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If you're anything like the readers who wrote to me last week, you were pleasantly surprised - dare I say, delighted - to find a four-page special section wrapped around last Sunday's Dispatch highlighting a key moment in Ohio State's dramatic win over Michigan. The question some asked: How did you do that?
If you're anything like the readers who wrote to me last week, you were pleasantly surprised - dare I say, delighted - to find a four-page special section wrapped around last Sunday's Dispatch highlighting a key moment in Ohio State's dramatic win over Michigan.
The question some asked: How did you do that?
As you might expect, pulling off such a feature requires a lot of planning, coordination, powerful images and time. The newsroom worked with our production team to configure the press run so that we could have color where we needed it to satisfy the needs of the newsroom and our advertisers.
Two of our best people - Mary Lynn Plageman, our managing editor/features, and Todd Bayha, an assistant art director - came in on their day off to work with the photo team to create those memorable pages. The images had to lend themselves to the format and had to be powerfully story-telling to be successful. Photographer Kyle Robertson captured both of those images for us - and you.
Some might wonder why today's edition doesn't include such a "wrap." The answer is a four-letter word: Time.
Because yesterday's game was scheduled to kick off at 8:17 p.m., that didn't allow us enough time to handle the design, find the perfect photos and perform the other work that goes into such a section without guaranteeing extremely late home deliveries for everyone.
As it is, we took a slight risk last night and delayed the start of our presses so we could publish the results of Ohio State's first-ever Big Ten championship game in every edition. I wrote this before the game against Michigan State, so I hope the game moved along quickly and your newspaper was on time.
If not, please don't blame your carrier. Blame me and my colleagues in production and circulation for trying to provide every Buckeyes fan a historic keepsake. Better yet, blame the Big Ten for starting the game so late.
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After many years of writing these columns, I've learned that you appreciate when we explain the reasons behind our decisions.
Believe it or not, the Michigan game provided an ethical issue for us, or at least a judgment call on good taste.
One of the big moments in the game was a fight that led to the ejection of two Ohio State players. One of those players, lineman Marcus Hall, made an inappropriate gesture to fans as he left Michigan Stadium.
Our photographers captured his two-digit salute (one on each hand), but we didn't publish any of those photos.
Journalists like to debate the merits of such images. Without question, the photo was provocative and reflected exactly what many people were talking about - two things we look for when deciding which stories to pursue or photographs to publish.
The determining factor for us in deciding whether to print the photo was whether its publication would provide a deeper understanding of the situation or if using it would be merely gratuitous.
One of the images, captured by Robertson, shows a Michigan fan in the front row offering his own salute to Hall. Others nearby are pointing at the ejected player, while still others look on in shock. Unlike some photos of the moment that I've seen on websites, our image didn't focus solely on Hall; rather, it provided context and a broader sense of the emotion, which seemingly were reasons to print it.
But in each of the replays of the incident I've seen on TV, the networks blurred out Hall's hands so that viewers were unable to see the actual salute. If we had wanted to print the image, we'd have needed to blur the hands as well to avoid offending readers (even if Hall already did offend folks on live television). That being the case, what would be the value in printing it?
We decided there was no value.
No one who saw it will forget what Hall did. Our deciding not to publish it won't make the blemish on his career go away, either.
For those keeping score, we didn't publish a photo of a professional golfer who made the same gesture years ago at a golf tournament held in town. It failed the same test as this one.
Benjamin J. Marrison is editor of The Dispatch. You can read his blog at dispatch.com/blogs.


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I think I was sitting in South E a little while ago against Ottawa when they got blownout. I like the view from E a lot, although the seats are cramped up there, but the guy behind me was easily the biggest moron I've ever encountered in my life.
This guy was probably mid fourties, and all the stereotypical yinzer traits applied. It was so mind-bendingly awful to listen to for the duration of the game that it actually took my mind off of the loss. My friend and I were reacting, responding, and laughing at and to his idiotic comments. He had to have known he was making a fool out of himself.
The funniest part was when he left, he and his friend kind of waived goodbye to us. At that point, there was a guy and his girlfriend next to my friend who were also sort of in on this making fun of the guy. We all just kind of laughed at this guy.
I have sat by my fair share of idiots at Penguins games, but this guy took the cake (and ate it too).

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A century of life and a religious "sacrifice" of 74 years was celebrated at the Church of the Ascension last Friday morning.
That day, Reverend Richard E. Raney turned 100 years old during a special mass in his honor. It featured a visit from many members of the Catholic Church's esteemed clergy including Most Rev. Frank J. Dewane, the Bishop of Venice in Florida.
Rev. Raney, a retired priest from the Diocese of Peoria, was ordained as a priest on June 5, 1938, and has served as Chaplain of the Monastery of San Damiano for the Poor Clare Nuns celebrating Mass daily at the Beach church since 1988. After Mass, participants joined in Church Hall for a luncheon, a town government proclamation reading (his second of the day) and a view of Rev. Raney blowing out the candles of his birthday cake.
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Father Raney blows the candles out on his birthday cake. He turned 100 years old Friday.
"Father, it is God's gift of you to us some 100 years ago that brings us here today for this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass," said Most Rev. Dewane, the main celebrant at the 100th Birthday Mass. "Sometimes they say the phrase, 'Only the good die young.' That is not the case here."
Father Raney was born in Peoria, Ill. on Oct. 19, 1912. He graduated valedictorian of his high school class and was first assigned as assistant pastor and, later, athletic director at Holy Trinity Church in Bloomington, Ill. During World War II, he added football, basketball and track coach to his duties.
"Father is the superb example of how you must keep on doing what the Lord has called us to do," said Most Rev. Dewane. "He has dedicated most of his life to the Holy Eucharist."
In 2010, Father Raney was affiliated into the First order of Franciscan Friars Minor of Holy Name Province in honor of his long service.
Although he did not speak during Mass, he received a boisterous reaction and ovation when he offered a few words at the after-Mass reception before blowing out the candles of his cake.
"Don't pray for me to be any older. Old age is terminal, and I've got a lot of it," he quipped.
After receiving a proclamation during Mass, Father Raney listened to Beach Mayor Bob Raymond recite the verses of another proclamation, this one from the Town of Fort Myers Beach. Raymond extended the celebratory priest a witty, heart-felt wish afterwards.
"A would also like to wish that your second 100 years is as good as the first one," he said.
Father Raney's nephew, Bill Mueller, also offered a few words of kindness and spoke about his uncle's move to the Beach 32 years ago.
"When Uncle Dick moved to Fort Myers Beach in 1980, our family up north hated to see him leave the area, but we were all happy he was going to enjoy his retirement in a place where he could golf and fish all year long," he said. "Little did we know at the time that our family was going to grow because of all the friends that Uncle Dick made here on the island. All who have helped our uncle live as independently as possible over the years have both his gratitude and the gratitude of all his relatives."
Mueller referenced Father Raney's paternal leaderships and athletic prowess. He mentioned his uncle's only hole-in-one in golf on a fairly recent occasion.
"His homilies over the years have offered pearls of wisdom," said Muller. "Even in retirement, he has taught us that being of service to others is more important than trips or games of golf, except maybe that hole-in-one he shot at age 92. We're all blessed to be with him to celebrate this wonderful day."


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As there is now a 60 pt limit, a drive towards parity, a limit on contracted players without paying a penalty and effectively a completely different system, I dont see what relevance the previous 2 seasons have.
With a new system in place, surely that slate needs to be wiped clean and start all over again?
The draft order should be randomnly determined as all teams are now starting off with similar points levels within a whole new system.
If Im the only one that thinks this way, Ill be quiet and leave it. However, just thowing my thoughts out there.
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With each team facing the same salary cap and dealing with players ranked on past success, it's only fair for teams to draft players based on team success. It's the way it's done in most professional sports, where the finish of a team one season determines the draft pick the next season. That way the lesser teams tend to end up getting the better players in the draft.
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Byelorussia. Someone like Khalezin would never say "Byelorussia", which means "White Russia" and smacks of colonialism. Since its independence from the Soviet Union, his country has officially been called "Republic of Belarus". In 1991, the only vote cast against independence was by the Vice President of the Parliament: Alexander Lukashenko. Three years later, he would become the first head of the new state, and promise to fight corruption and safeguard the social advantages of communism.
Byelorussia was one of the Soviet republics with a high living standard – the "Germany of the USSR". Its inhabitants were therefore afraid of the many abrupt changes that would follow independence. But ultimately they paid a high price to maintain stability.
"This isn't the last dictatorship in Europe, it is the first one in the 21st century"
Between 1991 and 1994, and prior to Lukashenko's inauguration, liberties increased somewhat in Belarus: political parties emerged, associations were founded, and even the Byelorussian language experienced a slight upswing. Lukashenko put an end to all this. Today, the president controls the machinery of power and reigns on his own, without a political party, relying solely on the secret service which is still called the KGB – the Committee for State Security, which was also the name of the Soviet Union's former secret service.
Election after election he has managed to stay in power using manipulation whenever circumstances required it, and repression whenever it became necessary. In almost two decades he has established a system that is aesthetically post communist but politically adapted to the new age.
The country's Soviet aesthetics mask the fact that Lukashenko is also very skilled at moving in the modern world and understands the weaknesses of Western democracies. "Just so there is no misunderstanding," warns one White Russian activist, "this isn't the last dictatorship in Europe; it is the first one of the 21st century."
The most effective way to silence the opposition
On the outskirts of Minsk, in a room a little over 30 square metres that includes a stage with no podium, a grandstand with wooden benches and some cushions for sitting on the floor, Nikolai Khalezin, his wife Natalia Kaliada and the other members of the Belarus Free Theater stage their performances. "We speak of the things no one ever talks about, we allude to this country's every taboo: the ethnic and sexual minorities, social problems and, of course, politics", explains Kaliada.


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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Two Minute Drill -- OSU Edition 1.0
* In case you missed it, check out Tony Gerdeman's always-excellent Michigan Monday column at The Ozone.
* Do male Buckeye fans get so little sex that they have to announce it to the world when it does happen? The picture below seems to imply that's the case. Sad.
(HT: MM for the pic)
* Impossible as it is to believe, Ohio is getting dumber. No really. (HT: Andy via MGoBlog)
* What are Buckeye fans doing to welcome M fans to C-bus next week? Well, not too much according to this link on BuckeyeGrove.com (HT: DW)
* Finally, while this isn't technically an Ohio State piece, the guy in this clip is sporting a Buckstache...sort of. But just remember, once you see this, once the image is in your head, you can't un-ring a bell. You have been warned.
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- MGOBLUE94 said...
- November 09, 2006 8:06 AM
- November 09, 2006 8:37 AM
I read the piece on what the buckeye fans will do to welcome Michigan fans. Scary. Exactly why I will never go to a game in C-bus. Crazy, crazy people.
- November 09, 2006 8:47 AM
- Scott Boswell said...
My eyes have lost their virginity.
- November 09, 2006 9:02 AM
- Sleestack90 said...
The warning preceeding that video was not nearly adequate.
- November 09, 2006 9:26 AM
- PeckHorn78 said...
So disturbing it is brilliant.....!
- November 09, 2006 10:04 AM
- November 09, 2006 10:08 AM
So, I decide to check out the video just to see what your warning was all about, and suddenly, this shy, Iowa alumn down the hall walks into my office. I go to extreme effort to show her it's this funny Michigan/Big Ten college football blog site, but somehow I just don't think she bought it. Thanks assmunches. Sure I'm laughing like hell about this, but also wondering if she's going to HR to report me for watching that gay pseudo softcore porn music video clip. I think you oe us a video of a couple lesbians or something. Maybe bring back the real BCS challenge.
- November 09, 2006 10:15 AM
- Yost said...
LOL, Anon!!!!
I can just see the Iowa girl walking to another office: "Uh... can I talk to you about Dave down the hall..."
- November 09, 2006 11:04 AM
I went to the Buckeye site to see how M fans will be welcome us. Well, I have to say, the website did not portray how bad I have heard it really is down there. I am going to Columbus for my first time this year, just to be there (I dont have tickets to the game). My family and friends think I am nuts but I am pumped up, geared to go, and will carry boxing gloves and two cans of pepper spray. Try me Buckeye.
- November 09, 2006 11:10 AM
- Yost said...
Benny and I will be there as well.
Just make sure your affairs are in order before you leave.
- November 09, 2006 11:12 AM
I said it before, and I'll say it again, you magnificent bastards.
- November 09, 2006 4:11 PM
- Can't spell Lloyd without 2 "L's" said...
What I'm absolutely shocked about is that the bedsheet touting Dan finally getting his carrot wet says at the bottom "Fuck yeah!" instead of "Fuck Michigan!"
- November 09, 2006 4:45 PM
WOW! The nastiest video EVER... or should I say
The Worst Damn Video In The Land.
I like the marker chest hair & unibrow.
- November 09, 2006 4:48 PM
- Big Jon said...
Wow, so this is what you're up to in Michigan? That just made me want to root for Ohio State next week. The worst part is, I wouldn't have even watched it if the warning hadn't been there.
- November 09, 2006 5:19 PM
- Howard21 said...
Unring the bell, unring the bell, unring the fucking bell.... GOD DAMNIT it won't unring. I'm going to finish crying now please post Buckeye girls recruiting video for me.
- November 09, 2006 5:25 PM
I fear I will never be the same forever!! You bastards I hate you for that!! Going to wash my mind out with soap or several quarts of cheap malt liquor.
- November 09, 2006 7:55 PM
- JD said...
That. Just. Ain't. Right.
- November 10, 2006 1:31 AM
- Sports on a Schtick said...
What are the odds the dude in the picture took Dan's virginity? Afterwards he threw a beer at Dan and pissed in the stairwell.
- November 10, 2006 4:17 AM


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Rejection won't get you very far.
I never understood the notion of gaining a sense of immortality by having one's name or deeds live on after one's death. It boggles my mind how that could afford any atheist or any person any sort of satisfaction whatsoever. It's like comparing the difference between infinity and infinity plus one.
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activityactivity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for manErnest Becker, 1973


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The Panthers have half of their rookie defensive tackle tandem under contract. Second-round pick Kawann Short has signed with Carolina, the team announced Wednesday. Short is the first of the Panthers' five picks to sign. Terms of the deal were undisclosed, but all rookie contracts are four years under the collective bargaining agreement. In his first draft as the Panthers' general manager, Dave Gettleman took Utah defensive tackle Star Lotulelei and Short with the first two picks. Short started four years at Purdue, finishing with 19.5 sacks and a school-record eight blocked kicks. "We are very pleased to have Kawann under contract," Gettleman said in a release. "We felt he was the best pass-rushing defensive tackle in the draft, and we are excited about what he can bring to our defensive front."
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Xavier's annual Spring Music Festival offers multiple performances through Friday May 1
Choices of musical events range from brass and piano to pop and jazz and include ballet and other dance routines | April 24, 2009
The annual Spring Music Festival began on Wednesday, April 22, and continues through Friday, May 1, with performance through this weekend. Rhythm and music join together as ensembles and groups perform each night in events that are open to the public. The charge is $2 per concert for Xavier students and $5 for all others, unless specified otherwise. The schedule is:
Today, Friday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m., John DeFoor leads the Xavier University Jazz Band in several sets of its inimitable music at the Lyric in Reading. Cover charge is $5 at the door.
On Saturday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m., the ballet students of Sasha Hart present several beautiful dance scenes. The event is open to the public in the Gallagher Student Center Theatre.
On Sunday, April 26, at 3:00 p.m., piano major Alec Jones presents his senior recital in the Long Recital Hall in the Edgecliff building on campus. Included in the recital is Mussorgsky's monumental "Pictures At An Exhibition." The recital is free and open to the public.
On Wednesday, April 29, at 12:30 p.m., Sarah Dudek presents her junior piano recital in the Long Recital Hall in the Edgecliff building. The recital is free and open to the public.
Also on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., the Xavier University Womens Chorus presents a concert of sacred and secular music in Bellarmine Chapel. The choir, conducted by Linda Busarow, is performing several selections from the "Pergolesi Stabat Mater." Also featured in the concert are harpist Katie Giuliano and pianist Megan Berneking.
On Friday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m., the Edgecliff Vocal Ensemble and the Concert Choir are performing two choral works by American composer Dominick Argento at St. Cecelia Catholic Church in Oakley. The Edgecliff Vocal Ensemble is performing Argento's "Peter Quince at the Clavier," accompanied by Xavier faculty pianist, Polina Bespalko. The second half of the program features the Concert Choir and a professional orchestra performing Argento's "The Masque of Angels." This humorous piece follows a roving band of angels through time as they attempt to fulfill their mission. Tickets are $5 with any student ID and $10 for all others.
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On my third night shift….9 jobs so far and two hours of the shift left!
My Hi-Vis jacket (which I need when attending RTCs, building sites, industrial units and when its dark!) is falling apart. This is due to the normal wear & tear experienced by ambulance crews up and down the country…climbing through wrecked cars, reaching through broken windows/doors to gain entry, numerous washes to get rid of blood/vomit/mud/spit/shit, patients grabbing hold of you etc.).
With each new batch of uniform I always order the same size as previous believing that clothing firms use the same measuring devices. Not so! If I order a new Hi-Vis jacket in a medium it will come back saying medium but will really be an extra large! I,ve always maintained that our uniforms should be measured properly rather than "off the shelf".
The only time this ever happened was years ago when the service got rid of the blue/white shirts with black clip-on ties, dark blue trousers and NATO woolly pulleys in favour of the then new "squad suits". The new "Greens". A couple of tailors (or so we were led to believe) came to HQ and everyone, over two days, turned up to be properly measured.
Weeks later we all received a box with our new "Green" kit. And hardly anything fitted! After a hell of a lot of returned kit, sometimes three or four times, it was revealed that the "tailors" were actually "ex. funeral directors". And they were only used to measuring people laid down!
We are yet again in the process of changing our uniform! They must get it right this time but by the state of the Hi-Vis measurements I,m not holding my breath! The consensus of opinion is that we will be going for the National Green colour with gold markings. Please dont let anyone in management choose "day-glo" orange or "sky blue"!


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But you did call her, so that exchange is over and done with. She let you down with a dodgy excuse at the last minute and then didn't ring you back as she agreed to so why she is trying to be the victim now is all on her. Stop beating yourself up.
I see everybody's etiquette point that I should have called her back a day or two later, but I was iffy on what I should say to her. Certainly not the truth "DDs didn't want me to invite you to dinner so I didn't pick up the phone when you called" . . . I admittedly do have a spine problem and sometimes cannot come up with the right wording to handle certain situations like this.I was trying to pre-think what to say/how to apologize for not picking up the phone when she called. I'm a truth-teller and a horrible liar. Plus all the kids were there and if I called her back and said "Sorry I missed your call" the kids would know that I was lying.Excuses, excuses . . . I think you all are right. I should have called back a day or two later.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday that investigators believe the missing Malaysian airliner's communications were deliberately disabled, that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew for more than seven hours.
Najib also said Saturday that authorities are now trying to trace the airplane missing for more than a week across two possible "corridors" -- a northern corridor from northern Thailand through to the border of Kazakstan and Turkmenistan, and a southern corridor from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.
The announcement Saturday confirms days of mounting speculation that the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 239 people on board was not accidental.
It means the investigation will now focus on who may have taken control of the plane and why, and that the search area will be vastly expanded.
Najib said that searching in the South China Sea, where the plane first lost contact with air traffic controllers, would be ended. He said the new search corridors were based on the latest available satellite data.
"Clearly the search for MH370 has entered a new phase," he said. "We hope this new information brings us one step closer to finding the plane."


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Earlier-Born Children Better Students: Study
"More intense parental monitoring regarding homework" is one the key factors at play.
"On average, mothers with two children were almost 8% less likely to say that their second child was one of the best in his class," they write. "Earlier-born children also had higher scores on the Peabody Individual Achievement Test and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test at age 10. The effects of birth order persisted for second children even when the sample was restricted to 'intact' families in which children's performance had not been affected by divorce or other family disruptions."
Why? Hotz and Pantano say earlier-born kids are more likely to be "subject to rules about TV watching and to face more intense parental monitoring regarding homework" and that "mothers are more likely to report that they would increase the supervision of one of their children in the event that child brought home a worse-than-expected report card when the child in question was one of her earlier-born children."
Other studies have shown that firstborn children tend to have more success in business and seem to be more likely to become CEOs. Likewise, Hotz and Pantano found that earlier-born children tend to accumulate more wealth over their lifetimes.
Future parents, the smart money says skip the first child altogether, and start with number two.
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Brentford 2-2 Chelsea
Oscar may have only been playing in England for half a season, but the young Brazilian has already garnered somewhat of a reputation as a scorer of the spectacular.
The 21-year-old Chelsea midfielder already has stunning strikes against Juventus and Shakhtar Donetsk in the scrap book, and the weekend goal versus Brentford was just as good.
Giovani Dos Santos
Mallorca 2-3 Malaga
Giovani Dos Santos is now plying his trade permanently in La Liga with Mallorca after a failed spell with Tottenham and, although he has hardly been pulling up trees, the Mexican looks more settled in Spain.
Dos Santos proved at the weekend he is playing with a confidence unseen arguably since his Barcelona days when he scored a sublime free-kick, albeit in vain, against Malaga.
Ricky van Wolfswinkel
Sporting CP 1-1 Guimaraes
Ricky van Wolfswinkel is a player who has been on the radar of Manchester United for some time, as previously confirmed by Mike Phelan, and the Dutchman is doing his prospects of a transfer to Old Trafford no harm at the moment.
Van Wolfswinkel has netted 20 times in 37 league starts for Sporting CP, and showed his class with a smart backheeled finish in his most recent outing.
Olivier Giroud
Brighton 2-3 Arsenal
Olivier Giroud may not be Robin van Persie, but the Arsenal striker continues to proves how important he can become for the Gunners in the seasons to come.
The France international scored twice in the Saturday victory against Brighton in the FA Cup, the first of which was a left-footed belter.
Fernando Torres
Brentford 2-2 Chelsea
Chelsea fans appear to be finally growing tired of Fernando Torres' profligacy in front of goal, particularly since the arrival of Demba Ba, but his goal against Brentford may afford the Spaniard some relief.
Ba was the creator for Torres on Sunday afternoon - feeding his strike partner on the edge of the box, before the latter curled into the top corner to spare Chelsea's blushes.
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The Captain at the Crossroads?
September 13, 2013 by Jeff Kallman • Print Story •
Even Yankee haters have to take pity upon the Empire Emeritus once in a while. Until they got bastinadoed for two out of three by the Red Sox last weekend, and losing the two in ways the Red Sox used to lose it to the Yankees with races on the line, they'd been making a surprising showing of just hanging in this year's race despite patchwork, the disabled list, and no little controversy involving a certain third baseman.
Now, they're going to face the rest of the season, never mind a postseason that looks a little less likely for them at this writing, without a man whose value to the franchise remains considerable whether or not he's in the lineup or on the field. Derek Jeter's ankle — fractured once in last year's American League Championship Series; fractured a second time in spring training — has taken him down for the count for the rest of the year.
The ankle isn't broken again, but it's balky enough to put the Captain on the disabled list and thus finish him for the season. The question no Yankee fan really wants to ask is whether this could mean, at long enough last, the end of the line for maybe the greatest spiritual leader the Yankees have had since Mickey Mantle and Don Mattingly.
You knew something was up when the Yankees jerked a few chains and came up with Brendan Ryan, whom they landed for a player to be named later in a deal with the Seattle Mariners Tuesday night, even as the Yankees were beating the Orioles in Camden Yards. Ryan isn't exactly a youth movement (he's 31), but he has something the Yankees need — a glove. He's a throwback to the good glove/gimpy bat shortstop whose defense was, in fact, cited by Grantland.com recently when that site's writer Ben Lindbergh analyzed Jeter's declining defense over the past few seasons — a decline that began when Jeter finally wrung the fundamental flaws out of his defensive game.
The problem isn't with his skills but his age. General Manager Brian Cashman took him out to dinner after the 2007 season and told him point blank his defense was hurting the Yankees, Lindbergh observed, after which Jeter went to work to fix his number one flaw: his positioning. In 2009, that improvement plus his hot season at the plate helped take the Yankees to their most recent World Series win. Then his age began catching up with him in the field, though he continued to hit respectably.
He's still had his milestones, of course. He became the first Yankee to bag 3,000 hits in the 'Stripes in a way that had Yankee fans and no few others saying "it figures," tagging David Price for the big knock and sending a full count curve ball into the left field bleachers. When he returned from the DL this season to help the Yankees say a formal farewell to Hideki Matsui, Jeter abetted the celebration by hitting the first pitch he'd see in regulation competition all year long over the right field fence.
But how much more can Jeter have left in the tank? His ticket to Cooperstown is all but punched and stamped. He's got the World Series rings to prove his value to his team over all those years. He's done everything within his power to keep playing and his body is doing everything in its power to remind him he's only human, after all, and with a finite baseball playing life.
Will it take an unflattering scouting report to show up in print to convince Jeter that nobody wants to see him end it with prolonged embarrassment? Such endings have happened to only too many athletes, some of whom have worn Yankee uniforms, too.
It took just such a scouting report — the Dodgers had prepared it, then loaned it to the Giants for the 1951 World Series, and somehow it ended up in Life for one and all to see — to convince Joe DiMaggio it wouldn't be a good idea to hang around for 1952 even at the same six-figure salary he was paid for 1951.
Mickey Mantle hung around for a few years longer than his body wanted him to do, too, until he finally couldn't take it anymore, even though the faltering Yankees (three years into their dark decade post-1964) needed his box office appeal, even after getting his wish to pass Jimmie Foxx on the all-time home run list. Willie Mays hung around beyond his body, too, likewise bedeviled by a few financial considerations, until he finally saw reality, declared 1973 his last season, and embarrassed himself stumbling in center field on a play he once made in his sleep in the World Series. Steve Carlton's anti-retirement tour put a big stain on his sterling career, though not enough of one to keep him from the Hall of Fame.
Can football fans forget the sad sight of Joe Namath trying one more comeback with the Los Angeles Rams? Can boxing fans forget Muhammad Ali boxing himself into Parkinson's syndrome because he just had to have one more championship belt a couple of more times, when he probably should have called it a career after Manila?
Will it be Jeter going up against the ghost of Ted Williams, instead, in another sense? Williams was haunted by a 1959 that felt lame by his standards and he was hell bent on going out like a champion if he could. So he signed up for 1960, hung up a splendid season that ended famously with that final at-bat home run in Fenway Park, and walked away.
Maybe Jeter writes off 2013 as an aberration, behaves himself enough to let the ankle heal all the way, exercises his 2014 option (at $9.5 million, no less), no matter how badly stung he was during his last contract negotiations (and only a fool would believe Jeter would decline the option in a bid to force a new deal out of the Yankees, who haven't been spending like Yankees these days, but who know his market value wouldn't exactly be what it used to be), and plays as well as a 40-year-old shortstop can play.
He has that kind of pride. Every day of his major league career has been nothing if not an exercise in a man's will to deliver the best he has to deliver. Nobody wants to see Jeter embarrass himself less than Jeter does. This isn't a man who wants to be remembered for a twice-fractured ankle reducing him to a bad, sad impersonation of what he once was. It shouldn't shock anyone to see Jeter back in 2014 playing with at least minimum credibility out of maximum effort.
But the ankle, and the rest of his body, may send him another message before spring training arrives. And it may not be the message Jeter or Yankee fans want to hear. It's hard enough to lose a franchise icon — with or without the prospect of a postseason trip — even if it's only the ravage of time that does it.


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As a giant soccer fan myself, I appreciate the Jozy Altidore reference in the banner. But really, Landon Donovan set up all 3 goals so shouldn't he be the quarterback? :-)
Regardless, well done Brian!
still won't do shit on the big stage against real teams
And why's that?
Yeah, the US sure did suck in 2002 getting to quarterfinals and outplaying Germany only to lose on a handball on the goal line that wasn't called.
I'll concede that they can't do shit when playing in Europe. US just cannot win a single game on European soil, but fortunately that's not where the next two World Cups are being held.
I think 2002 was the most unique World Cup. First, it was in an area of the world not many are used to playing in. Second, that World Cup was notorious for its upsets. Argentina, France, and Portugal did not even make it out of the group stages. While I agree with you that the US did have a good showing that World Cup, I don't see it as the US is up to par with the other top countries in the world. Who knows though it is the first time they play in Africa so we can be surprised, but at the same time I highly doubt seeing them going very far. Not only do the players not play in great leagues, they don't have any competition in the area that really challenges them during the qualifiers.
The top countries in the world, I figure, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, England, maybe Portugal, maybe the Netherlands, no, we're not good enough to hang and won't be any time soon. Honestly though, if for some reason we were in UEFA and not CONCACAF, I think we'd still qualify for each World Cup. We're as good or better than 75% of teams over there at least. I don't think that 2006 showing is at all representative of where USA soccer stands. Just a bad draw and worse play. We'll make the elimination rounds this time out for sure.
If they were in any other region outside of Europe, including South America, they would qualify consistently. If they had to play in Europe though, I doubt it. Besides Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, and Italy, we would have a tough time against teams like Ukraine, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Sweden, and maybe even Turkey and Greece. I do like the fact that the World Cup is not playing in Europe for the next eight years as that makes the playing field more open and isn't dominated by Europeans. I hope we do move on into the knockout stages, but we can only wait and see. Also if you are keeping up with qualifying, Argentina just got their asses handed to them 6-1.
I noticed that about Argentina, but nobody would say they're not still a top team in the world. Actually if you want a team in real danger of missing out, it's Portugal.
Portugal has a lot of problems, but it would be a shame to not see them qualify. C. Ronaldo, love him or hate him, is an amazing talent and would make the World Cup that much more interesting to watch.
Well, in this guy's defense, when I was living on campus with my roommate and his girlfriend, who was from Brazil, the World Cup was on one day and I mentioned the US team at some point. She just started laughing and didn't stop for about 10 minutes.
going to say the same. Jozy = profit.
Jozy also saved the day for the US against El Salvador, his insertion completely turned the game around. Especially impressive considering he's hardly seen any game action recently with his 2nd divison (!?) team in Spain.
What I can never figure out is why the top US players get relegated to the bench over in Europe, even on middling clubs. You're telling me on a top 20 team in the world there's only two guys (Howard and Demsey) who are good enough to get any playing time on even average European teams? I think there's got to still be some anti-American sentiment amongst European managers, ignoring actual results on the field as well as their bosses who saw enough to shell out the cash to bring the American players over. I wish the MLS was competitive enough financially and competitively to keep some of our better players in the states, because it really hurts the national team to have them just rot on the bench in Europe rather than get any experience.
There's a ton of xenophobia in Europe when it comes to soccer. In '02 after South Korea eliminated Italy, the Korean player who scored the game winner was cut by the Italian team he was on loan to.
I don't know, there are plenty of non-European players who have made huge names for themselves in the European leagues - Drogba, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Messi, Tevez, etc. People can take World Cup play very seriously, remember the whole debacle between Ronaldo and Rooney when Portugal played England in 2006? Rooney was telling the media he was going to kick Ronaldo's ass if he saw him at practice.
As far as Americans playing in Europe, the truth is we don't have any superstar good enough to play for Man U or Chelsea or Inter or whoever. And not all of our guys are rotting over there; Jozy is actually on loan from Villareal and Howard, Bocanegra, Onyewu, Dempsey, and Michael Bradley among others get a lot of playing time for their teams. Quite a few of the starters at last nights game are long-time starters in the MLS.
What's going on with Jozy and Freddy Adu over there makes no sense. And I'm betting Villarreal is kinda pissed about the team they loaned Jozy to not playing him at all -- they didn't loan him to rot on the bench, they wanted him to play. He could have stayed at Villarreal if he wasn't going to play and practiced with better players.
There are a few others besides Howard and Dempsey that get regular time though. Michael Bradley is a starter for his team in Germany (though they're currently sitting in the relegation zone), as is Steve Cherundolo when he's healthy. Jonathan Spector starts for West Ham in the EPL but can't seem to crack the US starting lineup in back because of HeyDude and Cherundolo, and the move to put Beasley at left back. In second tier top-level Euro leagues, Bocanegra starts in France's Ligue 1, Gooch starts for a team in Belgium, Jose Torres starts for a very good Mexican team (Pachuca).
You could tell in these last two games that Beasley hasn't gotten regular time for Rangers.
anything in particular you read to keep up on this stuff?
www.soccerbyives.net is a good place to start
American players are geared more toward internationals and aren't as good in the domestic game.
Jozy did a great job of being in the right place at the right time and finishing. I love how he muscles his way through defenders to get open for the ball. His third goal was pretty soft (and had an ugly, ugly build-up), but he still had an incredible game.
I think I recall Eddie Johnson getting a lot of goals in 2006 World Cup qualifiers, then he just sort of flamed out. Hopefully Altidore keeps up the good progress.
jozy is great and will only get better. but watch out for a lot of our prospects born in 88 and younger. we have a lot of legit talent coming through.
It's nice we have a legit young talent like Altidore. I seem to recall him and Adu making a good tandem in the U-20 tournament in Canada a couple of summers ago, hopefully they can be the foundation of a strong attack for years to come.
Yeah, Jozy plays for Villareal which is a low first/high second rate spanish team, but definitely primera division, right now he's on loan to Xerez, which is the leader of the Segunda Division meaning they'll move up to primera next year if they finish in the top 3... FWIW
I do have confidence that US national team soccer will be good if not great in 10 years, the MLS, however will most likely have to wait.
villareal was the second best team last year to real madrid. id say they are better than what you're giving them crdit for...
I wouldn't necessarily call them a traditional powerhouse in the primera though
our players dont get more playing time abroad because they arent very good
it's not complicated
Read the thread. Our best players actually do get quite a bit of playing time.
oh sure, some do - i was just responding to the questions about why guys like altidore and adu sit on the bench so much
look i'm not on some anti-american kick - but let's not live in some fantasy world where our players are better than they are or where guys are getting shafted because people hate americans
bsb do you really think Altidore isn't good enough to play on a 2nd DIVISION Spanish team? Or that Beasley isn't good enough to play on a mediocre Rangers team? Donovan wasn't good enough to play on an average German team?
Any other top-20 international side would have their entire starting 11 and most likely their entire roster seeing regular playing time on 1st division clubs. The US barely has a handful. Something is not right.
Here was the United States lineup last night and their club teams:
Tim Howard - Everton
Frankie Hejduk - Columbus Crew
Carlos Bocanegra - Rennes
Oguchi Onyewu - Standard Liege
DaMarcus Beasley - Rangers
Clint Dempsey - Fulham
Michael Bradley - Borussia Mönchengladbach
Pablo Mastroeni - Colorado Rapids
Landon Donovan - Los Angeles Galaxy
Brian Ching - Houston Dynamo
Jozy Altidore - Villareal
If I'm not mistaken, all of these teams are in the first division of their respective leagues. Granted the MLS is pretty weak, but many of those players had the opportunity to play in first division teams in Europe, but wanted to stay in America to help Soccer grow here. Onyewu plays in Belgium, but is a regular starter for the championship team. Beasley plays in Scotland, but his team is historically the best one in their league.
Also, is everyone calling the US a top 20 team because of FIFA rankings? Keep in mind those rankings are generally worthless.
Yeah, but keep in mind, it's not that hard (relatively speaking) to make a first-division club somewhere. There are roughly 500 players in the English Premier League, 500 in Serie A, 500 in La Liga, 500 in Ligue 1, 500 in the Bundesliga - around 2,500 roster spots in just those five leagues alone. And there are about 45 other leagues in Europe and many more elsewhere. Maybe a better methodology would be to look at the number of Americans playing for Champions League teams. I'm sure the number is on the rise, but we still have a ways to go.
well i dont get to watch a lot of xerez games, so i cant really say. but obviously that's what their manager thinks. and he would know
teams don't sign players just to contribute to some anti-american conspiracy. players who don't play (or who play for bad teams) probably aren't very good. occam's razor
we'll see about the US doing anything in South Africa OR in Brazil in 2014... As far as "having the entire starting 11 on top tier teams in europe" if anyone responding to this thread watched any of the top euro leagues they would know that there is a much lower quality of player in the US, they just benefit from only playing one semi-elite team regularly in international competition.
By this logic, England should be by far the most successful international team in the world since they predominantly make up the most prestigious league in the world. And yet they've only won one World Cup and generally disappoint every year.
No one is saying America has the best players by any stretch of the imagination. And you don't have to win the championship every time for your team to be considered a success (See Michigan basketball team this year). I'd be plenty happy if the US just advanced beyond the group stages in WC2010.
Edit: I am spending too much time in this thread.
I hope we have players better than Beasley somewhere to call up and play in the World Cup. Beasely shouldn't be starting on his club team because he is not good enough and shouldn't be representing our country at this stage in his career. Like Agoos, he is hanging on at the national level because the coaches like what he could do four or five years ago. Agoos was Arena's assistant at UVA, not sure where Beasley's connection is but there must be a connection for him to still where the national team jersey.
Beasley played for Bob Bradley with Chicago Fire. Back then he was an absolute jet. His injuries have really taken a toll on him, as speed was his biggest asset.
It's one reason they put him at left back, because the Soca Warriors right wing Edwards is extremely fast and is relied upon to set up their big strikers with service. Beasley got beat a few times but usually recovered to block/deflect the crosses or get in the way enough that the crosses weren't very good. He's still pretty fast, even after the injuries.
I still think they should give Spector a shot. He'll certainly be in our lineup for the 2014 Cup, now that he's healthy he's in West Ham's starting 11 every week.
And in other news, Mexico already canned SGE. Hilarious. They're an absolute mess down there.
US plays Honduras on Saturday June 6 in Chicago. Plenty of tickets still available. Honduras just dominated Mexico on Wednesday, should be a good match.
Oh my God, I hadn't heard Mexico fired their coach, that is hilarious. I'm not entirely surprised given the Mexicans and their knee-jerk reactions combined with the fact that they haven't won in their last 5 trips away from home. The schauenfreude if they don't qualify will be amazing.
I will join you in your schadenfreude. Mexico is easily my least favorite world team - even worse than Italy they are. But they're damn near unbeatable at home, which is probably enough to get them in.
Does anyone else think that Jozy and Fredy should be playing together more often? I would like to see Brian Ching get benched for Fredy Adu.
I normally would agree. But Ching played pretty well behind Jozy. I'd let it go another game, just to see if it was the linkage between Ching/Donovan/Jozy that led to goals, or if it was just Jozy and Donovan. A lot of the columnists said that Ching being forward in almost a 4-2-2 role gave Altidore more space, that may not be there if they replaced him with Adu, who I'm pretty sure is only feared by Powers Catholic's JV soccer team.
I'm not even sure Freddy will be on the roster for the WC. He is a ball-hog whiner with an enormous ego. And besides his character issues, he still isn't that good, never lived up to his hype.


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As you probably know, Microsoft recently released Team Foundation Server. TFS lets developers manage the check-in and check-out of source files from within Visual Studio 2005. In addition to its role as a developer collaboration portal, TFS is the integrated source control server for Team System. In this capacity, TFS provides three features for managing source code:
- Shelving - which is a new and much needed feature
- Branching - which is helpful in specific situations
- Merging - which should almost never be used
Let's take a look at these source control options and see where they fit in your software development process.
Related Update: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Compared with Visual SourceSafe (VSS), shelving is a new feature that lets you easily follow a best practice: checking in your code changes on the server at the end of each day. Backing up your changes ensures that you don't lose your work because of a hardware failure or another type of failure. However, this practice poses a problem in that a developer often works on a set of code changes that aren't complete by the end of the day. The code involved won't build much less run--and when it's checked in, problems in the code might affect other team members who attempt to retrieve that same source code. As a result, while most organizations talk about checking in changes every day, those organizations using VSS rarely implement it.
Shelving alleviates the problems posed by having a daily check-in. With TFS, you save a copy of your current changes to the source control repository at the end of the day. However, as part of this process, you indicate that the source code isn't ready for others to retrieve. The code is put on the shelf, so to speak. Only you will be able to access the shelved version. That way, your daily changes to the source code are backed up, but other team members won't be able to access the unfinished code.
Shelving is a obviously a great way for one developer to back up his or her changes in the source repository, but what happens when more than one developer needs to access or work on the same source code? This is where the concepts of branching and merging come into play. The idea behind these concepts is that at some point you might need to have more than one copy of a source file.
One reason why you might need more than one source file is if you have different versions of an application. For example, when you begin to work on version 2.0 of an application, you might want to keep a copy of the version 1.0 source files. That way, if someone finds a bug in the version 1.0 code, another developer can check out the version 1.0 source files and repair the bug. Because the version 1.0 source file isn't being worked on for new development, there's no risk that some incompatible version 2.0 code will be caught up in this bug fix. Then, as you work on version 2.0, you can determine the best solution for that version, given the other changes occurring in the application. In many cases, the version 1.0 bug won't be reproducible in version 2.0 due to other changes, so the fix won't be needed.
Microsoft appears to follow this practice internally. If you've participated in a beta or release candidate (RC) program in which there are interim releases, you know that Microsoft branches a code base in preparation for a release. For example, the branched code for a beta 1 version might have several last minute patches to work around unfinished added features, even as the newly branched source files are modified in preparation for beta 2.
In this scenario, branching is a best practice because it doesn't involve merging change sets. Merging is a way of attempting to combine changes made to the same source file by two different developers. Some organizations use merging, which is why it's supported. However, automatically merging changes from different developers is definitely a risky process. Here's why. Suppose developer A worked exclusively on method A and developer B worked exclusively on method B. In this case, the automated merge process is simple in that Developer A and Developer B worked on separate lines of the source file. However, this simple type of merge is the exception and not the rule.
What happens when developer A and developer B make changes to the same method for different bug fixes that overlap logic within that application? There's no reliable automated process for merging changes on the same line. Merging changes will always require some level of human intervention and additional testing because when changes are merged, the resulting code might fail to build or develop new problems. Thus, although TFS's merging tool can be helpful in rolling a change from version 1.0 to version 2.0 of an application, using it in an active development cycle on a single version of an application is risky.
For more information about shelving, branching, and merging, check out the following Web pages:


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Some tool can be useful for me or I have to implement it myself?
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Well, it has been over 6 months now and no one has claimed the $100,000 dollar prize. In fact, for the last 5 months no one has even attempted to submit an answer !
This week we are embroiled in the "scandal" of the Sha's Minister of Religious Affairs, or "whatever", saying that in his opinion Reform Jews are not Jews….
Yes, but Minister Azoulai also believes that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were not really Jews either because they never received the written Torah or the Oral laws…
Yes, poor Abraham, Isaac and Jacob…..they merely spoke with either God or his angels face to face….They never had the good fortune to read the Rashi like Minister Azoulai has had….
But, then again, maybe this is the precise reason why Minister Azoulai has NEVER spoken with God or one of his angels face to face. Minister Azoulai has the Talmud, who needs God ?
Regardless, if you think you can prove that Judaism passes thru the mother and is based on matrilinials descent, please first read the conditions of the challenge:
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Unfortunately, for reason that have never been clearly explained to me, the Jerusalem Post cuts offs comments to a blog after about one week. Therefore, you may post your answer to any one of my blogs that happen to be active at the time….
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I think going wireless with it is just fishing for investor funds at this point...
because.. uhh.. give us some more fucking games with oculus support. it's good enough to make them. and god awful fuck no no no not the approach that valves official team had to the fucking controls NOBODY FUCKING WISHES TO ACTUALLY LOOK UP physically if they're mouse aiming in a fps game(yes all the fucking look lock options on the official tf2 vr mode suck ass and suck ass hard). it's like everyone trying to make something f
I disagree. Number one on my VR priority list was the ability to get up and interact with an environment possessing entirely different geometry from the world presented to my eyes and ears. Now I'll be able to walk down the street enjoying a fully immersive game of Carmageddon.
Have fun, Dr Lecter.
Personally, I think it would suck to have to wear a backpack while jumping around trying to play a multiplayer game. On the other hand, I'm also sympathetic to not only the need for more processing power, but also more battery power.
If you could whittle the headset down to just graphics and sensors, and put the CPU in another box, that might be a solution. But it would raise the price considerably. Still, it ought to be possible to use one of the various PCIE-over-a-skinny-wire technologies to pull it off s
VR headsets will become popular when the component prices allow it. The technology isn't complicated. What's complicated is packaging two hi-resolution displays, sensors and optics in a package that is light enough to wear for a price that an average consumer can afford. When the prices come down, companies like Oculus will be forgotten as a wave of cheap Asian models floods the market.
VR is nothing new. I'm willing to bet most of the important patents have already expired.
I will say that I am looking f
The cups holding the lenses look *exactly* the same as the ones used in the Oculus Rift devkit. I guess it makes a lot of sense to use them in the prototyping stage.
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The BMW 5-Series GT never caught on in the U.S. market, where it was originally envisioned to replace the more conventional 5-Series wagon. Aside from its innovative two-piece liftgate, the 5 GT had somewhat awkward styling that had neither the ruggedness of an SUV nor the sleekness of a 5-door fastback. But based on these spyshots of the upcoming 3-Series GT, little brother could potentially find itself a lot more friends. Also snapped on the 'Ring were an updated X5 M.
Other details noted by our spy shooter are cross-drilled front brake rotors on the X5 M, and a new headlight design connecting the headlamp clusters with the grille, similar to the new F30 3-Series. As with the current BMW X5 M, the front end features generously-sized air intakes to cool off the monstrous S63B44Tü 560 hp twin-turbo V-8 from the F10 M5. Although the new engine only has 5 more horsepower than the current engine, the higher compression ratio and Valvetronic valvetrain actuation promise increased fuel economy.
The styling of the 3-Series GT is considerably sleeker than that of its larger 5-series counterpart, offering yet another crossover/SUV variant in the BMW lineup, which now includes the BMW X1, X3, X5, and X6. Later in 2013, the wagon version of the new 328i will make an appearance stateside as well, but will be the only configuration offered initially in North America. Powertrains for the 3-Series GT could be the 2.0-liter, 240-hp TwinPower four-cylinder turbo from the 328i, and the 3.0-liter, 300-hp turbocharged I-6 from the 335i.


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Before strapping on your skis, make sure to visit Lake Geneva and it's world-famous 'Jet d'Eau' (fountain). A citytrip to Geneva is a perfect destination. With Mont Blanc in the background, it's hard not to be impressed. Numerous ski resorts can be reached quickly and easily from Geneva, making the city the perfect winter sports destination!


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Entering its second year, Fantasma Fest is redefining how Ybor City celebrates Halloween.
Organized by the Ybor Merchants Association's 32 members, the Fantasma Fest focuses on a series of family-friendly and wholesome adult Halloween activities running through Halloween.
"Ybor City has a well-established reputation as one of the country's top Halloween destinations," said Richard Boom, spokesman for the Fantasma Fest and owner of the The Dirty Shame bar, 1929 E. Seventh Ave., Ybor City.
However, in the past decade that reputation was tarnished by reports of raucous parties, lewd behavior and drunken brawls.
"We've really pushed to overcome the negative image Ybor gained 10 years ago. We want Tampa residents to know that Ybor City is a very safe, fun place to visit," said Boom.
Boom said Fantasma Fest was created to secure Ybor City's ranking as a top U.S. Halloween destination while mending its reputation.
"We came up with Fantasma Fest in deference to Ybor City's Latin heritage," said Boom. "Fantasma is Latin for phantom or spirit and ties into the fact that Ybor City is said to be haunted. People claim to have seen spirits here, including the ghost of a man wearing a white suit. We even have haunted tours in Ybor City."
Ybor merchants have expanded Fantasma Fest offerings with the help of a new sponsorship from the Ybor City Development Corp.
This year's festival kicked off Oct. 14 with a Witches Brew Bartender Competition underwritten by title sponsor Jim Beam.
"We had 24 bartenders from Ybor bars and restaurants competing to create the best cocktails using Jim Beam's Devil's Cut and Jacob's Ghost bourbon whiskey products," said Boom. "The winning cocktail will be featured throughout the festival."
The festivities continue today with a Zombie Crawl and Zombie Prom at the Honey Pot nightclub.
"The event begins at The Dirty Shame at 4 p.m. where we'll have professional makeup artists from Busch Gardens on hand to help visitors get zombie-fied," said Boom. "The zombie horde will then crawl up Seventh Avenue at 7 p.m. to the Honey Pot where the Zombie Prom will start at 9:30 p.m. We did this last year and everyone had a great time."
Kids are invited to join in the Halloween fun Saturday with a free Little Monsters Promenade and a Kids Pumpkin Patch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Centro Ybor. "Last year we had 300 pumpkins laid out on the steps of Centro Ybor," said Boom. "Kids were invited to pick out a pumpkin, and volunteers helped them decorate the pumpkins and create Halloween masks. It was very popular last year so this year we're bringing in 500 pumpkins."
In addition to decorating pumpkins, costumed kids will receive treat bags so they can trick or treat at businesses along Seventh Avenue. A new event this year is the Monster Bed Race, also on Saturday from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
"I saw a bed race in North London and it was hilarious," said Boom. "Since then, I've wanted to do one here."
During the race, Seventh Avenue will be closed from 15th to 17th streets. Teams of five costumed contestants are invited to devise Halloween-decorated beds on wheels to race down Seventh Avenue. The bed race will be followed by the WitchCraft Beer and Music Fest from 6 to 9 p.m. A $30 wrist band entitles adults to sample up to 50 craft beers at six locations where local bands will entertain.
The Hell on Wheels Motorcycle Poker Run and Pub Crawl on Sunday gets under way with food and drinks at The Dirty Shame. For $15 per person or $25 per couple, bikers will travel to the The Green Iguana, The Reservoir Bar, The Boneyard Bar, First Chance Last Chance and Coyote Ugly, where they'll pick up poker cards. At the final stop, The Bad Monkey Bar, 1717 E. Seventh Ave., Ybor City, the biker with the best poker hand will receive a prize.
A celebration will follow at 4 p.m., with raffles, a silent auction and Hell on Wheels T-shirts for sale, with all proceeds benefiting My Warrior's Place, a veterans support center in Ruskin.
The final Fantasma Fest event will take place on Halloween with a Halloween party at The Castle, 2004 N. 16th Ave., Ybor City.
"Our ultimate goal is to bring in business and show people what a wonderful, safe, fun historic district Ybor City is," said Boom. "It's a new day in Ybor City and we want to make Fantasma Fest a trademark event."
For information, visit www.Fantasmafest.com or www.ybornow.com.
Zombie Crawl and Zombie Prom: 4 p.m. (makeup), 7 p.m. (crawl) tonight; Dirty Shame, 1929 E. Seventh Ave., Tampa and 9:30 p.m. tonight; Honey Pot, 1507 E. Seventh Ave., Tampa
Storytime: Ghost Stories: 7 to 10 p.m. tonight; Creative Loafing Space, 1011 N. 13th St., Tampa; $5 suggested donation
Little Monsters Promenade and Pumpkin Patch: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday; Centro Ybor, 1600 E. Eighth Ave., Tampa; free
Monster Bed Race: 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Seventh Avenue between 15th and 17th avenues; free
WitchCraft Beer and Music Festival: 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday; various locations; $30 armband; www.ybornow.com
Hell on Wheels Motorcycle Rally and Polker Walk: noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; Bad Monkey, 1717 E. Seventh Ave., Tampa
Halloween Ball: 9 p.m. Thursday; The Castle, 2004 N. 16th St., Tampa; $8
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Mike Shanahan Says RG3 Won't Be Allowed To Play Until He's 100%
If Robert Griffin III never returns to his pre-ACL form, all blame will fall on the his coach Mike Shanahan for how he handled RG3 prior to the injury.
Shanahan has no interest in taking any more hits to his reputation, and according to Pro Football Talk, won't allow RG3 to play until he's absolutely 100%.
"We need to make sure he doesn't go too quickly because he could set it back," Shanahan said. "There's time it's going to take to do it the right way. The ligament needs time to heal. . . . When you see how hard he's working, everyone is really optimistic. But you have to let a ligament heal."
According to various reports, RG3 is ahead of schedule in his rehab, but no more chances will be taken with the franchise players health.


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Mork & Mindy find happiness together at local rehab facility
Mindy is a dog with a mission.
The young beagle is the special canine resident of Southern Trace Rehabilitation in Bryant, where she not only brings joy to her owner but to other residents who share her routine and her life.
Once lost or abandoned, Mindy was rescued by Marion Mork's grandson.
That was about three years ago, said Mork, who has been a resident of the Bryant rehab facility for the past several months.
"My grandson was going to find a home for Mindy, but I decided that I wanted her, so she first came to live with me," she said.
That arrangement worked for a while, but then Mork developed some health problems and Mindy relocated to Southern Trace, where Mork's daughter, Robin Wilson, serves as assistant director of nursing.
As fate would have it, Mork eventually came to be a resident of the facility and has been reunited with Mindy on a daily, permanent basis.
And that arrangement has been a blessing for everyone, according to Wilson.
"Mindy goes from room to room visiting the residents and most of them love her," she said. "She knows the rooms where she's not really welcome, so she just doesn't go there. But the others want her and even have disagreements over whose room she'll visit next."
Mork, now 85, said she has always had dogs. When Mindy first came to live with her, her previous dog had just died.
"We selected the same Mindy since my name is Mork and I knew about the TV show 'Mork & Mindy,'" she said.
At the long-term care facility, Mindy's official sleeping quarters are located in a corner of Mork's room, but she often joins her owner on her bed, Mork said.
"That dog is like my own child," she said.
"We love being together here," she added.
Ethel Hutto, Mork's roommate, also is a big fan of Mindy's, saying she "switched rooms just so I could be with her."
Wilson confirmed that fact, noting that Hutto is as fond of Mindy as Mork.
"When the staff see the three of them walking down the hall together, they call them 'the golden girls,'" she said.
Wilson also noted that Mindy has a particularly positive influence on the residents with serious behavioral issues.
"There's no agitation when she visits them in their unit," Wilson said. "They calm down and people who rarely talk will do so."
The only real problem that Mindy has encountered is "too many treats," Wilson noted.
"Everyone wants to give her something, and she's figured out when dietary brings the trays for administration and for particular staff people," she said. "She'll wait in that area until someone gives her something.
"She has a regular route," she added.
Mindy had to be away from the facility for about two weeks when she developed a disk problem that required surgery.
"They all missed her and kept asking 'where's Mindy' and 'when is she coming back,'" Wilson said. "She couldn't jump for a while, but she's doing fine now."
Though the attention and treats for Mindy are abundant, Wilson said what the dog does for the residents far surpasses what they give her.
"She gives more than she gets," she said.
"She's a fantastic therapy dog," Wilson said. "She's never been trained for that; she's just that way naturally.
If Wilson were in charge, every long-term care facility would have a therapy animal.
"You just have to see what a difference it makes in the residents," she said. "They light up when they see her.
"She loves people and she accepts them no matter what their condition."


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This morning, a report released under the Hamilton Project banner of "Innovative Approaches to Tax Reform," proposes the "Elimination of Fossil Fuel Subsidies." Unfortunately, the paper ignores sound tax policy and takes aim at a package of long-standing tax provisions that enable oil and gas companies to explore and develop new domestic sources of energy.
Indeed, Manufacturers take umbrage to a number of assumptions in this paper. So let's start at the top. The report argues that the so-called "subsidies" provided to the industry for domestic production "have a very small impact on production" and thus eliminating these (so-called) subsides would have "a very small impact on production, their removal will not materially increase retail fuel prices, reduce employment or weaken U.S. energy security." This belies so many real-world facts that we just had to respond.
First, the provisions in question are not subsidies. They represent sound tax policy that, among other things, allow energy companies to deduct ordinary and necessary business expenses and recover their capital costs. In contrast, subsidies are direct payments from the government to entities. This is clearly not what the paper is talking about.
One thing on which manufacturers can agree with the author is the need to enact a "simpler, more efficient tax code" – this is true especially in today's world where the U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate. This leads to the second fact that is ignored in this report… that oil and gas companies with a global market and worldwide consumers have to look at worldwide production opportunities and U.S. production projects have to compete with opportunities elsewhere. With this reality, good tax policy matters in attracting development and production–and jobs– in the U.S. Despite the author's assertion that "none of the current tax expenditures for fossil fuels targets novel techniques or … promotes innovation," horizontal drilling and the sophisticated techniques used in hydraulic fracturing are two innovations that are fairly recent, were costly to develop and have resulted in the development of game-changing resources that are still emerging. And these projects are a boon to local domestic economies where they are ongoing.
Continuing along with our fact-checking, how did the author conclude that oil and gas production is not manufacturing as a basis for his argument that the domestic manufacturing tax deduction for oil and gas should be eliminated? Merriam Webster defines manufacture as: "1) something made from raw materials by hand or by machinery; 2a) the process of making wares by hand or by machinery especially when carried out with division of labor, b) a productive industry using mechanical power and machinery; 3) the act or process of producing something." That pretty much sums it up, by all accounts oil and gas production is manufacturing by its very nature. Perhaps a refinery tour is in order!
Finally, the report is a wolf in sheep's clothing as it is apparent that the author seeks to use the tax code to advance an environmental agenda. Throughout the report the author refers to the environmental benefits of a reduction in carbon emissions resulting from a reduction in production and consumption. Manufacturers, like all concerned citizens are concerned about the environment. However, if the author wants to have an environmental debate and address what he proposes as environmental impacts, then that debate should not be engaged under the guise of tax reform.
Manufacturers strongly support comprehensive tax reform, one that lowers the corporate rate to one that is competitive, includes a territorial system of taxation, that includes a permanent and strengthened R&D credit, includes permanent lower rates for small businesses and that includes a robust capital cost recovery system. With these principles as a starting point manufacturers want to engage in a tax reform discussion but if the starting point is from the position taken by this author, then this debate may remain long-awaited.


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I'd like to explain why I think evolution is real. First of all, I don't need creation scientists to prove that God made the world in 7 twenty-four hour days. I have faith that God created the world, and that's what the Bible requires.
Onto science, I think I should first start with a definition of evolution.
Biological evolution is genetic change in a population from one generation to another. The speed and direction of change is variable with different species lines and at different times. Continuous evolution over many generations can result in the development of new varieties and species. Likewise, failure to evolve in response to environmental changes can, and often does, lead to extinction.
Evidence better explained than I can explain it.
How Do We Know That Evolution Has Occurred?
The evidence for evolution has primarily come from four sources:
the fossil record of change in earlier species
the chemical and anatomical similarities of related life forms
the geographic distribution of related species
the recorded genetic changes in living organisms over many generations
Now, what convinces me the most is medical science. It simply wouldn't work without evolution.
This process of natural selection resulting in evolution can be easily demonstrated over a 24 hour period in a laboratory Petri dish of bacteria living in a nutrient medium. When a lethal dose of antibiotic is added, there will be a mass die-off. However, a few of the bacteria usually are immune and survive. The next generation is mostly immune because they have inherited immunity from the survivors. That is the case with the purple bacteria in the Petri dishes shown below--the bacteria population has evolved.
Now, some people might be able to accept this, but what about Darwin's theory of evolution? We don't come from monkeys, right? Well, the theory doesn't say that. It only says we're related through a common ancester. Sounds hard to believe, but it's hard to deny it when we share 99% of the DNA with apes.
Using such reasoning, it has been estimated that the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees (with whom we share 99 percent of our genes) lived five million years ago. Going back a little farther, the Hominidae clade is 13 million years old. If we continue farther back in time, we find that placental mammals are between 60 and 80 million years old and that the oldest four-limbed animal, or tetrapod, lived between 300 and 350 million years ago and the earliest chordates (animals with a notochord) appeared about 990 million years ago. Humans belong to each of these successively broader groups.
I believe in God, but science is science. The evidence is there.


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I don't feel any difference.
English Teacher
I'm a native speaker and can't feel a difference between the verb phrases switch to and switch over to.
Is there any difference?
I don't feel any difference.
ok thanks
I think that the bigger the change, the more likely I would be to use over, but either could be used.
I agree - it feels like it might take more effort to switch OVER than to simply switch. But not necessarily.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
As an example, in the UK, we're going to get rid of analogue radio and go digital, which I would say is switching over to digital, though switching to would be OK.
both have same meaning ........
I feel "switch to" is a temporary shifting from one point to another with the inherent option of reverting back while "switch over to" implies permanence of change.
As far as actual meaning goes, I can't really think of a difference either. My usage would be different for different scenarios though:
I'm going to switch over to BBC2 now for that programme I want to watch.
I'm going to switch to BBC2 now for that programme ...
I'm thinking of switching my gas and electricity provider.
I'm thinking of switching my gas and electricity provider over.
though I would say
I'm thinking of switching over to British Gas for my gas and electricity.
Uh-oh. Another minefield!


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Jonathan Holbrook released the first episode of a brand new indie web series, STILL, on Monday. A small Northwest town, Sloughtown, is succumbed by strange sounds in the sky. Is it the Apocalypse?
Check out the premiere below.
STILL continues in October.
The cast includes Thomas Murphy, David Ledingham, Kale Wagner, Kyle Zacher, Michelle Stahl and Nathan Christopher Haase.
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