning version. In any case, horrell is dead keen on GM's $4b FIAT-sourced diesel.
This is a 16-valve unit that revs happily beyond 5000 and kicks out 236 pound-feet at 2000 rpm. This sort of torque performance, together with real-world 30 mpg (US) even in rapid European driving, is why people love diesels over here.
horrell's unabashed deployment of passive construction is why I would like Motor Trend to hire a proper copy editor. Anyway, horrell's conclusion manages to push the outside of the ass-kissing envelope, by promising, on Cadillac's behalf, that they'll do better next time.
The BLS hides the fact that it's something of a stopgap conceived after the Saab and sharing a platform with some honest but inauspiciously non-premium machines, the Pontiac G6 for instance. GM's next-generation Epsilon platform is already under development to feed into now fewer than nine brands around the globe, and among them will be a BLS version developed from the start of the program. It'll likely get cabrio and five-door sportwagon body styles, too. And if the U.S. market is clamoring for a more fuel-efficient Cadillac by then, it might just make it over the pond.
Oh no! It's the attack of the honest but inauspiciously non-premium clones! You know, if horrell really wanted to help Cadillac put a positive spin on this obvious clunker, he might have mentioned that the 2145 Caddies sold in Europe in '05 represented a 73% increase on the previous year's sales. If they keep up that rate of growth, they'll be a major force within no time. If not, not.
[Jalopnik's Between the Lines column parses the rhetoric of the automotive industry, and the media that covers it, from the point of view of that kid at the back of the class with ADD, a genius IQ and a thirst for mayhem.]
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I'm not exactly sure what I expected from the first Senate debate, but I know I didn't expect what we got.
It was terrific. No, that doesn't go far enough. It was shockingly fantastic. Everyone who missed it Thursday night, which I suspect is just about every normal person in this state, should be furiously figuring out where C-Span is on their cable dial to catch it as a rerun.
The campaign to this point, despite all the national hyperbole, has been an exquisitely miserable one. Maybe it's inevitable, given all the hype, that when you put any two people on a stage so vast, they are going to come across as smaller than life.
But not last night. Definitely not last night. These two people could not possibly be any more different. They despise each other, and both of them, especially Republican Scott Brown, had no problem letting it be known.
How do we know this? Well, it was all of about two minutes into what may go down as the fastest hour on television when Brown called his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, dishonest, untruthful, and lacking character — this of course over the legitimate Native American issue. And that was just the start.
He acidly questioned whether Warren was worth her sizable six-figure Harvard Law School salary for, as he noted, teaching one course. When he was questioned over his 2010 vote against Elena Kagan, a former Harvard Law School dean, for the Supreme Court, he curtly said: "I'm sorry I didn't vote for your boss. I know you are close." He repeatedly said, as he was pressed on other votes on equal pay and contraception, "You should stop scaring women, professor."
Throughout the night, they snidely laughed at each other. Their voices, Brown's especially, dripped with disdain. Neither of them, in the eyes of the other, has basically ever done a single thing right.
All in all, this could have been an episode of "Divorce Court" as easily as a Senate debate, with very able moderator Jon Keller, the WBZ-TV political analyst, serving as the judge. You half expected Brown to unload with a, "You miserable (derogatory term here)," while Warren shook her head and muttered, "I hate the way you breathe."
It didn't come to that. It didn't have to. Warren pressed three main points: that Brown was so supportive of the uber-rich that he would allow taxes to be raised on the middle class unless the top 2 percent of earners had their tax breaks continued; that Brown is untrustworthy on women's issues; and that a vote for Brown could be a vote for Republican control of the Senate. Notably and admirably, she seemed to quell her penchant for sloganeering.
Brown pressed points of his own, first that Warren is too eager to raise taxes on those who create jobs ("I'm going to fight for every taxpayer"); that she's too divisively liberal; and that, well, she's an untruthful jerk. Notably and admirably, he refrained from the term "elitist," and held back, relatively, on the title "professor."
The key questions going in were whether Brown would have a grasp on the issues and nuance and whether Warren would have a grasp on herself.
The truth is, Brown burned surprisingly hot, and it sometimes got in the way. About 15 minutes in, he looked like he was hit by a truck, sputtering about numbers from a tax study in haphazard fashion. He did, however, regroup enough to make some effective, if sharp, points.
Warren was surprisingly cool and completely relentless, beginning her answers with a quiet, "So," and methodically referring to Brown's votes. After Brown unloaded on her character over the Native American issue before she ever got a chance to speak, she began, "I was going to start by saying Scott Brown is a nice guy."
She didn't seem to mean it. He didn't seem pleased about it.
That's OK. For the first time this year, we got the race we are supposed to have.
Brian McGrory is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Army Worms Invade Chappy
By JULIA WELLS
The people of Chappaquiddick may have declared an uneasy truce in their recent war of words over whether to enact a district of critical planning concern, but this week there was an army on the move on the small island at the extreme eastern end of Edgartown - and it had nothing to do with building moratoriums or long-range planning.
It was an army of worms - in fact an army of army worms - and at Pimpneymouse Farm they had just finished plundering a large hayfield on the southwest corner of the farm. The dirt driveway that runs into the farm was a writhing, seething mass of thousands of gray-black worms in a scene that was a little like something out of a science fiction movie.
Maybe more than a little.
"They are moving. They're climbing up the stalks of the alfalfa now and they are munching away," said farm owner Edith W. Potter.
Huge infestations of army worms have recently been reported in other locations in Massachusetts, including the south shore of Cape Cod, but Mrs. Potter's report yesterday was the first on the Vineyard.
By late yesterday afternoon a second report had come in. James Athearn, the owner of Morning Glory Farm in Edgartown, was on his way to inspect one of his fields in West Tisbury where army worms had been seen. Mr. Athearn had received a call from his uncle, Leonard Athearn, who had spotted the worms.
Horticulture and entomology experts at the University of Massachusetts say the infestation is unlike anything they have seen in the northeast region.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime event. We have no former history to work with," turf expert Deborah Swanson told the Associated Press over the weekend.
Patricia Vittum, an entomologist with the University of Massachusetts, was out of the office this week, but the message on her tape machine directed callers to the UMass website for more information about army worms.
The Latin name for the caterpillar is Pseudaletia unipuncta. There are many species of the army worm, but according to the Umass website the worm that everyone is seeing now is the common army worm.
But it's imprecise to talk about just one army worm. The habit of the worm is to congregate en masse in one place, and feed in densely packed groups that migrate from one site to another.
"They are mobile, they move. Hence the name army worm," said William Wilcox, the former agent for the Dukes County Extension Service on the Vineyard.
Mr. Wilcox is no longer the extension service agent and in fact there is no longer an extension service on the Vineyard, so people with questions about the army worm will need to contact an extension service on the Cape or at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
But Mr. Wilcox said that in his 20 years with the extension service he never encountered a large infestation of army worms. "This is not a typical pest that we see on the Island; this is unusual in our area." He said he remembers hearing old-time farmers on the Vineyard telling stories about army infestations many years ago.
Mr. Athearn said his uncle remembers seeing infestations of the worm 30 or 40 years ago.
The young caterpillars are pale green and look like inchworms. Mature caterpillars are about an inch and a half long, and dark green or gray-green with a stripe. Once the worms reach maturity they make cocoons and turn into moths. The moths lay more eggs that hatch into more worms. The army worm typically can have two cycles in a year, according to Ms. Vittum's information on the UMass extension service website, and the site warns that three cycles may be possible this year because of the early warm conditions. But in some areas the worms may only have one cycle.
"In other words, even though we seem to be blessed with populations of biblical proportions right now, there is a good chance that subsequent populations will move on to other areas - perhaps corn or field crops, or blow downwind. We can hope they are blown out to sea!" according to the website.
The website advises against the widespread use of pesticides against the worm, since the infestation appears to be a rare event. Also the damage caused by the worm is usually superficial since the worm feeds on the top foliage and not the roots.
Experts also write: "It is not clear whether the army worms can survive winter conditions in New England, but there is little doubt that the moths can fly into the region in large numbers each spring. We believe that moths arrived on one of the frontal systems that delivered thunderstorms in late May or early June, marking the end of a six-week mini-drought that much of New England experienced."
Often the worms attack corn, but their early arrival in New England preceded the corn crop, leaving succulent targets - lawns.
At Pimpneymouse Farm they found something even bigger and better than a lawn - a hayfield.
"I noticed these black spots on the driveway the other day and then my grandson came into the house and said there were caterpillars all over the driveway. I had noticed that the grass underneath the hay in the field looked brown, but I thought it was probably because of the peculiar conditions we were having," Mrs. Potter said.
She concluded: "Our southwest field is devastated. I have never in my entire life seen anything like it."


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text: In recent years, policymakers in Europe and North America have rallied around the notion that religious freedom, interfaith dialogue, religious tolerance, and protections for religious minorities are the keys to combating persecution and discrimination. Northwestern University's Elizabeth Shakman Hurd doesn't think so. A recipient of a Buffett "Big Ideas" grant, Hurd argues in "Beyond Religious Freedom" that the powerful global networks that seek to regulate and moderate religion create the very social tensions and divisions they mean to overcome.


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What would you do if you knew you were dying? For Han Seung Hee (Song Yoon Ah), a successful folk artist and single mother who learns that she has a terminal illness, her primary concern is the welfare of her son Han Geu Roo (Yoon Chan Young). She decides to track down her ex-boyfriend, Moon Tae Joo (Jung Joon Ho), and befriends his wife, Seo Ji Eun (Moon Jung Hee), in the hopes that her son could be adopted into a good family after she dies. But will her selfless plan work? "Mama" is a 2014 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Sang Hyub.
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We've always known Citi PondSM at Bryant Park is a great date spot. Ice skating beneath the lights of the Empire State Building with the grand backdrop of the New York Public Library = romantic, if you ask us.
But lately we've witnessed more couples taking their relationships to the next level on the ice, and pulled together some of the big moments that made their way to YouTube. These men deserve the applause...it takes talent to get down on one knee in skates!
The simple, traditional proposal:
The 'I've fallen and I need you to help me up, but first accept this ring' proposal:
The elaborate declaration of love followed by a proposal:
Regardless of how the question was popped, we're happy to know that the Pond played a roll in an important day for many couples.
Did you and your sweetie happen to get engaged in the park? Leave a comment and tell us about your big moment.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Engagements on Ice
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Well, we didn't get engaged ON the ice, but rather next to the ice. I even wrote a pretty little recap of it here: http://islandofreality.blogspot.com/2010/12/big-news.html. And one on CitiPond's Facebook page too. Yeah, I pretty much can't stop talking about it. :)ReplyDelete
Congratulations to you and your fiance! You have such a sweet engagement story and of course, we're so happy the park has a special role in your relationship. Thank you for sharing it with us.ReplyDelete
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