Edith Falls forms part of Nitmiluk National Park, near Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Sands delivers, Ethier extends hitting streak in Dodgers' 5-2 win over Cubs
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As Jerry Sands' double bounded through the gap toward the right-center field wall in the fifth inning, driving in two runs, the rookie's parents and grandfather stood and roared along with the rest of the Dodger Stadium crowd.
They barely had time to get back on their seats when the next batter, Andre Ethier, had them standing again with a hard liner at the shortstop that went for a hit, driving in Sands and extending Ethier's hitting streak to 28 games.
And a solid outing by starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw gave them even more to celebrate as the Dodgers defeated the Chicago Cubs, 5-2, ending a losing streak at two games and climbing back to .500 at 15-15.
Ethier's hit put him only three hits shy of tying the franchise's record of 31 games held by Willie Davis. The major league record is 56 games by the New York Yankees' Joe DiMaggio in 1941.
The longest hitting streak in Brooklyn history was 29 games by Zack Wheat of the Brooklyn Robins in 1916.
"I'm just going up there, trying to execute and figure out a way to get the job done," Ethier said.
Asked whether he was feeling more pressure as the streak lengthened, Ethier replied, "No. I'm not going to press in the first at-bat or the last at-bat" of each game.
Sands' two-run double was a welcome boost for the highly touted 23-year-old who has struggled since being called up to the major leagues last month. He began the game batting only .190, but five of his eight hits had been doubles.
So it was again in the fifth inning. Rod Barajas doubled and, one out later, Kershaw struck out. But the last strike from Cubs starter James Russell was a wild pitch and Kershaw made it safely to first base while Barajas moved to third base.
Jamey Carroll tried a squeeze bunt but Russell, a reliever pressed to start because Chicago's rotation is hobbled, shoveled the ball to catcher Geovany Soto to get Barajas at the plate. Then came Sands' double, driving in Kershaw and Carroll.
"It's nice to get those big hits in big situations, but for me right now it's just getting hits when I can," Sands said.
Kershaw also bounced back after laboring in his previous three starts, in which he gave up 12 runs in 182/3 innings.
On Monday, Kershaw gave up two runs and eight hits — including a solo home run to Alfonso Soriano, his 11th this season — in seven innings. The left-hander didn't walk anyone and improved to 3-3.
"Tonight was a battle" because the Cubs "were swinging the bats early" in each count, Kershaw said. "They were super aggressive."
Vicente Padilla and Jonathan Broxton held the Cubs scoreless in the eighth and ninth innings, respectively, with Broxton getting his seventh save.
The Dodgers scored their first two runs in the second inning when Matt Kemp singled, stole second base and scored on Juan Uribe's double.
Uribe also scored when Ivan De Jesus Jr. hit a line drive down the right-field line that was touched by a fan leaning over the railing, and the interference required De Jesus to stop at first base.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Barcelona v Real Madrid: racism claim stokes Champions League semi-final feud in second leg at the Nou Camp
Barcelona v Real Madrid: racism claim stokes Champions League semi-final feud in second leg at the Nou Camp
The Antics Road Show rolled into Catalonia on Monday, bringing more bile and posturing between Spain’s greatest two clubs. Bad blood continues to flow unstaunched between Real Madrid and Barcelona.
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Real on Monday released a video purporting to show Barcelona’s midfielder, Sergio Busquets, saying “mono, mono” — “monkey, monkey” — at the Real left-back, Marcelo. They then followed up with an outspoken attack on Barcelona and Uefa. “This [Uefa] is an organisation that has T-shirts saying Respect and Fair Play, but there’s going to be players on the pitch [on Tuesday night] who don’t respect this sort of thing,’’ said Aitor Karanka, Jose Mourinho’s assistant. “There have been racist insults made while covering their mouths. We’d like those players not to be on the pitch.
“After what happened today, the match is in the background. But we are Real Madrid. We are an institution, a symbol, we have been around for 109 years, we will go out and fight. Uefa has not banned these players. We say over and over there are double standards. Some months ago Real Madrid’s players and coach were banned for something not in regulations (the cleaning of the bookings of Xabi Alonso and Sergio Ramos against Ajax). Now players are not banned for things that are apparent.”
Madrid’s accusation drew a swift, dismissive response from Barcelona. Pep Guardiola leapt to the defence of Busquets. “I know these kind of players, all of them,” the Barcelona coach said. “They are an example of professionalism, of honesty. They love the values of the sport.
“They know we play for the rest of the world. Of course they can make mistakes but as a human, they are an example as a player of Barcelona, as players of Spain.” If the claims of racism against Busquets were proven, Guardiola promised “we would take action”. He added: “We would be very upset. But if an opponent makes allegation, Uefa has to decide. Aitor has said it is 109 years of history for Real, so he can make claims and allegations, but they do not have the power to decide who can play. If Real do not agree with sanctions, they have lawyers and they can appeal to Uefa.
“They might think we are unsporting but I think exactly the opposite.
“Fourteen of the 20 players in the squad have grown up in this house and they all respect the values of the house. They have been educated and trained to play Champions League finals. We make mistakes, but we try to play the best possible football for the people.” Guardiola said that he “was getting sick of playing Madrid” because of all the noises off the pitch. He attempted, briefly, to focus on the game. “We will have 11 extraordinary players from Real Madrid and a coach who wants to knock us out,” Guardiola said. “This is the reality. Everything else is theatre.” At least he should avoid bumping into Mourinho out front or backstage.
After being sent to the stands at the Bernabéu for mocking the decision to dismiss Pepe, Mourinho is banned from the dugout and the dressing-room area. “His ability to communicate should not be affected,” Karanka said. “It happened in the Auxerre game when we won. He was not allowed on the bench or near the dressing-room.”
Mourinho has circumvented such Uefa restrictions during his Chelsea days, reportedly being smuggled into the Stamford Bridge dressing-room in a laundry skip in 2005 to give the half-time talk after being banned for the quarter-final with Bayern Munich. Chelsea’s then goalkeeping coach, Silvino Lauro, went in and out of the dressing-room, relaying messages. Uefa has no plans to monitor Portugal’s answer to Harry Houdini.
Uefa will doubtless be relieved when this fraction-filled tie is over.
Emotions, light and dark, are running high here. Real’s coach drew up outside their hotel to be greeted with chants of “Madrid whores”. Disappointment then reigned as Mourinho and his players had hopped off early.
A mile away, at the Nou Camp, Eric Abidal attended Barcelona training, the defender having recovered from cancer. It was one of the few uplifting moments of an otherwise dispiriting, cloud-filled day.
Before training, Xavi was drawn into the debate about Madrid. The midfielder said it “was regrettable” that Madrid filed complaints about the play-acting of some of his team-mates like Dani Alves, Busquets and Pedro. “It’s pathetic for Madrid to report us to Uefa.” Uefa on Monday dismissed those accusations as well Barcelona’s complaints about Mourinho’s comments about Guardiola in the run-up to the first leg.
Maybe the suits from Nyon were simply clearing their in-trays before considering the racism allegations.
The whole circus frustrated Xavi. “It is impossible to stay away from the tension,’’ the midfielder said. “I feel sad that there is so much spoken outside of the game. Of course Real has its own weapons, its own coach, a controversial coach, as he’s always been.” Xavi could scarcely contain his contempt for Madrid’s “ultra-defensive” tactics. “The football we all like is attacking, adventurous,’’ he said.
“Fans want to see a team going for goal, not a defensive team waiting in the back. They want to see a big show. Our supporters wouldn’t allow us to be any other way. We only know how to play joyfully.’’ Even Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo questioned Mourinho’s cautious approach to the home leg they eventually lost 2-0. “These are individual opinions,’’ Karanka said. “Cristiano said what he said. He knows why he said that. He will be in the starting team and we will try to go to the final.” Such is the tension between the clubs that last week Barcelona papers even carried close-up pictures of the Bernabéu grass, showing that it had been allowed to grow in a [vainful] attempt to slow up Lionel Messi and company.
“It’s lamentable that there’s no rule on grass length when there are rules about everything,’’ Xavi said.
Mourinho has lost many friends over the past week. Even Ottmar Hitzfeld, the coach of Switzerland, and not a man given easily to disparaging remarks, said: “Luckily, Mourinho’s destructive tactics, aimed solely at provoking and destroying the opponents’ game plan, did not work,’’ Hitzfeld told Kicker magazine. “It’s really shameful for Real Madrid. It harms the good name and image of this legendary club. I’ve met him at Uefa meetings and his behaviour is faithful to his image: arrogant, haughty, chewing gum and somewhat of a boor. Barça should make him pay on the pitch.”
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
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This is one of the boats that take people from "Posadas - Argentina" to "Encarnacin - Paraguay"...
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Miki Ando wins women's figure skating world title
Miki Ando performs her free program on Saturday at the world figure skating championships in Moscow. (Misha Japaridze / Associated Press)
MOSCOW -- Miki Ando of Japan won the world figure skating championships after overcoming Olympic gold medalist Kim Yuna in a duel of exceptional elegance on Saturday.
The victory by the Japanese skater, who also won at the 2007 worlds, was fitting in a competition that was originally scheduled in her homeland before it was hit by an earthquake and tsunami in March.
"I was skating for Japan and I never cared about the result. I'm really happy to have a gold medal," Ando said. "I worked hard and I've become a little bit of a stronger skater than a year ago."
In ice dance, Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the first world gold for their country in the discipline, outpointing 2010 champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada. The American sister-brother team of Maia and Alex Shibutani won bronze.
The free programs of Ando and Yuna contained languid moves interspersed with moments of power and steely control. They were within less than half a point of each other going into the free skate.
Ando, skating to Grieg's "Piano Concerto in A Minor," in the final group of six, opened with a triple lutz-double toe loop. She didn't falter until the middle of the program, when she stepped out of a double axel and reduced the planned combination triple toe to a double.
But she regained her poise, had three more solid triples and a double axel-double loop-double loop cascade so surprising that it drew gasps from the crowd.
Kim made her season debut after firing coach Brian Orser and moving her training base from Toronto to Los Angeles in the past year. She started even more boldly with a triple lutz-triple toe. Her program -- "Homage to Korea" -- set to a haunting collection of traditional Korean music and choreographed by Canadian David Wilson, was a crowd-pleaser at Megasport Arena.
But she quickly ran into trouble, singling two of her next three jumps. She also featured a cascade starting with a double axel, but one of the jumps was a toe loop instead of a loop, giving the element slightly less value.
"I'm just so glad that the competition is over," said Kim, who cried on the podium. "After the Olympics, I was thinking: 'Am I going to come back to competition or not?' Mentally I couldn't stop thinking: 'Why do I have to do this?' I think that was the hardest thing. But then I felt ready to go and I thought: 'I can do this."'
Carolina Kostner of Italy improved from sixth place to take the bronze, with a charming program to the dreamy strains of Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun," marred only by popping one triple.
"Last year it was a hard time for me, so it was a big emotion just to finally again just enjoy it," she said. "To be able to get a medal just makes it more special."
For the United States, Alissa Czisny finished fifth in the free skate and overall standings. American Rachael Flatt was 12th overall.
The winning American ice dancers thanked their coaches, Igor Shpilband and Marina Zueva.
"To say that we owe everything to our coaching is an understatement." Davis said of the pair, who also coach the silver and bronze medalists.
Davis and White were slightly behind going into the free dance, but outpointed the Canadians on technical marks and program components in their clean and lively tango program.
"It's been a long 15 years we've been together, and just building toward this moment," White said. "I think we kind of knew it would come eventually. But you have to make it happen on the ice."
Virtue and Moir were more aesthetically adventurous in a program that smoothly moved from Latin music to smoky jazz to a drum fusillade and included a dramatic upside-down lift.
"We set out to challenge ourselves and to push the boundaries of ice dancing," Virtue said. "The program is unlike anything we've ever done before and I think unlike anything the ice dance world has ever seen. We're really proud of what we've accomplished."
All the 2010 champions entered this year, and none of the defenders prevailed. Mao Asada of Japan finished sixth after an error-filled short program. Daisuke Takahashi finished sixth in the men's, overwhelmed in a field won by Canada's Patrick Chan, who set three world records in the process. Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy won the pairs, with 2010 champions Pang Qing and Tong Jian of China settling for bronze.
Russian spectators longing for a return to the country's one-time eminence in women's skating had something to cheer and lament.
Alena Leonova, who had a disappointing performance at the Cup of Russia, nailed seven triples in her high-spirited free program to end in fourth place, less than a point behind Kostner. Ksenia Makarova, who had been third after the short program, finished seventh after a fall in a free program that was marred by other errors.
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