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As one of the main characters on the popular Disney XD show "Zeke and Luther," actor Adam Hicks, who plays Luther, is a star in his own right. But even Hicks was a little starstruck when skateboarding legend Tony Hawk appeared on set for a guest role on "Zeke and Luther." In the episode, which airs at 8:30 p.m. on October 25 on Disney XD, Hicks and costar Hutch Dano, who plays Zeke, try to track down Hawk so that they can skate with him. SI Kids caught up with Hicks recently to chat about skateboarding, meeting Tony Hawk, and what fans can expect from this season of "Zeke and Luther." (Pictures and video after the jump)
Q. What was it like working with Tony Hawk on this episode?
A. It was crazy. I watched Tony Hawk growing up. I watched the 900, everything. To just meet him in person was big enough and then to actually skateboard with him was incredible. He was giving us tips on what to do. I was like "Man, I grew up with this guy, and now he's next to me on my show."
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Q. What was your background in skateboarding before you started working on this show?
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Q. What kind of new tricks have you learned since starting the show?
A. Jimmy, the choreographer for everything skatewise, taught me 360 flips, varials flips, double heelflip, double kickflip. Crazy tricks that I can impress people with. [Laughs.]
Q. The episode with Tony Hawk is all about accomplishing the items on your "Bro List." What's on your personal "Bro List"?
A. I want to go sky diving. I had a couple friends who went to hawaii for a vacation and went sky diving. It looked incredible. When I finally stop being so scared, it's definitely something that I would like to do.
Q. Are you a big sports fan?
A. I like to watch football. I live in Las Vegas, and all my friends are big into football and baseball. With baseball, I got to go to a Phillies game because a friend of mine is friends with the head of the Phillies. Just to be able to sit so close was a good experience.
Q. What teams do people from Las Vegas root for?
A. Honestly, we're a terrible excuse for a fan. We have nothing. We have college and that's it. People out here just freelance. We just go with whoever floats our boat. You'll find different fans for different games out here.
Q. What else can fans expect from this season of "Zeke and Luther"?
A. Definitely loads of comedy. Loads of outrageous stunts. Crazy story lines. It's definitely all going to be there.
Watch a clip from the episode of "Zeke and Luther," featuring Tony Hawk. The show airs on October 25 at 8:30 p.m. on Disney XD


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All software development professionals will find interest in this article, but managers, CIOs and software architects will find the greatest interest. The topic may be controversial to many, but I offer this article as insight into what seems to be a growing problem in the Agile movement.
"Why are you here? Agile doesn't need managers."
Ever hear this one before? Imagine how shocking it is to hear that the developers think your position shouldn't exist……as if you as the manager had some contribution in creating that position. It's most commonly directed at project managers as they first meet the development team they'll be working with. To be sure the original Agile Manifesto makes absolutely no mention of project management and subsequent agile theorists go further and suggest adjusting the project manager role to be more of a coach or support role.
However, this view ignores reality.
Small non-integration dependent development projects, to be sure, probably require very little supervision of any kind as long as you have a competent, experienced and capable team. However, the larger the project, the more integration dependent the project, and the less development centered the project…….the more a project manager is needed to coordinate, communicate and lead the overall effort. A project in which the development portion is only 10% of the overall budget can allow a scrum master to lead the development while reporting to the project manager.
Furthermore the development team is almost never aware or good at managing a budget. The amount of time required to develop software requires that little time be spent on anything else. This creates a bit of a blind spot for some developers as they begin to believe that everything they are doing *IS* the project and that anyone else is just a peripheral annoyance.
The bad attitude here is the inability to recognize other roles and professions as having value and strictly adhering to a philosophical interpretation without recognizing the need for flexibility given the winds of reality. If taken too far the attitude can come across as almost unionist or neo-communist in its presentation by extending the view to all management in all situations. Surely the individual who adopts such an all-encompassing wholesale reduction of the corporate culture and organizational structure into one flat level is a radical. His views are on the periphery, but if he's the right person ( a leader ) his views can gain traction and worsen the relationship between the development team and management; turning the goal of project completion into a class warfare between management and workers.
"The team runs the project, not the managers…….We'll decide what gets done."
This view is often an outgrowth of the notion that management roles are no longer needed. It flies in the face of the truth; that many decisions require collaboration among many elements of the company; not just the development team……..including the software design and architecture.
In other instances developers positing this notion are just unaware that there are other aspects to a project. Or even worse a developer has been burned terribly by a bad experience and feels the need to "take control" of the project before some perceived breakdown occurs.
Regardless agile becomes the pre-text, a foundation, for an attitude which suggests that most, if not all, the management structure above the development team has no contribution and should be summarily removed from contribution to the effort. Letting this attitude take hold, in my experience, usually results in endless re-architecture sessions, severe budget-overruns, no real end date, and a fractured emotional team that becomes disillusioned with its own mission.
"There are no due dates or schedules in Agile."
Those of us with deep insight into capital budgets and corporate finance know how silly this is. However, if you read Ken Schwaber's Scrum book it does talk of abandoning the Gantt chart for a burn down chart. In truth the burn down chart is a neat and well thought out innovation, but there are those who take this to mean that there is no schedule for delivery……i.e. the money never runs out.
This was a painful experience for myself. I watched as a team led by a strong, charismatic technical leader ,whom we all reported to, abandoned any time based goals in favor of just producing a "working product" for the customer. Without any time boundaries the team careened every which way. Work ethics declined or were non-existent. Those who wanted the product to succeed lost any motivation and drive. The customers became bewildered as to why so much emphasis was being placed on various technical architectures while features and product change requests became lost. The burndown charts further confused them. All they really wanted to know was; when will the product be complete? The team would only respond with; "We're not on a schedule. We keep developing until we're done."
When attempts were made to set realistic goals by anyone; they would immediately get knocked down as "anti-agile". When the team was informed that their project was hopelessly over budget; their eyes looked clouded, and confused. The connection between what they were doing, time and, ultimately, money had become lost in the abstract design patterns etched on their whiteboards.
Realistically…….there is always a due date and a schedule for delivery; explicit or implicit. No one puts up money for a development project with the view that it will never complete. Even more realistically, I've found that Gantt charts are still very useful for coordinating deep integration or non development aspects between non-agile teams and agile teams.
The no schedule attitude arises mostly because agile techniques put forth the notion that the project should continue to add new features until the money runs out. This is ideal and ignores what happens when a development team hasn't even completed the bare minimum of functionality within the budget; rendering the application useless. The bad part of this attitude is taking a new technique for tracking team progress and accountability and twisting it into a reason for not being accountable for delivery.
"Agile code is self documenting. There's no need for requirements, architecture diagrams or technical specifications."
If you are a software architect or technical manager this attitude is usually targeting you between the eyes. The thinly veiled attack is meant to question your role, experience, and the need to have anyone coordinating the overall technical design of that 28 million line software program that generates 78% of the company's revenues.
Certainly it is often put forth by ignorance. Maybe the 2000 line web app that the developer built recently required very few artifacts beyond the source code, but scale matters. You know that, your management knows that, but this bad agile attitude chalks up your role to not staying current on development techniques like Scrum. Major software systems require that a few minds are overseeing the direction and coordination of the technical vision and the many hundreds of hands creating it.
In my own experience this attitude came from a developer who, ironically, wanted to be one of the architecture staff. He felt by critiquing and arguing with the technical leaders and introducing his knowledge of agile techniques they would respect him more and give him the coveted position he craved. Instead, they found him to be annoying and a troublemaker. Furthermore his lack of tact in introducing agile concepts left the senior technical leaders with a bad taste in their mouths for anything agile.
"Agile rapidly embraces change; all change."
My experience with this attitude came from a manager instead of a developer. It turned out he read "rapidly embrace change" to mean all kinds of changes……not just business requirements as was intended by the original agile creators. So, fundamental architectural changes became commonplace and shifting between different open source technologies was seen as 'good' even though this meant taking the team completely away from their skill sets and setting project delivery back by months. Organizational experimentation and rapidly dropping people in and out of roles also became part of 'rapidly embracing change'. The end result was a mess.
Clearly accepting change presented by customers is important, but without a system for managing that change; you're asking for trouble. One needs to keep track of all requirements and changes and their impact to project delivery so that this can be communicated to customers. This is necessary to make effective project decisions. If you don't then the customers get the unrealistic notion that anything they ask for will be included……we know where this leads.
So the bad attitude here is accepting change without managing it. An unmitigated free for all will only lead to dashed hopes and unmet expectations. Change is good, but violent change is chaos.
"Agile uses generalists; we test our own software. There's no need for a QA group."
Again this view is accurate in philosophical interpretation but my experience with this on, especially large, software development projects is…….you need a 2nd set of eyes looking at what the developers created and how well it works. Pride of workmanship is great and should be fostered, but sometimes pride can turn into blind acceptance and defensiveness. It takes a strong and deeply honest person to recognize their limitations and find ways to mitigate them.
Using generalists puts emphasis on making sure you're staffed with a nimble group of multi-skilled individuals. In reflection this recognizes software development as mostly craft and less production assembly. However, as software development leaders we can't assume perfection in human resources and ignore the facts. It's better to see the risks and plan for them and history has proven that developers don't find all their own mistakes.
In my own experience the individuals holding this view disliked anyone testing their code and were prickly to any constructive criticism. In one case in particular we found the underlying reason was because the developer really wasn't that good at coding. He was given training and mentoring and after many months of struggle it became clear that he was on the wrong career path.
So using generalists is fine, but the attitude becomes stale if the hard truths of decades past are ignored in favor of philosophical purity.
In conclusion these problems could be found in the pre-agile world as well. But in my experience these bad attitudes are finding refuge and justification in a new technique that in isolation probably never intended to present such a soapbox. As software development leaders it's critical that we address these viewpoints before they take hold of the agile methodology and potentially darken a good movement. Agile has a great message; simplify, engage the customer during the product development, take ownership, and stay connected. It would be a great disappointment to see this message lost. So what do you think? Are these attitudes in your shop? How do you address them? I'd like to hear from you.
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Christopher R. Goldsbury is a software development professional who has played the roles of developer, architect, scrum master, development manager, project manager and quality assurance manager throughout his career. Chris writes on his experiences and ideas at his blog.
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So what now ? Should we throw out Agile with the bathwater ?
Guillaume L
The problem is, if people who think and speak that way exist (I personally haven't met any), they're probably closer to dangerous fundamentalists than Agile practitioners. As you said, nothing in the Agile manifesto or in any Agile methodology says that there should be no schedule or deadlines (actually, iterations are all about deadlines), no position dedicated to the financial aspect of a project, or no requirements at all (read Mike Cohn's User Stories Applied).
If your intent was to issue a warning to developers no to push Agile bigotry to the absurd, we got it. Unfortunately, exaggerating like you do is too often a devious way of refusing any measured, balanced point of view and throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I hope it is not the case.
Re: So what now ? Should we throw out Agile with the bathwater ?
James Watson
If your intent was to issue a warning to developers no to push Agile bigotry to the absurd, we got it. Unfortunately, exaggerating like you do is too often a devious way of refusing any measured, balanced point of view and throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I hope it is not the case.
I think it's pretty reasonable. I didn't get that the article was bashing Agile. Generally, most of the 'big ideas' in software have at least some value to them. The problems start when people take these ideas to ideas to the extreme.
Often this happens not as a result of the idea but because people come in with their own biases. If a person dislikes managers and management (I can throw a rock and hit a dozen such people), I'm likely to find Agile more appealing than a command and control structure. If I'm really anti-management, I can probably use some of the ideas of Agile as shell to push my agenda.
In other words, I don't think many people believe that Agile is creating anti-management sentiment. If someone does, they might also believe that listening to Black Sabbath turns people into Satanists. In other words, they aren't too bright. But there is a danger of a idea being hijacked and twisted into something different that initially envisioned.
Agile without responsibility does not work
Stefan Schubert
Though, your examples to me are showing a typical problem for a lack of responsibility on the developers side. I want to show that on 4 of your points.
"Agile uses generalists only" - is that science or esoteric? Generalists are important, yes. But why won't I have a mathematician in my image editing team? A QA expert in the team with a QA manager to report to - very useful. But why a special QA group? Give QA goals to the team as well. Give them the QA responsibility.
"Agile embraces (massive) change" - that is very extreme. Agile works with smallish increments on working software. Technical evolutions should be as small as functional increments. If they are not, you have nothing new to show to the customer. The team needs to take over the responsibility to deliver. And they will not deliver anything if they redesign everything every other month.
"No documentation" - If there is more then one team give them the responsibility to share an architecture with the others. How that can be done is a different story and belongs to those responsible. Let architects be part of some teams (usually you do not have enough) and support team architecture efforts. I am a software architect at quite a big web portal architecture (a million LOC) and it just works - with a lot of evangelizing. Agile has made architecture management lots easier - especially since the teams took over responsibility having our support - with much less documents.
"The team decides what's done" - hardly. An agile team does what the product people prioritize for them to do. That is nearer to the business and the customer needs than in any bigger (big for me is half a million dollar) project I experienced (and managed). And I never want to manage the detailed work items of 10 to 20 grown-up people for half a year again.
That, again, is a responsibility issue. The agile team does not have the product responsibility. And if they do, they have to explain the ROI to their customers. Product people should do that job (in the team or "not"), if ever possible without any communication relays (other managers) between them. Better to have them coordinate the schedules and results with owners of the product (e.g. release management). Because product people WILL care, because they are responsible.
My 4 cents :-)
Re: So what now ? Should we throw out Agile with the bathwater ?
Guillaume L
Unfortunately what transpires from the article (but maybe I'm wrong) is that the recommended solution would be to keep Agile "in its place", enclosed in its tiny perimeter and prevent it from changing too many things in the surrounding organization on the pretext that it could be dynamite in the hands of dangerous extremists - to me that sounds particularly un-agile.
Goo article
Michael Burke
But for me it raises a salient point, that some of the core philosophies of agile play naturally to and *reinforces* many software developer's natural prejudices (management is superfluous, I can replace a QA team with JUnit and a couple of Ant scripts, architects are just managers in disguise and are stopping me from getting work done, documentation is a waste of time) and are therefore open to abuse through interpretation, just like any other philosophy, political stance or, dare I say it, religion. Human nature and all that.
The article put forward these examples of behaviour and asked if others had experienced them and if so, how do you deal with them.
The comments about 'agile doesn't work if you don't have responsibility' whilst valid, are equally valid for any other development methodology you can think of - this is not a new insight.
Culture & Attitudes
Paul Korney
I really do wish that the 'agilisti' would bring more attention to the organizational prerequisites for agile working, ala 'Peopleware'. There needs to be some clear requirements specifying the 'host' organization's responsibilities that must be fulfilled prior to attempting any particular agile technique. Otherwise it is just fashionspeak.
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Bo Daley
* management entirely disconnected from development priorities (often management keeps itself at arm's length from technology decision-making, using agile as an excuse for its own indecision and inaction)
* no timelines or deadlines (these obviously need to be set by someone with business insight and control of budgets, who is invariably outside of the dev team)
* no/inadequate test processes (maintaining an external QA group is a sure-fire recipe for the bad old days, when all the bugs in a project are discovered at the last minute and there's no time to avoid a blowout. Why not bring QA expertise into the team itself, where it can iterate along with development?)
Completely different reaction
gary woodfine
All to often I have witnessed a team that proclaims it has gone "AGILE" when in effect it has embraced "CHAOS". Some of the most common mistakes made by "Agile" adopters, is they do take the Self Managing and organising aspect of the Agile Methodology too literally. They often percieve the management hierarchy as external to the team, when in fact the opposite is true, management is still very much a part of the team, it is just a much more flatter structure. Management should be alot more ingrained into the team and seen more as a team member, working with and for the benefit of the team. There is a common perception by developers that they are focus and they should be steering the project, this is wrong they are a vital component of the project but they do not own the project.
The points on change are also very relevant. The leading factor to success of Agile is managing the expectations of the project. Yes a team can adapt to change, but there is a cost and this needs to be contiuously emphasized. The cost is both Financial and Timescales. IF the client wants x widget to do Y, then Impact is Z. This needs to be communicated and understood not just embraced. IF client the client has higher priority features for an Interation, then which features need to descoped from the iteration to accomodate.
The documentation point is also a very common mistake. The code is the documenttation is completely wrong. The code is a component of the documenation and in many cases plays a role in compiling the documentation. There is still a need for documenation in Agile albeit lighter in weight but higher in importance.
An Agile team could contains specialists which collaboratively make a team of generalists, but there strengths in the team are there specialisms. In my opinion a successful agile team should at least contain ; Developers, Testers, Business Analysts, Architect, Product Manager, Build Master, Integrator. It may be possible for 1 person to do more than 1 role, but his main priority is his main role. For instance the Build Master may preform secondary developer duties, but his sole purpose on the team is that of ensuring the build is sacred. The build master should never be assigned a critical work item.
Well that is my 2 cents it's probably about time I focus on my core repsonsibility in the team :-)
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Project managers are great if they have agile programming experience
Thomas Fitzpatrick
These managers know the trade-off between short term and long term productivity - getting stuff done fast vs doing stuff well.
They use apply their understanding of the business needs to decisions about what sections of functionality should be well tested and well written vs what should be written throw-away style.
The best managers usually those who have spent many years in the software development trenches, then go on to do an MBA or something, and have expert knowledge of the domain. On top of all that a good dose of humility helps too. Regrettably most managers do not have a clue. Some should have their heads checked for narcissistic personality disorder. Fortunately I am one of the lucky few who have a good manager, but I have had some pretty awful ones along the way.
The problems are not with Agile - maybe with Agile implementation
Radu Davidescu
The poor level of abstraction used in your article shows that the company that you work for have deep trouble. So deep, that they decide that Agile will save them. Any Agile practitioner knows that Agile don't solve the problems. Instead, aggressively put them in front. As managers are incapable to create a proper environment, that degenerates into something worse than Agile - chaos, or anarchy. You can call it whatever you want, even Agile if you really need to blame something.
Agile is not a silver bullet, even through, managers keep looking for something like that to manage creative working teams. In Agile philosophy people are self-directed and self-organized into some boundaries. If the manager doesn't understand that and poorly perform in managing that boundaries then it's not such a big surprise that the team point the finger on him.
Agile works in environments lead by Agile managers, that can step over the "command and control" style, that doesn't see people like some numbers on a sheet, mixed into stupid complicated formulas. That kind of managers needs to have well balanced art, craft and science of management.
Agile implementation it's a tough job for large companies, so skilled Agile people are needed to ensure a good and real transition. Again, Agile dosen't have bad attitudes, people have! I agree that bad people are easily exploited through a command and control management style, but that have nothing to do with Agile. On the other hand, good people deliver in any project management style but you get most of them by using Agile.
Agile is not a mass market product, it's a maximiser for good teams. Start asking if you have a great team that deserves a great environment around them that will stimulate them, and after that, carefully implement Agile.
A religious matter…
Alex Maclinovsky
Extending the parallel with real religions, extremism can be found in every single one of them which is bigger than a sect, but it is fairly clear which ones are more prone to develop extremist views. It also doesn't seem to be directly related to the belief systems or canonical texts but to the age since the first revelation: I can think of a few religions that used to be pretty out there and have mellowed out after the first couple of millennia. Another interesting analogy between IT methodologies and religions lies in the attempts of reconciliation: the endeavors to bridge the differences between the methodologies that I have been a witness to closely resembled the interfaith disputes in both the style and futility.
I hope you realize that all of the above was written about software development and not any other, more controversial, subject.
Coming back to the Agile – I sincerely hope that it will sometime in a not too distant future come of age, stop fighting for its place under the Sun and seeking new converts by the edge of the sword and start doing what religions should: giving the sense of direction to those who are lost, sense of righteousness to those who feel insecure and inspiring great works of art.
I've run into these attitudes...
Andrew Bruce
The problem with Agile is its wish-fulfillment basis. The fact is that many people (not all people) are not particularly interested in spending all of their life Delighting Their Customers. Agile works well when the team does feel so inclined (as Chris points out). Larger teams, much more complex interrelationships -- that's a different problem. As for "Change qua change is good?" When did any adult start to buy into that? One sysadmin I read years ago put it best: "We fear change." (That's why he was still on apache 1.3 -- he trusted it.) A decision to make a change always has an element of risk with it, and accepting risk is always a cost-benefit analysis -- certainly not an emotional one.
Now Government and Agile is a real problem. Government has a fiduciary responsibility not to bind the next Congress with the current Congress' decisions. (That's why we can't do multi-year budgets.) So you gotta have a good understanding up front of what you're going to do, why you're doing it, when change occurs how it was managed and who approved it so it can be budgeted and paid for without just being "Gee, we'll go till, um, whenever we think!" Other than a natural (but infantile) human wish that a particular person may use the word "Agile" to mean "I want things to be built faster and better -- but still with my project plan and budget amortized over the next 4 years for presentation to Senator Muck-a-muck, right?" You tell me how this can work with Scrum meetings and a burndown chart? Puh-leaze!
Students of history who read Marx will find much to appreciate in Agile -- less Division of Labour, less scalability -- in fact, Agile's closest economic model would be the medieval guild in its purest form (master artisans working together where each had a vast knowledge of the entire process). But after reading _Capital_ (esp. Volume III, not just I), one should then read _Reminiscences of Lenin_ and discover that, actually, the first thing that happened during the Russian 5-year plans was the elimination of worker autonomy and non-specialization -- because things didn't get done in a large-scale environment. Also, please to check the Wall Street Journal for that famous "No Code" ad that SalesForce used to run. Newsflash: Nobody wants to pay expert software developers except when absolutely they have to. They want to pay component integrators as little as possible. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
So I've read the Agile Manifesto and did my best over the past year to run my projects using Agile methods. Did they work? Not particularly well, and the customer was really confused by my inability to produce status reports (well, I had to produce those anyway -- but that's not Agile so please keep it hush-hush). The good news? A few years and Agile will fade away with other silly ideas.


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They have long been Italy's most profligate side, questions have been asked about their ability to soak up long periods of pressure, and seven years on from their last Champions League knockout win there were doubts as to whether they'd be able to manage such a game situation. But Juventus answered every question with overwhelmingly positive answers in beating Celtic 3-0 at Celtic Park to take themselves to the verge of qualification for the quarter-finals.
Whereas much of the reign of Antonio Conte has been focused on retention of the football, dominance of territory, and high pressing of the opposition in order to gain cheap possession in dangerous areas, large spells of Tuesday night's fixture were spent in the Bianconeri's half as the Glasgow side attempted to respond to Alessandro Matri's early goal by running over the top of Juve.
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This was not the best Celtic side ever to play in Europe, but with a passionate home support and a phenomenal home record in the Champions League era – with only Barcelona ever having beaten them in the East End of Glasgow in their 23 previous fixtures under the new banner – it was still a huge hurdle that Juve were being asked to climb.
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Those Celtic fans were also left fuming by apparent penalty claims, but it was little more than an act of straw-clutching, apparently justified by equally one-eyed complaints from the British broadcasters covering the game. On several occasions, Celtic corners were preceded by long periods of jostling and pulling between players on opposing sides, but as the larger part of the tangling came before the set-pieces were taken, the referee was in no position to give a penalty under Law 12 of the laws of the game.
Add in the fact that Stephan Lichtsteiner, against whom there were the most vociferous claims, was also being fouled by Hooper in their particular round of confrontations, and it would have been as harsh to penalise the Swiss as it would have been to give Juve a free-kick.
Complain all they like, the Scottish champions, whose very presence in the last 16 came thanks to a penalty awarded for a blatant Georgios Samaras dive in the 81st minute of their Matchday 6 clash with Spartak Moscow, were ultimately beaten because they offered nothing in attack, while Juve were simply destructive when their few chances came along.
And it is this Italian-like ability to manage a fixture in such a way, a skill so rarely seen in Juve under Conte, which proves that there is more than one string to their bow as they begin to look ahead and plot a route to the final. There is a long way to go yet, with much sterner and better-equipped opponents than Celtic lying in wait, but the Bianconeri have proven they don't need 60 per cent or more of possession in order to get the job done.
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A previous post I did and more especially the comments on it made me think...
We were discussing "electronic books" and "readers" like the Kindle. Then I had a thought.
When I buy a real book in a bookstore I take home something that is my property. I can keep it, or lend it to someone, or sell it and get some of my money back to maybe buy another book. The words are part of the book.
I can go to a secondhand bookstore and browse for something that may have been out of print for years.
If it is still in copyright then I can't copy all or part of it without the owner's permission, but I become the owner and can give or sell it. I can make a little dedication inside the front cover if it is a gift.
It is not the same with a Kindle. You might own the electronic gadget that is the Kindle, but not the words in it, a bit like a book with blank pages. What's more, as best as I can tell, you can't lend the words to someone else because of digital rights management, you can't sell them either, or buy them second hand and get any money back. Unless you sell the Kindle too.
Some novels I only want to read once, but someone else might like to read it. Some are old favourites.
You can't lend to someone or even give the 'digital books' to charity as things stand. All you really have bought is permission to display the words on the screen of your personal kindle. You downloaded a file.
I wonder how will that all work with libraries? Charity/goodwill stores? What will happen to all those wonderful second hand book stores.
Will schools have to pay for a new text book for every student instead of recycling them to the next class intake each year? Corporate licences?
Could you still buy a particular book as a gift or would it be more like iTunes where you basically buy a prepaid store card. Half the fun is finding and buying a particular book for a particular person as a gift.
It seems to me there need to be some thinking.. some changes in the law behind copyright and licences maybe. It seems to me that books may still be better value for some time to come until those changes develop. Or else Lending a book to your friend might be illegal file sharing and you could end up in court.
What about keeping reasonable backups?
Until Digital books can be treated more like the real thing legally I think I will be slightly uncomfortable with them. Second life allows for that sort of thing. You can buy clothes and items that you can give or sell to other people but not copy.
Also the only equipment you need to read a real paper book is the book, a light source your eyes and the 'software' in your brain. I worry some what we might loose if we only look at what we might gain without asking questions and insisting on answers.


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However, Gunter's 31st-minute header proved enough to see off a Rovers side who remain without a point this season and have now gone 15 matches without a win.
The result was somewhat harsh on Sean O'Driscoll's men, who were the better side for large periods and created several chances, particularly in the first half.
Sam Hird replaced Richard Naylor in the centre of Doncaster's defence, while new loan signing Reece Brown - the brother of Sunderland defender Wes - was among the substitutes after joining from Manchester United earlier in the day.
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Wes Morgan hooked wide from an Andy Reid free-kick at the other end, yet it was Doncaster who were enjoying the bulk of possession, with the central midfield trio of John Oster, Simon Gillett and Giles Barnes functioning well.
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arrrgggghhh!! Where is Emily Anne??
Btw, there's already a list of 18 of our Top 24.
Chris isn't part of the top 24... i heard.
James Durbin should not be on that list. He only knows how to scream! Very irritating. Adam Lambert v2.0 and it's not even good.
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n. - The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite, magnetite, etc.), or a hydrous oxide (as limonite, turgite, etc.). It is reduced on an enormous scale in three principal forms; viz., cast iron, steel, and wrought iron. Iron usually appears dark brown, from oxidation or impurity, but when pure, or on a fresh surface, is a gray or white metal. It is easily oxidized (rusted) by moisture, and is attacked by many corrosive agents. Symbol Fe (Latin Ferrum). Atomic weight 55.9. Specific gravity, pure iron, 7.86; cast iron, 7.1. In magnetic properties, it is superior to all other substances. 2
n. - An instrument or utensil made of iron; -- chiefly in composition; as, a flatiron, a smoothing iron, etc. 2
n. - Fetters; chains; handcuffs; manacles. 2
n. - Strength; power; firmness; inflexibility; as, to rule with a rod of iron. 2
n. - Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar, dust. 2
n. - Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness. 2
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n. - Rude; hard; harsh; severe. 2
n. - Firm; robust; enduring; as, an iron constitution. 2
n. - Inflexible; unrelenting; as, an iron will. 2
n. - Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious. 2
v. t. - To smooth with an instrument of iron; especially, to smooth, as cloth, with a heated flatiron; -- sometimes used with out. 2
v. t. - To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff. 2
v. t. - To furnish or arm with iron; as, to iron a wagon. 2
n. - An iron-headed club with a deep face, chiefly used in making approaches, lifting a ball over hazards, etc. 2
The word "iron" uses 4 letters: I N O R.
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Monastery of St. John of Shanghai & San Francisco (Manton, California)
|Monastery of St. John of Shanghai & San Francisco
|OCA West
|Male Monastery
|Archimandrite Meletios
|Approx. size
|~20 members
|Manton, California
|Liturgical language(s)
|Music used
|Russian Chant; Valaam-style Znamenny Chant
|Feastdays celebrated
|19 June/2 July
|Official website
|Official website
After the departure of the sisterhood of Our Lady of Kazan Skete from St. Eugene's Hermitage to their present location, Bishop Tikhon blessed the formation of a male monastic community in October 1996 with Abbot Jonah and one novice. Twelve years and the election of the founding abbot to Metropolitan later, the brotherhood has two priestmonks - including Abbot Meletios - along with six stavrophore monks, one rassaphore monk and eight novices (including one priest-novice), living at a new property in Manton, California. The community conducts retreats, lectures, maintains a small online store and publishes a journal entitled Divine Ascent.
In 1951, a property was donated to the Metropolia, and was called St. Eugene's Hermitage. Hmk Dimitry began to live on the property, living a monastic life and attempting to build a monastic community. This was unsuccessful, and in 1968 Hieromonk Dimitry was removed from the hermitage and assigned to parish ministry.
After this, many other attempts were made at a new monastic community, none of which came to fruition. In 1980, work began on a new chapel at the hermitage, and in 1983 the Community of the Holy Cross, led by Mother Barbara, began to reside at St. Eugene's Hermitage. The chapel was finished in 1988, was consecrated in the same year, and placed under the patronage of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
In 1996, the Community of the Holy Cross moved to Santa Rosa and were renamed as the Skete of Our Lady of Kazan. In October of that year, the Monastery of St. John, led by Fr. Jonah, was established at St. Eugene's Hermitage, with two members of the brotherhood.
This brotherhood, like the sisterhood before it, also took hold and grew. In July 2004, Bishop Benjamin of Berkeley tonsures three members of the community to the small schema and one to the rassaphore. At this point, there are nine members of the community.
The brotherhood continued to steadily grow. By the middle of 2005, there were 12 members of the community, and the brotherhood decided that remaining at a hermitage - with an expected capacity of four - with a brotherhood of twelve was untenable, and began to look for a suitable property, hopefully in the Washington area.
However in May, 2006, the brotherhood entered into proceedings to purchase land in Manton, California, that was perfectly suited to the brotherhood's present and future needs; on June 26, the purchase was completed, and the brotherhood planned to move in by the end of July [1]. The first Divine Liturgy on the site of the new property was celebrated on July 2, on the feastday of St. John Maximovitch. As the monks moved to Manton, the brotherhood decided that St. Eugene's Hermitage would remain as a skete of the monastery, with Frs John and Silouan based there - the former to be more accessible, the latter in view of medical treatment. Fr. Silouan has since recovered and moved to the main monastery.
Since early 2007, the monastery has grown with the addition of two celibate priests, one of whom was made rassaphore during Lent of 2008. There are also a number of new novices, which has necessitated the beginning of a new phase of growth and expansion on the monastery property.
In January 2008, the brotherhood issued its first CD of music, recorded by its own choir and featuring American-influenced chant, entitled "The Eyes of All Look to Thee."
In September 2008, Abbot Jonah was elected as Bishop of Fort Worth, auxiliary to Abp. Dmitri of the South. In his stead, Archimandrite Meletios (Webber) was chosen to be the second abbot of St. John of San Francisco Monastery. Since then, the brotherhood has continued to grow to 20 members.
At the Monastery, Matins and Vespers are generally begun with 25 minutes of silent, communal prayer of the Jesus Prayer. For all changes and variations due to the Festal Cycle, please see the monastery's website, which posts a weekly and monthly schedule which are both revised frequently.
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"Devious" were both excited and honoured to help in this landmark production! This production managed a sell-out run with great reviews. Thanks to everyone down in Portsmouth for making the experience truly unforgettable - to see the audience reaction when the daleks and later the emperor appeared made the whole thing worthwhile!
The Devious Team assisted with the production at various stages - Ashley built the daleks and emperor, whilst Stephen and David from the team helped with some of the logistics during the run.
On these pages we're hoping to add some content as a retrospective to this play which has just finished its run in Portsmouth. Please bear with us as we reorganise the existing content and make some additions...
The official website for the production was at http://www.evilofthedaleks.co.uk and the web address is now occupied by an excellent site devoted to the Evil of the Daleks story in all it's forms. Also of great note is the excellent DalekLinks. The play has also been featured at WhoCast and has had a lot of publicity both on the web and in other media. Now that the play has finished we will be adding more new content on this site to show the production from our perspective.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 64 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
This site's purpose is enable people in Ireland to sell property without an estate agent . . . that is to sell it themselves.
Maximum of 3 colours are to be used though 2 may be used if the designer feels that this will make the logo stand out.
The dominant colour should be blue (or green may be accepted). Darker shades are preferred.
The term mysale.ie must be included in the logo. The letters M and S in mysale may or may not be capitialised but we are leaning towards capitialised.
The writing may or may not be joined. If the writing is joined it should be a casual joining so that it looks like it sweeps across the canvas.
Possible ideas are to convert the dot over the ' i ' in .ie to a heart shape to in some way represent the sellers affinity to their property. (In Ireland we get very emotionally attached to property!). This is not an essential requirement.
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Brenda Song: Reunited with Trace Cyrus for New Year's!
Brenda Song wraps her arms around Trace Cyrus in this cute picture posted to Trace's Instagram on Monday night (December 31).
The 24-year-old actress and her ex-fiance called off their engagement back in June.
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Scandal star Josh Malina has also announced on Twitter that Brenda will be returning as a guest star on the primetime ABC drama!
In case you missed it, Brenda is also confirmed to guest star in a recurring role on FOX's hit comedy series New Girl.
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Chris Brown is in Amsterdam ... and to prove it, he took photos of himself inside one of the city's famous "Coffee Shops" with THREE joints in his mouth at the same damn time.
Brown and some of his boys documented their marathon weed smoking session on their Instagram accounts -- advising the public, "dont worry, its medicinal."
Brown is in town to perform a show at Amsterdam's Ziggo Dome on December 6 ... if he remembers to show up.
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Jeremi Brito was 13 and said he wanted to be a firefighter someday. Larry D. Hardaway, a middle-aged lawyer who practices in Lakeland, saw his own future becoming uncertain as his kidneys failed.
LAKELAND | Jeremi Brito was 13 and said he wanted to be a firefighter someday.
Larry D. Hardaway, a middle-aged lawyer who practices in Lakeland, saw his own future becoming uncertain as his kidneys failed.
Their lives intersected after Jeremi and his older sister, Kiara, were shot in a Tampa home invasion early June 5, 2011.
She died instantly.
Jeremi lived long enough for their mother, Judy Brito, to agree to donate his organs.
"I knew he would want to help others because he was always so giving," Brito said Saturday.
"He would pack up his old clothes and donate them."
Six lives were saved through her decision to let Jeremi's organs be harvested, she said.
Hardaway's was one of them.
He and Brito met last month in the offices of LifeLink, which coordinates transplants in the Tampa Bay area.
Saturday morning, Hardaway introduced Brito at a civil liberties banquet he emceed in Lakeland.
"I thank God for the love in her heart," Hardaway said.
"I thank God for her willingness to share her children with me. As long as I live, Jeremi lives in me."
Hardaway had been tempted to leave Tampa General Hospital on June 7, 2011, fearing the call about a possible donor organ would be another false alarm.
In preparing for the kidney transplant, he said, he'd been told the average wait for a white patient was eight months. The average wait for a black patient was two years.
Yet he stayed as doctors determined his body and Jeremi's young, healthy kidney were compatible.
Surgery was successful.
All Hardaway knew for more than a year was that his donor was a 13-year-old boy.
He and his wife wanted to know more.
So did Brito.
She had buried both children in Massachusetts, where they lived before coming to Florida. After their deaths, Brito said, she traveled from Tampa to Massachusetts monthly, sitting for hours at their burial place.
This year, for the first time, she said, she managed to stay in Tampa, trying to rebuild a life without the children she called her best friends, without feeling compelled to visit their burial place.
Some of that she credits to meeting Hardaway and communicating with another patient who received an organ from her son.
"I'm finally getting to a normal sleeping pattern after two years," she said. "It's brought me back to stability."
Two young men accused of killing her children were arrested. One of them knew the Brito children, according to newspaper accounts.
Brito, who initially got widespread sympathy, drew criticism after investigative reports detailed by news media said both children had drugs and Kiara sold marijuana.
Earlier reports said Judy Brito was involved with drugs, which she said was true in the past but that she is clean now. She said she hopes her experiences can help others and that she talks to others who are trying to stay or become clean.
The trial of the men accused of executing her children is expected to start in June, two years after their deaths.
Tavari Grant and Charles Waits, in their late teens at the time of the attack, each are charged with two counts of first-degree murder, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
"I feel like I'm suffocating again" as the month approaches, Brito said Saturday.
Hardaway said he will try to be there for some of the trial, Brito said, as a support rather than a lawyer.
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NEW YORK (AP) -July 13, 2012 --A New York City clothing designer says Jay-Z and his former Roc-A-Fella record label partners owe him $7 million in unpaid royalties for designing their label logo.
Dwayne Walker said in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Thursday that he created the Roc-A-Fella design.
The lawsuit says the Bronx designer came up with the logo in 1995 when Roc-A-Fella was just starting out. The label is now a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.
The logo features the letter R, a record and a Champagne bottle.
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2010-11Played in a total of seven games, while starting in six ... Registered a combined 155 saves for a .896 save percentage ... Posted a 4-2 record overall and 2.74 goals against average ...Recorded 41 saves against Connecticut College on January 19 ...Tallied 15 saves in the ECACEast conference win over Plymouth State on January 14 ... Totaled a combined 36 saves respectively in the wins over St. Michael's (Feb. 11) and Castleton (Feb. 18).
action in five games, getting two starts on the season ... Recorded
first career shutout on February 12, making 26 saves in an 11-0 win
over Plymouth State ... Notched her first victory of the season
making 14 saves in a 9-1 victory over Plymouth State on January 23
... Finished the season with 71 total saves, making 14 or more
saves three times ... Made seven saves in the third period to
preserve a 7-0 shutout vs. Saint Michael's College on January 8 ...
Played 175:10 minutes while recording a perfect 2-0-0 record on the
year ... Finished the season with a career-best 1.37 goals against
average as well as a career-high .947 save percentage.
2008-09: Looked promising in her debut season, before missing the remainder of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee ... Posted an impressive .923 save percentage, while making 108 saves ... Posted a 2-0-1 record and owned a 3.02 goals against average in just under 179 minutes of action in three games ... topped a season-high 44 shots in a 4-4 overtime tie in her collegiate debut on November 16 at Holy Cross ... Turned away 30 shots in a 7-3 victory over Saint Anselm College on November 18 and earned a 3-2 win over Norwich on December 6 with 34 saves, before going down with an injury.
Personal/High School: Played junior ice hockey for the Weyburn Goldwings and was selected to the Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League All-Star team in 2007 ... Received several game Most Valuable Player Awards for the Goldwings ... Helped Weyburn to the Saskatoon A-Side Finals as well as the Notre Dame B-Side Finals ... Played junior ice hockey for the Regina Predators and helped them to the Lethbridge A-Side Championship ... Named to the Great Distinction Honor Roll all four years at Greenall High School ... Born January 4, 1990 ... Daughter of Guy and Carine Cudmore ... Majoring in biology and would like to pursue a career as a marine biologist ... Earned Dean's List honors for both semesters last year at UMass Boston ... Hobbies include reading, going out with friends, watching movies and playing practical jokes.


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Minn. House Passes Steep Bump To Minimum Wage
ST. PAUL, (AP) - A bill that could eventually give Minnesota the nation's highest minimum wage has cleared the state House.
The House voted 68-62 on Friday to raise the floor rate in three steps. The current $6.15 minimum would rise to $8 at first and reach $9.50 in 2015. After that, it would go up yearly at the rate of inflation.
Most workers earn at least the federal hourly minimum of $7.25. Washington state currently has the country's highest minimum wage at $9.19 per hour.
Service industry officials say the bill could force them to shed workers to keep costs down.
A companion Senate bill is primed for a vote Wednesday. It calls for smaller increases until reaching $7.75 per hour, but it also would tie the wage to inflation going forward.


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World of paul frank
Rewind to 1995 - while pursuing an art degree at a local community college, Paul Frank asked his mom for a sewing machine. Paul quickly taught himself how to sew by making vinyl wallets and other small accessories designed for his friends. These gifts were adorned with his whimsical character designs like that of Julius the Monkey and Skurvy skull and crossbones. Through word of mouth, the demand for his handmade products grew rapidly, and soon after Paul Frank Industries was born.
Celebrating Individuality
Born out of the need for a fun outlet celebrating creativity and individuality in Southern California, Paul Frank Industries was formally incorporated in December of 1997. Paul Frank's artistic and entertaining designs were inspired by the art of the hand craft, mid-century modern design, music and pop culture. With its bright color palette and unique sensibilities, the company has attracted an almost cult-like following of all ages that love Paul Frank's witty take on every day objects.
Pushing the Envelope
In addition to their nonconformist designs, Paul Frank pushed the envelope of unconventionality by establishing themselves primarily as an accessories company. That was not the norm for companies emerging from Southern California at the time. Once Paul Frank fine-tuned their vinyl wallets and like-mined accessories, they expanded into t-shirts and PJs, which became must-have items that solidified the brand's future. Several new divisions quickly followed: men's, women's and tween sportswear; Small Paul – a collection devoted to infants and toddlers; swimwear; eyewear; watches; bicycles; home furnishings, including children's furniture, amongst many others.
From Warhol to Weezer
Art, music, architecture and entertainment inspired this young collective from day one and transcended them in to a pop-culture success. They stretched the boundaries of their Southern California suburbs designing guitar straps for The White Stripes, Foo Fighters and Weezer (just to mention a few!), to special edition t-shirts for Coachella. Artistic inspirations ranged from classic contemporary furniture designers like Eames and Saarinen to abstract sculptor and inventor of the mobile Alexander Calder, to the infamous pop artist Andy Warhol.
In the past 15 years, Paul Frank has partnered creatively with artists Shepard Fairey, Shag, Mark Ryden, Thomas Campbell and The Andy Warhol Foundation. They also have worked closely with youth-oriented companies Sanrio, Nirve, Vans, The Elvis Presley Foundation and LEGO; as well as legendary American businesses John Deere, Mattel, Dr. Scholl's and Oscar Meyer. The company's collaboration program produced highly collectable items pre-sold before they hit stores and never reproduced.
Available Worldwide
Today, Paul Frank sells its products to a diverse group of retailers ranging from small boutiques to major department stores. The company's success in the US has allowed them to grow internationally with stores all over the world from China to Slovakia and even the Dominican Republic.
The world of Paul Frank wouldn't be complete without the world-famous characters such as Julius, Skurvy and Worry Bear! Check out the characters page to learn more about some of our favorite friends. And remember to never grow up!


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How to Make a Reading Nook
Our home had a corner of underutilized space that was begging for a reading nook. On a recent trip to IKEA, we found a discounted Karlstad chair with a deep seat that seemed like the perfect fit, so we brought it home and set to work giving the corner a mini makeover.
What You Need
• An armchair with a wide, deep seat to curl up in
• Side table large enough for books
• Floor lamp, table lamp, or sconce
• Throw pillow and a blanket
• Artwork and/or other accessories
• Books
Shown Above
• Karlstad Armchair from IKEA, $250 (comes with a 10-year warranty)
• Prince Aha Stool from Design Within Reach, $110
• Floor Lamp from JCPenney, no longer available
• Framed Drawing from Rothschilds Antiques
• Lush Pillow from Unison Home, on sale for $36
• Ralph Lauren Cable Knit Throw, $100
- Clear out a corner or alcove in your home.
- Add a comfortable armchair with a wide, deep seat.
- Add a side table.
- Plug in a floor lamp or table lamp, or hardwire a sconce. Some people prefer to use adjustable task lighting.
- Add a throw pillow and a blanket to warm up the area.
- Hang some artwork or use other accessories, like a footstool or rug, to personalize the space.
- Make yourself a cup of tea or coffee.
- Grab a book.
- Start reading!
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The official start of the baseball season has guaranteed that players everywhere are getting ready to pick up their bats, balls and gloves! Unfortunately, America's favorite pastime can sometimes lead to injuries.
The athletic trainers and physical therapists at ATI Physical Therapy are all too familiar with these conditions, and know what needs to be done to help prevent and rehabilitate players. So, let's take a look at these common injuries:
Overuse: The most common among players under the age of 18. This is a musculoskeletal injury that results in tissue damage from repetitive demand over the course of time.
Strain: This injury affects the muscles or tendons (bands that attach muscles to bones). A strain is caused by a quick pull, twist or micro-tear of the muscle, especially when muscles are not stretched or warmed-up properly.
Sprain: Unlike a strain (which many use interchangeably) this injury affects the ligaments, bands of tissue that attach bones to other bones. A sprain is caused by the ligament being stretched beyond its capacity, and can range from a mild stretch to a complete tear.
Dislocation: The displacement of a bone from a joint that can cause loss of movement, pain and swelling. The most common involve a finger, thumb, shoulder, or hip.
Nate Whitney, physical therapist with ATI in Homer Glen, IL, and former minor league and collegiate baseball player, stresses good body mechanics and a good strength and conditioning program to help prevent injuries. Equally important is the need to recognize and prevent overuse injuries.
"A 2 - 4 month period of no throwing at some point during the year is very important and a widely accepted standard observed by the most experienced baseball players and coaches," says Whitney. "Year round participation in baseball/softball activities has become an unnecessary trend, and has corresponded with an exponential spike in youth arm injuries, and has limited an unknown number of high school, college and professional careers. Parents and coaches of year-round, single-sport athletes need to be aware of the increased injury risk of year round throwing, monitor closely for signs of physical and mental fatigue, and be willing to modify activity levels accordingly."
Whitney also stresses that players follow pitch-count recommendations offered by USA Baseball. "Pitching more than 80 pitches per game has been shown to leave a player at a 4 times increased risk of injury to their throwing arm, while regularly pitching with fatigue could result in 36 times increased risk of injury (Olsen SJ et al 2006). Pitch counts and fatigue are characteristics that have been shown to be significant and need to be closely monitored."
Recommended Pitch Counts
9-10 year old pitchers
50 pitches per game
75 pitches per week
11-12 year old pitchers
75 pitches per game
100 pitches per week
13-14 year old pitchers
75 pitches per game
125 pitches per week
If you or your little slugger are feeling pain from playing ball, visit one of ATI's three Elgin locations for a Complimentary Injury Screening. ATI will evaluate your injury, address your concerns, and provide you with options for continued care. Visit www.ATIpt.com for a location near you.
ATI Physical Therapy is a nationally recognized orthopedic rehabilitation provider, specializing in physical therapy, sports medicine, work conditioning/hardening (F.I.R.S.T.™), functional capacity assessments, aquatic health, hand therapy, and women's health. With over 200 clinics in seven states (Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania) ATI is known for its motivating staff, hands-on, personalized treatment programs, exceptional results and innovative research-based programs.


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NEENAH, Wis. (WBAY-TV) A Neenah couple will be taking in the solar eclipse during a very special time, their wedding ceremony.
Their engagement took place in December.
"Perfect surprise, Lambeau Field at Christmas Eve, made a very memorable proposal," said Kyle Levenhagen.
"Oh yeah I bawled, my dad balled, it was quite the experience," said Sarah Kuchenbecker.
Fast forward to March and Levenhagen and Kuchenbecker still hadn't picked a wedding date.
That's when next week's solar eclipse entered the discussion.
"Having been together for five years, I said it's time," Levenhagen said. "Let's do it. There's a beautiful thing that's going to happen. It's going to be a perfect day for it."
Levenhagen's idea, though, got some push back.
"Not okay with it at first, just because it was only a couple months away and it was on a Monday," said Kuchenbecker.
"Wow, this is never going to fly," Kyle's Mom Carol Levenhagen said. "You've got to think this through. Monday? Who's going to be able to come, Monday?"
Eventually, Mom and Finance brightened to the idea and so did people planning to come.
"What a better way to spend a Monday then in an office," said Levenhagen. "Let's take off, enjoy the eclipse and spend the day with you."
"It's definitely meant to be," said Kuchenbecker.
The wedding will take place in Smith Park in Menasha at noon on Monday which could be around the time the eclipse starts.
"I mean the stars are literally aligning type of event," said Levenhagen.
"Not only are we so in love and we're getting married," Kuchenhagen said. "But, we got married during such a special event, that everybody going to remember that the solar eclipse was on our anniversary."
The sunglasses are ready and for those who can't make it Monday, the wedding reception is set for the following Saturday.