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In Part One of this series, the main topic of the Bxh7+ thrust concerned the win of material. In Part Two, we explored what happens after 1.Bxh7+ Kxh7 2.Ng5+ Kg8 and 2…Kh8. In Part Three, we'll move on to 2…Kh6 and 2…Kg6, which often leads to far more complex positions than the previous King moves.
At times a walk to g6 is simply suicidal. This is particularly true when White has a pawn on h4 and a Bishop patrolling the c1-h6 diagonal:
Gioacchino Greco - NN [C01], Europe 1620
7.Bxh7+ Kxh7 8.Ng5+
The game is already over, but black's next move slams the stake through his own heart!
Allowing the h1-Rook to join in the festivities. Other moves last longer, but won't save the game:
8…Kg8 9.Qh5 Bxg5 10.hxg5 f5 11.g6 is a very important concept. The pawn takes f7 away from black's King and ensures a quick mate on h7 or h8.
8…Kh6 (rarely a good idea when white's dark-squared Bishop is patrolling the c1-h6 diagonal) 9.Nxe6+ (winning black's Queen, which is enough to win by itself. However, White also enjoys a monster attack: 9…Kg6 (9…Kh7 10.Qh5+ Kg8 11.Ng5 Bxg5 [11…Re8 12.Qh7+ Kf8 13.Qh8 mate] 12.hxg6 f6 13.g6 and mates.) 10.Qg4+ (Much stronger than 10.Nxd8, which of course also wins.) 10…Bg5 (10…Kh7 11.Qxg7 mate) 11.hxg5 fxe6 12.Qh5+ Kf5 13.Qh7+ g6 14.Qh3+ Ke4 15.Qd3 mate.
8…Kg6 (the best defense) 9.Qd3+! (9.h5+ Kh6 10.Nxe6+ Kh7 11.Nxd8 wins the enemy Queen and the game, but 9.Qd3+ is far, far stronger) 9…f5 (9…Kh6 10.Qh7 mate) 10.exf6+ Kxf6 (10…Kh5 11.g4+ Kxg4 12.Qf3 mate) 11.Qf3+ Kg6 12.h5+ Kh6 13.Qe4! (threatening mate on h7 and g6) 13…Rf5 14.Nxe6+ (this wins the house) 14…Kh7 15.Qxf5+ Kg8 16.Nxd8 (threatening Qxd5+) 16…Nf6 17.Qg6! (nothing wrong with 17.Nxc6 with an obscene material advantage) 17…Nxd8 18.h6 Ne6 19.d5 Bf8 20.dxe6 and Black really needs to resign here since a beating like this might well ruin him forever.
9.hxg5+ Kg6
As usual, 9…Kg8 10.Qh5 f5 11.g6 mates.
10.Qh5+ Kf5 11.Qh7+
Even faster is 11.Qh3+ Kg6 (11...Ke4 12.Qd3 mate) 12.Qh7 mate.
11...g6 12.Qh3+ Ke4 13.Qd3 mate.
This example showed us:
* The importance of the g5-g6 push if Black takes the Knight on g5 via …Bxg5 (opening the h-file) and then steps back to g8 with his King.
* That moving the King to h6 when White has a Bishop on the c1-h6 diagonal is usually a prelude to suicide.
* That moving the King to g6 is usually fatal if white's attack is bolstered with a Bishop on the c1-h6 diagonal, a pawn on h4 (with a Rook behind it), and a pawn on e5 (not allowing the enemy King to run to f6).
Our next example demonstrates the defects of white's attack if White doesn't have a pawn on e5 and/or a Bishop on the c1-h6 diagonal:
Rudolf Teschner – Boris Spassky, Riga 1959
This fails since White lacks the two key factors that I mentioned earlier (no pawn on e5 and no Bishop trolling the c1-h6 diagonal).
11…Kxh7 12.Ng5+ Kh6!
The only move, but it wins for Black! 12…Kg6?? 13.Qd3+ Kh5 14.g4+ Kxg4 15.Rg1+ Kxh4 16.Qh7 mate would be a disaster, while 12…Kg8?? 13.Qh5 gives White the usual monster attack.
12…Kh6 is effective since, without a Bishop on the c1-h6 diagonal, the black King is remarkably hard to reach!
13.Qc2 (The game Rudolf Spielmann – S. Rubinstein, Trebitsch 1933 saw 13.Qd3 g6 14.h5 and now Black played 14…Bxg5 and went on to lose [though black's still much better], but 14…Kxg5 simply refutes everything as in the Spassky game) 13…g6 14.h5 Kxg5 15.f4+ Kh6 16.hxg6+ Kg7 17.Rh7+ Kg8 18.0-0-0 Bg7 19.Rdh1 Qf6 20.gxf7+ Rxf7 and it's over: 21.g4 cxd4 22.g5 Qf5 23.Rxg7+ Kxg7 24.Qh2 Rf8 25.g6 Qxg6 26.Rg1 Nd7 27.Rxg6+ Kxg6 28.Nb5 Rac8+ 29.Kd1 Rf6 30.Nd6 Rxd6 31.f5+ Kxf5 32.Qxd6 Nf6 33.exd4 Bc6 34.Qa3 Ra8 35.Qh3+ Kg6 36.Qg3+ Kf5 37.Qh3+ Kg6 38.Qg3+ Kf7 39.Qc7+ Bd7 40.Qb7 Rh8 41.Qxa7 b5 42.Kc2 Rc8+ 43.Kb3 Rc4 44.a3 Ke7 45.Ka2 Ne8 46.Qb8 Nc7 47.Qb7 Kd6 48.Qb6+ Bc6 49.Qb8 Kd7 50.Qh8 Ba8 51.Qh3+ Kc6 52.Qh6+ Kb7 53.Qg7 Ka7 54.Qd7 Bb7 55.Qe7 Bc8 56.Qg7 Kb7 57.Qe5 Bd7 58.Qd6 Be8 59.Qf6 b4 60.axb4 Rxb4 61.b3 Rb6 62.Qh8 Re6 63.Ka3 Re4 64.Kb2 Kb6 65.Qf6+ Ne6 66.Qe7 Bc6 67.Qd6 Rxd4 68.Kc3 Nc7 69.Qd8 Kb7 70.Qe7 Re4 71.Qg7 Bb5 72.Qh7 d4+ 73.Kb4 Re5 74.Qh2 Rd5 75.Qd2 d3 76.Kc3 Rc5+ 77.Kb4 Rc2 78.Qd1 Nd5+, 0-1.
Here's another example of the …Kh6 defense (White still doesn't have a Bishop on the c1-h6 diagonal, but he does have a pawn on e5), though this time white's attack offers a bit more bang thanks to the e5-pawn (though Black can still defend).
John De Soyres – Arthur Skipworth, Boston 1880
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Bxf6 Bxf6 6.Nf3 0ñ0 7.Bd3 c5 8.e5 Be7 9.h4 c4
Black dares White to sacrifice on h7!
White can't resist.
10…Kxh7 11.Ng5+ Kh6! 12.Qd2 Bxg5??
12...Qd7!, which allows the discovered check without losing the Queen, seems to be black's most dependable option: 13.0-0-0 b5 14.Qf4 (14.Nxe6+ Kh7 15.Nxf8+ Bxf8 and white's CBS mating attack is over and the game suddenly reverts to a Rook and two pawns vs. two Bishops battle.) 14...b4!? (Other moves are also possible.) 15.Nce4 dxe4 16.Nxe6+ Kh7 17.Qxe4+ Kg8 18.Nxf8 Bxf8 (18...Qb7 19.Qh7+ Kxf8 20.Qh8#) 19.Qxa8 Qa4 20.Qe4 (20.Qxb8?? Bf5 gives Black a winning attack.) 20...Qxa2 21.Kd2 Qxb2 when we have an odd material imbalance: Black has 3 minor pieces and 5 pawns vs. white's two Rooks and six pawns. Of course, Black also has a nice initiative against white's King.
13.hxg5+ Kg6 14.Ne2 Qxg5?
15.Nf4+ Kf5 16.Rh5 Qxh5 17.Nxh5 g5 18.c3!
Threatening Qc2+.
18...Kg6 19.Qc2+ Kxh5
19...Kh6 20.0-0-0 followed by Rh1 also leads to eventual mate.
20.Qh7+ Kg4 21.Qh3+ Kf4 22.Qf3 mate.
Here's another example of the ...Kh6 defense. White is forced to play extremely well to keep his attack going:
The examples (featuring the CBS with white's pawn on h4 and Rook on h1) we've seen so far have shown us that:
* The CBS is usually crushing if White has a pawn on e5 and a Bishop on the c1-h6 diagonal.
* The CBS is usually still very dangerous if White has either a pawn on e5 but no Bishop on the c1-h6 diagonal, or a Bishop on the c1-h6 diagonal but no pawn on e5.
* The CBS is often unsound if White doesn't have both a pawn on e5 or a Bishop on the c1-h6 diagonal.
We'll now look at the effectiveness of the CBS when there is no pawn on h4 (usually White is castled instead) and the defending King runs to g6 (we've already explored the g8 retreat in the previous articles).
Carl Schlechter – Heinrich Wolf, Ostend 1905
19.Bxh7+ Kxh7 20.Ng5+ Kg6
20...Kh6 is even worse since, with white's pawn on h2 and not h4, the h4-square is available to the white Queen: 21.Qg4 Ng6 (Not allowing Qh4+) 22.f4 Qc8 23.f5 (Threatening 24.Nxf7+! Rxf7 25.Qxg6 mate.) 23...Qa6 (Guarding g6 and stopping the Nxf7+ threat.) 24.e6! (Now the threat of Nxf7+ is once again "on.") 24...Qb6 25.Nxf7+ Kh7 (25...Rxf7 26.Qxg6 mate) 26.Qh5+ Kg8 27.fxg6 Qxd4+ 28.Kh1 and Black will be mated.
The most common way to handle the attack in this kind of position. Now Ne6+ followed by Qxg7 is threatened.
* 21...Qc8 22.Ne6+ Kh6 23.Qxg7+ Kh5 24.Qg5 mate.
* 21...Rg8 22.Nf3+ Kh6 23.Qg5+ Kh7 24.Qh5 mate.
22.exf6 Nf5
* 22...Kxf6 23.Re1 Qc8 24.Re6+ Qxe6 25.Qxe6+, 1-0.
* 22...Rxf6 23.Ne6+ Kf7 24.Qxg7+ Kxe6 25.Re1+ is crushing.
The actual game continued 22…gxf6 23.Ne6+ Kf7 24.Qg7+ Kxe6 25.Re1+ and Black got splattered.
23.Ne4+! Kf7 24.Ng3!
Trying to pull the f5-Knight away from the defense of g7.
24...Nxg3 25.Qxg7+ Ke6 26.Qe7+ Kf5 27.fxg3+ Kg6 28.Qg7+ Kh5 29.Rf5 mate.
25.Nxf5 Qxf6 26.Re1 Re8 27.Qh5+ g6 28.Nd6+ Qxd6 29.Qh7+ Kf8 30.Qh8+,1-0. A very nice, snappy attack!
Here's another typical example of how to handle the …Kg6 defense:
Carlo Salvioli – Crosara, Venice 1883
13.Bxh7+ Kxh7 14.Ng5+ Kg6 15.Qg4 f5 16.Qg3 Qe8 17.Nxe6+
17.Rae1! is even more precise since Black, who is helpless, has no way to stop Nxe6+. One sample line: 17…Rh8 18.Nxe6+ Kf7 19.Nxg7 Qg8 20.e6+ Kf8 21.Bxe7+ Kxe7 22.Qg5+ Kd6 23.exd7 and the Rook on e1 is suddenly looking pretty good!
17…Kf7 18.Nxg7
In the actual game White blundered with 18.Qxg7+?? which actually loses to 18…Kxe6 19.Qh6+ Qg6. However, after 18.Qxg7+?? Black found the worst move on the board – he resigned!
18...Qd8 19.e6+ Kg8 20.Nxf5+ mates.
19.Nxe8 Rxg3 20.Nd6+ Ke6 21.hxg3 and white's an Exchange and 3 pawns ahead!
As we saw, when Black uses the …Kg6 defense white's most common move is Qg4 (though other moves are also important, depending on the exact position) when the reply …f7-f5 either makes or breaks the second player.
Okay, are you ready to see if you understood how to deal with the ...Kh6 and ...Kg6 defenses? If so, it's puzzle time!
i feel bad for the guy rated 1498 who had to play Korchnoi, he was like 1000 rating under
Came to this from the Bh7 article. Wish I'd seen this before as I missed one of these in a game today:
Played 10 Ng5? where instead I should have played 10 Bxh6+. It wins the pawn if black plays Kh8, and I have the open file to play with, upon Kxh7 Ng5+ wins by force. Kg8 or Kh8 loses to Qh5 where black cannot defend against mate on h7. If the king comes out to g6 instead, white's queen, knight and bishop can eventually gang up on the black king in the open.
Hey, in the game
I can not understand why 68.Kc3 instead of Qxe6, could somebody explain it please? Thanks!
Difficult puzzles!
Nice article, thank you.
Bishop sacs and and the King is dead.
beautiful article
very good info
great articles. i found these tactical puzzles to be pretty hard to solve. good stuff
ajinkyagole1986 wondered why, in the Teschner - Spassky game, White didn't eat a free Knight on move 68 by 68.Qxe6. I shouldn't have given the full game since it had nothing to do with our theme, but the database score is either incorrect or both sides were in desperate time pressure. In any case 68.Qxe6 was obviously strong.
good stuFF
this i must sayis awesome.................
yay, more bishop sacs, CBSs and Greek Gift Sacs!
Thanks! The puzzles really helped!
Sir, a small doubt. I might be awfully ignorant, but...
In Teschner-Spassky game, after 67.. Rxd4, shouldn't white play 68. Qxe6?
Or, as I said, I have missed some simple tactic, refuting this...?
Sir can i post my games.
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That title will probably be better than the update itself...
So, yes, it's been a long time since I've made any substantial updates to my blog. That's not to say I haven't been playing any games, I simply haven't felt motivated to put fingers to keyboard and write something. I'm going to try and go back to the once a week updates that I did for a while late last year. Hopefully I'll at least be able to keep that up!
Anywho, what have I been up to in the world of video games? Well, my brother bought me Halo: CE Anniversary for Christmas. Before this all I had really played of Halo was a demo of the PC version of Halo many years back, and tiny bit of Halo 3. I've gotta say, I really enjoyed it! I powered through the campaign in about two weeks, which is very impressive for me. With my lack of free time it normally takes me f'ing ages to complete games.
Apart from the Library level, which was a monotonous slog, I really enjoyed the whole campaign. Bungie really nailed an almost perfect gameplay loop in Halo. Enter a new area, encounter baddies, clear the area of baddies, move on the next area and repeat. This sounds pretty basic when written down, but in practice it is incredibly addictive in Halo due to the fantastically balanced shooting mechanics and enemy AI. I'm quite keen now to get in to Halo 3 and Reach, especially because by all accounts these improve on the first game substantially.
In other shooter news, I've been playing through Half-Life 2 again on the PC with the latest Cinematic Mod installed. This really bumps the graphics up impressively, although it's not quite on par with current games. It also replaces most of the gun sounds so they really pop! I have to turn my volume down because the machine gun sound is almost deafening. To make things interesting, I'm playing the game with an Xbox 360 controller. Luckily the game has native support for gamepads so it's really easy to get into. The game itself has withstood the test of time very well, I must say. The gameplay is still a lot of fun, and the bleak atmosphere that Valve created for the world is captivating. One thing the original game didn't have, which the Cinematic Mod adds, is iron-sight aiming which is brilliant. I don't think I could do without it now.
In regards to my backlog of games, I finally finished X-Men Origins: Wolverine last weekend. I got a bit bored of the game a while back and just stopped playing, but I figured I may as well go back and complete it. It only took another few hours before I finally polished it off. Overall it was actually a really fun game. A bit repetitive, but the fighting mechanics are enjoyable and quite versatile. It's definitely one of the better film license games you're likely to find.
In more offbeat gaming news, I recently bought Dear Esther on Steam. I've been keeping an eye on this game for quite a while now since reading about it in Edge magazine last year. Although it's definitely not for everyone, I thought it was fantastic. One of the most important parts of any game for me is the atmosphere created by the world that you're exploring, whether it be a light-hearted atmosphere or something more dark. Dear Esther is definitely in the "dark" category. The last time I became this engrossed in a video game world was when I played the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl.
The Hebridean island that you explore in Dear Esther is really the main character of the game. The narrative, which is provided by semi-randomised voice-overs, is delivered as you explore the island and gradually a very sad and rather depressing tale comes to light. Although the narrative is well written and delivered with feeling by Nigel Carrington, simply exploring the island is a joy in itself. It's hard to believe that the game is running on the aging Source engine. Everywhere you look in Dear Esther there is a breathtaking view to behold. The third chapter in particular, set in a series of underground caves, is simply stunning. It's quite possibly my favourite video game location ever.
So, yes, I loved Dear Esther. Like I said, it's definitely not a game for everyone. In fact, it's hard to really call it a game in the traditional sense. It's more like an interactive novel, so if you go into it with an open mind and curiosity to explore the world it presents to you then I think you'll enjoy it.
That's about it! I've just started playing The Darkness on the Xbox, and I'm planning on finally finishing L.A Noire on the PS3 soon. As usual I just have too many games to get through! Also, I'm planning on buying a PS Vita soon to add to the pile. Yay!

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This is a short report on my own personal exprience upgrading my iPhone 3GS to the new iOS4.
As yo know, I use my iPhone mostly as testing machine. I'm still connected to Nokia e61 as my main phone (!).
Still, my iPhone is my main email machine, News reader, Kindle book reader, music player, camera, and more. In short I use my iPhone a lot.
Steps (with some reflection)
1. (8:00am) Loading new iTunes.
2. Complete back up of iPhone
3. Loading iOS4 (a bit of problems accessing apple site... but it worked at the end)
4. Updating phone itself.
5. Loading back content into iPhone.
6. (9:00am) Done.
Once you click on the iTubes update -- all is automatic.
New iOS perks:
1. Dbl click on action button to see all open apps. [later video of iPhone 4 demo it, I learned a lot from this video re the features of iOS4)
2. Mail has threads -- cool.
3. Camara has zoom (x 5 times) -- cool.
4. Skype seems to not like new system (says so) but it works fine -- loading Skype still kills music. They should fix that.
5. Lost my podcasts in the process (as well as other content). Music seems to be OK. -- not so cool.
6. iPhone has two background images. for home screen and for lock screen. I used the water drops for main screen --- gives me a feel of iPhone 4.
7. iBook application -- free. Works well, better that Amazon Kindle on iPhone, include also a Free dictionary.
8. Folders -- cool. Just drag one app onto another... iOS4 will put them it into a folder and suggest a name for that folder -- cool.
9.Lock rotation. A new feature allows you to stop auto-rotation. This is very useful feature of you read in bed. To get to this feature dbl click on the action button, scroll to the left. and click on the icon. -- very cool.
10. Next movie -- while on iPhone 4 -- demo some of these perks.
Have fun,
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Taking the ride with Philip at Second Life (return as interim CEO)
First the news (big for me) then some reflection.
From this official Linden Lab page:
Mark Kingdon is going to step down as CEO, and I am going to return as interim CEO, working side-by-side with former CFO Bob Komin, who is being promoted to COO.
This is a big, tough change but one the board of directors and management team deeply believes in. We owe Mark great thanks for the many things we've accomplished in these last two years -- most notably a great improvement in the stability of Second Life, and also the hiring and nurturing of a strong team of new leaders who are now ready to do some amazing work together.This is big (as Philip Rosedale says). This item is of course linked to the major downsizing -- perhaps right sizing -- and of course, to the decline in the value of Linden Dollar.
My basic take: the direction of making second life a 3D Facebook is not working. Why? because we have Facebook for Facebook, and because infrastructure does not support it yet. Board have seen that -- and they want change.
I still think that Second Life is the best real 3D3C virtual world we have to date. I think it is a great for experimentation, education, testing, learning, some minor work, etc. It is FAAAR from being ready and able for prime market. Further, people attention today is in Facebook (not to say Farmville), iPhones and iPads.
Is Philip Linden a novice?I'm looking forward to Phillip direction. While I wish this return is like "Steve Jobs returning to apple" , I think the challenge is different. While Philip is not a novice in Second Life (despite what his bubble says), I think he has a difficult and complex challenge. Core is key. Make Second Life what it can be a 3D world.
Goog Luck.
Labels: Second Life-Ware, Yesha's Stars
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Yesha to meet with Minister Michael Eitan and Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C CEO
From right to left: Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe, the CEO of the W3C, Dr. Yesha Sivan, Head of W3C office in Israel, Minister Michael Eitan, and Eyal Sela, project manager of ISOC Israel.
In my role as the head of the W3C office in Israel I had the pleasure of spending the day with Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe, the CEO of the W3C. You may not be aware to the role W3C has in our lives. In essence, W3C is responsible for the software layer of the web (while ISOC is dealing with the pipes). While, W3C is best known for "developing" HTML and XML, in fact, W3C has more than 70 different working groups, dealing with various aspects of the web.
Key to our discussion was of course the issue of standards. More specifically, how we can make the W3C a better place for small scale standards. Jeff had an extensive blog post here: Making W3C the Best Place for New Standards Work.
More about Jeff visit in Israel see this item http://www.w3c.org.il/article/w3c_ceo_visit-summary which include two videos of Jeff talk to CIO's and Jeff talk to innovators at the garage geeks.
Labels: 3D3C - Standards, Yesha-Ware
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
600,000 iPhone 4s pre-ordered, Apple apologizes for issues
engadget 600,000 iPhone 4 were pre-ordered. An amazing number for ONE DAY.
This is what Apple had to say:
Here's Apple's full statement:
By the way, while I have an iPhone 3gs I still work with my Nokia e61e.
Bottom Line: if we have good technology with perceived value (thank you Mr. Jobs) people will gulp it.Yesterday Apple and its carrier partners took pre-orders for more than 600,000 of Apple's new iPhone 4. It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we anticipated, resulting in many order and approval system malfunctions. Many customers were turned away or abandoned the process in frustration. We apologize to everyone who encountered difficulties, and hope that they will try again or visit an Apple or carrier store once the iPhone 4 is in stock.
By the way, while I have an iPhone 3gs I still work with my Nokia e61e.
Labels: Apple-Ware
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Video Review - Onverse Virtual World
I just had few hours with Onverse. I was reminded how fun it is to check new worlds, compare and explore, and just have fun.
Here's what I did and what I think about it (compared with Second Life, and IMVU).
1. Getting in -- was very easy. Go to web site, select a name, select mini avatar... then loading...
loading took a while (like in both SL and IMVU). I read emails...
2. Going in -- after program started I was directed to help land. Very good and simple design. You walk on "?" on the ground and each reveal more and more instrcutions -- after 10 min I was able to learn it all..
3. Into my own home -- as with IMVU, and now with SL you can get your own home. I selected an apartment and was able to furnish it with one Sofa. easy.
4. Money -- like IMVU (unlike SL) there are 2 types of coins. Free and Cash. So there are ways to buy virtual goods.
5. People -- I did see some of them. Hard a bit to find where they are...
6. Web/World integration. Most things are done in the local 3D Onverse Application. But all profile, searchs etc are done on the web. IMVU is moving away from that and putting more into their client. SL is still unlear about their path.. although it seems more webness is wanted.
7. Speed & quality -- I took the default setting and all worked quite well. Unlike current SL2 I did not see any gohasts. All loaded into the scene with no problems. Speed in worlds was also fine.
8. Chat window -- there is still much to do there.
9. Music -- nice 3D sound. No apparent user created content. No scripting.
10. Bottom line: interesting between IMVU and SL. (I'm not sure what is their status in terms of the economy) I see some lower trafic in the forum so we have to make sure they survive (and not go an visit metaplace, and there, rip).
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Travis Rice wins X Games' Best Male Athlete in Action Sports
Over the past several weeks, XGames.com conducted a readers poll if you will to determine who the best male athlete in action sports is, and after five rounds of voting, Travis Rice claimed the victory over Torstein Horgmo 53% to 47%, respectively.
It was a tough road to the top for Travis as he had to conquer some big names in action sports. In the first round Travis beat out professional skier, Sean Pettit, with a whopping 69% of the vote. Chock one up for snowboarding right there!
In round two Travis beat out Nyjah Houston with another large victory capturing 64% of the vote. No easy task as Nyjah is one kick-ass skateboarder.
Round three brought yet another tough matchup against the popular Paul Rodriguez. But after the votes were counted, Travis walked away with another large win capturing 62% of the vote. That's no easy feat against one of Nike's premiere action sports athletes.
In the semi-finals, Travis had to face the other Travis of the action sports world, Travis Pastrana, which I considered to be Rice's toughest matchup of the entire event. Watching the battle across social media was quite entertaining as both men battled it out, promoting themselves in any way possible to make into the finals. In the end Travis Rice would walk away with 52% of the vote, his closest matchup of the event. Kudos to Mr. Pastrana for putting up a worthy battle. Maybe next time…
The finals would be a showdown of two extraordinary snowboarders, Rice and Horgmo, who once again, battled it out across the interwebs to call themselves The Best Male Athlete in Action Sports. In the end it would be Rice who would claim 53% of the vote over Torstein's 47%. With a total of 18,601 votes cast in the finals, Travis captured a whopping 9859 votes from action sports enthusiasts.
So a tip of the cap to you Mr. Travis Rice for not only dominating our beloved sport and showing us things we thought were never possible. But for dominating everything your name is attached to. Congrats!


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June 16, 2012, 12:04 am TWN
TAIPEI--Chu Shao-hua, chairman of the state-run oil refiner CPC Corp., Taiwan, on Friday denied any involvement in a case of bid-rigging, saying that the news reports of him being under investigation were incorrect.
It was reported in the media that Chu is being investigated by the Agency Against Corruption on suspicion of helping a local company win a CPC tender in 2006 for an oil leak detection system.
However, Chu said that while the matter is in fact being probed, he himself is not under investigation. The tender was not under his supervision in 2006, when he was vice president of the company, he told reporters.
Chu said he intends to retire by the end of this month and that Economics Minister Shih Yen-shiang has already approved his retirement plans.
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WASHINGTON TWP. — After months of number crunching, discussions of taking away some employees' perks and a political back-and-forth with the municipal utilities authority, the township council finally approved the 2011 budget Wednesday night, which reduces the initial tax impact that was proposed.
The $36.2 million budget – which is more than $1.8 million less than last year's – will increase the tax rate by a amount of 3.1 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. A one-year freeze on the 2-cent open space tax will bring the net impact to 1.1 cents, or about $14 on the average assessed home of $130,000.
An additional savings was reflected in the finalized budget, due to a new, less-costly trash and recycling contract that is awaiting approval.
Bids for the new contract came back last week to replace the one that expires June 30. The current provider, Waste Management, was the lowest of four bidders – the most bidders the township has had in at least 10 years. The contract for the six months of 2011 is $250,000 less than the current one, resulting in the savings.
"We are thrilled that through (Municipal Services Director Nick) Pileggi's hard work, the bids were much more competitive than in the past," Mayor Matt Lyons said. "This is an example of our ongoing daily efforts to find savings in the budget."
The township expects to issue the contract at its next meeting. If the council agrees to a five-year contract, the savings over the length of the agreement could be more than $1 million, Lyons said.
Without the savings in this year's budget, the tax increase would have been 2.2 cents. Lyons, as well as four council members, expressed their support for the budget before voting on it Wednesday night. Councilman Scott Newman suggested some of the savings should be put into surplus to help the township out next year.
For Lyons, who has been working on the budget since last fall, it meant making "tough decisions" including laying off the park rangers, as well as a few other employees in various departments.
"The bottom line is this year's budget is $1,835,625 less than last year's budget," Lyons said. "That's the key thing. We're pushing in the right direction."
He said many of the decisions made this year will be fully realized in 2012. He plans to present more alternative revenue ideas to the council members in the coming months.
"When these decisions are made, the earlier they're made the better off we are," the mayor said.
When Lyons introduced his budget it called for a 5-cent increase. However, newly elected Republican council members Chris Del Borrello, Giancarlo D'Orazio and Daniel Morley weren't happy with the increase. The council, at the time, amended the budget to eliminate about $350,000 that would be paid to employees for unused sick time.
The move angered many employees, particularly the police department, who were threatened with layoffs if they didn't give up the contractual perk. Concerns for public safety prompted the municipal utilities authority (MUA), to donate $220,000 from its surplus to keep the cops employed.
However, Del Borrello, the council president, asked the MUA for more than that so all employees whose jobs were on the line could rest at ease. He said the MUA has historically given the township more money to help offset its budget. By law, the township can ask the MUA for 5 percent of its surplus.
Last year, the MUA gave $2.3 million – the majority of which was the last installment of debt it owed to the township.
Del Borrello alluded to the political back and forth when he explained why he was voting against the municipal budget. He was the only dissenting vote.
"I will be voting no on this budget, not because of a lack of effort but because of the process (with the MUA)," Del Borrello said. "To give us $2.3 million for last year's budget and say nothing for this year's budget, there's no way you could make up for $2.3 million without massive layoffs. … The way everything went down, I don't feel to vote for a tax increase, with that kind of stuff going on, is fair to the residents."
Lyons, who asked the MUA last year to pay off the rest of its debt to help with the 2010 budget, said the fund-transfer wasn't "arbitrary" as Del Borrello suggested.
"Is there $250,000 you would recommend cutting from the budget?" Lyons asked, referring to what would be needed to have no tax increase in 2011.
Del Borrello didn't have any recommendations and his fellow councilmen said they were supportive of the final budget.
"We've gotten to a point where it's a livable thing," said Morley, adding that next year the council would focus on bringing in more revenues through redevelopment.
D'Orazio said "compared to prior years, this is a great budget" and told those who were laid off that they were "in my thoughts and prayers."
"And to the taxpayers, I am honored to be up here for you," D'Orazio said. "All of us have worked very hard on this budget. Although there's just a little increase, there's room to do better and we will."


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Sarah Blumenschein, M.D.
Preventive Cardiologist, Children's Medical Center
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UT Southwestern
WHAT SHE DOES: Treats cardiac conditions, with an emphasis on kids at risk for coronary artery disease.
WHAT DRIVES HER: "When a family's loved one suffers a heart attack, it is emotionally, physically and financially devastating. My goal is for that to never happen to my patients."
MOTIVATING FACTOR: "One in 250 kids has high cholesterol, which can lead to coronary artery disease; I have the chance to change the trajectory of this disease in our country."
AVID ADVOCATE: "I try to get younger residents and medical students interested in this field of medicine. Advances in fetal treatment lead to more proactive approaches to congenital heart disease; preventive cardiology aims to start earlier in the approach to the child with high cholesterol."
RUNS IN THE FAMILY: Both parents are physicians, brother is a surgeon, uncle is a neurosurgeon and husband of 49 years is a retired oncologist. "Even the aunt I am named after was a doctor."
PROUD MOM: Has three living children (a fourth one died at age 9) and five grandchildren.
Next, Meet N.Y. Giants Fan Dr. James Moore
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It took half a century, from 1900 to 1950, for at least half of American homes to have a phone in them. When the first mobile phone came along, that time frame shrank significantly, taking less than 20 years. Smartphones -- essentially computers in everyone's pocket -- reached the 50% saturation rate this year, taking a little over 10 years to get there.
Look at how quick adoption rates have become, as assembled by MIT's Technology Review:
Sources: Forrester, Knowledge Networks, New York Times, Nielsen, Pew, U.S. Census. "No Phone" derived by subtraction.
Obviously, if smartphones are only in the hands of half of the Americans out there, that leaves another half for mobile companies to grow in to. Though that's a big number, it doesn't offer the type of growth that some investors want. In fact, such statistics lead some to think that it's already too late to get in and profit from the smartphone revolution.
Think again
If we were just talking about America, then the bearish take on investing in smartphones would make sense. But we're in a global economy now, and the opportunities abroad are massive.
Traditionally, it was assumed that adoption of technology in developing countries would only increase at a rate commensurate with the country's GDP growth. But when the mobile phone came along, that paradigm was thrown on its head.
In 2001, the industrialized world had six times as many mobile phones per capita as the developing world. By 2011, the industrial world only had 50% more per capita. That's still a lot more, but the margin between the two has shrunk significantly -- and that meant big business for mobile phone and network providers.
The International Telecommunications Union reports that currently, about 45% of the world's population is now covered by the infrastructure necessary for 3G networks to function. That number, it is assumed, will be growing in the near future as well. With these networks in place, the same type of growth that took place for mobile phones is ripe to occur with smartphones.
Possible big winners
At the beginning of 2012, global smartphone penetration was estimated at just 10%.
Let's say that one more time: 10%.
Whereas smartphone or network providers focused solely on America would be lucky to double their penetration in time, those focused globally have an absolutely massive opportunity in front of them.
Some of the biggest players in the world are right here at home, so you're probably quite familiar with them. First and foremost is Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) . No, the iPhone might not have the greatest market share of smartphones when its products spread abroad -- but that's because it's price point may be outside of what's affordable for most of the world. That being said, sales in the company's Asia-Pacific region last quarter increased 114% from the year before and accounted for more than a quarter of the company's total revenue.
Next is the other gorilla in the room: Google (Nasdaq: GOOG ) . The company's Android operating system is the only real alternative emerging to Apple's iOS. Though the race between the two is tight in America, Android has a commanding lead globally, owning a 59% market share.
If there's one company you don't want to bet on, it's former smartphone champ Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM ) . The BlackBerry has lost an incredible amount of ground to rivals, and it would take a herculean effort to turn things around at the company.
Smarter, lesser-known plays
I'm probably not telling you anything new when it comes to Apple, Google, and RIMM. But there are other ways to profit from the smartphone revolution as well. Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM ) , for instance, offers up patented nano-chips that many smartphones need for LTE technology. It also owns an impressive portfolio of patents that provide high-margin licensing revenues.
But none of these companies qualifies as what we consider to be the best play on the smartphone revolution. Our top analysts have created a special free report: The Next Trillion-Dollar Revolution. Inside, the team will tell you the one company they think will profit more than the rest. To find out what company that is, get your copy of the report today, absolutely free!


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Winching Tip of the Week: Drape a heavy coat or tree branch over the cable to absorb energy in case the cable should snap.
In the rare case that a winch cable snaps, it can lash back with tremendous force. To prevent serious damage or bodily injury, throw a heavy coat or similar object over the taut cable before beginning the winching process. The coat will absorb a large amount of the force if the cable snaps and prevent the cable from whipping violently through the air.
The coat or object should be placed midway between the winch and the anchor point. Some possible weighted objects include the following:
- A heavy blanket (such as a mover's blanket)
- Chain
- Floor mats
- A backpack
- A tree limb
Even with a weighted object over the winch cable, you should still follow all safety precautions for winching. Make sure all bystanders are clear of the cable's path, stand clear of the cable while operating the winch, and do not step over the cable when it is under tension.
And remember that the best way to prevent your winch cable from breaking is to perform regular maintenance on your winch and cable.
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The freshly baked marrow, which I used a chopstick to effortlessly dislodge. I had to put it in a small ceramic dish to finish cooking it, though. I drank all the oils and ate every piece. I didn't need breakfast today and probably would have skipped lunch if my greens weren't getting limp and their nutritional value was isn't in limbo.
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ELIZABETH — A dozen city and state officials gathered with about 100 students this morning for Environment Day, an educational outing designed to spark interest in keeping Elizabeth's unique ecosystems healthy.
John Filippelli, an official with the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said it used to be a common sight to see garbage floating down the Arthur Kill. But increasing interest in the welfare of the planet in the past few decades has greatly reduced that, he said, as tug boats and cargo ships floated by on the sparkling waterway behind him.
The speakers — who included Mayor J. Christian Bollwage and representatives from the Department of Environmental Protection, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other groups that are active in the area — stressed the importance of both air and water conservation.
Elizabeth's ecosystems are under more stress than many other cities in New Jersey. Trucks pour in and out of the ports all day, massive ships flow through its waterways, and planes from Newark Liberty International Airport fly directly over it as they land and take off.
A student project on display at the event showed black carbon readings taken along Routes 1&9, contrasting them with readings taken from a local park. Eighth-graders from School No. 31 and high-schoolers from the Dwyer House academy worked for four months, counting cars and reading air-quality monitors.
The experiment showed the influx of cars on weekdays added to the presence of the harmful agent and that the highway area had poorer air quality. Scientists have found that black carbon, which comes from burning fossil fuels, is a direct cause of climate change, absorbing heat in the atmosphere and reducing the ability of snow and ice to reflect sunlight.
Also showing displays at the event were the Army Corp of Engineers, who are in the process of dredging and removing debris from the water, as well as the U.S. Coast Guard and NY/NJ Baykeeper, a group focused on the conservation and restoration of the Hudson-Raritan Estuary.
There was also a booth — understandably popular with the students — handing out bubbles and kites, which soared in the crystal clear spring sky, held up by a cool breeze coming off the water.
Held at a marina along the waterway, today's event was directly next to a section of pier destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. That storm, the EPA official said, is proof that climate change is not just an abstract concept anymore.
"Ten years ago, when you heard about climate change, you thought about polar bears and the rainforest," Filippelli said, gesturing to the nearby damage. "Now it's right here."
The event was put together by Michelle Doran McBean and her group Future City, an Elizabeth-based organization that strives to help ethnic communities in the city get educated and involved with protecting the environment.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Veteran TV newsman Tom Brokaw has been diagnosed with cancer, NBC News said Tuesday.
The Mayo Clinic discovered last summer that Brokaw has multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting blood cells in the bone marrow, NBC News said. His doctors are optimistic about his treatment and encouraged by his progress since the August diagnosis, the network division said.
In a statement released by NBC, Brokaw said he remains, in his words, "the luckiest guy I know."
"With the exceptional support of my family, medical team and friends, I am very optimistic about the future and look forward to continuing my life, my work and adventures still to come," he said.
The former national anchor, now an NBC News special correspondent, has continued to work on projects during his treatment and is contributing to NBC Sports coverage of the Winter Olympics, NBC said.


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The Special Needs Support Program (SNSP) helps families of children with special needs by increasing the capacity for inclusive child care. SNSP works with child care professionals to enhance skill and knowledge levels through educational instruction.
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Bulletstorm is as expletive-happy as four Colorado kids on a big screen and as excessively violent as an angry Liam Neeson in Paris. Just like the South Park and Taken movies, with Bulletstorm you ought to leave your high horse in your stables. If you can, then you'll enjoy an Epic game with a testosterone-y but genuinely funny script that props up a wicked form of marksmanship.
The premise is typical sci-fi shooter drivel. You play as Grayson Hunt, a mercenary who fits his reckless-action-hero name right down to his Wolverine-lite look. His booze-addled impulses leave him and his pal, Terminator-clone Ishi Sato, stranded on the ruins of a holidaying planet. In search of escape, revenge - yadda yadda - they must defeat a whole bunch of irate vicious dudes.
Luckily, Bulletstorm is knowingly ridiculous, at least to the point where it doesn't take itself seriously. Grayson is a one-liner vending machine. Some are glibly disgusting ("persistent, like herpes") while others are sardonic of himself and the game at large ("ah, dangerous place, I'm hip!"). It's through him and the impassive cyborg Sato that the game charms in a ragtag way. When the pair negotiates a bloodbath in a retro 20th century disco, fighting to the backdrop of classic tune "Disco Inferno", Sato coolly notes that "this classical music explains World War III". Minutes later, an angry exchange breaks out about "dick-killing". Bulletstorm is definitely more Schwarzenegger than van Damme.
This irreverence is appropriate support to a game that rates how skilful you are with your violence. The skill shots are its unashamed USP, after all, with over 130 specific ways of killing rewarding players with skill points to be used on upgrading weapons. With the a light beam leash to lock on to bad guys and yank them towards you, and a big right boot to kick them back whence they came, you can suspend enemies in midair slow motion and manipulate their deaths to rack up the kill points.
These start off simple, like kicking a goon into a handy nearby cactus for the Prickled bonus (100 points) or shooting an enemy after kicking them for Bullet Kick (25 points). Throwing in a headshot (25 points) or even the crudely self-explanatory Rear Entry bonus (50 points) adds to your tally.
The skill shots become more complicated as new weapons and environments are introduced and combined. For example, there's the Para-chooted bonus: when you take down a helicopter its pilot is thrown out of it, and killing him before he hits the ground earns a meaty 50 points. If you kick the pilot off a platform and into the abyss, that's an extra 50 for the Vertigo skill shot. If, before he plummets into the abyss, you shoot an explosive flail chain around his neck but leave it to detonate after he's already died, you'll earn another 50 for the Sadist bonus - and rightly so, you sadist.
It's the working out of these combinations that's the most fun in Bulletstorm, especially in the short burst Echoes mode with friends' scores and leaderboards to compete against. There are clever design touches that amplify the hunt for big points, like rewarding the first use of a specific kill with a 5x bonus. This encourages experimenting to find new kills in the single-player campaign, while simultaneously encouraging diversity of kills in the Echoes and co-op multiplayer Anarchy mode.
However, there's the nagging feeling that the combinations could go deeper, or at least could be more creative. Rather than reward you for building up a chain of moves, the game is confined to rewarding the skill shots it lists out. So if you leash an enemy to you, kick him, use the Thumper ability to slam him into the ground and throw him into the air, leash him back to you again and then kick him into a cactus, the game will only reward you for kicking him into the cactus. Even though some of the skill shots do go deeper than a one-two move kill, and eliciting a high score combination still requires artistry and skill, especially in Echoes, there remains the feeling that the list of skill shots could go deeper, both in terms of number of shots and artistry of kills. At times, Bulletstorm feels like ticking off the boxes on a gussied up Achievements list - not that this isn't a lot of fun, mind you.
Nonetheless, the slow doling out of weapons and their secondary charges helps keep a strong pace to the campaign, and some of the weapons like Flail Gun and the shotgun - sorry, Boneduster - the latter with its incendiary secondary fire, are a real joy to play around with. Throwing up enemies into the air and then frazzling them out to get the Acid Burn skill shot doesn't get old. Some weapons are more miss than hit, though. The sniper rifle, with which the camera follows the bullets as you direct them in slow motion, is a fun novelty at first but slows the game down too much. The grenade launcher, the Bouncer, and its bouncing cannonballs seem to require more luck than skill for effect.
As for the Anarchy mode, which is essentially a score attack version of Horde mode with some extra skill shots for combination kills between friends, the concept is strong enough and with friends it's a definite win. The key point here is 'with friends'. To progress through later levels you absolutely must kill in combination with your allies, a fact that doesn't significantly impact upon all online folk.
Nonetheless, if you do have friends to play with or at least compete against in the Echoes mode, then Bulletstorm has a lot to give beyond a campaign mode that is in many ways frivolous and fun training for the game's multiplayer. Bulletstorm may be a sick, filthy game that you may not want to show to everyone, but at least it knows it is and simply doesn't care. It's much more interested in whether or not you can slam three shotgun shots into that guy you just flung into the air.
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HOLLAND -- The Hope College club hockey team has some unfinished business.
The Flying Dutchmen were runners-up in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division III national tournament last season. It is the second time the program has finished second in the nation.
The goal this season is to claim the national title on home ice.
Hope is the host site of the 2010 ACHA D-III national tournament at The Edge Ice Center in Holland, 4444 Holland Ave., beginning Wednesday and culminating with the championship game at 8 p.m. Saturday.
"We want to be the team hoisting the trophy this year," Hope coach Chris Van Timmeren said. "It's definitely been a goal for us this year. It's a great honor to be there again for the 10th year in a row in the national tournament.
"To be at home, it's even more special."
The 16-team field, which includes Davenport University, Michigan State and defending champion Saginaw Valley State, is scheduled for pool play today and Thursday at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m..
Hope won the Michigan Collegiate Hockey Conference regular-season championship, and is seeded first in the North Region. The Flying Dutchmen face off at 7 tonight against Florida Atlantic in its opener.
Hope plays Robert Morris at 7 p.m. Thursday and Colorado at 5 p.m. Friday in pool play.
Davenport upset Hope and Saginaw Valley en route to winning the MCHC postseason tournament title. The Panthers hit the ice for a 10 a.m. matchup today against Florida Gulf Coast in the opener.
Davenport plays California (Pa.) at 7 p.m. Thursday and McKendree at 12:15 p.m. Friday.
Pool play continues Friday at 9:45 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 2:45 p.m. and 5:15 p.m.
The action concludes Saturday with the semifinals at 9:30 a.m., followed by an all-star contest at 4 p.m. and the national title game at 8 p.m.
"It's a wonderful thing for Holland and the whole area," Edge Ice Center general manager Scott Meyaard said.
"Hopefully, Hope will be No. 1 this year. I'd love to see it done here. That would make it special."
The MCHC is the official host of the tournament.
Tickets are $40 for a tournament pass, $15 for a single-day pass and $5 for individual games. Semifinals tickets go on sale Friday and championship game tickets go on sale immediately after the semifinals.
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Today's Big Ten football news features the historic vote by Northwestern student-athletes to unionize and several looks at the upcoming NFL draft. While student-athletes at Northwestern vote today, the results likely won't be known for months, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Since a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board marked the first step toward Northwestern student-athletes being recognized as university employees, the NCAA has faced criticism from all angles.
President Mark Emmert has aimed to defend the long-standing amateur model, which is also under the microscope of several lawsuits, not the least of which being an anti-trust suit led by former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon. That suit is expected to go to trial this summer, which could prompt more significant changes in the landscape of intercollegiate athletics.
In other Big Ten news, Ohio State cornerback Bradley Roby, a likely first or second-round pick in the 2014 NFL draft, was charged with operating a vehicle while impaired (OVI) after a traffic stop in Columbus. Michigan offensive tackle Taylor Lewan is rising up draft boards and is now a factor for the No. 2 overall pick, according to ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr.
Those headlines and more highlight today's Big Ten football news roundup:
Big Ten should be bigger factor early in 2014 NFL draft (ESPN.com)
What to know: Northwestern union vote (ESPN.com)
How do new Maryland football contracts measure up in the Big Ten? (Washington Post)
Quarterback Jake Rudock having impressive spring as Iowa tweaks offense (Hawk Central)
Brady Reiff, a 2015 recruit, will follow big brother to Iowa (Hawk Central)
Former Michigan offensive lineman Michael Schofield uses aunts' struggle for motivation (Detroit Free Press)
Former Michigan offensive lineman Michael Schofield uses aunts' struggle for motivation (MLive.com)
Michigan's Taylor Lewan could be the No. 2 pick in the draft, Mel Kiper Jr. says; Jeremy Gallon, Michael Schofield trending up (MLive.com)
Michigan State recruiting big, athletic Minnesota OT Drayton Carlberg (Detroit News)
5 thoughts on Green-White game: Damion Terry, Aaron Burbridge and some position battles (MLive.com)
Minnesota football assistants Claeys, Limegrover get sizeable raises in 3-year deals (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
Nebraska eyeing Florida transfer Marqui Hawkins? (Omaha World Herald)
Results of Northwestern union vote won't be known for months (Chicago Tribune)
Will NFL Draft stock of Ohio State CB Bradley Roby be hurt by OVI charge, which agent explains as minor? (Cleveland.com)
Urban Meyer's feelings on spring football in Ohio: How his son affects the Ohio State coach's outlook (Cleveland.com)
Rutgers spring practice: Jamil Pollard returns to team, says he's 'in a better place now' (NJ.com)
Rutgers football running back Paul James not deterred by injuries (My Central Jersey)
Wisconsin's Tanner McEvoy looks like a QB now (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)


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Isn't the ideal ratio supposed to be 3:1 Omega 3 to 6 not the other way around as Tropical Traditions is stating? Anyone have any opinions on this protein powder? And if not this any suggestions on a good quality whey?
What do you think? I've been looking for a protein powder for my smoothies... I am thinking this might be a good choice.
Organic Hemp Protein Powder - Tropical Traditions
"Tropical Traditions hemp protein contains 18 key amino acids, including 9 essential amino acids our bodies cannot produce. Hemp protein is free of the trypsin inhibitors which block protein absorption and free of the oligosaccharides found in soy.
Approximately 65% of the protein in hemp seeds is made up of the globulin protein edestin which is found only in hemp seeds. The other one third of the hemp seed protein is albumin, a high quality globulin protein similar to that found in egg whites.
The oil contained in the hemp seed is made up of essential fatty acids, fatty acids that our body cannot produce and must be supplied through our diet. The oil of the hemp seed has been dubbed "nature's most perfectly balanced oil" due to the fact that it contains the perfectly balanced 3:1 ratio of Omega 6 (linoleic/LA) to Omega 3 (alpha-linolenic/LNA) essential fatty acids, determined to be the optimum requirement for long-term healthy human nutrition.
Hemp seeds provide a good supply of antioxidants (vitamin E), phytosterols, phospholipids and a number of minerals including calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, along with modest amounts of iron and zinc."
Isn't the ideal ratio supposed to be 3:1 Omega 3 to 6 not the other way around as Tropical Traditions is stating? Anyone have any opinions on this protein powder? And if not this any suggestions on a good quality whey?
IMHO the acid test is how much hemp seed (product to test) would you have consumed as the HG in the good old days?
Other factors,
I believe O6:O3 is 2:1 and most CW diets are around 10:1 and more.
O3 is not just O3, ALA is not the same as EPA & DHA and bodies conversion rate is generally considered to be poor.
What else is present in the hemp protein powder that in signioficant doses may be as damaging as Lectins, Gluten & WGA which of course are complex protein molecules found in seeds.
This seems to be an extension of the health benefits of Flax seed oil and in IMO, these claims are coming out to be dubious at best.
Have no idea about whey protein, non dairy here so whey is considered as non food in my eyes.
Oh and where is the tradition connection, as far as I know the traditions with hemp are fibre for paper & cloth, seed oil for wood finish, like linseed oil, be curious if anyone has any evidence of a traditional dietary application, I've never heard of it.
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Today I was emailed by a staff member of an airline (the staff member and the airline will remain nameless). To the email which was sent to me by this staffer, were attached approx 20 emails which had been sent by various collectors from around the world; some of whom are known to me personally.
The reason these emails were sent to me is that this staffer has in the past helped me with bits and pieces and I have helped him/her, and he/she thought that I may like to contact some of these people for myself.
After reading these emails, I was absolutely flabbergasted, to say the very least.
They go from the:
STUPID No. 1: A person writes that they are wanting to book a flight from from ABC to XYZ but they would prefer to look at a hard copy of their timetable as they found their online version very difficult to understand. This person made 2 errors: 1) In their signature line right under their name, is written "Timetable collector" 2) The airline in question doesn't have flights from either ABC or XYZ.
STUPID No. 2: A person writes in an email that they want a safety card sent out to them. The reason they give is that this person's 10 year old son collects them. The email address the person used kinda indicated their age (YAHOO email) and upon checking their Yahoo profile, it says that they are 17 years old. Just when in the evolutionary process did man get the ability not only to produce sperm, but also bear children at the age of seven???
RUDE: A person requests a copy of the airlines timetable. It states in the email that it doesn't matter if it is an old one or a new one (this to me indicates it is a collector). After they have written their request it says "Don't tell me to visit your website."
SELFISH: A person requests some items, which the airline has happily sent out. However, only 4 weeks later, the person sends another email asking for more. I know who this person is, and I know what is done with these extra items....they are put up on Ebay.
OUTRAGEOUS: A person sends an email with a list about 2 pages long of items which they want. About the only thing they didn't demand is the shirt of the airlines' owners back. The amount of stuff this person was demanding would have cost the airline over $20 to send out (and that is a conservatice estimate); yet there was no offer of paying for anything.
This is just 4 examples of what I read in a small number of emails (of which the majority followed the above); and after reading them all, it is now little wonder why the airlines are no longer sending stuff out, even those airlines which were very collector conscious. I just hope that those who read this, and may see some of their handiwork in the above, can do us all a favour and STOP IT!!!
People who act in the above way are ruining it for the serious collector who is not rude or abrasive or demanding. Some advice to those who will still continue acting in the above manner: 1) ASK...DON'T demand. You won't get a damn thing from anyone. Try to imagine that you are the person reading your request. Would you respond to it in a positive way? I think NOT! 2) Offer to pay for postage or whatever. I personally would be more inclined to help someone if they are willing to give someting...not just take take take.
Anyway, that's my rant for the day!!
P.S. The airline concerned WILL NOT send out any items to ANY collectors. Whilst I wasn't told it directly, the way in which this staffer has chatted to me on this issue in the past, I feel that a big reason they don't is because of the attitudes shown as above. Good thing I have become quite friendly with this staffer, and he/she will send me anything I may want or need.


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Syracuse, N.Y. -- A woman who appeared in national anti-smoking TV ads speaking through an artificial voice box has died of cancer.
Terrie Hall of North Carolina died at a hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C. at the age of 53, according to the Associated Press.
The former cheerleader was diagnosed with oral cancer and throat cancer, caused by smoking, at age 40. She quit smoking after doctors removed her larnyx and inserted an artificial voice box in her throat.
She was one of several former smokers featured in graphic, federally-funded TV anti-smoking ads. A recent study published in the Lancet found more than 200,000 Americans quit smoking immediately following the three-month campaign in 2012.
"She was a public health hero," Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the Associated Press. "She may well have saved more lives than most doctors do."
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Well, the time has come for me to end my deployment here in Afghanistan and return home to the States. This is a move I have mixed emotions about, but am looking forward to making so I can continue my life in the "real-world." When on a deployment, it feels as though life back home is on "pause" just waiting for that final homecoming flight that will push "play," causing everything to resume from the freeze frame. But in reality this isn't the case at all—it only feels that way to those of us who have been deployed—which is a strange concept to truly grasp. In reality, everything and everybody in our lives back home have been in motion the entire time we've been away, it seems, without us. This is a feeling I've experienced and am prepared for. Without giving details, I'll soon be flying to Kuwait, then to Europe where we'll stop for a while, then to Ft. Benning, Georgia where I will out-process. My Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will be unique and memorable as most of my journey home will literally and figuratively take place during the holidays.
Although I'll be in my Army uniform, traveling on various military aircraft through several foreign countries in the next few days, I still plan on celebrating some of my family's holiday traditions. First of all, I plan on making Christmas Eve special somehow and spending it with friends and family. "Family" meaning members of my Army family—it's the closest thing a Soldier has while away from his/her real family. Fortunate for me, I have a few fellow Army Reservists who are on the same journey home through Kuwait and Ft. Benning so I will not be alone. We may be on different flights arriving at different times, so we have planned to meet at the Ronald McDonald statue on post in Kuwait at noon on Christmas Eve. Now, when I mention "McDonald's" I do not mean a typical McDonald's restaurant like back home. But it is indeed a McDonald's stand and that's where we will meet. (I ate some chicken McNuggets when I was passing through Kuwait back in the summer—I heard the burgers taste very different than back home so decided to steer clear of that adventure. I'm not big on eating fast food anyway.) So if we are unable to get in touch with each other due to lack of technology/communications, we will see each other at McDonald's at the designated time.
Our only solid plan is to watch a Christmas movie of some kind at the MWR (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation) or, if nothing else, we'll watch one on my laptop while sitting at the local Green Beans. Green Beans is the overseas military version of Starbucks. (I miss my tall, non-fat, no-whip, no extra water, chai lattes from my apartment building's Starbucks back home—there are no such luxuries such as non-fat milk here at Green Beans. Oftentimes they are out of milk entirely or other coffee shop basics.) Regardless of what the small group of us ends up doing to celebrate, at some point I will be watching "It's a Wonderful Life" on Christmas Eve as I have done every year of my life with my family. This will not be the first Christmas I've spent away from home and family due to my military-related duties. Last year I spent Christmas Eve with my Crisis Action Team co-workers pulling night shift at the Pentagon watching "A Christmas Carol" and in 2005 I was deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. However, my family and I still watch the movie on Christmas Eve as though we were together.
I will also find a phone and use my calling card to chat with my family for a while and wish each other a Merry Christmas, thankful that I'm coming home safely. We've already discussed how fortunate we are that I was in a safer area than other Soldiers and that even as I've traveled I've avoided injury or worse. Many loved ones of Troops are not so lucky and this is a fact I acknowledge easily. One thing exposure to harsh realities of a combat zone deployment creates is perspective. The closest I've come to danger here is the audible whistle or whiz of incoming fire over my head and hearing and feeling the not-so-distant impact. I still lack the experience some Troops have had which allows them to tell the difference between rockets or mortar, where the rockets were made by how they sound, and where the landing might be as they fly overhead. I am fine with my lack of expertise in this area, thank you very much.
And while I've already sent gifts home (such as the Afghan carpet for my parents), I wanted something little to have them open when we are together in early January. So in the front pocket of my rucksack I have a gift for my mom, my stepdad, Paul (whom I call PDaddy), and my Nana. They will be the first three people I see back home in Texas and I'll give them each their little gift once we're all sitting together in my Nana's living room in my little hometown in Texas.
As I mentioned, I leave this deployment with mixed emotions. I of course am happy to return safely—I appreciate the gift of life much more after being here. I look forward to spending time with family and friends in Texas and Arkansas before returning back to work in Washington, D.C. I'm eager to return to my quiet, pristine apartment in Crystal City (remember, I've been living in a place where everything is dust-covered and without any privacy, ha) and beginning a new position at the Pentagon. But I'm also a bit sad to be leaving. My job here is an amazing honor in helping individuals, I've met very special people here, and I've learned a lot about the real Afghanistan from the Afghans I've met and visited with. The 101st Airborne Surgeon Cell has really made me feel like I am part of their Army family and the Division Command Sergeant Major, CSM Schroeder, and his staff have great to me as well. This special group of professionals have taught me new things about military operations and medical concerns, let me in on their inside jokes, invited me to join their football fantasy league, (I was first all season until Rogers had his head injury last week, causing me to lose in the playoff bracket!), and even taught me their 101st song. (Okay, so it was actually more like they threatened me to learn the words overnight through intimidation of telling me I was to lead the singing of it during a Surgeon Cell meeting the following day, ha.)
So I will miss my co-workers and friends whom I've spent every waking minute with for the past half year. It is odd to be around them daily for work, meetings, lunches, dinners, special events, watching football on TV, etc. and then to just not see them at all. Several people have jokingly threatened to extend my orders and have me finish out the year with them. If I suddenly became just a little bit crazy, I might be convinced to transition to full-time Active Duty service with the 101st thanks to this experience. Ok, so maybe I won't go that far. But I think I'll be humming the tune to the 101st Airborne song long after I've left Afghanistan and resumed my life back home. Being back home in the United States for Christmas will be great—I'll enjoy it not only for myself, but out of appreciation for all the brave, selfless, sacrificing, hard-working Troops and civilian workers who continue their jobs here in Afghanistan, away from family members, friends, and the comforts of life back home.
Natosha Monroe is an Army Reserve Mental Health Specialist stationed in Afghanistan. She is a counselor and PhD candidate passionate about increasing Troop access to counseling services. Her blog contents are not representative of the Army or Department of Defense in any way.


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With the summer months approaching, it is still going to be a while before college football is back in full swing. That does not mean it is too early to look ahead to the best matchups of the 2013 season.
Whether it is a huge non-conference game or an annual conference battle, there are some can't-miss games coming up.
Some people may be able to pay and see any game they want, but for others there are only select games that can warrant forking out that kind of dough.
Here is a ranking of the 25 college football games that are going to be most worth the money this year.


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The revenue for Detroit, according to city recreation department documents posted online (see pages 7 and 8 of PDF document entitled "New Business Documents"), would "make capital improvements on Belle Isle and at various other Detroit parks." Specifically, the letter states revenue "would be utilized 50% for capital improvements at Belle Isle and 50% for capital improvements at other Detroit Parks."
News of the Detroit City's Council's approval of Belle Isle for the Orion Music Festival surfaced Wednesday in a report by the Detroit Free Press.
The Free Press cites a Detroit City Council meeting agenda, approving the item, as proof the festival's location has been determined.
Metallica confirmed last week on its website that "Detroit" is the location for the festival, to be held June 8-9, but hasn't confirmed Belle Isle as the site.
Attempts Thursday to reach Austin, Texas-based C3 Presents LLC, which appears in city document's as the festival's promoter and management company, were unsuccessful.
The letter from the city's recreation department projects $100,000 in revenue for Detroit during the 2013 festival, $100,000 for a 2014 date at Belle Isle and $250,000 in 2015.
The Free Press story mentions that Belle Isle could host the event through 2015.
A video, confirming the Detroit location on the band's site, directs you to a website called Orion Music + More that says more details about the event - including ticket information - will be released in February.
Metallica has a recap of the 2012 Orion Festival in Atlantic City in YouTube format. The band's last visit to Detroit was in 2009 at Joe Louis Arena.
Expect Metallica to play all - or at least most - of its top songs at the festival.
A set list from the 2009 show at The Joe can be found at a website called setlist.fm.


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - A decade in the making, Staten Island's first new free-standing courthouse in 80 years will not open this summer, as once was promised.
However, state officials said Islanders should get their day in court -- in this case, a five-story, $230 million state Supreme Court building -- by late fall.
The project has been snake-bitten with delays, with the completion date pushed back from January to June to late summer and now to the end of autumn.
John D. Chirlin, a spokesman for the state Dormitory Authority, which is overseeing construction, said work-related delays and an on-site accident recently have set back the schedule. On July 11, a worker fell one flight down an elevator shaft and broke bones, said officials. The injuries weren't life-threatening.
Chirlin said interior finishing work is ongoing and building systems work is being commissioned.
While an official opening date hasn't been set, Justice Judith N. McMahon, Staten Island's administrative judge, said she's optimistic the courthouse will be fully operational by year's end.
"I am not at all disappointed or dismayed by the construction delays," the judge said last week. "The most important thing for me is that when this building opens it's properly constructed so that when we invite the public in they will be in a safe facility to get resolution of their legal issues."
Several Supreme Court courtrooms are currently shoehorned into offices at 130 Stuyvesant Pl., the same building that houses the county clerk's and district attorney's offices.
The 182,000-square-foot environmentally and energy-friendly complex will hold both the civil and criminal terms of state Supreme Court. It will also contain Criminal Court, which will move from Targee Street in Stapleton.
The transition will significantly upgrade Criminal Court's dated facilities and expand Supreme Court's resources, said Justice McMahon. Those improvements will be a boon to everyone who enters -- litigants, criminal suspects, lawyers and spectators --aiding and, in many cases, hastening proceedings, said court officials.
The complex will sit around the corner from the existing state Supreme Court building, and be bounded by Central Avenue, St. Mark's Place and Hyatt Street.
It will boast 14 courtrooms, jury assembly, hearing and deliberation rooms, judges' chambers and court offices. There will also be holding cells for prisoners.
Meanwhile, the extant Supreme Court will be transformed into the Richmond County Family Law Center, said Justice McMahon.
Surrogate's Court will remain in the building, while Family Court is to move there from down the street on Richmond Terrace. The matrimonial and Integrated Domestic Violence parts of Supreme Court will stay in the building, as well.
For a time, it seemed the much-anticipated complex, bedeviled by more than a decade of delays, would never rise.
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mains were found of 19th-century immigrants who had died in the quarantine hospital that once had been at the site, most recently a municipal parking lot. They will be re-interred in a memorial green at the complex.
Afterward, the project lay dormant for years as other sites were considered, but moved forward in the spring of 2006 with the selection of Polshek Partnership as architects. However, additional remains were found later that year, delaying groundbreaking until December 2008.
Parking lot construction started first, followed by work on the court building in late 2010, according to Advance reports.
The 657-space municipal parking lot, opened at the site in 2010.
The complex is eco-friendly.
It is LEED silver-certified, signifying it has met the benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings. It's expected to reduce energy usage by 22 percent and water usage by 30 percent, said officials.
Officials maintain the complex will improve the court system's efficiency and facilities on Staten Island and enhance the neighborhood's economic vitality.
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And while officials believe the parking lot is large enough to accommodate the daily crush of judges', lawyers', litigants' and spectators' vehicles, others fret about spillover onto the neighborhood's already-clogged streets.
Officials are brainstorming ways to move people in and out of the complex efficiently. To expedite security checks, court officers will man metal-scanning devices at multiple entrances around the building.
Justice McMahon said the courts won't lose any space in the transition.
The courtrooms at 130 Stuyvesant will be used for non-jury cases, such an inquests and certain matrimonial proceedings. Family Court will continue holding some hearings in offices at 25 Hyatt St., and the Supreme Court Law Department will also remain there.
In the meantime, city and court officials are still developing plans for use of the Family Court and Criminal Court buildings after they are vacant.
Borough President James P. Molinaro has proposed expanding the 120th Precinct station next door into the Family Court building.
State Sen. Diane Savino (D-North Shore/Brooklyn) and Assemblyman Matthew Titone (D-North Shore) had broached the idea three years ago.


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Joan Therese Seivert's necklace a large heart shape covered in tiny pieces of sparkly jewelry attached to a bolo tie looks homemade.
And it is. It comes with a heartfelt story.
Her sister made it for her before Seivert left her hometown of St. Paul, Minn., 35 years ago to live in Denver. All those little sparkly bits were culled from the jewelry passed down by her grandmother.
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AP Photos - - TOP: This necklace was made by Alisa Hopper, of Roseville, Calif., who refashions vintage costume jewelry into modern, wearable pieces. ABOVE, left: Joan Therese Seivert, Denver, wears a heart-shaped necklace crafted some 35 years ago by Seivert's sister from pieces of their grandmother's jewelry. "I get compliments on it every day I wear it," Seivert said. ABOVE, right: For pieces by Giuseppina "Josie" Cirincione, creating begins with collecting. She collects a lot of old things, including wooden dry cleaner hangers, yardsticks and kitchen and woodworking tools.
"It's Grandma. It's my sister. It's my path of service. It's my work. It's my faith. It's my way of taking care of myself. It's a way of showing up. It's a reminder," said Seivert, who helps families navigate senior-living choices through her company, Connections Unlimited. Clients, often unfamiliar with elder-care options, start out worried and stressed. Seivert wears the necklace to remind herself to work from her heart, and to signal that message to others.
Many of us collect or end up with old family knickknacks sewing notions, keys, jewelry, handkerchiefs, buttons, all manner of little, ancient doodads.
Often, we don't know what to do with them. What are these thingamabobs anyhow? What's it made from? Should I cherish it? Toss it? How might I use it?
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Some, like Seivert's sister, know exactly what to do with the jars full of keepsakes and the drawers stuffed with thingamajigs.
Take Giuseppina "Josie" Cirincione of Phoenix, who teaches community art classes and has written several crafting books, including "Collage Lost and Found." It shares ideas for making collages and jewelry with old photographs, memorabilia and vintage ephemera.
For Cirincione, creating begins with collecting. She collects a lot of old things, from wooden dry cleaner hangers and yardsticks to kitchen and woodworking tools. Cookie cutters. Brass keys. Ice picks. Handwritten letters and envelopes. Vel-veeta cheese boxes (they're wooden and tout "the delicious cheese food" in vintage lettering).
That's only a slice of her collection, and Cirincione puts it all to good use, eventually.
"I've always been drawn to anything old, drawn to that unique thing," Cirincione said.
For the rest of us, who simply want to make a little something special with a family member's memorabilia, Cirincione recommended making a two-dimensional collage or three-dimensional assemblage but handle your treasures carefully.
"It's a challenge, using Grandmother's things," she said. "You don't want to drill through it or ruin it. You have to figure how to use the found object piece without altering the piece itself."
This nod to preservation led Cirincione to wire-wrapping and metal-soldering. She recommended using baling wire an all-around, "fix-it" wire used to mend farm fences stripped of its outer coating, which reveals a gun-metal gray wire.
"It lends itself more to a vintage, found-object kind of look," Cirincione said.
Combine memorabilia in a display box this is why Cirincione collects the Velveeta boxes incorporating disparate items and textures for added interest.
For jewelry making, have a small drill (with a 1/16-inch drill bit) and pliers on hand. Pick up some jewelry fasteners and eyelets. Cirincione solders pendants, incorporating buttons, small shells and photocopied images atop colorful scrapbook paper or snipped pages from discarded, vintage books.
Alisa Hopper of Roseville, Calif., makes salvaging Grandmother's jewelry even easier: You can mail costume jewelry to her and she'll refashion it into a modern, wearable piece. See her creations at All Things Tinsel, her shop at (Etsy.com).
Hopper says a lot of her clients are brides who want to wear that "something old" in a new way. Pieces range from $50 to $300, depending on how much of her own stock she has to use. Hopper sends photos of her creations to clients before mailing the finished pieces.
"They have to love it," she said.
Also for brides, but not exclusively so, Jen Rose Diehl of Columbus, Ohio, creates bouquets out of vintage brooches. Her work is available at The Ritzy Rose at (Etsy.com).
Diehl began with her own bouquet for her wedding last year.
"I had so much fun making it," Diehl said. "I laugh now. It took months. Now it takes days."
Each bouquet requires a lot of brooches. They need to overlap so the foam ball underneath doesn't show. Diehl wires each brooch and sticks the wires all the way through the ball. The wires become the bouquet's stems.
And when they're done, they can even be displayed in a vase.


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The Mets and Scott Boras will be discussing Barry Zito this week in
If the Mets don't wind up signing Zito, Plan B apparently includes the possibility of signing Jeff Suppan. Though Zito is clearly the better, more reliable pitcher moving forward, check out a comparison of the two over the past four seasons:
- Zito: 138 games, 894 IP, 55-46, 3.86 ERA, 6.35 K/9, 3.59 BB/9
- Suppan: 126 games, 776 1/3 IP, 57-37, 4.01 ERA, 5.08 K/9, 2.88 BB/9
In this market, Suppan will likely get $10 million a year
for three or four years, which is a bit steep for a soon-to-be 32-year-old. So
I'd probably feel more comfortable with giving Zito an overpriced contract.
Still, I'm surprised by how well Suppan has performed -- I always thought he
was a poor man's Steve Trachsel. If Zito's contract demands reach the
stratosphere, maybe Plan B won't be such a poor option....
Around the Web:
- Fortune profiles ex-Met and financial wiz Lenny Dykstra. Though this story has been done at least two or three times now, it's always fun catching up with Lenny.
- Via John Delcos, check out the progress on the new stadium.
- Ken Rosenthal says the Mets were looking to trade "young pitching" to the Devil Rays for Jorge Cantu. How 'bout we never discuss "young pitching" and the Devil Rays ever again, mm-kay?
- Some Rangers fan is riling up the Mets faithful, employing a terrible argument about what constitutes "a winner," calling Mr. Met "gay," and, in general, fulfilling all of the worst stereotypes about Texans. Read at your own risk -- I felt significantly dumber after doing so.
- Buster Olney reports on preliminary discussions between the Mets and Blue Jays involving Aaron Heilman and Lastings Milledge for RF Alexis Rios.
Mets and Jays kicked around the possibility of a Lastings Milledge-Aaron
Heilman deal for
Judging from Olney's language ("kicked around"), it doesn't seem too serious. But I'd prefer Milledge's future to Rios's, and Heilman is arguably their most important bullpen piece outside of Wagner. Unless the Jays took back Shawn Green and added someone like Brandon League, this deal's a stinker for the Mets.


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