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I'd sub the apollo for the belma. Based on tasting beers I and others have brewed I think you will be disappointed in the Belma. Not much to it from a flavor/aroma profile. Better as a bittering hop.
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A bit on tanks
There are some blogs out there discussing various roles, and one thing caught my attention. That was a description of the "types of tanks" to include the missing pair.
As I've noted, the tank role also intrigues me and may turn out to be my main, even though I've done healers for (mumble mumble) years in this, that and the other thing. So insights are always worthwhile.
To repeat what Brad Hicks laid out, WAR tanks come in three flavors: Aura; Buddy; and DPS.
Common to all tanks are a few basic elements. They can take lots and lots of damage, and pay the price of not so much DPS. They have a variety of techniques meant to protect their team by bringing attention back to them. Still, there are these differences.
The Chosen is the aura tank in the game. The Empire tank, whatever it turns out to be, really, will be the other one. This tank's big deal is an aura. Think Paladin auras on steroids. These can buff allies and/or debuff opponents. They have a reasonably fast cooldown, and an interesting effect in that when you switch to a new aura the old one stays around for a few seconds. ALLEGEDLY things are timed so an aura tank can have two auras active most of the time due to this, but most Chosen are reporting serious bug problems still. OTOH, it may be a matter of learning to make it work.
The buddy tank in the game right now is the Ironbreaker. Obviously the missing tank – the one for the Dark Elves – will be its analog. The buddy tank, in addition to protecting everyone, has the ability to specially bond with another player. That player gets extra benefits, and when that player gets hit the tank is going to achieve additional abilities – notionally to "rescue the buddy", but practically it allows them to "tank harder".
The DPS tank is potentially dangerous – no, not to foes, but to people's perceptions of what is/should be. The Black Orc/Swordmaster get a lot of things intended to make their actual combat better. Yes, they get some special "tank" abilities, but the vast majority of their special skills are aimed at wreaking greater damage and ill effects on a range of foes. WoW players in particular will have the mental block that a "dps warrior can't tank" and that's where the problem happens. It's probable this tank can do almost as much as the medium MDPS (white lion and marauder). Almost, mind you – both those classes have special abilities of their own. If I had to draw a connection to WoW, I'd suggest forgetting the DPS warrior – these are Feral Druid tanks, who generate threat more by doing a lot of damage than by threat enhancers. yes, that's a PVE notion but it begins to get the point across.
One thing that all the people working with these tanks need to set aside – it's possible to tank with a 2 handed weapon. WAR built that into the system. The trade is greater damage (and in some cases multi-target damage) vs greater survival. Even without a shield these classes are tough, so the decision will be situational. Especially when it's not PVE but PVP and what's being tanked is other players. Just to finish putting the nail in that coffin, there are numerous abilities in all the classes that can only be done with one weapon or the other. A "good" tank is going to be expected to do both, and do them well, and know when each is the better option. Tanks – not just meatshields.
Bottom line, a significant issue in picking your tank – either as a player wanting one, or as a group wanting that in their party – is knowing what each provides. Just something to keep in mind.
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HAYWARD — Closing statements were under way Tuesday in the state's murder case against a Hayward man accused of killing three teen passengers during a fatal downtown police chase and crash.
Leo Olguin, on trial in Alameda County Superior Court, is charged with three counts of murder as well as robbery, evading arrest and felony DUI ending in death or major injury in connection to the Dec. 23. 2009, fatal crash.
Police say Olguin skipped out of a halfway house while on probation and drove a Mazda through a red light about 12:15 a.m. on the day of the incident. As officers began chasing him, he crashed into a Safeway big rig. The collision on A Street at Foothill Boulevard killed three passengers in his car — Vanessa Hurtado, 16, Andrew Falcon, 17, and Dominic Hall, 18.
Olguin, 25, suffered minor injuries, perhaps because he ducked as the Mazda plowed through the big rig's undercarriage. A fifth person in the car, a woman, was seriously hurt. Olguin was arrested at the scene.
Trial testimony began Dec. 10 before Judge Roy Hashimoto at the Hayward Hall of Justice. Last week, forensic toxicologist Bill Posey told jurors that Olguin had a cocktail of drugs in his system during the wreck. Traces of alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine were found in his blood about an hour after the crash, Posey testified during the second day of testimony.
A blood sample revealed a blood-alcohol level of 0.07, but Posey estimated his level at the time of the crash would have been 0.09, just above the state's legal limit of 0.08.
The cocaine and alcohol found in Olguin's system were ingested within hours of the wreck, and the meth likely a few days earlier, Posey said.
The robbery charges are tied to an incident that took place about 30 minutes before the crash. Testimony revealed three people were robbed at gunpoint in a residential neighborhood near Harder Road and Mission Boulevard.
During a preliminary hearing last year, a police detective testified that Olguin's statement changed several times, but Olguin indicated that he was scared of going back to jail and that an unspecified back-seat passenger also urged him to make a break for it, showing Olguin a gun in his hand.
Olguin is being held without bail at the Santa Rita Jail.
Closing statements are expected to continue into Wednesday with jury deliberations to follow.
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Coaches' refresher course held in Somalia
At the closing ceremony, first general secretary of the Somalia Volleyball Federation Mahamed Abubakar thanked all the course participants and praised the Coaches. He encouraged them to make good use of what they learned in the course and to continue their practice well into future.
"I would like to see Somali volleyball players participating in Zone 5 qualifications," said the secretary.
At the end of the ceremony, vice-president of the Somali Volleyball Federation, Mahamed Ibrahim, also gave his best wishes and encouragement to the couches in all their endeavours.


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ORLANDO, FLA. (April 4, 8 p.m. ET) — Sheet extrusion machinery maker Processing Technologies International (Booth 6885) is investing $3 million to expand production for its equipment.
"We've been very busy," said Dana Hanson, PTi's president, in an April 3 interview at NPE2012. "Our backlog is at record levels. The size of machinery we've been building is significant. This is what is driving us to expand."
On a macroeconomic level, Hanson believes the United States is coming out of recessionary lows.
"Our customers are extremely busy. Capital expenditure is at an all-time high," he said. "Our business has hit record levels the last three years and our products are being well received throughout packaging markets in North America."
The growth has come as a result of an increase in market share and expansion into new markets including "dryer-less" PET systems. Customers also are retiring older equipment for higher capacity and increased efficiency systems.
Through its expansion in Aurora, Ill., officials will increase overall plant capacity by 50 percent. They will add 40,000 square feet of primary manufacturing and office space. That will take the facility to 100,000 square feet and grow it to nearly 120 employees. PTi will break ground later this year with plans to be fully operational by Spring 2013. PTi will be able to build more complex machinery.
The expansion will include a dedicated feed screw testing and development center that will serve as a "proof-of-process" resource for application development work. Officials wanted a place for customers to conduct process trials and identify potential new business opportunities without interrupting their own operations.
"Customers don't have the time and can't afford to take the time to prototype," said Dennis Paradise, senior vice president of sales and marketing.
The company also is expanding internationally. It has delivered a PET packaging line into Turkey. Its sales are up 40 percent over the same period one year ago.
"Our pipeline has never been bigger than it is right now," Paradise said.


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Tokyo's top attractions
- See the sacred Shinto shrine, Meiji Jingu.
- Visit the temples of Asakusa.
- Go to the top of the Tokyo Tower or the observatories at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building for sweeping city views.
- Relax or take part in leisure activities offered at Yoyogi Park.
- Soak in an onsen, a traditional hot spring.
- Have a fun day with the family at Tokyo Disney Resort, Sanrio Puroland or Tokyo Dome City.
Best time to travel to Tokyo
Tokyo is a popular destination year-round. Major winter events include the Sumo New Year Basho, the Chichibu Yomatsuri festival and the Hikari no Saiten (Festival of Light). Spring is the best time to see the cherry blossoms in full bloom. Other spring events include the Sanja Matsuri, one of the largest Shinto festivals in Japan, or for a smaller yet novelty experience, check out the Crying Baby Festival. Summer is packed with events including Summer Sonic, Asakusa Samba Carnival and Shinjuku Eisa Festival, while fall brings the Sumo Autumn Basho and Tokyo Game Show.
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Peter Theo Curtis returns to U.S. after Syrian captivity
American journalist Peter Theo Curtis is back on U.S. soil after being held in Syria for 22 months. It comes at the time we learn of the death of another American, Douglas McCain, whom authorities say traveled to the country to join terrorists.
Journalist Peter Theo Curtis, held captive in Syria for two years, is back on American soil after being freed Sunday.
Curtis met his mother, Nancy Curtis, at Logan International Airport in Boston, after flying from Tel Aviv and through Newark Liberty International Airport, according to a statement provided to media by family spokeswoman Betsy Sullivan.
Curtis thanked U.S. officials who have worked on his case and the government of Qatar, which worked to secure his release.
MORE: American held by al-Qaeda group freed in Syria
"I have been so touched and moved, beyond all words, by the people who have come up to me today — strangers on the airplane, the flight attendants and, most of all, my family to say welcome home," the statement quoted Curtis as saying.
Curtis' mother said in the statement that she was "overwhelmed."
An Islamist group affiliated with al-Qaeda captured Curtis in 2012. The 45-year-old Massachusetts resident had written for the New Republic, and the year before his capture, he wrote a book called Undercover Muslim: A Journey into Yemen.
Militants released him on Sunday and turned him over to United Nations representatives in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights section of Syria.
Attention to his case has been heightened by the execution on video of journalist James Foley, believed to be the work of the terrorist group Islamic State.
Steven Joel Sotloff, a photojournalist and former University of Central Florida student, is a hostage of the terrorist group and was threatened with death in the same video that portrayed Foley's killing.
President Obama was relieved by Curtis' release when he was briefed Sunday, said White House spokesman Eric Schultz.
"But we continue to hold in our thoughts and prayers the Americans who remain in captivity in Syria, and we will continue to use all of the tools at our disposal to see that the remaining American hostages are freed," Schultz said.
The Associated Press and Laura Mandaro in San Francisco contributed to this report.


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The Nordic Partnership Initiative on Up-Scaled Mitigation Action (NPI) has been established in December 2011 to support climate change mitigation efforts in developing countries. The NPI is funded by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and implemented in co-operation with Peru and Vietnam. The implementing partner in Peru is the Ministry of Environment of Peru (MINAM).
La Iniciativa de la Asociación de Países Nórdicos para las Acciones de Mitigación (NPI, por sus siglas en inglés) se constituyó en diciembre de 2011 con la finalidad de apoyar los esfuerzos de mitigación del cambio climático en los países en desarrollo. La NPI fue fundada por Dinamarca, Finlandia, Islandia, Noruega y Suecia e implementada en colaboración con Perú y Vietnam. El socio colaborador para la implementación en Perú es el Ministerio del Ambiente de Perú (MINAM).
En Perú, el Programa de Preparación de Medidas de Mitigación apropiadas para cada pais (NAMA, por sus siglas en inglés) elaborado en virtud de la NPI se implementó entre agosto de 2013 y junio de 2015 y se centró en los residuos sólidos municipales, es decir, residuos domésticos y residuos procedentes de actividades comerciales y turísticas. El Programa de preparación dio lugar a una propuesta de NAMA a gran escala para el sector de residuos en Perú.
The aim of the Initiative is to demonstrate how innovativefinancial and regulatory incentives as well as the removingof barriers can achieve sector-wide greenhouse gasemission reductions in developing countries. The initiativealso aims at building capacity in developing countries. Using a bottom-up methodology that draws heavily on theinput of local stakeholders, NAMA Readiness Programmeshave been conducted in Peru and Vietnam.
Under the Paris Agreement, the Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) requirements for greenhouse gas emissions of all countries will be harmonised. Sector-wide MRV systems developed for Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), such as in the NAMA Readiness Programmes established under the Nordic Partnership Initiative in Vietnam and Peru, can provide important lessons learned for the development of the new transparency rules. NAMAs can serve as concrete building blocks for future Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement.
This booklet presents actions taken by the Nordic countries to speed the transition to a sustainable low-carbon society. It shows how sustainable development is possible, with strong climate policies contributing to economic growth and job creation as well as environmental improvements. The Nordic countries successfully demonstrate how ambitious climate change mitigation targets and policies can be combined with high levels of human development.
The latest IPCC report from shows clearly that economic growth is a key driver of carbon dioxide emissions. At the same time the experience gained in the Nordic countries shows that a different, more sustainable development is possible whereby strong climate policies are not contrary to economic growth. In fact, strong climate policies can promote growth and job creation. The Nordic countries have high domestic mitigation ambitions and have been successful in demonstrating that it is possible to combine ambitious mitigation targets and policies with economic growth and prosperity.
The NAMA Readiness Programme for Vietnam's cement sector has been on-going since March 2014. It focuses on improving the energy efficiency of the country's cement sector and mitigating the resulting carbon emissions. The Programme is expected to enable Vietnam to prepare for a full-scale Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) in the cement sector. The NAMA would count as a part of Vietnam's contribution under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ) and allow the sector to attract international support towards the implementation of the proposal.
Climate change is expected to have a profound impact on natural resources, and thus on the primary industries (agriculture, forestry and fisheries) in the Nordic countries. Climate change induces risks but also creates possibilities for new production systems on land and in the ocean. Climatic changes also represent great challenges for policy-making and management regimes. The current knowledge base on natural resources in the Nordic region needs to be expanded to fully address the impacts of climate change. In particular it is important to address the need for improved policies and new policy instruments. The research programme Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation in Nordic Primary Industries is a coordinated set of thematic research networks with the objective to create a Nordic knowledge base on climate change interactions with primary industries in the Nordic region.
In order to investigate how climate efforts and competitiveness are connected in the Nordic region, CEO's and top management of some of the leading companies in the five countries have been interviewed. According to the interviews, the Nordic region can contribute to reaching the Paris Agreement. Climate change is top of mind of CEOs, chairs and top-level management in Nordic companies, and contributing to reaching global climate goals is not only altruistic. Almost all companies say that climate efforts can boost competitiveness. There is strong support for the Nordic region to be front runners in global climate efforts and acting together to push the EU to adapt more ambitious climate policies. The interviewed companies have approximately 540 000 employees. The aggregated revenue of the companies is around 200 billion EUR, corresponding to 17 percent of the GDP of the Nordic region.
The Nordic Partnership Initiative on Up-Scaled Mitigation Action (NPI) has been established in December 2011 to support climate change mitigation efforts in developing countries. The NPI is funded by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and implemented in co-operation with Peru and Vietnam.


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So for Father's Day my wife and daughter got me two books, Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) and Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share. We decided to start working through some of the projects and this weekend we picked the "Best Slip 'n Slide Ever" project from the Geek Dad book. Basically it involves constructing a super home-made water slide that rivals anything you can find in the stores. I decided to document our build progress and include our successes and failures for the benefit of others.
The materials needed are:
- Roll of heavy-duty plastic (we used an 8′ wide 6-mil roll) ~ $35
- Foam pool noodles (number determines length of slide) ~ $2 each
- Optional – large pool noodle for end ~ $5 each
- Self-sticking Velcro strips (enough for two pieces per noodle) ~ $0.50/noodle
- Sprinkler hose or lawn sprinkler ~ $6 per 50′ hose or ~$5 for a simple sprinkler
- Stakes (I had some so don't have a price)
- Patience, an hour or so, a nice warm day, and a steady supply of water
Here are the materials we used:
The first thing you do is figure out how long you want to make your slide. We laid out 6 noodles with about a foot between each to get a 35′ slide (each noodle is 5′).
Once we figured out how long to make it, I left a little bit extra on either end, at the front for an area to double up the material for staking it down and at the end for wrapping it around a big noodle to stop you. Next we unfolded the roll and pulled it straight and flat. You can see in the next picture the area at the front where we double (actually quadruple) folded the plastic so that it would resist tearing when we put in the stakes:
With the slide plastic unrolled, you can start laying out the noodles and applying the Velcro strips. We used two pieces of Velcro towards the end of each noodle and positioned them so you can fold the plastic around the noodle and stick the plastic to itself.
Do that for all the noodles down the length of the slide and then fold the material over so it sticks and traps the noodles in place. Be sure to keep the same line going down so that the slide stays straight. We matched up the edge of the folded-over piece to one of the creases in the plastic material. We also used some heavy bags to hold the slide in place while we worked so the wind didn't mess with it as much.
Continue to the other side, trying to match the position of the noodles with the first side as you go down:
Once both sides are complete, flip the whole slide over and stake down the top (we also pulled the whole thing really taught and staked the other end as well). You can run sprinkler hose down each side by the noodles to keep the slide wet:
Finally, when we staked the other end, we also wrapped up a large noodle in the excess plastic to serve as a stop for you as you get to the end (actually worked more like a speed bump if you were going fast enough at the end and didn't stop by then).
So you are probably wondering, "how did it work?" Well, it actually worked great once we ironed out some kinks in our implementation of the "Best Slip 'n Slide Ever." First, you need to keep the plastic really tightly pulled so it doesn't bunch up anywhere. To do that we pulled it really tight and re-staked it at the front and back. You also need to really bunch up the plastic where you stake it otherwise it will tend to tear as you use the slide. Second, the sprinkler hose that we had kept on bursting out the side near the water connection. I don't know if we just put too much pressure in it or what, but that hose was a big failure. If it had worked it would have been great since the hose provided water down the whole length on both sides. We ended up just using a regular lawn sprinkler set to always shower down over the slide towards the middle and front (since the yard is sloped towards the back, the water ends up flowing towards the end anyway). Finally, make sure you get a nice run going before you jump on and make sure the slide is nice and wet. My daughter and I were both able to get all the way down to the end (and sometimes past) once we got our water source tweaked.
Overall, it was a nice DIY project that turned out to be a very impressive slide. For about the same price as you pay for those commercial Slip 'n Slides, we made our own that will last a lot longer, is a lot longer and wider, and is sure to be a hit with the other kids in our family (and probably the parents too!).


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It is, quite possibly, my favorite day of the year. Will always has advocated for it to be named a national holiday.
But it's not, and I'm finally OK with that. I wouldn't get it off anyway – you need your newspaper every day – and I like getting mail. So it's OUR holiday.
And I'm even more excited about this year's Opening Day than usual, if that's possible. Here are the top 10 reasons.
1) SheaQuest 2008. Through my awesome cousin Tim and even more awesome parents, I'm getting to the Shea one last time.
And this isn't just any glorious game. No. Tim scored tix to the Ultimate Throw Down Between Good and Evil. That's right, a Subway Series game.
Considering I get choked up when I get to see the Mets in a spring training game, I'm likely to be a puddle by the end of batting practice and a complete wreck when they send the Yanks back home in shame. But that's not going to stop me from booing Derek F. Jeter, cheering every single Met and sending the grand ballpark out in style with some of the people most special to me.
2) April 21, Mets vs. Cubs. Speaking of special people, Will's in a Wrigley Field season ticket group and members rotate games. For the second year in a row, he scored a game with the Mets and his lovely sidekick graciously allowed him to bring me.
3) July 19, Mets vs. Reds. BaseballTruth.com is a memory – and a grand one at that -- but the Executive Game lives on! Board members voted to see a game in the Bronx, but that fell through. So after great deliberations and only a modest amount of lobbying/begging from me, we're going to Great American Ballpark to see the Mets again.
That's right, three regular-season Mets games this year! My records show that hasn't happened since 1989 -- the last of our three years in Connecticut.
I know what you're thinking. I'm a known jinx. I haven't seen the Mets win a game since 1991, coincidently my last game at Shea. Perhaps that's the team's way of saying it was time to come home. That's happening, and the streak is going down.
4) Johan Santana. Do you think he's going to like throwing in a pitchers' park against batters not used to his filthy stuff? I see great things.
5) Pedro's back! Pedro Martinez' cameo at the end of last season was nice, though way too short. He's healthy, he's back and hopefully we have him for the entire season.
6) Jose Reyes is serious. No one knows what happened when Jose fell into his September funk, but he's focused and starting anew. I expect nothing short of a magical season.
7) You think David Wright is honked off that Jimmy Rollins in walking around with Wright's MVP Award? I think D-Wright's going to ensure that this one's a no-brainer – by the end of May.
8) No more Tom Glavine. I was tired of his reluctant-Met routine. Let Mr. Homesick pitch for the Braves.
John Kruk was just all over ESPN talking about how John Smoltz and Glavine were going to lead the Braves to the division title. Kruckie seems to have forgotten that both those guys are on the wrong side of 40 and Smoltz is already hurting.
And we know what happens with Glavine as the season progresses. He runs out of gas then coughs up seven runs in the top of the first without getting a second out in the ultimate must-win game – then acts like he doesn't give a damn. Tell Chipper we said "Hi," Tommy.
9) And speaking of Glavine and Game 162, I am so ready to move on because I am so tired of hearing about last season. I swear, the ESPN announcers spent two-thirds of the spring training game against the Braves last week talking about "the collapse."
Yes, we sucked. But the Phillies played out of their minds. They get credit for that.
And as if 4:10 p.m. today, it's old news.
10) No Barry Bonds, no Sammy Sosa, no Roger Clemens. All of the alleged major juicers are done and out of the game. Maybe, just maybe, we don't have to hear about steroids quite so much.
It's been a long winter in so many ways. And it ends this afternoon in Miami.


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What does this "china doll" mean here? It seems to have many meanings such as "slim beauty", "chinese woman" or "doll made of china=pottery".
ex)Friday came at last, the day of the biggest dance party in years. That afternoon, Mama told us to take a nap, a Beauty Sleep. When I woke up, I saw a stranger in the bedroom. A perfect stranger. My jaw was on the floor. It was a beautiful young lady, slender as a willow branch, her hair puffed over
her little shell-pink ears. She wore a pink dress. Her rosebud lips were pinker than her dress. It was my big sister Maggie. I jumped. Maggie? I said. I couldnt believe what Mama did to her. She looked like an angel, no, a china doll, too perfect to touch. Beside Maggie, Mama was holding a curling iron, smiling at me. Honey, come and see what I did for your sister.
Is this "My jaw was on the floor" a common expression showing one's shock or surprise? I've heard "My jaw hit the floor". What other similar expressions do you have?
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"My jaw was on the floor"
I was wondering what it had got to do with 'china doll'.
It's common enough. Also 'My jaw fell open'.
Sorry to confuse you. What about "My jaw hit the floor"? Is it also common?
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The previous November, a row of wooden beach huts, their paintwork lifted and flaked by the hard east wind, had burned to the ground. The fire brigade came from twelve miles away, and had nothing to do by the time it arrived. "YOBS ON RAMPAGE," the local paper decided, though no culprit was ever found. An architect from a more fashionable part of the coastline told the regional TV news that the huts had been part of the town's social heritage and must be rebuilt. The council announced that it would consider all options, but since then had done nothing.
Vernon had moved to the town only a few months before, and had no feelings about the beach huts. If anything, their disappearance improved the view from the Right Plaice, where he sometimes had lunch. From a window table, he now looked out across a strip of concrete to damp shingle, a bored sky, and a lifeless sea. That was the east coast: for months on end you got bits of bad weather and lots of no weather. This was fine by him: he'd moved here to have no weather in his life.
"You are done?"
He didn't look up at the waitress. "All the way from the Urals," he said, still gazing at the long, flat sea.
"Nothing between here and the Urals. That's where the wind comes from. Nothing to stop it. Straight across all those countries." Cold enough to freeze your knob off, he might have added in other circumstances.
"Oorals," she repeated. As he caught the accent, he looked up at her. A broad face, streaked hair, chunky body, and not doing any waitressy number in hope of a bigger tip. Must be one of those Eastern Europeans who were all over the country nowadays. Building trade, pubs and restaurants, fruit picking. Came over here in vans and coaches, lived in rabbit warrens, made themselves a bit of money. Some stayed; some went home. Vernon didn't mind one way or the other. That's what he found more often than not these days: he didn't mind one way or the other.
"Are you from one of them?"
"One of what?"
"One of those countries. Between here and the Urals."
"Oorals. Yes, perhaps."
That was an odd answer, he thought. Or maybe her sense of geography wasn't so strong.
"Fancy a swim?"
"A swim?"
"Yes, you know. Swim. Splash splash, front crawl, breaststroke."
"No swim."
"Fine," he said. He hadn't meant it, anyway. "Bill, please."
As he waited, he looked back across the damp concrete to the shingle. A beach hut had recently sold for twenty grand. Or was it thirty? Somewhere down on the south coast. Spiralling house prices, the market going mad: that's what the papers said. Not that it touched this part of the country, or the property he dealt in. The market had bottomed out here long ago, the graph as horizontal as the sea. Old people died, and you sold their flats and houses to people who would get old in them in their turn, and then die. That was a lot of his trade. The town wasn't fashionable, never had been. Londoners carried on up the A12 to somewhere pricier. Fine by him. He'd lived in London all his life until the divorce. Now he had a quiet job, a rented flat, and saw the kids every other weekend. When they got older, they'd probably be bored with this place and start acting the little snobs. But for the moment they liked the sea, throwing pebbles into it, eating chips.
When she brought the bill, he said, "We could run away together and live in a beach hut."
"I do not think," she replied, shaking her head, as if she believed he meant it. Oh, well, the old English sense of humor—takes a while for people to get used to it.
He had a few rentals to attend to—changes of tenancy, redecoration, damp problems—and then a sale up the coast, so he didn't return to the Right Plaice for a few weeks. He ate his haddock and mushies, and read the paper. There was some town in Lincolnshire that was suddenly half Polish, there'd been so many immigrants. Nowadays, more Catholics went to church on Sundays than Anglicans, they were saying, what with all these Eastern Europeans. He didn't mind one way or the other. Actually, he liked the Poles he'd met—brickies, plasterers, electricians. Good workers, well trained, did what they said they would, trustworthy. It was time the good old British building trade had a kick up the arse, Vernon thought.
The sun was out that day, slanting low across the sea, annoying his eyes. Late March, and bits of spring were getting even to this part of the coast.
"How about that swim, then?" he asked as she brought the bill.
"Oh, no. No swim."
"I'm guessing you might be Polish."
"My name is Andrea," she replied.
"Not that I mind whether you're Polish or not."
"I do not also."
The thing was, he'd never been much good at flirting—never quite said the right thing. And since the divorce he'd got worse at it, if that was possible, because his heart wasn't in it. Where was his heart? Question for another day. Today's subject: flirting. He knew all too well the look in a woman's eye when you didn't get it right. Where's he coming from, the look said. Anyway, it took two to flirt. And maybe he was getting too old for it. Thirty-seven, father of two, Gary, eight, and Melanie, five. That's how the papers would put it if he was washed up on the coast some morning.
"I'm an estate agent," he said. That was another line that often hampered flirting.
"What is this?"
"I buy and sell houses. And flats. And we do rentals. Rooms, flats, houses."
"Is it interesting?"
"It's a living."
"We all need living."
He suddenly thought, No, you can't flirt, either. Maybe you can flirt in your own language, but you can't do it in English, so we're even. He also thought, She looks sturdy. Maybe I need someone sturdy. She might be my age, for all I know. Not that he minded one way or the other. He wasn't going to ask her out.
He asked her out. There was little enough choice of "out" in this town. One cinema, a few pubs, and the couple of restaurants where she didn't work. Apart from that, there was bingo for the old people whose flats he would sell when they were dead, and a club where some halfhearted Goths loitered. Kids drove into Colchester on a Friday night and bought enough drugs to see them through the weekend. No wonder they'd burned down the beach huts.
He liked her at first for what she wasn't. She wasn't flirty; she wasn't gabby; she wasn't pushy. She didn't mind that he was an estate agent, or that he was divorced with two kids. Other women had taken a quick look and said no. He reckoned women were more attracted to men who were still in their marriages, however fucked up those marriages were, than to ones who were picking up the pieces afterward. Not surprising, really. But Andrea didn't mind all that. Didn't ask questions much. Didn't answer them, either, for that matter. The first time they kissed, he thought of asking if she was really Polish, but then he forgot.
He suggested coming back with him, but she refused. She said she'd come the next time. He spent an anxious few days wondering what it would be like to go to bed with someone new after so long. He drove fifteen miles up the coast to buy condoms where no one knew him. Not that he was ashamed or embarrassed; just didn't want anyone knowing, or guessing, his business.
"This is a nice apartment."
"Well, if an estate agent can't find himself a decent flat, what's the world coming to?"
She had an overnight bag with her; she took off her clothes in the bathroom and came back in a nightdress. They climbed into bed and he turned out the light. She felt very tense to him. He felt very tense to himself.
"We could just cuddle," he suggested.
"What is cuddle?"
He demonstrated.
"So cuddle is not fucking?"
"No, cuddle is not fucking."
"O.K., cuddle."
After that they relaxed, and she soon fell asleep.
The next time, after some kissing, he reacquainted himself with the lubricated struggle of the condom. He knew he was meant to unroll it, but found himself trying to tug it on like a sock, pulling at the rim in a haphazard way. Doing it in the dark didn't help, either. But she didn't say anything, or cough discouragingly, and eventually he turned toward her. She pulled up her nightie and he climbed on top of her. His mind was half filled with lust and fucking, and half empty, as if wondering what he was up to. He didn't think about her very much that first time. It was a question of looking out for yourself. Later you could look out for the other person.
"Was that O.K.?" he said after a while.
"Yes, was O.K."
Vernon laughed in the dark.
"Are you laughing at me? Was not O.K. for you?"
"Andrea," he said, "everything's O.K. Nobody's laughing at you. I won't let anyone laugh at you." As she slept, he thought, We're starting again, both of us. I don't know what she's had in her past, but maybe we're both starting again from the same sort of low point, and that's O.K. Everything's O.K.
The next night, she was more relaxed, and gripped him hard with her legs. He couldn't tell whether she came or not.
"Gosh, you're strong," he said afterward.
"Is strong bad?"
"No, no. Not at all. Strong's good."
But the time after he noticed that she didn't grip him so hard. She didn't much like him playing with her breasts, either. No, that was unfair. She didn't seem to mind if he did or didn't. Or, rather, if he wanted to, that was fine, but it was for him, not for her. That's what he understood, anyway. And who said you had to talk about everything right away?
Now he was glad neither of them was any good at flirting. Flirting was a kind of deception. Whereas Andrea was never anything but straight with him. She didn't talk much, but what she said was what she did. She would meet him where and when he asked, and be standing there, looking out for him, brushing a streak of hair out of her eyes, holding on to her bag more firmly than was necessary in this town.
"You're as reliable as a Polish builder," he told her one day.
"Is that good?"
"That's very good."
"Is English expression?"
"It is now."
She asked him to correct her English when she made a mistake. He got her to say "I don't think so" instead of "I do not think," but, actually, he preferred the way she talked. He always understood her, and those phrases that weren't quite right seemed part of her. Maybe he didn't want her talking like an Englishwoman in case she started behaving like one—well, like one in particular. And, anyway, he didn't want to play the teacher.
It was the same in bed. Things are what they are, he said to himself. If she always wore a nightie, perhaps it was a Catholic thing—not that she ever mentioned going to church. When he asked her to do stuff to him, she did it, and seemed to enjoy it, but she didn't ask him to do stuff back to her—didn't even seem to like his hand down there much. But this didn't bother him; she was allowed to be who she was.
She never asked him in. If he dropped her off, she'd be trotting up the concrete path before he'd got the hand brake on; if he picked her up, she'd already be outside, waiting. At first this was fine, then it began to feel a bit odd, so he asked to see where she lived, just for a minute, so he could imagine where she was when she wasn't with him. They went back into the house—nineteen-thirties semi, pebble dash, multi-occupation, metal window frames rusting up badly—and she opened her door. His professional eye took in the dimensions, furnishings, and probable rental cost; his lover's eye took in a small dressing table with photos in plastic frames and a picture of the Virgin. There was a single bed, a tiny sink, a rubbish microwave, a small TV, and clothes on hangers clipped precariously to the picture rail. Something in him was touched by seeing her life laid out like that in the minute or so before they stepped outside again. To cover this sudden emotion, Vernon said, "You shouldn't be paying more than fifty-five. Plus services. I can get you somewhere bigger for the same price."
"Is O.K."
Now that spring was here, they went for drives. They drove into Suffolk and looked at English things: half-timber houses with no damp courses, thatched roofs that put you in a higher insurance band. They stopped by a village green and he sat down on a bench overlooking a pond, but she didn't fancy that, so they looked at the church instead. He hoped she wouldn't ask him to explain the difference between Anglicans and Catholics—or the history behind it all. Something about Henry VIII wanting to get married again. The King's knob. All sorts of things came down to sex if you looked at them closely enough. But, anyway, she didn't ask.
She began to take his arm, and to smile more easily. He gave her a key to his flat; tentatively, she started leaving overnight stuff there. One Sunday, in the dark, he reached across to the bedside drawer and found the condom packet was empty. He swore, and had to explain.
"Is O.K."
"No, Andrea, is bloody not O.K. Last thing I need is you getting pregnant."
"I do not think so. Not get pregnant. Is O.K."
He trusted her. Later, as she slept, he wondered what exactly she'd meant. That she couldn't have kids? Or that she was taking something herself, to make doubly sure? If so, what would the Virgin Mary have to say about that? Let's hope she isn't relying on the rhythm method, he suddenly thought. Guaranteed to fail on a regular basis and keep the Pope as happy as Larry.
Time passed. She met Gary and Melanie; they took to her. She didn't tell them what to do; they told her, and she went along with it. They also asked her some questions he'd never dared, or cared, to ask.
"Andrea, are you married?"
"Can we watch TV as long as we like?"
"Were you married?"
"If I ate three, would I be sick?"
"Why aren't you married?"
"How old are you?"
"What team do you support?"
"You got any children?"
"Will you take me to the toilet?"
"Are you and Dad getting married?"
He learned the answers to some of these questions. Like any sensible woman, Andrea wasn't telling her age. One night, in the dark, after he'd delivered the kids back and was too upset for sex, as he always was on those occasions, he said, "Do you think you could love me?"
"Yes, I think I would love you."
"Is that a would or a could?"
"What is the difference?"
He paused. "There's no difference. I'll take either. I'll take both. I'll take whatever you've got to give."
He didn't know how it started, the next bit. Because he was beginning to fall in love with her, or because he didn't really want to? Or wanted to but was afraid? Or was it that, deep down, he had an urge to fuck everything up? That's what his wife—ex-wife—had said to him one morning over breakfast: "Look, Vernon, I don't hate you, I really don't. I just can't live with you because you always fuck things up." Her statement seemed to come out of the blue. True, he snored, and dropped his clothes where he shouldn't, and watched the normal amount of sports on TV. But he came home on time, loved his kids, didn't chase other women. In some people's eyes, that was the same as fucking things up.
"Can I ask you something?"
"For sure."
"No, 'for sure' is American. English is 'yes.' "
She looked at him, as if to say, Why are you now correcting my English? "Yes," she repeated.
"When I didn't have a condom and you said it was O.K., did you mean it was O.K. then or O.K. always?"
"O.K. always."
"Blimey, do you know what a twelve-pack costs?"
That was the wrong thing to say, even he could see that. Christ, maybe she'd had some terrible abortion or been raped or something.
"So you can't have children?"
"No. Do you hate me?"
"Andrea, for God's sake." He took her hand. "I've got two kids already. Point is, is it O.K. with you?"
She looked down. "No. Is not O.K. with me. It makes me very unhappy."
"Well, we could . . . I don't know, see the doctor. See an expert." He imagined that the experts over here were more clued up.
"No, no expert. No expert."
"Fine, no experts."
He thought, Adoption? But can I afford another, with my outgoings?
He stopped buying condoms. He started asking questions, as tactfully as he could. But tact was like flirting: either you had it or you didn't. No, that wasn't right. It was just easier to be tactful if you didn't care whether you knew things or not, harder when you cared.
"Why are you now asking these questions?"
"Am I?"
"Yes, I think so."
But he was only sorry that she'd noticed. Also sorry that he wouldn't stop. Couldn't stop. When they first got together, he'd liked the fact that he didn't know anything about her; it had made things different, fresher. Gradually, she'd learned about him, while he hadn't learned about her. Why not just continue like that? Because you always fuck things up, his wife, ex-wife, whispered. No, he didn't accept that. If you fall in love, you want to know. Good, bad, indifferent. Not that you're looking for bad things. That's just what falling in love means, Vernon said to himself. Or thinking about falling in love. Anyway, Andrea was a nice person—he was certain about that. So what was wrong with finding out about a nice person behind her back?
They all knew him at the Right Plaice: Mrs. Ridgewell, the manageress; Jill, the other waitress; and old Herbert, who owned the restaurant but only dropped in when he fancied a free bite. Vernon chose a time when the lunch trade was starting, and walked past the counter toward the toilets. The room—more of a cupboard, really—where the staff left their coats and bags was just opposite the gents. Vernon went in, found Andrea's bag, took her keys, and came back out flapping his hands as if to say, That whirry old hand dryer never quite does the trick, does it?
He winked at Andrea, walked to the hardware shop, complained about clients who had only one set of keys, strolled around for a bit, picked up the new set, went back to the Right Plaice, prepared a line about the chilly weather playing havoc with his bladder, didn't need to use it, put her keys back, and ordered a cappuccino.
The first time he went, it was the sort of drizzly afternoon when no one looks at anyone who's passing. A chap in a raincoat goes up a concrete path to a front door with frosted-glass panels. Inside, he opens another door, sits on a bed, gets up suddenly, smooths out the dent in the bed, turns, sees that the microwave isn't rubbish, actually, puts his hand under the pillow, feels one of her nightdresses, looks at the clothes hanging from the picture rail, touches a dress she hasn't worn before, deliberately doesn't let himself look at the pictures on the little dressing table, sees himself out, locks up behind him. No one did anything wrong, did they?
The second time, he examined the Virgin Mary and the half-dozen pictures. He didn't pick anything up, just went down on his haunches and looked at the photos in their plastic frames. That must be Mum, he thought, looking at the tight perm and big glasses. And there's little Andrea, all blond and chubby. And is that a brother or a boyfriend? And here's somebody's birthday with so many faces you can't tell who's important and who isn't. He looked again at the six- or seven-year-old Andrea—just a bit older than Melanie—and took the image home in his head.
The third time, he eased open the top drawer; it stuck, and Andrea's mum toppled over. There was mainly underwear, most of it familiar. Then he went to the bottom drawer, because that's where secrets are normally kept, and found only sweaters and a couple of scarves. But in the middle drawer, under some shirts, were three items he laid on the bed in the same order, and even the same distance apart, as he found them. On the right was a medal, in the middle a photo framed in metal, on the left a passport. The photo showed four girls in a swimming pool, their arms around one another, a lane divider with cork floats separating one pair from the other.
They were all smiling up at the camera, and had wrinkles in their white rubber caps. He instantly picked out Andrea, second from the left. The medal showed a swimmer diving into a pool, with some lines of German writing on the back and a date, 1986. How old would she have been then—eighteen, twenty? The passport confirmed it: born 1967, which made her forty. It said she'd been born in Halle, so she was German.
And that was that. No diary, no letters, no vibrator. No secrets. He was in love—no, he was thinking about being in love—with a woman who'd once won a swimming medal. Where was the harm in knowing that? Not that she swam anymore. And now he remembered how she'd got all jumpy when Gary and Melanie had tried to make her go to the water's edge and splash around. Maybe she didn't want to be reminded. Or perhaps it was quite different, swimming in a competition pool versus having a dip in the sea. Like ballet dancers not wanting to do the sort of dancing everyone else did.
That evening, he was deliberately jolly when they met, even a bit silly, but she seemed to notice, so he stopped. After a while, he felt normal again. Almost normal, anyway. When he first started going out with girls, he'd found there were moments when he suddenly thought, I don't understand anything at all. With his second girlfriend, Karen, for instance: they'd been jogging along nicely, no pressure, having fun, when she'd asked, "So where's all this leading, then?" As if there were only two choices: up the aisle or up the garden path. Other times, with other women, he'd say something, just something ordinary, and—splash—he'd find himself in deep water.
They were in bed, Andrea's nightie pulled up around her waist in the fat roll he was quite used to feeling against his belly, and he was going it a bit, when she shifted her legs and crushed him with them, like a nutcracker, he thought.
"Mmm, big strong swimmer's legs," he muttered.
She didn't answer, but he knew she'd heard. He carried on, but could tell from her body that her mind wasn't on things. Afterward, they lay on their backs, and he said some stuff, but she didn't pick up on anything. Oh, well, work tomorrow, Vernon thought. He went to sleep.
When he dropped by the Right Plaice to pick her up that evening, Mrs. Ridgewell said Andrea had called in sick. He rang her mobile but she didn't answer, so he texted her. Then he went around to the house and tried her bell. He left it a couple of hours, phoned again, rang the bell, then let himself in.
Her room was quite neat, and quite empty. No clothes on the picture rail, no photos on the little chest of drawers. Something made him open the microwave and look inside; all he saw was the circular plate. On the bed were two envelopes, one for the landlord, the other for Mrs. Ridgewell. Nothing for him.
Mrs. Ridgewell asked if they'd had a quarrel. No, he said, they never quarrelled.
"She was a nice girl," the manageress said. "Very reliable."
"Like a Polish builder."
"I hope you didn't say that to her. It's not a nice remark. And I don't think she was Polish."
"No, she wasn't." He looked out to sea. "Oorals," he found himself saying.
You went to the station and showed a photograph of the missing woman to the booking clerk, who remembered her face and told you where she'd bought a ticket to. That's what they did in films. But the nearest station was twelve miles away, and it didn't have a ticket office, just a machine you put money or plastic into. And he didn't even have a picture of her. They'd never done that thing couples do, crowding into a booth together, the girl sitting on the man's lap, both giggly and out of focus. They were probably too old for that, anyway.
At home, he Googled Andrea Morgen and got four hundred and ninety-seven thousand results. Then he put her in quotes and cut it down to three hundred and ninety-three. Did he want to search for "Andrea Morgan"? No, he didn't want to search for someone else. Most of the results were in German, and he scrolled through them helplessly. He'd never done languages at school, never needed them since. Then he had a thought. He looked up an online dictionary and found the German for "swimmer." It was a different word if you were a man or a woman. He typed in "Andrea Morgen" and "Schwimmerin."
Eight results, all in German. Two seemed to be from newspapers, one from an official report. And there was a picture of her. The same one he'd found in the drawer: there she was, second from the left, arms around her teammates, big wrinkles in her white swimming cap. He paused, then hit "Translate this page." Later, he found links to other pages, this time in English.
How could he have known, he asked himself. He could barely understand the science and wasn't interested in the politics. But he could understand, and was interested in, things that, even as he looked out at the sea from a window table in the Right Plaice, were already beginning to change his memory of her.
Halle was in what used to be East Germany. There had been a state recruiting scheme. Girls were picked out when they were as young as eleven—only four years older than that chubby little girl in the photograph. Vernon tried to put together her probable life. Her parents signing a consent form, perhaps a secrecy form as well. Andrea enrolled in the Child and Youth Sports School, then in the Dynamo Sports Club in East Berlin. She had some school lessons, but was mostly trained to swim and swim. It was a great honor to be a member of the Dynamo: that was why she'd had to leave home. Blood was taken from her earlobe to test how fit she was. There were pink pills and blue pills. Vitamins, she was told. Later, there were injections—just more vitamins. Except that they were anabolic steroids and testosterone. It was forbidden to refuse. The training motto was "You eat the pills or you die." The coaches made sure she swallowed them.
She didn't die. Other things happened instead. Muscles grew, but tendons didn't, so tendons snapped. There were sudden bursts of acne, a deepening of the voice, an increase of hair on the face and body; sometimes the pubic hair grew up over the stomach, even above the navel. There was retarded growth and problems with fertility. Vernon had to look up terms like "virilization" and "clitoris hypertrophy," then wished he hadn't. He didn't need to look up heart disease, liver disease, ovarian cysts, deformed children, blind children.
They doped the girls because it worked. East German swimmers won gold medals everywhere, the women especially. Not that Andrea had got to that level. When the Berlin Wall came down and the scandal broke, when they put the trainers, doctors, bureaucrats—the poisoners—on trial, her name wasn't even mentioned. In spite of the pills, she hadn't made the national team. The others, the ones who went public about what had been done to their bodies and their minds, at least had gold medals and a few years of fame to show for it. Andrea had come out with nothing more than a relay medal at some forgotten championship in a country that no longer existed.
Vernon looked out at the concrete strip and the shingle beach, at the gray sea and the gray sky beyond. The view was pretending that it had always been the same, for as long as people had sat at this café window. Except that there used to be a row of beach huts blocking the view. Then someone had burned them down. ♦


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Harvard is playing in its fifth NCAA tournament in program history (Kevin Burns).
Tournament Central: Seattle Regional
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The Particulars
For the second straight season and fifth time in program history, the Harvard softball team will represent the Ivy League in the NCAA tournament. Harvard joins Texas Tech, Maryland and host Washington at the Seattle Regional. Harvard faces host Washington Friday, May 18 at 6 p.m. PST (9 p.m. EST).
Follow From Home
Live stats will be provided by the host institution and will be available on the host's website, GoHuskies.com, as well as GoCrimson.com.
How Harvard Got Here
For the second straight season, Harvard posted the best record in the Ivy League, going 17-3 in conference play and earning the right to host the Ivy League Championship Series. Harvard's opponent in the series, Penn, earned its second berth in the championship series thanks to a victory over defending South Division champ Cornell in the first-ever one-game playoff in league history.
The top two pitchers in the Ivy League were pitted against each other in Game 1 of the championship with Rachel Brown taking the circle for Harvard and Alexis Borden pitching for Penn. The game turned out to be the pitcher's duel that everyone expected as each pitcher allowed just three hits in the game. It was the Crimson that was able to push a run across, however, as a Kasey Lange single and ensuing throwing error by the Penn secondbaseman allowed Ashley Heritage to come home with the lone run of the game. Brown fanned four Penn batters in her complete-game shutout.
The Harvard bats arrived in Game 2 with the Crimson banging out 12 hits en route to a 5-2 victory. A bases-loaded walk from Adrienne Hume and a sacrifice fly from Whitney Shaw put Harvard up 2-0, and a Hume RBI single in the fifth put Harvard ahead 3-1. Lange and Stephanie Regan knocked RBI base hits in the sixth and Brown came in to close out the Quakers in the final two innings, earning her second save of the season.
How The Other Teams Got Here
Washington compiled a 7-15 record in the competitive Pac-12 Conference, but piled up 36 wins on the year. Washington is playing in its 19th-straight NCAA tournament and is looking for its 11th berth in the Women's College World Series.
Texas Tech put together its second straight, and third overall, 40-win season in school history and earned an at-large bid for the third straight season. The Raiders are one of six teams from the Big 12 to make the 2012 tournament field.
2012 marks Maryland's third straight appearance in the NCAA regional round, after only qualifying once prior to 2010 (1999). The Terps earned an at-large bid thanks in large part to winning 14 of their final 16 regular season contests.
Series History
Friday's contest between Harvard and the No. 16 Huskies will be the first meeting between the two teams. Harvard squared off against Texas Tech for the first time in last year's NCAA regional round, falling to the Raiders, 7-0. The Crimson and Terrapins have met three times before with Harvard taking the initial meeting, 3-0 in 1997, and Maryland winning, 6-3 in 2000, and 5-2 in 2002 in the most recent matchup.
Harvard in the NCAA Tournament
The Crimson has been to the NCAA tournament four times in its history (1998, 2000, 2007, 2011), holding a 3-8 record in NCAA tournament games. Harvard took two from Holy Cross in a pair of NCAA play-in games in 1998 and went on to down Boston College, 11-2, in the Regional round. Harvard dropped games to Oklahoma (11-0) and Northwestern (9-6) in 2000 and fell to Hofstra (3-2, 9 inn.) and Albany (1-0) in its 2007 NCAA appearance. In its most recent appearance, Harvard fell to host Arizona, 10-0 (6), and Texas Tech, 7-0, in Tucson, Ariz.
Crimson Coach Jenny Allard
Jenny Allard is the longest-tenured coach in the Ivy League, coaching in her 18th season in 2012. She has led the Crimson to all five of its NCAA appearances, all six of its Ivy League titles and five Ivy North Division championships. The 1990 Michigan grad collected her 400th career victory with a 2-1 win over Boston University last March and owns a 460-340-2 overall record, including a 207-72 Ivy League mark.
Brown Town
With a stellar senior season, co-captain Rachel Brown cemented herself as the most decorated pitcher in Harvard history.
Along with receiving Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors in 2009, she has been named to the All-Ivy League first team every year she has been in Cambridge and took home Ivy League Pitcher of the Year honors last season. As a junior, she broke the school and Ivy League records for strikeouts in a season with 299 and also set the school marks for strikeouts per game, averaging 11.4, and wins in a season with 21. She holds the all-time program records in wins, saves, strikeouts, appearances, games started, complete games, shutouts and innings pitched.
Wins Keep Piling Up
After setting the program record for wins and Ivy League wins in a season in 2011, the Crimson nearly reached those marks again in 2012. Harvard eclipsed the 30-win mark for the sixth time in program history (1997, '98, 2002, '07, '11), collecting 33 wins despite a number of non-conference rainouts. The 13 losses on the season are the second-fewest under Jenny Allard, as the 2002 Crimson went 31-10 en route to a runner-up finish in the Ivy League.
Harvard entered the final weekend of Ivy play with a chance to break the school record for Ivy wins, set last year at 18. A pair of doubleheader splits with Dartmouth kept that from happening, but Harvard still recorded the best record in the conference and won at least 17 Ancient Eight games for the third year in a row.
Division Champs
Harvard earned its fifth Ivy North Division title this season after going 10-2 in divisional play. Division play began in 2007 and Harvard has captured five of the six titles, as Dartmouth took the crown in 2009.
What a Start!
While Harvard typically sees some of its toughest opponents on its season-opening trips to Florida and California, the Crimson was up to the challenge to kick off the 2012 campaign. Harvard won a pair of games on its first day of action, taking down Toledo and Loyola Marymount at the USF Invitational. Harvard finished the tournament 2-3, but rattled off eight wins in nine games during its California swing, including a 3-2 upset of Oregon State March 11, which was receiving votes in the national polls.
Harvard's 10-4 start to the season was its best since 1985 and second-best in program history.
Stepping Up as a Senior
Senior shortstop Jane Alexander has been a fixture on the left side of the Harvard infield for the majority of her college career. As a junior, she hit a career-best .260 with nine doubles, a triple, 16 RBI and four steals, but has emphatically topped most of her career season bests as a senior.
This season, she leads the Crimson with a .408 batting average and set new season marks with 60 hits, 13 doubles, four triples, 88 total bases, a .620 slugging percentage, 23 RBI and nine steals.
Three players on the Harvard roster had hitting streaks of at least 10 games this season. Jane Alexander put together a 15-game streak earlier this season, good for the longest on the team this year. Kasey Lange had a hit in 10 straight games and Stephanie Regan is currently riding a 10-game hitting streak of her own.
Alexander had an impressive streak of 22 games where she reached base safely, the longest such streak on the team by eight games. She also has the most multi-hit games on the team with 16 this season, while Lange has a team-best 12 multi-RBI contests.


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The year is 1941, the height of World War II. In German-occupied France, a youthful submarine crew gathers for a last night of drunken revelry before they will hit the seas. They feast, make love, dance and live it up as if there is no tomorrow. For them, there very well may not be. Though they cannot know this, of the 40,000 Germans who will serve aboard U-boats, a mere 10,000 will return home to their loved ones.
Starring Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge
Directed by Wolfgang Peterson
Running Time - 3:30
Genre - Action/Adventure
Opened in Theaters - Wednesday, February 10th, 1982 (13761 days ago)
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A video released by ISIS shows the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley and threatens the life of another American if President Barack Obama doesn't end military operations in Iraq.
In the video posted Tuesday on YouTube, Foley is seen kneeling next to a man dressed in black. He reads a message, presumably scripted by his captors, that his "real killer" is America.
"I wish I had more time. I wish I could have the hope for freedom to see my family once again," Foley can be heard saying in the video.
He is then shown being beheaded.
The National Security Council is aware of the video.
"The intelligence community is working as quickly as possible to determine its authenticity. If genuine, we are appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent American journalist and we express our deepest condolences to his family and friends. We will provide more information when it is available," NSC spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.
Foley disappeared in November 2012 in northwest Syria, near the border with Turkey. He was reportedly forced into a vehicle by gunmen; he was not heard from again. At the time of his disappearance, he was working for the GlobalPost.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Facebook group set up to support Foley and his family, "Free James Foley," wrote, "We know that many of you are looking for confirmation or answers. Please be patient until we all have more information, and keep the Foleys in your thoughts and prayers."
The video also shows another American journalist. His life is said by the militants in the video to hang in the balance, depending on what Obama does next.
The journalist is believed to be Steven Sotloff, who was kidnapped at the Syria-Turkey border in 2013. Sotloff is a contributor to Time and Foreign Policy magazines.
As a freelancer, Foley picked up work for a number of major media outlets, including Agence France-Presse and GlobalPost.
"On behalf of John and Diane Foley, and also GlobalPost, we deeply appreciate all of the messages of sympathy and support that have poured in since the news of Jim's possible execution first broke," Philip Balboni, GlobalPost CEO and co-founder, said in a published statement.
"We have been informed that the FBI is in the process of evaluating the video posted by the Islamic State to determine if it is authentic. Until we have that determination, we will not be in a position to make any further statement. We ask for your prayers for Jim and his family."
Foley had previously been taken captive in Libya. He was detained there in April 2011 along with three other reporters and released six weeks later.
Afterward, he said that what saddened him most was knowing that he was causing his family to worry.
Foley grew up in New Hampshire and graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 2008. Like other young journalists who came of age after the September 11 terror attacks and American wars overseas, Foley was drawn to Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas of conflict.
Friends described Foley as fair, curious and impressively even-tempered.
"Everybody, everywhere, takes a liking to Jim as soon as they meet him," journalist Clare Morgana Gillis wrote in a blog post about him in May 2013, six months after he disappeared in Syria.
"Men like him for his good humor and tendency to address everyone as 'bro' or 'homie' or 'dude' after the first handshake. Women like him for his broad smile, broad shoulders, and because, well, women just like him."


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Samsung is rumored to unveil its next-generation handset, presumably the Galaxy S4, at 2013's Mobile World Congress in February. However, even more interesting than when the smartphone may launch is the significant spec bump it could see.
The Galaxy S3 successor may feature eight processor cores, according to EE Times. This is double the amount of processors featured in high-end smartphone such as the Samsung's Galaxy Note 2 and S3 handsets, which are based on quad-core chipsets.
The Korean news source recently reported that Samsung is crafting a new processor that could expand on the companion core build found in Nvidia's Tegra 3 chipset. Rather than packing a quad-core processor and a fifth core unit for background processing, Samsung could be planning to sandwich two quad-core chips into one offering, allowing for double the power.
The processor would also be the first chipset to use ARM's big.LITTLE technology, which combines high performance with power efficiency to extend battery life.
Specifically, Samsung is believed to pair four Cortex -A15 cores with four Cortex-A7 cores. These higher-powered A15 chips are expected to perform the more demanding and daunting operations of a smartphone. The lower-powered Cortex A7s, however, would deal with daily tasks that do not require much battery power, the report says.
Back in August, it was reported that ARM already had two eight-core chips in the works: the T628 and T678. But what does this mean for mobile device users? These processors are said to be 50 percent more powerful than their predecessors without draining any additional power. These eight-core processor chipsets could even feature the potential to boast "console class gaming" for smartphones and support video workloads of up to 4K and 8K.
In addition to speculation about the processing power, Samsung may pack into its Galaxy S3 successor, rumors have also indicated that it could come with a 13-megapixel camera. Back in September, the Korea Times reported that Samsung will be unveiling a 5-inch Galaxy S4 at the Mobile World Congress in February, but Samsung later denied these rumors via Twitter.
"Please note that some media reported speculation that the Galaxy S's subsequent models will be released," read the tweet, which called the report "a simple rumor [that] is not true."
Despite whether or not Samsung decides to release any new smartphones this spring, the development of eight-core processors is likely a sign of what's to come for mobile tech.
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Sometimes Habib has to write emails as part of his job as a self-employed taxi driver. Read an email from Habib, answer questions and write your own email.
This lesson is about buying and selling items on online auction sites, such as eBay and eBid. It provides students with the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the vocabulary and typical format of item listings on such sites. They will closely read and then write their own item listings, using adjectives and persuasive language.
This lesson is about housing in the UK and is based on Housing materials from both the NIACE Citizenship materials for ESOL and the ESOL Nexus learner website. The lesson provides an overview of the types of accommodation available in the UK and develops the learner's ability to ask and answer questions, listen for detail and fill in a housing form.
A cleaner needs to know what things to use for his/her job. Phil tells Susana about the things to use for her job and what to do.
This lesson introduces learners to some of the main issues related to climate change. Learners focus on dictionary skills and the pronunciation of strong and weak syllables in long words. Focusing on the lexis in detail will help them recognise and use these terms outside the classroom.
This is an activity to help students think creatively and to guide them to write a story.
Students read reviews of popular sitcoms, then watch a clip of a sitcom and create their own reviews.
This is an activity based on the true story of Merhan Karimi Nasseri, a man who was unable to leave Charles de Gaulle airport. This became a popular story in the press and was later used as the basis for the Tom Hank's film "Terminal".