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Seymour's Vartelas unslowed by injury
Seymour High senior tailback Jim Vartelas is back where he belongs, and the Wildcats are reaping the benefits.
A year ago, Vartelas was slated to be the starting tailback, but a preseason injury sidelined him for the first four weeks of the season.
Because of the injury, Seymour coach Tom Lennon needed to switch fullback Jon Wilson to tailback and bring in Jack Briggs at fullback.
When Vartelas returned to the lineup, he played sparingly on offense, although he was a key member on defense.
Vartelas got off to a fast start this season, scoring four touchdowns in the Wildcats' 57-12 win over Sacred Heart last Friday.
That came on the heels of a two-TD performance in the season-opening win over Whitney Tech of Hamden.
"Jimmy worked really hard in the off-season and received plenty of reps to get accustomed to being a starter," said Lennon. "He went into the season pretty confident."
Vartelas is also a key basketball and baseball player for the Wildcats.
Seymour (2-0) visits Kennedy (0-2) on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Municipal Stadium in Waterbury. Last year, the Wildcats narrowly won in a tiebreaker, 12-6.
Going gloveless: When Kennedy's Davon Humbles intercepted a pass on the final play of the first half against Wilby on Saturday and sprinted 59 yards for a touchdown to tie the game at 6-6, Humbles' gloves were in the back pocket of Kennedy coach Chris Sarlo.
For some unknown reason, Humbles tossed them to Sarlo just before the play.
"I don't know what it is for the kids, maybe it's a superstition, but kids like wearing the gloves," said Sarlo. "We have a rule: If you drop a pass, you take them off."
In the case of Humbles, he hadn't dropped a pass. But his decision to remove the gloves, even for a fleeting moment, paid off. Though Humbles initially bobbled the pass from Wilby quarterback Brandon Sierra, he regained the touch, grabbed the ball and never lost stride before hitting the end zone.
Wilby won the game, 26-12.
Not in the scoring summary: Watertown linebacker Rocco Guerrera recorded seven tackles, an interception and a quarterback sack in the Indians' 28-13 loss to Holy Cross.
The interception came early in the game and led to a Watertown touchdown and a 7-0 lead.
"Rocco was very focused before the game and right away, he read the quarterback's (Kristian Harmeling) eyes and made the right drop back and, sure enough, picked off the ball," said Watertown coach Mike Veronneau.
Quote of the week: "Stop dancing around. All of you are dancing around instead of running." — Wilby offensive coordinator Michael Blaskey after his players were getting stopped for short yardage by going east-west instead of north-south in the Wildcats' win over Kennedy.
TV showcase: MyTV9's High School Football Game of the Week features the 90th meeting between Derby (2-0) and Ansonia (2-0), and will be televised Saturday at 7 p.m. The game will be streamed online at www.wtnh.com.
The game was scheduled for Friday, but moved to tonight at 7 because of rain forecast for Friday.
Last year, Ansonia beat Derby, 55-19, and leads the series, 53-28-8. The last time Derby won came in 2001, 14-12.
Ansonia has won the last three meetings.
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I am going on a holiday to Spain and Portugal and I wish to go to Gibraltar for 1 day. I have been granted a multi-entry Schengen visa. Do I need a visa for Gibraltar too?
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For others must be issued Gibraltar visa. More information
Your Schengen visa is probably not valid. Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and thus not part of the Schengen area.
There is a list of countries which need a visa, so depending on where you are from, you'll need to get an extra visa. Note that if you have a multiple-entry visa for the UK that was issued for at least six months, you don't need to get a new visa.


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WICHITA, Kan. - Tekele Cotton led five Shockers in double figures with 18 points, including four three-pointers as the Shockers earned another road win in the MVC by defeating Northern Iowa 82-73. Cleanthony Early chipped in 16 points, while Darius Carter scored 15 points off the bench. Fred VanVleet had 14 points and seven rebounds and Ron Baker added 12 points and six assists in the win.
Northern Iowa jumped out to an early 6-3 lead in the first half after capitalizing on three second chance opportunities. The Panthers grabbed three early offensive rebounds and turned the extra possessions into points, all on put back layups.
The Shockers regained the lead at 8-6 after Baker hit a midrange jumper and Cotton followed with a trey from the right wing. Wichita State increased its lead to five at 13-8 after Early converted an old-fashioned three point play. Early drew contact on the block and finished the play with a basket and a free-throw.
The Panthers quickly answered by scoring the next four points to cut the Shocker lead to 13-12 with 13:30 remaining in the first half. Chip Rank drained a three from the top of the key and Ted Friedman added a free throw for Northern Iowa.
Carter threw down a two-handed slam from a VanVleet assist that saw Wichita State's lead climb back up to five at 17-12, but Northern Iowa quickly responded scoring the next five points on another three-pointer from Jeremy Morgan and a goal-tending layup by Deon Mitchell to tie the game at 17-17.
Early capped a 9-3 Shocker run with his second three-pointer of the game that gave Wichita State a 26-20 lead and forced a Northern Iowa timeout.
Northern Iowa cut the lead to 29-27, but VanVleet drained a trey from the right wing and assisted on Cotton's second three-pointer that expanded the lead to 35-27.
Rank made his second three-pointer of the game for Northern Iowa, and Chadrack Lufile answered for Wichita State with a three point play of his own for a 42-35 advantage. Wichita State headed into the locker room with a 44-37 edge over the Panthers.
A 6-0 run by Northern Iowa started the second half as the Panthers cut the lead to 44-43. Singleton made two jump shots that highlighted the early second half run for the Panthers.
Wichita State broke things open and answered the Panther run with a 12-1 run of their own to take a 56-44 lead. Carter highlighted the run with back to back layups for Wichita State, the latter came with a free-throw as well.
Cotton gave Wichita State its biggest lead of the game at 66-52 with a driving up and under layup. Rank hit another three for Northern Iowa and Wes Washpun scored under the basket to get the Panthers within nine at 66-57, but VanVleet hit another long distance shot to stop what would have been a late rally from Northern Iowa.
Wichita State is next in action on Tuesday, Feb. 11 when they host Southern Illinois inside Charles Koch Arena at 7 p.m.


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Timbre, also called tone color or tone quality, is the quality of a musical note that differentiates different types of sound, such as a trumpet and a guitar. When these two instruments play a note with the same loudness and pitch, they still sound different. That is because the timbre of the instruments is different. Timbre is determined by the physical characteristics of the sound, such as the spectral envelope, the rise, duration, and decay time envelope, the prefix to the sound, micro-intonation, and the range between tonal and noiselike character. Timbre is the quality of a sound that makes it different from others.
Why is it that two singers with the same range, singing the same note, at the same volume, do not sound the same? They might sound similar, but they might sound extremely different. It depends on the physical aspects of that which produces the sound, such as the vocal cords, and the method of delivery. That's why some people have extraordinarily beautiful voices and some people, frankly, do not.
Timbre is that which makes you cry when you hear a sad song. It is what makes bagpipes so mournful. It is what makes a violin sound so beautifully sad. But it is also what makes the saxophone and flute so joyful. The pitch plays no part in the emotions associated with the sound. The timbre controls that entirely. The method in which these instruments are played also affects how they sound. For instance, the violin can sound incredibly happy and upbeat when played in an Irish folk song. And the flute can sound wistful and lonely when played slowly, with long notes stretching out sorrowfully. All of the emotions we feel when we listen to music come from the tone quality, the timbre.
Here's an example of the mournful, yet beautiful, bagpipes at work:
And here is an example of very interesting and beautiful timbre in a voice:


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The following Japanese sentence was translated with
その as "the":
その 仕事の一部を誰かにやってもらったほうがいい。
You should get someone else to do some of the work for you.
while I translated it with
その as "that":
You'd better get someone to do part of that job for you.
その is translated as "the," will it be ignoring some part of it's meaning?
Furthermore, if
その is deleted as:
would it be ungrammatical? By intending
仕事 to mean "job/work in general" as opposed to specifically "that job/work," would the meaning become too vague to be adequately comprehensible?


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I am having hundreds of feeds in my Google Reader. Some of the feeds have ceased to work (technically) or have not received new posts for years. Would there be some kind of automatic way to clean-up your Google Reader from feeds which are no longer active?
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Supposedly you can harass the enemy jungle a little by killing the valuable creeps in a jungle pack and leaving one of the cheap minions around to delay a full respawn. How does this work exactly? If I see a solo minion up at one of our buffs, should I kill it or let it be? Is there a difference between leaving two minions up and coming back later and killing another to delay a buff/respawn?
A given camp will not respawn unless ALL of it's creeps in that camp is first dead. Only then will the respawn timer start up.
If it's a camp on your side of the jungle that has only one creep left, make sure to kill that creep so that camp actually respawns.
A great way to counter jungle is to steal all of the creeps except for one of the small creeps per camp. The enemy jungle will have to kill that creep and wait the full respawn time for the camp to come back.
Jungle Timers
I noticed that the question is not very specific so I split the question and put the answers for each question inside of it:
The mechanic of camps are: they will respawn only after all minions from that camp are dead. the counter start by the time the last minion die.
You should clear it. Unless the camp is blue or red and you believe that none of your team (including you) will get in the respawn time.
NO, "A monster camp will not respawn unless all of its creeps have been slain. For example, if the Lizard Elder has been slain, but his two smaller lizard companions have not, the Lizard Elder will not respawn until they have been slain. Jungle invaders may deliberately do this to deprive their opponent of jungle gp/exp."
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A Tibetan initiative to celebrate the natural environment.
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The specificity of this transverse network of international solidarity is to regroup NGO representatives from three countries, each of them symbolizing a continent:Democratic Republic of Congo (Africa) Colombia (South America) Tibet (Asia)having the…
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The purpose of MEEC is to preserve Tibetan language and culture through the generations by enhancing practical use; to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge of Western science and technology to Tibetans, particulaly to the younger generations, in…
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Peace and development are still the main themes in this new century. It is the trend of the times that people of the world want peace.
Sherig - Tibetan Children's Educational and Welfare Fund
The Department of Education, Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (commonly known as the Tibetan Government-in-Exile) oversees the welfare and educational needs of all Tibetan children in India, Nepal and Bhutan. Through…
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Friends of Tibet (INDIA), is a Tibet Support Group (TSG) formed in Dharamsala on March 9, 1999 with members from all over the world with an intention of informing people the unique cultural and religious identity of the Tibetan people and for working…
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The Multi-Education Centre is a non-profit educational centre to provide support for newly-arrived Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala, India.
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I've been trying to make white chocolate brownies by taking a normal brownie recipe and replacing dark chocolate with white chocolate. It doesn't work, though - the butter seems to split, and the consistency gets totally wrong. I'm just trying to make a white chocolate cake that's fudgy and dense like a brownie. What am I doing wrong?
As you noticed, white chocolate doesn't have the same fat or solid makeup as regular chocolate, and in baking that will make a huge difference. The proportions of starch/binder (flour) to fat (butter & chocolate) to protein (eggs) are what make the difference between cake, brownie, fudge and everything in between.
White chocolate tends to melt faster than regular chocolate, so the baking time will be shorter, and there'll probably need to be extra flour & butter to make up the difference.
Go ahead and google for a basic recipe & then you should be able to make most of the same add-ins (nuts, extracts/flavorings) as any regular brownie recipe.
I would warn you to stay away from the "marble brownie" recipes though - they're really popular, but these are not two batters that play well with each other.
EDIT: Regular chocolate varies broadly in its fat makeup - different countries have diff regulations on what types of (natural) fats and (artificial) emulsifiers can be added to chocolate and chocolate-derived products. White chocolate has the same ingredient list as milk chocolate (w/o the cocoa solids), but again, the proportions and allowed/disallowed additives may be different. So you have to mind your brands/country-of-origin, as well as the "family" of chocolate.
Hershey's (US): http://www.thehersheycompany.com/nutrition-and-wellness/chocolate-101/types-of-chocolate.aspx
EU standards: http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/consumers/product_labelling_and_packaging/l21122b_en.htm (If someone can find a more consumer-friendly explanation of EU chocolate labeling, that would be great.)


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This question at StackOverflow mentions that DSA cannot be used for encrypt. But Both RSA and DSA can be used to generate public and private keys, right? (Or am I wrong?). Then why can't I use the DSA public key to encrypt?
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DSA stands for "Digital Signature Algorithm" - and is specifically designed to produce digital signatures, not perform encryption.
The requirement for public/private keys in this system is for a slightly different purpose - whereas in RSA, a key is needed so anyone can encrypt, in DSA a key is needed so anyone can verify. In RSA, the private key allows decryption; in DSA, the private key allows signature creation.
The fact that RSA also can be used for signatures is a result of the textbook algorithm being a trapdoor permutation - in simple terms, this means the ciphertext and the plaintext are part of the same set space. It is not a requirement of a public key algorithm for this to be the case - public key algorithms just require trapdoor functions.
I don't know about the math, but without encryption, DSA is not subject to encryption law. It can be used in a product and that product can be exported.


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Guided by Security Council resolutions 1373 (2001) and 1624 (2005), the CTC works to bolster the ability of United Nations Member States to prevent terrorist acts both within their borders and across regions. It was established in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks in the United States.
The CTC is assisted by the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), which carries out the policy decisions of the Committee, conducts expert assessments of each Member State and facilitates counter-terrorism technical assistance to countries.
Resolution 1373 (2001), adopted unanimously on 28 September 2001, calls upon Member States to implement a number of measures intended to enhance their legal and institutional ability to counter terrorist activities, including taking steps to:
- Criminalize the financing of terrorism
- Freeze without delay any funds related to persons involved in acts of terrorism
- Deny all forms of financial support for terrorist groups
- Suppress the provision of safe haven, sustenance or support for terrorists
- Share information with other governments on any groups practicing or planning terrorist acts
- Cooperate with other governments in the investigation, detection, arrest, extradition and prosecution of those involved in such acts; and
- Criminalize active and passive assistance for terrorism in domestic law and bring violators to justice.
The resolution also calls on States to become parties, as soon as possible, to the relevant international counter-terrorism legal instruments.
Resolution 1624 (2005) pertains to incitement to commit acts of terrorism, calling on UN Member States to prohibit it by law, prevent such conduct and deny safe haven to anyone "with respect to whom there is credible and relevant information giving serious reasons for considering that they have been guilty of such conduct."
Since 1 January 2016, Chair of CTC is H.E. Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations. His bio can be found here. Former CTC Chairpersons are listed here. For a complete list of current Chairs and Vice-Chairs of subsidiary bodies of the Security Council, please consult S/2016/2.
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In short, the work of the CTC and CTED comprises:
Country visits - at their request, to monitor progress, as well as to evaluate the nature and level of technical assistance a given country may need in order to implement resolution 1373 (2001);
Technical assistance - to help connect countries to available technical, financial, regulatory and legislative assistance programmes, as well as to potential donors;
Country reports – to provide a comprehensive snapshot of the counter-terrorism situation in each country and serve as a tool for dialogue between the Committee and Member States;
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- Special meetings – to develop closer ties with relevant international, regional and subregional organizations, and to help avoid duplication of effort and waste of resources through better coordination.


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what I want is to have a quote like this:
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Then underneath that quote I want a small picture of god, lets take this one
And to the right of that image of god I want the reference of the quote (above both the image and the reference)
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I can obviously quote the text, and I can put the reference to the right of the image with the
sidecap package, and I can position the figure under the quote with the
[H] property. I can also wrap text around images. But apparently
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Figure. 1 next to the reference, and if there are multiple images there is no guarantee of the outcome. Word wrap also does not guarantee that the reference is next to the correct image. How Can I achieve this in some meaningful way.


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Ozzie Smith
- Position(s):
- Nicknames:
- The Wizard of Oz
- Born:
- December 26, 1954
- Bats:
- Left
- Throws:
- Right
- Height:
- 5' 11"
- Weight:
- 150 lbs
- Major League Debut:
- 4-07-1978 with SDN
- Allstar Selections:
- Hall of Fame:
- 2002
Osborne Earl "Ozzie" Smith (born December 26, 1954) is an American former shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996. Nicknamed "The Wizard" for his defensive brilliance, Smith set major league records for career assists (8,375) and double plays (1,590) by a shortstop (the latter since broken by Omar Vizquel), as well as the National League (NL) record with 2,511 career games at the position; Smith won the NL Gold Glove Award for play at shortstop for 13 consecutive seasons (1980–1992). A 15-time Major League Baseball All-Star, he accumulated 2,460 hits and 580 stolen bases during his career, and won the NL Silver Slugger Award as the best-hitting shortstop in 1987. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2002.
Smith was born in Mobile, Alabama, but his family moved to Watts, Los Angeles when he was six years old. While participating in childhood athletic activities, Smith developed quick reflexes; he went on to play baseball in high school and college, at Los Angeles' Locke High School and California Polytechnic State University, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo respectively. Drafted as an amateur player by the Padres, Smith made his major league debut in 1978. He quickly established himself as an outstanding fielder, and later became known for performing backflips on special occasions while taking his position at the beginning of a game. Smith won his first Gold Glove Award in 1980, and made his first All-Star Game appearance in 1981. When conflict with Padres' ownership developed, he was traded to the Cardinals for shortstop Garry Templeton in 1982.
Upon joining the Cardinals, Smith helped the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals team win the 1982 World Series. Three years later, his game-winning home run during Game 5 of the 1985 National League Championship Series prompted broadcaster Jack Buck's "Go crazy, folks!" play-by-play call. Despite a rotator cuff injury during the 1985 season, Smith posted career highs in multiple offensive categories in 1987. Smith continued to earn Gold Gloves and All-Star appearances on an annual basis until 1993. During 1995 season, Smith had shoulder surgery and was out nearly three months. After tension with his new manager Tony La Russa developed in 1996, Smith retired at season's end, and his uniform number (# 1) was subsequently retired by the Cardinals. Smith served as host of the television show This Week in Baseball from 1997 to 1999, and continues to be an entrepreneur in a variety of business ventures.
Early life
Smith was born in Mobile, Alabama, the second of Clovis and Marvella Smith's six children (five boys and one girl). While the family lived in Mobile, his father worked as a sandblaster at Brookley Air Force Base. When Smith was six his family moved to the Watts section of Los Angeles, California. His father became a delivery truck driver for Safeway stores, while his mother became an aide at a nursing home. His mother was an influential part of his life who stressed the importance of education and encouraged him to pursue his dreams.
Smith played a variety of sports in his youth, but considered baseball to be his favorite. He developed quick reflexes through various athletic and leisure activity, such as bouncing a ball off the concrete steps in front of his house, moving in closer to reduce reaction time with each throw. When not at the local YMCA or playing sports, Smith sometimes went with friends to the neighborhood lumberyard, springboarding off inner tubes and doing flips into sawdust piles (a precursor to his famous backflips). In 1965, at age ten, he endured the Watts Riots with his family, recalling that, "We had to sleep on the floor because of all the sniping and looting going on."
While Smith was attending junior high school, his parents decided to divorce. Continuing to pursue his interest in baseball, he would ride the bus for nearly an hour to reach Dodger Stadium, cheering for the Los Angeles Dodgers at about 25 games a year. Upon becoming a student at Locke High School, Smith played on the basketball and baseball teams. Smith was a teammate of future National Basketball Association player Marques Johnson on the basketball team, and a teammate of future fellow Hall-of-Fame player Eddie Murray on the baseball side. After high school Smith attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1974 on a partial academic scholarship, and managed to walk-on to the baseball team. In addition to his academic education, he learned to switch-hit from Cal Poly coach Berdy Harr. When Cal Poly's starting shortstop broke his leg midway through the 1974 season, Smith subsequently took over the starting role. Later named an All-American athlete, he established school records in career at bats (754) and career stolen bases (110) before graduating in 1977.
Professional baseball career
San Diego Padres
Smith was playing semi-professional baseball in Clarinda, Iowa, in June 1976 when he was selected in the seventh round of the amateur entry draft by the Detroit Tigers. The parties could not agree on a contract; Smith wanted a $10,000 ($ in current dollar terms) signing bonus, while the Tigers offered $8,500 ($ in current dollar terms). Smith returned to Cal Poly for his senior year, then in the 1977 draft was selected in the fourth round by the San Diego Padres, ultimately agreeing to a contract that included a $5,000 signing bonus ($ in current dollar terms). Smith spent his first year of professional baseball, 1977, with the Class A Walla Walla Padres of the Northwest League.
Smith began 1978 as a non-roster invitee to the San Diego Padres' spring training camp in Yuma, Arizona. Smith credited Padres manager Alvin Dark for giving him confidence by telling reporters the shortstop job was Smith's until he proved he can't handle it. Even though Dark was fired in the middle of training camp, Smith made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut on April 7, 1978.
It did not take long for Smith to earn recognition in the major leagues, making what some consider his greatest fielding play only ten games into his rookie season. The Padres played host to the Atlanta Braves on April 20, 1978, and with two out in the top of the fourth inning, Atlanta's Jeff Burroughs hit a ground ball up the middle. Smith described the play by saying, "He hit a ball back up the middle that everybody thought was going into center field. I instinctively broke to my left and dove behind second. As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first."
During a roadtrip to Houston, later in the season, Smith met a part-time usherette at the Astrodome named Denise while making his way to the team bus outside the stadium. The couple developed a relationship that was sometimes long-distance in nature, and eventually decided to marry. It was also during the 1978 season that Smith introduced a signature move. Padres promotion director Andy Strasberg knew Smith could perform backflips, but that he only did them during practice before fans entered the stadium. Strasberg asked Smith to do a backflip for fans during Fan Appreciation Day on October 1, the Padres' last home game of the season. After conferring with veteran teammate Gene Tenace, Smith went ahead with the backflip, and it proved to be wildly popular. Smith finished the 1978 season with a .258 batting average and .970 fielding percentage, placing second in National League Rookie of the Year voting to Bob Horner.
After working with a hitting instructor during the offseason, Smith failed to record a base hit in his first 32 at bats of the 1979 season. Among players with enough at-bats to qualify for the 1979 National League Triple Crown, Smith finished the season last in batting average (.211), home runs (0), and RBI (27). Off the field, conflict developed between Padres' ownership and the combination of Smith and his agent, Ed Gottlieb. The parties entered into a contract dispute before the 1980 season, and when negotiations lasted into spring training, the Padres renewed Smith's contract at his 1979 salary of $72,500 Angered by the Padres' attitude during those contract talks, Gottlieb took out a help-wanted ad in the San Diego Union, part of which read, "Padre baseball player wants part-time employment to supplement income." When Joan Kroc, wife of Padres owner Ray Kroc, publicly offered Smith a job as an assistant gardener on her estate, Smith and Gottlieb's relationship with the organization deteriorated further.
Meanwhile, Smith was winning recognition for his accomplishments on the field. In 1980, he set the single-season record for most assists by a shortstop (621), and began his string of 13 consecutive Rawlings Gold Glove awards. Smith's fielding play prompted the Yuma Daily Sun to use the nickname "The Wizard of Oz" in a March 1981 feature article about Smith. While "The Wizard of Oz" nickname was an allusion to the 1939 motion picture of the same name, Smith also came to be known as simply "The Wizard" during his playing career, as Smith's Baseball Hall of Fame plaque would later attest. In 1981, Smith made his first 1981 All-Star Game appearance as a reserve player.
While Smith was having problems with the Padres' owners, the St. Louis Cardinals also found themselves unhappy with their shortstop. During a game at Busch Stadium on August 26, 1981, Garry Templeton made obscene gestures at fans before being pulled off the field by manager Whitey Herzog. Given the task of overhauling the Cardinals by owner Gussie Busch, Herzog was looking to trade Templeton when he was approached by Padres General Manager Jack McKeon at the 1981 baseball winter meetings. While McKeon had previously told Herzog that Smith was untouchable in any trade, the Padres were now so angry at Smith's agent Gottlieb that McKeon was willing to deal.
McKeon and Herzog agreed in principle to a six-player trade, with Templeton for Smith as the centerpiece. It was then that Padres manager Dick Williams informed Herzog that a no-trade clause had been included in Smith's 1981 contract. Upon learning of the trade, Smith's initial reaction was to invoke the clause and stay in San Diego, but he was still interested to hear what the Cardinals had to say. While the deal for the players beside Templeton and Smith went through, Herzog flew to San Diego to meet with Smith and Gottlieb over the Christmas holiday. Smith later recalled that, "Whitey told me that with me playing shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, we could win the pennant. He made me feel wanted, which was a feeling I was quickly losing from the Padres. The mere fact that Whitey would come all the way out there to talk to us was more than enough to convince me that St. Louis was the place I wanted to be."
St. Louis Cardinals
After more behind-the-scenes contract wrangling, Smith became a St. Louis Cardinal on February 11, 1982. Herzog believed Smith could improve his offensive production by hitting more ground balls, and subsequently created a motivational tool designed to help Smith concentrate on that task. Approaching Smith one day during spring training, Herzog said, "Every time you hit a fly ball, you owe me a buck. Every time you hit a ground ball, I owe you a buck. We'll keep that going all year." Smith agreed to the wager, and by the end of the season had won close to $300 from Herzog. As the 1982 season got underway, Herzog's newly assembled team won 12 games in a row during the month of April, and finished the season atop the National League East division. Herzog would later say of Smith's contributions that, "If he saved two runs a game on defense, which he did many a night, it seemed to me that was just as valuable to the team as a player who drove in two runs a game on offense."
Smith became a father for the first time during the 1982 season with the birth of his son O.J., today known as Nikko, on April 28. Smith also developed a lasting friendship with teammate Willie McGee during the season, and Smith said he likes to think he "helped Willie get over some of the rough spots of adjusting to the major leagues". Smith later participated in the postseason for the first time when the 1982 Cardinals faced the 1982 Atlanta Braves in the best-of-five 1982 National League Championship Series (NLCS). Smith drove in the series' first run by hitting a sacrifice fly that scored McGee in Game 1, ultimately going five for nine in St. Louis' three-game series sweep.
Just as Herzog had predicted when he told Smith the Cardinals would win the pennant with him on the team, Smith found himself as the team's starting shortstop in the best-of-seven 1982 World Series against the Milwaukee Brewers. During the contest Smith scored three runs, had five hits, and did not commit an error in the field. When St. Louis was trailing 3–1 with one out in the sixth inning of Game 7, Smith started a rally with a base hit to left field, eventually scoring the first of the team's three runs that inning. The Cardinals scored two more runs in the 8th inning for a 6-3 win and the championship.
After the World Series championship, Smith and the Cardinals agreed on a new contract in January 1983 that paid Smith $1 million per year. Smith was voted in as the National League's starting shortstop in the All-Star Game for the first time in 1983, and at season's end won a fourth consecutive Gold Glove Award. During July of the 1984 season, Smith went on the disabled list with a broken wrist after being hit by a pitch during a game against the Padres. Smith's return to the lineup a month later was not enough to propel the Cardinals to a postseason berth.
In 1985, Smith amassed a .276 batting average, 31 stolen bases, and 591 assists in the field. The Cardinals as a team won 101 games during the season and earned another postseason berth. Facing the Los Angeles Dodgers in the now best-of-seven 1985 National League Championship Series, a split of the first four games set the stage for 1985 NLCS at Busch Stadium. With the score tied at two runs apiece in the bottom of the ninth inning, Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda called upon closer Tom Niedenfuer to pitch. Smith batted left-handed against Niedenfuer with one out. Smith, who had never hit a home run in his previous 3,009 left-handed major league at-bats, pulled an inside fastball down the right-field line for a home run, ending Game 5 in a 3–2 Cardinals victory. Smith said, "I was trying to get an extra-base hit and get into scoring position. Fortunately, I was able to get the ball up." The home run not only prompted broadcaster Jack Buck's "Go crazy folks" play-by-play call, but was also later voted the greatest moment in Busch Stadium history by Cardinals fans.
After Smith's teammate Jack Clark hit a late-inning home run of his own in Game 6 to defeat the Dodgers, the Cardinals moved on to face the 1985 Kansas City Royals in the 1985 World Series. Once again sportswriters were quick to draw attention to Smith's outstanding defensive play instead of his 2 for 23 effort at the plate. After the Cardinals took a three-games-to-two advantage, a controversial Game 6 call by umpire Don Denkinger overshadowed the remainder of the Series (which the Royals won in seven games).
What was not publicly known during the regular season and playoffs was that Smith had torn his rotator cuff after suffering an impingement in his right shoulder during the July 11–14 homestand against the Padres. After suffering the impingement diving back into first base on a pickoff throw, Smith altered his throwing motion to such a degree that the rotator cuff tear subsequently developed. The 5'10" (1.78 m), 180-pound (82 kg) Smith opted to forgo surgery and instead built up his arm strength via weightlifting, playing through whatever pain he encountered. Said Smith, "I didn't tell anybody about the injury, because I wanted to keep playing and didn't want anybody thinking they could run on me or take advantage of the injury. I tried to do almost everything, except throw a baseball, left-handed: opening a door, turning on the radio—everything. It didn't get any better, but it was good enough that I didn't have to have surgery."
Because of his injury, Smith let his now four-year-old son Nikko perform his traditional Opening Day backflip before the Cardinals' first home game of the 1986 season. Smith made an "eye-popping" play later that season on August 5, during a game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Busch Stadium. In the top of the ninth inning, Phillies first baseman Von Hayes hit a short fly ball to left field, which was pursued by both Smith and left fielder Curt Ford. Running with his back to home plate, Smith dove forward, simultaneously catching the ball while parallel to the ground and flying over the diving Ford, avoiding a collision by inches.St. Louis Cardinals 2005 Media Guide. Hadler Printing, 2005. C-26.
After hitting in either the second or eighth spot in the batting order for most of his time in St. Louis, Herzog made Smith the number-two hitter full-time during the 1987 season. Over the course of the year, Smith accrued a .303 batting average, 43 stolen bases, 75 RBIs, 104 runs scored, and 40 doubles, good enough to earn him the Silver Slugger Award List of NL Silver Slugger winners at shortstop. In addition to winning the Gold Glove Award at shortstop for the eighth consecutive time, Smith posted a career-high on-base percentage of .392. Smith was also the leading vote-getter in the 1987 All-Star Game. The Cardinals earned a postseason berth with 95 wins, and subsequently faced the San Francisco Giants in the 1987 National League Championship Series. Smith contributed a triple during the series, and the Cardinals won the contest in seven games.
The 1987 World Series matched the Cardinals against the American League champion Minnesota Twins. The home team won every game of the contest, as Minnesota won the series. at bats during the Series, Smith scored three runs and had two RBIs. Smith finished second in MVP balloting to Andre Dawson, who had played on the last-place Chicago Cubs, largely because Smith and teammate Jack Clark split the first-place vote. Following the 1987 season, Smith was awarded the largest contract in the National League at $2,340,000.
While the team did not see the postseason for the remainder of the decade, Smith continued to rack up All-Star appearances and Gold Gloves. Combined with the attention he received from his contract, Smith continued to be a national figure. Known as a savvy dresser, he made the April 1988 cover of GQ magazine.Boswell, Thomas. "The Wizardry of Ozzie Smith." GQ. April 1988. Smith was witness to change within the Cardinal organization when owner Gussie Busch died in 1989 and Herzog quit as manager during the 1990 season.
Joe Torre became Smith's new manager in 1990, but the team did not reach the postseason during Torre's nearly five-year tenure. While the Cardinals celebrated their 100th anniversary in 1992, Smith marked milestones of his own, stealing his 500th career base on April 26, then notching a triple on May 26 in front of the home crowd for his 2,000th hit. St. Louis had a one-game lead in the National League East division on June 1, 1992, but injuries took their toll on the team, including Smith's two week illness in late July after contracting chicken pox for the first time. As a testament to his national visibility during this time, Smith appeared in a 1992 episode of The Simpsons titled "Homer at the Bat". Smith became a free agent for the first time in his career on November 2, 1992, only to sign a new contract with the Cardinals on December 6.
Smith won his final Gold Glove in 1992, and his 13 consecutive Gold Gloves at List of NL Gold Glove winners at shortstop in the National League has yet to be matched. The 1993 season marked the only time between 1981 and 1996 that Smith failed to make the All-Star team, and Smith finished the 1993 season with a .288 batting average and .974 fielding percentage. He appeared in 98 games during the strike-shortened 1994 season, and later missed nearly three months of the 1995 season after shoulder surgery on May 31. Smith was recognized for his community service efforts with the 1994 Branch Rickey Award and the 1995 Roberto Clemente Award. In February 1994, Smith took on the role of honorary chairman and official spokesman for the Missouri Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Health.
As Smith entered the 1996 season, he finalized a divorce from his wife Denise during the first half of the year. Meanwhile, manager Tony La Russa began his first season with the Cardinals in tandem with a new ownership group. After General Manager Walt Jocketty acquired shortstop Royce Clayton during the offseason, La Russa emphasized an open competition for the spot that would give the Cardinals the best chance to win. When spring training concluded, Smith had amassed a .288 batting average and zero errors in the field, and Clayton batted .190 with eight errors. Smith believed he had earned the position with his spring training performance, but La Russa disagreed, and awarded Clayton the majority of playing time in the platoon situation that developed, where Smith typically saw action every third game.#Rai09|Rains 2009: 187 La Russa said, "I think it's fair to say he misunderstood how he compared to Royce in spring training...When I and the coaches evaluated the play in spring training—the whole game—Royce started very slowly offensively and you could see him start to get better. By what he was able to do defensively and on the bases, Royce deserved to play the majority of the games."
Smith missed the first month of the season with a hamstring injury, and continued to harbor ill feelings toward La Russa that had developed after spring training ended. In a closed-door meeting in mid-May, La Russa asked Smith if he would like to be traded. Instead, Smith and his agent negotiated a compromise with Cardinals management, agreeing to a buyout of special provisions in his contract in conjunction with Smith announcing his retirement. The agreement prompted a press conference at Busch Stadium on June 19, 1996, during which Smith announced he would retire from baseball at season's end.
As Smith made his final tour of the National League, he was honored by many teams, and received a standing ovation at the 1996 All-Star Game in Philadelphia. Between June 19 and September 1, Smith's batting average increased from .239 to .286. On September 2 Smith tied a career high by scoring four runs, one of which was a home run, and another on a close play at home plate in the bottom of the 10th inning against division leader Houston. The victory moved the Cardinals to within a half game of Houston in the National League Central Division, and the Cardinals went on to win the division by six games. The Cardinals held a special ceremony at Busch Stadium on September 28, 1996, before a game against the Cincinnati Reds, honoring Smith by retiring his uniform number. Noted for his ritual backflip before Opening Days, All-Star Games, and postseason games, Smith chose this occasion to perform it for one of the last times.
In the postseason, the Cardinals first faced the San Diego Padres in the 1996 National League Division Series. After sitting out Game 1, Smith got the start in Game 2 at Busch Stadium, helping his team go up two games in the series by notching a run, a hit and two walks at the plate, along with an assist and a putout in the field. The Cardinals then swept the series by winning Game 3 in San Diego.
The Cardinals faced the Atlanta Braves in the 1996 National League Championship Series. Smith started Game 1 and subsequently registered three putouts and one assist in the field, but went hitless in four at-bats in the Cardinals' 4–2 loss. The Cardinals then won Games 2, 3, and 4, contests in which Smith did not appear. Upon receiving the start in Game 5, Smith nearly duplicated his Game 1 performance with four putouts, one assist, and zero hits in four at-bats as part of another Cardinals defeat. The Cardinals also failed to win Game 6 or Game 7 in Atlanta, ending their season. When the Cardinals were trailing by ten runs during Game 7 on October 17, Smith flied out to right field while pinch-hitting in the sixth inning, marking the end of his playing career. Smith finished his career with distinctions ranging from the accumulation of more than 27.5 million votes in All-Star balloting, to holding the record for the most MLB at-bats without hitting a grand slam.
Post-playing career
Upon retirement, Smith took over for Mel Allen as the host of the television series This Week in Baseball (TWIB) in 1997. Smith also became color commentator for the local broadcast of Cardinals games on KPLR-TV from 1997 to 1999.Robinson, Tom. "Ozzie Puts Down Glove, Picks Up Mike." The Virginian-Pilot. May 22, 1997: C1. Retrieved on 2007-12-28. When his stint on This Week in Baseball concluded, Smith then moved on to do work for CNN Sports Illustrated beginning in 1999.
On January 8, 2002 Smith learned via a phone call he had been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on his first ballot by receiving 91.7% of the votes cast. As it happened, the Olympic torch was passing through St. Louis on its way to Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Olympics, and Smith served as a torchbearer in a ceremony with St. Louis Rams' quarterback Kurt Warner that evening. Smith was inducted into the Hall of Fame during ceremonies on July 28, 2002. During his speech, he compared his baseball experiences with the characters from the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, after which his son Dustin presented his Hall of Fame plaque. Days later on August 11, Smith was back at Busch Memorial Stadium for the unveiling of a statue in his likeness made by sculptor Harry Weber. Weber chose to emphasize Smith's defensive skills by showing Smith stretched horizontal to the ground while fielding a baseball. At the ceremony Weber told Smith, "You spent half of your career up in the air. That makes it difficult for a sculptor to do something with it."
Smith has also been an entrepreneur in a variety of business ventures. Smith opened "Ozzie's" restaurant and sports bar in 1988, started a youth sports academy in 1990, became an investor in a grocery store chain in 1999, and partnered with David Slay to open a restaurant in the early 2000s. Of those businesses the youth academy and restaurant remain in operation, with the restaurant having changed ownership and locations once. Aside from appearing in numerous radio and television commercials in the St. Louis area since retiring from baseball, Smith authored a children's book in 2006 and launched his own brand of salad dressing in 2008.
Smith is father to three children from his marriage to former wife Denise; sons Nikko, Dustin, and daughter Taryn. Smith remains a visible figure around the St. Louis area, making appearances as varied as playing the role of the Wizard in the St. Louis Municipal Opera's summer 2001 production of The Wizard of Oz. In 1999 he ranked number 87 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and finished third in voting at shortstop for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. Smith has also been honored with induction into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and the St. Louis Walk of Fame, and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Cal Poly. Smith cheered on his son Nikko as he cracked the top ten finalists of the American Idol (season 4). "When it's "Idol" time at Ozzie's, folks go crazy for Nikko."
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7 Fatal Injuries (That People Somehow Survived)
The human body is a miracle; though you may disagree if you're sitting there in the throes of an allergy attack or a hangover.
The truth is your body can take a lot of abuse, and we've all heard amazing stories of people living through hacked off limbs, extreme temperatures and even falling out of airplanes. So how much punishment can the human body take? Well, under certain circumstances you can apparently survive...
#7. Getting Cut... In Half
When you work on the railroad, you probably know that something terrible can happen. Maybe you'll break a bone, or lose a limb. Or maybe you'll lose the entire lower half of your freaking body
That's what happened to Truman Duncan, who, after falling off of a moving train, was dragged underneath the wheels. They severed his body in half at the waist, incredibly leaving him alive and conscious to hear the machinery grinding his body in two as he was dragged 75 feet.
Truman decided that screaming like a little girl was neither manly nor helpful and instead pulled out his cell phone and dialed 911 from right there under the train. Then, because it took rescuers 45 minutes to get him out from under the train, he placed a few calls to his family as well.
Jesus, how do you start that conversation?
Doctors are unsure how he managed to survive the accident but suspect that the weight of the wheels may have kept him from bleeding to death (though not very well--he lost about half the blood in his body). It may also have been due to his Kryptonian ancestry, but we're just speculating. Still, it took 23 surgeries over four months before Truman could leave the hospital, minus his legs, pelvis and a kidney.
Today, Truman is back at work at a desk job. He says he can still do the things he did before the accident like swimming, playing with his kids and screaming, "Fuck you!" at every train he passes.
#6. Getting Shot... And Shot... And Shot
Despite what the NRA would have you believe, guns do kill people. Just not all people.
After all, we've seen Bruce Willis get shot like five or six times in four movies, so clearly you can shrug off a couple of slugs. Rapper 50 Center got shot nine times and lived to rap another day. So how many shots can a man take before we declare him to be either a superhero or a zombie?
How about 19?
New Yorker, Joseph Guzman, took that many slugs and walked away (alright, he didn't exactly walk). Joseph's problems began back in 2006 when he was out at a bachelor party with some friends.
According to Joseph, his friends had left the party reading quotes from the bible to each other and were on their way to assist the homeless. According to the police, the group was shooting off flamethrowers and wheeling a giant cannon down the street toward an orphanage. The truth is probably somewhere in between.
One way or another, the cops started shooting. And once you get started with the shooting, well, it's kind of hard to stop. Fifty rounds were fired at Joseph. Thirty-one of them missed, but the police probably figured that the ones that hit home were more than enough to do the job.
"Another one? Anderson, are you throwing the bullets
back in here just to fuck with me?"
Joseph was rushed to the hospital where doctors discovered the 19 bullet-holes in his body. The attending physician later testified that Joseph was "probably in severe pain." Dr. Obvious likely went on to say that the red stuff pouring out of Joseph's body was "probably blood."
After they determined that he was indeed bleeding, the doctors found seven bullets still inside him. He had been hit in the legs, chest, abdomen and one bullet shattered his cheekbone. A liter and a half of blood was drained from his chest and then he was given a tetanus shot, which is something we wish we could take credit for making up.
By the way, not only did he survive the shooting, Joseph was still strong enough to be described as "combative" when he was wheeled into the hospital, possibly due to the doctor asking him if he was in any pain. Today, Joseph walks with a limp and a cane, but fortunately shows no signs of tetanus.
#5. Getting Shot... By A Rocket Propelled Grenade
If you've watch news coverage of a war--or seen a war movie--over the last couple of decades you probably saw the bad guys using the above Rocket Propelled Grenades, which is a kind of shoulder-fired missile about the size of the head of a baseball bat.
They're designed to take out tanks and jeeps and other things made of metal. You can imagine what happens when one of them hits a human being, unless that human being is living in the video game universe or is named Channing Moss.
We believe that's an "I survived a bazooka to the torso" awareness wristband
Moss was in the army busy putting his boots far up Taliban asses, when his convoy was caught in an ambush. In addition to the machine gun fire, the enemy also unleashed several of the ever-popular RPGs at the Humvee he was riding in. Moss felt something hit him in the side and when he looked down saw that he had a fucking smoking rocket jutting out from his body.
Because there was a policy against evacuating people with bombs inside them, due to the whole explosion problem, his commanding officer told the helicopter crew the RPG was just some shrapnel.
When the doctors at the field hospital found out he had a whole, working rocket inside him, there was the usual panic and screaming until someone finally calmed down enough to try and save his life. This was despite the fact that the army manual called for him to be dumped far away from everyone and treated last. Seriously, nothing makes you more unpopular to a group than having a live bomb inside you.
Upon closer inspection it turned out Channing had a bit of luck on his side, in that the exploding warhead part of the rocket was not in his body, just the rocket and detonator. So instead of the big exploding part, there was only the little exploding part left inside of him. A note on his file also states that the rocket propellant was "mostly expelled."
Doctors finally sawed the fins off the rocket and then pulled the tube out of him, along with the wads of clothing and equipment that had been crammed into his guts by the impact. Incredibly, the huge projectile missed his vital organs and Channing lived.
We mentioned Bruce Willis earlier; what's great about Channing's story is if in Die Hard 5 you saw John McClane take a missile to the abdomen and walk away good as new, you'd be screaming bullshit so loud they'd have to drag you out of the theater.
#4. A Gaping Hole... In Your Brain
Come on, you knew we couldn't leave this one out.
Number one on the list of things you don't want blasting a hole through your skull and brain is a giant cannon ball. However, a very close second on this list is a large metal spike. Just ask Phineas Gage.
Gage worked on a railroad crew back in the old-timey days. Part of his job was to blast holes in rocks with dynamite. Because this wasn't considered dangerous enough, the procedure also called for packing dirt in the holes with a metal pole after the dynamite was inserted, maybe to get the dynamite good and angry or something. The pole was called a "tamping iron" because calling it a "pointy suicide stick," while more accurate, tended to scare the employees.
"Nothing can ever go wrong with this."
Probably to no one's surprise, one day this practice of smacking a metal bar against live dynamite caused an explosion. This resulted in the tamping iron, which was three-feet, eight-inches long and weighed about 13 pounds, being shot through Phineas's cheekbone and exiting through the top of his skull.
Looks bad but you probably don't feel much after the first 12 inches
Sometimes people get impaled by objects but miss the vital organs. Phineas was not this lucky, unless you consider the brain to not be a vital organ. When they found the tamping iron 30 yards away it had pieces of bone and brain stuck to it.
Because medical science was about on par with the science of blasting holes through rock at the time, the only treatment Phineas received was having the huge tunnel through his brain cleaned out and wrapped in bandages, with the occasional draining of pus. Amazingly, five months after the accident Phineas was back to leading a fairly normal life, except for the giant hole in his head and probably a lot of new hats.
His friends and family also reported that he was kind of a dick after the accident, and scientists have come up with all kinds of theories about the damage affecting his impulse control. But, holy crap, some of us turn into dicks after missing morning coffee. Can we not cut a guy some slack after surviving a fucking spike through the skull?


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Thanks to lingering winter weather, Wednesday marked the first time this year the Leavenworth boys' tennis team was actually able to face a rival opponent.
However, the new season started with a fizzle when the squad opened 2013 at home against Shawnee Mission West.
The visiting Vikings swept the Pioneers, winning all six of the singles matches as well as the proceeding three doubles bouts.
"It was a rough start, that's for sure," LV coach Shad Langfoss said. "You don't get much of a break in the Sunflower League and we began right off the bat with one of the better teams."
In singles play, Leavenworth's No. 1 player Wesley Barbee lost 8-1 while No. 2 Garett Seeger was tripped up 8-3 and No. 3 Michael Rielly suffered an 8-5 defeat.
Pioneer No. 4 singles player Austin Wiley experienced an 8-4 stumble, No. 5 Ben Schatzel stumbled 8-2 and No. 6 Luke Nolte faltered 8-0.
All three doubles pairings — No. 1 Barbee/Seeger, No. 2 Rielly/Wiley and No. 3 Schatzel/Nolte — were beat 8-1.
"There were a couple matches with Michael and Garett that were real close," Langfoss said. "They just sort of lost it at certain points, so with them and all the others, our big thing is consistency right now."
Leavenworth will host Olathe East at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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Have you stayed at a Disney Resort? Share your recommendations and opinions here!
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Posted 11 February 2013 - 10:01 PM
Have you stayed at a Disney Resort? Share your recommendations and opinions here!
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:10 AM
We've stayed at the Polynesian and at the All-Star Music resort.
You can't beat the Poly for location, and the landscaping is wonderful. We love being right in the middle of the "Disney Magic" and enjoyed the nightly electrical water pageant, bingo poolside, and movies and s'mores on the beach between the Poly and Grand Floridian.
We are a family of 5, and the room was adequate with a nice balcony overlooking the pool area. However, I have been in less pricey hotel rooms that are much more spacious. Of course, this is Disney, so that is to be expected! If the price was right, I would stay at the Poly again.
My youngest two and I took a September trip last year to Orlando to visit Winter the dolphin (star of Dolphin Tale), participate in an all-day homeschool workshop at Kennedy Space Center, and the Disney class on marine life. All-Star Music resort was our home-base because we scored a rate of $65 a night. My kids LOVED it! I thought it was great for a small family, but if our entire had gone, we would have needed more room. I do remember that the walls are a little thin at ASMu. It wasn't too much of a problem during our stay since it was off-season. But, honestly, I think I could hear whenever flushed the toilet in the next room!
The pool area is not as shaded as at the Poly, but the kids still enjoyed it. There is no full-service restaurant on-site, but there is a large food court area. I rented a car for this trip since we were going off-site for several days, so I don't know what the transportation is like, but I think it is bus service.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 08:30 AM
Was one of your kids under the age of 3? We have been told that the Values Resort regular rooms will not hold 5 and Disney will not allow it unless the 3rd child is under age 3.
Personally we have decided a hotel room for any longer than a few nights is just not going to work for us anymore if we can at all help it!
We did stay on-site once. We stayed at Old Key West and rented Disney Vacation Points to get a good rate ($99 per night S-Th and double that on weekends). However, we only had 2 kids then and they were quite young, so it wasn't such a big deal.
My friends actually own DVC and they get a 1 bedroom at OKW and I visited their room and it was quite spacious. It would be out of our price range though.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 12:03 PM
Was one of your kids under the age of 3? We have been told that the Values Resort regular rooms will not hold 5 and Disney will not allow it unless the 3rd child is under age 3.
Dawn, that's right. The value rooms are small, and have only double beds, so it would be a tight fit.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 12:11 PM
We've stayed at Pop Century and the Contemporary (when we got a great group rate in 2011). Pop Century (and the other values) are themed very well with Disney Magic. However, their rooms are small (two double beds, not much square feet), and their food (other than the breakfasts) left a lot to be desired. Still, Pop Century is our favorite value (haven't stayed at or seen the new Animation resort, so can't comment on that one) that may be worth your consideration if you can get a good room discount and don't have transportation.
We enjoyed the Contemporary much more - the room was big, fit 5 comfortably (and none of our children are small anymore), and it was so quiet and peaceful after a long day at the park. We stayed in the Garden Wing (not the tower) and our patio opened to the lake. So, so beautiful. It's much quieter than the values (theming and noise level). We *never* heard our neighbors while we were there.
That said, the majority of the families who stayed at the Contemporary with our group that year didn't enjoy it as much as we did. They didn't hate it, but said they wouldn't pay the very high non-discounted rate to stay there. It's not as themed as the other resorts, and they got aggravated with how they ran the monorail (it doesn't run after hours, so if the parks had extra magic hours, you had to find an alternative way to get back to the resort, negating many of the benefits of staying at a monorail resort).
Posted 13 February 2013 - 05:39 PM
We stayed at the Wilderness Lodge, a deluxe resort, in spring of 2011 and LOVED it. The food is good, with a counter service cafe, The Whispering Canyon sit-down restaurant (my children call it "the not at all Whispering Canyon" b/c it's one of those venues that is very kid-friendly and loud, with cheeky servers and wooden horse races), and another sit-down that was more Pacific NW "grown up food" than we were after but smelled heavenly. The pool was excellent, with a small water slide; plus the hotel is on the lagoon so there's a "beach" where they show movies some nights and where you can see the floating boat parade go by. The rooms were nice-sized, about the same as a $140/night hotel in the real world: two queen beds, dresser, desk and chair, vanity with sink, and then a bathroom with toilet and tub. If you're facing the right way (we were) you can even watch the MK fireworks every night. Wilderness Lodge is large enough to be fun but compact enough that you don't have a crazy walk from the lobby to your room. Bus service is fine (although the bus stop was being rebuilt when we were there, so you had to walk a little further to the temporary one), and the trip to Magic Kingdom is a ferry across the lagoon. The arcade was okay, nothing special. What really sells this hotel is the atmosphere, the proximity to MK, and the good food options. Like someone else said, I wouldn't pay full price for it, but with the 40% military discount we were able to get it was perfect. Only thing better would be being on the monorail, but as someone pointed it out it doesn't run at all hours and can leave you having to make other arrangements.
Posted 21 February 2013 - 11:25 AM
We have gone twice with our large family onsite to Disney. In 2005 we stayed at the Wilderness Lodge. If your asking how we afforded a deluxe with a large family of 6 children at the time, well....my mom decided she wanted to go with us and offered to pay for one of the rooms with our kids in it! When I ran the figures it was a huge upgrade and bonus to us! (oh and she only would do deluxe acommodations...at first I kept thinking we couldn't afford it and then I realized it wasn't much more then us paying for two budgets with a huge upgrade) We loved the theming! My dad loved going downstairs and using his dining credits for bacon, eggs and coffee at the sit down breakfast while looking at the grand lodge entrance and waiting for our large family to get ready. I can't even begin to explain how spoiled we were staying there! We brought cold breakfast for the kids in the room, but the kids loved to use their snack credits for cream cheese and bagals or what not. My mom loved exploring the property. Lets just say with such a big party getting ready in the morning everyone was very happy and not bored and getting upset at people. I felt very safe with the kids going downstairs by themselves. We only stayed in a moderate (Port Orleans Riverside) one night and it didn't have any of the luxaries that we were spoiled with. For example, I didn't feel safe sending my children out of the room to walk who knows how far outside to the food, shops, pools, etc. I didn't like the bus stop for my only means of transportation and it wasn't as convenient or nice as the deluxes. I would do a budget or moderate if it meant staying on property...but we were spoiled!
We had so much fun in 2005, that we went again with my parents in 2008. This time we decided for the Beach Club. It was awesome for that trip! I loved the decor!!! The pool was the best for the ages of our range of kids! We utilized it every mid afternoon. One of the greatest tips for young children is to get out of the heat at mid day for rest, relaxation and naps! It truly saves on having a fun, relaxed vacation. As the person said, kids get grumpy when it gets hot out. (not to say parents too) I am a very visual person, and could not believe how even I could get "visual overload" from being in the parks. The middle of the afternoon rest reengergized everyone. I loved the personalized character dining there. The kids loved the "happy meals" in a pail at the pool restaurant! After their meal they would take their pail and shovel and go play in the special sand beach and toddler sized themed beach for them only. It was truly amazing how they did it all. The pool area had different spots for all ages of kids. The lazy river float, the pirates of the carribean slide from a recreated pirate ship, little fun fountains that squirted the little kids, and it all felt like you were at a beach! (and walkways going over different areas of the pool) We can't forget the view of across the lake was the boardwalk and my husband and I could go for a stroll around the lake. One morning we meandered around the lake to the boardwalk to a little breakfast nook and had breakfast. The shop felt like you were in a different country. And last, but not least you can't forget the boat rides(which I love) to Epcot or Disney Studios. You can walk to Epcot and Disney Studios(I am not sure if you still can, I think we decided to just take the boat because I love that mode of travel) It probably took longer, but I always walked to Epcot and took the monorail to Magic Kingdom. I love the monorail too! I guess it is reminiscent of when I was in 5th grade and my family and my grandparents brought us to Disney and we stayed at the Contemporary. Everytime we go we ask to ride up front with the engineer, it is a highlight! I guess you can say I really like that area for the luxuries of the scenery and mode of transportation. (I like walking too! The buses are my least favorite) I didn't mention that I loved the boat at the Wilderness Lodge! We used it alot! We always seemed to have good luck with walking down and getting on quite quickly. We didn't use it for just the Magic Kingdom. I loved it so much I would take the boat, then the monorail to epcot. I tried to avoid the buses unless we were in a hurry. Early in the morning we always had great service on the buses. We did other times of day too, I just didn't utilize them as much.
Sorry if I went on too much...my ramblings some might find enjoyable!
Posted 22 February 2013 - 03:05 PM
If you were wondering which of the deluxes I and kinda general consenses of of our family would pick of the two in the previous read, it would be:
I personally love the Beach Club the best. The theming is more my style with the beautiful paintings and white painted woodwork and the New England or East Coast Teddy Roosevelt time period style. (where the style was like what the rich would vacation in on the east coast) As a rabbit trail, I would realy love to try the Grand Floridian, but my mother did not want to pay that much money with all the kids! Plus like I said the pool was what we were paying for that particular vacation with the wide range of childrens ages. Plus being able to walk to Epcot. I didn't mention the walk to Epcot is a pretty, enjoyable walk. It brings you in between Britain and France in the showcase. And all the modes of transportation that didn't include using a bus! Well there is one nice thing about the buses, I talk and get to know alot of different people from all over the world on the buses. It is rather boring for me, so I talk. Where as the other modes of transportation I am watching everything and the kids. It seems as though the busses were also more conducive to peoples eyes getting bigger and bigger watching the long trail of a big family and watching all the fun personalities. It always made for interesting coversations an witnessing. Summing the Beach Club up: the grandness of the hotel, oh sorry I love the lobby and think the Boardwalk lobby is my favorit, the pool and the walk to vacinity and the multiple modes of transportation.
Wow, that being said, we all agreed that the Beach Club was a luxary and we would still be very happy and content for the pleasures of the deluxe and the theming of Wilderness Lodge, (with its boat of course) because it is quite a bit less! Are you surprised?!?
Posted 22 February 2013 - 03:28 PM
Sorry, I was thinking some more...you can't tell we were spoiled with the deluxes and what comes with them. I love the lobby and it being a hotel versus a motel. I was thinking that you feel special at the deluxe hotels. Everyone treats us as very special, which Disney is good at doing everywhere, but...my experience at the deluxes was excellent. I always felt when I talked to them that I was very special and not just another traveler coming in and I am sure they do it at the other resorts but...at the Port Orleans Riverside it wasn't quite the same. They were magical still, but not quite treated as special. I felt like I was the next person in line and then the wave of pixie dust and next. The atmosphere seemed more rushed, where as at the deluxes it didn't. The atmosphere does seem differant at the deluxes verses the one moderate we stayed at. And I also have to admit I wasn't happy with our first room at the Beach Club. For the money we paid, I was so disappointed and was afraid my mother would be sorely disappointed. The guest relations let me look at a few different rooms, because we were there like at 6 or 7 am. I picked the adjoining rooms I wanted with the best view.(one was overlooking a pebbled rooftop. The place is so big, I knew for entry level they had to have better view in the price range. Looking at the parking lot would have been prettier.) They were so nice and accomodating. I must admit, I was almost in tears and I am sure it showed on my face. I think Disney would do that at any resort if they can, especially being there so early, but I still love hotels!
Posted 22 February 2013 - 03:33 PM
Don't apologize - feel free to post about all of your experiences. It helps others who've never been there before. They'll have a better trip with all this advice from the "experts."
Posted 22 February 2013 - 03:33 PM
We have stayed at :
POP Century 2009.. was awesome, clean, small rooms, outside entrances, best food court and shopping.
CONS: they have not kept it up as well as they could, things on the cleaning front are not as good, beds are smaller and harder, tiny bathrooms, no changing space/privacy. Can be a very long resort walk if you don't get a "preferred" room, which is closer to the main building. Pool has no slide.
PROS: great food court, great staff, cheaper, better bus service than most deluxes.
Pros: awesome ambience, especially if you get a boardwalk view. Fun to watch boardwalk performers from your balcony, or from the boardwalk. Lovely rooms, Incredible beds, Quick walk to EPCOT, longer but still pleasant walk to Hollywood studios. Watch EPCOT fireworks from your balcony.Cute playground/splash area near pool. Boardwalk has interesting nightlife.
CONS: Pool has what some would call a creepy clown. Incredibly long walks from some rooms to elevators or exits. Decor is somewhat fussier/sharper for tiny kids who may need edge bumpers on the furniture! Far from MK. Buses are not reliable, and take a long time.
Contemporary Garden Rooms:
Pros: water parade viewed from room.. parking right outside room, no paying bellmen to bring in bags, bigger than average rooms, patio/ glass doors, nice beds, quick walk to contemporary/monorail/food options, very quick to pool. Fast walk to Magic Kingdom..upstairs balcony/patio area to watch fireworks in main contemporary building.
Cons: Bathroom sinks so flat and modern that they splashed on you constantly, no vanity space, bus service unreliable and slow. Monorails break down a LOT these days... and are slower than driving or walking.
Bay Lake Tower (DVC villas at the contemporary):
Pros: Huge space, nicely decorated, incredible views of castle/fireworks. Kitchen, washing machine, full amenities. Great beds, huge, amazing balconies (if you get a park view), close to walkway is best, since you can pop to contemporary quickly, and the elevator is close.
Cons: Not the best finishing, some things were already broken/ peeling in the rooms (and they are some of the newest rooms on property), fold out chairs and couches for some "beds"
(same bus and monorail complaints as above)
I would stay at any of them again, but my preference would be for the Boardwalk, followed by Bay Lake, and Garden Contemporary.
Posted 23 February 2013 - 03:59 PM
Have you stayed at more than Pop Century, the Contemparary and the Swan(I know it is not a Disney owned resort, but is like because of location and that it has the amenities of emh and transportation)? I am assuming you have. Also it sounded like you like to stay on Disney property. Which ones are you thinking of for your stay?
Posted 23 February 2013 - 04:31 PM
Yes, I've stayed at others (on and off-property). Swan has all the amenities except for Magical Express (transportation from airport to Disney). I haven't talked to my family about which we'll be staying at. Probably two value rooms (less expensive than the suites) at Pop or at the new Animation Resort (right across the lake from Pop). It's still up for discussion, though. And who knows... maybe the Swan will come through for me. Most of my families loved it last year. (Although some had problems with their rooms - it's a convention hotel and could use a major renovation.)
Posted 27 February 2013 - 08:32 PM
Posted 27 February 2013 - 08:56 PM
I probably already mentioned this, but two rooms at a value resort (instead of the suites) are less expensive, and sleep 8 (with two double beds each).
I think the new Animation resort has standard rooms, in addition to suites. If not, I'd recommend Pop Century if you decide to go this route.
I'm going to move both this message, and Jennifer's, to the Disney Resorts thread, where it fits better, but will leave a message for Dororthy to look there for it.
Posted 28 February 2013 - 10:48 AM
Posted 28 February 2013 - 11:54 AM
Jennifer, it depends on the ages of your children. The way it was explained to me several years ago is that if you have more than two adults in your party, they won't guarantee connecting (door in between) or adjoining (side by side, but no door between) rooms. If there are only two adults and the rest under 18, they will guarantee connecting rooms. Did you at least get adjoining rooms at Wilderness Lodge?
My guess (no proof, just guessing) is that they're more apt to guarantee connecting or adjoining rooms at Pop Century (or any of the values) due to the families with younger children that usually stay there. We've always gotten guaranteed connecting rooms there (5 years in a row, I think).
Posted 28 February 2013 - 12:19 PM
Ahhh, that is good to know! No, we didn't get adjoining/connecting rooms at WL, but we DID have more than two adults in our party so that may have been why. I was really worried that if Dorothy didn't get connecting rooms that it would leave her and her dh having to be separated, and that's not much fun! LOL Hopefully that wouldn't be an issue. That also means that *I* should do some looking at the value resorts, because right now in order to get some theming we are planning to pay $150/night at the Nickelodeon Suites just outside of WDW. But the more I read about the traffic the more I want to get us on-site so we can just use the buses! Still not sure we can do it for cheaper with two Value rooms, though...unless I get a discount code or something. But if I wait for that I can't book Nick b/c it's non-refundable. :-(
Posted 28 February 2013 - 12:38 PM
Jennifer, there will most likely be a Disney room discount code for our dates... probably around 15-20%, so factor that in. But it'll still be more than Nickelodeon, I think. Maybe not if you factor in parking fees each day at the park. Traffic won't be so bad during our dates, so I wouldn't worry about that. If you won't have a car, and don't plan to rent one, I would lean more toward on-property than off.
Posted 28 February 2013 - 01:18 PM
Well, we're just in North AL, so it's only about a 10 hour drive for us and would save us about $700 on airfare (after subtracting gas and meals during the trip) plus no rental car needed for Universal/Sea World, so we're leaning that way. It also allows us to bring food if we get a room with a kitchenette. I've run the numbers about six ways for the last two years and will do the same this year, then we'll figure out which covers more of our preferences without breaking the bank. I really do appreciate the advice!! :-)


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"LastRiseTime" values refer to? Are these times that the geometric centers of the objects in question cross the horizon, or their outer limbs; do they take into account refraction, or do they refer to the crossing of the geometric horizon?
What astronomical event do
A couple of years ago I was in an email conversation about this topic with Jeff Bryant, a WRI employee. He was not directly responsible for
At that time I was examining the accuracy of
As recorded in my email of December 2008 the output was:
Four different sun calculators gave a value close to 17 deg as answer, so more than a degree higher than MMA's answer. I tried all four sites again while writing this answer and found three still running at the moment:
At that time there was a problem with the TimeZone setting which since then has been repaired. For that call you need to specifically mention the timezone for which you want the report to be made, otherwise it's going to use your own:
The result seems to match the others very well. But the time zone use is a bit unexpected of course. Why would you want to specify the time zone if you already have specified the geographical location in lat longs?
The sun position calculation was also relatively slow. As an alternative I did a straight (and I mean really, ugly straight) totally unoptimized translation in Mathematica of a VBA translation of a Javascript sun position calculator which happened to be about 20 times faster. Both are from US government servers and the files should be in the public domain.
You can get my Mathematica translation here. I have a hunch it should be fairly easy to accelerate it considerably.
The code uses atmospheric refraction and indeed, if we see the difference at sunset between its altitude and MMA's, it's about half a degree as it should:
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