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Are you:
A Black woman?
Over 15?
If you answered "yes" to all of these questions, then you're likely desperate to get married.
College- educated?
Oh, you're definitely desperate.
It doesn't matter if you claim to have a boyfriend, a fiancé, you're a lesbian, don't want to get married or even in high school. You're still single and worse, lonely, and worse still, unlikely to marry. This is, of course, is based solely on the thoughts in my all-knowing head—not on like actual studies that say otherwise. I know all women—and girls too— want to be married not like right now, but like yesterday. It's urgent like a motherf***er. I saw that ABC special where that one thirty-something woman said she cries into her pillow at night because she's not married and I know that applies to every single Black woman—or girl—alive.
How do I know?
Because I think like a man.
So why aren't you married yet? Because your standards are too damn high like rent in New York City. You have nerve to be employed, think for yourself and as desperately single as you are, the audacity to scoff at broken men, cheating men, weak men, men you have to support, down-low men, and even your last resort for marriage, bi-sexual men. You out here acting like being single is something to celebrate.
Girl, bye.
You're miserable. And even worse, you got these good men with better things to do out here trying to work with you and dispense quality advice. These male relationship experts are trying to help difficult you "keep" somebody, and you ain't been listening: Submit! Shut up! Cook! Clean! In heels! Every day!
F*** your bunions and your feminism too. Let a man lead you even if it's into a damn hole. At least if you fall in and die, you would have a man—hopefully, your husband— by your side at your demise. Being Mrs. [it only counts if you take his last name] is all you should want to be remembered for anyway.
Unfortunately, it's probably too late for all of you, especially if you've wasted prime husband-hunting years getting a diploma when you should have freed up your time to find a man by getting a GED. All the hetero Black men alive and even not yet born have, are now or will be planning to marry White women. And because in the history of mankind no desirable man of any other color has ever been really interested in a Black woman as a wife, you're left only with one hope for marriage: women.
Yeah, I said it. Single Black women should marry each other.
Think of the benefits: you'll be married!!! You'll be married!!! You'll be married!!!
This will work out well for lesbians because you know, all this time ya'll have been settling for women because you couldn't keep a man. But for the rest of you, it's time to "turn" yourselves gay. It can't be that hard since the millions-strong LGBT community just rolled over one morning when they hit puberty and decided to go against the grain. You can too!
Just go on and roll over. Roll, dammit!
Now call your bestie, get on the plane and head to the nearest courthouse in one of the nine states where gay marriage is legal and jump that broom.
I know some of you are wondering, "but will I be happy with this arrangement?" Um… girl, you're thinking small when you should be thinking big. Your happiness? That doesn't matter. You're finally married! Black marriage solves everything.
"But what about Jesus," you ask? God loves gays. (No sarcasm.)
Others of you may be wondering, "what about children?" Girl, stop. I read the comments sections on Black blogs and "listen" to Black men —the all knowing source of everything about Black women because of the woman they were raised by and those they've dated. You're over 15, which means you probably have a few kids by now anyway. You and your new wife joining forces? It'll be like The Brady Brunch. It'll be fun!
If you so happen to be that one anomaly of a Black woman alive who doesn't have an out-of-wedlock child? Just go buy one from Africa—white women do it all the time, and at least you'll know how to do the kid's hair.
You mad?
Of course, we are inherently more combative by birthright than other women (I watch TV so I know how we can be). I'mma ask you to put down that bottle or phone you're 'bout to throw, and imagine what this could do for the statistics about single Black women. Like 99% of us who are of legal age to marry (ie, older than 15 in most places) could be married.
Boo, I've just singlehandedly solved the Black woman's marriage crisis. You shouldn't be fighting me; you should be awarding me the Nobel Peace Prize. However, a thank you will suffice.


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New York, November 11, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today's prison sentences given to two video bloggers detained in July on fabricated charges of "hooliganism" and "inflicting minor bodily harm."
Judge Araz Huseynov with the Sabail District Court in Baku handed Emin Milli, 30, who runs an online video blog known as ANTV, a two and a half year jail term, and Adnan Hajizade, 26, a video blogger and coordinator of the Azerbaijani youth movement Ol!, a two-year prison sentence for allegedly harming two men in a restaurant, according to international press reports.
Milli and Hajizade had posted political and socially
satirical video sketches that criticized government policies and social issues
in the weeks prior to their initial arrest in July. They had interviewed local
residents and posted their opinions online, sharing them through networking
sites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Among the issues discussed on
their blogs were education, corruption, and the poor infrastructure in
domestic and international rights groups have condemned the arrest of Milli and
Hajizade as staged by authorities in retaliation for their blogs' critical
content. In a number of entries, the two interviewed local residents and filmed
street gatherings in protest of official policies. According to multiple
sources, a satirical video the bloggers produced and posted on YouTube in late
June was the main reason for their incarceration. The video criticized
call on Azerbaijani authorities to scrap these fictitious charges against Emin
Milli and Adnan Hajizade and release them," CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program
on the guilty verdict today, Judge Araz Huseynov said it was based on police
reports and the alleged injuries of the two plaintiffs,
From the beginning of the trial in early September, the prosecution gave contradictory statements, including by the alleged attackers, according to Azerbaijani news reports. Attackers gave different accounts of the alleged beating when questioned in court.

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The new payment limit rules being proposed as amendments to the 2007 farm bill could mean more traditional U.S. crops being grown overseas and a wider U.S. agricultural trade deficit, Sen. Blanche Lincoln said.
Speaking on the Senate floor shortly after leaders agreed to a compromise on the number of amendments that could be offered to the bill, Sen. Lincoln, D-Ark., praised the Senate Agriculture Committee-passed farm bill, saying it would ensure a safe domestic food supply that too many senators and consumers seem to take for granted.
Lincoln accused some of her colleagues of, in effect, talking out of both sides of their mouths when they speak against farm programs and for tighter payment limits that she said would threaten the economic livelihoods of farmers in Arkansas.
"One day my colleagues are reporting about the dangers that our nation is facing with unsafe foods that are entering our country or the atrocities of outsourcing jobs," she said. "And the next day they're here on the floor criticizing farm programs that allow us to ensure that safe and affordable supply of food for our children and our families."
Shortly after it resumed debate on Monday (Dec. 10) the Senate was expected to take up the Grassley-Dorgan payment limit amendment that would reduce the amount of payments larger farming operations can receive and an amendment from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., that would deny payments to individuals with incomes above $750,000 a year.
The Senate passed the amendment offered by Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., in its version of the 2002 farm bill, but the legislation was removed by House members of a House-Senate conference committee.
The Grassley-Dorgan amendment would eliminate the three-entity rule and set limits of $20,000 for direct payments, $30,000 for counter-cyclical payments and $75,000 for marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payments per individual.
Lincoln said those amendments threaten U.S. production of commodities such as rice and wheat and would encourage their production in foreign countries where they might not be grown in a safe and reliable way.
"If we're not careful with the tighter payment limits that are being talked about and certainly the adjusted gross income limits, we're going to make our producers of stable commodities like rice less competitive internationally," she said. "And when we put them out of business, they're not going to another area of our country."
U.S. officials are predicting an agricultural trade deficit for the first time in the history of this country, she noted. "We need to stand up and say our agricultural sector is very, very important to us as well."
National Cotton Council officials were urging the Senate to reject both amendments, saying reforms in the Senate Agriculture Committee-passed bill has made them unnecessary.
"These amendments, if adopted, would disproportionately impact diversified operations, make production financing even more difficult in times of sky-rocketing input costs and completely eliminate the value of the marketing loan as an orderly marketing and financial tool," said NCC Chairman John Pecheu of Tranquillity, Calif.
"The unintended consequences will include cropping shifts which will cause excess production and lower prices and force landlords to shift to cash rent which will undermine the ability of you and limited resource farms to obtain financing.
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February 1, 2011
Current U.S. Guidelines state that Viramune (nevirapine) should not be started in women with CD4s above 250 and in men with CD4s above 400. This is due to potentially severe allergic reactions found mostly at higher CD4 counts. However, there's no guidance around switching someone to a regimen with Viramune after already having been on treatment for awhile.
In 2010, the European Medicines Agency, who reviewed data from more than 12,000 patients in several large studies such as EuroSIDA, ATHENA and others, now recommends that women and men can switch to Viramune regardless of their CD4 counts provided that their viral loads are undetectable. Sometimes Viramune may be a better choice for certain individuals due to the side effects, drug interactions or resistance with other drugs.
People who wish to switch to Viramune should consult their doctors and weigh the pros and cons with this information. This change was not incorporated into the latest update to the U.S. Guidelines in January 2011.
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In his 12th year serving as Senior Associate Athletic Director for Sports Performance at the U.S. Naval Academy, Michael Brass is leading a team of hundreds of people who share one goal: to make better athletes out of Midshipmen students.
With Brass leading its strength and conditioning training, Navy has turned the tides in its football program's fortunes. The Midshipmen are 83-45, with a .648 winning percentage, over the last decade.
Brass previously was Georgia Southern University's head strength and conditioning coach and assistant athletic director for athletic performance. While there, Brass was named the 1998 and 1999 National Strength and Conditioning Association's (NSCA) Professional of the Year for the Southern Conference.
Before joining Georgia Southern, Brass was head strength and conditioning coach at Tulane University from 1992-96. He also spent two seasons leading the strength and conditioning efforts at Dartmouth College from 1990-92, after earning his first position at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater as strength coach in 1985.
Brass earned his bachelor's degree in education from Doane College in Nebraska in 1985 before attending the United States Sports Academy where he earned a master's in Sports Fitness and Health in 1986.
Coach Brass said he attributes getting his first full-time job at Wisconsin-Whitewater to his successful mentorship he completed there, while studying at the Academy.
"Studying at the Academy really set me up to get a program started," Brass said. "It was the in-roads to my first position."
Brass took some time to sit down with the Alumni Network and talk about what he loves about his job, as well as some pointers for students looking to get into the strength and conditioning field. The Academy now offers a bachelor's in Strength and Conditioning.
Alumni Network: You've been successful in your time at Navy, playing an integral part in turning its athletic programs around. What is your biggest challenge on the job, and how do you hope to overcome it?
Michael Brass: I don't look as things as challenges, just opportunities for improvement in what I do. One of most important things I can do heading this department is successfully balancing everything in the program, or avoiding highs and lows. I want to stay as balanced as possible as far as personnel goes. We have 30 varsity teams here, nine full-time strength coaches, 30 head coaches, hundreds of assistant head coaches, etc. There is a lot of scheduling and ensuring that every team is in the best training models.
AN: What has been the most rewarding part of working at the Naval Academy?
MB: It's been watching the kids develop over time and have success on the field, as well as success once they've graduated. A lot of things they've learned here carry on into their professional lives. Seeing the students come back and visit years later is great, too. They develop from freshmen and have great performances on the field and then in their lives.
AN: How did your education at the Academy contribute to your ability to dramatically improve the physical conditions—and ultimately, the on-field performance—of Navy's football players?
MB: That's very gracious, but I had very little part in turning the program around because many people have been involved in that. The United States Sports Academy set my foundation and gave me a good knowledge base, and it assured me, more importantly, that it was a profession I wanted to pursue. Exposure to education in that field (with my Academy mentorship at Wisconsin-Whitewater) let me know if I would like it.
AN: If you had to pass along one piece of advice to anyone going into the strength and conditioning specialty, and who wants to become an athletic director, what would you tell them?
MB: Be a good learner and listener. Surround yourself with the best people possible and learn from them. Whether you're starting out, going to conventions and picking people's brains, or whether you're farther along in your career and hiring and managing people, learn from their experiences. You can do this job your whole life and still learn something new every day. You can be a teacher, but you have to be a listener and a learner. Also, become knowledgeable in as many different disciplines as possible. When I look to hire people now, I look for certain strengths. There are a lot of things involved in strength and conditioning these days and the specialties within it. Learn as much as possible in order to make yourself more marketable and successful once you do get a position.
AN: What was a memorable moment for you during your education at the Academy?
MB: The neatest thing that I liked about it was that everybody was there for the same purpose. The students I surrounded myself with wanted to go into my area of study, too. The best moments we had were sitting in my apartment after school with students from all over the country just talking shop and brainstorming. We'd get together and talk about what we had done in the past. Back then, the area of strength and conditioning was still just getting started with research, so we had a lot to talk about.


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New measurements identify the institutions that pose the greatest risk.
We are now well past the worst throes of the financial crisis. Banks and financial institutions are earning record profits. The economy is recovering steadily. All is right with the world! Wishful thinking. The uproar over the fraud charges against Goldman Sachs last week should have underscored that we still haven't addressed the underlying sources of the risk that caused our financial collapse in 2007-2009.
In the wake of the charges the value of Goldman's stock plummeted and brought the shares of other banks down with it. It was an ominous sign that the markets realize there is still plenty of systemic risk in our banking system.
A group of my colleagues at the NYU Stern School of Business have been working since the beginning of the crisis to figure out how we can measure the risk that firms pose for the financial system as a whole. There are two parts to the risk that firms carry: 1) the risk they impose for their own shareholders because of the strategies they use to earn profits; and 2) the risk they create that spills over to the system as a whole if they get into trouble. We now have measures of that risk. The measures are updated weekly and viewable online
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Going Nature's Way
I have always been a fan of science fiction and one of my favorite genres is time travel. I try to imagine what it would be like to go back in time and see what my ancestors looked like and how they really lived. I wish I could see this continent before it was settled — the great herds of bison, the millions of passenger pigeons, endless pine forests and tall grass prairie. Traveling to the future holds less appeal because while I am curious and hope that the world is a better place and my descendents have happy lives, I have too many concerns about where we're headed as a species. Having read the classic H.G. Wells novel "The Time Machine" when I was young probably accounts for this feeling.
But in a sense, we can experience time travel anytime we get in an airplane and cross datelines. I have always had this feeling when I leave Minnesota and three hours later arrive on the west coast. Driving the same distance doesn't create the same feeling because it takes so much longer. We humans just haven't evolved to move through space that quickly.
The closest I have come to time travel of the time machine variety was our recent trip to New Zealand. We got on board the plane in Vancouver at 8 p.m on September 23 and 13 hours later we landed in Auckland at 5 a.m. on September 25. Where did those missing hours go?
Even more strange was getting on the plane at 8 p.m. on October 31 and arriving back in Vancouver at 1 p.m. on October 31. Arriving before we left! I know there are perfectly good scientific explanations for all this, but because I have never had the mental capacity for mathematical abstractions or physics, it is all science fiction to me.
To add to this confusion, we experienced the change to daylight savings time while we were in New Zealand, and again when we returned to the U.S. And to complete the connection with time travel, we went from spring weather in New Zealand, to autumn colors in Seattle, to snow in North Dakota — all in a matter of days.
Time itself is a human construct. Einstein said it is the fourth dimension. What seems irrefutable is our need to find a way of measuring our daily lives. Before clocks existed, humans lived strictly by the rotation of the sun, stars, moon and planets. Archaeologists have discovered enough artifacts to show that every culture was trying to measure and record the passage of time. Even ice-age hunters in Europe, over 20,000 years ago, left scratches and holes in sticks and bones that seem to coincide with the phases of the moon.
For the Egyptians, it was Canis Major (now called Sirius) which rose next to the sun every 365 days. This coincided with the annual flooding of the Nile. Sometime around 4236 B.C. they came up with a 365-day calendar. The Mayans of Central America relied on the sun, moon and Venus to create 260- and 365-day calendars. We won't discuss their supposed end date for all time. Around 250 B.C., the Greeks developed the first version of an alarm clock, by inventing a water clock where the raising waters would somehow keep time and eventually hit a mechanical bird that set off a whistle.
We have always been a species that thinks about the future — a quality that sets us apart from the other animals. And because we are thinking about the future, we end up counting the minutes, or the days, until some event happens. Too often this process causes us to lose track of the moment.
There is another quality of time and size, or age, that I have not figured out. Why is it, that as children our days seem almost endless? Especially when you are sitting in class and the teacher is trying to impart the finer points of multiplication or grammar. But with each passing decade time speeds up, more so as we become parents and then grandparents. We constantly complain about not having enough minutes in a day. What causes that to happen? Is it our physical size in relation to the world? Or is it the realization of our own mortality and our desire, but inability, to postpone it that makes us feel as though we are on a roller coaster that has reached the peak and is now careening down the long, steep slope?
Calendars and clocks rule our world. It is only when we go far into the wilderness that we are able to slow down and reset our biological clocks to the beat of the earth's cycle of moonrise and sunrise. There we can recalibrate with the circadian rhythms — based on the daylight period which is critical to our health and that of many other living organisms on the planet. Since very few of us have the opportunity or desire to escape into the landscapes where life proceeds unimpeded by clocks, we are left with the challenge of finding that peace and equilibrium in our culture of speed and deadlines. Minnesota's Sigurd Olson wrote about finding your "Listening Point" — a place, any place, where you can go within yourself and find that quiet and timelessness we all need. Look around you and see where yours is found and go there regularly.
But now it's time for me to end this philosophical ramble. Another day is beginning.


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The days of prancing around in flimsy frocks are pretty limited in S.F., thanks to our sometimes bone-chilling, non-existent summer. We know we so-often lament this factoid, but it's a shame, really, that so many open-toed, short, and sheer pieces have to stay hidden in our closets in July and August.
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Gold fell to a four-week low on Thursday, on waning prospects of an imminent military strike against Syria and uncertainty over the time and pace at which the U.S. Federal Reserve will start to unwind monetary stimulus.
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Diplomatic efforts to place Syria's chemical weapons under international control intensified, further denting gold's safe-haven appeal.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are to meet later on Thursday in Geneva to talk about Syria's chemical weapons arsenal.
"The more likely diplomatic solution as opposed to a military strike against Syria is of course reducing the safe-haven appeal of gold and will continue to put pressure on prices in the short term," Quantitative Commodity Research owner Peter Fertig said.
Gold hit its weakest since Aug. 15 at $1,338.29 an ounce earlier and stood at $1,342.56 by 0958 GMT, down 1.8 percent. Prices were on track for their worst weekly loss since the end of June.
U.S. gold futures for December declined $21.40 an ounce to $1,342.40.
Investor attention is now likely to shift towards the Fed's policy meeting on Sept. 17-18. The central bank is expected to kick-start stimulus withdrawal as soon as this month, possibly triggering new selling pressure on gold.
"Although the Fed tapering has been priced in already by the gold market, that is not to say that you won't be getting a bit of a wobble as of when it is announced," said Rhona O'Connell, head of metals research and forecasting at Thomson Reuters GFMS.
Gold prices have fallen around 19 percent since the Federal Reserve signalled it would start reining in stimulus by the end of the year, as this would boost the dollar and reduce financial liquidity.
The market was now awaiting U.S. weekly jobless claims data at 1230 GMT.
"We expect U.S. economic data to come in stronger than expected and to seal the case for a reduction in monetary stimulus by the Fed in September," ABN Amro said in a note.
Metals consultancy Thomson Reuters GFMS said gold prices were likely to contract further in 2014 due to renewed confidence in a stabilising global economy.
The physical market in Singapore saw sales of gold scraps from Indonesia, whose rupiah currency has tumbled to its weakest since 2009, while demand from main consumer India was muted.
India has raised the import duty on gold to a record high of 10 percent to stem imports of the metal, which had helped to push the country's current account deficit to an all-time high.
Spot silver, which fell to a four-week low of $22.52 an ounce earlier, was trading down 2.2 percent at $23.63. It has lost around 5 percent so far this week.
Spot platinum was down 0.3 percent at $1,460.88 an ounce, while spot palladium gained 0.3 percent at $692.22 an ounce. (Additional reporting by Lewa Pardomuan in Singapore; Editing by Dale Hudson)


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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped to the comfort of the last to go As if to win them back. Instead, bereft Of anyone to please, it withers so, Having no heart to put aside the theft And turn again to what it started as, A joyous shot at how things ought to be, Long fallen wide. You can see how it
Philip Larkin
On August 9, 1922, Philip Larkin was born in Coventry, England. He attended St. John's College, Oxford. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945 and, though not particularly strong on its own, is notable insofar as certain passages foreshadow the unique sensibility and maturity that characterizes his later work.
In 1946, Larkin discovered the poetry of Thomas Hardy and became a great admirer of his poetry, learning from Hardy how to make the commonplace and often dreary details of his life the basis for extremely tough, unsparing, and memorable poems. With his second volume of poetry, The Less Deceived (1955), Larkin became the preeminent poet of his generation, and a leading voice of what came to be called "The Movement," a group of young English writers who rejected the prevailing fashion for neo-Romantic writing in the style of Yeats and Dylan Thomas. Like Hardy, Larkin focused on intense personal emotion but strictly avoided sentimentality or self-pity.
In 1964, he confirmed his reputation as a major poet with the publication of The Whitsun Weddings, and again in 1974 with High Windows: collections whose searing, often mocking, wit does not conceal the poet's dark vision and underlying obsession with universal themes of mortality, love, and human solitude. Deeply anti-social and a great lover and published critic of American jazz, Larkin never married and worked as a librarian in the provincial city of Hull, where he died on December 2, 1985.
Selected Bibliography
The North Ship (1945)
XX Poems (1951)
Poems (1954)
The Less Deceived (1955)
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
Aubade (1980)
Collected Poems (1989)
Corgi Modern Poets in Focus 5 (1971)
Femmes Damnées (1978)
High Windows (1974)
A Girl in Winter (1947)
Jill (1964)
All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961-68 (1970)
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 (1984)
Selected Letters 1940-1985 (1992)


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Once you've enabled filestream, the next step is to add a filegroup to your database to hold the filestream data. This is pretty easy to do, and I'll show you the SSMS and code versions.
If you want to know more about these Filestream containers, you can read BOL. Let's create a simple database:
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Halifax Pelham Canadians: Welcome
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The Halifax Pelham Canadians are a Senior Mens team that plays in the very strong Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League, the finest amateur baseball league in Canada.
The NSSBL consists of additional teams from Dartmouth, Kentville, Sydney, Truro and an interleague schedule with the New Brunswick Senior League again in 2008.
Mound ace key to any NSSBL title
By CHRIS COCHRANE
Sat. Sep 27 - 11:57 AM
IT'S BECOME a prerequisite to winning the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League — a strong pitching staff, headed by at least one dominating and durable starter.
Dartmouth Moosehead Dry made nearly annual appearances at nationals in recent years using that formula. The Dry long relied on ace pitcher Jason Bailey's left arm and a solid supporting cast of experienced chuckers to win the most important of playoff games.
This time Halifax Pelham Canadians, without a league title since lefty Steve Burke pushed the club to a 1992 crown, has finally developed its own ace. Barrett Bellefontaine tossed a one-hitter as Halifax completed the championship series sweep over Kentville Wildcats Wednesday night.
It was Bellefontaine's second complete game of the title series. The young starter, who won league honours as the top left-handed pitcher over the regular season, also tossed a four-hitter for a 6-1 win in Game 1. The supporting cast was almost as impressive. Overall, the Halifax ERA for the four-game series was 1.54.
After about 15 years of mediocrity in senior battles, a period during when Halifax often produced decent teams that were simply not consistent enough or deep enough to topple more experienced NSSBL opponents in playoffs, the Pelham Canadians finally look to be sitting on something special.
Expect the young pitching depth to again be the team's strength next season. That's an optimistic sign for partisan local baseball fans, since the NSSBL victory means Halifax has clinched a berth at the Dartmouth Moosehead Dry-hosted national championships in August.
The staff, with Bellefontaine now seemingly entrenched in that ace role, should be even better after the experience and confidence gained from a NSSBL title run.
Bellefontaine tosses 1-hit gem as Halifax wins senior title
Halifax -- Barrett Bellefontaine (WP) and Shawn Walsh.
Top hitters -- Adam Lucas, RBI-sacrifice fly; Mark Pelham, two singles.
Kentville -- Kevin Nichols (LP), Pete Sonier (9) and Luke Smith.
Top hitter -- Rob Sheperd, single.
By CHAD LUCAS Sports Reporter
Thu. Sep 25
KENTVILLE — Not surprisingly, Game 4 of the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League finals came down to pitching. And with a championship at stake, Halifax's Barrett Bellefontaine delivered a masterpiece.
Bellefontaine was a scorer's judgment call away from a no-hitter as the Pelham Canadians completed a four-game sweep of the Kentville Wildcats with a 1-0 win on Wednesday night at Memorial Park.
The 22-year-old lefty gave up just a borderline infield single to outduel Kentville's Kevin Nichols and win his second game of the series, earning finals MVP honours in Halifax's first league title since 1992.
"What can you say, he gave up a four-hitter and a one-hitter," the Canadians' Jay Turple said of Bellefontaine. "If you lose when he's pitching like that, you can only blame yourself. Every time he steps on the mound we've got a great chance to win."
Bellefontaine, named the league's top left-handed pitcher this season, went the distance in both of his starts, including a 6-1 win in Game 1. He gave up five hits all series with 17 strikeouts in 18 innings' work for a minuscule earned run average of 0.50.
The rest of the Canadians' pitching corps was nearly as stingy. Halifax gave up seven runs in the four-game series — including a 15-inning 5-4 win in Game 2 — for a staff ERA of 1.54.
"Anytime you get pitching like that, you're going to win ball games," conceded Kentville's Nichols. "All series we just didn't get the big hit when we needed it. We had guys on base, we just didn't guys over and bring them in."
Adam Lucas's eighth-inning sacrifice fly stood up as the difference Wednesday. Kentville's lone hit was a third-inning grounder that Halifax shortstop Ryan Veinot bobbled briefly before firing to first too late to retire Rob Shepperd.
Veinot took some ribbing in the dugout after the game, but Bellefontaine said he wouldn't hold a grudge against the shortstop for potentially costing him a no-no. "I've got a short memory," Bellefontaine said with a laugh.
The Wildcats mounted only one serious threat, loading the bases in the eighth inning on a walk, a two-out error and a fielder's choice where third baseman Josh Pelham started for the force out at third and then threw across to first, too late to get anyone.
But Bellefontaine induced Ryan Pearl to fly out to left field on a 3-2 pitch to end the threat. He retired Kentville's 3-4-5 hitters in order in the ninth to seal the win.
"I wasn't feeling that great early on, but I just kept plugging away and finally loosened up toward the end," Bellefontaine said. "I had the great defence behind me tonight and a lot of things just went right."
Kentville's Nichols was just as strong through seven scoreless innings. After surrendering a leadoff single and a two-out walk in the first, Nichols set down 13 Halifax batters in a row until Shawn Walsh led off the sixth with an infield single.
Halifax broke through in the eighth, loading the bases with one out on two singles, a fielder's choice and an error. Lucas then hit a fly ball to centre field that plated Walsh.
The win capped a remarkable playoff run for Halifax. Down 3-0 to Truro in the semifinals, they became the first team in league history to rally from that deficit and went on to win eight straight in sweeping Kentville. Each of the final three games was decided by one run.
"This feels great," said Turple, one of the team's veterans. "I've been here 11 or 12 years now, so it's extra special for me and some of the other guys who've been here awhile. We've put together quite a good team, a good coaching staff, so hopefully we can do the same thing next year and then on to nationals."
Halifax will represent Nova Scotia at next year's Canadian senior baseball championships, hosted by the Dartmouth Moosehead Dry.
Pelham Canadians sweep championship series
The Halifax Pelham Canadians are the new kings of the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League.
The Canadians captured their first provincial title since 1992 last night with a 1-0 win over the host Kentville Wildcats, sweeping the best-of-seven final 4-0 and punching their ticket to next year's Canadian championships.
Lefthander and league all-star Barrett Bellefontaine pitched a complete-game one-hitter and Shawn Walsh scored the winning run in the seventh off an Adam Lucas sacrifice fly.
"It feels great to bring these guys back to it," Bellefontaine said afterward. "It was an amazing team effort."
Halifax's ascent to the top ends a string of five straight titles by Dartmouth Moosehead Dry, who host next year's nationals at Beazley Field and Mainland Common.
"It's going to be great," Bellefontaine said. "There are going to be great crowds and hopefully we can squeeze into the final against Dartmouth and make it a local affair."
Halifax posted five straight seasons of .500 or less baseball from 2002 to 2006 before going 16-13 last summer and 18-11 this summer en route to the title.
"It means a lot for the nucleus of this team, veterans like Jay Turple, Adam Lucas, Ryan Veinot, Chris Munroe and Mark Haverstock … Guys who have taken their lumps over the years," Canadians head coach Cecil Wright said.
The Canadians were nearly eliminated in the semifinals by the Truro Bearcats, who jumped out to a 3-0 series lead. But after that, Halifax somehow rallied with eight straight wins.
"I don't think anybody actually envisioned us coming back, but we never lost faith," Wright said. "We're looking forward to nationals. And we'll be up to the task — believe me."
At Mainland Common Halifax shades Kentville
Kentville -- Jeff Bishop (LP) and Luke Smith.
Top hitters -- Kevin Benjamin, double, two singles; Ryan Brothers, single, RBI; Nick Hill, single .
Halifax -- Andrew MacIntosh (WP), Chris Munroe (8), Perry Deveaux (S,9) and Shawn Walsh.
Top hitters -- Mark Pelham, two singles, RBI; Ryan Veinot, two singles, RBI; Jay Turple, single, RBI; Adam Lucas, double.
Andrew MacIntosh, pitching with a painful rib injury, yielded only three hits through 7 and a third as the Halifax Pelham Canadians inched closer to their first NSSBL championship since 1992 with a thrilling 3-2 win over the Kentville Wildcats. An error by slick fielding shortstop, Ryan Veinot and a double by Kevin Benjamin gave the Wildcats runners on second and third with no outs in the ninth inning. Righthander, Perry Deveaux entered and fanned slugger Luke Smith. Mike Lockhart was intentionally walked to load the bases. Nick Hill popped out to Veinot before Deveaux ended the game with a strikeout of Rob Shepperd. Game four in the series will be held in Kentville, at Memorial Park, tomorrow night at 7:30. Ace lefthander, Barrett Bellefontaine will be on the mound for Halifax. Game five, if necessary, will be at the Mainland Common, Saturday afternoon at 1:00 PM.
NSSBL wins with great playoffs
By CHRIS COCHRANE Sports Columnist
Tue. Sep 23 - 6:57 AM
If the NSSBL needed a boost from this year's playoffs, as a means of generating early momentum for next summer's nationals, it has already accomplished that task with compelling playoff storylines.
How about the route the two teams — Kentville and Halifax — took to get to the league championship series and fight for the right to join Dartmouth at next summer's nationals?
Kentville got in the finals by upsetting the regular-season champion Dry, the club that has dominated the NSSBL for the past 15 seasons.
The Wildcats have a history of coming up big in playoffs. But I doubt that few, outside of the Kentville camp and its most loyal supporters, predicted that seven-game series win coming from a regular season 11-18 Wildcats club that was so weak down the stretch.
Though the Dry badly wanted to win another NSSBL title and earn the valuable right to have the first choice of pickups from other league teams for the nationals, the Wildcats were understandably the hungrier club.
Kentville's only route to the nationals had to start by bumping off the Dry.
From a league perspective, the Kentville upset was good news. It not only added to the unpredictability of this year's playoffs, but also gave credibility to the argument there are other teams in the league aside from Dartmouth that are of national calibre.
The other semifinal, which was expected to be a dogfight between Halifax and Truro, didn't disappoint. An early series brawl was an indication of how much these two clubs wanted to win.
When the dust settled, Halifax had come back from a 3-0 game deficit to take that series, the first time that's happened in NSSBL history.
It was a statement from a Halifax team that has featured a strong young pitching staff in recent years but hasn't been able to win with any consistency in the playoffs.
In this post-season, the pitching — headed by Barrett Bellefontaine, Andrew MacIntosh, Pat MacInnis, Mark Haverstock and Perry Deveaux — has finally matched the high expectations.
It was a dominant group in the comeback against Truro and has been just as stingy over the first two games of the league title series with Kentville.
Pitching depth has allowed Halifax to take a 2-0 lead in the league final. The latest victory was a 15-inning 5-4 result Saturday night at Memorial Park in Kentville. Game 3 is scheduled for Halifax's Mainland Commons tonight.
It's these types of close games and seven-game series that can help the NSSBL build a larger following in a busy Halifax sports market.
For example, when Halifax and Truro played their Game 7 at the Mainland Commons last week, the modest bleacher seating was filled and there was standing-room only well down each foul line.
But the next game, Friday night's championship series opener between Halifax and Kentville, drew a smaller crowd. It was a reminder that the Halifax sports market, especially with a Mooseheads game at Metro Centre and a football game at Saint Mary's drawing off more than 10,000 sports fans, can be a difficult one in which to gain momentum.
The NSSBL long ago proved itself to be one of the best senior baseball leagues in the nation, both in terms of the product and the professional manner of operation. But it's never been able to make the dent in the summer sports market that it potentially could make.
More playoffs like the ones offered this year will help change that. It's tough to ignore good teams putting on these types of shows, especially when fans will be able to follow the winners all the way through to next summer's nationals.
Chris Cochrane is a columnist with The Chronicle Herald sports.
Halifax works overtime to take Game 2
Halifax -- Pat MacInnis, Perry Deveaux (7), Mark Haverstock (WP,12) and Shawn Walsh.Top hitters -- Lee Spares, game-winning RBI-single; Jay Turple, single, double, two RBI; Chris Gallivan, single, two doubles, RBI; Shawn Walsh, two singles.
By CHAD LUCAS Sports Reporter
Mon. Sep 22 - 4:45 AM
The Halifax Pelham Canadians drove away from a long night in Kentville with a 2-0 lead in the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League final.
Junior call-up Lee Spares singled home the winning run in the 15th inning as the Canadians held off the Wildcats 5-4 late Saturday night at Memorial Park.
Halifax watched a 3-0 lead slip away as the Wildcats scored four times between the seventh and the ninth innings to send the game to extras. But Spares, who came on to play left field in the eighth inning, ended the marathon when his base hit brought home Josh Pelham in the 15th.
"Let me tell you, it was cold," said Halifax coach Cecil Wright. "But it makes it a little bit sweeter when you win. It made for a pleasant drive home. Obviously it goes without saying that the team is feeling real good right now."
Mark Haverstock came on in the 12th inning and pitched four scoreless innings of relief to earn the win for Halifax. Matt Lloy — just the second Kentville pitcher after relieving Curtis Falls in the seventh — took the loss.
Jay Turple drove in two runs with a single and a double for Halifax, while Chris Gallivan doubled twice, singled and drove in a run.
Ryan Pearl had three hits and three RBI for the Wildcats, who scored twice in the seventh, once in the eighth and once in the ninth to mount a comeback. Mike Lockhart added three singles.
With his team now two wins from its first senior title since 1992, Wright said he sees a new maturity in his squad, which has won six straight playoff games after falling behind Truro 0-3 in the semifinals.
"I think our whole mental approach has been really good," said Wright. "We've had some instances in the past where an umpire's call or something would not go our way, and we would carry that with us for an inning or two.
"Now we seem to brush it off and get on with what we need to do to win."
The Canadians will throw Andrew MacIntosh in Game 3 of the best-of-seven series, back at Mainland Commons on Tuesday night (7:30 p.m.)
The series returns to Kentville for Game 4 on Wednesday, also at 7:30.Halifax takes Game 1 in senior baseball final
Halifax -- Barrett Bellefontaine (WP, 10 strikeouts) and Shawn Walsh.
Top hitters -- Jay Turple, two-run homer; Paul Davie, double, single, RBI; Chris Gallivan, two singles, RBI; T.J. Heighton, RBI-double; Ryan Veinot, RBI-single.
By CHAD LUCAS Sports Reporter
Sat. Sep 20 - 5:52 AM
Halifax turned to its newly crowned ace and he responded with a gem to open the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League finals.
Barrett Bellefontaine, named the circuit's top left-handed pitcher when league awards were handed out this week, tossed a complete-game four-hitter as the Pelham Canadians downed the Kentville Wildcats 6-1 on Friday at Mainland Common.
Halifax takes a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven championship series, with Game 2 tonight at Kentville's Memorial Park.
The 22-year-old Bellefontaine struck out 10 batters and recorded 13 ground-ball outs, allowing only five balls out of the infield all night.
"That's the plan all the time, keep it low and get ahead of the batters," said Bellefontaine, who also walked three and saw just four runners reach scoring position in a 125-pitch performance.
The lefty had a two-hit shutout going through six innings before giving up Rob Shepperd's RBI single in the seventh. He bounced back to strike out the side in the eighth and retired the last six batters he faced.
The victory was the fifth straight in the playoffs for the Canadians, who fell behind Truro 0-3 in the semifinals before rallying to win four in a row.
"We wanted to get the first one out of the way — that's the main thing, after being three down last series," said Bellefontaine. "We wanted to come out quick here. We've got the momentum going, we're loose on the bench."
Halifax got off to a quick start at the plate as well, pushing across a pair of runs in the first inning.
Mark Pelham reached on an error to lead off for the Canadians, then with two out Jay Turple drew a walk and Josh Pelham singled to load the bases. Chris Gallivan singled home Mark Pelham and T.J. Heighton drew a walk from Kentville starter Kevin Nichols to score Turple.
The Canadians added three more in the third inning when Adam Lucas led off with a single and Turple followed with a two-run home run over the left-field fence.
Two outs later, Heighton smacked a double and Paul Davie brought him home with an RBI single.
No. 8 hitter Davie continued to swing a hot bat in the playoffs, adding a double and scoring on Ryan Veinot's RBI single in the sixth inning to put Halifax ahead 6-0. Davie batted .381 in the Truro series and was 2-for-4 on Friday.
Nichols took the loss for Kentville, giving up five runs, three earned, in five innings.
The Wildcats mounted a threat in the sixth inning at the plate, but Bellefontaine struck out Trevor Wamback to strand runners on second and third.
Kentville finally got to the Halifax pitcher in the seventh when Mike Lockhart drew a walk, then Nick Hill grounded into a fielder's choice. Hill went to second on a wild pitch and scored on Shepperd's single to centre field.
Halifax ran its record to 6-1 against Kentville this year after winning the regular-season series 5-1.
But Bellefontaine said the Canadians won't take the Wildcats for granted — they remember Kentville knocking them out of the playoffs last year.
"We have last year in our memories," Bellefontaine said. "They're a veteran team, they've got some good hitters and they play hard, they battle."
The series shifts to Kentville tonight at 7 p.m. Game 3 is back in Halifax on Tuesday, while Game 4 is back in Kentville on Wednesday.
The finals winner will advance to the 2009 Canadian senior baseball championship, being hosted by Dartmouth.
Canadians cap amazing senior baseball comeback
By CHAD LUCAS Sports Reporter
Thu. Sep 18 - 4:46 AM
The Halifax Pelham Canadians celebrated with a case of beer in the dugout Tuesday after completing a huge comeback and maybe making Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League history in the process.
Mark Haverstock threw five solid innings and Adam Lucas drove in a pair of runs as the Canadians downed the Truro Bearcats 8-3 in Game 7 of their semifinal series at Mainland Common.
The win was the fourth straight for Halifax, believed to be the first team in league history to win a seven-game series after trailing 0-3. None of the senior league veterans hanging around the diamond on Tuesday could recall a team completing the feat before.
The turnaround was even more stunning considering how Halifax melted down in Game 3, making eight errors in a 15-3 loss to fall into a seemingly insurmountable hole.
"The first three games we were tense, we just couldn't come through in certain situations," said Lucas, who had a sacrifice fly in the first inning, an RBI single in the fourth and a key two-run grounder in the fifth. "But we came around in Game 4 and it just carried over the next three games."
It was the Bearcats who hurt their own cause on Tuesday, committing five errors that led to four unearned Halifax runs.
Leading 4-1, the Canadians broke the game open with a four-run fifth inning on just one hit. Josh Pelham led off with a single, advanced to second on a balk and scored when Truro second baseman John Chapman threw away Chris Gallivan's grounder. Gallivan came home on a wild pitch and then, after a walk and another error by Chapman, Lucas hit a bases-loaded ground ball to first base that scooted under Craig Higgins' glove and scored two runs.
Halifax gave up a pair of unearned runs of its own with three errors in the sixth inning, but starter Mark Haverstock and relievers Andrew MacIntosh and Perry Deveau constantly pitched out of trouble in a combined seven-hitter.
"The approach was to come out and throw strikes, keep the ball low, and get as deep in the game as I could," said Haverstock, who hadn't pitched since Game 2 after earning a three-game suspension for his part in a brawl in that game.
"I was anxious to get back out on the field and get revenge, get the win," said Haverstock, who gave up one earned run and five hits in five-plus innings of work. "It's a pretty sweet comeback from 3-0."
Shawn Walsh had two singles and an RBI for Halifax, while Higgins singled, doubled and drove in a run for the Bearcats.
"Somewhere along the line we lost the momentum, and we just couldn't seem to get it back," said Higgins. Halifax will host Kentville in Game 1 of the league championship, slated for Friday night. The Wildcats pulled off a seven-game upset over five-time defending champion Dartmouth to set up the first league final without the Dry since 1992.
Pelham Canadians complete their comeback
The Halifax Pelham Canadians have done the unthinkable.
The Canadians beat the Truro Bearcats 8-3 last night at Mainland Common to win their Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League best-of-seven semifinal 4-3, completing a remarkable comeback after they lost the opening three games.
"It was absolutely unbelievable," Canadians coach Cecil Wright said. "The pitching was spectacular the final four games to hold Truro down and you can imagine how excited the players are. They were like little kids out there.
"Tonight was like they won the World Series."
Halifax used a four-run fifth inning to grab an 8-1 lead. Mark Haverstock's pitching was a key, as he returned from suspension to allow just five hits in five innings for the win.
Shawn Walsh had two singles and an RBI and Adam Lucas helped out with a single and two RBI.
The Canadians advance to the best-of-seven final against the Kentville Wildcats. The winner joins host Dartmouth Moosehead Dry at the 2009 Canadian championship.
Pelham Canadians hope to follow Red Sox lead
For those who've forgotten, the Red Sox overcame a 3-0 series deficit against the New York Yankees and won 4-3 before beating the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series.
Likewise, Wright's Canadians have battled back from a 3-0 deficit against the Truro Bearcats in the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League semifinals, and are now set for the deciding Game 7 tonight at 7:30 at Mainland Common.
"Nobody brought it up," Wright said when asked if Boston's comeback served as inspiration. "I thought about it, but I kept it to myself. There aren't many Red Sox fans on our team. We just prefer to believe we can get the job done."
At stake is a spot in the final against the Kentville Wildcats, who stunned the league by upsetting five-time defending champion Dartmouth Moosehead Dry in the other semifinal.
The winner of the best-of-seven final joins host Dartmouth at the 2009 Canadian senior baseball championship.
The Halifax-Truro series featured a brawl in Game 2 that saw Canadians pitcher Mark Haverstock and shortstop Ryan Veinot suspended. Wright said Veinot didn't deserve the one-game ban, and that the team "rallied around that a little."
"We were on the brink of death," Wright said. "Everybody has just relaxed since Game 3 and started to have the fun that the team was having for most of the summer. We figured if we were going to go down, we would go down having fun."
Pelham Canadians have their eye on title shot
The Halifax Pelham Canadians have some momentum entering the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League playoffs.
The Canadians beat league-leading and five-time defending provincial champion Dartmouth Moosehead Dry twice in a row in the final month of the season, a big boost heading into their best-of-seven semifinal against the Truro Bearcats.
The series opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Mainland Common.
"Everybody knows what calibre of a team Dartmouth is … they're one of the best in the country and they've proven it time and time again," Canadians head coach Cecil Wright said. "We're coming off an emotional high with those wins."
The Canadians went 3-3 against the Dry this season and manhandled the Bearcats with a 5-1 head-to-head record, so on paper, their semifinal chances look good.
Not only is a spot in the final up for grabs, but if Dartmouth beats the Kentville Wildcats in the other semifinal, the Halifax-Truro winner clinches a spot at 2009 nationals.
"We know we're not in for an easy series," Wright said. "But we also feel that with our pitching and defence, if we execute our fundamentals, we should be able to beat anybody."
Halifax's 18-11 record was its best since 2001. Wright said that could be a sign of things to come in the future.
"I'm really pleased with the way this team has come together," he said. "If this team stays together over the next three or four years, Halifax can do some serious damage."
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Sunday, September 2
The Pelham Canadians played solid fundamental baseball to defeat the Wildcats 7-2. The series now stands at 2-1 for Kentville. Halifax struck quickly by scoring 3 runs in the bottom of the 1st inning against lefthander Doug Coldwell. Mark Pelham led off with a walk and was doubled to 3B by Geoff Dunsworth before Jay Turple singled them both home with one out. In the 4th inning, Ryan Veinot belted an inside the park three-run homer.
Veteran Mark Haverstock pitched into the 6th inning to earn the win while fellow veteran righthander Chris Munroe allowed one hit over the final 3 innings to earn the save.
At Mainland Commons
Kentville 100 001 000 2 9 1
Halifax 300 400 000 7 8 0
Doug Coldwell (L), Matt Lloy (6) and Ian Mosher; Mark Haverstock (W), Chris Munroe (S,6) and Shawn Walsh
Kentville: Mike King, two singles; Ryan Brothers, two singles; Ian Lockhart,double; Halifax: Ryan Veinot, homer, 3RBI; Jay Turple, single, double, 2RBI; Greg Morrison, two singles


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