pumasailing:Leg 7 Day 10 blog from Amory onboard PUMA’s Mar Mostro:Five hundred miles to go and this race is only getting closer. Not exactly a surprise – we knew everyone was going to compress again – but what is a surprise is the kind of day we had yesterday: it was slow, sloww, slowww. After a few consecutive days of feeling fast, a humbling 24 hours brings us all back to reality, and maybe for the better.You might think performance on these boats is formulaic – at a given wind speed, point of sail, and sea state the boat is tuned to a certain preset and that’s kind of that, right? But the truth is that confidence plays a big part in boat setup and boat speed, and having or not having the confidence to know when to change, to admit you’re slow and not just blame it on the conditions, that’s going to be a big part of anyone’s success. And thankfully, after a tough day that would shake anyone’s confidence in setup and speed, we closed out the night with a winning sched. The guys went back to the books and made some small but significant-in-summation changes…put the board down further, put the water back in the stern ballast, changed staysail combinations. Thankfully the boat responded. Not always the case, but happy to have a good one in there, as we sure needed it!
For my art final, I decided to paint a memorial piece in honor of Derek Boogaard, Alexei Cherepanov, Tom Cavanagh, Rick Rypien, and all those members of Lokomotiv that lost their lives.I apologize for not having a better picture, but the paper I used is almost four feet tall—a little bit big to scan at home. At the very bottom of the picture is a list of the deceased, the year they were born, and the year they passed on. If I made some gigantic error in spelling that I was too ignorant in my knowledge of Russian and Lokomotiv to catch, please send me a message—I still have all the paint and tools that I need to correct it. Tom Cavanagh was used as a center piece, hugged by an ambiguous figure that represents anyone and everyone affected by his passing. All of these men have impacted countless lives on and off the ice.Boys, we all love you and we miss you. Wherever you are, I wish you well. Aug. 4, 1959: Toots Shor at a hole in the wall of his West 51st Street restaurant, Toots Shor’s, which was demolished to make way for the Zeckendorf Hotel. (The wrecking ball was painted to resemble a baseball, a tip to the sportsmen who frequented the restaurant.) Mr. Shor was a one-time speakeasy bouncer “whose style and enterprise carried him into the circles of mink-clad society and cigar-chomping politicians,” according to a 1971 article about the closing of another of his restaurants.Photo: Neal Boenzi/The New York Times
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. Etymological studies of Luis Vidal Negreiros Gomes also indicate that these existed in meaning. Sketching currently means only sketch, sketch, or drawing in its early stages. The word design beyond the sense of design, won the meanings of “any product”, “no draft”, “Drawing (Sketching) in their finished state.” Sketching With time no longer means “any design” and simply means “outline” “outline”, “draft. Design changed its meaning (design only), and included several other, but preserved some sense of design.refers to the discipline known as design-speaking countries, or the project, in general) and dibujo (which refers to the product itself). Etymological studies of Luis Vidal Negreiros Gomes also indicate that these existed in meaning. Sketching currently means only sketch, sketch, or drawing in its early stages. The word design beyond the sense of design, won the meanings of “any product”, “no draft”, “Drawing (Sketching) in their finished state.” Sketching With time no longer means “any design” and simply means “outline” “outline”, “draft. Design changed its meaning (design only), and included several other, but preserved some sense of design. Currently the Portuguese language design that incorporated the word carries the sense of design as a project. The word “Sketching” is also being used in the sense of “design” (a reversal of the original meaning).The representation of the Vitruvian
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. Etymological studies of Luis Vidal Negreiros Gomes also indicate that these existed in meaning. Sketching currently means only sketch, sketch, or drawing in its early stages. The word design beyond the sense of design, won the meanings of “any product”, “no draft”, “Drawing (Sketching) in their finished state.” Sketching With time no longer means “any design” and simply means “outline” “outline”, “draft. Design changed its meaning (design only), and included several other, but preserved some sense of design.refers to the discipline known as design-speaking countries, or the project, in general) and dibujo (which refers to the product itself). Etymological studies of Luis Vidal Negreiros Gomes also indicate that these existed in meaning. Sketching currently means only sketch, sketch, or drawing in its early stages. The word design beyond the sense of design, won the meanings of “any product”, “no draft”, “Drawing (Sketching) in their finished state.” Sketching With time no longer means “any design” and simply means “outline” “outline”, “draft. Design changed its meaning (design only), and included several other, but preserved some sense of design. Currently the Portuguese language design that incorporated the word carries the sense of design as a project. The word “Sketching” is also being used in the sense of “design” (a reversal of the original meaning).The representation of the Vitruvian
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Every year, baseball is played every day, all summer long. And despite the sheer volume of these games, we (as humans) keep precise logs for these games in the guise of boxscores. So it would make sense if there were a few games in the history of recorded baseball that played out the same way, wouldn’t it? Not so. Using retrosheet, Jonathan Falk of The Hardball Times, located the two most similar, though not exact, games in the history of the sport. Oddly enough, they both feature the Tigers. Writes Falk: “They are the only games with identical run lines, hits, walks, and strikeouts for both teams. So for anybody who says that one baseball game is pretty much like another, point out that of the almost 170,000 games for which we have line scores, they’re all different.”Just what two games are they? Well, you’ll have to check it out on your own to find out.
mightyflynn:Bryce HarperMay 11, 2012Apparently frustrated by his 0-for-5, three-strikeout effort against the Reds on Friday night, 19-year-old Washington Nationals sensation Bryce Harper injured himself when a bat he used to hit a wall struck him above the left eye.According to Amanda Comak, Nationals beat writer for the Washington Times, Harper needed 10 stitches but didn’t feel dazed, and said he has no intention of missing a game Here’s a link to video of Nats (and former Reds) skipper Davey Johnson discussing the incident.- dclark, Unsportsmanlike Conduct photo by Joseph Fuqua II/Cincinnati Enquirer
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stardog:Baseball in pink for Mother’s Day, 2012.
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