News coverage of the recent floods suggests ethanol shortages are to blame for rising gas prices. Setting the record straight on this, the Renewable Fuels Association just released an analysis that explains the real reasons why consumers are paying more at the pump.
•A surge in crude oil prices since the start of the year.
•Typical seasonal patterns in gasoline pricing, partially reflecting the changeover to summer specifications.
•Refinery maintenance and unplanned outages.
The analysis states: "While the Midwest floods in mid-March did affect ethanol transportation and some individual facilities, this occurred at a time when ethanol inventories were at record levels.
Stocks in most regions, including the Gulf Coast and East Coast, are above year-ago levels. West Coast inventories have been declining since the start of the year but are slightly above the minimum levels experienced over the last 12 months."


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Beltway bombshells—Soto, Mancini go west
Posted on August 2, 2022 by Jeff Kallman
Juan Soto stole the show in Game One of the 2019 World Series and helped his Nats reach the Promised Land. That was then, this is now, and the still-top-flight Soto is a young man going west to San Diego . . .
The Big One dropped, in both directions on opposite coasts. The Nationals, who've gone from surrealistic World Series champion and National League East powerhouse to hell in a little over two and a half years, traded what should have stayed a franchise foundation to the Padres, the National League West contenders who often enough mistake splash for sustenance.
Juan Soto goes West the day after it turned out he'd end his Nats tenure with a bang, throwing Tomas Nido out at the plate to keep the Mets to a mere three-run top of the second, and crunching his former teammate Max Scherzer's 1-1 fastball for a leadoff home run in the bottom of the fourth en route a 7-3 loss to the Mets. It won't make it easier for Nats fans to swallow this.
Soto became expendable when he turned down a $440 million extension that looked stupid-fat on paper while packaged to deny him the thing he wanted most. He wanted ten years and got them. He wanted the total dollars and got them. He didn't get the highest annual average value the way the packaged was packed.
Maybe Soto was foolish taking the all-or-nothing stance. But maybe the Nats were just as foolish, with or without a pending potential ownership change, to decline making even that small enough adjustment. Standing just as all-or-nothing, with Soto not due to hit free agency for the first time until 2025, the Nats decided even the next Ted Williams was expendable.
Stop laughing at the Ted Williams comparisons. Only five hitters through age 23 have higher OPSes than Soto does: Williams, fellow Hall of Famers Ty Cobb and Stan Musial, and Hall of Famers to be Albert Pujols and Mike Trout. The order from the top is Williams, Cobb, Trout, Musial, and Pujols. His June slump leaves his season so far not quite as good as his priors, but rehorsing himself last month restored Soto on the way back where he belongs.
But if he had a fat enough hand in the Nats' 2019 in-season resurrection from the outhouse to the Promised Land, will it be fat enough to push the Padres to the Promised Land at last? Baseball's worst kept secret is that Padres general manager A.J. Preller has a genius for trades equal to Soto's big swings and nothing much to show for them.
Oh, he's managed to land some of the bigger fish on the trade market in exchange for high-rated prospects who haven't yet returned to take a big bite out of his hind quarters for the most part—if you don't count Trea Turner. (Nat turned Dodger.) But there's always a real first time. Isn't there?
He's run the Padres eight seasons, delivered such blockbuster trade acquisitions, at the in-season deadline or the offseason, as Mike Clevinger, Jake Cronenworth, Yu Darvish, Joe Musgrove, Blake Snell, and Fernando Tatis, Jr., the Padres haven't yet gone to any full-season postseason. (They reached the National League division series during pan-damn-ic short 2020.)
And he may be lucky that his incumbent first baseman Eric Hosmer declining to waive his no-trade clause to move to Washington didn't kill the Soto deal. Hosmer has declined so precipitously since becoming a Padre as a free agent that, if Preller wants to get the rest of his due salary off the San Diego books, he'll have to move yet another good prospect to do it if he finds a team willing to take Hosmer on.
Then, again, as USA Today's Bob Nightengale notes, Soto locked in through 2025 has another upside: in the unlikely event the Padres still can't cross the threshold, Preller can still find a way to flip him on behalf of bringing other delicious-looking prospects back for a team and organisational renewal.
If there's good news for the Nats, it's getting five prospects in return for Soto and Josh Bell, with all five rated somewhat higher than the haul they took back from the Dodgers in exchange for Max the Knife and Trea Twinkletoes. But if there's worse news for the Nats, it's the number one problem with prospects: No matter how highly rated, they're just prospects who might or might not cut it fully as Show players.
If they do cut it, it'll take the sting out of losing a bona fide franchise player only if their cutting it turns into another world championship or two. If they don't, this one's liable to sting for Nats fans as long and as deep as such historically notorious purgings as Brock for Broglio, Ryan for Fregosi, Seaver for a quartet that sounds more like a law firm—Flynn, Henderson, Norman, and Zachry—than team reinforcements.
This wasn't even the top deal of the day when it comes to breaking fan hearts. It's not that Nat fans weren't wringing hands and drying tears once they first knew Soto became expendable, but Oriole fans in the throes of seeing an unlikely revival enough to put the team right into the wild card hunt from almost out of nowhere hurt even more losing Trey Mancini.
Hours before Soto moved west, Mancini's ticket to the Astros was punched in a three-way deal sending promising but inconsistent outfielder Jose Siri from the Astros to the Rays, pitcher Chayce McDermott from the Astros to the Orioles, and pitchers Jayden Murray and Seth Johnson from the Rays to the Orioles.
Trey Mancini tipping his cap to Oriole fans after what proved his final home game in Baltimore—he goes somewhat west now, to the Astros.
For Mancini it's a terribly mixed blessing. One moment he goes from a home ballpark whose left field fence was moved back far enough to cut his power production at home to a ballpark with a short enough porch that he'd have hit over twice the ten bombs he has on the season so far. But he also says goodbye to a mutual love affair between himself and a city starving for the days when the Orioles were consistently great, year-after-year.
His agreeable personality and his courageous fight to beat colon cancer two years ago endeared him even further to Oriole fans than his live bat. As Baseball Prospectus observes, "Mancini . . . was the heart and soul of a franchise long depleted of either."
The depletion may include Orioles general manager Mike Elias, who offered one of the most cacophonous explanations ever heard after a team struggling to return to greatness unloads a highly popular and franchise-valuable player:
The winning last couple of months that we have, the momentum we have, has made this a much more difficult decision and a much more complicated trade deadline than it would have been or that any of the past ones have been.But ultimately, I have to tether my decisions to the outlook and the probabilities of this year. We have a shot at a wild card right now but it is not a probability that we're going to win a wild card.
Translation: In one deal and one bowl of word salad whose flavour no dressing on earth could improve, Elias as much as told Oriole fans he's pushing the proverbial plunger on both this season whole and his team's gallant, almost-from-nowhere re-entry into the postseason picture, however much distance the Orioles might still have to travel to get there.
Maybe Elias is still building for the nearest future after all. But maybe something could have been done without making the Orioles' heart and soul the proverbial sacrificial lamb. Could, and should. "He's the nicest human I've ever met," says Orioles first baseman Ryan Mountcastle, a sentiment that seems to be common in the Oriole clubhouse and Baltimore itself.
Until today, people were even willing to bet on the Orioles having a phenomenal enough shot of reaching in. Now they're uttering a couple of four letter words, one of which is the vulgar synonym for fornicate and the other a word meaning either a large receptacle for holding gas, an armoured attack vehicle, or taking a dive. Three guesses which meaning Orioles (and Nats) fans think applies.
"Teams liked to claim that captains were no longer necessary because one player shouldn't be elevated above his teammates," BP says, "but also, that same force made one player essentially untradable. If someone is designated the heart of a team, you can't cut him out. Their value might go to waste."
The region of the nation's capital has taken enough blows that have knocked the wind out of its belly in the last few years. The Nationals and the Orioles, both of whom enjoy substantial capital followings, have told them, basically, "What's two more sucker punches among friends?"
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Juan gone?
Posted on July 17, 2022 by Jeff Kallman
Juan Soto stole the show in Game One of the 2019 World Series and helped his Nats reach the Promised Land that fall. That was then, this is now, and the still-top-flight Soto spurned a glandular contract offer, prompting trade speculation almost all around.
Almost three years ago, the Nationals sat atop baseball's pyramid. They'd won a World Series entirely on the road. And a kid who wasn't old enough to drink legally until the Series began had a big enough hand in the triumph.
Juan Soto stole the show in Game One with a mammoth fourth-inning home run and a long two-run double an inning later. He had Astros catcher Martin Maldonado dazed. I feel like, in the last twenty-four hours, I've seen Soto more than my wife," Maldonado cracked post-game.
Then, in Game Seven, Soto helped push Astros starter Zack Greinke out of the game in the seventh, after Anthony Rendon crashed one into the Crawford Boxes to cut the Astros' 2-0 lead in half, when he hung in on 3-1 and wrung out the walk.
Exit Greinke, enter Will Harris, and home came Soto when Howie Kendrick somehow got hold of Harris's cutter coming in off the middle and to the lower outside corner and rang it off the right field foul pole—an inning before Soto drove Adam Eaton home for an insurance run and two before Eaton sent two more home with a bases-loaded single.
From there Soto simply got better. Just the way those watching him make his bones in the first place suspected he would. In the pan-damn-ic shortened 2020 he led the entire Show in on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and OPS; in 2021 he led with 145 walks, a .465 OBP, and with almost twice as many intentional walks (23) as he led in 2020 (12).
Soto's also going to his second All-Star Game and leading the Show with his 79 walks thus far. He took awhile to round himself up this season but he got heated up in earnest this month. Under Nationals team control through the end of the 2025 season, Soto turned down a fifteen-year, $440 million offer this week.
He wasn't exactly thrilled that it got into the press. "It feels really bad to see stuff going out like that because I'm a guy who keeps everything on my side," Soto told reporters before the Nats fell to the Braves 6-3 Saturday. "I keep everything quiet . . . I keep everything quiet and try to keep it just me. But they just [made] the decision and do whatever they need to do."
Now, Soto is also the undisputed Show leader in trade speculation. The split second it became known he turned that offer down, the trade fantasies hit ludicrous speed. Show me a contender, show me a rebuilder right on the threshold of contention, and I'll show you fan bases tabulating what it would take for their teams to wrap Soto in their silks.
I'll also show you a Nationals team whose general manager Mike Rizzo said as late as the beginning of June that the Nats planned to reconstruct in their usual fashion but almost entirely around Soto himself. And, unlike an entity such as the Angels, whose deep-pocket owner can't seem to install general managers who can think like Rizzo or operate without said owner's meddling hands around their throats, Rizzo is one GM who can get it done without breaking a sweat.
Soto spurning fifteen years and $440 million must have given Rizzo the worst sweats of his year. It also must have given several teams dreams of not just a final piece of the proverbial puzzle but a nice, long, wide, multiple-season window of opportunity.
The Nats don't have to trade the left fielder, but they'd be close to irresponsible if they didn't listen to trade offers. Right now the Nats have the Show's worst record. But they can think with pleasure about the haul Soto's likely to return if they decide after all that turning down $440 million leaves them little choice but to unload him.
What prompted Soto to turn it down? According to Washington Post writer Jesse Dougherty (whose chronicle of the Nats' 2019 back-from-the-dead conquest, Buzz Saw, is the best read you'll find on that season), it was two-out-of-three-ain't-good-enough: Soto wanted the years and got them; he wanted the total dollars and got them; but the average annual value of the deal wasn't quite enough for him.
"While $440 million would be the biggest contract in the sport's history by total value, the annual value of $29.3 million would rank 20th," Dougherty writes.
Soto is looking for both double-digit years and an average annual value that is significantly higher, according to multiple people with knowledge of his camp's thinking. When [future Hall of Famer Mike] Trout signed his extension with the Angels in March 2019, he was 27 and set records for total value ($426.5 million) and AAV (about $36 million). Trout remains baseball's highest-paid position player.
Like Trout before the injury bug began nipping, tucking, and biting at him, Soto's a player whom observers love to compare to Hall of Famer Ted Williams. Like Trout, Soto isn't self-congratulatory about his talent or his performances. But there's the issue. Soto would like to be like Trout in the bank account. So how does he compare to Trout through age 23?
My Real Batting Average metric shows them damn near the same player at the plate . . .
Through 23 PA TB BB IBB SF HBP RBA
Mike Trout 2877 1368 361 34 31 37 .636
Juan Soto 2392 1037 452 52 11 8 .652
They've both played in home parks favouring pitching, but through age 23 Trout's 167 OPS+ is seven points higher than Soto's, while he also slugged a few points higher. (Soto through 23: .540; Trout through 23: .549.) They have about the same volume of black ink and the same percentage of hits going for extra bases: 41.
And while Soto walks a little more than he strikes out while Trout strikes out a bit more than he walks, Soto's more prone to being lured to hitting into double plays: seven a season for Trout through his twelfth major league season; sixteen a season for Soto through today.
Trout also won the first of his three Most Valuable Player awards at age 23. Soto has a pair of top ten finishes and one top five finish. But if Soto believes he's as valuable overall right now as Trout through age 23, he's got a reasonable case. Absent unforeseen circumstances beyond his control, Soto stands to continue playing at a Trout-like level for a lot of years to come.
Remember: The Lerner family is looking to sell the team. "[T]hey wanted to clarify their position with Soto for prospective buyers," writes The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal. "Soto is an asset, but not if his contract is so big that it would make it difficult for the Nationals to build around him."
Hark back to that fine 2001 day when the Rangers—who were at least as pitching strapped then as today's Angels have been for nigh on a decade, but without the truly deep pockets the Angels now have—decided that the cure for their Show-worst team ERA was to spend the equivalent of a solid pitching staff on . . . one shortstop named Álex Rodríguez.
It made A-Rod mega-rich but also kept the Rangers throttled while stirring insecurities enough into baseball's then-best all-around shortstop—pounding himself inside to live up to that deal—that he waded into the dubious waters of actual/alleged performance-enhancing substances in the first place. And the Rangers didn't return to the postseaon until well after A-Rod moved on to the Yankees.
Soto's agent Scott Boras is well known for preferring his clients test their open markets as soon as they're eligible to have them. Soto isn't averse to testing his market value when the time comes with or without Boras. Any team able to deal for him would have to part with delicious enough Show players and prospects. (The Nats now have the third-worst farm system, according to Athletic analyst Keith Law.) And, prepare to either sign him big long-term or watch him walk in a little over three years.
If the Nats really are making him available for the right price, don't be shocked to discover the Nats' front office phones ringing courtesy of the Mets, the Dodgers, the Giants, the Cardinals, the Braves, the Red Sox, maybe even the Astros on the pretext that if you couldn't beat him, make him join you.
Maybe the Padres will get into the mix. "Such a move would be bold, perhaps borderline nuts," says The Athletic, "but [GM A.J.] Preller is not one to shy away from a splash." Maybe even the Yankees, who don't look like they need help just by the American League East standings, might rather have a Soto who can hit all around over a Joey Gallo who can bomb but little else at the plate and isn't really doing much bombing now.
Technically, It wasn't that long ago that Soto had a big enough hand in the Nats reaching the Promised Land. But a spurned contract extension and trade speculation suddenly make it feel like eons past.
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Bauer isn't quite off the hook at last
Posted on February 9, 2022 by Jeff Kallman
He may not face prospects of prison, but Trevor Bauer—shown in the visitors' dugout at San Francisco's Oracle Park—isn't quite off the whole hook yet.
Please note very carefully the language of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office when announcing Trevor Bauer won't face criminal charges in the sexual assault/domestic violence case that cost him half the 2021 season. "After a thorough review of all the available evidence," the statement says, "including the civil restraining order proceedings, witness statements and the physical evidence, the People are unable to prove the relevant charges beyond a reasonable doubt."
Those words mean Bauer simply won't face a criminal prosecution, never mind that he doesn't face the prospect of time behind bars. Those words don't say the evidence is false as much as they say getting a criminal conviction at trial would be tougher than hitting an outside slider over the center field fence. But Bauer isn't off the hook entirely, so far as the law and the courts are concerned.
He's off the criminal hook, but the victim who obtained a temporary restraining order against him last June could still decide to hit back with a civil lawsuit. Such has happened in cases far more grave. Over a quarter century ago, a botched criminal murder trial didn't prevent the family of one of O.J. Simpson's victims from suing him and winning.
So far as Major League Baseball is concerned, Bauer could still face serious discipline from commissioner Rob Manfred, who isn't bound by a lack of criminal charges from exercising baseball's domestic violence policies and punishments. Neither are the Dodgers.
They may have said formally that they won't comment publicly until MLB's investigation is done, but it doesn't mean they can't cut ties with him when it's done. They can terminate Bauer's deal if he "fail[ed], refuse[d] or neglect[ed] to conform his personal conduct to the standards of good citizenship and good sportsmanship or to keep himself in first-class physical condition or to obey the club's training rules."
When Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman lifted the original temporary restraining order, last August, you may remember, she ruled that Bauer's victim was "not ambiguous about wanting rough sex in [their] . . . first encounter and wanting rougher sex in the second encounter." But the victim was anything except ambiguous when testifying in court that she drew a line, in effect, between agreed-upon rough sex and unwanted assault.
I say again that you wish only that Gould-Saltman explained how the victim was supposed to keep making her boundaries clear, or to stop Bauer from crossing them further, when she was in dreamland after Bauer choked her unconscious with her own hair in the first place.
Bauer's legal beagles mulcted inconsistencies from her then that spoke, as former NBC Sports analyst Craig Calcaterra wrote for Cup of Coffee at the time, "to secondary and surrounding matters—how she reacted to the assault—and not at all to the assault itself . . . What Bauer's attorneys did not do at all was discredit the central claim that he assaulted her in horrible ways."
Maybe that makes it harder for the accuser to recover any money from him in a civil suit. Maybe that makes a prosecutor less likely to bring a criminal claim against Bauer for fear of the case being difficult. But the central truth of this entire affair—the stuff that Major League Baseball will look to regarding Bauer's behavior, irrespective of whether charges are brought—points pretty clearly to Bauer doing exactly what his accuser said he did. Everything else is secondary.
After 12 hours of testimony, his accuser said, under oath, "I did not consent to bruises all over my body that sent me to the hospital and having that done to me while I was unconscious." There was zero evidence presented which explained how those bruises appeared in a way that was benign or refuted the idea that the woman was unconscious when Bauer inflicted them. That, in my mind, is all that matters.
While baseball nation grappled with the Bauer ramifications, the Nationals found themselves facing a domestic violence issue when infielder Starlin Castro faced domestic violence charges but wasn't yet suspended or even placed on "administrative leave." Nats general manager Mike Rizzo made it as plain as a line single when talking to reporters then: "The process is the process. You asked the question, 'Do I plan on having Starlin Castro back?' and I said I do not plan on having him back."
Rizzo even held a meeting with his players and laid down the law: "it's unacceptable and it's zero tolerance here and I don't care how good of a player you are, it's zero tolerance and we're just not going to put up with it." And they didn't. The moment Castro was hit with a thirty-day suspension, the Nats said publicly they'd release him the moment his suspension ended. On 3 September they made good on that promise.
Nobody says the Dodgers are thrilled over Bauer's misbehaviours, but it's hard to forget team president Stan Kasten telling reporters what he advised manager Dave Roberts after Bauer was put on the first of his renewed administrative leaves last July: "I told him they're going to talk about Trevor Bauer. Just say, 'Can we please talk about foreign substances?'" That got nothing but a terrible look for the Dodgers and a public rebuke from Manfred.
The Dodgers haven't yet said whether domestic violence is zero tolerance, they're just not going to put up with it, they do not plan on having Bauer back, and as soon as they know whether Bauer will receive a full MLB suspension—whether it's retroactive to time served on administrative leave or new time to serve—they'll prepare his release for the moment the suspension officially expires.
Maybe it was easier for the Nats because Castro was almost at the end of a two-year deal when he got drydocked. Bauer is in the middle of a three-year deal, signed when the worst the Dodgers knew of him was that he was a mere misogynist. The Dodgers are on the hook for $32 million in 2022 and 2023 each, unless Bauer opts out at the end of the 2022 season and elects free agency. But Rizzo still looked far more decisive, and sounded far more emphatic, than the Dodgers have done so far.
"[Y]ou've heard me say it a million times, that [we prefer] you read about our guys in the Sports section and not the other sections," Rizzo said amidst the Castro flap. "And this time we failed. I'm responsible for the players that I put on our roster and on the field." That's called owning it emphatically, and doing something about it decisively.
Businesses with or without public transmission can and do discipline employees often enough over off-the-job misconduct that won't necessarily put them behind bars and isn't half as grotesque, never mind abusive and injurious. There's no such thing as an absolute, God-given "right" to particular employment in a particular business or profession.
A predilection for consensual rough sex is one thing. Each to his and her own. But punching an unconsious woman in the poontang and bruising her enough to require hospital attention, while she's in no position to say yes, no, stop, or don't-even-think-about-it, isn't just unaligned to being a good citizen or sportsman. It's unaligned to being human.
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Posted on September 5, 2021 by Jeff Kallman
Kevin Pillar, one of the Mets' Thumb Bunch, after slicing ninth-inning grand salami at the Nats' expense Sunday afternoon.
That was last weekend: A few Mets decided to give what-for to Citi Field's boo birds of August unhappiness. They flipped the script. If they were going to get booed for coming up short no matter the effort, by God they were going to give the fans thumbs down when they came up hit, pitch, play roses.
The racket was such a ruckus—or, should that be the ruckus was such a racket—that nobody paid much attention to the August-challenged Mess winning two straight from the retooling-on-the-fly Nationals. They were too busy reading beleaguered team president Sandy Alderson's fan-their-behinds retort to care.
This is the end of this weekend: Including that previous Saturday and Sunday, the Thumb Bunch have won seven of eight, kicked themselves back into enough of the thick of the National League East they'd lost gruesomely enough during most of August, and out-scored the opposition 41-26 while they were at it.
Who cares if it came against the Nats and the equally also-ran Marlins? The Mets looked so badly like a team that couldn't get next to a win if they paid by the run that the worst editions of the St. Louis Browns would have looked like pennant contenders against them.
Now, they've finished this weekend-to-weekend raiding with a 13-6 Sunday dismantling of the Nats that included a jaw-dropping six-run top of the ninth. In which the three major members of the Thumb Bunch were very much the major players. "If there's a higher power looking over the Mets," said broadcaster Gary Cohen, "He or She has an infinite sense of humor."
He or She must have, since the Mets got close enough to letting the game escape in the first place. A four-run top of the first turned into a 4-3 squeaker in the bottom of the inning. A 6-3 lead after four and a half turned into a six-all tie in the bottom of the fifth. Mets catcher Patrick Mazeika's sacrifice fly sending Javy Baez home with the bases loaded in the eighth broke the tie.
These are still the Mess, aren't they? They're still virtuosi at wasting leads and putting the crash carts on triple red alert, no?
They were until Francisco Lindor faced Nats reliever Austin Voth to open the top of the ninth. Lindor saw only one pitch, a spicy meatball right down the middle, and drove it over the center field fence. A two-run lead's better than one, right? Even with Juan Soto looming as the third man due up in the bottom of the ninth, right?
Pete Alonso wasn't taking chances. He followed Lindor's launch with a double to the back of left field. Michael Conforto singled Alonso home and took second on a throw in. Baez finished a 4-for-4 afternoon by singling Conforto to third. Jeff McNeil wrung himself a four-pitch walk to load the pillows. Up stepped Kevin Pillar, to hold his lumber on two out of the strike zone before fouling away a pair off the middle.
Then Voth threw Pillar a low fastball. And Pillar drove it high and into the seats above the Mets bullpen. It may yet stand as the biggest slice of grand salami with mustard on their season to date. All this on an afternoon when Lindor went 1-for-2 with a pair of walks and two runs scored, Baez scored three times in addition to his four-fer, and Pillar went 2-for-4.
Some teams crumple under the lash of controversy, whether the controversy is real, alleged, ginned up, or imagined. Others discover it's better than a diet of pitches over the middle of the plate for a royal feast.
The 1972-74 Athletics throve on internal friction; the 1977-78 Yankees didn't earn the nickname the Bronx Zoo because they were tame and allergic to nuclear-level back-page 72-point headlines. The 1986 Mets made St. Louis's mythological Gas House Gang resemble an Amish picnic. This year's Astros seem to be using the noisily lingering hostilities over Astrogate as feud for thought—and thump.
This year's Mets won't inspire what those A's inspired Jim Bouton to remember (in "I Managed Good But, Boy, Did They Play Bad!")—"[T]hey didn't have many rules. Oh, maybe they weren't allowed to punch each other in public. No punching a teammate, I suppose, in a nightclub. Fighting only allowed in the clubhouse. No screaming at each other when the wives are around. And don't embarrass the manager to more than two wire services during any homestand." (Today, of course, we'd say "to more than two Web reporters.")
This year's Mets may or many not have any player ready to say of them what third base virtuoso Graig Nettles said of his time (sentence?) in the Bronx Zoo: "Some kids want to join the circus when they grow up. Others want to be big league baseball players. I feel lucky. When I came to the Yankees, I got to do both."
Unless I'm very wrong, and I hope I am, there isn't a Met in the bunch now who'll look back two decades later and remember this team the way '86 Mets pitcher Bob Ojeda would remember that team, who broke an entire airplane celebrating their National League Championship Series triumph: "We were a bunch of vile [fornicators]."
These Mets may not be quite what Nettles' Yankees became, but there were times this year when you thought the Mets couldn't decide whether they were re-making E.R. . . . or Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
They play one more against the Nats on Labour Day, then take a trip for three more against the Marlins. Then, they come home to face the Yankees, the Cardinals, and the Phillies. Before you remind them that those three aggregations aren't exactly pushovers—even if the Yankees have just lost five of eight—ponder the point that momentum comes from unlikely places.
Even from places in which turning thumbs down after splendid plays to retaliate against the boo birds becomes the molehill turned by the hysterical into the Himalayas.
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Five straight for the Thumb Bunch
Jeurys Familia and Pete Alonso have a victory handshake after the Mess (er, Mets) won their fifth straight Friday night—with plenty of help from the Thumb Bunch.
Almost a full week ago, the Mets were likely to be number one on a baseball fan's hate parade. You know, you can't have those ornery spoiled brats giving thumbs down when doing things right to the fans who spent most of August booing their heads off during what seemed, once and for all, like a classically surreal Met implosion.
You could only imagine the curses and hexes fans wanted to place on their heads for their dissing the people who pay their goddam salaries. Never mind that fans alone, or even predominantly, haven't really paid baseball players' salaries in decades.
But the Mets looked so vividly like 2021 baseball's biggest self-inflicted trainwreck last month that you could still be forgiven for expecting a complete collapse. Maybe even firing squads in the clubhouse and guillotines outside the ballpark.
The hell with Pete Alonso's happy talk channeling his inner Tug McGraw. Maybe Alonso didn't use the specific phrase "ya gotta believe," and McGraw in 1973 deployed it sarcastically after a lame rah-rah clubhouse speech by then-Mets lord M. Donald Grant. But when he said, "If you don't believe in yourself, then who else is going to believe," around 10 August, things only got worse instead of better.
Maybe Alonso really was onto something after all. Because look who's won five straight including the two games last weekend that brought the thumbs-downing to a boil before the weekend ended. Look who's even figured out a way to blow a lead in the ninth to force extra innings and then won the game in the extras, anyway.
Never mind that the streak's come at the expense of two other sputtering teams, the Nationals and the Marlins. The way the Mets looked for most of August, they could have lost handily to a lineup of nine arthritic maids, a pitching staff of five one-armed janitors, a bullpen of seven legless movers, and a bench of six quadriplegics.
But ever since the down-thumbing suddenly caught the attention of the rest of the world, the Mets have outscored the opposition 27-13. And on Friday night, they took a precarious 2-0 lead to the bottom of the ninth, watched Edwin Diaz surrender a leadoff home run (to Juan Soto) and an RBI double (to Riley Adams) to tie . . . and pried four unanswered runs out of the Nats in the top of the tenth to win, 6-4.
Let's not kid ourselves just yet. The Mets get to abuse the Nats in Washington for four more games this weekend, then they get to fly to Miami to inflict a little more use, misuse, and abuse of the Marlins. After that? They come home to host three clubs who can be called many things without pushovers being one of them: the Yankees, the Cardinals, and the Phillies.
There's something to be said for gaining momentum even at the expense of the also-rans. And the Mets did claw their way back to .500 and to a mere four games out of first in the National League East.
Sure, they got some help from the Fish flattening the second-place Phillies 10-3 Friday night. Sure, they got some help from the Rockies eking out a 4-3 win over the first-place Braves. But a team that started August leading the division by three, and almost ended the month trailing by eight the night before the current streak began, has a few reasons to be happier.
Happier, but not quite to the delirious level just yet?
But let's not spoil the fun. OK? Not the day after ancient Rich Hill pitched like a young man over six scoreless innings. Not the day after everyone in the Mets bullpen not named Diaz pitched three innings of one-hit, scoreless baseball.
Not after Diaz shook off those tying runs—and a scary collision between tying runner Andrew Stevenson and Mets catcher Chance Sisco that knocked Sisco out of the game at once—by ironing up and using a strikeout (of Carter Kieboom) and a ground out (by Luis Garcia) to strand the potential winning Nats run.
Not the day after Javier Baez, one of the Thumb Bunch, poked a one-out double down the right field line in the top of the second and came home almost at once when Michael Conforto—who'd gone from extension lock to question mark with a season's worth of struggling—ricocheted a single off Nats starter Sean Nolin's shoulder to send him there.
Not the day after Alonso, Mr. Belief, squared Nats starter Sean Nolin up on the first two-out, one-on pitch in the top of the third and yanked it as far down the right field line as he could for the RBI triple.
Not the day after Alonso drove Francisco Lindor—another of the Thumb Bunch, now deployed as the free cookie on second to open the New York tenth—home with a line single into the right center field gap.
Not the day after a third Thumb Buncher, Kevin Pillar, followed a free pass to Conforto by ripping a liner all the way down the left field line, sending Alonso and Conforto home as if they were escaping for their lives, Conforto following Alonso with an Olympic-level dive across the back of the plate.
Not the day after pinch hitter J.D. Davis was handed another free pass and Jonathan Villar cashed in at once by singling Pillar home for the fourth Met run of the tenth.
Not the day after Jeurys Familia returned to a once-familiar role, closing it out with a leadoff punchout and a pair of swift ground outs in the bottom of the tenth.
"As you can imagine," Alonso the Believer said post-game, "it's great. It's awesome to rip off (five) in a row. [But] we just have to win every possible game that we can. Regardless of the standings, we can only control what we can control. There's ebbs and flows in the season and right now we're just looking to finish strong."
"The whole thing is just the creativity as the game is kind of presenting what it is showing you as a pitcher, as a conductor," Hill said post-game of his own solid outing. "You saw a variation of a lot of different things out of my mechanics tonight. It wasn't necessarily just a traditional leg lift and a pitch and the timing was all the same. Trying to disrupt the timing is the whole art of pitching."
So Hill isn't as succinct as Hall of Famer Warren Spahn. (Hitting is timing, pitching is destroying timing.) But he sure pitched and sounded just as smart. Especially facing the heart of the Nats order three times, bringing them up empty, and surrendering only three hits overall during his six splendid.
Maybe the Nats helped the Mets' cause by some rather uncharacteristic basepath mistakes. But if pitching is disrupting or destroying timing, then winning in large enough part is making the other guys pay for their mistakes. Usually, this year, the Mets have paid through the nose (and any other orifice) for theirs.
Enjoy it while it lasts. However long it lasts. Seeing the August Mess come back to life for even five games was still a pleasure. They might (underline that) even have a few more surprises in store when they come home from their current trip to the division swamps.
"Every game is really huge at this point of the year," Alonso said. Stick to that attitude, Mets.
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Filmografía

Anime

Películas animadas
Free! Take Your Marks! (2017) como Amigo de Asahi
Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana o Kazarō (2018) como Hombre de Iolf
Given (2020) como Mafuyu Satō

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2016
The Idolmaster SideM como Nao Okamura

2017
Star Revolution☆88 Seiza no Idol Kakumei como Jun Kujira
Hiragana Danshi Itsura no Kowe como No
The Idolmaster SideM Live on Stage como Nao Okamura

Televisión
Shitsuren Chocolatier (Fuji TV, 2014)
Beauty and The Fellow (NHK G, 2015) como Candidato A
Iryū Sōsa (TV Asahi, 2015)
Keishichō Nashigoren-ka (TV Asahi, 2016) como Ken'ichi Kurashiki

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 Sitio web oficial
 Twitter oficial

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Team » H'San Natall appears in 7 issues.
A very powerful and dangerous race, bent on conquering wherever they can. They were enemies of the Teen Titans.
The H'San Natall is a very powerful and dangerous race, bent on conquering wherever they can. Their sphere of conquered planets numbered in the thousands. To this end, they use all sorts of tactics in invasion - including bio--engineering their own warriors. Years ago, the H'San Natall enslaved a group of Psion scientists. The Psions performed a number of experiments, including bioengineering the bounty hunter known as Jugular.
Seventeen years ago, the H'San Natall abducted nine woman from Earth. Each were brought aboard a ship and subjected to scientific testing and impregnation. All but one of these women ( Prysm's mother, who would become Queen) were released with their memories wiped clean. Nine months later, on June 21st, the H'San Natall/human hybrids were born. These children were a new breed of sleeper agents. Their powers lay dormant until their sixteenth birthdays.
Around that time, the H'San Natall planned to abduct the children and bring them back to the planet Titan for mental conditioning. After that, they would return to earth to battle meta-humans of Earth, defeating them before the H'San Natall would arrive to conquer the planet. The H'San Natall were only successful in capturing three of their 'agents': Isaiah Crockett (who would later become Joto and Hotspot), Toni Monetti (who would later become Argent), and Cody Driscoll (who would later become Risk).
Just before Crockett was abducted, the Atom was caught in the energy stream and was transported as well. Once on the alien ship they meet and rescue another Earth girl (who would later become Prysm) who was raised in a virtual reality environment that mimics life on Earth (based on olf TV shows from the 50's). The group of teenagers were able to escape the aliens and return to Earth.
During the adventure, the teens learned of their origins. They stayed together, and with the funding of Loren Jupiter, became the latest incarnation of the Teen Titans. Atom decided to remain on the team to learn how to readjust to his life as a teenager.
The H'San Natall used a group called the Veil as a front for their objectives. On the outside, the Veil was an organization with one objective: to eliminate all alien influence from the planet Earth. In actuality, its leader Pylon was a member of the H'San Natall. He was also assumed the identity of Garrison James, and aide to Congressman Dumont. Using his influence as an aide, Pylon was able to completely discredit the Teen Titans.
The Teen Titans were captured and brought to a H'San Natall ship for reprogramming as they planned the invasion on Earth. Superman, Changeling, and Captain Marvel Jr. were able to help rescue the Teen Titans. Although King Ch'Ah wanted to bring back their progeny back to their homeworld, Superman threatened to bring their mothership down if they continued any further acts of aggression. King Ch'ah stood down. Only Prysm and Fringe elected to return to the homeworld.
The H'San Natall society is composed of different classes, including but not limited to Technocrats, Workers, The Warrior Class, and the Ruling Class. Not all H'San Natall look alike. N'Takki (also known as Pylon) is part of the warrior cast, and has a ough leathery gray skin with horns protruding. Prysm's father, King Ch'Ah of the H'San Natall, resembes Prysm in appearance. His outer skin is glass-like and reflective to light. It is unknown what other member of the H'San Natall look alike..
Nine children were meant to be a new breed of sleeper agents. Their powers lay dormant until their sixteenth birthdays. The only agents accounted for are Risk, Argent, Joto, Prysm, Fringe and Scorcher (of Dark Nemesis), leaving three H'San Natall/human hybrids unaccounted for.


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The newspaper representatives who had met in Raleigh the prior Tuesday had not only re-examined their own position, but also that of the General Assembly regarding the claimed necessity of secret budget deliberations to protect from press abstraction of statements out of context made during those deliberations, thus giving a false impression to constituents back home before a matter had the opportunity for a full airing, but had nevertheless reached the conclusion set forth in their resolution that secret deliberations were inappropriate for protection of the rights of the people to be informed as to how their money was being spent. It reiterates that position.
"No Fair Play at All" indicates that the State Constitution had reversed the ordinary bicameral legislative process whereby one house represented the geographical units of the constituency and the other the people on the basis of population, such that the State House had one seat for each of the 100 counties in the state and 20 seats based on population, while the Senate was based entirely on population. The 1950 census had determined sufficient population in Mecklenburg, Guilford and Forsyth Counties for each to have two Senators rather than one, and the State Constitution provided that the Legislature had to redistrict based on the decennial census, not done by the 1951 Assembly or yet in the 1953 session.
But a bill had just been adopted the previous day in the House to amend the Constitution to prevent any county from having more than one Senator, which, if ultimately approved by the Senate and the people, would result in popular representation being permanently denied to the more populous counties.
It finds it "unfair, undemocratic, self-perpetuating" of the extant majority dominated by the small, rural counties, unless either the State Senate or the people refused to go along.
"The Bricker Resolution" indicates that Senator John W. Bricker's resolution to amend the Constitution regarding the treaty-making powers of the Government, purportedly to safeguard individual liberties, would actually make it more difficult to effect agreements between nations at a time when more effective international agreements were badly needed to solidify the free world against the onslaught of Communism. The editorial posits that the newspaper believed the proposed amendment posed one of the most momentous constitutional issues ever faced by the country, and because it was co-sponsored by 64 Senators, making its approval quite possible, the newspaper would subsequently have quite a bit to say on the topic, but for the time being, commends to readers the abstract on the page of Judge John J. Parker's testimony on the subject before the Senate Judiciary Committee the previous week.
"Up, Up, Up Go the Truck Weights" finds it curious and disturbing that the House Roads Committee had ignored warnings of competent officials of the State Highway Commission and approved heavier axle loads for trucks. The warnings, from the State's chief engineer, had been that the roads were deteriorating rapidly enough without adding to that deterioration by allowing additional weight, that aside from weather, trucks were the principal cause of road damage, and that the bill before the Committee would accelerate that damage.
It indicates that the State was spending many millions of dollars trying to rebuild its primary roads, questions whether it was wise to jeopardize that investment by increasing the weight limits, finding the answer self-evident.
A piece from the Asheville Citizen, titled "Science? It's Wonderful", after starting the piece with a quote from Confucius, tells of scientists at the University of Illinois having invented a machine called a "time compressor", which was a recording device to speed up words or music, enabling the speaker or singer to put 75 minutes worth of output into an hour of time by chopping up the words or sounds into strips and discarding those not essential to make sense or melody in the presentation. Rosemary Clooney's "Come On-a My House", for example, had, without change in the singer's pitch, been compressed by 30 percent.
It speculates as to what could be done to compress a Wagnerian opera to an hour's duration, "with the louder parts muted so a fellow can get a measured nap." Another suggested use was cutting a long editorial to a pithy sentence or two.
"Great thing, science. Confucius say, 'Science is golden'? Could be case."
Drew Pearson tells of House Speaker Joseph Martin being the easiest man in Congress to get along with, but also having certain ideas on how job appointments should be handled. At a recent Monday morning White House conference with the President, the Speaker had reminded him that it was customary to let Congressmen and Senators know in advance before a job was to be filled in their state so that they could get credit for helping make the appointment. He had tactfully made the statement through a Socratic exchange with the President, which Mr. Pearson sets forth. The result was that the President had told his chief of staff, Sherman Adams, somewhat irritatedly, to tighten the appointment liaison with Republicans in the Congress.
Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michigan, 77, was one of the "stormiest" Republicans in the Congress, attacking both Republicans and Democrats, just as likely to tangle with the Republican leadership as anyone else. Mr. Pearson, during a previous vacation, had once allowed Mr. Hoffman to get even by substituting for him in a column, of which the Congressman took full advantage by attacking Mr. Pearson, a column which was then published, calling Mr. Pearson a "deceiver of the people" who pretended "to give exclusive information which has already appeared" and was a "giver of effluvium colloquially known as stink." Thus, Mr. Pearson comments, he should not have been surprised when, on a recent morning, he was provided a subpoena to appear ten minutes later before Congressman Hoffman's special committee investigating undue influence in small business. Mr. Pearson admits having gotten the Congressman's district in Michigan mixed up with another and apologized for the error, so did not object to being hauled on the carpet by the Congressman. But other members of the committee did object, including Charles Brownson of Indianapolis, a Republican, and Frank Carsten of St. Louis, a Democrat, both objecting to the sudden subpoenas being issued without notification of other committee members, as well as to the establishment of special subcommittees to pry into anything which Congressman Hoffman wanted to do without a vote by other members. Subsequently, Speaker Martin also objected and told Mr. Hoffman to call off such activities. Mr. Martin feared that bringing newsmen before the committee would set a precedent for other committee chairmen to subpoena anyone who wrote a story critical of Congress. He had also heard that Congressman Hoffman had planned to investigate CIO influence in a Democratic convention in Michigan in 1950, far too tangential to probing Federal spending, of which his committee had oversight, and so determined, along with Republican floor leader Charles Halleck of Indiana, that it was time to act, informing Mr. Hoffman that if he did not stop the practice, funding for his investigations would be cut off.
Chief Judge John J. Parker of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in excerpts from testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee the previous week, says that the proposal to amend the existing treaty-making power of the President, with the advice and consent of two-thirds of the Senators present, to require, in addition, a majority of both houses of Congress for a treaty's implementation, including executive agreements, had gained its strength from the perception that treaties could be used to impair the liberties of the people, but, he believes, there was no sound basis for that fear, as basic liberties were guaranteed by express provisions of the Constitution, and that it was well-settled that any treaty, as with any act of Congress, in conflict with express provisions of the Constitution was, ab initio, void, needing only the courts then so to rule.
In addition, the fact of the necessity of two-thirds of the Senate to ratify any treaty served as protection against any such consequent derogation of liberty. Furthermore, treaties could be abrogated by the Congress at any time through affirmative legislation.
Regarding executive agreements, the Judge indicates that they were subject to control by Congress under present constitutional provisions. The President, as commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy, had power to make such agreements, and, incident to the power to see that the laws were faithfully executed, had the power to enter into agreements with foreign countries, necessary to their enforcement. Yet, even the exercise of that power was subject to control by Congress through its powers to declare war, make peace and regulate commerce with foreign nations, as well as by the fact that all money necessary to carry out such agreements had to come from appropriations authorized by Congress. He indicates that the greater number of executive agreements were made pursuant to Congressional authorization or were made expressly subject to Congressional approval or implementation.
Problems had arisen in connection with those agreements, such as whether Congress should be required to approve changes in tariff rates made pursuant to such agreements, or whether certain agreements made pursuant to them which performed the function of treaties should require ratification by two-thirds of the Senate. Those problems, he indicates, would probably require additional legislation for their satisfactory solution, but should not require the hamstringing of the executive by requiring executive agreements to be subjected to the limitations imposed on treaties.
Joseph & Stewart Alsop find that the President's problems with Senator Joseph McCarthy were likely to start again soon, should the Senator's statements of his own intentions prove trustworthy. The Senator had confided to one of the ablest Washington reporters, during the recent controversy over the confirmation of Charles Bohlen as Ambassador to Russia, that he would be heavily defeated on the matter, but that they were going to "get Dulles's head." The Alsops find, therefore, that the Senator was intent on playing the same role vis-à-vis President Eisenhower which Huey Senator Long of Louisiana had played vis-à-vis FDR during the early to mid-Thirties.
The President, behind the scenes, had been angered by the Senator's recent opposition to Mr. Bohlen and the criticism of Mr. Dulles, but had, nevertheless, made commitments to him which might prove embarrassing in the future. Senators Taft and William Knowland had borne the brunt of the Bohlen controversy in the Senate, but had not enjoyed doing so, and reportedly had complained to the President, who promised them to avoid making further requests which would likely divide the Republican Party in Congress, assuring even closer coordination with the Congressional leadership to ensure no repeat of the Bohlen controversy. But the President could only buy peace within his party at a "shocking price", as long as Senator McCarthy wanted to pick a quarrel. Senator McCarthy and the other anti-Eisenhower Republicans were strongly entrenched in the Senate Appropriations Committee, chaired by Senator Styles Bridges, and the next step in getting at Mr. Dulles would likely be an attack on State Department and foreign aid appropriations via that Committee.
Senator Taft might advise heavy cuts in those appropriations to maintain peace in the party, and, in that event, the President would have to choose between honoring his semi-commitment to Senator McCarthy or maintaining his foreign policy. If the President maintained peace within the party, Senator McCarthy would likely find a way to emphasize his victory, making himself appear bigger at the President's expense. Nothing less, the Alsops venture, could be expected from the Senator, especially in light of his recent attempt to grab public credit for the State Department's long and laboriously negotiated agreement with the Greek Government to prevent shipments of contraband goods to Communist China via ships sailing under the Greek flag.
A letter writer thinks that the March 28 editorial, "One-Way Streets Are Safer Too", had been guilty of non sequitur, that the statistics quoted were prima facie evidence that traffic problems had been intensified rather than alleviated by the new one-way streets in the city, that there was nothing good about an enormous increase in traffic volume unless accompanied by a decrease on the more congested nearby streets, indicating that those streets were suffering four times the traffic along what was tantamount to a "macadamized goat-track reminiscent of a back alley in a Mexican village."
A letter writer indicates that he had been interested in the amount of money needed to build a new Coliseum and Auditorium and wonders why it was necessary to burden the already-burdened taxpayers with that additional amount at present, as the Armory-Auditorium, which had served its purpose for many years, already existed. He believed that the Coliseum and Auditorium ought be put on the back burner for a few years.
A letter writer suggests that the Mecklenburg County Republican Party could be called the "Under-Wraps-Party" for its return to its old ways after having waged a campaign the prior year to develop a two-party system, now announcing the same old local persons as candidates for local offices, as "crusading" Republicans were awaiting appointments of Federal judges or U.S. Attorneys, and so he questions where was the two-party system. He offers that it had lasted but three months and that even then was only on paper.
A letter writer from Stokesdale expresses weariness in dispensing make-believe sympathy for UNC athletic teams in recent years, that it was true that coach Carl Snavely of the football team had been victimized by circumstances beyond his control and that it was equally true that new basketball coach Frank McGuire had been correct in saying that he would need at least two years to build his team to the point where they could hope to challenge N.C. State and other college powers. But he finds that no one had shed any tears for coach McGuire, as his players had played well until the middle of the season, even with the mediocre talent inherited from former coach Tom Scott, but then ran out of inspiration and faith in themselves toward the end—having been 15-3 at the end of January, only to wind up 17-10, including two drubbings by State, the latter in the first round of the Southern Conference Tournment in Raleigh. Even so, they had beaten eventual conference champion State in the first match-up and Wake Forest, and had a winning season for the first time in three years. He warns that other teams and coaches should beat the Tar Heels while they could.
As to the basketball team, his advice would prove prescient, as would the prediction of coach McGuire, whose next two teams would post records of 11-10 and 10-11, respectively, before rebounding to an 18-5 record in 1956, and the rest... And, assuming we have a college basketball season next year in 2020-21, a considerable assumption at this point, we say to those other coaches and schools that you had your chance and made the best of it this past season, but look out for the next, as you will suffer for having stepped on our shoes.


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St David's College Basketball
St David's College Basketball allows you to balance your education and basketball pathway to be your best in the classroom and on the court.
St David's basketball consists of a men's and women's team, providing a busy training schedule with high-level coaching, strength and conditioning support and extensive court access.
In recent years, St David's Basketball has seen a number of its student-athletes progress onto American scholarships, with Maisie Harrhy playing at Missouri Valley and Emily Stradling playing at Mercer University in Georgia.
On the Court and in the Classroom
No need for compromise
All learners of St David's College are eligible for the basketball programme and trials are at the start of the academic year. You do not have to take sport or PE as a subject, meaning that you don't need to compromise your career goals or your basketball goals.
St David's Men's Basketball competes in the AoC Sport South West Men's Basketball League 1, competing against some of the best basketball players in Wales and South West England.
Players have
Coach Lauren Saiki brings the knowledge of being a WBBL player to the Academies Women's players, with extensive but fun training sessions and competitive matches.
Players have exposure to the Cardiff Met Archers, the only Welsh team in the WBBL. Many St David's players have progressed through the ranks at Cardiff Met Archers and have represented Wales. In recent years, two academy players have progressed to the USA on basketball scholarships.
St David's Basketball Academy is led by Cardiff Archers Head Coach and Wales Captain, James Dawe.
The coaching teams consists of Archers Coach Severiano Tiberi and Women's British Basketball League players Lauren Saiki and Shannon Hatch.
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Welsh basketball star Maisie Harrhy gets scholarship in USA
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The Academy aims to produce top-class players and increase the number of players being called up for trials at Premier League clubs and Welsh Schools and Colleges Teams. The Academy will provide links with American College programmes so students can...


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It's winter. And it's time to jam. Simple as that! The aptly named Winter Jam 2015 returns to Fort Wayne, Indiana and takes place Thursday, March 19 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.
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Start working on your swing before the season starts, by attending the Northern Indiana Golf Show! It comes to the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum March 14 and 15.
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Down the Line 9 Features Favorite Classic-Rock Covers - and You Can WIN TICKETS!
Have you always dreamed of seeing your favorite rock musicians live in performance together? Well here's your chance. Down the Line 9 brings the electrifying vibe of a live performance, with the songs you know by heart and the artists you love.
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"I love you more and more every day if it's even possible to love someone that much."
You aren't a true sitcom addict if you haven't watched the best American teen drama called Gossip Girls! I mean, how can you not watch and go wow at the sacred friendship shared by Blair Waldorf and Serena Van Der Woodsen?
Every season of this series and every little instance from the lives of Blair, Chuck, Serena, Dan, Nate and almost every character has a beautiful yet brutal life lesson to teach!
Who hasn't heard Blair's infamous dialogue, "Three words. Eight letters. Say it and I'm yours."?
The show has so many Upper East Side quotes that just listing them down is never going to be enough.


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Albert Einstein Religion Views
The letter touches of the physicist's view of religion, as well as his beliefs toward the idea of God as well. Author of the 2007 biography "Einstein", Walter Isaacson, said: "He did not believe in a.
A handwritten letter from Albert Einstein about his thoughts on God, religion and his search for meaning is to. The letter, already been shown in Shanghai, goes on public view in New York from.
May 17, 2011 · Although Albert Einstein was not an atheist, he did not believe in the existence of a personal God, primarily because of the existence of evil in the world. Einstein didn't seem to understand that one could not choose between good and evil if evil did not exist.
On 12 April 1930, Albert Einstein attended a concert. is that they quote me for support of such views." "There are fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the.
Albert Einstein: God, Religion & Theology Explaining Einstein's understanding of God as the Universe / Reality. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty – it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
Feb 19, 2007. After all, experts in comparative religion can list well over 240 gods in whom people. In order to plot Einstein's location on the spectrum of religious belief and disbelief it. It is included in Albert Einstein: The Human Side, ed.
Mar 7, 2008. We need to look more closely at Einstein's writings to get a clearer idea of his beliefs. Max Jammer's book Einstein and Religion: Physics and.
A handwritten letter in which Nobel physicist Albert Einstein took issue with the. is regarded as a key manuscript in the debate over science and religion and is Einstein's clearest statement of.
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Did Albert Einstein believe in God? In 1992 when. somewhat new kind of religion." Recently. main source of conflict between science and religion. God was.
May 13, 2008. Albert Einstein regarded religions as "childish" and "primitive. The great scientist's views on religion have long been debated, with many.
Jul 11, 2013. Einstein Answers a Little Girl's Question about Science vs. Religion. Phyllis from posing it to none other than the great Albert Einstein (March 14, It began by asking whether we could believe in both science and religion.
Albert Einstein's activities as a passionate advocate for peace were well-documented during his lifetime. His celebrity as a famous physicist and one of the world's most recognizable faces lent a great deal of weight to his pacifism, a view otherwise not given much consideration in the popular press at.
Religion and Science. Return to Top; The following article by Albert Einstein appeared in the New York Times Magazine on November 9, 1930 pp 1-4. It has been reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, Crown Publishers, Inc. 1954, pp 36 – 40.It also appears in Einstein's book The World as I See It, Philosophical Library, New York, 1949, pp. 24 – 28. Everything that the human race has done and thought is.
Religion was discouraged in the Einstein home and, therefore, Albert never received any instruction in. Unlike them, though, his views were not Bible based.
in Albert Einstein's collection of essays simply titled 'Ideas and Opinions'. We have, however, chosen to focus today on the great scientist's views as regards religion, morality, God and the.
Nov 25, 2016. In his infamous 1930 essay titled "Religion and Science," Einstein disparaged the idea of a personal God. He never recanted this view, but.
A handwritten letter from physicist Albert Einstein in which he explicitly rejected. The God letter seems to outline Einstein's view of formal religion and the idea of a God who plays an active.
Feb 20, 2017. While Albert Einstein will forever be celebrated for his scientific acumen, it is his views on our most transcendental themes that should be.
Albert Einstein was widely known during his lifetime for his work with the theory of relativity and physics in general. He was also an important peace activist, a believer in a very limited form of world government and a socialist.His political opinions were of public interest through the middle of the 20th century due to his fame and involvement in political, humanitarian and academic.
The new National Geographic series about Albert Einstein, Genius. emphasis on the differences that divide the Jews of different lands and different religious views. And we forget often that it is.
Oct 4, 2018. A letter by Albert Einstein mocking God and religion will be auctioned off. offers a window into the religious views of the acclaimed physicist.
May 13, 2015. An exceptional collection of intimate and personal Albert Einstein letters will be auctioned off in June, including his notable views on religion.
May 2, 2005. The religious background and religious beliefs of Albert Einstein.
May 23, 2019 · Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century.
The essay is called "The Common Language of Science." It was recorded in September of 1941 as a radio address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The recording was apparently made in America, as Einstein never returned to Europe after emigrating from Germany in 1933. Einstein.
German scientist Albert Einstein's most famous letter about his views on God and religion, written just a year before his death, has been sold for a whopping USD 2.89 million at an auction in New York.
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire, on 14 March 1879. His parents were Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, and Pauline Koch.In 1880, the family moved to Munich, where Einstein's father and his uncle Jakob founded Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie, a company that manufactured electrical equipment based on direct current.
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On this date in 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. 9, 1930), Einstein wrote about his views on religion, and wonder at the cosmic mysteries: " This.
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This page contains many of Einstein's personal thoughts on God, religion, mysticism, and spirituality. Hopefully it will allow the reader to get a deeper understanding of what Einstein believed and why he.
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Sep 17, 2011. As Albert Einstein was a very famous scientist, people are interested in his views regarding religion and God.
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Q: how to display texboxes dynamically in android app development? Hi I need to display the EditText boxes dynamically depending upon some number. I tried like this:
   et1=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
    et1.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    et2=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText2);
    et2.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    et3=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText3);
    et3.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    et4=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText3);
    et4.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    et5=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText3);
    et5.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    for(i=1;i<=wl;++i)
    {
    et+i.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }

I am new to android app development. I knew there is something wrong in the for loop...could anyone fix it?? and also it would be appreciated if someone come up with some other method to disply the EditText box dynamically

A: You cant do "et+i" in Java!
You can create ArrayList, then put to it et1, et2, et3... and then iterate.

A: Perhaps what you were thinking about something more like this:
EditText[] ets = new EditText[5];
int i;
ets[0]=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
ets[0].setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
ets[1]=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText2);
ets[1].setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
...
ets[4]=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText3);
ets[4].setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
for(i=0;i<=4;++i)
{
  ets[i].setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}

Then again, if you're using findViewById, you're not likely to need an array at all. Just illustrating how you'd do what you're asking about using an array.  I think if I were doing something like this, I'd be thinking more about creating the EditText's more programmatically.

Here's a utility method I have that creates a dialog programmatically and has some EditText's in it, hope this helps.
public static void testNotification(final Activity activity)
{
  Dialog dlg = new Dialog(activity);
  dlg.setTitle("Notification Test");

  LinearLayout dlgView = new LinearLayout(activity);
  dlgView.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);
  dlg.addContentView(dlgView, new LayoutParams(200, 200));

  final EditText et1 = new EditText(activity);
  et1.setText("ABC");
  dlgView.addView(et1);

  final EditText et2 = new EditText(activity);
  et2.setText("XYZ");
  dlgView.addView(et2);

  Button btn = new Button(activity);
  btn.setText("Go");
  dlgView.addView(btn);

  et1.setWidth(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);
  et2.setWidth(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);
  btn.setWidth(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);

  btn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v)
    {
      Util.doNotification(activity, et1.getText().toString(), et2.getText()
          .toString());
    }
  });
  dlg.show();
  return;
}

A: What you are doing is not correct.You can do it this way
et1=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
et1.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
et2=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText2);
et2.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
et3=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText3);
et3.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
et4=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText4);
et4.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
et5=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText5);
et5.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
for(i=0;i<=4;i++)
{
  String editTextName = editText+(i+1);
  int resID = getResources().getIdentifier(editTextName , "id", getPackageName());
  EditText et = (EditText) findViewById(resID);
  et.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}

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Fa, la, eek: "Holidayz in Hell" is the latest fall 2019 maze reveal from Universal Studios Hollywood.
A popular scare zone from 2018 has (evilly) flowered into a full-on maze for 2019. Welcome to "Holidayz in Hell," the newest be-brave attraction at Universal's upcoming Halloween Horror Nights.
Holidays are happy times, all in all, but there's a growing ghoulish movement to unearth the merry monsters that hang out at the eerier edges of such occasions.
Yuletide legends like "Krampus" tap into this, but consider that the calender is positively awash in special moments that may possess a more intense character, in addition to their lighter tributes.
Halloween Horror Nights considered just this spooky subject in 2018 via its popular, super-talked-about "Holidayz in Hell" scare zone.
If you've been to the Universal Studios Hollywood autumntime spectacular, you know that a scare zone is different from a maze; the "Holidayz in Hell" scare zone was outside, under the sky, and was far more "open" than a twisty-turny maze, giving it a less intense feel.
The intensity, however, will be way amped up when "Holidayz in Hell" returns to Halloween Horror Nights as a full-on maze in the fall of 2019, beginning on Friday, Sept. 13.
Indeed, this is what's deemed an "original" maze at the event, as it isn't drawn from branded entertainment or a franchise. Halloween Horror Nights has become known for offering fear fans both famous properties, in maze form, as well as the occasional original experience, such as this one.
Will the Easter Bunny be in the horror-filled house? Hoppity scream.
Will there be mischievous leprechauns from St. Patrick's Day, a gobble-ghoulish Thanksgiving turkey, and the sort of summer-holiday icons that aren't as sunshiny as you remember?
It's a through-the-looking-glass gas, one that flips the holidays we know, creating something creepy, at times humorous, and deeply weird.
This is, by the way, the second maze reveal to emerge from the 2019 Halloween Horror Nights team.
The first? "Stranger Things" will bike back into the multi-week event, only this time you'll geek out over scenes seen in seasons 2 and 3 (which, yes, hasn't even premiered yet).
Do you love the holidays, while also acknowledging that they can be stressful, drama-filled, and, yes, even a little eerie?
Your dream maze is hop, hop, hopping into Halloween Horror Nights on Friday the 13th, this September.
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Faculty put past behind them after lawsuits, tension
By: Abby Doman
After an eventful couple of years, Dixie State University faculty and administration are describing the atmosphere as quiet. The 2020-2025 strategic plan's Faculty and Staff Life section outlines improvements for compensation and other concerns. Graphic by Kelsey Jackson.
Things are quiet at Dixie State University after years of tension.
The term quiet would not have been a word that echoed the halls of DSU throughout 2019 when two tenured faculty members were terminated and asked to sign controversial Last Chance Agreements for allegedly violating DSU policies.
A federal lawsuit from one of these professors is now currently making its way through the judicial process.
The contents of the Last Chance Agreement resulted in protests, an audit, faculty senate resignations and a Faculty Call to Action.
Now, however, faculty members are attempting to put the past behind them and look to the future.
"You have got to realize when you have lost the battle," said Professor of Sociology Matt Smith-Lahrman. "For better or for worse, I am over [what happened]."
By serving as faculty senate president-elect this year, and faculty senate president next year, Bill Christensen, professor of business management, said he hopes to make positive changes that will help instill a greater sense of belonging and security among DSU faculty.
One way DSU is figuring out the wants and needs of faculty is by sending out a survey to faculty to find out how faculty are feeling. This survey is funded under the Faculty and Staff Life goal of the 2020-2025 strategic plan.
The last time this survey was done was in 2017. The report found more faculty wanting compensation for their work.
"You have got to realize when you have lost the battle,"
Professor of Sociology Matt Smith-Lahrman
Christensen said he plans to review all policies that directly impact faculty members and suggest changes, specifically focused on maintaining academic freedom, and on protections that come with tenure.
"I am not sure that our current policy [protects academic freedom and tenure] as well as it should," Christensen said. "It does it, but I think some of those things need to be clarified.
Although the current policy review process provides opportunities for faculty participation and feedback, Christensen said he would like to explore ways in which the voice of faculty is better articulated, and through polling or voting, provide a means for faculty to speak with one voice regarding policy changes and any broadly held concerns.
Smith-Lahrman agreed that it is up to the faculty to go through the proper channels to air grievances with policy, which are open for comment.
"We have avenues through the faculty senate if we want to air our grievances and we can chime in on policy," Smith-Lahrman said. "There is a system in place for the administration to hear our policies."
Smith-Lahrman said he feels comfortable with the avenues available to him to get his voice heard.
Tiffany Draper, director of new student and family programs, said the goals planning on being implemented in the strategic plan are to help create a welcoming environment for faculty, staff and students.
"Things are quiet right now," Smith-Lahrman said. "Quiet is OK.
To see DSU policies under review, visit https://dixie.edu/policylibrary/policies-under-review/.
To learn more about the 2020-2025 strategic plan, visit https://strategicplanning.dixie.edu/.


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A Trento–Velence-vasútvonal egy 158 km hosszúságú, normál nyomtávolságú, Maerne és Velence között kétvágányú vasútvonal Trento és Velence között. A vasútvonal Bassano és Velence között 3 kV egyenárammal van villamosítva. Tulajdonosa az RFI, a vonatokat a Trenitalia üzemelteti. A pályára engedélyezett legnagyobb sebesség 120–140 km/h, a vonatok átlagsebessége 50 km/h körüli. A menetidő a két végállomás között 3,5 óra.

A vasútvonal 1918-ig nemzetközi vonal volt az Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia és az Olasz Királyság között, ám a határok módosulásával a teljes vonal Olaszországhoz került.

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 Gian Piero Sciocchetti: La ferrovia della Valsugana, Associazione Amici della storia, Pergine Valsugana 1998.
 Rete Ferroviaria Italiana: Fascicolo Linea 49 (Trento–Primolano).
 Rete Ferroviaria Italiana: Fascicolo Linea 56 (Primolano–Bassano del Grappa–Venezia Mestre).

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October Proclaimed American Pharmacists Month in Oxford
Pharmacy school students, faculty support proclamation
October 25, 2015 by Gabrielle Gero
OXFORD, Miss. – Mayor George "Pat" Patterson has declared October as American Pharmacists Month in Oxford. Patterson recently signed a proclamation in support of the American Pharmacists Association's national campaign "Know Your Pharmacist – Know Your Medicine."
"We are very pleased to recognize the important work that pharmacists provide to our community," Patterson said. "As one of the oldest and most trusted professions, pharmacists do a great deal to improve the health and well-being of our citizens."
Although initially signed by the mayor in October 2014, the proclamation was officially read at Oxford's Board of Aldermen meeting on Oct. 6, 2015. Dean David D. Allen and first-year professional student Justin Cabral of Arrington, Tennessee, represented the School of Pharmacy at the meeting.
Allen, who was asked by the mayor to address the Board of Aldermen at the meeting, said he feels honored that the profession of pharmacy has been supported in this manner.
"American Pharmacists Month serves an incredibly important purpose by raising awareness of all that pharmacists do," Allen said. "It was humbling to see our profession recognized by the city of Oxford with this proclamation. I'm so thankful for Mayor Patterson's leadership, as well as his support of local pharmacists and the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy."
Kelsey Stephens, APhA-Academy of Student Pharmacists chapter president and third-year professional student, attended the first meeting with Patterson and Allen in 2014.
"It was a very exciting process, meeting with city officials and explaining the importance of the pharmacy profession," said Stephens, a Greenwood native. "I am honored to have been a part of this step in helping recognize pharmacists across our city and state."
The proclamation states that "pharmacy professionals are an integral part of the health care team serving as medication experts" and that "Mississippi's licensed pharmacists provide an invaluable service."
On the local, state and national levels, American Pharmacists Month aims to elevate awareness of the role a pharmacist plays in health care and to promote the profession of pharmacy as a whole. For more information on the national campaign, visit http://www.pharmacist.com/american-pharmacists-month.
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