This is one job opportunity the Chinese could outsource to America, as one of those 'stay at home and earn thousands every month'. I'm sure there are Americans out there who'd do it for a fraction of the salary they're offering.
Words like "travesty" don't usually apply to a high school baseball game. They do when the final score of that game is 65-0.
As first noted by the Newark Advocate, a newspaper in Ohio, and followed upon by Sporting News columnist Bill Bender, the Licking County (Oh.) Licking Heights High baseball team routed Columbus (Oh.) Harvest Prep High by a final score of 65-0. The game was halted after three innings, by which point Licking Heights already had accumulated 48 hits, 13 walks and a troubling 11 hit batsmen.
The Hornets scored 16 runs in the first inning, 18 runs in the second and 31 in the third. Harvest Prep scored no runs at all.
"It's the most awkward I've ever felt in 34 years of coaching," Licking Heights coach Jeff Boyer told the Sporting News. "I didn't know what to feel. I wasn't happy. I felt bad for their kids and didn't know what to tell our kids."
Before anyone blame the state of Ohio for not having a mercy rule to halt such a game, it's worth noting that it does. However, that rule calls for games to end abruptly if one team holds a 10-run lead after five innings and does not have provisions for games that get far out of hand earlier. In the case of Licking Heights and Harvest Prep, the game was called after three innings because of encroaching darkness, not the astounding 65-0 score.
While there is no defending a 65-0 final score, it appears that Boyer tried -- or offered to try -- just about every alternative at his disposal to minimize the damage. At one point Boyer claims he went to the game's home plate umpire and offered to have his players bunt and then step on the plate to guarantee an out.
The umpire's response to that possibility? Boyer made that clear, and hinted at its irony.
"... he said he didn't want it to be a travesty of a game. And I'm thinking, 'We're already there.' "
While the two teams will meet again on April 22, Boyer has made it clear that Licking Heights is committed to avoiding the kind of embarrassment that resulted from the teams' first encounter. That's all for the best for both teams, regardless of how responsible Licking Heights could possibly be for the eye-popping lopsided final score.
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What, did the prep school chess club double as their baseball team? I could see something like that happening at a badly-coached little league game, but high school? Was this "Prep High" a special-needs school? Hmm, apparently not, although this suggests some sort of trouble at the school. Over-compensating for an embarrassing recruiting scandal a few years back?
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Licking Heights?
YJCMTSU.
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If the victorious coach was really worried about the score he should have told his team to hit the ball towards infielders. Practice aiming their hits and give them the best chance of making a play. The bunt step in the plate gambit is judt humiliating the other team.
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Regardless, they should have at least been able to accidentally get those three outs. 24 free base runners is a pitching problem; mighty Obama takes the mound. I want Harvest to go back out there after taking a Licking.
I had to post something earlier on this but the malware was an issue for me
At 97, retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole can still fly and land a vintage B-25 with a wide grin and a wave out the cockpit window to amazed onlookers.
David Thatcher, 91, charms admiring World War II history buffs with detailed accounts of his part in the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, in which he earned a Silver Star.
Retired Lt. Col. Edward Saylor, 93, still gets loud laughs from crowds for his one liners about the historic bombing raid 71 years ago Thursday that helped to boost a wounded nation's morale in the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Cole, Thatcher and Saylor -- three of the four surviving crew members from the history-making bombing run -- are at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle for a final public reunion of the Doolittle Raiders. They decided to meet at Eglin because it is where they trained for their top-secret mission in the winter of 1942, just weeks after the Japanese devastated the American fleet at Pearl Harbor.
The fourth surviving raider, 93-year-old Robert Hite, could not make the event.
"At the time of the raid, you know the war was on and it was just a mission we went on, we were lucky enough to survive it but it didn't seem like that big of a deal at the time. I spent the rest of the war in Europe and with the guys in Normandy and taking bodies out of airplanes and stuff and I didn't feel like a hero," Saylor said Wednesday following a ceremony in which an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter maintenance hangar at the base was named in his honor.
Saylor joked with the audience of young airmen and local dignitaries.
"My reaction when I out found out we were bombing Japan from an aircraft carrier was that it was too far to swim back home so we might as well go ahead with it," he said.
The 16 planes, loaded with one-ton bombs, took off from the aircraft carrier on less than 500 feet of runway. They had only enough fuel to drop their bombs and try to land in China with the hope that the Chinese would help them to safety.
"We were all pretty upbeat about it, we didn't have any bad thoughts about what was going to happen. We just did what we had to do," said Cole, who was Doolittle's co-pilot.
Wednesday's event at the base is part of a weeklong series of activities planned by the military and community leaders to honor the men.
Thomas Casey, business manager for the Raiders and a longtime fan of the men, said the four survivors have decided they can no longer keep up with the demands of group public appearances.
"The mission ends here in Fort Walton Beach on Saturday night, but their legacy starts then," he said.
Casey said he hopes everyone who has had a chance to interact with the men will keep their legacy alive. "I want them to tell the story to their children, their grandchildren, their neighbors and keep their story going because their story is worthwhile telling."
At each reunion is a case containing 80 silver goblets with the name of each raider inscribed right-side up and upside down on a single goblet. The men toast their fallen comrades each year and turn their goblets upside down in their honor.
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."
Then he said "Good-night!" and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.
Meanwhile, his friend through alley and street
Wanders and watches, with eager ears,
Till in the silence around him he hears
The muster of men at the barrack door,
The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,
And the measured tread of the grenadiers,
Marching down to their boats on the shore.
Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church,
By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belfry chamber overhead,
And startled the pigeons from their perch
On the sombre rafters, that round him made
Masses and moving shapes of shade,--
By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,
To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town
And the moonlight flowing over all.
Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,
In their night encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, "All is well!"
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay,--
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide like a bridge of boats.
Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Now he patted his horse's side,
Now he gazed at the landscape far and near,
Then, impetuous, stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened his saddle girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search
The belfry tower of the Old North Church,
As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns.
A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark
Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet;
That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night;
And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,
Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.
It was twelve by the village clock
When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.
He heard the crowing of the cock,
And the barking of the farmer's dog,
And felt the damp of the river fog,
That rises after the sun goes down.
It was one by the village clock,
When he galloped into Lexington.
He saw the gilded weathercock
Swim in the moonlight as he passed,
And the meeting-house windows, black and bare,
Gaze at him with a spectral glare,
As if they already stood aghast
At the bloody work they would look upon.
It was two by the village clock,
When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
He heard the bleating of the flock,
And the twitter of birds among the trees,
And felt the breath of the morning breeze
Blowing over the meadow brown.
And one was safe and asleep in his bed
Who at the bridge would be first to fall,
Who that day would be lying dead,
Pierced by a British musket ball.
You know the rest. In the books you have read
How the British Regulars fired and fled,---
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
>From behind each fence and farmyard wall,
Chasing the redcoats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,---
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
This poem is one of many published by the EServer, a non-profit collective of students and faculty at Iowa State University.
The Imperial Japanese military forces were on a roll throughout the Pacific. Nothing could stop them then. The war news from Europe and the Pacific was bad.
Then Doolittle and his B-25 crews flew on this one way mission. They did minimal damage to Japan by their bombing raid, but they shook up the Japanese govt and military, and they gave US morale a great lift.
Hats off to all the Doolittle raiders, and to the four surviving crewmembers. The nation owes you a debt of gratitude. Well done. Well done.
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An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined. - Napoleon
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Tied up a lot of resources and personnel of the Emperor's military and ultimately saved a lot of Allied lives. These guys are true heroes.
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And we must remember the great price that the Chinese paid for aiding the downed airmen. Imperial Japanese troops killed over 200,000 Chinese in retaliation for the raid on Japan.
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What AP said (both times).
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[Dawn] A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit northwestern Iran on Thursday, only days after a deadly temblor struck near the border with Pakistain, media reported citing the seismological centre at Tehran University.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in the latest quake which struck at 3:09 pm (local time), at a depth of eight kilometres, in the town of Tassouj.
"So far there are no reports of damage... We are in touch with the prefect of Tassouj and local authorities stand ready," to deal with any crisis, ISNA news agency reported quoting Khalil Saiie, a local official from East Azerbaijan province.
A Red Islamic Thingy official, also quoted by ISNA, said there was no immediate information about any casualties in Tassouj, or in the towns of Maragheh and Shabestar which also felt the quake. It was followed by two low-intensity aftershocks.
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Lots of EM balls + Colored Aurorae over Hagatna Bay + WESTPAC, which I suppose could technically include as far as the Persian Gulf or beyond.
Personally, I'm more concerned about the increasing frequency of background distortions, i.e. "bending of reality".
E.g. IIRC RUSSIA TODAY > [Stephen] HAWKING: MANKIND HAS 1000 YEARS TO LEAVE EARTH, as due to Mankind/Humanity being at high risk of Enviro-led natural extinction widin the current Millenium.
The Sun, SIRIUS Event, + GWCC include
"Anthropogenic Man-Made" GWCC would fall widin the scope of Hawking's argument. I WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT IFF HAWKING, ETAL. KNOWS SOMETHING THAT THE US GOVT. + MSM IS INTENTIONALLY REPRESSING.
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Clue for Iran (I'm talking to you, Ah-a-dinnah-jacket): Allen really doesn't like you and your behavior, as he keep showing you by sending you earthquakes.
Pay attention and repent!
The 12th imam ain't coming. The well is empty. Get over it.
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AYNABO, Somalia The breakaway region of Somalilands Interior Minister Mohamed Nur Araale stated that 16 people were arrested for the jailbreak that killed a Somaliland intelligence chief, Garowe Online reports.
Minister Araale stated at a press conference in Hargeisa that Somaliland authorities have arrested 16 men who have been charged with conspiring to free two men who had been jailed in Aynabo jail station for a grazing land dispute issue.
In the city of Aynabo at the local jail station a group of armed men stormed the jail station forcefully freeing two men from their clan. Luckily there were armed forces who were operating in the area and heard the gunshots and rushed to the scene, successfully arresting 16 armed men who participated in the jailbreak, said Minister Araales on Tuesdays meeting.
Saraar region Intelligence Chief Ahmed Aydid was killed in the jailbreak also two correction officers were injured.
Minister Araale stated that the cause of the arrest of the two was because of a grazing land dispute. He stated that the jailbreak did not have any relation to a recent land dispute over oil exploration in the area.
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Russia's Dagestan region scrapped popular elections for governor on Thursday to allow President Putin to pick its leader under a new law that some call a setback for democracy.
That pretty well describes all of Russia, doesn't it?
Dagestan was the first province to make use of the law, signed by Putin this month, allowing each of Russia's 83 regions to scrap direct gubernatorial elections, introduced just last year as a concession to a wave of protests against Putin's dominance.
Putin has staked his reputation on the success of the 2014 Winter Olympics next February in the resort city of Sochi, close to the North Caucasus. The Kremlin is worried that elections there could cause unrest or bring in candidates whose loyalty is in question.
Putin fired Dagestan's governor in January and named Soviet-era politician Ramazan Abdulatipov, whom critics view as having deeper political ties to Moscow than to his native province, as acting governor.
Popular elections of governors were started after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin abolished them during his previous 2000-2008 presidency, citing the need for more control after deadly attacks by militants based in the North Caucasus.They were reintroduced last year in a concession to street protests by Russians.
h/t Donald Sensing
The former director of a leading abortion advocacy group who was caught in a child sex sting pleaded guilty to his crimes.
Scott Richard Swirling, who was the director of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA), was arrested for attempting to arrange for a sexual encounter with a twelve-year-old girl. He was charged with traveling across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct, a crime which carries a penalty of up to 30 years. A comment by Sensing "I am sure the media will cover this as thoroughly as they covered the Gosnell case."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Words like "travesty" don't usually apply to a high school baseball game. They do when the final score of that game is 65-0.
[Dawn] A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit northwestern Iran on Thursday, only days after a deadly temblor struck near the border with Pakistain, media reported citing the seismological centre at Tehran University.
