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Honorable Mention: Pro Wrestling-WWE Live Show (Sunday 5pm Verizon Center); WNBA: Washington Mystics @ Atlanta Dream (Wednesday 7pm from Atlanta live on NBA TV); USA Hockey Training Camp Public Day (Tuesday 7am Kettler Capitals IcePlex)
10. Live/Kelly Bell Band (Saturday 2pm/6pm Baltimore Grand Prix); Luke Bryan (Wednesday 5:30pm Merriweather Post Pavilion); Maze feat. Frankie Beverly (Saturday 7pm Verizon Center); John Mayer (Saturday 7:30pm Jiffy Lube Live); Lyle Lovett and His Large Band (Thursday 8pm Wolf Trap); Anthony Hamilton (Wednesday & Thursday 8pm Howard Theatre), Salt-N-Pepa (Saturday 8pm Howard Theatre); Three Dog Night (Wednesday & Friday 7:30pm Birchmere); Fall Out Boy (Thursday 7:30pm Maryland State Fair), Three Days Grace (Sunday 7:30pm Maryland State Fair); Franz Ferdinand "Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions" available in stores/on iTunes (Tuesday)
Hyperbole be damned. Live is one of the most consistently fantastic bands of the last 25 years. It's a shame things couldn't stay together.
The Kelly Bell Band…or as you know them…David Modell and I's favorite band…
I know what John Mayer is now. I also know that there was a time I half enjoyed him.
I have probably enjoyed WAY more Fall Out Boy songs in my life than I'd ever like to admit.
9. Maryland State Fair (Tuesday-Monday Timonium Fairgrounds); Maryland Renaissance Festival (Saturday-Monday RenFest Fairgrounds); Finesse Mitchell (Thursday-Saturday Baltimore Comedy Factory); Jake Johannsen (Wednesday-Sunday DC Improv); "The Great Gatsby" and "Pain & Gain" available on Blu-Ray/DVD (Tuesday)"
I'll make an appearance in Timonium this week. When I do, there will be a peach sundae involved.
And yeah, maybe a red velvet funnel cake.
Don't judge.
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The week-long weather forecast for the Marathon Classic calls for plenty of heat with temperatures hovering around 90 degrees.
LPGA players, tournament staff volunteers, and thousands of spectators arriving at Highland Meadows Golf Club should prepare for heat and humidity.
"We've stocked a lot more ice packs and I.V. fluids just in case we have to rehydrate or cool any patients down," said Mercy LifeStar operations manager Chris Schultz. "We did bring an extra ambulance on sight here to transport, so if we need to get someone out right away we can do so."
Activities got under way Monday with a Pro-Am event. The first round of the LPGA event tees off on Thursday morning under predicted 90-degree temperatures and a 40 percent chance of rain.
The heat could play a role in affecting more than just the players. It could make for difficult conditions for the fans.
Schultz said Mercy LifeStar, of St. Mercy Hospitals, began preparation to work at the tournament months in advance. The emergency medical staff is prepared to address any situation, particularly those associated with heat.
Mercy LifeStar has two air-conditioned campers equipped with medical supplies on the Highland Meadows grounds, as well as four first-aid tents to assist anyone. Schultz said they're even prepared to assist service animals if there's a need.
"We would treat them pretty much the same way as we would humans — provide them with cold towels," he said. "But that's not something we saw last year, or this year yet."
Keeping hydrated is the single-most significant concern for an event like the Marathon Classic, which may call for plenty of walking.
"It's very important," Schultz said. "You definitely need to be drinking a lot of water and Gatorade on these hot days to try and replace those electrolytes. It's very important to take breaks as often as you can. Go in the shade or inside if you can. You definitely have to keep drinking that water."
So Yeon Ryu, the defeding champion, said she prefers playing in hot weather.
"We have to handle the rainy day, windy day, sunny day," Ryu said. "So maybe a lot of people should just focus on golf and not really care about the weather."
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Eggnog spiked cream cheese filling with warm spices over a chocolate graham crust.
Extra creamy, this bakes up higher than your average cheesecake with a silky and luxurious texture that is just delicious with the chocolate cookie crust.
My uneasiness over using chocolate with eggnog was for nothing. It's a combination that works surprisingly well together.
While this doesn't include rum, a much-loved component in eggnog, you can certainly add a tablespoon or two to the filling or even a little bit of rum extract if you have it on hand.
Although, I didn't – it doesn't need it.
The warmly spiced eggnog flavor shines through in every single decadent bite.
Eggnog spiked cream cheese filling with warm spices over a chocolate graham crust! This holiday cheesecake bakes up fluffy and taller than your average cheesecake.
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter a 9-by-3-inch springform pan.
- In a food processor, pulse graham crackers until fine crumbs form; add melted butter, sugar, and salt; pulse to combine. Press crumb mixture into bottom of pan and about 1 inch up side of pan.
- In a medium bowl beat cream cheese, eggnog and sugar together until smooth. Add eggs, and beat until incorporated. Beat in vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Pour into prepared pan, and place in a large roasting pan or on a sheet pan with sides. Transfer to oven rack, and carefully add enough boiling water to the roasting pan to come an inch up the side of the cake pan.
- Bake until the center is firm, about 2 hours, adding more boiling water if necessary. Turn off the oven and leave oven door ajar. Let cake cool completely in the oven.
- Refrigerate until chilled through and serve with fresh whipped cream.
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Hockey, especially the NHL version, is a brutal sport. Bruins fans didn't need a reminder of that, but they received yet another one last Saturday night when Chris Neil lined up a vulnerable Johnny Boychuk in Ottawa and sent him directly to No. 55 Silly Street.
Boychuk had his head down, the ultimate boo-boo, and Neil crushed him with a running hit to the chest, a targeted blow delivered with such force that Neil knocked the wind out of himself. One of those rare predatory hits when even the perpetrator paid a price.
Boychuk got the far worse of the deal. He somehow picked himself up and left the game under his own power - amazing, given that Neil used his 215-pound frame as a blunt-force instrument - and on Monday was officially diagnosed with a mild concussion.
Boychuk thus became another casualty of the game's culture. By the rule book, Neil's hit was clean, and therefore he was not assessed a penalty. We were left to say yet again: just a hockey play, big hit, clean, honest, spectacular.
So, what are we left to say about a sport that permits, even encourages, concussion-inducing hits? Again, brutal sport, full of peril on every shift, dangerous for hitter and hittee, which in part is what pulls fans into 30 arenas around North America, willing to pay ever-escalating prices.
As the violence grows, the prices move in lockstep. Staged violence is a pretty good business model, has been for a while, especially when shrunk for the TV screen and not really there to be felt, internalized.
Four nights after Neil's smackdown, a similar hit (though less menacing and not nearly of the same force) touched off an amusing on-screen tete-a-tete between ex-Bruin Mike Milbury and fellow Bay Stater Jeremy Roenick. At issue was a corner collision between Dallas's Eric Nystrom and Pittsburgh's Kris Letang, the very talented defenseman who helped the Penguins win the Stanley Cup in 2009.
A puck was up for grabs in Pittsburgh's end and Nystrom, rather than make a play for the puck, opted to deliver a high body blow that leveled Letang. As Letang lunged toward the puck, Nystrom dropped him with a glancing shot of his upper arm across the face.
Previously concussed this season, Letang was done for the night and diagnosed with concussion-like symptoms. Nystrom received a two-minute minor for roughing. All in all, a garden variety hit by today's NHL standards - I was surprised Nystrom received even two minutes - but it served as prime beef for the Milbury-Roenick analysis menu in the NBC studio.
The surprise in the debate was that Milbury, for decades among the game's strongest proponents of fighting and hard hitting, strongly denounced Nystrom. Roenick, meanwhile, played the familiar blame-the-victim card, saying, "He put himself in a vulnerable position.''
Milbury, the sensitive new-age guy, later countered by saying, "We have to change the way guys look at it . . . you are not supposed to decapitate.'' Roenick followed by saying that sort of thinking ran the risk of taking hitting out of the game, and that Milbury is "getting soft.''
Round and round we go, folks, but it's encouraging that now even the game's crustiest edge is finally recognizing that we have reached the "Houston, we have a problem'' precipice.
Too many players are being dealt brain injuries. And while the reasons for concussions are many, too many are the result of what I've described here for years as the game's seek-and-destroy culture that has been particularly prevalent since the NHL emerged from its 2004-05 lockout.
Big hits, delivered first and foremost to cause injury, are now deeply embedded in the game, and there appears to be no way out of it.
Of the two hits discussed here, I found the unpenalized Neil hit far more disturbing than the Nystrom smack. Both were nasty, both injurious, but Neil clearly recognized that he had Boychuk in a vulnerable position and took full advantage of it. Above all, he was hitting to hurt.
Again, it was a legal hit, straight on, high to Boychuk's body and not to his head. It was also predatory. In the grand scheme of things, it meant nothing to the game, unless the object of playing hockey truly has changed from scoring more goals than the other team to recording more broken bones, separated shoulders, crippled knees, and cracked heads.
I know, it has all been said before in this space, which is why I'm not going to go through the full parade of horribles one more time. Brendan Shanahan, the ex-power forward who is now the league operative charged with the game's mounting trash problem, has received big kudos here for better defining bad acts and punishing them. His dirtiest job in hockey remains a work in progress. He is making a difference, attempting to remedy decades of indifference on the matter by his current bosses and scores of previous NHL suits.
What's clear now - and again, let Milbury be the parakeet-in-the-coal-mine indicator - is that the players have to stop pointing to club owners and league bosses to fix their problem. Why are players getting hurt? Because (light bulb!) they are the ones inflicting the hurt.
Checking does not equal assault. Checking does not equal intent to injure. Checking is not free license to maim, concuss, debilitate, destroy.
And though the mayhem may sell, for both the arena and TV crowds, logic says it is a fractured model in desperate need of repair. It is literally beating skill and talent (thy face is Sidney Crosby) out of the NHL, and I have seen first-hand that it causes young players and their parents to seek alternative sports.
No telling if the NHL, like Apollo 13, will find its way safely back to a good place. I hope it happens. The game has always had its issues of violence and injury, but never to the point where speed and force, intimidation and intent to injure, overwhelmed the skill, grace, and magic of a beautiful game.
By my eye, that's where it is now, and to the players I am only left to say, heal thyselves. Because the owners, managers, coaches, and customers seem only too happy too watch you self-destruct.
Project honors Burke's memory
Keep an eye out during NBC's broadcast of the Bruins-Rangers game at Madison Square Garden this afternoon for public service announcements heralding the start of the "You Can Play'' project.
Formed to honor the memory of former Xaverian student Brendan Burke, who was killed in a car accident just over two years ago, the aim of You Can Play is to help amateur and pro athletes of all levels to be open about their sexual orientation and be accepted by their teams and teammates.
"The message is pretty simple,'' said Patrick Burke, a Flyers scout and Brendan's brother. "If you're good enough to play, then that's all that matters. It shouldn't matter if you're gay, straight, bisexual, whatever . . .
"If you're good enough to be on the team, you're a valued, welcomed member and you can feel comfortable being who you are, period.''
Patrick and Brian Burke, Brendan's dad and general manager of the Maple Leafs, were the leaders in forming You Can Play. Some three dozen NHL players have signed on to help, some of whom you'll see in the PSAs. Later this year, You Can Play will release its "playbook,'' designed to help fans, coaches, players, and administrators better understand the issues of gay athletes.
"The response we've received from the athletes has been a little overwhelming, frankly,'' said Patrick. "Knowing hockey players as I do, that's not really a surprise, I suppose.
"But these guys have really stepped forward. Some of the biggest names in the sport. If you made a team out of these guys, you'd be among the Cup favorites.''
To date, the NHL has yet to have one of its players say publicly that he is gay. Patrick Burke's belief is that it is probably not far away.
"And I'd like to think You Can Play will help facilitate that,'' he said. "I expect you'll see an openly gay player in the NHL in the next couple of years.''
More squeezed out of Grapes
Because the world needed another one, CBC tonight starts to air its second movie about Don Cherry, this one titled, "The Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story, Part 2.''
There was so much ground to cover in the redux that Part 2 runs across two weekends, concluding next Sunday. The first one, "Keep Your Head Up, Kid,'' drew 1.3 million viewers. In the United States, the equivalent would be roughly 13 million.
Grapes, who turned 78 last month, really went mainstream last night when he officially opened his Twitter account (CoachsCornerCBC) prior to fulfilling his TV duties. The ex-Bruins coach says he doesn't carry a cell phone, but with help from CBC associates, he is now parceling out his thoughts in 140 characters or less.
The Toronto Star's Raju Mudhar authored a piece in advance of the movie, and Cherry revealed a different side of himself, opining that there were a few parts of his life he would have lived differently.
"I was a very selfish person,'' he told Mudhar, "and I only thought of myself. I should have taken the family out more, to Disneyland and stuff like that. My whole life was hockey.''
Regarding his latter point, Cherry added that he wished he had extended his formal education. His final days in the classroom were spent in eighth grade, on the back side of World War II.
"I would have gone to school,'' he said, noting the few career options that existed when his playing days came to a halt in his early 30s. "Either that, or I would have got a trade.'' Fitting for a guy who added, "I consider myself a construction worker who got lucky.''
Canucks go for some toughness
The biggest deal at Monday's trade deadline had the Sabres and Canucks flipping star freshmen, with 6-foot 3-inch Zack Kassian heading to Vancouver and the speedy Cody Hodgson headed to Buffalo. Once on the Boston radar as a "most wanted'' first-round pick, Kassian could turn into that brute force the Canucks have lacked on the wing since Todd Bertucci's departure. Hodgson can scoot and shoot, but was somewhat lost on the Canucks' depth chart, with skill enough to play in the top six but not always the opportunity. The bet here is that Kassian gets the better start out of the gate, if for no other reason than the tide of talent runs higher in Vancouver than it does in Buffalo. The Sabres, trying desperately to avoid being a playoff DNQ for the third time in five seasons, lack size and jam among their forward corps. And not that he was delivering much of that jam, but 6-5 pivot Paul Gaustad had some of it and was very good at faceoffs (57 percent), and he was dealt to Nashville for a first-round pick.
Bruins targeted Spacek
The Bruins ended up with a solid player in acquiring shot-blocking blue liner Greg Zanon from the Wild, but they also made a solid play for 38-year-old Czech defenseman Jaro Spacek. Word is, the Hurricanes' asking price was too high, possibly a second-round pick that the Bruins wouldn't be able to deliver until the 2013 draft. Just think: Had the Bruins written the same outrageous deal for Tomas Kaberle that the Hurricanes handed him in July, then maybe Boston, and not Carolina, could have pawned him on Montreal to bring in Spacek during the season. Either way, a close pal of Spacek's says that he would have loved the opportunity here in the Hub of Hockey. On target to be an unrestricted free agent July 1, perhaps he will get his chance.
A shot at blocking
Is shot-blocking a good thing? On the whole, yes, but it's also often an indication that clubs spend too much time parked at the wrong end of the ice. As of Friday morning, the top three shot-blocking teams were the Islanders (1,099), Minnesota (1,067), and Montreal (1,061). None is expected to make the playoffs. Next in line: the Rangers (1,029) and San Jose (1,014). The Blueshirts have been vying with Detroit for the No. 1 spot in the league's overall standings and the Sharks have been, well, the Sharks, recently going 3-6-1 over 10 games and flirting with falling into DNQ land. All in all, a tough stat to read. But one thing is for certain: The greater the number of blocked shots, the greater chance of injury. The Rangers have turned shot-blocking into a cult happening this season, but the buy-in has been so great it leads to questions as to whether they'll remain healthy enough to live through four grueling rounds of the playoffs.
Wheeler on a roll
Ex-Bruin winger Blake Wheeler, dished out of here with Mark Stuart last February in the Rich Peverley deal, is on a career hot streak with the Jets, delivering almost 2 points per game over the last two weeks (eight games, 4-11-15). He is on a pace for around 65 points, well above the career-best 45 he totaled here in his 2008-09 rookie season. Riding most of the time these days with Bryan Little and Andrew Ladd, Wheeler looks far more confident on his skates and going to the prime scoring areas. Wheeler's Wellesley-based agent Matt Keator: "He's a talented kid, so I can't say I'm all that surprised it's come together for him. The best part right now is his consistency, keeping those points coming, and I think that's a reflection of adjusting to a new environment - a new place to live, a new coach, all of that. He's getting 20 minutes-plus of ice time a night with the team's top players, and that's helped his production, too. I think he's figured out that he is a playmaking winger who can make everyone around him better.''
Loose pucks
Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli last Monday dismissed any suggestion that he considered dealing star defense prospect Doug Hamilton for immediate help with the varsity. It's all but a fait accompli that the 6-5 Hamilton, who will turn 19 in June, will start the 2012-13 season in Boston, allowing the club an initial look to determine whether he is ready or needs to be returned to junior - the way the Jets this season got their seven-game sampler of center Mark Scheifele before shipping him back to the Barrie Colts. At last look, Scheifele had 22 goals and 55 points with Barrie, in lockstep with his production last season that had the Jets picking him No. 7 overall in the draft . . . OK, you've heard it here before, but 26-year-old Swedish pivot Carl Soderberg is hinting yet again that he might like to come to Boston's training camp in September. He moved up to Linkoping in the Swedish Elite League for the start of this season, and was at 13-18-31 through 40 games, second in team scoring. According to Chiarelli, the Bruins would welcome him in camp, but the GM is cautious about setting his September depth chart just yet. Soderberg, 6-3 and 200 pounds, was acquired from the Blues for goalie Hannu Toivonen in July 2007 and thus far has balked at all opportunities to come over here . . . Ex-NHLers Niclas Havelid and Fred Norrena also play for Linkoping . . . Mammoth defenseman Boris Valabik, acquired by the Bruins as part of the Peverley deal last year, signed with the Penguins as a free agent in July . . . Boston draft pick Yuri Alexandrov (No. 37 in 2006) switched KHL teams this year from St. Petersburg to Omsk. He remains Boston property, but indications are that the 6-foot defenseman has fallen off the club's radar and likely will be an unrestricted free agent on July 1.Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com; material from interviews, wire services, other beat writers, and league and team sources was used in this report.


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I really need help deciding which of these will fit my project the best. I know some programming, a bit of pascal/c, and I know some SQL, and some HTML.
What I need done:
A web store, products added in categories, with a picture. Clients can add products, but there is no need for traditional checkout. They need to have only one option at "checkout", a button that sends to an email they fill in their order. The sent order is without pictures of products.
That's about all that needs to be done really. This has to happen this way because these "clients" are people in another country, they make their orders, give to one person, who emails them to us, we make the orders, and then on a given date that person comes and picks all the orders up.
I can more or less guess how to make the database, had a course on SQL some years back, but how about the front end? like, the actual mmm "face" of it all? So, I can't decide what I should study to allow me to do it.
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The barrage of tornadoes that touched down in the Oklahoma City area Friday night took the lives of nine people, seven of whom were found dead in their cars.
While it remains unclear as to why many of those killed were on the road when the devastating storms pummeled the region, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett told ABC News that the number of vehicles on the road was "unusual."
"The worst place you can be in a tornado is in your car," Cornett said. "You get in your car, almost anything can happen."
Cornett said residents were told two to three days before the storm hit that Friday night was "a high risk opportunity." It was surprising that despite established tornado precautions, people still got in their cars and took off when the storm barreled through, he said.
"We don't need people in their cars during a high risk storm like that," he said. "It clogged up the interstate, it impeded emergency vehicles, and created a much more dangerous situation than it needed to be."
Severe weather may prove to be more dangerous unless people recognize the myths about how to evade it. Click through to see unsafe storm tactics, debunked.
|Myth: You Can Avoid an Oncoming Tornado in Your Car
While the natural inclination may be to flee when a storm's destruction is imminent, getting in your car at the last minute to dodge Mother Nature puts people's lives at risk.
"[In a tornado] People are generally better off where they are," Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornet said.
Cornett said one of the things officials will review is why people were on the road in such high numbers Friday evening when the storms landed in the Oklahoma City area.
Too often people decide they are able to outrun a tornado in their car, but automotive expert and former race car driver Lauren Fix strongly advised against it.
"Tornadoes change direction without any notice and you don't know what the road in front of you is going to look like," Fix said. "There could be debris. You could have a roadway that's blocked. Where are you going to go?
"If you see a tornado, find shelter immediately," she said. "Your car is a 4,000-pound toy and it can be tossed at anywhere, anytime."
|Myth: You Can Drive Through a Flooded Roadway
Despite the misconception that driving through floodwaters could provide an escape route in a storm, more than half of all flood-related drowning occurs when a vehicle is driven into hazardous waters, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service.
All it takes is two feet of rushing water before your vehicle -- including SUVs and pickup trucks -- can get carried away by the flood currents, according to the National Weather Service emergency preparedness guide.
"If it's flooded roadways from a river, a creek, or a lake, you do not want to drive through it because anything that's even a foot deep of water, which is not much at all, can cause your vehicle to float," Fix said.
But if you're driving when water hits, ABC News' Sam Champion said to take safety precautions before advancing further.
"Slow down and make a good, solid judgment about where the water's coming from. How much water do I think it is before I pursue," he said.
|Myth: Overpasses are Safe Havens
Highway overpasses should not be considered secure zones in a tornado.
"It's very tempting for people to see this as an area to take shelter, but it's the very worst place," said Peggy Willenburg, one half of the storm chasing duo Twister Sisters.
In fact, overpasses act like wind tunnels that accelerate the flow of the storm, said Harold Brooks, a research meteorologist with the NOAA's Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla.
"If you could imagine, say, taking a garden hose and putting your thumb over it, the water gets a lot stronger going out through that small opening," Brooks said. "And that's essentially what the tornado does going through that little area of the overpass."
So, what do you do if you're riding in your car and a tornado is coming right at you? Experts say to get away from the car and find a ditch or a gully. Once there, lie down as low as you can.


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Google holds two hackathons for a small group of lucky developers from among those who signed up for the Glass Explorer Program at Google I/O 2012. We called these events the Glass Foundry. In San Francisco and New York, the selected Glass Explorers were able to spend two days with Glass and the API we've developed. They formed teams and built over 80 new ways to use Glass.
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Everything in Minecraft. Michigan Stadium in Minecraft.
I like healthy butts and I cannot lie. Jake Butt is jogging again:
"Went for my first little run yesterday and my knee feels great!" Butt tweeted.
The 6-foot-6, 250-pound tight end suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament on Feb. 13 during conditioning drills before spring practice began. Butt underwent surgery to repair the torn ligament on Feb. 28, exactly three months ago Wednesday.
ACLs are six-month things these days so Butt could be back even earlier than the third or fourth game, as Hoke projected a couple months ago.
Yes, this is a good idea. Auburn's having a big ol' recruiting weekend, so naturally they've painted the path of the Kick Six on their field.
If I find out they've also got a cardboard cutout of Nick Saban in tears, I will commit.
In unrelated news, Bret Bielema took a job at Arkansas. Bielema demonstrates his mastery of making himself look bad with his mouth:
Bret Bielema why he made move from Wisconsin to Arkansas "SEC will get minimum of 2 teams in 4-team playoff"
None of these are ever going to be Arkansas, is the thing. The other thing is that give or take a tough decision, the SEC would have gotten two teams in a four-team field about 25% of the time since the dawn of the BCS era. Three is off the table.
Hooray for three months of this. If there was a single moment when Dave Brandon completed his heel turn with the Michigan fanbase, it was when he picked up the steel chair of Appalachian State and beat us over the head with it by scheduling a rematch. While the blessed event is still three months away, first extensive article on the Horror has been published. I refuse to read the thing, so here's a paragraph at random:
It's no secret around campus that the football success of 2005-07 was a boon for the school's "PR value" and "notoriety," in the words of ASU athletic director Charlie Cobb. It helped bring enrollment increases, academic improvement and more.
I can't wait for replays to be on my television 24/7. Reliving the moment Michigan football went from national power to… this… is not high on my list of desirable activities. Here it comes anyway.
Possibly related. The student section has dropped alarmingly:
"We're projecting that number to be somewhere between 13 or 14,000 for student ticket numbers this year," Michigan associate athletic director of media and public relations Dave Ablauf said. "(That number was at) about 19,000 last year. We don't have a finalized number (yet), that's just an approximation because all the incoming freshmen haven't put in their orders yet."
This is partially because students can just buy tickets next year without long-term punishments and this home schedule is not worth the 300 dollars they're asking for it, let alone the regular price they're charging everyone else. It is also partially because last year was no fun and partially because the students don't like Dave Brandon at all.
The alarming thing is that this is probably going to happen every other year going forward unless Brandon can find a home and home series that actually moves the needle. Arkansas and Virginia Tech do not have anywhere near the appeal that Notre Dame does, and since Michigan got totally boned by having MSU and OSU away in the same year, every other year has no schedule anchor.
Even for you, this is surprising. Zach Travis has a column on the student section drop that you should read. The themes in it are things we hit on frequently here. In the comments, though, TOC contributor MSUDersh relates a story about the things happening to the UM wings of his family that is sadly believable. His dad and uncles are old-timey ticket holders in section one with tickets that go back 50 years:
A few months ago my uncle who splits tickets with my dad & another uncle rec'd an email about their tickets. The university told them that it appreciates their loyalty and also wants to ensure that they continue to have those great seats going forward. And in order to do so, the school recommended that they purchase four more season tickets (plus PSLs) in a completely different area of the stadium. Despite there literally being decades of my family history with the school & athletic department, including an endowment from my great grandparents in the 60's that continues to fund scholarships today, Dave Brandon's team is threatening to pull their choice seats and relocate them if they don't purchase more.
I just had a wow experience. Has anyone else received an email like this? I'd like to confirm that the AD is stooping so low.
I motion to not do this and have ice cream. Latest O'Bannon wrangling:
Lawyers for the NCAA asked the appeals court to vacate U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken's order for the trial to start June 9. The NCAA also wants the appeals court to rule that the O'Bannon antitrust trial should not be held before the Sam Keller right of publicity trial involving videogames, a related but now separated case scheduled for trial in March 2015.
The filing late Thursday night marks the fifth attempt by the NCAA in recent weeks to delay and/or redefine the case. A three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals previously rejected one of the delay attempts without comment.
Our local law-talkin', football-playin' dog weighs in:
Without boring you with the legal mumbo-jumbo, the NCAA's latest motion is not one filed by a party that thinks it is in good shape.
— Bry Mac (@Bry_Mac) May 30, 2014
The NCAA is also asking the courts not to consolidate the wave of anti-trust lawsuits filed by former players claiming they were cheated out of compensation above and beyond the value of a scholarship, and trying to get anyone other than Claudia Wilken as their judge, because Oakland is "spectacularly inconvenient" for a trial. A flight's a flight, according to the NCAA's own rules for seeding the NCAA hockey tournament.
Incoming. Dylan Larkin NHL draft profile ahoy:
"Larkin has shown he can be an elite-level power forward in addition to showing a high level of offensive ability. His ability to take the puck hard to the net allows for unique scoring chances most players would not be able get because of a lack of size and strength."
Etc.: You definitely shouldn't watch Mitch McGary's draft workout video unless you want to be real sad. Nussmeier's position now sponsored by rich dude. Barking Carnival's boot camp series continues with leverage.
Things That Happened
The DL took a hit for the Sugar. Nate Brink is out, leaving I Don't Know behind RVB at strongside defensive end, and Will Heininger is "questionable" with a foot thing. No one expects him to play. Heininger's absence would probably mean a start for Will Campbell and more playing time for Quinton Washington, plus a tired Mike Martin since he won't have anything approximating a plausible backup:
"(We have) two other seniors up front that are going to play their last college game and their last game for Michigan," Hoke said. "Sometimes, you've got to be an iron man."
The line is thin.
MonuMental dropped wallpaper. It's uncommonly gorgeous even for MonuMental.
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Denard got Sports Scienced. BIZANG
Virginia Tech's kicker got in jail. Like, jail-jail. I think I mentioned that already, but the new thing is VT's significant uncertainty at the spot:
Beamer said everyone made the trip except suspended place-kicker Cody Journell, who is facing a felony charge of entering a house with the intent to commit a felony. He spent six days in jail before being released this morning.
Beamer said senior Tyler Weiss will handle extra-point tries and field goals of less than 22 yards against Michigan, and senior Justin Myer will attempt longer kicks.
The Hokies have a guy who's deadly accurate from inside the five but can't get a 30-yarder over the bar. I look forward to seeing this strangely configured man.
The Big Ten and Pac 12 enjoyed a long, teary hug. Starting in 2017 the two conferences will have a scheduling alliance designed to "match teams of similar strength" in football, which is all that matters. The two leagues will also play in all other sports but in all other sports it's a matter of replacing one of your quality nonconference opponents with a Pac-12 school. Only in football does this make for real change.
While the move away from cupcake non-games is welcome, that was already on the docket as the Big Ten prepared to move to a nine-game conference schedule. That is now off the table:
The scheduling partnership means the Big Ten won't be moving from eight conference games to nine beginning in the 2017 season. The league had announced the increase in August.
"If it's not off the board, it's coming off the board," Delany said. "When this opportunity was raised, it's pretty much the understanding that it's in lieu of."
Instead of playing Wisconsin and Penn State more Michigan will play some Pac-10 teams. Honestly, I'd rather skip this business and expand the conference schedule. I'd rather have a more balanced conference schedule and more frequently revisited rivalries with the rest of the league than games Michigan could schedule anyway.
ANTI-BONUS: This hurts Michigan and Ohio State more than anyone else since they are locked into that cross-divisional protected rivalry. The other contenders in the West have annual matchups against Purdue (Iowa), Indiana (MSU), and the post-apocalypse version of Penn State (Nebraska). Michigan gets OSU annually. Meanwhile, the Buckeyes' main division rival's permanent crossover is… Minnesota. At least the Badgers won't be able to duck any and all plausible nonconference opponents anymore.
So it's a push leaning to not good right now. It will will be a total fail if Michigan takes the opportunity to ditch the ND series. Survey says… probably not($):
While Brandon said he wouldn't want to predict anything in the long term -- and he said 2017 is not considered long term in his view of football scheduling -- if the current schedule were to remain the same, the Irish will remain on the schedule.
That schedule would be eight Big Ten games, a home or away game with the Big Ten/Pac-12 agreement, a home or away game against Notre Dame and two non-conference home games.
"They like to play us and we like to play them so that game continues to be on our schedule," Brandon said. "As it relates to the long term, who knows. The long term is pretty hard to predict with the constant changes in college football, but for now we intend to play Notre Dame and they are on our schedule and we'll be playing them for the next few years anyway."
If the ND game stays in place that will take Michigan's interesting nonconference games from one to two in 2017, but you can say goodbye to the idea of playing anyone from the ACC, Big 12, or SEC in the nonconference unless Jerry Jones is throwing money around like a sad old lonely man. And that was going to happen in 2017 anyway with a move to a nine-game conference schedule.
The Big Ten got a lot of credit for envisioneering a multifaceted solution to the dynamic problems of college athletics. I don't get it. Not to pick on the MZone, but, uh:
And just like that, the SEC's addition of Mizzou and Texas A&M seems so...quaint. The Big East's addition of Boise State and...who again?... seems so 2011. As Scott points out, the B1G and Pac-12 gain a lot of the upside of expansion (broader reach, new markets and recruiting areas( without actually expanding. And with the conferences' TV deals with ESPN expiring in 2016, the BTN and the Pac-12 new network stand to make a financial killing.
This is far from an isolated opinion; check the link blizzard in the second paragraph of Get the Picture's analysis of the situation.
The SEC diluting its product with Mizzou and A&M was never a good idea to begin with. This lacks any huge, stupid downsides like the SEC deal, so there's that, but at its heart it's one football game a year. Just because the man with the eyebrows says something doesn't mean it's true.
Michigan hired a soccer coach. He's from Providence, he's turned a nothing program into a consistent NCAA participant, he's not Caleb Porter, but he seems like a pretty good idea. More details in the board thread.
Tigerdroppings got cited by a newspaper. Tennessee WR DeAnthony Arnett is leaving Tennessee after Charlie Baggett's exit to be closer to his ailing father. You're probably wondering if Michigan will take a look after grabbing Jehu Chesson and Amara Darboh in the last few weeks. There is a wild card spot open since Bri'onte Dunn decided to stick with the Golden Bobcats.
Michigan would be foolish not to explore the possibility. If he doesn't get a waiver he'd be coming off his redshirt year with three to play when Roundtree and Stonum exit. He fills a hole on the roster after Michigan didn't take any WRs last year. If Michigan doesn't hop on him his most likely destination is MSU. Since he's a transfer he doesn't have to be crammed into the 28 available LOI slots. His stock has not dropped over the last year: Arnett had 24 catches as a freshman. His timeline matches up well with Michigan's needs and he's got talent. I would grab him and see if Michigan suffers the one or two extra departures that would allow them to take 28 on Signing Day anyway.
That's beside the point. This is the point:
Arnett caught 24 passes for 242 as a true freshman for the Volunteers last season, but several factors have prompted Arnett to ask for a release from Tennesse, according to fan site tigerdroppings.com.
That link leads to a C&P of the Rivals article on his decision to exit.
OH TE Sam Grant is seeing Michigan's main competition fill up a bit. Kyle Kalis teammate Sam Grant just picked up an Oklahoma offer, which had the potential to significantly complicate what looked like a straightforward decision to avoid the tire fire that is BC football for Michigan. That offer may have just fell by the wayside with AZ TE Taylor McNamara's commitment to the Sooners($). McNamara was briefly a Michigan target before he decided Ann Arbor was too far from home.
That gives OU two tight ends in the last week, but Grant is still planning on a visit in January.
Josh Garnett said something reasonable. This was it.
Michigan recruit Josh Garnett: 'I'm like Suh, but on offense'
Also not sure if serious. Wait… what?
Despite his pro-style roots, Borges didn't shun the spread. After resigning from Auburn in December 2007, Borges took the next year off, his first since starting coaching, and made visits to college teams like Mississippi State, Florida and Cal as well as to the NFL's Detroit Lions.
Then, in preparation for Michigan's season, he consulted with spread-offense practitioners like Temple coach Steve Addazio.
Steve Addazio is a spread offense practitioner like Jim Tressel is an honesty practitioner.
Multi-year scholarships got overriden, too. That PDF only had 48 objections to the multi-year scholarship option so I thought it was in the clear. It is not:
More than 75 schools are asking to override a plan approved in October to allow multiyear athletic scholarships rather than the one-year renewable awards schools currently provide.
That's disappointing but at least the world is being alerted to the asshat factory that is the Indiana State athletic department. If it goes to an override vote, 5/8ths of the membership would have to vote it down to eliminate it.
Someone made Central Michigan's stadium in Minecraft. Srs.
CMU was not in my top ten "schools most likely to create 1:1 replica of their stadium in Minecraft." BOOM:
- Georgia Tech
- Stanford
- Cal
- Michigan
- Rice
- Illinois
- Florida
- Washington State
- Notre Dame
Bowl lol continues. It's costing LSU and Alabama almost a million dollars to buy their band tickets for the SEC West title game. Clemson expects to eat 200k in losses for winning the ACC, too.
Michigan's uniforms were named the best in college football by, like, fashion people. WSJ:
Michigan: Of all the traditional uniforms, the Wolverines' maize-and-blue unis earned the highest marks from the panel. (Michigan also wore throwback uniforms this season that received mixed reviews, but our panel didn't evaluate them.)
American fashion designer Marc Ecko especially liked the color weight on the jersey, while graphic artist Josh Vanover praised the "bold, bright colors" and "clean" fonts.
But what really pushed Michigan to the top was its iconic winged helmet, which received near-universal praise for its creativity.
"Anyone that uses it, no matter what color you put it in, it's Michigan," said Anthony Coleman, the managing editor of the fashion and street culture blog SlamxHype. "You can use it, but realize that you're stealing from Michigan."
Maryland also came in for praise for their whatever that was, as did Oregon, so this is not a panel of get-off-my-lawn types. Michigan does their thing so well they don't have to resort to goofy things they've done so far this year.
Basketball had a scare against Bradley. A second-half run finally broke open an uncomfortable game as Michigan put the nonconference schedule (mostly) to bed. Holding the Rope has a holistic overview. Jon Horford's lingering stress fracture forced McLimans on the floor and there were a fair number of "OH COME ON" shots made by the Braves as they isolationed their way to a barrage of shots Kobe Bryant would find difficult. Still… Bradley went out and got annihilated 90-51 by a very good Witchita State team yesterday and the Big Ten is terrifying.
Without Horford it is even more critical for Morgan and Smotrycz to stay out of foul trouble. That is not likely. Michigan cannot drop tonight's game against Penn State. There's zero room for error in the league this year and there is a bright line between 9-9—tourney lock—and 8-10. This game against PSU is just one of seven Michigan has left against teams ranked below them in Kenpom (#143 PSU x2, #69 NW, #122 Iowa, #126 Nebraska, #93 Arkansas).
INSANE SMOTRYCZ SHOOTING UPDATE: 22 of 38 from 3 (58%), fifth nationally in eFG%. Novak is 16th with his 64%/42% shooting.
Etc.: Michigan scores best comeback on Doctor Saturday's year-end list of said comebacks. The Rees fumble that greatly aided that comeback leads off the list of gaffes. Penn State tire fire claims Drake, McGloin, Paul Jones, forces Bolden to start against Houston. Penn State still has no coach.


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Quartet has announced two new CDs due in the next few weeks -- John Williams' Emmy-winning score for the 1968 TV movie version of HEIDI, starring Jennifer Edwards (daughter of Blake) and Maximilian Schell (not Jason Robards, as I'd originally reported; Robards was in the 1993 version -- thanks to "Judy the Hutt" for the correction), a program which earned infamy when NBC cut off the end of a Raiders-Jets football game to air the movie; and an expanded edition of Ennio Morricone's score for FATTI DI GENTE PERBENE.
Tomorrow night (Saturday, May 11), the Golden State Pops Orchestra is presenting a concert celebrating the 35th Anniversary of Varese Sarabande, with scheduled appearances by John Debney, Cliff Eidelman, Danny Elfman, Michael Giacchino, Mark Isham, Christopher Lennertz, Joel McNeely, Diego Navarro, John Powell, Brian Tyler, Austin Wintory and Hans Zimmer. The concert is currently sold out, but their e-mail address is email@example.com if you want to inquire about their standby ticket policy.
Intrada plans to release one new Special Collection CD next week.
Groundbreaking stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen died in London on Tuesday, May 7th at the age of 92. Harryhausen was perhaps the only visual effects artist who could truly be called an auteur, as he was unusually involved with the development and production of nearly all of his films, which included many fantasy classics which inspired several generations of filmmakers and fans (including myself -- Harryhausen, Alfred Hitchcock, and Bernard Herrmann, who worked extensively with both filmmakers, were my holy trinity when I was a teenage film obsessive). Harryhausen never won the Visual Effects Oscar, though his first feature, the original Mighty Joe Young, won in that category for Harryhausen's mentor and inspiration, King Kong animator Willis O'Brien, but Harryhausen did win the Academy's 1991 Gordon E. Sawyer Award for his contribution to effects filmmaking. On that year's Oscar ceremony, Tom Hanks remarked that for many, Citizen Kane is the greatest film ever made, but for him it's Jason and the Argonauts. Besides his behind-the-camera contributions, Harryhausen had cameos in his friend John Landis' films Spies Like Us (in a scene with Terry Gilliam, cinematographer Robert Paynter and miniature effects master Derek Meddings), Beverly Hills Cop III and Burke and Hare, and made a brief but charming appearance in the remake of Mighty Joe Young alongside the original film's leading lady, Terry Moore. Along with cherished films and unforgettable effects sequences -- including the destruction of Washington D.C. in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, the rampage of the Cyclops from 7th Voyage of Sinbad, the battle with the skeletons from Jason and the Argonauts, the roping of an Allosaurus in The Valley of Gwangi, the swordfight with the six-armed Kali statue in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and the stalking of the Medusa of Clash of the Titans -- Harryhausen's films and effects inspired some of the finest and most beloved film music ever written. The following are his features and their composers:
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (Roy Webb)
THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (David Buttolph)
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA (Mischa Bakaleinikoff, library music)
EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS (Mischa Bakaleinikoff, library music)
20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (Mischa Bakaleinikoff, library music)
THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (Bernard Herrmann)
THE 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER (Bernard Herrmann)
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (Bernard Herrmann)
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (Bernard Herrmann)
FIRST MEN IN THE MOON (Laurie Johnson)
ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. (Mario Nascimbene)
THE VALLEY OF GWANGI (Jerome Moross)
THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (Miklos Rozsa)
SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER (Roy Budd)
CLASH OF THE TITANS (Laurence Rosenthal)
Bandolero - Jerry Goldsmith - La-La Land
Breakheart Pass - Jerry Goldsmith - Kritzerland
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman - Perseverance
Commando Di Spie - Nico Fidenco - GDM
Fear - Henry Mancini - Quartet
The Fourth War - Bill Conti - Music Box
The Gambler - Jerry Fielding - Quartet
Il Demonio - Piero Piccioni - Beat
Il Marchio Di Kriminal - Piero Umiliani - Beat
Killer Force/The Corrupt Ones - George Garvarentz - Music Box
Robot & Frank - Francis and the Lights - Hallowell House [CD-R]
Scary Movie 5 - James L. Venable - Lakeshore [CD-R]
Sesso Nero - Nico Fidenco - Beat
Slalom - Ennio Morricone - GDM
Varese Sarabande: A 35th Anniversary Celebration - various - Varese Sarabande
What Maisie Knew - Nick Urata - Milan
Willard - Shirley Walker - La-La Land
Aftershock - Manuel Riveiro
And Now a Word from Our Sponsor - Erica Procunier
Assault on Wall Street - Jessica de Rooij
Desperate Acts of Magic - Bruce Kiesling
Erased - Jeff Danna
The Great Gatsby - Craig Armstrong - Song CD on Interscope
He's Way More Famous Than You - Jeff Beal
No One Lives - Jerome Dillon
Peeples - Aaron Zigman
Sightseers - Jim Williams
Venus and Serena - Wyclef Jean
White Frog - Steve Pranoto
May 14
Doctor Who: The Krotons - Brian Hodgson - Silva
Himalaya: The Rearing of a Chief - Bruno Coulais - Varese Sarabande
May 21
Before Midnight - Graham Reynolds - Milan
Charmed - J. Peter Robinson - La-La Land
Fatti Di Gente Perbene - Ennio Morricone - Quartet
Heidi - John Williams - Quartet
Love Is All You Need - Johan Soderqvist - MovieScore Media
Rosewood - John Williams - La-La Land
Sexykiller - Fernando Velazquez - MovieScore Media
To the Wonder - Hanan Townshend - Lakeshore
May 28
Copper - Brian Keane - Valley
Epic - Danny Elfman - Sony
Pain & Gain - Steve Jablonsky - Varese Sarabande
Star Trek Into Darkness - Michael Giacchino - Varese Sarabande
June 4
After Earth - James Newton Howard - Sony
June 11
Fringe: Season 5 - Chris Tilton - Varese Sarabande
Hammer of the Gods - Benjamin Wallfisch - MovieScore Media
The Last Exorcism Part II - Michael Wandmacher - ScreamWorks/MovieScore Media
The Last Stand - Mowg - Red River
The Last of Us - Gustavo Santaolalla - Sony
Man of Steel - Hans Zimmer - Watertower
Metsan Tarina - Palo Aalito - MovieScore Media
Stuck in Love - Mike Mogis & Nathaniel Walcott, songs - Varese Sarabande
Warm Bodies - Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders - Red River
June 18
Monsters University - Randy Newman - Disney
June 25
The Lone Ranger - Hans Zimmer - Disney
July 16
Only God Forgives - Cliff Martinez - Milan
Date Unknown
Caprica (the series) - Bear McCreary - La-La Land
I Malamondo - Ennio Morricone - GDM
I, the Jury - Bill Conti - La-La Land
Il Richiamo Del Lupo (The Great Adventure)/Tre Per Una Grande Rapina (Le Mataf) - Stelvio Cipriani - GDM
Into the West - Geoff Zanelli - La-La Land
The Killer Likes Candy (Un Killer Per Sua Maeasta) - Gianni Marchelli - GDM
The World of Suzie Wong - George Duning - Kritzerland
Young Justice - various - La-La Land
May 10 - Max Steiner born (1888)
May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin born (1899)
May 10 - Jay Ferguson born (1947)
May 10 - Isaac Hayes begins recording his score for Shaft (1971)
May 11 - Alexander Courage begins recording his score for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
May 11 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Up the Long Ladder" (1989)
May 12 - Gordon Jenkins born (1910)
May 12 - Burt Bacharach born (1928)
May 12 - Klaus Doldinger born (1936)
May 12 - Humphrey Searle died (1982)
May 13 - David Broekman born (1902)
May 13 - Alan Silvestri begins recording his score to Predator (1987)
May 14 - Charles Gross born (1934)
May 14 - Kenneth V. Jones born (1924)
May 14 - Tristram Cary born (1925)
May 14 - Frank Churchill died (1942)
May 14 - David Byrne born (1952)
May 14 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score for Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
May 15 - Bert Shefter born (1902)
May 15 - John Lanchbery born (1923)
May 15 - Brian Eno born (1948)
May 15 - Mike Oldfield born (1953)
May 15 - Recording sessions begin for Bronislau Kaper's score for Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
May 15 - Gordon Parks begins recording his score for Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
May 15 - David Munrow died (1976)
May 15 - Billy Goldenberg records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Secret Cinema" (1985)
May 15 - John Green died (1989)
May 15 - Alexander Courage died (2008)
May 16 - Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score to Hawaii (1966)
May 16 - Alan Silvestri begins recording his score for Back to the Future (1985)
IRON MAN 3 - Brian Tyler
"Cinematographer John Toll and production designer Bill Brzeski add class to the generic proceedings, Brian Tyler's ultra-energetic score doesn't grate the way soundtracks for such films often do and the special and visual effects are tops when they count."
Todd McCarthy, Variety
KISS OF THE DAMNED - Steven Hufsteter
"Harking back to the cheesy sex-and-sucking extravaganzas of the 1970s -- only with worse acting and shinier production values -- 'Kiss of the Damned' tries to give the vampire movie something it most definitely does not need: class. To that end, this first feature from Xan Cassavetes (John Cassavetes's daughter) gathers a stately lakeside mansion, throbbing organ music and costumes that signal moneyed decadence."
Jeanette Catsoulis, New York Times
"There's also a fun soundtrack reminiscent of the cult classic 'Vampyros Lesbos,' and some great Euro-trashy atmosphere."
Farah Smith Nehme, New York Post
"A trashy vampire flick in art-film drag, 'Kiss of the Damned' satisfies on neither level. Drawing on a host of Euro-horror influences including but far from limited to a synth score reminiscent of Dario Argento's Goblin-performed soundtracks, Xan Cassavetes's pastiche follows lonely bloodsucker Djuna (Josephine de la Baume) as she whiles away her existence in an upstate New York mansion watching classic Hollywood flicks."
Andrew Schenker, Village Voice
LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED - Johan Soderqvist
"As movies have taught us before (and no doubt will again), a little Mediterranean sunshine and a few plucks of soundtrack mandolin go a long way toward healing heartache."
Ben Kenigsberg, The Onion
"So, it has to be admitted, is a bit more subplot than the script can hold. And [writer-director Susanne] Bier definitely provides further ammunition to her critics by depending on an intrusive score (if you're not going to use Dean Martin's 'That's Amore' ironically at this point, please -- don't use it at all)."
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
"From the earliest glimpses, Bier and cinematographer Morten Soborg swoon over the postcardy splendors of the Amalfi Coast, with its breathtaking views and picturesque citrus groves. They also heat up the colors to overstated but eye-catching extremes. Bier slathers occasionally on-the-nose music choices ('That's Amore' is heard what seems like 100 times) onto the soundtrack, alongside a score by Johan Soderqvist that ranges from insistently jaunty to pensive. But as calculated as it all is, there's something seductive about the film's old-fashioned visual and emotional vibrancy."
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
Screenings of older films, at the following L.A. movie theaters: AMPAS, American Cinematheque: Aero, American Cinematheque: Egyptian, LACMA, New Beverly, Nuart, Silent Movie Theater and UCLA.
May 10
BAD DREAMS (Jay Ferguson) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE FRENCH CONNECTION (Don Ellis), TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (Wang Chung) [Cinematheque: Aero]
GONE WITH THE POPE [New Beverly]
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Ennio Morricone) [Nuart]
MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE (John DuPrez), THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (Michael Kamen) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE STORY OF ADELE H (Maurice Jaubert), THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (Maurice Jaubert) [New Beverly]
May 11
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (Erich Wolfgang Korngold) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE STORY OF ADELE H (Maurice Jaubert), THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (Maurice Jaubert) [New Beverly]
STRICTLY BALLROOM (David Hirschfelder) [New Beverly]
May 12
THE LOVED ONE (John Addison) THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING (Johnny Mandel) [New Beverly]
PSYCHO (Bernard Herrmann), MOMMIE DEAREST (Henry Mancini) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (Richard Rodgers, Irwin Kostal) [Cinematheque: Aero]
WINGED MIGRATION (Bruno Coulais) [UCLA]
May 13
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, THE BOYS IN THE BAND [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE LOVED ONE (John Addison) THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING (Johnny Mandel) [New Beverly]
May 14
RED ROCK WEST (William Olvis), KILL ME AGAIN (William Olvis) [New Beverly]
WRITTEN ON THE WIND (Frank Skinner) [LACMA]
May 15
RED ROCK WEST (William Olvis), KILL ME AGAIN (William Olvis) [New Beverly]
WAR PARTY (Chaz Jankel) [Silent Movie Theater]
May 16
BACK TO SCHOOL (Danny Elfman), M*A*S*H (Johnny Mandel) [Cinematheque: Aero]
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (Burt Bacharach) [New Beverly]
May 17
DEATH BECOMES HER (Alan Silvestri) [Nuart]
MANSON (Paul Watkins, Brooks Poston) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE OUTSIDERS (Carmine Coppola), RUMBLE FISH (Stewart Copeland) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
PORTRAIT OF JASON [New Beverly]
TANGO & CASH (Angelo Badalamenti) [Silent Movie Theater]
May 18
BACK TO THE FUTURE (Alan Silvestri), BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (Alan Silvestri), BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III (Alan Silvestri) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
IN COLD BLOOD (Quincy Jones), ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (William James Guercio) [Cinematheque: Aero]
MANSON (Paul Watkins, Brooks Poston) [Silent Movie Theater]
PORTRAIT OF JASON [New Beverly]
May 19
ELMER GANTRY (Andre Previn) [UCLA]
MANSON (Paul Watkins, Brooks Poston) [Silent Movie Theater]
PORTRAIT OF JASON [New Beverly]
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Alex North), WHO AM I THIS TIME? (John Cale) [Cinematheque: Aero]


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Christmas Village free shopping event set for Sunday at Brookville Lanes
BROOKVILLE — The second annual Christmas Village free shopping event will return to Brookville on Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Brookville Lanes bowling alley, and opportunities to donate and volunteer are still available for the remainder of the weekend.
The event first appeared in Brookville last year, the brainchild of Brookville Lanes owner Mike Dusch and several other individuals with whom he attended church. The decision was made to hold it at Brookville Lanes because "we have the room," Dusch said.
The goal of Christmas Village is to serve as a free Christmas shopping event for area families who are in need. It provides a variety of gift items — arranged in the midst of the decorated village setting constructed inside the facility — all of which are free of charge to the families attending.
The gifts are distributed based on the size of the families. Those in attendance will be able to describe the number of people for whom they need gifts.
They then will be given a sheet outlining what they are able to get and how much. The gift items are both purchased and donated, depending on the resources at hand.
"We get a lot of donations from the community here," Dusch said. Members of the community have frequently donated both money and gifts, including toys, hats and household items.
Dusch said that he challenges his league bowlers to participate, and that they bring a lot of resources to bear but added that members of the community also have donated much of the money and gifts.
Christmas 2011 was the first time the Christmas Village at Brookville Lanes visited the local community. Dusch said that the response to the first-ever Christmas Village was very positive.
"Last year was tremendous," he said.
Dusch said that more than 600 individuals came through the doors to check out what the village had to offer, along with a few hundred children.
The volunteers do their best to tend to children and families while everyone else is shopping, providing such activities as free bowling, free gift wrapping, food and snacks, haircuts for the kids, fingernail painting, story time and others, many of which will be offered again this year to keep the young ones occupied while their parents shop for gifts.
There will be volunteers on hand to tend to the children and help guide them through the available activities while their parents browse the selection.
There also will be some new activities.
Dusch said that a local 4-H group would be in attendance to do some crafts with the kids as a community service project.
In addition, the first 20 families who show up will receive a free ham dinner that they can take home with them.
From last year, Dusch said that monetary donations to the Christmas Village free shopping event have grown.
"We're getting the money collections more, and we're able to go out and buy more stuff," he said.
For anyone who is interested in making a donation, the Christmas Village is looking for new and gently used items for men, women and children. It is asked that you do not submit clothing items except for coats, hats, gloves and boots.
There is still time to donate this weekend, as items will be accepted from 5 to 9 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday; and all morning up until the start of the event on Sunday.
There are still volunteer opportunities as well.
Dusch said that there are several community churches involved this year,
sponsoring the event and providing volunteers.
However, the local churches are not the only parties involved, and anyone interested in volunteering is welcome.
"People from the community are helping, too, not necessarily with the church," Dusch said.
Anyone who is interested in volunteering can either call the Brookville Lanes or simply show up in person and express interest in helping out.
Dusch added that this year's Christmas Village free shopping event, the second one in Brookville, is unlikely to be the last.
"We'll keep doing it until we see that it isn't going to do anything," Dusch said.
For more information, contact Mike Dusch at 849-5050.


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Every Sunday, after the Spanish Mass, there is always a line of men waiting patiently for me as I bid farewell to my parishioners. They wait in the back of church near a table where I keep a reserve of holy cards of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe). Each man approaches me very humbly and says, "Padre, quiero hacer unjuramento." (Father, I want to make an oath.)1 The oath that they are referring to is known in Spanish as "un juramento," a special promise to stop drinking, smoking and/or taking drugs.
At first, I give each man a holy card with the picture of La Guadalupe on it. Then, I take each one separately and question them as I fill out the back of the card: a prayer with blanks to fill in. The prayer reads:
Señor, tú sabes que te amo y que me arrepiento profundamente de Cómo he desperdiciado mi vida en el vicio y cómo he hecho sufrir a la gente que amo. Por eso, Señor, al darme cuenta del gran error que cometo, delante de ti y de la Santísima Virgen María de Guadalupe,
Yo, ________ _________, PROMETO dejar de ingerir bebidas alcohólicas; drogarme o fumar durante el tiempo de ________. Esta promesa la hago para empezar a vivir como tú quieres y reconquistar el cariño de los que amo.
A ______ de ________ de _______
Lord, you know that I love you and I profoundly repent for having wasted my life in vices and also how I have made people that I love suffer. So, Lord, upon realizing the great error that I have committed, before you and the Very Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe I, ______ ______, PROMISE to stop drinking alcoholic beverages, taking drugs and smoking during the time of __________. I make this promise in order to begin to live as you want me to and to regain the affection of those whom I love.
On ______ of the month of __________in the year _________
After writing their names in the blanks, I ask them for how long they wish to honor this promise. They answer me with various time spans. After filling in the amount of time they wish to keep the promise, I write in the date when they took the oath. The final step is that they sign the holy card, an act that makes the promise official for them. Only men have come forward to make this promise. However, at times wives, girlfriends and mothers have accompanied the men as a sign of support. To my knowledge and according to my experience, no woman has ever taken the promise.
The length of time they choose to honor the oath is a personal decision based on how long they believe that they can resist temptation. For example, there is a young man who comes to see me every three months to renew his oath. He claims that it is easier for him to make this promise for three months rather than for a longer period of time. When the time period ends, many renew their promise.
After the cards have been signed, I walk over with the group of men to the shrine of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, and together they read aloud the prayer on the back of the holy cards. Afterwards, I say a special prayer asking for the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe to give them strength and stamina in their struggles against vices. Then, together we pray an "Ave Maria" ("Hail Mary") asking for her help. Then a blessing is given, and I wish them good luck with their newfound life.
The men are very serious about this promise. Often in confession they will ask for forgiveness for having broken this covenant. For them it is a serious sin. As seen, the role of the priest in the Spanish community is unique. He is asked to help in a very official and personal way with those who have serious problems with addictions. Along with doctors and groups like Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous, a priest is looked upon as being a trusted ally, an important member of a team that helps these men live healthy and holy lives.
It is obvious that their struggles against addiction include a strong religious component. Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous have a very strong, largely ecumenical base, behind them. However, a "Higher Power," as in the Twelve Step Program, is not as explicit as "Nuestro Señor" (Jesus) and "La Virgen de Guadalupe." This help from Jesus and Mary is a unique part of the Hispanic experience in America.
Acculturation is the process by which people adapt to beliefs, values and lifestyle of a new culture. Latinos have tried to acculturate themselves into American society in many different ways. The results have been both positive and negative. It has been found that an important factor in predicting drinking patterns and the taking of drugs in the Spanish immigrant community is the level of acculturation of a person. Living and working in the United States, raising families, having documents and speaking English all contribute to adapting to a new country. However, these ways to acculturation are often difficult and stressful. Due to these pressures, many men turn to drugs and alcohol.
In traditional Latino culture, women do not drink alcohol outside of small family gatherings or other private settings. So, it is difficult to find statistics about Hispanic women and their consumption of alcohol. As for Hispanic men, according to present day statistics, 33 percent of Hispanics will have persistent problems with drinking as compared to only 22.8 percent of non-Hispanic whites.1 In a recent government survey, Hispanic men are the largest ethnic group that consumes the most alcohol in the United States.2 Even though many Latino men have serious problems with alcohol, they are less likely than others to join Alcoholics Anonymous, even though AA groups are free of charge and conducted in Spanish.
The second most important struggle for Hispanics is the problem of drug addiction. Rates for drug addiction are higher than with other groups due to poverty, no insurance, little education, and limited knowledge of English. The stigma for being addicted to drugs is very humiliating for Hispanics, and therefore it makes it harder to address these problems and get help. According to recent studies, illicit drugs are consumed by 13 percent of Latinos in the United States.3 Hispanics numbered about 50.5 million in the 2010 U.S. Census.4
As for tobacco smoking, Hispanic smokers make up 25 percent of all adult smokers in the United States.5 These smokers are overwhelmingly male. Private studies have found that tobacco control programs are few, and are not directed toward Hispanics.
In the United States, the Hispanic population includes a mosaic of cultures. This diversity extends to nationality, traditions, lifestyle and economic status. However, in the Hispanic community there are some similarities, especially related to language and religion. Spanish is the language of communication for many, and most immigrants are Roman Catholic.
For Hispanics, La Virgen de Guadalupe is an important symbol. She is the key component of the immigrants' human and Catholic existence. For Mexicans and Mexican Americans, La Guadalupe is the representation of Christ's life and death as applied to the immigrant reality in the United States. However, La Guadalupe is not only Mexican; in 1999, John Paul II in his visit to Mexico declared her the "Patroness of One America." For the immigrants in the United States, La Virgen de Guadalupe is the living and loving mother of all her orphan children spread throughout the Americas.
La Virgen is also honored in a Christological way as she carries within her womb a new source and center of a new humanity, a mestizo humanity. Virgilio Elizondo explains how Jesus makes us whole again: "In resurrecting Him, God rejects the notion of the rejection of humanity. . . It is from the Resurrection that the entire way of Jesus and every aspect of His life takes on a liberating and salvific signification."6 Therefore, Jesus, through Mary, helps these men free themselves from the slavery of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes as they take on a new life in a new land. Elizondo writes that the history of the Church, and especially of La Guadalupe, is not merely a record of the past but "the life source of the present and the hidden energy of the new future." For them, La Guadalupe is the bridge to a wholesome, healthy and holy life.
Addiction to alcohol, tobacco and drugs is a growing problem in the Hispanic community. Help for those stigmatized by drinking, smoking and taking drugs comes from the Catholic Church not only in programs and rehabilitation centers, but also through prayer and love of Mary and Jesus. Religious sisters and priests, trusted by Hispanics, run such programs and offer assistance to those addicted.
Since there is such great respect for the priesthood in this community, these men freely and easily approach priests to ask for help for their addiction. It is our duty as Catholics, but especially as priests, to assist them in body and soul. El juramento is one important and effective way to help Hispanics in the United States who are affected and enslaved by alcohol, tobacco and drugs. This promise leads them to a new life, a whole one that points to an original, holy and healthy mestizaje (integrating) of La Guadalupe into the immigrant experience.
1. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, "Alcohol and the Hispanic Community," National Institute of Health, http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/HispanicFact/Hispanic Fact.htm
2. Addiction Treatment, "Latino and Hispanic Addiction Treatment in the United States,http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/drugandalcohol treatment population.htm.
3. Carmelo Colon, "Substance Abuse in Latinos," Microsoft PowerPoint by Clínica Latina UBHC-UMDNJ, Nov. 12, 2007.
4. United States Department of Commerce, "Profile America Facts for Features," United States Census, http://www.census.gov , Aug. 26, 2011.
5. "Tobacco and Latinos,"https://southdataquitlogic.org, (accessed June 13, 2012).
6. Virgilio Elizondo, "Mestizaje as a Locus of Theological Reflection," in Beyond Borders: Writings of Virgilio Elizondo and Friends, ed. Timothy Matovina (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2000), p. 170.
FATHER PULEO is pastor of of St. Patrick Church in Norristown, Pa., and is adjunct professor of Spanish at St. Charles Borromeo University, Philadelphia, and adjunct professor of theology and English at LaSalle University.
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Methodist South Hospital will host a lunch and learn titled "Breast cancer awareness: prevention, symptoms and treatment options" Tuesday, Oct. 15, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in meeting rooms A and B of the hospital, 1300 Wesley Drive. Cost is free. RSVP to 888-777-5959.
Memphis Rotary Club will meet Tuesday, Oct. 15, at noon at the University Club of Memphis, 1346 Central Ave. Hernando District Attorney James Champion will discuss new gun laws in Mississippi. Cost for nonmembers is $18. RSVP to Taylor Hughes at email@example.com.
Cannon Wright Blount will hold a QuickBooks seminar Wednesday, Oct. 16, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at its office, 756 Ridge Lake Blvd. The session will cover setting up payroll items and employees, time tracking, and paying employees and tax liabilities. Cost is $75. Visit cannonwrightblount.com/resources to register.
The Memphis chapter of the Public Relations Society of America will hold two media training seminars Wednesday, Oct. 16, from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at The University Club of Memphis, 1346 Central Ave. The event is geared toward anyone who may serve as a spokesperson with television media. Register for one or both sessions at prsamemphis.org.
The Center City Development Corp. board will meet Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 9 a.m. in the Downtown Memphis Commission conference room, 114 N. Main St. Visit downtownmemphiscommission.com.
Sales and Marketing Society of the Mid-South will meet Wednesday, Oct. 16, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Racquet Club of Memphis, 5111 Sanderlin Ave. Sam Goff, who hosts the radio show "House Calls-All Things About Mortgages" will present "Separation in a Crowded Field: How Do You Stand Out?" Cost for nonmembers is $20 in advance or $30 at the door. Visit sms-midsouth.org.
The Project Management Institute Memphis chapter will meet Wednesday, Oct. 16, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Collierville Learning Center, 920 W. Poplar Ave. Scott Barnes will present an Agile overview. Cost is $50. Register at pmimemphis.org.
The University of Tennessee-Martin will present a "Retirement Your Way" financial literacy and retirement planning class Thursday, Oct. 17, and Oct. 24 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Germantown Great Hall and Conference Center, 1900 S. Germantown Parkway. Cost is $59 per couple or individual, and includes both sessions. RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com or 202-3909.


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BURNEY, Calif. (AP) — Two wildfires that burned or threatened hundreds of homes in Northern California were menacing a small town as they plowed through more than 100 square miles of drought-stricken brush, and Tuesday brought a chance of thunderstorms and lightning that could spark new blazes, officials said.
The Eiler Fire that destroyed eight homes in recent days continued to threaten around 700, and some evacuations remained in force around the town of Burney in Shasta County.
The town of about 3,000 was watching and waiting as ash rained down and smoke rose only about 4 miles away. Residents were advised that they should be prepared if they have to flee the blaze, which was only 10 percent contained late Monday night.
Nate Helle, manager of the Alpine Drive Inn in Burney, was still serving meals to customers late Monday morning, including hungry firefighters.
The presence of more than 1,000 firefighters, some from as far away as Montana, helped ease residents' anxiety, he told the Redding Record Searchlight.
"They are not in such a panic," he said.
A day earlier, the fires prompted officials at Mayer Memorial Hospital to evacuate their 49-bed annex for patients with dementia and other conditions requiring skilled nursing. The patients were transferred to a hospital in Redding, about 55 miles away.
The Eiler and the Bald Fire, which was only 20 percent corralled, began within a day of each other in Lassen National Forest and expanded ferociously through drought-killed or weakened trees and brush.
Both were sparked by lightning. Firefighters were helped by slightly cooler, more humid weather but it came at a cost — an increasing chance of thunderstorms that could bring erratic winds and lightning, fire forecasts said.
The summer wildfires weren't entirely unexpected. Fire officials had been warning of dangerous conditions because of the drought.
"We have just been on edge all year," Kathy Scott of nearby Fall River Mills told the Record Searchlight. "We've been thinking about this and thinking about this."
But the speed and fury of the Eiler fire was disconcerting and terrifying, some refugees said Monday at a shelter set up at a local school.
"It has a mind of its own; it's not following protocol," said Dennis Hoffman, who left the community of Cassel last week as flames roared through forests on either side of his home.
"Trees were just exploding," he said. "It was like a big monster — just unbelievable, how bad it was."
The two wildfires were among about a dozen that had burned some 209 square miles across the state and that more than 7,500 federal and state firefighters battled, state fire spokeswoman Capt. Amy Head said. Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency on Saturday, saying the circumstances and magnitude of the wildfires were beyond the control of any single local government and required the combined forces of regions to combat.
California is 35 percent above average in the number of fires it's seen so far this year, state fire spokesman Dennis Mathisen said Sunday. The state is also 44 percent above average in the amount of land burned.
Meanwhile, a major wildfire in the Siskiyou Mountains along the Oregon-California border slowed as temperatures cooled, but it still jeopardized 270 residences after burning six scattered rural homes.
Firefighters on Monday got a handle on the blaze 15 miles east of Ashland that scorched 72 square miles — 57 of them in Oregon and the rest in California. Some evacuation warnings remained in force.
Overall, nine large fires were burning across 118 square miles of forest and rangeland in Oregon, most of them east of the Cascade Range. Three of them were nearly fully contained.
In Washington state, a wind-whipped blaze destroyed about a dozen structures and prompted an evacuation notice for about 80 homes in Kittitas County. Other residents have been told to be ready to leave, said Jill Beedle, a spokeswoman for the Kittitas County Emergency Operations Center.
It's unknown if the structures that burned were full-time residences, summer cabins or outbuildings.


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Tom Wilhelmsen walked the first three batters he faced, and Seattle manager Eric Wedge didn't budge.
He's the closer, and this was his game to lose. The right-hander took the defeat hard.
Ryan Doumit's two-run triple off Wilhelmsen with one out in the ninth inning sent the Minnesota Twins to a 5-4 victory over the Mariners on Saturday afternoon.
``Leadoff walks will get you every time. Then you walk the next two guys, you're looking for trouble,' said Wilhelmsen, whose ERA jumped from 0.75 to 1.85.
This was the third blown save of the season for Wilhelmsen (0-1), all in his last four tries. He pitched a perfect ninth for the save Friday night, but this was far from it after he inherited a 4-2 lead. Josh Willingham hit a sacrifice fly, and Doumit drove in two more for the walk-off win.
``Letting your team down, there's nothing else like it,' Wilhelmsen said in an obscenity-laced description of his feelings.
Wilhelmsen also issued two walks in a squandered save at San Diego on Wednesday. This one wiped out two homers by Jason Bay and an effective start by Aaron Harang. After such a dominant start to the season, Wilhelmsen has hit a snag. Of his first 22 appearances before this, 19 were scoreless. He has given up only 10 hits in 24 1-3 innings, but his walk total rose to 11.
``He's going to have to get out there and just put these things behind him,' Wedge said. ``Take whatever he can from it in regards to learning from it. I've been through this before with closers and you're going to have some tough spots through the course of a season.'
Doumit was waiting for the two-strike fastball left over the middle of the plate.
``Wilhelmsen's one of the best,' Doumit said. ``He came in and kind of shoved it yesterday. You could tell after the first two hitters that he faced today, he wasn't sharp. So then we have the middle of the order up there, 2-3-4. We're looking to get something to drive and we got it.'
Rookie Caleb Thielbar (1-0) picked up his first major league victory with a scoreless ninth inning. Kevin Correia pitched into the seventh inning for the Twins but gave up three home runs for the second straight start.
Four of Bay's eight home runs, all of them with no one on base, have been in his last five games. Kyle Seager also homered and scored after a single in the seventh.
Correia recorded two quick outs in the seventh before Bay drove a 2-1 breaking ball into the left-field seats. With Brian Duensing in the game, Raul Ibanez's single stretched the lead to 4-2.
In his first season with the Mariners after injuries limited him to a career-low 70 games and a .165 batting average in 2012, Bay has sure rediscovered his power stroke this week. He hit 32 or more homers in three of five years from 2005-09 but went deep only 26 times for the Mets over the last three miserable seasons.
Bay and Seager, who is 7 for 20 in his last five games, hit back-to-back shots against Correia in their first inning of the new month. In May, the Mariners homered 36 times, their most in any month since hitting 39 in June 2006.
``Just taking advantage of playing time and just keep swinging,' Bay said.
Harang, who spun a four-hit shutout of San Diego on Monday, allowed only four hits and two runs while striking out four over six innings. One of the runs was unearned.
With runners at the corners, the right-hander fielded a comebacker and had Chris Parmelee caught between third and home. But Harang failed to set his feet and sent a soft throw sailing over catcher Kelly Shoppach's head for an error and an easy run for the Twins.
NOTES: The Mariners have brought up RHP Jeremy Bonderman to start Sunday's game, which will mark the 30-year-old's first major league appearance since 2010. He was signed to a minor-league contract before the season. Bonderman's career with Detroit was waylaid by shoulder problems. Then he had Tommy John reconstructive elbow surgery last year. ... LHP Scott Diamond (3-4, 5.22), who is winless in his last four starts, will take his turn for the Twins. ... The Mariners will have to make a roster move to clear room for Bonderman. ... The Mariners left 1B Justin Smoak (right oblique) and RF Michael Morse (right quadriceps) on the bench again. Smoak has one pinch-hit at-bat in the last seven games. Morse has missed four straight games. Wedge said he hoped to play Smoak on Sunday, but Morse won't be ready.


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Feb. 5, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Ross Morin, who leads Yale in scoring (13.1 ppg.), has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District I first team. Morin, a political science major, has started all 18 games for the Bulldogs. He is eighth in the Ivy League in scoring, seventh in field goal percentage (.502) and fifth in rebounding (6.1 rpg.).
In Yale's 57-55 victory over Brown on Jan. 23, Morin scored 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, his third double-double of the season. He also had 20 points in games with Alabama and Sacred Heart.
Off the court, Morin is a "Big Sib" for Ezra Stiles College at Yale and has been a Yale Youth Day volunteer.
Morin is now a candidate for national Academic All-America honors, which is scheduled to be announced on Feb. 25.
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With a stay at Hilton Long Beach Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Long Beach, steps from One World Trade Center and minutes from California State University-Office of the Chancellor.
This hotel is within close proximity of Aquarium of the Pacific and Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center.
Make yourself at home in one of the 398 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and MP3 docking stations. LCD televisions with satellite programming provide entertainment, while wireless Internet access (surcharge) keeps you connected. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature deep soaking bathtubs and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Take advantage of recreational opportunities offered, including an outdoor pool, a spa tub, and a fitness center. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and a television in a common area. Guests can get around on the complimentary shuttle, which operates within 1 mi.
Satisfy your appetite at the hotel's restaurant, which serves lunch and dinner, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Breakfast is available for a fee.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, express check-in, and express check-out. A cruise ship terminal shuttle is provided at no charge, and self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
Languages Spoken
- English
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Hilton Long Beach & Executive Meeting Center is connected to the World Trade Center, five blocks from the Long Beach Convention Center, and eight blocks from shops and dining at Long Beach Promenade. WiFi access (surcharge) is available in the hotel's public areas. This Long Beach hotel offers an outdoor pool and spa tub, as well as a fitness center. A free shuttle is also available to the cruise terminal.
The Hilton Long Beach & Executive Meeting Center is entirely non-smoking.
- Free cruise terminal shuttle
- Express check-in
- Bar/lounge
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Express check-out
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Outdoor pool
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free area shuttle
- Luggage storage
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- ATM/banking
- 24-hour business center
- Concierge services
- Laundry facilities
- Spa tub
- Total number of rooms - 398
- Television in common areas
- One meeting room
- Number of floors - 15
- Multilingual staff
- Free newspapers in lobby
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
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Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Languages Spoken
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Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
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- Video-game console
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free weekday newspaper
- Air conditioning
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- Phone
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- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Desk
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- MP3 docking station
- In-room safe
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Satellite TV service
- WiFi (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Ascari - Casual restaurant upstairs from the lobby serving à la carte and buffet breakfast as well as lunch and dinner daily.
Lobby Bar - Offers drinks and bar food nightly.
Room service is available during limited hours.
Nearby Things to Do
The large rooftop sundeck includes a half-moon-shaped pool, a spa tub, and lounge chairs.
A playground is next door, and a health club across the street offers aerobic and yoga classes. Motor boating, parasailing, fishing, sailing, kayaking, and the launch docks for whale watching, scuba diving, and trips to Catalina Island are all within one mile. A company that rents bicycles is four blocks from the hotel, and one that rents Segways and offers Segway tours is eight blocks away.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golfing nearby
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- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
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- Breakfast fee: USD 19 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 9.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: USD 22.00 per night
- Valet parking fee: USD 28.00 per night
- Pet fee: USD 75 per stay
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Submission + - Microsoft stealthily pilots Mac Office and Office 365 accredidation program (infoworld.com)
tsamsoniw writes: "Microsoft has launched a pilot program to train and accredit Apple techs and consultants on Office for Mac and Office 365, but you wouldn't know it from perusing the Microsoft website or even reaching out to the company's public relations team. The Microsoft Office for Mac Accredited Support Professional accreditation is real, though it's currently being pushed only by MacTech, an Apple technology journal that's hosting the program at various events this year. It points to growing acceptance and usage of Mac products in the business world."


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[D]idn't Obama change [the way with think about race]? And isn't it so that people who don't like him don't like him because of race? [Mikal] Gilmore takes five different swings at getting Dylan to agree. Some of Dylan's responses: "They did the same thing to Bush, didn't they? They did the same thing to Clinton, too, and Jimmy Carter before that....Eisenhower was accused of being un-American. And wasn't Nixon a socialist? Look what he did in China. They'll say bad things about the next guy too." On Gilmore's fourth attempt, Dylan just resorts to: "Do you want me to repeat what I just said, word for word? What are you talking about? People loved the guy when he was elected. So what are we talking about? People changing their minds?"...That comes pretty close to saying he's disappointed. And he's already said — in so many words — these politicians are all alike. But he catches himself and adds:
[W]hat does Dylan think of Obama? Dylan first deflects with: "You should be asking his wife what she thinks of him."... Then: "He loves music. He's personable. He dresses good. What the fuck do you want me to say?"
... Gilmore follows that up with: "Would you like to see him re-elected?" Bob: I've lived through a lot of presidents. You have too! Some are re-elected and some aren't. Being re-elected isn't the mark of a great president."
... Dylan, on the night of Obama's inauguration, was performing and said from stage: "It looks like things are gonna change now." Remember that, Bob?...
... "Did I go down to the middle of town and give a speech?....I don't know what I could have meant by that. You say things sometimes, you don't know what the hell you mean.... I'm not going to deny what I said, but I would have hoped that things would've changed."
"I certainly hope they have."Now, he's speaking in the present test and not the convoluted conditional of I would have hoped that things would've changed. But it's the present-tense of his own mind, a retreat from the political sphere. Gilmore finally gets a clue, which he expresses, sounding like someone who's spent a lot of time in the realm of cluelessness:
"I get the impression...that you're reluctant to say much about the president or how he's been criticized."