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Design prize for first headphones with Tesla technology
Heilbronn, March 2010: With their outstanding and innovative design, the T1 premium headphones by the Heilbronn-based audio specialists beyerdynamic impressed in one of the most renowned design competitions in the world. Within the scope of the "red dot award: product design 2010", a top-class jury of experts awarded the T1 headphones with the "red dot" quality seal for their excellent design quality. The prize-giving ceremony will take place before more than 1,00 guests on 5 July 2010 at the Essen Opera House. The T1 headphones will then be displayed in a four-week special exhibition at the red dot design museum in the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen.
With its T 1 high-end headphones, beyerdynamic succeeded at the end of last year in achieving what many considered to be impossible: a quantum leap in terms of sound quality and audiophile sound processing. The headphones specialist from Heilbronn used Tesla technology for the first time in the T1 headphones. Scientists define tesla as the unit of magnetic induction or magnetic flux density in the metre-kilogram-second system (SI) of physical units and it was not until 1960 that it was named after the brilliant inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla (1863-1943). The completely redesigned transducers, which are being premiered in the T1 top model, achieve extremely high drive power of over one Tesla. That is roughly double the strength of normal headphone driver systems. The result: The membrane coil can be designed to be extremely filigreed and nevertheless achieve a high degree of efficiency. That allows the T1 to reproduce each nuance with extreme precision, with a sound that is absolutely transparent, spatial and distortion-free.
As the flagship of the beyerdynamic premium line programme, each headphone is finished individually by hand in Heilbronn. Once the sound of the T1 had already enraptured fans into euphoria, the timeless elegant design also led to the red dot award.
"All products given the red dot design award had to impress an international jury of experts. These products are silhouetted against the mass by their excellent design and innovative approach and were able to prove their quality in one of the toughest design competitions in the world," said design expert Professor Peter Zec, initiator of the red dot design award. This year, designers and companies from 57 countries with 4,252 products took part in the red dot design award: product design.
Together with the other prize-winning products, the T1 will be displayed in Essen from 6 July to 1 August 2010 in the exhibition "Design on stage – winners red dot award: product design 2010" at the red dot design museum in the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex world heritage site in Essen. The headphone will then be presented for at least one year in the permanent exhibition of the red dot design museum. The red dot design museum houses the larges permanent exhibition of contemporary design in the world with around 1,500 products on over 4,000 square meters.
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Pig and Khao gives grown-ups a reason to brave the Loisaida boozing ground. "Top Chef" star Leah Cohen's rough-edged new Southeast Asian spot isn't pretty, but it's adorable. The vibe's warm and the menu scorching. Who cares if it's as much a product of her imagination as an exacting replica of Filipino and Thai cuisines?
"Khao" is Thai for rice. There's plenty of it and of pork, but the menu roams far beyond both. A month since the opening, Cohen has joined the ranks of such persuasive Asian-fantasy weavers as David Chang, Dale Talde and Zak Pelaccio. Her style's different from their Korean, Malaysian and Filipino "interpretations," but shares their restless spirit.
She's partners with Fatty Crew Hospitality Group, an offshoot of the Fatty Crab/Fatty 'Cue mini-empire co-founded by Pelaccio. He's not involved at Pig and Khao, but the tight, narrow dining room has the Fatty feel — white brick walls, vertical wooden wall slats, tile floor and green trim that flickers to the whim of up-and-down lighting. A shiny copper ceiling looks a lot fresher than the building's 100 years.
Steam and sensuous aromas pour from the open kitchen where a straw-hatted Cohen presides serenely over a team slaving like stevedores. Sit at the counter and watch them sweat. Or sit in a rear "garden" and freeze: There's neither roof nor heater.
There's fire to spare on the menu. Expect less of the sweet and sour, salty and bitter balance for which Thai and Filipino cuisines are known; Cohen aims for impact, not subtlety. Her best work is in "small plates" that are anything but small and mostly under $15.
Several reflect tradition. Crispy red-curry rice salad sizzled throughout crunch-on-crunch strata: finely minced pork, crisp garlic, peanuts and, of course, rice — spiced, rolled, flattened and deep-fried to a satisfying toothsomeness. It would be an exercise in sheer throat-scorching if myriad distinct notes — ginger, mint and cilantro, to name a few — didn't flare like shooting stars through the blaze.
Khao soi is based on a northern Thai classic, but try finding one like this anywhere else in Manhattan. Smooth, coconut-y red curry unifies a fantasia of egg noodles boiled and fried, chicken seasoned with fish sauce, pickled mustard greens, cilantro and onions — think of an all-you-can-eat stroll down Canal Street.
Part of the fun at a place like this is to judge how seamlessly (or not) the chef's inventions fit with the classics. Cohen brazenly introduces pork jowl to fiery watermelon and kaffir lime cooked sous vide-style for 24 hours. Maybe that's more common in Manhattan than in Manila. But so what if the result tastes strangely at home amid traditional dishes?
Fermented branzino, a crisp-skinned filet embraced in multidimensional coconut sauce full of minced prawns, costs a puny $14. If they have fried oysters, you'll want two orders for four people. The Blue Points are small but impossibly tender and battered to an irresistible moonscape crackle. Sparks fly from garlic, ginger, chilies and lime- juice dipping sauce.
Larger plates were a relative letdown. Crispy pata (pork leg) emerged leathery from the fryer. So did oven-roasted and grilled curry lamb ribs one night after they'd been perfect the time before.
Desserts are limited to the shaved-ice folly halo halo — full of purple yam ice cream — and middling banana fritters.
There are clever wine-based "cocktails" and short lists of beer (not bad) and wine (poor). There's no hard liquor, but Cohen's way with a burn gives you all the buzz you'll need.

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CLEVELAND – The Georgia College athletic department was recently honored by placing 14 student-athletes on the list of 2010-11 DII Athletic Directors Association (ADA) Academic Achievement Award recipients.
GC women's soccer had the most on the list with five, as seniors Mary Rob Plunkett (Augusta, Ga.), Jessica Newland (Hiram, Ga.), Kelli McLane (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Ally Treat (Fayetteville, Ga.) and Jessica Binkowski (Cumming, Ga.) each took spots.
Women's cross country was represented by Dani Destiche (Snellville, Ga.) and Victoria Dobson (New Hamburg, Ontario), while the men's harriers put Dan Horseman (Cohutta, Ga.) on the list.
The tennis squads each had two honorees, with Robert Angelucci (Acworth, Ga.) and Jerome Leborgne (Courdimanche, France) joining Michelle Lingner (Dunwoody, Ga.) and Kim Lochner (Neu-Isenburg, Germany).
Softball senior Bailey Thompson (Vidalia, Ga.) and golf senior Matthew Yonz (Waycross, Ga.) also earned spots on the squad.
In order for a student-athlete to receive an Academic Achievement Award, he or she must: have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale, have attended a minimum of two years (four semesters) of college level work and have been an active member of an intercollegiate team during his/her last academic year.
The Academic Achievement Awards is a program that recognizes the academic accomplishments of student-athletes at the Division II level. Ninety-eight institutions sent in nominees for the 2010-11 Academic Achievement Awards, while a total of 3,676 student-athletes are being recognized this year. Just five Peach Belt Conference (PBC) schools had student-athletes on the list.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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River Tame (Greater Manchester)
The River Tame (Greater Manchester), not to be confused with its namesake in the West Midlands, rises on Denshaw Moor. Its catchment lies mainly on the western flank of the Pennines. The named river starts as compensation flow from Readycon Dean Reservoir in the moors above Denshaw. The source is a little further north, just over the county border in West Yorkshire, close to the Pennine Way. The highest point of the catchment is Greater Manchester's highest point at Black Chew Head.
The river flows generally south through Delph, Uppermill, Mossley, Stalybridge, Ashton-under-Lyne, Dukinfield, Haughton Green, Denton and Hyde. After Mossley the river marks much of the historical boundary dividing Cheshire and Lancashire, before its confluence with the River Goyt to form the River Mersey at Stockport.
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- Cost is $300 – $650 depending on body care (home burial vs. cremation)
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- $300 – $350 includes mobile vet drive time, house call time, sedation, home euthanasia (You may prefer to keep your pet's body at your home for burial in your yard. You may prefer to handle pet cremation arrangements yourself.)
- $400-$450 includes mobile vet drive time, house call time, sedation, home euthanasia, pet body transport, group cremation, nothing saved, nothing returned (You may prefer to have the mobile vet take your pet's body and save precious photos instead of ashes.)
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- Please set aside a box of Kleenex for tears, a food distraction for dogs (ice cream, chicken, ham, cheese, peanut butter), two large bath towels that can get peed on and a very large blanket or bed sheet that the vet can keep. Please arrange for 1-2 family members or friends or neighbors to help lift the dog stretcher out to the padded bed in the vet's vehicle.
- Signature and payment are handled first. Cash or check (made out to the mobile vet's name) are preferred. Credit card available with free processing.
- The goodbye setting can involve friends, family, neighbors, Skype, FaceTime, other pets, candles, quiet music, dim lighting, flowers, photos, telling stories, sharing fond memories, kleenex and towels/soft blankets/pillows. Most home visits take place inside the home on the floor, couch, or bed or in the yard on blankets. Meeting at a beach or park is an option.
- The most painLESS euthanasia method requires sedation first using the smallest needle possible in the most comfortable under the skin location. Don't ever let your pet be catheterized or euthanized without sedation first. Sedation completely eliminates and avoids a painful vein failure nightmare.
- The euthanasia process works as a massive anesthesia overdose and is started with a sedative injection. Most pets hold still for this administration, some squirm a little, some vocalize from the pressure of liquid going under the skin. A food distraction can work very well here for some dogs (ice cream, chicken, ham, cheese, peanut butter) and even cats (milk, tuna). If you are worried about your pet's sensitive personality, chronic pain overload or unstable failing medical condition, the vet can discuss that with you.
- Once your pet is unconscious and under anesthesia, then a back leg vein is used for the final overdose. Accomplishing unconscious anesthesia first guarantees that your pet will not feel or experience or know about any painful vein issue. Please be aware that open eyes and quicker breathing are normal to see at death.
- Please request a clay paw print and/or fur clipping if desired. Those keepsakes are free and optional.
- You can keep your pet's body at home with you or the vet can take the body and arrange for cremation service. The vet's vehicle has a large padded bed in the back and comes equipped with a stretcher. Please arrange for 2 – 4 family members or friends or neighbors to help lift the stretcher. There are two options for cremation: group/no ashes saved OR private/yes ashes saved/returned to you via personal delivery or shipping. Return usually takes 1-2 weeks. Rush cremation/return can be arranged. You can also attend/view the cremation.
- There are issues to be aware of that are out of our control when it comes to working with elderly animals that are riddled with failing body parts. Cats are often more difficult to work with by nature than dogs. When it comes to the sedative injection, many cats are reactive and not the most cooperative by nature. Using the smallest needle possible in the most comfortable under the skin location is very helpful but not a guarantee that the sedation injection with go perfectly smoothly. Because every pet we are working with is overwhelmed with old age deterioration, debilitation, failure, and often cancer, it's not uncommon to see some more dramatic body reactions while the failing body attempts to process the sedative drugs. For example, a seizure can occur when cancer has spread to the brain, muscle tensing or tremors or twitching can occur when blood salt levels are unbalanced, and quicker breathing or vomiting can occur as well. The vet's explanations during the home visit will help prepare you for what is going to happen. It's very important that we manage your expectations of what is medically realistic when working with a failing pet's painful and debilitated body. Keep in mind, we are doing everything medically available to minimize pain and maximize peace by sedating first using the smallest needle possible in the most comfortable under the skin location. Most euthanasias are relaxed, quiet, peaceful fading. Some involve more dramatic body reactions because the body is in such unstable failure from old age and cancer.


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WILMINGTON � Clyde Ballenger�s Purple Heart is one of the few traces left of his life.
Before the 22-year-old was lost at sea in 1944, his wife, Elizabeth, had the couple�s only child, Linda. She was only a year old when her father died.
Nearly 70 years after Ballenger�s ship sank in the North Atlantic, a Wilmington mom, Sylvia Jabaley, discovered the medal while spring cleaning.
On Aug. 16, Linda Bulla was reunited with her father�s Purple Heart after the iconic medal had been separated from the family for more than 15 years.
Bulla never thought she would see the medal again. As she sat inside the brick house at the corner of Wrightsville Avenue and Audubon Boulevard, Jabaley told her about finding the medal. Her husband, Eric, first discovered it in 1998 while he sifted through items left behind by renters. It had been put away for safekeeping and forgotten until she came across it.
Jabaley, the daughter of a Vietnam War veteran, immediately recognized the medal � awarded to members of the armed forces wounded in action.
�I couldn�t imagine my dad�s medal being in somebody else�s top dresser drawer,� Jabaley said, as Bulla sat at her kitchen table.
Bulla said, �I�m glad he didn�t just throw it away.�
While the two women talked, Bulla clutched the Purple Heart in her hand, the ribbon wedged safely between her fingers. It was home again.
Medal presents mystery
After Jabaley found the medal, she spent hours searching the Internet for some information about Ballenger�s family. She found no confirmed family members, and how the medal ended up in her home was still a mystery.
The medal was featured in a Wilmington Star-News story, �Heart of the Matter,� published on April 23.
Ballenger, a boatswain�s mate second class for the U.S. Coast Guard, was killed on March 9, 1944.
On that night, the USS Leopold was about 400 miles south of Iceland. The Leopold was a destroyer-escort protecting a convoy against German U-boats, or submarines.
On March 9, the ship was rocked by a torpedo as its gunners fired at a U-boat, which was already descending into the waters.
A storm was strengthening. Waves 50 feet high washed over the ship, which rolled over, flinging crew members into the ocean.
A nearby ship reached the wreckage the next morning. Of 199 crew members, there were only 28 men left to save.
Ballenger was among the lost. Nearly 3,000 miles away, his wife, Elizabeth Emily, would soon hear her husband was gone.
After the war
Elizabeth remarried when Linda was 3 years old and raised her daughter in Wilmington. Clyde was the only child of Clyde Austin Ballenger and Nora Prevatte Ballenger, who lived in New Bern.
Bulla was 6 years old when her grandmother, Nora, died. She remembers spending summers with her grandfather, Clyde Austin, in New Bern. He would talk about her father a lot, though she wishes she remembered more.
�I was so young then,� she said.
Her grandfather died when she was 12.
She regrets that she did not ask her mom more questions about her dad. Her mom died of a brain tumor at 49.
�When you�re young, you don�t start thinking about the things you think about when you�re older,� she said.
But she did keep letters her dad wrote her mother during the war. The military used thick black lines to censor some parts of the letters, though.
She figures her mom was working at Saffo�s Restaurant in downtown Wilmington when she met her dad, who came in for food.
They were married sometime after, likely in South Carolina.
Returning the medal
When Bulla was reached in Fayetteville earlier this summer by the Star-News, she said she got goosebumps when she heard about her father�s Purple Heart being found in Wilmington.
Hearing from a stranger about the lost medal reminded her of another experience when she helped return an urn containing a woman�s ashes to her son.
Bulla, who manages rental property in the Fayetteville area, kept the abandoned urn safe in her office after a tenant gave it to her. About a week later, a tornado struck and a painting dropped out of the sky near her office.
When a Raleigh TV station did a story on the mystery painting, Bulla mentioned having the urn. A genealogist who heard the story tracked down the woman�s family and Bulla shipped it to her son.
�That kind of reminds me of this,� Bulla said. �I just thought it was gone.�
Bulla had once lived in the house where the Jabaleys live now. After she moved away, her son David moved in. Eventually, she gave David her father�s Purple Heart.
In 1996, Hurricane Fran damaged a brick apartment in the backyard. She said her son thought everything in the building was destroyed and he lost track of the medal about that time.
�I�m really glad to get it back,� Bulla told Jabaley. �I�m going to keep it now.�
Bulla showed Jabaley a photograph of a young Clyde, wearing a military uniform and a white hat.
�Oh my gosh, he�s so young,� Jabaley said.
Bulla figures he was 19 or 20. In the picture, he has bright eyes and is smiling broadly. It would have been what he looked like when he married Elizabeth.
Although her mom didn�t always talk about becoming widowed so young, she knows it was hard for her.
Even though they lived near the coast, her mom hated to go to the beach. One day she asked her why.
�I sit on that beach and look out across that water and all I can think about is your daddy,� she said.Long-lost military award reunited with daughter of fallen military hero


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Japan lawmaker's sexist taunts spark uproar
TOKYO — At least one lawmaker apparently didn't get the memo about women being crucial to Japan's economic and social rebirth — and it's causing embarrassment for the nation's leader.
Assemblyman Akihiro Suzuki, a member of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was forced to apologize and withdraw from the party this week after taunting and heckling a female member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.
Assemblywoman Ayaka Shiomura, who is single, was attempting to discuss measures for improving childbirth and child care for women in Tokyo earlier this month when several male legislators interrupted her with taunts such as "You should hurry up and get married" and "Can't you even bear a child?" The comments were accompanied by loud laughter from some members.
The incident has been a sore spot for Abe, who has made the removal of workplace obstacles for women a major component of his economic recovery program.
"Enhancing opportunities for women to work and to be active in society is no longer a matter of choice for Japan. It is instead a matter of the greatest urgency," Abe said in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in September.
While Abe has not made any public statements about the incident, LDP secretary general Shigeru Ishiba apologized for Suzuki's remarks on behalf of the party Monday.
Shiomura, 35, a first-term legislator, said she was shocked by the harassment and struggled to finish her remarks.
"The comments were so personal and so insulting and disparaging to women, I had no way to prepare for it. They were completely out of place in a modern society," Shiomura said at the news conference.
The incident went viral after Shiomura tweeted about it. Within days, more than 75,000 people signed an online petition demanding the perpetrators be identified and punished. Suzuki had his office pelted with raw eggs.
After initially denying his involvement, Suzuki, 51, admitted making disparaging comments and met with Shiomura, bowing deeply in apology. Suzuki said he had withdrawn from the LDP but that he would not resign from the Assembly.
Shiomura — one of just 27 female members of the 127-member Assembly — said she wants other legislators who harassed her to also be identified and she is considering whether to pursue formal punishment, including seeking their expulsion or resignation from the Assembly.
"I must admit that it's a very difficult environment for women to work," Shiomura said, speaking about both the Tokyo Assembly and the workplace in Japan at a news conference Tuesday. "Everything is run by the male standard, and naturally that kind of environment causes problems."
Japan has one of the lowest rates of female participation in government and business among developed countries and is struggling with a shrinking workforce and an aging population.
A report issued by Goldman Sachs last month in May found boosting the number of women in the workforce could increase GDP by 12.5%.
Boosting the birthrate — Japan has one of the world's lowest at 1.4% — is also a high priority. At the current rate, Japan's population will shrink by 40% by 2060.
Abe wants to add child care capacity for 400,000 children over the next three years, and he has ordered government ministries to raise the number of female workers and managers to 30% each by 2020, the year Tokyo hosts the Summer Olympics.
Makiko Fukui, who runs a recruiting agency for female managers, says sexism in business and government in Japan has declined dramatically over the last 20 years but has not disappeared.
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'Boynton also thought the Sabres deserved some of the credit for the problems the Bruins had. "They seemed to be everywhere, and they got their sticks on an awful lot of our shots and passes," said Boynton. "A lot of our shots never got to the goalie (Martin Biron). We really didn't play well tonight and they played a good, smart game."'
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Temporary Paywall Removals Only Highlight The Fundamental Paradox Of Paywalls
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While there's room for debate on whether Rupert Murdoch's paywall strategy for the UK Times and Sunday Times has been disastrous or just mediocre, it certainly hasn't been a massive success or reinvented any online news business models. Now we're beginning to see some telling cracks in the facade: the Times paywall recently came down during the Queen's jubilee weekend, and now TNW reports that a similar free-access period is being considered for the 2012 Olympics.
Now, promotional giveaways are hardly a new or crazy idea, and they don't typically say anything bad about a business model—but I don't think that's really what's happening here. Certainly the Times hopes to convert some of those free readers into paid online subscribers, but there's also a clear pattern in the items they choose to make these exceptions for: huge social events that are attended and discussed by lots of people. In other words, precisely the sort of thing where blogs and social media offer the most competition to a newspaper. Why would anybody pay for Olympic reporting when the web is going to be absolutely flooded with constant updates on every little thing that happens, supplied for free by the fans and hangers-on? If the Times content is behind a paywall, it will be all but ignored.
And this really goes to show why, in the long run, paywalls are unsustainable. If the biggest, most popular topics are the hardest to control—and the ones that lose value the most when controlled successfully—while at the same, time social media and citizen reporting output is growing and expanding to new areas constantly, then the inevitable conclusion seems clear: paywalls are, at best, a temporary way of extracting a little bit of cash at the expense of long-term relevance. If your goal is to directly sell news as a product, but you discover that you have to eliminate your prices whenever product demand is highest, something is clearly wrong—you're trying to apply an old model where it doesn't actually fit, and getting kooky results. The solution is not to keep compromising the broken model, but to embrace the underlying realities (infinite content, no barrier to publishing, the huge value of share-ability) that broke it, and build new models around them.
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Weekly meetings are planned for members of the Franklin County Sports Complex Board and Zach Jaggers,
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Wisconsin winger Joseph LaBate isn't a stranger around these parts – the big forward has been profiled numerous times, including last October and again in March.
With five goals and 20 points in 37 games in the WCHA in 2011-12, LaBate had a solid freshman campaign for the Badgers. While Wisconsin is returning most of their forwards from last season, they are losing a key piece on the back end (Justin Schultz, you may have heard of him) and LaBate looks ready to take on an even bigger role with the club as a sophomore. . LaBate is still very young, and already he brings a lot to the table for the Badgers. Expect them to ensure that he is given enough minutes to be a difference maker going forward.
LaBate has the skill set and the frame to develop into a top-six forward at the NHL level. Two things are holding him back at the moment – quickness and strength. LaBate is a great skater once he gets going, but like many young prospects, he needs to improve on his first few steps. He also needs to bulk up a bit, which isn't uncommon when you're a lanky 19 year old. Both issues, thankfully, are quite correctable. What LaBate possesses on the other hand, can't be taught: height (6-4) and hockey sense.
LaBate came to Wisconsin with a strong reputation from his final year of high school hockey.
"LaBate comes… out of Minnesota high school hockey where he was a dominant force for the Academy of Holy Angels, a private school in Richfield, MN. LaBate's senior season got off to a slow start as he was limited in preseason training when he injured his foot. The injury limited his fall season in the prestigious Upper Mid-West High School Elite League to only five games. Despite the injury LaBate, a skilled centerman, had a monster senior year recording 29 goals and 52 points in 26 games for the Stars. His play would earn him team MVP and All-conference honors for a second consecutive season. He was also named All-State and was a top 10 finalist for the Minnesota Mr. Hockey Award."
Even as a 17-year-old, his hockey sense stood out. A rival high school coach on LaBate:
"If you make a mistake in a high school game, usually the kid is not going to score. Every time you made a mistake on LaBate, it ended up in the back of the net. You can't really teach that — he senses the game so well."
As most of you are aware of by now, the Badgers have been developing fantastic prospects in recent years. In addition to Schultz, fellow young blue liners Brendan Smith, Jamie McBain, Ryan McDonagh, and Jake Gardiner all played at Wisconsin. And up front, Derek Stepan, Blake Geoffrion, and Craig Smith (Nashville) count themselves among the ranks of former Wisconsin Badgers. Head coach Mike Eaves simply knows how to develop pro hockey players…
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LaBate made huge strides last season, and most observers seem to think that he'll be a force in the college game in quick order. As an 18-year-old, his numbers are somewhat comparable to some recent NCAA graduates. LaBate is more comparable to Wheeler or Penner than Read, as he is still growing into his frame. LaBate's role was limited on the Badgers for much of last season, though he did occasionally play in the top-six. As mentioned above, he should be counted on to score at least 10 goals and add in 20-25 assists in 2012-13.
Here is a recent interview with LaBate from Canucks prospects camp:
A pre-draft scouting report on LaBate very accurately describes LaBate's game. From friend of CanucksArmy.com, Kirk Luedeke:
"An effective net presence, LaBate uses his size to take away sight lines and has a quick stick. He lacks the strength to be a force right now, but is so much taller than most that he's still tough to move. Generates good power on his shot and it will only get heavier as he continues to add strength to his wiry frame. He does the dirty work in front of the net and in the corners. Like most big guys, he's able to use his big body to shield and protect the puck well, which allows his line to set up an effective cycle. He's gotten good marks for his hockey sense from scouts I've talked to as well."
Vancouver has placed a premium on size with their prospect group recently, and the countdown from here on out is going to reflect that (with one exception). LaBate doesn't necessarily play with a mean streak all the time, but he is adept at using his size to his advantage and he thrives in the dirty areas, where a price must be paid in order to generate offense. The Canucks should be happy with his first season as a Badger, and he looks to be right on track as an NHL prospect.
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The stars of The X Factor, the neighbour's cat, EastEnders and unexpected callers are among the top things which make Scotland's dads grumpy, according to a new survey.
The poll of Scottish fathers, commissioned by Merlin Annual Pass, also found that lights left on in empty rooms, heating on too high, drum and bass music and being treated like a taxi service also featured on the chart of cantankerousness.
Almost 20 per cent of Scottish dads admit they are ALWAYS cranky while another 73 per cent reckon they are becoming more so as they get older.
And it is not the privilege of old men – as dads are at their most grumpy at the age of 40.
Pollyanna Haigh from Merlin Annual Pass, said: "From our experience, Dad's will openly admit they have a reputation for being the grumpy ones of the family, and we wanted to see if this really was the case; and the survey suggests it is!
"As we all know, everyone has grumbles from time to time – perhaps dads are just not as good at hiding their moans as others.
"However, children grow up so fast, so it's important for families to maximise the fun times together before they grow up and become parents themselves."
Luckily for families, 62 per cent reckon they are at the most grumpy during the working week, coming out of their mood in time for the weekend.
Over half of dads also believe a good night's sleep is often all it takes to bring an end to their grumpiness with 28 per cent saying food helps.
A family day out, a nice gesture from a partner or children and a cold beer or lager can also improve their mood.
It also emerged nearly three quarters of dads believe they need to make more effort to be less grumpy, with 61 per cent saying time with their family and fun days out would result in a less grumpy dad.
And if you want to catch dad at his most awesome, on holiday is the best time, followed by the evenings and weekends, and when playing with the children.
Pollyanna added: "We commissioned this research after hearing from our attraction guests that their families behave so differently when on a family day out – they are carefree and relaxed, no sight of grumpiness!
"Everyone has times where life takes over and can cause grumpiness and the survey is proof of that. To help those mums and dads out there have a year of fun with their family, our January sale has started where you can purchase the Merlin Annual Pass from just £99 each, which gives its holders entrance to 32 attractions across the country.
"Our pass makes organising days out so simple and it provides real value for money. It takes the worry out of the cost and planning associated with a family day trip and it means you can say goodbye to grumpy and hello to just being seen as an awesome parent!"
So here's the top 20 cranky chart – which long-suffering families can either use as warning list or simply to tick off the things which they know will annoy dad:
1. People leaving the lights on
2. Bad traffic
3. General bad manners
4. Bad drivers
5. X Factor
6. All the planning and cost that any family activity involves
7. Cold callers calling in the evening
8. Your favourite football team losing
9. Having the heating on too high
10. The kids not helping with the chores
11. The kids not eating their meal but then complaining they are hungry later on
12. Always being asked for money/treated like an ATM
13. Having to do washing up
14. The front or back door being left open
15. People popping round to visit unexpectedly
16. Not being able to snooze on the sofa
17. Reality TV shows
18. Doors being slammed
19. Being told to do the hoovering/other household chores
10. Always being the one to do the bins and recycling
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Conservative radio's Bob Grant dead at 84
Conservative talk radio pioneer Bob Grant died on New Year's Eve in Hillsborough, N.J., the Branchburg Funeral Home announced Thursday. He was 84.
Grant, who hosted shows on New York City's WABC and WOR from 1984 until 2013, was seen as a major influence on many of today's leading conservative talk show hosts, including Sean Hannity, who replaced him at WABC.
"He was certainly one of the most important talk show hosts of all time," Michael Harrison, the publisher of the trade magazine Talkers, told New York Daily News on Thursday. "There were others before him, but he was a founding father of modern talk radio."
Grant was fired from WABC in 1996 after he joked that the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown may have been the one person to survive a fatal plane crash "because at heart I'm a pessimist." (Grant later expressed regret over the remark.)
Grant worked at WOR from 1996 until 2007, when he returned to WABC before retiring in 2013. The New York Daily News and Newsmax have more details.


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Stroke. Heart Attack. Trauma. Emergent Illness. At Valley Medical Center, we truly hope these never happen to you or someone you love. However, statistics show such medical emergencies are common. In fact, chances are you or someone you care about has visited Valley Medical Center's Emergency Department. In 2009, our ER staff treated more than 70,000 patients. That figure doesn't just make us one of the largest emergency departments in the state of Washington, it places us among the busiest ERs on the entire West Coast!
Growth within our community means the need for medical services will only continue to climb. We've taken steps to ensure that Valley Medical Center is well poised to meet growing demand. We have continually expanded our clinic network to better serve patients close to home, and added neighborhood urgent care clinics that help residents contain costs by reducing unnecessary, expensive visits for emergency care. And, in January 2010, we opened our new Emergency Services South Tower, more than doubling capacity for emergency care.
Despite volume increases, Valley Medical Center continues to provide quality care, as evidenced by The Joint Commission's award of a three-year, full accreditation in 2008 for our commitment to meeting national and safety performance standards.
If you come to our emergency room, you have a better chance of surviving a stroke. Our stroke care puts VMC on the national map, earning The Joint Commission's prestigious Gold Seal of Approval.
If you live in Public Hospital District Number 1, you already count on having quality emergency care mere minutes from your home. We take your confidence and trust very seriously. In the spirit of that partnership we want to share our concerns.
The expense of providing emergency care 24/7 is great. Along with hospitals across the country, Valley Medical Center is being buffeted by economic pressures. These include escalating numbers of uninsured patients, an aging population whose needs are more costly, and dwindling payment from insurance companies and the government. Hospitals also shoulder responsibilities unparalleled in the past, such as response to national emergencies and disasters.
Are VMC's needs dire? Not yet. But today's demands outstrip our resources. While we can't say how long this will continue, we do pledge to keep you informed. At Valley Medical Center, remarkable things happen here every day and it is our goal to ensure that spirit of excellence continues for decades to come.
Rich Roodman, CEO, Valley Medical Center
Valley Values. The words come easily. But placing actions behind the sentiment takes hard work.
As your representatives we try to ensure there are concrete benefits beneath the hospital's good intentions. Refining and developing services is one way Valley honors this goal. Another is through community outreach. If you are a senior and you aren't already a GoldenCare member, take a moment to check out this valuable program that includes an annual health fair, flu shot clinics, insurance counseling, GoldenLiving magazine, discounts at The Fitness Center and much more.
VMC's Thrive newsletter is another way the hospital extends its expertise. Our new look, together with this redesigned website, is intended to help you quickly locate valuable, reliable healthcare information. Find a doctor, watch a video, request an appointment. We'll be adding many more features and functions in the months ahead.
As always, we are eager to hear what you have to say about Public Hospital District Number 1 and Valley Medical Center's services and staff. Write to us in care of Kathryn Holland, Executive Assistant to the Board, PO Box 50010, Renton, WA 98058.
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It's a sweltering Cinco de Mayo in Katy's City Park, and on a dusty baseball diamond, Larry Joe "Long Ball" Miggins steps up to the plate with two men on and two outs and the score tied at six runs apiece.
The Babies need a big hit and Miggins is just the man manager Bob Dorrill would like to see at the plate. Perhaps the most feared slugger on the Houston Babies 1860-vintage baseball team, the bearded Long Ball adjusts his short-billed cap and, through tiny, circular 19th century shades, stares down the Katy Combine pitcher, who lobs the pill underhanded towards the plate.
Miggins takes the first pitch, and the umpire, dressed in a black top hat, white button-down shirt and black vest, makes no call. In this version of baseball, or "base ball," as its aficionados write it, balls don't exist and strikes are called only when the umpire believes a batter is trying to delay the game.
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The catcher tosses the ball back to the pitcher. Like the rest of their teammates, neither of the battery-mates is wearing a glove, and the catcher, or "behind," as they were known, wears no helmet or chest protector either. Since that was the way they did it in 1860, that's the way the Katy Combine and the Houston Babies do it, too.
Miggins pulls up the sleeves of his billowy gray-and-red jersey, and with little delay, the pitcher tosses his next offering plateward. Long Ball takes a mighty cut, grunting like Nolan Ryan delivering a fastball as he does so. POCK! The bat connects with the ball — bigger than a modern baseball, smaller than a softball and spongier than both — and it flies high and deep towards the left-centerfield gap.
The two Babies runners trot listlessly toward home, and despite having hit what in modern baseball would likely be an extra-base hit, Miggins tosses the bat on the ground in disgust. The Katy outfielder lazily tracks down the fly, which falls to earth about six feet behind him and bounds high in the air. The outfielder snatches the ball on one bounce — and Miggins is out.
It's another quirk of the rules of this ancient form of baseball — all balls caught on a single bounce, no matter how far they travel, are outs, the same as a feeble dribbler to the pitcher or a weak pop-up to third base.
"I left two guys on base," Miggins is muttering under his breath as he trots toward the dugout. "That's a baseball mortal sin."
In this version of the game, it's not about power or speed, as lead-offs and steals are also forbidden. It's about hitting hard ground balls — "stingers" and "daisy-cutters" — where the fielders ain't, or line drives over the infield and between the outfielders. Though a Katy slugger would knock one out of the park, homers are rare, and swinging for the fences tends to result, as in Long Ball's case, mainly in what are called "loud outs."
There's also an entirely different lexicon and other weird rules. Batters are "strikers," pitchers are "hurlers" or "bowlers," and umpires are "Blind Toms." A ball that lands first in fair territory stays fair even if it rolls foul before it reaches third or first base, and fouls are not strikes. (Though if the catcher snags a foul tip or a once-bounced foul, the "striker" is "dead.") Over-running first base is a no-no, as you could be tagged out, steals and leading off are forbidden, and sliding is discouraged and regarded as ungentlemanly.
Runs are called "tallies," and when a player crosses the plate, he must ring an iron bell behind the plate and ask the Blind Tom for permission to register the score. If granted, the score will literally be chalked up on a blackboard near the backstop.
There's also a code of gentlemanly conduct. Blind Toms can ask players and the "cranks" (spectators) for assistance in making calls, and even opposing cranks and players are supposed to tell the truth. Players are forbidden to argue, gamble or swear, and none save the Blind Tom may carry a flask.
Today, the Babies play mainly at heritage festivals (the next game is slated for the Fourth of July weekend at the George Ranch in Fort Bend County), but General Manager Dr. Bill McCurdy and others involved hope to grow a four-team Houston-area league and host a postseason championship at Minute Maid Park, blocks away from the site of the birth of Houston baseball.
Babies Field Manager Bob Dorrill says that the team has been in existence for five years. Dorrill is also the chair of Houston's Larry Dierker Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research, and he says that the Babies came into being after a fellow SABR member started a team at Lone Star College in Tomball. About six SABR members went to the first game and liked it, Dorrill remembers, so they started recruiting more players, and soon enough the Babies were born.
While the national Vintage Base Ball Association was formed in Columbus, Ohio, in 1996, and there are now at least 100 clubs playing nationwide, nobody is sure exactly when the old game returned to Texas. Kristy "Horseshoe" Watson, player-manager of the Boerne White Sox, says that there were early teams in Buffalo Gap, Abilene and scattered through the Dallas suburbs.
A statewide league was formed in 2007, and it included two Houston-area teams: the Montgomery College Saw Dogs from Conroe and Richmond's George Ranch Giants. Watson believes that social networking is enabling more and more teams to find each other, thus enabling more games, which bring more exposure and thus more teams.
Watson discovered the game before learning of the existence of the other Texas teams. The director of Boerne's Agricultural Heritage Museum, she saw her first contest at a national agriculture history convention in Michigan and brought the game home with her. Her team is now one of the liveliest and most storied in the state, and until last season included one of the most amazing father-son combos ever to grace a diamond.
In the infield, there was 72-year-old Kenneth Bergmann, who played for the Boerne White Sox town team in the 1950s, and on the mound, there was his dad Elmer Bergmann. That's right: his dad. Elmer Bergmann also played for the old White Sox, albeit in his case, in the Great Depression. Elmer retired this year at age 90, but his son still carries on the family tradition. Despite the fact that he lives in College Station and has to drive hundreds of miles to Boerne home games, and despite the fact that a knee injury bars him from legging out his hits, Bergmann still stars for a form of the team he and his father have collectively played for since FDR was in the White House.
The Babies have multigenerational players, but none so unusual as that. Bench coach and occasional player Mike McCroskey says their strangest player was of a bovine appearance. In a voice reminiscent of character actor Barry Corbin, he says that the Babies once were forced to impress a Chick-fil-A cow into outfield service.
Unfortunately, the steer did not get its turn at bat. "Naw, he just grazed in the outfield for an inning or two," McCroskey chuckled.
Many of the older folks on all the teams see it as something like a cool drink from the fountain of youth and a great way to forestall the reaper. "Objects in motion tend to stay in motion," one of the elder Houston Babies noted.
In a way, the Houston Babies are the living embodiment of the ongoing scholarship of Mike Vance and Bill McCurdy.
With McCurdy as top editor and Vance as the number two, and under the auspices of Houston's SABR chapter, Vance and McCurdy are tracing the history of Houston baseball from its first mention in 1861 to the advent of big-league ball 101 years later. What's more, they are doing so with a rigor and humor never before applied to the subject, and though Vance says they are not sure what form all those studies will finally take, a book seems likely. There's some old-school star power attached. They hope to get dean of Houston sportswriters Mickey Herskowitz to pen the preface and a chapter on the last years of the Houston Buffs, and Astros great Jimmy "the Toy Cannon" Wynn is a fan of both their efforts and those of the Babies.
McCurdy, a retired psychiatrist in his 70s, announces the Babies games and serves as the team's "general manager." He is also their chronicler — his enthusiastic, slangy game accounts vie for space on his Pecan Park Eagle blog with his historical findings and ruminations on the game he loves. (McCurdy's way with words is apparent at our first meeting, at a Katy Freeway IHOP. He characterized volatile 1970s Astros pitcher Don Wilson as "always a mere flicker of discomfort away from psychosis.")
In his book-lined, wood-paneled ranch house just north of Oak Forest, Mike Vance rides herd on a pack of jubilant rescue dogs and delves deep into the antediluvian era of baseball in Houston, the way-back time before steroids and free agency and 108-loss Astros teams, before the Astrodome, before the Colt 45s, before even the Houston Buffs.
Over the years, Vance has been a comedian, voice actor, local sports pundit and the lead singer of country novelty act The P.C. Cowboys, but if his office is anything to go by, the national pastime is his most abiding passion, perhaps even more of one than his fanatical love of the Texas Longhorns. (Is it a coincidence that all three of his dogs are burnt orange?)
In search of old-time baseball lore, Vance says he is reading every sports page of every Houston newspaper (and also many copies of the Galveston Daily News), day by countless day. "I'm almost done with 1904 now," he says.
Along the way he's made some big discoveries, or rediscoveries, of forgotten local baseball lore, such as the exact location of Houston's first real ballpark, an account of a night game played here in the 1890s, and the soap opera 1904 season that ushered out the prehistoric era of Houston baseball and ushered in the Bayou City's 57-year evolution towards the major leagues. (See "The Wanderers.")
Before that, there were fits and starts. While the New York Mercury was already hailing baseball as "the national pastime" in 1856, that designation failed to look much beyond the Mason-Dixon line. With a few exceptions such as Houston and even more so in New Orleans, baseball in the antebellum South was a flop. For one thing, there wasn't much of a middle class from which to draw players, and historian Kenneth S. Greenberg believes that the game was a poor cultural and psychological fit for the Old South's ruling slaveholder class.
In his book Honor and Slavery, Greenberg, a professor of history at Suffolk University, explored the ironclad code of honor that ruled slaveholders. To them, baseball was a "boys' game" not fit for men of honor, and more important to a Southern man of honor, Greenberg contended, the act of base running was inconceivable. Only slaves and cowards ran from things. Men of honor only pursued. What's more, only the most crass politicians "ran" for office. Real gentlemen "stood" for it.
The culture in Houston was always a little more receptive to the game. Though cotton was a principal export from the docks at Allen's Landing, Houston was not a town run by a planter elite, and as a railroad center and port, Houston was more connected to the outside world than most Texas cities — perhaps all save Galveston. By 1861, several powerful Yankees were atop Houston's power structure, and as Vance points out, some of those men, notably E.H. Cushing and Frederick Rice, loved baseball.
Cushing, a Dartmouth man and Vermont native, moved to Houston in search of adventure and wound up running the Texas Telegraph, then Houston's leading newspaper. Frederick Rice of Massachusetts was the brother of William Marsh Rice, who went on to found Rice University.
In April of 1861, within a few months of the construction of the building that now houses La Carafe, Cushing and Frederick Rice met at J.H. Evans's store nearby on Market Square and helped found the first organized baseball team in Houston. Soon after the meeting, the team's birth was announced in an article Cushing presumably placed in his Telegraph. The "Houston Base Ball Club" solicited players willing to come to practice three times a week at five a.m., the article announced.
Vance says that these practices were held on the grounds of the Houston Academy, an institution that stood on a tract bounded by Caroline and Austin and Rusk and Capitol, a couple of blocks from where Minute Maid Park is now. He says that baseball likely had been here for some time by then. "You don't go form a club before you've been tossing a ball around," he says.
Unfortunately for that primordial Houston nine, their creation was announced within days of the outbreak of the Civil War, and mentions of the game in Houston and Galveston are scant until about 1867. That was the year of the first recorded and well-publicized game on Texas soil, in which the Houston Stonewall Jacksons crushed the Galveston Robert E. Lees by an astounding score of 35 to 2.
Within ten years, Houston had its first real baseball park, and Vance is excited to have rediscovered its long-forgotten location. Referred to by a variety of generic names like "Houston Base Ball Park," "League Park" and the "Ballpark at the Fairgrounds," the field stood from the late 1870s until 1904 where Travis (then) dead-ended at McGowen. Vance believes that Reef restaurant stands on what was once the field's third base line, and he has since commissioned an architect to draw up a full-color rendering, which he hopes to debut in the planned book. (A couple of years before it became a ballpark, in 1874, a large contingent of Native Americans camped on the site. They had to come to town as a sort of living exhibit at the Texas State Fair.)
This field was the site of Houston's first pro baseball game. On March 6, 1888, led by future Hall of Fame second baseman Bid McPhee, the mighty Cincinnati Red Stockings came to town and, on a puddle-sloshed field, crushed the Houston Babies by a score of 22-3. Houston's first baseball team was even worse than the 2011 Astros. Fourteen of the Red Stockings' runs were unearned, thanks in no small part to Babies pitcher Thomas Flood, who committed six of the team's 13 errors. Not to be outdone, catcher Joseph Lohbeck chipped in two more errors and added a whopping six passed balls.
The Babies' name comes from the fact that they were the last team to join the fledgling Texas League, which debuted in 1888 with teams in Galveston, Austin, San Antonio and Fort Worth. And to give the Babies a run for their money as the team with the silliest name, there was also the Dallas Hams.
McCurdy says the early Texas League was extremely unstable. Teams would change names immediately: The Babies also called themselves the Red Stockings in 1888, and the next year they were the Houston Mud Cats, and before they would settle on Buffs, Houston's teams were called the Lambs, the Magnolias and the Wanderers, among others. Then as now, fans soured on losing teams, but back then, many owners would simply fold a bad team mid-season, leaving holes in the schedules that not infrequently touched off death spirals for entire leagues.
In August of 1889, for example, with the Mud Cats on the eve of Houston's first-ever sports championship, the Texas League collapsed under the weight of the teams' collective debt. After the dust had settled, it was decided to award Houston the pennant, but only if and when the Mud Cats coughed up their long-overdue league membership fees.
Other memories from the era are less ignominious. Vance says that there was a somewhat surreal attempt at playing a night game at the old grounds in about 1892. He believes the rig consisted of numerous arc lights surrounded by reflectors placed on tripods ringing the field, and that it was more of a novelty than a real game. "Of course it was advertised as being 'As Bright as Daytime!' but then they would talk about how batters were encouraged to hit the ball slow and on the ground. So maybe it was not as bright as daytime after all." (Competitive night baseball did not come about until 1930.)
This gaudy Gilded Age technological feat was repeated in Galveston, which Vance says was the site of one of the quirkiest ballparks ever. On the grounds of Beach Park, it was adjacent to the gloriously ornate, Nicholas Clayton-designed Beach Hotel, mere yards from the Gulf surf in pre-Seawall Galveston. Galveston's field had a feature that makes even Tal's Hill at Minute Maid Park seem like a mere outfield divot.
"At high tide, the water would come in to either left or right field," Vance says. "It would roll up right under the fence."
In 1898, after the city ordered the Beach Hotel's owners to cease dumping raw sewage into the Gulf, the resort mysteriously burned down. The Great Hurricane of 1900 would have erased the ball field and splintered the hotel into matchsticks anyway, but Galveston baseball's days of saltwater and jellyfish delays were over in any case.
"It's for the love of the game that we all play," says the 52-year-old Miggins, and in talking to several of the team's stars, that love comes shining through like the gleam in Ernie Banks's eyes. That love trumps the Katy heat and, for Miggins especially, a good deal of physical pain. A game or two hauling in "stingers" (sharp ground balls) and catching infielders' throws at first base leaves his hands a black and blue mess.
Once they are on the field, the theatrical re-enactment aspects melt away as the baseball genes kick in, and many of these guys have the grand old game deeply embedded in their DNA. The game against the Katy Combine would be the Babies' first extra-inning contest in their five-year history, and they would pull it out in the eighth inning. (Seven innings was the standard in 1860.) And they would come from behind in the second game of the round-robin doubleheader and take down the Boerne White Sox, despite some shoddy base-running from both this writer and photographer Dan Kramer. (See "Covering all the Bases.")
Since it was a day of 90-degree heat with humidity to match, pulling off a doubleheader was no mean feat, as most of these Babies are no babies. Though the players' ages ranged from 16 to 73, the median was probably about 55. (Both Boerne and Katy had much younger squads; it says something about the democratic nature of vintage base ball that the Babies swept the Combine and the White Sox.)
Which is not to downplay the skills of some of the oldest players. Take Houston Babies elder statesman Phil Holland. The 73-year-old second baseman is perhaps the team's best all-around player. Holland has the physique and agility of a man 30 years younger, and in a thick Carolina brogue, he says he's been playing baseball and softball all his life, beginning in high school, continuing in an industrial adult hardball league and also as a key member of three national championship-winning senior softball teams. Over the course of the doubleheader, Holland rapped out no fewer than eight hits, and then was seen leaving the field behind the wheel of a red Corvette in the company of an attractive woman.
Sixtysomething third baseman Bill Hale has a similar background. An amazingly nimble and sure-handed third baseman despite his age and expansive gut, Hale grew up worshiping Stan Musial in his native St. Louis. He played all through high school and one year of college baseball and has since played on seven national championship senior softball teams.
This is his second year as a vintage player. "This is fun," he says. "A lot of fun. I really enjoy the camaraderie."
When asked if third base was especially difficult in this gloveless version of baseball, Hale laughed and said, "For me it is. But that's the position I play in softball, too. Well, third base and shortstop."
"He's so big he plays two positions," Miggins cracks, to the merriment of the rest of the Babies.
"That's not funny," Hale smiles. "Okay, it's a little funny."
"He used to have a six-pack and now he's got a keg," Miggins continues mercilessly.
For the voluble Miggins, these games are a convergence of pretty much everything he holds near and dear. An enthusiastic history buff, Miggins heartily participates in historical re-enactments of the battles of Goliad, San Jacinto and Dick Dowling's Civil War victory at Sabine Pass. He hasn't yet been able to crack the Alamo: "That one is hard to get picked for. Every Texan wants to die at the Alamo," he says.
But baseball trumps even history for Larry Joe. As one of eight sons and the namesake of former Houston Buff star and St. Louis Cardinal first baseman Larry "Irish" Miggins Sr., Larry Joe is from one of the town's most prominent baseball families, one that has almost always had at least one member playing on local diamonds since Irish's debut in 1949.
Two of the most prominent ballplayers of the younger generation of Migginses were Larry Joe and his older brother Rory, known to blues and nightlife lovers as the owner of fabled Telephone Road nightclub Local Charm. Not only was Rory a fellow historical re-enactor, but the two played in local Mexican-American hardball leagues after their high school and college days were over, and later competed in adult Anglo hardball leagues as well.
Larry Joe's eyes light up when he remembers those days, as they do whenever Rory's name comes up.
"I would always bat before Rory, and I would steal signs for him," he chuckles. "If I was on second and I would see the catcher wave one finger, I would say, 'C'mon, Rory!' If it was a curve, it'd be, 'C'mon, Miggins!' You don't have to put that in the article."
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In 1994, during the baseball strike, all nine of the Miggins men banded together as a single team and lost a close game to a local 35-and-up hardball team that went on to win its league's national championships. Rory and Larry Joe continued as teammates and re-enactors after that, right up until near the time Rory passed away in December 2007 from skin cancer. "He taught me how to die, the same way he taught me how to live," Larry Joe says, and he believes that Rory would "absolutely" be at his side on the Houston Babies if he were alive today.
McCurdy believes vintage base ball can and will develop. It's a game for men and women, young and old. The ball is easy to hit, so the action moves along. And he believes there's something magic about it, something that takes you back to childhood.
"It's the closest thing there is to backyard, sandlot ball," he says. "Your soul just feels free out there."


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* Jonathan Papelbon notched his 16th save on Saturday, helping the Sox to a 1-0 win over the Giants (en route to a 3-game sweep). Is it wrong that I cross my fingers and hope the Sox are only up by 3 or less every 8th inning? [The Times says the Sox are winning for all the wrong reasons]- I say, keep those wins coming.
* On the other side of Fenway Park, guitar-strumming hottie Barry Zito was wondering what the heck has gone wrong for him so far. He's 6-7 with a 4.41 ERA this year, just after signing the largest contract ever given to a pitcher (not named Clemens). [$126MM smackeroos can change a lot of things, I guess.]
* A very deep sigh of relief: Aaron Rowand left the game early yesterday after limping away from the plate, but he says he'll be back in the lineup tonight. WHEW. [Bacon Pants- Whatever it is you're doing to give yourself a "cramp in your left groin and calf", please stop it. Love, Clare & TG] Also, Clare & TG are steadfastly ignoring any and all possibilities Mr. Rowand will be traded away from Philly, because surely the Phils' front office couldn't be that crazy, right? Ahem.
* Chipper Jones, switch hitter and old school hottie extraordinaire (remember his cute rookie face back in '95?), racked up his 2,000th career hit yesterday. [The Chip played it off as "pretty cool"] – I think Larry wants to celebrate at Hooters.
* So, what's gonna happen with Michael Barrett? Even this giant Cubs homer can see he's struggling behind the plate- and that's not even taking the arguments with Zambrano and Hill into account. [Someway, somehow, I'd like to blame this all on Dusty Baker.]
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just saying I'd never seen acceleration expressed in those units before.
You have, you just haven't done the algebra before
They are the same unit if you break N down and look at it. N/kg is considered gravitational force while m/s2 is an acceleration, but in reality they are the same thing and both work in any formula.
There are far easier ways to measure the acceleration due to gravity using Arduino
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a) Why? A swinging chain keeps time.
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Seaira Christian-Daniels
Photographer: Yi-Ke Peng
Dr. Arthur Cromwell
Photographer: Yi-Ke Peng
Tessa Scott
Photographer: Yi-Ke Peng
Feb 17, 2014
By Erin Roberts
Dr. Arthur Cromwell, an associate professor in the School of Media Arts and Studies and director of the Honors Tutorial Program in that area at Ohio University, and Seaira Christian-Daniels and Tessa Scott, both seniors at Ohio University, have been named panelists in the "Soledad O'Brien Presents Black in America" event slated for 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb.20.
Cromwell, who has more than 35 years of experience in the public broadcasting industry and joined the OHIO faculty in the '90s, says the event will shed light on a section of African Americans who are sometimes overlooked: those who grow up, work and live in Appalachia.
"It's always important to understand the complexities and the multiplicities of the African American experience," said Cromwell. "I don't really know if we appreciate the African American experience. I'm an African American with Appalachian experience. Growing up, I didn't know others existed. None of us have properly articulated our experience and our history."
Cromwell said he hopes O'Brien finds this stop in the tour eye opening. "If anything, I hope her trip to Athens leaves her jaw dropping. Once you start to experience and meet people, you learn a new facet of the conversation."
The event, part of a national tour, will feature a presentation from O'Brien followed by a panel discussion that will include audience interaction. Sponsored by the Scripps College of Communication, the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and the School of Communication Studies, the town-hall event is free and open to the public. The stop in Athens is the only planned tour event in Ohio.
Christian-Daniels is a senior in the Honors Tutorial College majoring in journalism and seeking a certificate in Spanish. She was honored to be asked to participate in the panel.
"I'm extremely honored to be selected for this panel, especially among the likes of someone like Soledad O'Brien," she said. "I'm excited to express myself and my heritage, my love for my country and my race."
Scott, a senior majoring in Communication Studies and seeking a certificate in political science, shares that sentiment.
"It's an honor to be selected," Scott said. "Being black in America is a topic that needs to be discussed, especially on this campus."
The tour is an extension of O'Brien's "Black in America" series, which premiered on CNN in 2008 as a multi-part series of documentaries covering issues, challenges and culture of African Americans across the country.
A public reception will be held following the event at 7 p.m. in the Multi-purpose Room of the Multicultural Center on the second floor of Baker University Center.
Additional sponsors include Ohio University's Office for Diversity and Inclusion, the Department of African American Studies, the Office of Multicultural Programs and the Multicultural Center. The reception is cosponsored by the Campus Involvement Center and the Black Student Cultural Programming Board.
Seaira Christian-Daniels
Year: Senior
College: Honors Tutorial
Major: Journalism (Spanish certificate)
Extracurricular activities: Executive board of the Black Student Union, fifth-grade Spanish instructor at Alexander Elementary School in Athens County
Future plans: Wants to use her degree to become an expert in international migration and communications policy
Dr. Arthur Cromwell
Education: Bachelor's, Howard University; Master's and Ph.D., Ohio University
Rank: Associate Professor
School: Media Arts and Studies
Additional roles: Director of Studies, Honors Tutorial College; Director of Studies, Public Media Masters
Areas of expertise: History of broadcasting, television genre history, African American broadcast history, documentary history
Awards and accolades: Proclamation from the Ohio House of Representatives, Mary Abel, Representative House District 78, for "Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Telecommunications"; Special Commendation from the Faculty of the School of Telecommunications; Provost Grant from the Office of the Provost, Ohio University; Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Public Radio, Howard University School of Fine Arts; Baker Grant, for his oral history project, "The Vernacular of Jazz: Oral Histories of Place, Eras, Tradition and Artistic Product"
Tessa Scott
Year: Senior
College: Scripps College of Communication
Major: Communication Studies, minor in Business, certificate in Diversity
Extracurricular activities: Executive board member of Black Student Cultural Programming Board, Minority Affairs Disability delegate, Mortar Board Honors Society
Future plans: Become part of Teach for America in Cleveland, Ohio