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Reds asst. GM Miller chats with fans
Addresses questions from faithful on a variety of topics
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ChangeUp: I think it's great to see Eric Davis working within the Reds organization again. What kind of general role has he played which has helped you and Mr. Jocketty? Did he have an impact on any of the Draft selections?
Miller: Eric has been a great help. He has worked with the Minor Leaguers with base running and outfield work. He's also helped with the mental part of the game -- how to take good at-bats, etc.
flgator69: Is Winter Ball or an extended Spring Training available for some of our hitters' improvement?
Miller: Instructional League starts next week and Winter Ball and the Arizona Fall League in October. Most of our better young players will be in one or more of those leagues getting more at-bats or innings under their belts.
ChangeUp: I believe we have the best infield defense in all of baseball. What are the chances we will see the same starting infielders next season?
Miller: Pretty good. I fully expect all four of them to be on our team next year.
redstockings54: My question is with the number of good outfielders we currently have, are there any plans to trade any of them. And if so, what is the plan?
Miller: All of these guys are young and most of them still have options to the Minors left, so we like our depth. If something comes along that will better our team or fill another need, we will always consider it.
ChangeUp: Jonny Gomes seems to really enjoy being a Red and is really showing he can come through in clutch situations. Would you say there is a good chance he will be a Red next season?
Miller: I hope so. He's had a good year. Hopefully we can come to an agreement that makes both sides happy.
josh_frost: You're on a desert island: Skyline Chili or Graeter's?
Miller: Graeter's, without a doubt. It's hot on the island.
flgator69: Who, if anybody, on the Reds is "safe" from trades this offseason?
Miller: It's hard to say anyone is "safe." I can't use names, but if a team in Missouri wanted to trade you their big first baseman, you'd have to think about it, wouldn't you?
josh_frost: How is the team preparing differently this year with Spring Training in Goodyear, Ari., instead of Florida?
Miller: A) We'll actually be able to use all of the fields because they will be Major League quality. B) Our players will eat better and more nutritiously since we have a commercial kitchen on site. C) Our Minor Leaguers won't have to wait hours and hours to use the weight room since it is now big enough for everyone D) etc. etc. The Goodyear facility is state-of-the-art from top to bottom. Just our rehab capabilities now have increased tenfold.
batsfan09: Enerio Del Rosario has had a great season as a relief pitcher in the Minor Leagues. Do you think he could be a part of next year's bullpen? Could he possibly be a starter next year with Louisville, as he has been in previous years?
Miller: I think Del Rosario and Logan Ondrusek will both be knocking on the door to pitch in the Majors next year. Both of them had outstanding seasons.
bigal59: Several MLB players play winter ball and play in the WBC. The question has come up that some players get hurt while playing in the WBC. Do the clubs have control if a player plays in the WBC?
Miller: Nope.
punksroo: Which Minor League prospects are we likely to see this Spring?
Miller: Travis Wood, Del Rosario, Ondrusek, Yonder Alonso, Todd Frazier, Zack Cozart, Chris Valaika, Chris Heisey, etc.
ChangeUp: Do you have any early postseason predictions? Who will go to the World Series?
Miller: Once you get into the postseason with those short series, it's tough to predict. The Yankees and the Phillies are the favorites for me right now.
flsis: You seem pretty excited about Spring Training in Arizona next year, but aren't you going to miss seeing your sweet sister in Florida during the spring?
Miller: I'll miss my whole family, who live down in the Tampa Bay area -- especially my favorite niece.
lbentz11: What is a main, constant, day-to-day duty that you have to do as assistant GM?
Miller: It varies from month to month, but during the season the everyday concern is the Major League roster management. There are so many rules that have to be followed it's almost a full time job just for that.
redstockings54: Any word on the player to be named later from the David Weathers trade?
Miller: No. It probably won't be finalized until mid-October.
jroll1979: Any chance the team will wear the all-red hat on the road next year? Black-billed hat looks tacky.
Miller: No idea. Most people like a little black though. I like the sleeveless pin stripe tops with the undershirts, but they don't wear them anymore.
redstockings54: What do you perceive as a weakness that must be addressed?
Miller: We need to score more runs.
jroll1979: Any chance the Reds go after Orlando Hudson?
Miller: He's going to make big money and we already have Brandon Phillips.
bigal59: Is it true that the Reds are going to lose 20 million dollars this year?
Miller: Don't know. But if so, maybe the government will send us some stimulus money.
lbentz11: I know it's a bit premature, without writing off Matt Maloney, what are your thoughts on getting at least one left-handed starter for next season?
Miller: I think both Wood and Maloney will be good Major League pitchers. Give them some time.
Miller: One final question...
lbentz11: How did you break into professional baseball? Can a person with a Bachelor's degree in youth ministry get hired on with a team (i.e. Cincinnati)?
Miller: I started working in the Minor Leagues back in 1983. I hadn't even finished college yet at that point. Any background can do well in baseball. It takes all kinds, but you have to love the game and be willing to work ridiculous hours and put your time in. And then a little luck getting in the right spot always helps.
Miller: I just want to thank everyone for stopping by over the last five months for these chats. I enjoy it. Obviously there are some things I can't talk about nor can I talk about other teams' players. I also won't badmouth anyone, which many of the questions I don't answer seem to want me to do. I'm glad you have interest in baseball and the Reds, and let me assure you that we are doing everything we can to bring a winning team to Cincinnati. Go Reds and see you all next year!
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A man was taken to hospital after a car collided with a motorbike on one of the main routes used by commuters through Hemel Hempstead last night.
A black and silver Skyjet motorcycle and a black Ford Fiesta were involved in the accident, on the busy Link Road between Grovehill and the Leighton Buzzard Road road at around 4pm.
Police, an ambulance and a paramedic officer attended the site, where delays were caused throughout rush hour on the stretch commonly used as a route to and from the M1 at Junction 8.
One man in his 30s was taken to Watford General Hospital with what the police incident log described as minor injuries. The East of England Ambulance Service Trust confirmed that his condition was not life-threatening.
The motorbike was recovered and traffic resumed on the road shortly after 5pm.

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Skip to comments.Authorities circulate photos of two men spotted carrying bags near site of Boston bombings
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Cops are seeking these two men (above) who were spotted near the site of the Boston blasts. Investigators probing the deadly Boston Marathon bombings are circulating photos of two men spotted chatting near the packed finish line, The Post has learned.
In the photos being distributed by law-enforcement officials among themselves, one of the men is carrying a blue duffel bag. The other is wearing a black backpack in the first photo, taken at 10:53 a.m., but it is not visible in the second, taken at 12:30 p.m.
The attached photos are being circulated in an attempt to identify the individuals highlighted therein, said an e-mail obtained by The Post. Feel free to pass this around to any of your fellow agents elsewhere.
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The feds always monitor our sight, so I guess we (FreeRepublic) can take some of the credit.
You are correct, the media wanted two white American men.
Here in Europe the media are also hoping it is white people involved, they have already decided it was some right wing party behind the event.
Another fail by the NY Post? Say it isn't so.
CBS News called this guys "White" yesterday. They already have the narrative written.
Thanks. It would seem that the Post should have known they were cleared, but did not (if they were). If the guy is the one, why would he have had his pic taken?
They are going to try to drag it out until public interest wanes, then make an announcement over the weekend.
This IS the Post we are talking about. The '12 people dead!' Post.
I don't know we know for sure that they are (or should be) cleared. The guy could be a legitimate Morrocan student and distance runner and still be a bomber. But at least it appears LEO knows who they are and are talking to them.
Yep. Clearly right-wingers.
Yes. That was what made me think they would be very careful this time.
...considering all the bad press and mistakes Obama has made on Fort Hood all the way through to Benghazi - at the moment, his advisers must be playing this safe.
However, I think Jayna Davis book, The Third Terrorist - which illustrates a direct link to Iraq for the Oklahoma City Bombing where only McVeigh and Nichols were blamed - brought up the fact that Clinton didnt want to go to war
I would say the same is true in this case for Obama, the little boy is scared and is trying to divert from a massive military build up for invasion for whatever country is responsible for this. With defense cuts (especially in intelligence) a time for this to happen will stain Obama with more blood of US Citizens...least us not forget the four in Libya!
If these are the guys, those are pretty good photos of their faces. They should be able to find them if they are still in this country.
From their looks, they obviously look middle eastern, but that really confuses me. Reason being is that if these are Islamo Fascists and they belong to some group. Why has that group not taken credit for it? They usually love to take credit for their terrorist acts. It's the whole point of doing it. To get notariety for their cause.
Could this be a new phase of terrorism? Just do it and don't take credit for it? This could be a scary escalation. If they go after soft targets in America, it will be impossible to stop that. The only way to stop those are "We the people" being very vigilant.
More like Middle Eastern though.
I think that we are going in a new direction when any Mid Eastern teror group WILL not brag about taking credit, so as to keep everyone guesing.
Looks like Muslims. The news media is busy photoshopping them to look whiter
BINGO! I forget the Freeper's name that NAILED DAN RATHER"S FAKE PAPERS!! IN MINUTES, I might add!!
Morrocan's are Muslims. they belong to the freedom hating religion of Islam
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No one on earth — or in space — could have created a more complete heroine than Sally Ride.
She came from a family of strong and barrier-breaking women — a mother who devoted her life to working with women in prison and a sister who was a pioneering minister.
She was a physicist and astrophysicist when she answered a classified ad to become an astronaut — and also an English major, a Shakespeare scholar and a tennis champion.
She survived with good grace a global barrage as the first American woman in space, including endless jokes about everything from menstruation to bathroom privacy.
She reminded reporters that women had qualified to be astronauts in the very first class, but had been ruled out only because they were women.
She was always mindful of being a role model for little girls with big dreams. She was more likely to spend time with Girl Scouts than with celebrity interviews, and she wrote a half dozen science books for children.
She was kind towards people around her. She greeted challenges not with fear or competitiveness but with joy at doing the thing itself.
I am very lucky that our paths crossed. If we let her keep on inspiring us, then Sally Ride is with us still.
Sally Ride was the first American woman and the youngest astronaut to fly in space. She encouraged girls to dream. Gloria Steinem said, "Millions of little girls are going to sit by their television sets and see they can be astronauts, heroes, explorers and scientists." We should not forget that in a male dominated astronaut community, Sally Ride often felt uncomfortable when she was asked to tell the details of her menstrual cycle and how that might affect her time in space, whether she would wear a bra or makeup and whether she would cry on the job.
Those days are not yet gone. Those days will be gone if equal number of men and women become scientists, physicists, astronauts, heroes, explorers, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, technical experts, pilots,doctors, as well as writers, artists, historians, academics, administrators, politicians, decision makers etc. If it happens, we will know that there is no space in society for sexism, and no space is completely male dominated.


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The three left lanes on northbound Interstate Highway 880, just south of Interstate Highway 980, are open to traffic after multiple collisions blocked all lanes in Oakland this morning, the California Highway Patrol said.
The first accident was reported at 4:51 a.m., Officer James Evans said.
A Sig-alert was issued at 5:18 a.m. after another collision was reported, Evans said.
The fast lane was reopened at 5:28 a.m., and the two middle lanes reopened by 5:50 a.m., he said.
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The first Sand Lizard Basketball Bass Bonanza open buddy tournament will be conducted on Oct. 5 at the Lake Dardanelle State Park. The tournament will begin at safe light through 3 p.m. Pre-registration can be made at Lefty's in Dardanelle or Bass Mafia in Russellville and on site registration will begin at 5 a.m. Oct. 5. The cost will be $50 per boat and a $10 big bass option. All proceeds will benefit the Dardanelle Sand Lizard Basketball.
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There will be two shooting divisions: novice and sharpshooter. Top shooter trophies will be awarded to top shooters in team ad individual competition in each division. Costs for teams of 4 are $300 trap or skeet only or $500 for both and individuals will be $75 trap or skeet only or $150 for both. Sponsorships are available. For more information, contact Christine Sain at (479) 968-5525 or email@example.com
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Strong outing by Lannan gives Nats win
Left-hander's final tuneup a six-inning, one-run effort vs. Orioles
By Bill Ladson / MLB.com
at Viera, Fla.
Thursday, March 27
Orioles at the plate: In the first inning, Chris Roberson scored the first run of the game on a groundout by Oscar Salazar.
Nationals at the plate: In the third inning, Felipe Lopez took a 1-1 pitch and hit the ball over the right-field wall for his second home run of the spring. In the bottom of the seventh inning, Jesus Flores drove in the winning run with a single to left off right-hander Dennis Sarfate
Orioles on the mound: Right-hander Steve Trachsel pitched six innings and gave up one run on four hits.
Nationals on the mound: Left-hander John Lannan pitched six innings and gave up one run on three hits. Joel Hanrahan pitched an inning without giving up a run.
Grapefruit League records: Orioles 9-16, Nationals 11-18-2.
Up next for the Nationals: Washington goes home and works out at the new Nationals Park on Friday. The Nats play their final exhibition game the next day as they face the Orioles at 6:05 p.m. ET. Washington right-hander Jason Bergmann will face Orioles left-hander Adam Loewen.
Up next for the Orioles: They return to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to play the Mets on Friday afternoon at 1:05 p.m. Baltimore right-hander Daniel Cabrera will pitch for the Orioles.
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Killers performed at The Lake Tahoe Summit—a meeting of global environmentalists and lawmakers—and delivered their take on Bob Dylan's classic "Blowin' in the Wind." The original song was inspired by social and cultural changes of the 1960s, but its message holds true for climate change action.
Related: The Killers Celebrate 'Sam's Town' with Re-Issue, Live Dates
The band's set was hosted by Nevada Senator Harry Reid, and the native Nevadans lent their support and star wattage to the summit.
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Rachelle Lefevre & Taylor Lautner Empire Outtakes: (Is it just me, or are they all starting to look the same?) :-)
Lion & Lamb Love just loaded up another batch of new Empire Magazine outtakes. You can check out the originals over at Unlimited-Photos.com. This time, Taylor & Rachelle get some love!
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I was watching an old re-run of Bones last night and I was like, "that lawyer chick looks familiar...and she's got some great hair..." then I realized it was Rachelle! She was good, but her hair was dyed darker and not quite as pretty as it is now...ReplyDelete
Well, these aren't really new. These were done before the movie release. I've got them in my photo archive.ReplyDelete
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OCEAN CITY — The City Council shot down two new ideas last Monday aimed at furthering efforts in cleaning up Ocean City's beaches, arguing the ideas could have the reverse effect.
The local chapter of the Surfrider Foundation has been credited over the past five years as coming up with and executing one of the best slogans for keeping the local beaches clean with the now infamous "Please Leave Only Your Footprints" campaign.
The campaign had humble beginnings as it was created in the middle of a surfing lineup five years ago, but the execution of the "footprints" campaign has made it one of the most well known slogans around.
Yet, when Surfrider Foundation member Terry Steiner, a city Public Works employee, came before the Mayor and City Council last week to pitch two possible ideas to keep the beaches clean, the voting seven were a bit apprehensive to get on board.
In a nutshell, Steiner proposed to conduct an experiment of sorts, aimed at the areas of 144th to 146th streets, in which the town would remove the trash bins that were on the beach and only offer trash bins at the beach access points at the head of the streets. He said the experiment would be called the 'environmental friendly beaches'.
"If you look at Assateague Island, there are no trash bins on the beach, and the beaches are pretty doggone close to pristine over there," said Steiner. "If you take away the option of being able to just throw stuff away on the beach, I think that the people will take with them whatever they bring onto the beach and dispose of their trash in at access points like they do at Assateague."
Councilman Jim Hall was not convinced that it was an idea that could ever work in the resort.
"I think it's great in theory to think that everyone would conform and do it this way, but I don't think it's going to happen," said Hall. "My gut is telling me to leave the cans on the beach, especially since you have so much food up there. Taking cans off would be a mistake, and people will just stick their trash behind the fence in the dunes, or bury it in the sand."
Councilman Joe Hall argued it was an experiment that could be easily undertaken, and remedied if found to be a failure, and at one point even called out for a raise of hands in the audience to see if they would comply with such an experiment.
"If it doesn't work and there seems to be trash on the beach, how hard is it to just put the trash cans back up there," queried Joe Hall.
The council seemed to agree that even if the experiment was a success in the most northern points of the resort, the chance that expanding the scope of the experiment would be essentially futile the further south it would go.
"There's no way that we would be able to do that city wide, so I don't see the point to be honest with you," said Council President Joe Mitrecic.
Steiner's second idea was to place a small sticker on the cigarette butt receptacles that are sporadically placed in front of Boardwalk businesses that simply states "Hold Onto Your Butt: Beaches are not an Ashtray."
Councilman Jim Hall took umbrage with the message and the sticker and essentially told Steiner to take the idea back to the drawing board.
"I think we can do better than this Terry," said Hall. "I absolutely loved the 'leave only your footprints' campaign, but I think we can tell people to dispose of their cigarette butts in the container a better way. I'd like to see you have the kids at Stephen Decatur to come up with a more creative thing and a better message than 'hold onto your butt'."


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By Charles K. Trainor
For many Americans, purchasing land to build a home is one of their most important investments. Similarly, your board's decision to buy land for a new school or sports field is a major undertaking.
Because it's one of your district's most valuable assets, decisions surrounding land purchases and sales can impact your finances for decades. You need to be careful when acquiring, leasing, or disposing of district land.
Land transactions involving public entities such as school districts have a long history of being tainted by questionable ethics and financial abuse. In 1870, the federal government granted 3 million acres of heavily wooded land to Oregon officials to build a railroad from Portland to California. The grant was sold for $2.50 an acre to encourage the development of settlements and schools. However, an enterprising railroad official hired an itinerant lumberman to recruit vagrants and other disinterested individuals in Portland to seek the grants.
The grants were registered, then quickly transferred and packaged into larger tracts that were auctioned off to timber companies for harvesting. The government intended to provide land and funding for educational purposes, but the sale of logging rights diverted funding from area schools.
Fraud on such a grand scale is not a common occurrence today, but many pitfalls await districts preparing to engage in land transactions. The potential for conflicts of interest, environmental problems, and soil contamination require that your board be alert and well informed.
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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce Fahad Alhajri's MS Project Presentation: "A Comparative Assessment of Crowded-Source Travel Time Estimates on a Suburban Arterial."
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Travel time is one of the most widely used measures of traffic performance monitoring for the transportation systems. It is a simple concept used by a variety of audience such as commuters, media reporters, and transportation engineers and planners. This research evaluated two sources of travel time data :ODOTs Bluetooth data and INRIX data. The accuracy of the travel time estimates were evaluated against ground truth travel times for 3 days and 3 time periods. Moreover, the time-series behavior of the Bluetooth and INRIX data were examined by correlation testing.


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OAKLAND — Sad to report this. But the A's are not going to face the Giants in the World Series. Or anyone else.
Sad to look at the scoreboard Thursday night at O.co Coliseum and see this: Detroit 6, A's 0.
Sad to see the A's lose the series and sit glumly in the dugout as the Tigers celebrated on the field. Sad to see the A's not be able to enter their locker room and open the champagne that was ready to be uncorked if they should clinch and advance.
But know what? When they are able to step back and consider what they accomplished over the past few months, they might want to open up some champagne, anyway. Because the sadness should not last long.
It didn't even last that long Thursday night, really. After the final out, following a few seconds of silence as the Detroit players tumbled and embraced, the 36,393 people in the Coliseum began to construct a farewell roar. The yellow towels spun around one last time. Applause cascaded down from the seats.
The A's players responded by stepping out of the dugout and tipping their caps and pointing back at the seats. They made a little huddle themselves between the dugout and the third base coaching box as the crowd chanted: "Let's go Oakland." They embraced and congratulated each other.
And then, at long last, the players finally traipsed up the runway toward their locker room, giving high fives to fans along the box seat railing.
"They kind of gave us a curtain call," said A's manager Bob Melvin of the fans. "We truly appreciate that."
—It was very special," said centerfielder Coco Crisp. "You know, not having to come in the locker room and shake hands and tell the guys it was a pleasure playing with them. We were able to do that out there, in front of the fans. Which is kind of unusual."
Not that unusual for a unique team, perhaps. No, the A's could not match the Giants' come-from-behind series victory of earlier in the day. But that hardly seemed to be the point. Even if Melvin was not ready to step back yet.
"We didn't think it was going to end today, not for a second," said Melvin. "It's a bit of a shock when it finally does end. It was a heck of a story, a heck of a run for us. But it doesn't feel any better at the end of the day. Hopefully, we can go farther next year."
Right here is the place in this column where we pause and invoke the inevitable bromide: "What would you have thought if someone had told you in April that the A's would end up in the playoffs and go to the limit with a Detroit team that included the sure-thing Most Valuable Player of the American League?"
You would think that it was going to be one helluva season. That's what you would think. And that is what it was.
After winning just 74 games in 2011 and being given 100-1 odds of winning the AL West at mid-season, the A's won 94 games and seized the division title on the season's last day. The A's did this with a payroll of $55 million, less than half that of division rivals Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels (and less than half the payroll of the Giants across the Bay, for that matter).
Oh, for much of Thursday night, the sound at O.co Coliseum was definitely a different sound than the sound we heard on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. It was the sound of air slowly leaking out of a balloon, courtesy of Detroit starting pitcher Justin Verlander.
If he isn't baseball's best pitcher, he is in the discussion. The Tigers won the series by defeating the A's three times–and two of those victories were by Verlander, who struck out 11 batters Thursday. It was his fifth straight win against Oakland. Verlander, in his postgame remarks, called the Coliseum atmosphere "the toughest I've ever played in — these fans were unbelievable."
Still, he pitched as comfortably as if he were in his backyard bullpen.
Meanwhile, the A's pitching allowed zero hits in Game 5 to Detroit third baseman Miguel Cabrera, the presumptive MVP after winning the AL Triple Crown. But the Tigers didn't need him. Their two runs in the third inning were enough.
The A's, by contrast, never had a runner move beyond second base all night. That was pretty much the story of the game. But it shouldn't be remembered as the story of the season.
In the losing locker room that was not the locker room of a loser, a few A's players were asked this question: If they could take one snapshot from this season, frame it and nail it to the wall, what would that picture be?
Crisp said he would choose the photo that was taken after the A's won the division title on that giddy afternoon last week, when they organized an impromptu team picture on the field long after the final out, drenched from beer and champagne and smiling broadly.
Josh Donaldson said it would be a picture of a walk-off victory, one of the 15 authored by the improbable A's, followed by the inevitable pie-in-the-face commemoration. Cliff Pennington said it would be a photo of the happy postgame mayhem following Wednesday's comeback ninth inning victory.
Brandon McCarthy, however, said the picture to frame would be the one after Thursday's last pitch, with the players on the field saluting the crowd that was saluting them.
"I would say that one," McCarthy decided. "That's the one."
No argument here.
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Record-breaking Charlotte Edwards spurs England to victory over India
• England (272-8) beat India (240-9) by 32 runs in World Cup
Charlotte Edwards hit 109 to become the leading scorer in women's one-day internationals as England got their World Cup campaign back on track with a 32-run win over India in Mumbai.
The England captain helped her side post 272 for eight from their 50 overs, with Katherine Brunt (four for 29) then the pick of the bowlers as England limited the hosts to 240 for nine despite an unbeaten 107 from Harmanpreet Kaur.
Edwards needed 53 to surpass the record of 4,844 held by Australia's Belinda Clark and, after a slow start, she did that and more, claiming her seventh ODI ton to help England recover from their opening defeat by Sri Lanka.
The result left Group A wide open, with all four teams having one won and lost one of their first two games.
It seemed the opening defeat to Sri Lanka was very much in the England players' minds as they laboured to five for one after five overs – Danielle Wyatt (two) the woman to fall as she clipped Jhulan Goswami to Amita Sharma at midwicket.
It was perhaps what England needed as Sarah Taylor came in and began to play some shots. Edwards got in on the act too, and the partnership yielded exactly 100 before Taylor (35) was run out by Sharma going for a quick single.
But Edwards kept rolling and Lydia Greenway was straight into her stride, making 29 off 27 balls becoming Goswami's second victim. Brunt then picked up where Greenway had left off, while Edwards's 15th boundary of the innings moved her onto 100.
Brunt's contribution had reached 21 when she fell to Gouher Sultana, with Edwards the next to go when she took off for a risky single after pushing to cover and was run out by Nagarajan Niranjana.
The late wickets continued to tumble as England looked to up the run rate, Laura Marsh's 13 from 11 balls boosting the total before her dismissal in the penultimate over.
India's response got off to a shaky start, struggling to 29 for three in the eighth over. Brunt saw off Thirush Kamini (10) and the captain Mithali Raj (eight) before Anya Shrubsole trapped Poonam Raut lbw for four.
Kaur and Karu Jain (56) steadied the ship for India with a 106-run fourth-wicket stand before the latter holed out to Marsh at backward point off the bowling of Arran Brindle.
Goswami (19) soon followed suit before Reema Malhotra (17), Sharma (0) and Niranjana (0) fell in consecutive balls – from Brunt and Wyatt, with the score on 225 – to snuff out any hopes of a late victory charge.
Edwards said of England's display: "Today was about character, coming out and giving a good team performance and we certainly did that – the standards we've set today are those that we want to continue.
"Jhulan Goswami bowled exceptionally well upfront, Sarah and I knew we had to ride it out and then we kicked on. Once you get in on this pitch it's very hard for people to get you out.
"I'm very proud of the team and pleased to be able to contribute, it meant a lot to me as today was about the team. The record is something for me to look back on at the end of my career not something I'll focus on at the moment. I'm delighted with a win and that a lot of people have contributed to it, now we have to carry our form on from here."
England face West Indies in their next match in Mumbai on Tuesday.


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ARCI figures show industry-wide orders for the quarter totaled 14,850, down from 23,901 in the first quarter and also down 9.6% from 16,434 in the second quarter of 2012. RSI said 12,511 cars were delivered in the second quarter, up 4.8% from first-quarter deliveries of 11,952. The backlog as of July 1 was 73,706, up about 2.8% from 71,704 on April 1 (end of the first quarter).
"Overall, the industry order number remains highly concentrated in tank car orders, which accounted for 6,944, or 47% (down from 19,267, or 81% during 1Q13) of the total orders in the quarter," said Barger in a note to clients Friday. "Covered hoppers orders, which were the second largest concentration in orders, came in 4,795, or 32% of the total orders. Together, these two car types accounted for 79% of the total orders in the quarter vs. 89% for the top two last quarter.
"Specific to tank cars, the industry orders of 6,944 are a step down from the record 19,267 last quarter and below 1Q11-1Q13 average of approximately 9,800. For context, tank cars account for roughly 20% of the industry-wide fleet of railcars, while non-tank cars account for 80%," Barger said.


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South Carolina picked up right where it left off.
The Gamecocks, who in October won the Spine & Sport Cobblestone Hockey Cup in Savannah, on Thursday night beat The Citadel 4-3 in a club ice hockey exhibition in the 15th annual Savannah Tire Hockey Classic at the Savannah Civic Center.
A crowd of 844 watched as the Gamecocks (11-4) improved to 3-1 in the series, including three straight victories over the Bulldogs (6-7). The teams committed 18 penalties combined.
The four-team tournament of the Hockey Classic begins today. Florida State (8-7) will play Georgia Tech (10-10) at 6 p.m., and Florida (13-5) will play Georgia (8-9) at 8:30 p.m. The event ends Saturday with Florida State and Florida playing at 5:30 p.m., and Georgia Tech playing Georgia at 8:30 p.m.
South Carolina, a member of the South Eastern Collegiate Hockey Conference, took a 1-0 lead on Mike Foster's goal off an assist by Eric Patterson with 19:29 left in the first period.
"We wanted to come out here and hit them hard, hit them early, get a few goals quick and try to put it out of reach as soon as possible," said Foster, who was named a Player of the Match with The Citadel's Mark Briden.
"It was great. It's a whole new experience. The ice is a little slow but, all in all, I think they did a good job putting it together."
The Gamecocks went up 2-0 on Thomas Whitmeyer-Weathers' unassisted goal with 15:31 remaining.
South Carolina made it 3-0 on Patterson's goal, assisted by Michael Kochenash and Foster, with 12:33 left.
"They just got back to school on Monday, and skated on Monday and Wednesday and just got their legs going a little bit," South Carolina coach Brian Bauman said. "They were excited by the atmosphere. We've got a lot of freshmen so they were ready for it. We just kind of sat back once we got a lead."
The Citadel, which competes in the Blue Ridge Hockey Conference, cut the score to 3-1 with 9:57 remaining when Connor Rosenbaum scored an unassisted goal on a nifty play in which he took the puck from behind the Gamecocks' goal, whisked around the right corner and flicked it into the net.
"Our goalie started off a little slow," The Citadel coach David Spooner said of Brian Taptick. "I would say the first two goals were probably on him but he got his head in the game after that. He's a senior. He's an awesome goalie, one of the best goalies in any league in the South. And every goalie has a bad day here and there. To start off, he did. I think he proved himself in the end there and turned it around."
In the second period, Kevin Gjetley gave South Carolina a 4-1 lead when he took Derek Maggs' pass and shot the puck between Taptick's legs with 17:26 left.
The Citadel trimmed it to 4-2 with 9:12 left when Briden scored off Alex Horne's assist.
In the third period, the Bulldogs cut it to 4-3 with 8:15 to play when Joshua Terry scored off an assist by Horne.
"You should have been in our locker room after the first period," The Citadel's Spooner said, laughing. "You couldn't have brought that (tape recorder) in there. There was a lot going on in there. We just came off of Christmas break. This is our first game back and everybody's been sitting around eating turkey and bon bons, and everybody's not in shape. That's a lot of what it was. They just weren't sharp."
South Carolina 3 1 0 — 4
The Citadel 1 1 1 — 3
First Period
Goals: South Carolina, Mark Foster, 19:29 (Eric Patterson assist); South Carolina, Thomas Whitmeyer-Weathers, 15:31 (unassisted), South Carolina, Patterson, 12:33 (Michael Kochenash, Foster assisted); The Citadel, Connor Rosenbaum, 9:57 (Joshua Terry assist).
Second Period
Goals: South Carolina, Kevin Gjetley, 17:26 (Derek Maggs assist); The Citadel, Mark Briden, 9:12 (Alex Horne assist).
Third Period
Goal: The Citadel, Terry, 8:15 (Horne and William Singletary assisted).
Where: Savannah Civic Center
When: Today — 6 p.m., Florida State vs. Georgia Tech; 8:30 p.m., Florida vs. Georgia; Saturday: 5:30 p.m., Florida vs. Florida State; 8:30 p.m., Georgia Tech vs. Georgia
Tickets: $10 and $15 (20 percent off with military I.D. or college I.D.)
Info: 912-651-6556, savannahhockeyclassic.com


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5 sur août 26, 2013
Just a note to compliment Doreen and Rosemary on a recent visit to VT. My friend and I stayed for a 3 nights back in June. I cannot begin to tell you how gracious they were. And so accommodating. When looking for things to do or see, it was as if you had your own personal concierge! We were so impressed that we have booked 7 nights/days in Sept! Would not even take a chance to stay anywhere else. I personally felt like family for the short stay.
4,8 sur mars 16, 2012
The Deerfield Valley Inn was the first time that we stayed at a B&B. We were very pleased with our stay. They were great cooks that catered to us. We were given information about the area that was very helpful. The inn was very clean. We enjoyed looking at the art and furnishings and sitting on the porch.
4,8 sur novembre 06, 2011
The staff was courteous and informative. The food was amazing and fresh. The inn was easy to find. Overall it was the perfect B&B. I have no complaints.
4,6 sur novembre 06, 2011
My friend and I needed a few days away for a little B&B. Very quiet time, peaceful. Very good food (plus tea & cookies) and very friendly and accommodating hosts. It was a very pleasurable stay.
4,0 sur octobre 02, 2011
Cleanliness was excellent. Water was so-so re: hot came and went; breakfast was excellent. The hosts were friendly and helpful.
4,2 sur octobre 02, 2011
The inn was great, as was the hostess.
5 sur octobre 02, 2011
The room, the food, the hospitality were all exceptional. We had a fantastic weekend getaway experience.
4,2 sur septembre 03, 2011
We stayed there during the weekend of Hurricane0 Irene. They were very nice and helpful. They made a picnic lunch for us and recommended a great park for a hike. When the storm hit we got stuck there and they made food for us and let us stay an extra night for free. I definitely recommend this place.
5 sur février 13, 2011
My husband and I have been staying at the Inn for several years now. We are retired and are able to go every few weeks. It is by far the cleanest Inn we have stayed at. Breakfasts are wonderful, more than enough food to last you even beyond lunch. Rooms are comfy and cozy, can't say enough. Doreen and Rosemary are really wonderful and are very accommodating, can't wait for our next trip up.....The Hunt's
5 sur février 16, 2010
I went to Mt. snow in early Feb. for work and stayed at the Deerfield Valley Inn. I found my room to be an amazing peaceful get away at the end of a long, loud crazy work day. Breakfast was wonderful every day and the owners were very accommodating with our crazy schedule! Doreen and Maryann made me feel like I was home at the end of the day.
4,0 sur février 06, 2010
We have been staying at Deerfield Valley Inn for several years now and never had a problem of any sort. Doreen and Rosemary own and run the B & B they are wonderful, make you feel very comfortable . Breakfasts are excellent, blueberry pancakes are great plus their other choices. Very, Very clean just all around great. We feel like it is our second home. We are retired and go to their establishment every few weeks that is how much we like to stay there. Thanks ladies...Marie & George
5 sur janvier 28, 2010
The innkeepers were very friendly and responsive to our individual needs. The purpose of our trip was to ski at Mt. Snow. At the end of each ski day, it was a pleasure to return to our room which was cozy, clean, and had an in-room fireplace that we used each night. The bed was incredibly comfortable. Each morning, the innkeepers served made-to-order breakfasts that were well-balanced and of high quality. The overall atmosphere of the inn is quintessential New England. We plan to return next year. All-in-all, we had very pleasurable experience for excellent value.
4,6 sur novembre 25, 2009
I have stayed at the Deerfield Valley Inn a few times since 2000. I am always delighted that the innkeeper remembers me. Her Irish touch just adds to the ambiance of "escape" from the grind of New York. The prices are right, the breakfast is delightful and with tea and cookies in the afternoon you just can't go wrong here.
4,8 sur novembre 25, 2009
You'll find your second home here - 'tis' a place you'll want to go back to again & again - truly - if you love Vermont, this is the place to stay - you won't be disappointed. :)
4,6 sur novembre 23, 2009
My wife and I travel to Vermont for the past 7 years in November and always stay at B&B's. By far this was the best value for your money any where we have stayed over the last 7 years. Staying at the Deerfield Valley Inn is a no brainer if you are going to stay in the Mt. Snow area or even Southern Vermont. See you soon. Ed and Jodi Sheehy
3,8 sur septembre 28, 2009
This delightful inn in south Vermont was a wonderful find. We couldn't have had a warmer welcome from our hosts or felt more at home. A lovely room and delicious breakfast, and most helpful advice about the locality.
4,0 sur septembre 19, 2009
We have been going to the Deerfield Valley Inn since Feb. 2000, and Doreen and Rosemary are like family now. We wouldn't think of going anywhere else in the area. We are looking forward to our stay there next month.
5 sur août 07, 2009
What a wonderful preserved place to stay. The architectural and decorative additions are in keeping with the original building erected as the home of a lumber 'baron'. Very accommodating owner and staff. Excellent food.
5 sur juin 01, 2009
Arrived by bicycle, soaked, with frozen feet after a day riding in the rain. After a cup of hot spice tea and cookies, a hot bath, and a blazing fire in the fireplace, I was a new person. One of the nicest B&B's I've ever stayed in. Room was beautifully and comfortably furnished, breakfast more than ample, and our hostesses warm and welcoming and most accommodating to our motley crew. I would most definitely stay again.
5 sur avril 28, 2009
My husband and I had a wonderful time in Deerfield Valley Inn. We loved the breakfasts and enjoyed the cookies & brownies in the afternoon. The bedroom we stayed in was very romantic. We will definately be returning.
4,0 sur mars 27, 2009
This was our first time at a B&B and it was wonderful
5 sur mars 03, 2009
cozy, excellent service and value. close to skiing and restaurants. Extremely clean and the most comfortable beds and pillows.
4,8 sur mars 02, 2009
A lovely inn, exceptionally clean, excellent breakfasts and gracious innkeepers, make you feel very comfortable and at home.
4,0 sur mars 02, 2009
It was my family's first time to the Inn and we had a wonderful time. It felt like we were at our aunt's house visiting for the weekend. The breakfast was delicious and plentiful. The rooms were beautifully decorated and CLEAN! The inn-keepers, Doreen and Rosemarie are just lovely ladies. My children (13yr and 9 yr) were very comfortable at the Inn and are looking forward to going back next year. I give this palce 2 thumbs up!
4,8 sur mars 01, 2009
A clean, warm and friendly environment awaits you at this charming inn... close to skiiing, fabulous breakfast and warm and inviting rooms... what more can anyone want.
4,0 sur février 17, 2009
We loved the attic room. It was spacious and nicely furnished. Very comfy. Another plus is that you get to control your own heat in the room and there is a separate thermostat in the bathroom. If there is bad weather, you can hop on the Moover that stops at the doorstep.
5 sur janvier 14, 2009
2 of the nicest innkeepers; very clean rooms; fireplace always set up; great breakfast; very close to the mountain and restaurants; I recommend this money inn to everyone!
4,4 sur janvier 13, 2009
What a wonderful getaway! The Deerfield Valley Inn afforded us a peaceful, quiet respite with a wood-burning fireplace in the room, warm Victorian decor, classic New England Christmas decorations in the common areas, scrumptious full breakfast cooked to order, afternoon tea with freshly baked cookies and gracious and helpful innkeepers. What a gem!
4,0 sur janvier 11, 2009
Pleasant stay. The staff was extremely helpful, knowledgeable and friendly. I will be going back for another visit in the near future. I highly recommend it!
5 sur janvier 09, 2009
My husband and I enjoyed our stay very much. It is a home away from home, actually even better because everything is done for you. Doreen and Rosemary make you feel like one of the family. Very, very clean, excellent breakfasts (I even shared some recipes with Doreen)very hospitable they can't do enough for you, very relaxing. We go to Vermont quite often during ski season and we will certainly be back to their lovely home each time we are in West Dover. The room we stayed in was very quaint and comfy, has a fireplace and is beautifully decorated. They have a very large sitting room for everyone to use with a fireplace, tv and an area where you can get yourself a nice cup of hot tea or hot chocolate and some delicious homemade cakes and head off to the living room or your own room. The Deerfield Valley Inn is a very short distance to Mt. Snow for skiing..excellent location. M & G, NY
5 sur janvier 06, 2009
I travelled from Europe to stay at the Deefield Valley Inn as I had heard such wonderful comments about this Inn and it's Owners. Both lived up to my expectations. The Deerfield Valley Inn is a gorgeous, 'olde world' building, with very comfortable bedrooms and a wonderful warm, welcoming log fire. The owners Doreen & Rosemary were also so warm and welcoming and looked after us all with a seamless hospitality. The breakfasts of scrambled eggs with cheese or the many varied omelettes were so delicious and I will never forget the everflowing numerous mugs of great, authentic Irish tea. I will certainly return.
4,0 sur janvier 04, 2009
After an 8 year hiatus from Vermont, we returned to our old stomping grounds and our charming home-away from home, the Deerfield Valley Inn. We are happy to report that the place has not lost its charm, appeal and hospitality. It continues to be a welcoming environment, convenient to skiing and some of the best restaurants in Vermont. The rooms are clean and comfortable. Doreen and Rosemary are good souls who manage the Inn seamlessly. Whether you are looking for R&R, skiing, hiking or fall foliage, you can't beat this Inn. We highly recommend staying at the Deerfield.
4,2 sur novembre 01, 2008
The rooms here were spectacular and the atmosphere was perfect. The inn was warm and welcoming. You can't beat the location with only minutes away from great hiking trails to mt. Snow. I would love to stay here again in the future!
5 sur octobre 26, 2008
This charming Inn is warm and welcoming.The rooms are cozy and comfortable.Breakfast is prepared to order and the omelets are delicious not to mention the homemade sweets for afternoon tea.The innkeeper is most helpful in making recommendations and reservations for dinner in the areas many restaurants. A great find!! We will be back!
4,6 sur octobre 24, 2008
the hospitality of Doreen and Rosemary was outstanding. They do everything possible to make your stay memorable. We look forward to our next visit!
3,0 sur octobre 22, 2008
very nice Inn, clean and quiet. The room was small, but adequate, however the shower was very small!
4,0 sur octobre 19, 2008
I stayed at this wonderful inn two weekends ago and we cant stop talking about what a wonderful time we had. Doreen and Rosemary are wonderful hosts and boy can Doreen cook...GREAT BREAKFAST.... The houkeeper I think her name was Mary was wonderful the rooms were spotless..... Great location and wonderful accomodations...Thanks and we will be back............
4,6 sur octobre 17, 2008
Rosemary at the Deerfield Valley Inn is cheerful and helpful, and is one of the rare individuals that seems to enjoy her work. The Inn is run almost invisibly, but all remains clean and in order. The breakfast room is charming, and good basic breakfasts are offered. It's not gourmet, but it will alway be hot, enjoyable, and plenty to fill you up. Our room was a fireplace suite, with antique furnishings, and a fully stocked woodpile. The room is cozy, with comfy beds and duvet comforters. There's no coffee maker in the room, but there are always beverages available in the hallway by the breakfast room. The bathroom is bit small in the shower area due to a dormer sloping roof in the room we had, but overall was clean and well appointed. The house feels like family, and guests are made to feel a part of the Inn. There's a living room with games and puzzles with a larger TV as well. All in all a very pleasant stay.
5 sur octobre 01, 2008
My husband and I found the Deerfield Valley Inn a few years ago purely by accident. What a find! Whenever we are in Vermont, no matter where, we always set aside an evening to stay with Doreen and Rosemary. The Inn has a warm, cosey feel. The rooms are comfortable and welcoming whether it is summer, fall, winter or sping. We always try to stay in the same room with a fire place which is always prepared for a fire. Doreen and Rosemary are kind and generous and the hot tea as soon as you walk in the door makes one feel right at home. It is fun to visit in the sitting room and watch the fire. Breakfast is always delicious and served with a smile. We travel a lot and have never found a B&B like it. I recommend it highly.
4,8 sur septembre 19, 2008
I have stayed at the Inn a number of times and each stay was a delightful experience. The innkeeper and staff are warm, unassuming & friendly and the public and guest rooms cozy and comfortable. Breakfasts are excellent! Location is convenient to activities, restaurants, etc. A great place to stay!
4,6 sur septembre 12, 2008
This was our second visit to the inn and we found it just as warm, friendly, and comfortable as the first time. The inn is affordable, the management unpretentious but professional, offering everything you need for a relaxing stay, including immaculate rooms, friendly attention, & excellent breakfasts. Highly recommended!
5 sur août 27, 2008
Friendly, comfortable hosts and room. Breakfasts were so good! homely touches, good size rooms. Very clean!
5 sur août 25, 2008
Can't say enough about Deerfield Valley Inn. Decor, Staff, food, cleanliness, and location. Best B&B we've stayed in.
5 sur août 12, 2008
My husband and I have been going to the Deerfield Valley Inn for the past 9 years and would not consider going anywhere else. The rooms are extremely clean, the food superb and the Innkeepers are charming and go out of their way for you. It is home away from home!
4,8 sur août 11, 2008
Beautiful place in Southern Vermont.
4,8 sur juillet 15, 2008
The owner & staff were exceptionally helpful and personable.
5 sur juillet 12, 2008
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Toronto fans are looking forward to seeing the emergence of these three rookies.
The Toronto Raptors are one of several NBA teams in Stage 2 of a rebuild. They've gone from the playoffs to mediocrity to bottom of the barrel. The roster has been broken down, and now it's being built up again, with a young core looking to take a step forward in the 2012-13 season.
The Raps already got moving in the right direction with the hire of head coach Dwane Casey, who turned the team around defensively last season. Casey established a new culture that can function as a building block going forward.
The other building blocks are a group of young players that the Raptors have patiently put together, believing that slow and steady can win the race.
The Raptors' second season since the departure of Chris Bosh was better than the first. Casey's impact was clear, as his team had the most improved defense in the league, bumping their defensive ranking from 30th to 12th and allowing 8.5 fewer points per 100 possessions than they did in their final season under Jay Triano.
But the Raps also regressed quite a bit offensively, ranking 25th in offensive efficiency. A big reason for that were Andrea Bargnani's injury issues. He was their best offensive player, but a calf injury kept him out for more than half the season.
Furthermore, with a new coach and a young group that needed development, the Raptors were one of the teams most hurt by the lockout. In particular, second-year big man Ed Davis didn't get the Summer League action or full training camp he needed to hit the ground running.
The Raptors didn't make the big splash (with a guy named Nash) that they were hoping for, but they added a couple of veterans that will help them get better. Kyle Lowry and Landry Fields were acquired by very different means, the former via a cheap trade and the latter via an expensive offer sheet. But both will bring some stability on the perimeter.
The new face with the most star potential, however, is rookie Jonas Valanciunas, selected with the No. 5 pick in the 2011 Draft. The 20 year old big man from Lithuania is more ready to contribute offensively, but he has the potential to eventually make an impact on both ends of the floor.
The Raptors added another Lottery pick in this year's draft, selecting shooting guard Terrence Ross at No. 8. Ross will provide some much needed perimeter shooting for a team that ranked 21st in made 3-pointers last season.
A curious aspect of the coming season in Toronto will be the performances of Davis and DeMar DeRozan. Neither has developed as much as the Raptors would have liked, and each could quickly be pushed aside by newcomers (Valanciunas and Ross).
Point guard, with Lowry and Jose Calderon, may be the only position at which the Raptors will be able to match up with the league's best teams on a nightly basis. Otherwise, the promise is there, and defense will help this team stay relatively competitive, but it's still short on talent.
And while players like Lowry, Fields, Bargnani and Calderon could give the Raptors dreams of a playoff spot, the Raptors' youngsters need as much playing time as they can get. So Casey has a tough task in managing his rotation with an eye on the future.
In an improved Atlantic Division, the Raptors are clearly behind the Celtics, Knicks, Nets and Sixers (in no particular order). But they'll still be worth watching, with a group of unprovens looking to make their mark on the league.
Just how bright their future is depends a lot on Valanciunas, in whom a lot has been invested and of whom a lot is expected. If he can anchor the Raptors on either end of the floor, the other pieces will fall into place a lot easier.
Coming off last season, the offense could really use a boost. It's way too much to expect Toronto to improve offensively like it did defensively last season. But the addition of Lowry and the return of Bargnani are reasons to believe that the Raptors can at least be an average team on that end of the floor.
That would be a step forward, which is exactly what folks in Toronto are looking for at this point in the rebuilding process.
John Schuhmann is a staff writer for NBA.com. You can e-mail him here and follow him on Twitter.
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Finn and Kelly to tour together
Neil Finn and Paul Kelly will tour together in Australia in February and March, promising concerts that will canvas at least 30 hand-picked songs from across their impressive careers.
But don't just expect Kelly and Finn singing their well-known numbers. There will be re-interpretations, an occasional switch between artist and song and possibly even new material.
"We don't want this to be a token romp through each other's songs, we want it to be a little more expansive. We want to put time and work into creating distinctive versions of the stuff we do, that are distinct to this tour," Finn said.
The pair have been emailing each other to work out a final set list for the performances (it's currently down to a shortlist of 50), which were announced during a press conference at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday.
To announce the tour they performed three songs together including Finn's Into Temptation, with Kelly on vocals and harmonica, which left gathered members of the press mesmerised.
Kelly and Finn say the tour together has been a long time coming, a concept which has been talked about seriously for a few years. It is only now they have found a window in their schedules, as agents like to say, for the 10-date tour.
If it is successful there may be further shows in New Zealand - although Finn says nothing is confirmed yet - and surely an album may also be in the works.
"There's a chance of [writing new material] but you can't really schedule those things," Kelly said. "We're going to probably have a crack, but we don't know. Songwriting is a form of play and it's got to be aimless. We might get something, we might not."
Although it is the first time they will tour together as the headline act, the renowned musos have been mates since the mid-1980s.
"My first tour of America was with Crowded House," said Kelly. "We had a few sing-songs backstage, I think," said Finn.
It's clear they are huge admirers of each other's work. Kelly says he wishes he'd been able to write some of Finn's songs including Four Seasons in One Day and Private Universe ... "There's heaps," he said. "Four Seasons in One Day, it is perfect architecture."
They've been relishing the process of choosing and refining their finest works.
"I sent Neil a list of his songs I wanted us to do, he sent me a list, the same for me. We also went through songs we could do good harmony singing on," Kelly said.
It will be a family affair on stage. "We've got Elroy, Neil's son, on drums and my nephew Dan [Kelly] on guitar," Kelly said. "And we think we might take care of the keyboards between us."
Says Finn: "We'd like to keep it relatively intimate."
The tour will begin in Melbourne in mid-February, take in some vineyard shows in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales (in the northern NSW city of Armidale) and includes three performances at the Sydney Opera House in March.
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If Michael Salvatore had known the sad fate of the No. 11 bus, he might not have opened his bicycle shop and cafe on North Lincoln Avenue a few months ago.
"It's asinine to cut the No. 11 bus," he said Tuesday, sitting in the former thrift store where he now handcrafts bicycles and serves upscale Stumptown coffee.


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Listen Jim Perlman reads 'Late Fragment' by Raymond Carver
Listen Pamela Mittlefehldt reads 'When I am asked' by Lisel Mueller
Listen Poetry of grief and celebration
Listen Deborah Cooper reads her own poem 'Visitations'
Tomorrow night some 20 poets from around the country will gather at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis to read poems about grief, mourning - and celebration.
The event is to mark the publication of "Beloved on the Earth," a new collection of poems from Duluth based Holy Cow Press. The book is already finding fans outside the poetry world.
Beloved on the Earth" is a book which arose from a specific need.
Jim Perlman lost his mother two years ago. As a poetry editor he naturally sought out poems to help him through a difficult time. He found some, but it struck him there was no collection available that filled his need to grieve his loss, and celebrate the life of his mother.
As the founder of Holy Cow Press, Perlman decided to do something about that.
"So we put out a public call for manuscript submissions," he said. "And over two or three months we received work from 695 poets from all over the country and over seas and that totaled about 2,000 poems"
It was overwhelming, but then three of Perlman's friends, Deborah Cooper, Mara Hart and Pamela Mittlefehldt, stepped in. They are all writers and teachers and they helped him work through the pile.
They threw in a few extra poems by other writers they came upon elsewhere. Even with four of them it still took a year to read them all. Yet Deborah Cooper said selecting the poems for the book wasn't hard.
"We all read every single poem and then we rated it," she said. "And when we got together to go through the poetry we had enough poems that we had all given the top rating to."
The final compilation contains 150 poems. The editors stress that many of the poems they didn't choose were excellent, but they dealt only with the loss of one specific person.
What they were looking for was work which, while possibly referring to an individual, has a larger scope, specifically grief and gratitude. Pamela Mittlefehldt said the gratitude for the life of deceased friend or relative is very important.
"And for me one of the things I looked for in the poems was how do you do that?" Mittlefehldt said. "How do you celebrate in the midst of grief? How do you honor a life when you are so devastated by its loss? And I think these poems do that very powerfully."
When asked to select a favorite, Jim Perlman doesn't hesitate. He chooses "Late Fragment," a poem Raymond Carver wrote shortly before his own death.
"And did you get what you wanted from this life?
Even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved.
To feel myself beloved on this earth."
The collection gets its name from the poem's last line.
Pamela Mittlefehldt chooses a poem by Lisel Mueller about how hard it is to mourn at the height of summer when everything is teaming with life.
"I sat on a gray stone bench
ringed with the ingenue faces
of pink and white impatiens
and placed my grief
in the mouth of language,
the only thing that would grieve with me."
"Beloved on the Earth" arrived in bookstores a few weeks ago, but Perlman said he's hearing it's already being used by local clergy in Duluth both for funeral services, and as an aid and comfort for grieving families.
Pamela Mittlefehldt said the book is also going further afield.
"I've given it to my doctors and they have started using it," she said. I think, as Jim says, this book speaks to such a wide audience."
The book is now featured on the Web site of the American Hospice Foundation.
Holy Cow Press is now arranging readings around the country, including tomorrow's event at the Loft in Minneapolis.
Jim Perlman said it was only after they had been offered the Friday night date that they realized it was Sept. 11.
At first they wondered whether they should do it. Then, in the spirit of the book, Perlman said they decided it was an opportunity to take the grief and sorrow in the aftermath of the attacks and try to turn them into something more positive.
"Maybe we can make something of all of that grief and sorrow that we feel for that day into something perhaps more positive," he said. "Or even into gratitude. We'll see."
The "Beloved on the Earth" editors say working with these poems for so long has been an intense experience, and they have become very close as a result. For Perlman, whose mother's passing set this all in motion, it's been an important lesson.
"I've found a sense of healing that comes from knowing you are not alone in grieving a loss," he said.
It's a message all the editors of "Beloved on the Earth" hope many people will hear.


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Dell is finding itself in hot water over misleading its Chinese customers. One of Dell's Chinese customers ordered an Inspiron 640m notebook that was thought to have a Core Duo T2300 processor inside. Instead, the notebook was shipped with a Core Duo T2300E processor. For those of you who haven't been keeping up with Intel's flurry of new processor releases and model numbers, the T2300E is nearly identical to the T2300 save for one feature: the lack of Intel's Virtualization Technology (VT). That one change is the reason why Dell is now facing a lawsuit from 19 customers in China.
A single customer voiced his concerns to an online message board and found hundreds of other Dell customers whom had been wrongly given a T2300E processor even though Dell's website, advertisements and customer invoices noted T2300 processors. "I tried to negotiate with Dell and simply asked them to change the CPU, but they said there was no difference between the two and it was unnecessary to change. My lawyer sent them a letter, demanding compensation, which Dell chose to ignore, so we decided to sue," said Zhang Min, the first person to file the lawsuit.
DailyTech first brought you news of Intel's T2300E processor back in February of this year. It was later discovered by Laptop Logic that the chips lacked Intel's VT. VT allows customers to more easily run multiple operating systems on a single machine. Because of this feature reduction, Intel was able to offer the T2300E at $209 versus $241 for the regular T2300. Dell knew the difference, but just decided not to inform its Chinese customers in a timely fashion.
For its part, Dell has responded to the legal mess on its Direct2Dell online blog, "We have acknowledged the issue, and we have corrected the error in all materials. We have directly apologized to Dell China customers who were affected, and also informed them of the difference between the two processors. For customers who were not satisfied with these actions, we offered full refunds for returned T2300E-based systems."
Dell goes on to say that VT is aimed mainly at servers and workstations (even though Intel clearly states that it's beneficial to home and business users alike) and that by offering the T2300E they are able to provide their customers with better value. It's all well and good to try to justify a company's actions and cite that customers likely wouldn't miss the feature, but not informing customers before making the switcharoo is a big no-no in this business.


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A wealth of memoirs
The number of memoirs and autobiographies by former refugees from Hitler published over the past two decades is rapidly approaching a flood. Partly the result of a natural tendency for people who have reached a certain age to commit their memories to print, this also reflects the huge interest in the Holocaust that has developed in recent years. In this field, women outnumber men – in part for simple reasons of longevity. Women refugees lost the status, security and settled lifestyle that they had enjoyed in their native lands. However, the experience of forced emigration and the demands of building new lives in Britain sometimes brought about a reversal of roles between husbands and wives, as the latter had perforce to take on tasks and responsibilities that had in Germany or Austria fallen to the lot of their menfolk.
Two recently published autobiographies are by female refugees notable for their highly distinguished careers. Though these books could easily fall into the familiar category of the 'refugee success story', they do not shy away from the trauma of forced emigration or from the difficulties that beset young refugee women starting out on careers in post-war Britain. The first of these remarkable women is Dame Stephanie (Steve) Shirley, born Vera Stephanie Buchthal in Dortmund in 1933, who came to Britain on a Kindertransport in 1939. She became a highly successful and pioneering entrepreneur, setting up her own company in the early days of information technology, but then proceeding to divest herself of much of her wealth, as one of Britain's leading philanthropists; it is a rare business magnate whose pride in being listed in the Sunday Times Rich List is exceeded by her pleasure at dropping out of it as a result of charitable donations.
Dame Stephanie's changes of name reflect two of the principal challenges that confronted her. The first was that of the refugee from Nazism who has to adapt to a new country; this she met in 1951, on taking British citizenship, when she changed her surname from Buchthal to Brook and started using her middle name as her first name. She thereby committed herself 'to making a success of my life as Stephanie Brook, Englishwoman' (Shirley is her surname by marriage.) But her transition to Britishness was by no means unproblematical. In the absence of their parents, whose relationship had broken down, she and her elder sister Renate were brought up in the rural West Midlands by a British family, the Smiths. Her mother took a job in distant Shropshire and her father returned to Germany alone after the war. Whereas Renate never felt settled in Britain, Stephanie flourished: she developed a love of mathematics at school and moved easily into the world of IT in the dawning computer era.
The second challenge was the brute sexism that dogged her career. This led her to sign her letters 'Steve Shirley', in the belief that it would enable her to promote her company free from the stereotype of female inferiority that infected the business world. The litany of sexist slurs and inequities she encountered is long and, for men, shaming. When in the 1960s Dame Stephanie had the idea of creating a business by utilising the skills of women who were homebound by family responsibilities but could work part-time as computer programmers, the Inland Revenue concluded, with truly magnificent idiocy, that one of them must be earning her income by running a brothel from her home.
The book relates how Dame Stephanie's entrepreneurial drive led her to found her company, Freelance Programmers, whose launch on the Stock Exchange as FI Group in 1996 made her a multi-millionaire. What makes this impressive achievement even more remarkable is that she was throughout struggling to care for a severely autistic son, a harrowing experience that at one stage drove her to a nervous breakdown; her son died in 1998, aged 35. Projects connected with autism rank high among the beneficiaries of her charity. Her autobiography, Let IT Go, published by Andrews UK in 2012, is the record of a life full of ambition, vision and generosity, qualities that one may perhaps attribute, at least in part, to the German-Jewish values she inherited.
Lisl Klein's autobiography, Nobody Said It Would Be Easy, was published by the Book Guild in 2012. It follows the author's life from her early childhood in Karlsbad in the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia, where she was born in 1928, to her arrival in Britain in November 1938, her years as a penniless and alienated refugee child often separated from her parents, and on to her distinguished career pioneering the practical application of social science in the workplace. Klein, at ten, was older than Stephanie Shirley when she left the country of her birth and she found it correspondingly more difficult to adapt to the abrupt change in her circumstances. She too was unable to live with her parents and, unlike Dame Stephanie, experienced a bewildering and mostly unhappy series of temporary 'billets'. She also felt keenly the separation from her relatives left behind: the figure of her cousin and childhood companion Peter, who died at Auschwitz aged 15, haunts her memory.
Although Klein passed successfully from grammar school to university, she had difficulty as a young adult in finding her place in British post-war society. Her father had died during the war, while her mother struggled with poverty and mental instability. Klein had inherited her values from her admired aunt Fanni, a prominent Social Democrat. Those values influenced the spirit of the work that she later undertook, attempting to measure the impact of new technologies on the employees who had to work with them and to optimise that impact, reasoning that any enterprise that took its workforce into account when it introduced technological changes could only benefit thereby. Her 'life-long love affair with industry' began during her first, humble jobs in small firms in the early 1950s. She developed a fascination with diagnosing the organisational structures and deficiencies of enterprises, which led to a distinguished career devoted to improving the productivity of firms like Esso (ExxonMobil). She worked for 19 years at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, then founded her own Bayswater Institute in 1990.
In Britain, the social culture of the Social Democratic refugees from the Sudetenland was restricted to a very small circle. As Jews and as Social Democrats, Klein's family had been a minority among the German-speaking population of the Sudetenland, most of which went over to the Nazis with enthusiasm. But these ethnic Germans themselves formed only a minority among a Czech majority; when they were expelled en masse after the war, the entire German-speaking culture of the Sudetenland was erased. But by then the Holocaust had also created an unbridgeable gulf between Germans and Jews. These tensions and conflicts of identity echo through Klein's memoirs. Only when she unexpectedly acquired the Richmond Park Hotel in Karlsbad in the 1990s, as part of the belated process of restitution by the Czech government, was she able to re-establish a fruitful connection with her native town.
In complete contrast to these two autobiographies stands the diary of Sophie Roth, written during the war and published in 2012 by the Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft in Vienna as Für mein Schurlikind: Tagebuch 1940-1944. Edited with exemplary devotion by the historian Evelyn Adunka, the diary was written under the crushing impact of the death of Sophie Roth's younger son Richard Georg, known as Schurli, who had arrived in Britain with his parents in late August 1939 already terminally ill with cancer; he died on 18 October 1939, a few days short of his eleventh birthday. Sophie Roth, née Landau, had been born in Vienna in 1901 and married Norbert Roth in 1921. The couple also had an elder son, Erwin (later Edwin), born in 1924.
Sophie Roth began her diary on 26 August 1940, the first anniversary of the family's last full day in Vienna, and the subsequent daily entries recall milestones in the last weeks of her younger son's short life: their departure from Vienna, the journey across Germany and Holland, their admission to Britain, and their arrival in Manchester. The grief of a bereaved mother structures the diary as she recalls each day what she and Schurli had been doing a year ago, until she reaches the anniversary of his death, followed by what would have been his twelfth birthday. The diary thus becomes a means of expressing, and perhaps to some extent softening, the pain of her loss; even so, that pain comes across with almost unbearable intensity. The entries are punctuated by repeated air raids, while Roth's sense of loneliness is greatly accentuated by the absence of her husband and elder son, interned as 'enemy aliens', which left her to fend alone in her time of greatest need. This is a deeply moving document, which sets the individual tragedy of a family against the broader background of the sufferings and hardships of war and emigration.
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