Home-grown Brave burns Linebrink with winning homer in eighth
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- Home-grown Brave burns Linebrink with winning homer in eighth
- Home-grown talent owns bright future: Adams State Track &…
- Easter Sunday – the day we start living off the rest of the world
- A weekend on the sauce
- DVDs of the week: The Night of The Shooting Stars, Day of the Dead…
Home-grown Brave burns Linebrink with winning homer in eighth
San Diego Union Tribune – Apr 15, 2006
Now and then, the Padres have backed up their talk. The Braves, meantime, just keep coming up with home-grown impact athletes, and last night the latest wave dealt Scott Linebrink and the Padres a 5-4 defeat at Turner Field. Meet Jeff Francoeur, a former star quarterback who hit 55 home runs for his Georgia high school. Last night, the 22-year-old broke a 4-4 tie in the eighth when he rifled Linebrink's three-ball, one-strike fastball over the left-field wall – Francoeur's third homer in two games. Or take Ryan Langerhans, a left fielder who has the throwing arm of a right fielder and the range of some major league center fielders. Twice, Langerhans blunted the Padres with plays that most left fielders cannot make… Between Francoeur and Langerhans in center was another home-grown Brave. Fellow named Andruw Jones, the owner of eight Gold Gloves. Denying Padres sluggers Brian Giles and Mike Piazza extra-base hits, he gloved scorched drives on the warning track, over the shoulder, without the slightest hint of struggling. “It's not easy for everybody,” said the Padres' Mike Cameron, a center fielder who owns two Gold Gloves. “He seems to make it look easy.
Home-grown talent owns bright future: Adams State Track &…
Free with registration – Pueblo Chieftain – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 15, 2006
| Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colorado) (April, 2006). 15–ALAMOSA – As a redshirt sophomore, Nick Lara already has won two individual national titles. The question now is how many more will he win? "Nick, as good as he is and.
Easter Sunday – the day we start living off the rest of the world
Guardian Unlimited – Apr 15, 2006
Italy comes next, on April 13, followed by the UK. The Germans manage for themselves until the end of May, and the abundance of natural resources in the US means that Americans are self-sustainable for almost half the year. France’s support for home-grown production, from camembert to Citroën, ensures that it can fend for itself until July 27, while the Austrians manage until October 1 – almost six months longer than we can in the UK. The report comes at a time when the environment has moved up the political agenda. Gordon Brown will be making a speech on the environment in New York this week, in which he will seek to show that growth and sustainability are not incompatible. Andrew Simms, policy director of NEF, said the politicians needed to match their talk with action: “Our rising interdependence with the wider world is a fact, and doesn’t have to be a bad thing. But at the moment the UK is abusing its place in the international scheme of things and setting a standard that is fundamentally unsustainable and cannot be copied without disastrous consequences.
A weekend on the sauce
The Age – Apr 15, 2006
9am: Up at the crack of dawn and on the road,no time to waste on a valuable weekend. Heading south-east on thefreeway, trying to find music on the iPod to share with aneight-year-old (difficult), the call of an annual ritualsiren-like. 30am: Espresso – real Italian espresso -between the rolling, and slightly damp hills of South Gippslandwhere tree-changing friends have created a life somewhere betweenHugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s quest to live off the land depictedon television’s River Cottage series, an Aussie farmhousein a cosy rural community where you expect a hot scone to pop outof the oven at any moment with the stock report, and a typicalItalian-Australian home any place, really, where traditions includeimportant, seasonal activities. Reflections onthe past 10 years and an annual activity that started when we wereall in our 30s and only one of the five couples had crossed theprocreation threshold… Simultaneously, away from the bottling, dinner has been readied: ajoint of beef and an iron pot full of rabbit and home-grownparsnips sliding into the wood oven, to eventually be followed bypizza leftovers and vegetables. All 170 bottles are full oftomato pulp and in the barrels where they’ll stay until nextmorning, when they must be removed and crated. Pizza leftovers forthe adults around the wood oven with beers and sherry; pasta with agreat (you guessed it) tomato sauce for the kids. Lots of firechecking beneath the barrels, marshmallows for littlies.
DVDs of the week: The Night of The Shooting Stars, Day of the Dead…
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 15, 2006
99 advertisement. ” Six-year-old Cecilia (Micol Guidelli) is on the run in the beautiful Tuscan countryside in the August heat of 1944, with half of the other inhabitants of San Martino, as civilians await liberation by the Americans from the Germans and home-grown blackshirted Fascisti. Their town is about to be blown up. The other townspeople, trusting the town priest, have taken refuge in the cathedral. The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) is an autobiographically based memory-film about that grim, chaotic time, narrated by the grown-up Cecilia to her son. It feels like Rossellini’s war trilogy revisited by the Fellini of Amarcord, a strange and wonderful amalgam of neo-realism with magic realism… But Toni is a small masterpiece – in part technically, with astonishingly fluid camera movement and imaginative, involving compositions. Renoir experiments daringly: for the climactic murder, he tracks in dizzyingly for a close-up of the heroine’s face; when Toni runs across a railway bridge, hopelessly attempting to escape, we track thrillingly with him. A galvanic energy drives this quirky, direct, uplifting film, filled with the music of the people, about exploited workers and the pathologies of love. Full of human, humorous and poignant touches, it’s sad, funny, wise, erotic, on the side of truth. Once in Hollywood, Renoir, uncomfortable in the studio system, went on location to Georgia’s alligator-infested Okefenokee swamp for the terrific, uniquely authentic Swamp Water (1941), which frequently echoes Toni. The unformulaic, unpatronising view of country people builds through a series of switches of tone and surprises to a tremendous, poignant conclusion. Philip Horne Day of the Dead: Special Edition 18, Arrow, 2 discs £15.