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PHOENIX -- Every once in awhile, the moons align so that a pitcher deserves serious consideration to win the Most Valuable Player Award and the Cy Young Award in the same season.
It happened in 2011, when Detroit right-hander Justin Verlander won both awards in the American League, and with barely a month to go in this season, Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw is hurtling in the same direction.View Full Game Coverage
PHOENIX -- Every once in awhile, the moons align so that a pitcher deserves serious consideration to win the Most Valuable Player Award and the Cy Young Award in the same season.
It happened in 2011, when Detroit right-hander Justin Verlander won both awards in the American League, and with barely a month to go in this season, Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw is hurtling in the same direction.View Full Game Coverage
Even though I'm a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, I don't have a vote. Only two writers per award in each of the league cities do. But if the season ended today, my spiritual vote would go to Kershaw for both awards in the National League. And I'm not the only one thinking that way.
"I think it's reasonable," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said before Kershaw defeated the D-backs, 3-1, on Wednesday night, throwing eight innings of six-hit, 10-strikeout ball. "With the roll that he's on, you'd have a hard time not drafting him first in your fantasy league, wouldn't you? It's certainly worth a discussion, yes. Clayton's been very impressive."
Pitchers have only won both awards seven times since the Cy Young was adopted in 1956. Three of those were Tigers, and Gibson played with one of them -- Willie Hernandez on Detroit's 1984 edition. Those Tigers opened 35-5 on their way to a 104-58 season and a five-game victory over the Padres in the World Series.
Hernandez was 9-3 with 32 saves and a 1.90 ERA in 80 appearances, and he was the first reliever to win both awards. The other was Dennis Eckersley for the A's in 1992.
"I mean, I played with a guy who was an MVP and Cy Young, and he meant a ton to our team," Gibson said. "He was 32 of 33 [in save opportunities]. He was just exceptional."
Gibson won the NL MVP Award in 1988, when the Dodgers last won the World Series and Orel Hershiser set the record by tossing 59 consecutive scoreless innings and won the NL Cy Young Award. Hershiser, 23-8 with a 2.26 ERA, could have easily also won the NL MVP Award that year.
"The thing about Kershaw -- and I know you're probably trying to keep it to this year -- it's just so impressive what he does year after year after year," Gibson said. "He's been very consistent. Beyond how we face him, we watch him the way he works every day, just watch him grow.
"He's very talented, and you've got to give him credit for continuing to get better with what he's got. He has the will and the determination to not stop right at where he's at. I think that's what separates him."
After opening with a win over the D-backs in Australia, Kershaw missed the next six weeks with a shoulder injury, but he still has compiled a formidable 16-3 record, a 1.73 ERA, 194 strikeouts and an 0.83 WHIP. For those who aren't into pitching victories, the Dodgers are 18-4 in his 22 starts, including a June 18 no-hitter against the Rockies at Dodger Stadium. Since the first-place Dodgers, at 76-58, are 18 games over .500, that's a major impact.
"Wins are a team thing," said Kershaw, the first Major League pitcher to reach 16 wins, despite the early layoff. "You can't judge a pitcher by his won-loss record. You judge a team by a pitcher's won-loss record, and we have a really good team."
Kershaw added that he's currently ignoring all the emerging NL MVP Award chatter and some of the "MVP, MVP" chants that came from Dodgers fans among the crowd of 28,394 at Chase Field, even as he struggled at times on Wednesday night, but allowed no earned runs.
"I'll let you know after the season," he said. "I'm not really thinking about it right now."
Kershaw's ongoing dominance has fans even in Los Angeles comparing him to the great Sandy Koufax, one of two Dodgers pitchers to win both the MVP Award and the Cy Young Award in the same season. The other was Don Newcombe, pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956. Koufax did it in 1963, another World Series-winning season. Considering that the Cy Young Award was given to only one pitcher in baseball from 1956-66, the feat was much tougher during that period.
It hasn't happened in the NL since 1968, when Bob Gibson was 22-9 with a record 1.19 ERA and 268 strikeouts for the Cardinals. In the year of the pitcher, the Tigers' Denny McLain did it as well in the AL, with a 31-6 record, a 1.96 ERA and 280 strikeouts. McLain, whose Detroit club defeated St. Louis in a seven-game World Series, was the last 30-game winner.
It's the only time pitchers in both leagues have swept the two awards, and in response, Major League Baseball lowered the mound that winter from 15 inches to 10 inches, where it has remained.
The Cy Young Award is usually given to the best pitcher in each league, although as wins have been devalued over time because of the impact of bullpens, not always to the pitcher with the most victories. Other metrics take precedence. But the MVP Award is not purely a statistical award. A player's impact on team success is also a major consideration.
The Dodgers, with a five-game lead over the second-place Giants, are on their way to another NL West title, and Kershaw has certainly been a big part of that equation. Plus, Giancarlo Stanton, the top offensive player in the NL this season, is playing for a Marlins team that is 10 games behind the Nationals in the NL East and fading, five games out in the NL Wild Card race.
Stanton, who leads the league with 33 homers, 97 RBIs, a .403 on base percentage, a .558 slugging percentage and a .961 OPS, is Kershaw's top challenger. Stanton will get a lot of votes by virtue of the mere fact that he plays every day. Kershaw's club has a chance to go to the World Series. Edge to Kershaw, begging the question: Can a pitcher still be a league MVP?
"I think he can be," said Don Mattingly, the Dodgers' manager who won the 1985 AL MVP Award while playing first base for the Yankees when he led the league with 145 RBIs and 48 doubles. "My guy's not too bad. He's been pretty good. I think he's having that type of year. I've been talking about this numerous times because it's starting to come up all the time. I think it has to be one of those years that's pretty special. And at this point, it looks like one of those. So I think he's going to be highly considered."
Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Boomskie on Baseball. Follow @boomskie on Twitter.


text: Joachim Worringen wrote: > AFAIK, Myrinet's MPI (MPICH-GM), for example, does use the standard > (partly naive) collective operations of MPICH. Considering this, plus > the fact Replacing the collectives from MPICH-1 was not high on the todo list because there was more important things to optimize, with more effects on applications that the scheduling of some collectives. For scaling real codes on large machines, your priority is not there, not enough bang for your time. > - that it's not all that hard to use GM for pt-2-pt efficiently. We have > done this in our MPI, too, with the same level of performance. You have then no idea how hard if to use GM efficiently and *correctly*. Enough to run pingpong ? sure, that's piece of cake. But how to recover from fatal errors on the wire, from resources exhaustion, to avoid to spend most of your time pinning/unpinning pages, to not trash the translation cache on the NIC, etc ? Did you address all of these issues in your MPI ? Maybe, but it requires some design characteristics that would be higher than the device layer. At one time you have to make choices, and in a Swiss-Army-Knive (SAK) implementation, you choose the common ground, or the existing ground. > - that you probably do not know anything on ScaMPI's current internal True, I know zip about ScaMPI design. This is exactely why I don't know how they use GM. Without knowing that, how can you infer hardware characteristics from benchmark results ?!? > design (Intel is MPICH2 plus some Intel-propietary device hacking) and > little about it's performance (if this is wrong, let us know) Intel MPI is MPICH2 plus some multi-device glue. Intel got something right in their design: they ask the vendor to provide the native device layers instead of doing everything themselves. That's how a (SAK) implementation could actually be decent. However, the reference implementation is using uDapl. That means that there is stuff above the device layers that are needed to make the MPI-over-uDapl performance decent. Some of it can be used for other devices, the rest not. The question is that if I need something above the device layer to make my stuff decent, could I have it ? I would think so. Now, if it conflicts with something needed for another device, what happens ? Someone makes a choice. > - that all code apart from the device, and also the device architecture > of MPICH-GM are more or less 10-year-old swiss-army-knive MPICH code > (which is not a bad thing per se) MPICH-1 is not a SAK. You cannot take an MPICH binary and run it on all of the devices on which MPICH has been ported. You can *compile* it on multiple targets, but nothing more. Furthermore, many ch2 things where not used in ch_gm. If you look at it, most of the common code of MPICH is not performance related, at the exception of the collectives (and again they are not that bad). MPICH-2 has been moving more things to the device-specific part, that's the good direction. > you should maybe think again before judging on the efficiency of other > MPI implementations. I could not care less about the efficiency of other MPI implementations. None of my business. My point is that assuming that using a SAK MPI implementation factorize the software part and all remaining performance differences are thus hardware related is ridiculous. As Greg pointed out, an interconnect is a software/hardware stack, all the way to the MPI lib. Throw away the native MPI lib and you have a lame duck. Compare lame ducks and you go nowhere. You don't have much choice when you have a commercial MPI than to support many interconnects. You cannot ask the vendors to write their part unless you are Intel, so you write it yourself. You do your best, because you need to sell your stuff, and you call it good. Is there a value ? Today yes, because it makes life easier to have binary compatibility. However, my second point is that binary compatibility should be addressed by the MPI community, not by commercial MPI implementations. Patrick -- Patrick Geoffray Myricom, Inc. http://www.myri.com

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European labels no longer held even the slightest snob appeal except among people known as "intellectuals," whom we will visit in a moment. Our typical mechanic or tradesman took it for granted that things European were second-rate. Aside from three German luxury automobiles—the Mercedes-Benz, the BMW, and the Audi—he regarded European-manufactured goods as mediocre to shoddy. On his trips abroad, our electrician, like any American businessman, would go to superhuman lengths to avoid being treated in European hospitals, which struck him as little better than those in the Third World. He considered European hygiene so primitive that to receive an injection in a European clinic voluntarily was sheer madness.
Indirectly, subconsciously, his views perhaps had to do with the fact that his own country, the United States, was now the mightiest power on earth, as omnipotent as Macedon under Alexander the Great, Rome under Julius Caesar, Mongolia under Genghis Khan, Turkey under Mohammed II, or Britain under Queen Victoria. His country was so powerful, it had begun to invade or rain missiles upon small nations in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean for no other reason than that their leaders were lording it over their subjects at home.
Our air-conditioning mechanic had probably never heard of Saint-Simon's, but he was fulfilling Saint-Simon's and the other nineteenth-century utopian socialists' dreams of a day when the ordinary workingman would have the political and personal freedom, the free time and the wherewithal to express himself in any way he saw fit and to unleash his full potential. Not only that, any ethnic or racial group—any, even recent refugees from a Latin country—could take over the government of any American city, if they had the votes and a modicum of organization. Americans could boast of a freedom as well as a power unparalleled in the history of the world.
Our typical burglar-alarm repairman didn't display one erg of chauvinistic swagger, however. He had been numbed by the aforementioned "intellectuals," who had spent the preceding eighty years being indignant over what a "puritanical," "repressive," "bigoted," "capitalistic," and "fascist" nation America was beneath its democratic façades. It made his head hurt. Besides, he was too busy coping with what was known as the "sexual revolution." If anything, "sexual revolution" was rather a prim term for the lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000. Every magazine stand was a riot of bare flesh, rouged areolae, moistened crevices, and stiffened giblets: boys with girls, girls with girls, boys with boys, bare-breasted female bodybuilders, so-called boys with breasts, riding backseat behind steroid-gorged bodybuilding bikers, naked except for cache-sexes and Panzer helmets, on huge chromed Honda or Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
But the magazines were nothing compared with what was offered on an invention of the 1990s, the Internet. By 2000, an estimated 50 percent of all hits, or "log-ons," were at Web sites purveying what was known as "adult material." The word "pornography" had disappeared down the memory hole along with "proletariat." Instances of marriages breaking up because of Web-sex addiction were rising in number. The husband, some fifty-two-year-old MRI technician or systems analyst, would sit in front of the computer for twenty-four or more hours at a stretch. Nothing that the wife could offer him in the way of sexual delights or food could compare with the one-handing he was doing day and night as he sat before the PC and logged on to such images as a girl with bare breasts and a black leather corset standing with one foot on the small of a naked boy's back, brandishing a whip.
In 1999, the year before, this particular sexual kink—sadomasochism—had achieved not merely respectability but high chic, and the word "perversion" had become as obsolete as "pornography" and "proletariat." Fashion pages presented the black leather and rubber paraphernalia as style's cutting edge. An actress named Rene Russo blithely recounted in the Living section of one of America's biggest newspapers how she had consulted a former dominatrix named Eva Norvind, who maintained a dungeon replete with whips and chains and assorted baffling leather masks, chokers, and cuffs, in order to prepare for a part as an aggressive, self-obsessed agent provocateur in The Thomas Crown Affair, Miss Russo's latest movie.
"Sexy" was beginning to replace "chic" as the adjective indicating what was smart and up-to-the-minute. In the year 2000, it was standard practice for the successful chief executive officer of a corporation to shuck his wife of two to three decades' standing for the simple reason that her subcutaneous packing was deteriorating, her shoulders and upper back were thickening like a shot-putter's—in short, she was no longer sexy. Once he set up the old wife in a needlepoint shop where she could sell yam to her friends, he was free to take on a new wife, a "trophy wife," preferably a woman in her twenties, and preferably blond, as in an expression from that time, a "lemon tart." What was the downside? Was the new couple considered radioactive socially? Did people talk sotto voce, behind the hand, when the tainted pair came by? Not for a moment. All that happened was that everybody got on the cell phone or the Internet and rang up or E-mailed one another to find out the spelling of the new wife's first name, because it was always some name like Serena and nobody was sure how to spell it. Once that was written down in the little red Scully ∓ Scully address book that was so popular among people of means, the lemon tart and her big CEO catch were invited to all the parties, as though nothing had happened.
Meanwhile, sexual stimuli bombarded the young so incessantly and intensely they were inflamed with a randy itch long before reaching puberty. At puberty the dams, if any were left, burst. In the nineteenth century, entire shelves used to be filled with novels whose stories turned on the need for women, such as Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary, to remain chaste or to maintain a façade of chastity. In the year 2000, a Tolstoy or a Flaubert wouldn't have stood a chance in the United States. From age thirteen, American girls were under pressure to maintain a façade of sexual experience and sophistication. Among girls, "virgin" was a term of contempt. The old term "dating"—referring to a practice in which a boy asked a girl out for the evening and took her to the movies or dinner—was now deader than "proletariat" or "pornography" or "perversion." In junior high school, high school, and college, girls headed out in packs in the evening, and boys headed out in packs, hoping to meet each other fortuitously. If they met and some girl liked the looks of some boy, she would give him the nod, or he would give her the nod, and the two of them would retire to a halfway-private room and "hook up."


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Simple and satisfying, chestnut ice cream is my contribution to my summer ice cream event!
I am growing increasingly fond of chestnut as a flavour. A versatile nut, chestnut can be eaten candied, boiled or roasted. Another important use of chestnut is ground as flour, which can then be used to prepare bread, cakes and pasta. My favourite chestnut recipes include roasted chestnuts, marrons glacés and chestnut cake.
The ice cream I describe here tastes of pure chestnut. The recipe calls for less sugar because the chestnut spread used as an ingredient is very sweet. Chestnut puree can be used instead; however, the quantity of sugar will then need to be increased. I decided to use chestnut spread partly because it contains glucose, and glucose helps create a smoother (less icy) ice cream that tends to last longer. Sweetened chestnut spread can often be found in ethnic or specialty food stores.
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1 cup 35% cream
1 cup whole milk
1/4 cup sugar
5 egg yolks
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1. Place cream and whole milk in a small saucepan. Bring to a rolling boil over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally.
2. In a small bowl, whisk 1/4 cup of sugar with the egg yolks until well mixed. Temper the egg yolk mixture with 1/2 cup of the hot cream mixture.
3. Once tempered, add the rest of the egg mixture into the cream mixture. At this point you can add the sweetened chestnut spread and mix until combined. Bring the mixture up to 85ºC or until it coats the back of a wooden spoon.
4. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve and cool. Let the mixture sit in the refrigerator over night or until completely cool, at least four hours.
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Most of us in the print world, from a one-person shop to a large operation with hundreds of employees, manage their workflow with at least one clear objective in mind: Get the job out the door. The smart ones run a system with three other important aspects: maintaining high quality at each step, eliminating mistakes and interruptions from the process, and—above all—staying profitable. When all four of these goals are met by the system in place, only then can a shop claim to have effective workflow management.
I worked in a few different screen shops when I was a young guy just starting out. It didn't take me long to realize there were problems. Knowing what I know now, I can easily identify them. Their workflow system lacked the four pillars outlined above. Like a chair with a short or missing leg or two, they were wobbly businesses because of this. I was pretty stupid back then—not that I'm much smarter now, but I have picked up a few tricks along the way that allow me to at least keep up with the conversation.
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Some thoughts post Wimbleball & Outlaw
Mon Aug 10, 2015 3:04 pm savaloy
Some thoughts shared with Tri 247 following my completion of Wimbleball and the Outlaw this year
Swim smart, Bike strong, Run tough
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Bastion Triathlon 2015 - Free Entry - Competition Details
Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:55 pm savaloy
Ok folks, so last year I ran a competition for an entry into the 2014 Bastion which involved predicting the distance I would cover in a T30 (30 minute) swim. Steve Berry won that competition and is back again this year after catching the iron distance triathlon bug
Once again, the kind people at Castle Triathlon have put up a free entry for this year's race. Details of this year's event (on 12th July) are here:-
This year, I'm not so confident I'll cover 30 minutes (
) so I've opted for a more manageable challenge of swimming a 400m TT. However, to make things more interesting, the competition will involve guessing the time differential between my 400m time and my 13 year old daughters 400m time in a head to head time trial in the pool, during morning swim practice on Wednesday 22nd April
In terms of details, mine and Megan's short course PB's are as follows:-
Me - 4:32.97 - date (I can't remember!) - venue - Ponds Forge
Megan - 4:37.65 - date: 20/01/2015 - venue: Barnet Copthall
In terms of other relevant detail, I'm currently training between 0hrs and 4.5hrs in the pool. Megan is averaging 12hrs a week.
So, now the detail - the objective is to guess the time differential in seconds between us. Times will be recorded to the nearest 100th of a second. In the event of two or more people guessing the correct time, then the winner will be decided by the nearest guess to my 400m time.
Entries can be either by a post on my Facebook page, my Twitter feed or on the reply to my TriTalk blog. Guesses can be either positive (if you think Megan will be faster - eg. If I swim 5 minutes and Megan swims 4:50, the time difference will be +10.00 seconds) or negative (if you think Megan will be slower eg. If I swim 4:50 and Megan swims 5:00, the time difference will be -10.00 seconds). So you need to give me a + or - time in seconds and (for matching guesses) an estimated time for my swim.
I'll keep entries open until 5:30hrs (UK time) on Wednesday 22nd April.
Good luck!
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A new chapter
Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:59 pm savaloy
I consider I've always had a good sense of knowing when it was time to change direction in terms of life choices. Looking back I can track distinct moments in time when I've decided to pursue new goals and move away from things that hitherto had occupied my time.
Over the last 7 years a significant focus has been achieving triathlon success at age group/amateur level. In many ways it has been a selfish pursuit, although I believe that the underlying reason for chasing my triathlon goals was a sound one. However, I now believe that the reason for pursuing those personal sporting goals can be fulfilled without concerning myself with times or podium success. That being the case, my main focus for 2015 will be exercising and/or racing to an extent that is compatible with being part of the kids' development. As I don't believe that the amount of training I want to commit to going forward is sufficient to justify the considerable investment given by Team Freespeed and their sponsors, I will no longer be part of the team going forward. I hope that this will afford the opportunity for someone to be part of what is in my view the best amateur triathlon team out there. There is no doubt in my mind that the three years that I have been on the team have been the most enjoyable of my triathlon career and I have nothing but gratitude to Richard, the team sponsors and teammates for the opportunities and support I've been given. Thank you.
Having discussed things with Helen and the kids, it is clear that they enjoy the fact that I swim, bike and run and they want me to continue. They (as do I) also want me to be involved with them swimming, biking, running (exercising) and being around more instead of travelling abroad to races and training camps etc. without them. In that vein, my triathlon plans for 2015 will be to complete, as distinct from compete, Wimbleball 70.3 at the end of June, the Outlaw at the end of July and Challenge Weymouth in mid September. Although that may appear incompatible with what I've said, the fact is that without a "race" to train for, it will be all to easy not to train. Therefore these race entries will provide the motivation for me to do sufficient training to cover the distances without too much pain, keep me fit and stop me working too many hours.
In terms of the kids' development, despite my (joking) attempts to discourage them from pursuing swimming as a sport (having witnessed the stupid amount of training that is required), they've all, in varying degrees, expressed a desire to develop their swimming. The boys have also shown a genuine interest and aptitude for road cycling. As it's somewhat inevitable that I'll be spending an increasing amount of time in and around swimming pools whilst they're training/competing etc, I've now committed to renewing and developing my swim coaching qualifications and have started in a support coach role with the kids' swim club. I'm also committed to helping the boys with the road cycling. As part of that, this year will see the majority of training that I do do being focused on the bike and supplementing time trialling with some bike racing. I'll fill you in more on that score in due course....
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The final decision to race Barcelona took place after Mont Tremblant on the basis that I believed I could go under 9 hours. Knowing the course, I broke the nine hours down as 50 minutes for the swim, 5 minutes for transitions, 4:45 for the bike, leaving me 3:20 for the run. I went into the race confident and in good shape. A power and time PB for a 50 mile TT the weekend before followed by a good run off at target run pace was a good boost.
After some glorious days with temperatures in the mid 20s, race morning brought thunder, lightning and torrential rain. Lovely. A 30 minute delay to the start for safety reasons was welcome, as was the news the swim wasnt cancelled. The male Pros started at 9:00am, followed by females, paras and then the age groups waves, all at 3 minute intervals. The M45 wave was the penultimate wave ahead of relays, and 23 minutes after the first wave.
A beach start, a short run and we were off. I swam with Steven Lord until the first turn buoy (at circa 200 metres) before starting my navigation through the earlier waves. A choppy swim made things interesting, and although I had to change course a few times to avoid traffic, I enjoyed the swim and was chuffed to discover I posted the fast swim of the day, beating the first male PRO by 1 second with 49:21.
T1 was efficient and when I saw that there werent many bikes unracked from earlier starts, I knew Id had a good start.
I made my way steadily through the 3k section in town onto the main drag where the main laps started and bang on my planned time. As I settled into my rhythm, I worked towards my target power. Of a slight concern was that I was having to put in quite an effort to hit my planned power. After a short while I decided that the power was unsustainable, so I backed off a bit and used my heart rate as a guide. Happily, as the road surface was so good, my speed was where it needed to be (if anything, slightly ahead) and I reached the first turn point bang on target. Having ridden most of the first 72k lap on my own, I got swamped by (what transpired to be) the first of a number of big packs of riders. Apart from being an irritant, I wasnt too concerned as it appeared that the riders were from earlier waves, so not direct competitors. Although, my main aim was time related, my secondary goal was to make the podium, so I still wanted to monitor the competition. However, of more concern was that I couldnt hold onto the packs and got spat out the end. My theory is that the effort Id put in trying to hit my target watts and/or the fact that my bike legs werent firing had taken its toll. With my power starting to drop I was still pleased to hit half way at 2:22ish, so still on target, although not hugely confident that Id be able to match that split for the second half.
Just after 90k I got caught by teammate Richard Hobson (Hobbo) who was off the back of a pack he said that the drafting was an absolute joke. Again, I couldnt keep with that pack, but my focus at that stage was to make sure I still took on my nutrition and keep the effort at a sustainable level. I rationalised that my previous best run performance (at Roth) where Id run 3:08 had come off a poor bike, so my take was that even if I couldnt hit my intermediate bike target all was not lost.
The end of the second lap, saw me down about 5 minutes, which didnt seem too much of a disaster and the prospect of a shorter 30k lap gave me a mental boost. That, an a caffeinated espresso gel kick started a resurgence and I then was able to start working back through the field. On the final return things got a bit more crowded with earlier waves on the course this is when I had to get vocal, not just with the riders, but also the marshalls thankfully the marshalls saw that I was getting blocked and started blowing whistles to get riders out of my wave as I was gesturing that I wanted to ride through. So, a nice final burst saw me entering T2 in 5th just behind a big Belgian lad in a Team Talent speedsuit. He didnt look like a runner. My bike split was just over 4:50. Considering I wasnt having an on day, I was ok with that.
So a 3:15 marathon needed for Sub 9. Interestingly the T2 times didnt include the change tent (which was therefore added to the run splits). So, although a 1:08 T2 might get me some brownie points with my coach, in reality it was 2 minutes slower than that. In any event, my swim and T1/T2 times were circa 55 minutes combined which was right on target.
Onto the run and I felt quite good. The first k was under target pace, so I tried to slow things down a bit. Josie (Perry) who was out supporting her hubby (Paul) confirmed I was in 4th, so all to play for. I saw Hobbo who seemed to be about 1.5k or so ahead and running well. The Ks clicked off and through 10k ahead of target pace, but slowing. My approach was to play a patient game and keep chugging and see where it got me. I hit the half way at 1:37ish (on my Garmin). Based on my pace slowing I wasnt expecting to hit 3:15, but I was determined to hit 3:20. At this point I also discovered that the Cola was some happy shopper junk! Thankfully we were allowed to have personal support past the aid stations, and Stuart (Anderson) was able to procure me some authentic Coke which helped. Apart from one short stop where I tried (unsuccessfully) to be sick (a mere retch in the end) I was happy to have kept moving throughout the race.
Shortly before the turnaround on lap 3 I saw that Id closed the gap to Hobbo. I eventually caught him at the 30k point and it transpired he was suffering with leg cramps. Although not entirely sure where I was, Id guessed I was in third. At this point I also started to throw a bit of caution to the wind and slowly my K splits started to get quicker. At this point I borrowed a little mantra from my buddy Deenzy regarding anyones ability to run a 10k which involved a few expletives. It worked. With about 2k to go I passed Lordy on his 3rd lap who, as is typical of him, offered some kind words and triggered another pick up in pace. I finished strongly and was hopeful Id done enough to hit the podium. A 3:20 on my garmin (3:22 official run split including T2 change tent) and just under 9:06 with a 9:05:59 (I had to sprint to get a time starting with 9:05**
) final time.
Once I passed the finish line, my body shut down and things got a bit emotional. I had a bit of a lie down in the medical tent and after an hour or so I managed to take on some solid food and beer before getting my streetwear bag and my phone scrolling through all the messages I discovered I was 4th, hmmmm, annoying .it then transpired that one guy showing ahead of me hadnt completed the full course, so the official results had me on the podium in 3rd. Nice.
Although I didnt hit my main target, making the podium softened the blow. The highlight was the swim, followed closely by running myself onto the podium. Although I havent done the maths, I think I may well have dropped down a few places before the end of lap 3 which makes the run even more pleasing. Yes, it would have been good to have run faster, but for me it wasnt so much the about the run time, but more about how I managed the run. As much as anything this was also a result of how I managed the bike, making sure that I was sufficiently fuelled and hydrated so that I didnt blow up on the run.
With 6 Kona slots on offer, it was also nice to be able to make the 7th placed finisher a happy man as Id already decided not to take my slot. Having benefitted in the past from roll downs it was good karma to give something back
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My Results from 2015
Wimbleball UK 70.3 28/06/15
10th M45
(24:27/5:30/3:10.45/5:21/1:44.58 )
Outlaw 26/07/15
4th M45 10:07.55
Thames Turbo Sprint 31/08/15
7th 1:02.30
Challenge Weymouth 13/09/15
5th M45 10:07.40
My Results from 2014
Abu Dhabi Long Distance 15/03/14
Ironman South Africa 06/04/14
16th M45 11:02.34
Joey Hannon 27/04/14
3rd 1:57:08
Mallorca 70.3 10/05/14
4th M45 4:32.37
(23:36/3:56/2:29.25/3:22/1:32.18 )
Hell of The West (Killkee) 28/06/14
9th 2:07:20
Hillingdon Sprint 20/07/14
1st 1:14.18
Bedford Classic 27/07/14
4th 2:11:40
London Triathlon Olympic Plus 03/08/14
3rd 2:59:41
Monster Middle 17/08/14
2nd 3:59.31
ITU World AG Champs Standard 01/09/14
4th M45 2:03:59
(19:18/2:30/1:00.05/2:15/39:08 )
World 70.3 Championships 07/09/14
7th M45 4:18.17
Ironman Barcelona 05/10/14
3rd M45 9:05:59
_____My results from 2013____
Abu Dhabi Long Distance 02/03/13
1st M40 7:29.03
ETU Middle Distance Champs (Barcelona) 19/05/13
6th M40-44 4:55:48
Lough Cutra Olympic 26/05/13
3rd 2:12:38
Hever Castle Evening Sprint 12/06/13
1st 1:12.36
South Cerney Olympic 15/06/13
2nd 2:08:08
Ironman Frankfurt 07/07/13
14th M40 9:31:31 (S 49:32/T1 03:53/B 5:01:15/T2 02:43/R 3:34:08 )
London Triathlon Olympic Plus 28/07/13
1.5k/80k/10k - 2nd 3:08:31 (S 21:13/T1 2:57/B 2:04:01/T2 2:29/R 37:53)
European 70.3 Champs Wiesbaden 11/08/13
21st M40 4:41:52 (23:28/2:51/2:43:28/1:52/1:30:13)
Hillingdon Aquathlon 05/09/13
1st 24:12
Valencia Olympic 08/09/13
1st M40 2:10:08 (S 21:39/T1 1:38/B 1:06:35/T2 1:52/R 38:24)
ITU Aquathlon World Championships 11/09/13
1st M40 31:02
ITU World AG Champs - Standard 15/09/13
4th M40 1:51:30 (S 9:54/T1 2:52/B 1:00.32/T2 2:56/R 35:18 )
Ironman World Championship 12/10/13
11th M40 9:19:58 (S 53:33/T1 02:23/B 4:53:04/T2 03:20/R 3:27:38 )
_____My results from 2012____
Serp NYD 10k 01/01/12
- 15th 36:09
Met XC League Trent Park 4.75 mile XC 14/01/12
60th of 335 27:44
Southern England XC Champs Brighton 28/01/12
169th of 745 (20th vet) - 58:34 - 15k
Met XC League Perivale 5.66 mile XC 11/02/12
46th of 267 31:31
Roding Valley Half 26/02/12
7th of 910 75:51
Abu Dhabi Long Distance 03/03/12
Bath Half 11/03/12
111th 79:58
Brentwood Half 25/03/12
10th 75:49
USN Sprint Duathlon 01/04/12
5K/20K/5k - 1st 1:07:24 (Run 1 17:47/T1 0:28/Bike 30:37/T2 0:29/Run 2 18:03)
FulonTri Duathlon 14/04/12
6K/18K/6k - 4th 1:14:01 (Run 1 21:47/T1 0:29/Bike 30:18/T2 0:37/Run 2 20:49)
ETU European Champs 20/04/12
1st M40-44 1:59:47
Volcano Olympic 28/04/12
5th 2:04:40
GB Masters Champs Sheffield 50m pool 04/05/12
1500m - 2nd in 40-44 AG 18:50:79
ECCA 10m TT E2/10 05/05/12
38.01 (20:51 but late start penalty)Last
Norland 30m TT F1/30 06/05/12
1:05.03 3rd
ECCA 10m TT E91/10 07/05/12
22:08 3rd
Norland 50m TT F1/50 13/05/12
1:49.54 3rd
Ironman Lanzarote 19/05/12
9th M40 10:09:30 (S 50:31/T1 03:47/B 5:30:09/T2 06:10/R 3:38:54)
Herts 30m TT F1/30 27/05/12
1:03.15 2nd
Finsbury Park 50m TT F1/50 10/06/12
1:48:20 4th
Icknield 25m TT F1/25 01/07/12
55:01 5th
Challenge Roth 08/07/12
1st M40 9:03:21 (S 47:45/T1 02:22/B 5:02:40/T2 01:48/R 3:08:48 )
API 25m TT E2/25 14/07/12
50:35 10th
SwimFest 10k swim 15/07/12
2:21:14 5th
Shaftesbury CC 50m TT E2/50 21/07/12
1:46:41 18th
ITU LD World Champs Vitoria Gasteiz 29/07/12
2nd M40 6:18:36 (S 55:43/T1 02:40/B 3:05:25/T2 1:33/R 2:13:18 )
FPCC 25m TT F1/25 05/08/12
55:12 14th
Votwo Silverstone Duathlon 07/08/12
3K/18K/3k - 3rd 51:04 (Run 1 11:05/T1 0:16/Bike 28:16/T2 0:15/Run 2 11:12)
Irish MD Champs Half Ireman 19/08/12
2nd 4:29:21
Wicklow Aquathlon 22/08/12
3rd 28:22
Ironman 70.3 World Champs Las Vegas 09/09/12
40th M40 5:04:55(26:36/3:41/2:41:25/2:43/1:50:30)
London Triathlon Olympic Plus 23/09/12
1.5k/80k/10k - 2nd 3:08:56 (S 20:37/T1 3:28/B 2:02:37/T2 1:58/R 40:18 )
Votwo 3.8k Swim Dorney 30/09/12
48:32 3rd
Ironman World Championship 13/10/12
62nd M40 10:09:27 (S 54:36/T1 02:37/B 5:27:20/T2 05:21/R 3:39:27)
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An evangelist who kicks followers in the face, claiming his violence will cure them of cancer, is to tour Britain this month – but his proposed visit has provoked outrage and demands that he be banned from entering the country.
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Strappado, you chose an interesting name. Do you have a story to share?
: a punishment or torture in which the subject is hoisted by rope and allowed to fall its full length; also : a machine used to inflict this torture
Origin of STRAPPADO
modification of Italian strappata, literally, sharp pull
First Known Use: 1560
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This is the reason. I was hooked on this album at the time when I first started using this nick.
As a bonus, the strappado was used by the Inquisition.
Oh my goodness! this is not a relaxation album! When reading about the Malleus Maleficarum years ago I ran across the term strappado, a method used by Christians to torture confessions of witchcraft.
Designed to dislocate the shoulders of a victim by hoisting him off the ground, allowing him to fall, and stopping the victim suddenly before he or she touched the ground. To add to the torment, weights (varying from 50 to 500 pounds) were tied to the victim's body to dislocate a greater number of bones."
This Discovery Channel video presents a demonstration of the procedure as if they were testing the strength of wood or steel. Just watching it made my skin crawl.
The point I want to make here is that people with religious beliefs used any means necessary to gain their desired ends. They didn't have a moral compass to let them know they were doing evil things to innocent people. Kind of like what is happening in the USA today; creationists and intelligent design proponents use any means to gain their desired ends, including deluding themselves and misinforming gullible adults and innocent children and seem to have no moral compass with which to judge their actions.
Cool pic.
If I kicked someone in the face because God told me to I'd be locked up in an asylum! Maybe people who believe that getting their teeth kicked out can heal them of cancer should be locked up for their own safety...
Or maybe he just likes kicking people in the face and this is the only way he can find those stupid enough to let him.
Damn, what a gullible breed.
-- Agent Kay, MiB
Most evangelist faith healers just kick people in their wallets.
This man, Todd Bentley, sickens me. It's time someone kicks him in the face. And why hasn't he been arrested for assault?
sheesh they live close to some koch superfund site or...? is it.. egh eghm...
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Douglas Lima hasn't fared too poorly at 170 pounds.
He won the Maximum Fighting Championship welterweight title. And then he went to Bellator, won the $100,000 Season 5 tournament and fought for the title there, too. Not too shabby for a 25-year-old.
Lima (23-5 MMA, 5-1) fights Bryan Baker (18-4 MMA, 8-3) on Thursday at Bellator 90 in a Season 8 welterweight tournament semifinal fight, which takes place at Maverik Center in Salt Lake City. The event's main card airs live on Spike TV following prelims on Spike.com.
Clearly, his eyes are on a Bellator title at 170. But Lima also is thinking about the future, and he believes his future is likely to be at middleweight.
"I'm really thinking about moving up a weight class real soon," Lima on Tuesday told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "I don't know how much longer I can keep making the weight. It's a big thing I'm thinking about right now – maybe even later this year. Let's see how this tournament turns out, and let's see what's going to happen."
Lima said making the 170-pound weight becomes especially hard during Bellator's tournaments, which require three fights in three months, essentially four weeks apart.
Though he said he tries to keep the weight down in between tournament fights, Lima believes age is on his side now. He's 25 years old. But eventually, that's going to catch up to him when it comes to having to cut the amount he drops to make welterweight.
"It's not just the tournament," he said. "I'm just getting too big – 35 to 40 pounds is too much to cut. I don't want to kill my body. Right now, I'm young and I can do it. But later on, it's not going to be much fun.
"I eat a lot, but I do eat healthy – just too much intake. But before a fight, I eat really clean for six weeks. It's not about eating better – it's just how much I like to eat."
Against Baker, though, Lima won't be thinking about future plans at middleweight. He'll just be thinking about the next step toward another Bellator tournament crown and the $100,000 in total prize money that comes along with it.
And, of course, another shot at the title. His wins over Steve Carl, Chris Lozano and Ben Saunders got him a crack at Ben Askren in 2012, which he dropped by unanimous decision. He'd like nothing more than another crack.
Michael Tsarev was a TKO victim of Lima's brutal leg kicks this past month in the opening round. But he's not thinking about what Baker brings to the table so much as what he hopes to do: "The main thing is just get the fight over with as soon as possible.
"I've fought guys with his height before. He's just a different type of striker and comes in different ways. He's got a lot more reach than me, but i've fought guys like that and I'm not really concerned about him. I'm worried about what I'm going to do. I'm trained hard and I'm ready for this fight."
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|(Nanowerk News) Many of the most potent anticancer agents are poorly soluble in water, presenting a challenge for medicinal chemists who must develop methods of delivering these drugs in the watery environment of the human body. Nanoparticles appear to be perfectly suited to this task, and indeed, numerous research groups are developing nanoparticles specifically for delivering water-insoluble drugs to tumors.
|One such team, led by Jeffrey Hubbell, Ph.D., at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland, has developed a method that uses light to create a well-defined polymeric nanoparticle with internal spaces that can provide a friendly environment to water-insoluble drugs and channels through which the entrapped drugs can escape into malignant cells. The results of this effort appear in the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences ("Doxorubicin encapsulation and diffusional release from stable, polymeric, hydrogel nanoparticles.").
|The investigators created these nanoparticles from two different polymers that crosslink to each other when exposed to light from an argon laser for one hour. They then added the nanoparticles to a solution of doxorubicin and evaporated the solvent used to dissolve the anticancer drug. Nearly half of the drug in solution became encapsulated within the nanoparticles. The researchers note that the resulting nanoparticles contain a protein-repelling surface coating that should result in favorable pharmacokinetic behavior.
|Experiments to test the drug-release characteristics of these nanoparticles showed that maximum release occurred at approximately eight hours and then remained close to that level for a week. The data imply that release occurs through a diffusion mechanism, that is, drug travels through channels in the nanoparticle to the nanoparticle surface, as opposed to a disintegration mechanism in which the nanoparticle falls apart and releases drug.
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The Facebook page of the dancer known as Reggae Pops has been filled with memories over the past hours as longtime club-goers pay honor to a smooth-moving fixture on the city's night-life scene. Pops, born Nemencio Jose Andujar, died earlier this week, leaving a huge hole on the city's dance floor.
Best known to many for his star turn in the video for Lianne La Havas' "Age," Pops could be seen throughout the city's groovier clubs, be it the regular Wednesday night reggae party Dub Club, the summer Grand Performances series in downtown Los Angeles or anywhere a rhythm could be found.
"The soul of the L.A. party is gone,"


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The Night Shift combines light entertainment with topical healthcare debate
I'll admit it – I was not looking forward to watching The Night Shift for the purposes of reviewing the new Sony Channel show. My best friend is a… read more
The Night Shift combines light entertainment with topical healthcare debate
I'll admit it – I was not looking forward to watching The Night Shift for the purposes of reviewing the new Sony Channel show. My best friend is a doctor in training, and my boyfriend used to work at a hospital. I've seen a lot of medical dramas. I've seen their tropes (dying pregnant wives, children whose parents refuse life-saving treatment, sex in medical supply closets…), their jokes (I don't get them) and their completely absurd miracle storylines (too many to choose). When watching any new medical show for the first time, I'm hoping for the fast-paced adrenaline rush of ER, combined with the intense character drama of Grey's Anatomy and the easily watchable humour of Scrubs. It's not a small ask.
I was not expecting an American drama to hit so close to home on the current situation with the NHS. The Night Shift is set in an emergency room at a medical centre in San Antonio, and follows the work of doctors who handle the night shift. There are predictable characters, such as the seemingly perfect and desperate to impress Doctor Jordan Alexander and the frustrating and apparently heartless hospital administrator Michael Ragosa. Even the devil-may-care protagonist, former army doctor TC is basically Sawyer from LOST, if he were to have genius medical knowledge. Underneath that, however, is a powerful debate on equality and right versus wrong.
What struck me was the continuous friction between the doctors at the night shift and the hospital's administrator, who is concerned about cost-cutting and profit-making. He's also – this is the important part – not a doctor. While he refuses treatment to desperate patients without insurance (aren't we glad we live in Britain?) and goes head to head with these saintlike doctors over questions of human morality, I was thinking about the actions of Jeremy Hunt and his non-existent medical experience.
This is, of course, an incredibly topical subject in the US. Last week President Obama blocked a bill to repeal Obamacare, but the healthcare act has already more or less been pushed to the brink of non-existence. It definitely isn't the vision a young Barack Obama might have had for his country. However, it is extremely difficult to expect anybody – doctors or otherwise – to ignore an uninsured dying person in favour of someone richer. If we are to believe the rhetoric that political correctness is supposed to drive home – every person is equal – maybe the US ought to act on its principles and favour individuals equally. While we're not quite there in the UK, The Night Shift offers an insight on issues that may arise from the continual incremental dismantling of the NHS. It's not pretty.
The first episode's highlights include unique conditions, intriguing characters and outright ridiculous (read: only on TV) suggestions. It kept me entertained and it made me think, which is all I can really ask of television. It's not perfect, however. There are some cliches in the storytelling of The Night Shift that are irritating. The doctors seem to have ample time to spare on their shifts, which I can only assume they spend topping up their makeup as they all would look perfectly at home on the red carpet at the Oscars. This is pretty standard fare on television, so I suppose I can deal. What's more difficult to comprehend is TC's character. TC is great fun to watch, but one must suspend all their beliefs to accept that he might be appropriate in a hospital environment. Being remarkable at what you do does not make you exempt from rules and regulations, and it's exactly this sort of television make-believe that confuses the ordinary public about the effectiveness of medical workers.
In short, The Night Shift is engaging and thought-provoking – if predictable – fare that might offer a perspective on a future for healthcare we all should endeavour to avoid. That of America's.
The Night Shift airs Tuesday, January 12 at 9pm on Sony Channel.


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"Don't hassle the Ehrhoff."
There's your banner for the 300 level.
Fans in Buffalo were pleased and shocked when the Sabres traded for the rights to negotiate with and then signed Christian Ehrhoff – pleased because a player of his caliber decided to come to Buffalo, and shocked because a player of his caliber decided to come to Buffalo. He didn't come cheap. From the Vancouver Sun:
Ehrhoff, 28, was seeking a huge raise on the $3.1 million he made in 2010-11 and Vancouver Canucks GM Gillis apparently couldn't entice the German to accept Kevin Bieksa-type money of $4.6 million per season.
Ehrhoff was a mainstay on the Canucks' No. 1 power-play unit and collected 50 points last season. He had 42 points in 2009-10, his first with Vancouver.
"Playing on this team is more important than individual compensation and that's our expectation with everybody," Gillis continued. "It will work with some and it may not work with others. If he [Ehrhoff] is unwilling to accept what we think is fair and allows us to be competitive, then we'll move in a different direction."
A player with Ehrhoff's puck-moving and power-play ability should command north of $5 million.
Ehrhoff was thusly dealt away to the New York Islanders, who then failing to sign him, dealt him to Buffalo, where we now scoff at phrases such as "Bieksa-type money," and even the surly Golisano-esque "Playing on this team is more important than individual compensation."
In Buffalo, "should commend north of $5 million" translated into $10 million for Ehrhoff, along with a $8 million signing bonus, for the 2011-12 season. 2012-13 will award him $8 million, with another "signing bonus" $5 million. From there, he'll make $4 million until the 2017-18 season, where he drops to $3 million, and then to $1 million through the 2018-19 to 2020-21 seasons. All told, that's $53 million over ten seasons – but hey, if you do your "Pegula Math," that averages out to $5.3 million per season, and with a cap hit of $4 million per.
Turns out, over the long, long, long run, the money is right where it should be. Right? How much can we really expect as a return on our dollar?
Here's more from Vancouver, from the Sun's Sports Blog, which at least touches on his past accomplishments:
Ehrhoff will be greatly missed for his dynamic offense. While the German-born defender wasn't much of a shutdown guy, his mobility, offensive awareness, and his shot made him a threat to score from just about anywhere. Seriously, anywhere. Ehrhoff has a tendency to put himself out of position on occasional forays into the untold depths of the O-zone, but he also has a tendency to score beautiful goals from those same spots (and don't you worry: all these clips have happy endings).
Ladies and gentlemen: let every goal Christian Ehrhoff scored last season be his swansong.
Bang on the link above, to check out video of all of Ehrhoff's goals from last season (though it may take you a little while to watch all 14 of them).
We'll close with some quips from "Lighthouse Hockey," who brings some perspective from Ehrhoff's home in Long Island for all of 20 hours (and also adds some more insight into the Sabres current cap crisis):
Ten years, huh? TEN years for a defenseman! Here that team goes again. They never learned from that Alexei Yashin deal and they never learned from that Rick DiPietro deal.
'Cause here those crazy Islanders go again, with a 10-year contract — to a non-star defenseman, no less. And they're paying him EIGHTEEN MILLION in just the first two seasons alone.
Now granted, it tails off in the final four years to lessen the cap hit and dance around the salary cap (which all NHL teams should do, if they are in the blessed club that can get away with it).
Wait … what's that, you say? …
You say the contract are actually between the Buffalo Sabres and Christian Ehrhoff…?
Fantastic deal then. What moves! Such guts and commitment to winning! You can tell this franchise really cares!
Boy, they're really doing some great things in Buffalo, what with adding Ville Leino for six years at $4.5 million per to a collection that already includes Tomas Vanek for an eternity at over $7 million annually, and Jason Pominville at $5.3 million annually with a no-trade clause(!), to go with $6.25 million for the star goalie, and the $4 million still left on the contract for that 17-goal scorer who scored 40 goals that one time, long before they spent a draft pick to add him.
Now that is what I call putting your money where your mouth is, in all the right pl… well in some places, anyway.
Why, that franchise is so committed to winning, they even brought back Ales Kotalik and his $3 million salary — never mind that he hasn't performed like an NHLer in three seasons and has been rejected by every team from Alberta to Manhattan. It's just great to see such commitment and dedication in Buffalo.
Money, money, money. All the dollar bills in the world won't make a lick of difference if these signings help bring a Stanley Cup to Buffalo. And that's where most of the criticism tails off.
Yes, the Sabres have over-paid on contracts, but that is not unusual for NHL teams in this age that are aiming to be more than just competitive. The Sabres "only reason for existence is to win a Stanley Cup," as every Sabres fan knows very well by now. Let Regier toss his Pegula Bucks around. Let the green fall where it may.
And let Lord Stanley fall right in our laps.
That's the only thing that matters to us now.
Go Sabres.
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FOLKLORE: At the moment of their arrest on November 5, Lo Piccolo's son Sandro shouted out to his father: "I love you, papá . I love you papá!" This kind of public family drama no doubt echoed some of the dialogue from the HBO series The Sopranos. But the intrigue increased a few days later when police confirmed that they had found a one-page document they believe the Palermo boss had written for would-be mobsters to avoid trouble. Among the so-called Ten Commandments: Do not covet the wife of your fellow mobster; and do not steal from other Mafiosi. Not on the list: "Thou Shall Not Kill".
UGLY TRUTH: The Lo Piccolos are both convicted murderers. Police believe in the months before their arrest, the pair were successfully consolidating their power in and around the Sicilian capital, both by intimidation and by stepping up collaboration with American mobsters in the drug trafficking business.
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Confidence among upstate consumers reached a five-year high in October, a monthly survey by the Siena Research Institute shows.
Overall confidence—which includes current and future confidence—increased to 75.6 last month from 71 in September and 55.7 a year ago. That is the highest level since July 2007 when overall confidence was 76.3.
Current confidence rose to 73.9 in October from 72 in September and 56.9 a year ago. Future confidence was 76.6 last month, up from 70.3 in September and 55 in October 2011.
Statewide, overall confidence was 78.7 last month, compared with 78.2 in September and 59.1 a year ago. Current confidence rose slightly to 75.4 from 75 in September, but was up sharply from 57.6 a year ago. Future confidence was 80.8 last month, compared with 80.3 in September and 60.1 in October 2011.
Nationally, overall confidence reached a five-year high at 82.6, compared with 78.3 in September and 60.9 a year ago. Current confidence was 88.1 last month, compared with 85.7 in September and 75.1 a year ago. Future confidence rose to 79 last month from 73.5 in September and 51.8 in October 2011.
Democrats continued to report the highest overall confidence last month and Republicans reported the lowest.
"With this polling completed prior to both the election and superstorm Sandy, the national consumer mood may have foreshadowed the president's re-election," SRI founding director Douglas Lonnstrom said. "Sandy's destruction, while not factored into this month's numbers, will necessitate consumer spending as New Yorkers and New York area residents rebuild and recover from nature's fury."
Some 71 percent of upstate consumers said gas prices are having a very serious or somewhat serious impact on their financial condition, up from 70 percent from September. Seventy-seven percent said food prices were having a serious impact on their finances, compared with 66 percent in September.
Buying plans were up for computers and major home improvements in October, while plans to purchase vehicles, furniture and homes were down.
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Gen. Salim Idriss, the commander of rebel forces in Syria, complained late Tuesday that President Obama's desire "to wait and wait for more evidence" that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons is encouraging their continued use — and that these attacks will only stop if the United States and its allies impose a no-fly zone.
Idriss, who heads the moderate wing of the Free Syrian Army, has emerged as the key U.S. ally in the Syrian conflict. While he appreciates the recent increase in U.S. training and humanitarian support, and the talk in Washington of sending lethal aid, he was clearly frustrated by the comments that Obama had made to reporters a few hours earlier.
Obama said in the televised news conference that he wanted solid evidence of chemical weapons that could prompt international action against Bashar al-Assad. "If we end up rushing to judgment without hard, effective evidence, then we can find ourselves in a position where we can't mobilize the international community to support what we do," Obama said.
But Idriss countered that his forces have enough information now to answer Obama's questions of how, where and when the weapons were deployed on four separate occasions. He welcomed U.S. plans to train his forces but said this strategy will be useless if Assad continues the chemical attacks. Idriss claimed the regime could deliver the chemical weapons with planes and Scud missiles, which he said must be destroyed.
Idriss, a German-trained engineer who defected from Assad last summer, voices moderate, non-sectarian views. He opposes the extremist al-Nusra Front and said he has ordered his fighters to stop cooperating with them. He repeated a February statement to me that he's ready to negotiate a political transition with Syrian army commanders who haven't ordered the deaths of civilians.
Idriss also offered to meet "right now" with Russian officials. "If they have some interests, we will discuss the Russian role in the future. We will be very positive," he said.
The Obama administration sees Russia as a necessary participant in any negotiated political transition in Syria. Obama's desire for Russian cooperation is one reason he has been cautious in responding to allegations that Assad has used chemical weapons. Obama talked by phone to President Vladimir Putin Monday, and an official said "we still do believe there's a constructive role for Russia to play."
Idriss was emphatic about his break from the al-Nusra Front, which is an offshoot of al-Qaeda in Iraq. "We don't work with al-Nusra. We don't share anything with them." He said fighters from the extremist group had fought alongside some of his battalions, "but they were not invited."
Building up Idriss' Supreme Military Council is crucial given the administration's expectation of a continuing struggle after Assad is toppled. "There could be a second war after Assad falls ... as factions battle for control," explained a senior administration official Tuesday. The official said the extremist threat had been discussed with Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and others.
The U.S. official agreed that there was "a growing reluctance" among Idriss' mainstream umbrella group to work with al-Nusra, especially after it formally pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda in Iraq a few weeks ago. "Al-Nusra's gains haven't been arrested, but their progress has been decelerated," said the U.S. official.
Whether Idriss and his moderate forces can expand their command-and-control network is the crucial issue for the United States — and also the most problematic. The Syrian opposition is almost entirely Sunni Muslim and has deep Islamist roots. The battalions nominally under Idriss' command have been fighting alongside jihadist groups for more than a year, and it will take more than official statements to accomplish a separation.
Squeezing the extremists will be impossible without more help from Turkey, across whose border the Syrian jihadist fighters travel daily to receive money and supplies from wealthy Gulf Arabs. The United States is hoping that Turkey will crack down harder on this cross-border traffic, and this will be a key topic when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Washington in mid-May.
To underline his plea for help, Idriss is sending a letter to Obama. "Mr. President, I understand the reasons behind your cautious involvement in Syria," a draft said. "We desperately need your support, as the Free Syrian Army under my command has neither the requisite training nor equipment to counter the effects of Assad's chemical weapons or to destroy them."
Perhaps most important, Idriss said in his letter that "our future Free Syria will not need weapons of mass destruction." In other words, to get rid of "senseless" chemical weapons, dump Assad.
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Wichita Wild to Host Salina Bombers for the 2013 CPIFL Championship
The CPIFL Championship is set. Last weekend, the Wichita Wild defeated the Omaha Beef 31-25 and the Salina Bombers upset the Sioux City Bandits 29-28. The Wichita Wild will host the Salina Bombers this Saturday, June 22 at 7:05 p.m.
These two teams met twice during the regular season, and Wichita won the first game 60-34 in March and 45-40 in May. These two teams are only separated by 90 miles and will be played at the Hartman Arena in Wichita.
Which team do you think will win the first CPIFL Championship?


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