Chad Huffman, Luke Carlin both homer as Columbus completes 7-1 road swing: Minor-league report

Portland's rally victimizes Akron, Tyler Cannon's 4 RBI power Kinston, Lake County triumphs in 13 innings, Kirk Wetmore sharp in Mahoning Valley win, late runs pay off for Lake Erie.

AAA Columbus Clippers

Clippers 2, Yankees 0: Chad Huffman slugged his 10th home run and Luke Carlin hit his fifth as Columbus won an International League game at Scranton/Wilkes Barre, Pa. Lefty David Huff (6-2) pitched seven shutout innings and Josh Judy pitched a scoreless ninth for his 10th save.

Notes: Columbus wrapped up a 7-1 road trip.

AA Akron Aeros

SeaDogs 7, Aeros 2: Akron surrendered six runs with two outs in the top of the seventh inning and lost to Portland (Me.) in an Eastern League game at Canal Park. Left-hander Kelvin De La Cruz (4-5) allowed five of the six runs in the seventh and suffered the loss.

Advanced A Kinston Indians

Indians 7, Hillcats 6: Kinston (N.C.) finished the first half of the Carolina League schedule with a victory at Lynchburg, Va. Tyler Cannon had four RBI, including a sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth. He clubbed a two-run home run in the second inning, and he collected another RBI in the third with a bases-loaded walk.

A Lake County Captains

Captains 10, Whitecaps 5 (13): Lake County scored five in the top of the 13th and defeated West Michigan in a Midwest League game in Comstock Park, Mich. Nick Bartolone singled home the first run in the winning rally, and LeVon Washington and Giovanny Urshela each had two-run singles.

Notes: The Captains' Jordan Casas hit five singles in seven at-bats, and scored twice.

A Mahoning Valley Scrappers

Scrappers 5, Jammers 2: Jake Lowery hit two doubles and drove in four runs to lead Mahoning Valley to a New York-Penn League victory over Jamestown, N.Y. Scrappers starter Kirk Wetmore (1-0) pitched five scoreless innings for the win.

Independent Lake Erie Crushers

Crushers 6, Thunderbolts 2: Lake Erie scored two runs in the sixth and two in the seventh to overtake Windy City and win a rain-shortened game at All Pro Freight Stadium in Avon. The game was called with two outs in the bottom of the eighth.

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The US presidential election

All too often elections to Anglo-Jewish organisations are a formality, with one group of leaders slipping unopposed into the seats vacated by their predecessors.

So it?s worth applauding the fact that there will be a contest to lead the community?s largest organisation, the United Synagogue, for its next triennial.

The post is particularly significant this time because the victor will have a big hand in recruiting the next Chief Rabbi ? and the Chief Rabbi, for all the changes that have taken place in British Jewry over the last quarter of century, still remains its most influential office.

It is an open race between the two candidates, US vice-presidents Peter Zinkin and Stephen Pack.

From their manifestos ? you can read a Q and A with them in last week?s JC ? there is little to separate them.

This election is more about management than ideology and is likely to boil down to leadership style in the end.

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Siemens keeps ?600m Eurostar order after Alstom legal challenge fails

High court rejects Alstom claim that tender process was 'ineffective'

Siemens will keep a ?600m (�527m) train order from Eurostar after the high court rejected claims from French rival Alstom that the bidding contest was flawed.

The victory comes weeks after the German manufacturing group beat Bombardier's Derby factory to a �3bn contract for the Thameslink route, prompting political and trade union protests that the government was not doing enough to protect Britain's industrial base.

Eurostar, whose largest shareholder is the French national rail operator, has also found itself embroiled in a row over indigenous manufacturers in France. With implicit backing of the French government throughout the dispute, Alstom has argued that Eurostar in effect shifted the goalposts during the competition by awarding a contract to Siemens that contained substantial differences from the original tender.

The high court rejected that stance in a ruling this week. Justice Mann found there were no grounds for Alstom to claim that the tender was "ineffective", ending the French group's hopes that Eurostar would be forced to run the contest again. Alstom had also exceeded the time limit for bringing the claim, the high court found. "I therefore find that this ineffectiveness claim should be struck out."

An Alstom spokesperson admitted the contract award will not be overturned. However, the group said it will continue to pursue a multimillion pound compensation claim. "There are flaws in the way that Eurostar managed the tendering process and that is why we will continue to pursue our claim for damages."

Siemens has also survived a flurry of political and trade union lobbying over the contract for making 1,200 carriages for the Thameslink route. The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, discussed the Thameslink decision with a delegation from the TUC and rail unions this week but made clear that he could not strip Siemens of its status as preferred bidder.

Even if he wanted to, the Department for Transport would be over-ruled under European Union procurement rules, Hammond said. Bombardier said the Thameslink loss contributed to the announcement this month that it is cutting more than 1,400 jobs at its Derby plant.

Hammond and the business secretary, Vince Cable, wrote to the prime minister with concerns that other European nations appear to defend their manufacturing interests better during tender contests.

Steve Scrimshaw, head of Siemens' UK rolling stock division, said the Eurostar decision, and its award to a non-French company, underlined the fairness of EU procurement guidelines. "This shows that it was a fair and transparent procurement process and it shows that it was evaluated fairly."

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Your message to Gilad Shalit

To mark the five years of his captivity, the JC wants to give readers the opportunity to leave a message for Gilad Shalit.

Please post your thoughts and feelings in the space below.

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Israeli charity learning from UK

Music and art therapy pioneered in British hospitals has been crucial in helping Israeli charity Reuth to help victims of terrorism and injured soldiers, its chair said in London this week.

Merav Mandelbaum visited to forge links with the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability and to raise awareness of Reuth, one of Israel's largest social welfare charities, which has a staff of more than 800. It runs a rehabilitation hospital, care homes and day care centres.

Reuth accepts any patient, regardless of the severity of their condition. Forty children in its hospital are in a vegetative state.

"What we have really taken from the UK is the different therapies offered here," said Ms Mandelbaum, who is a full-time volunteer. "Quality of life is our speciality. People can be in our hospital for many years. Many are young people. We do music, art, drama and even animal therapy."

She was accompanied by David Broza, Reuth's resource development deputy director, who had found "a real understanding of quality of life therapy in the UK. This isn't funded by health insurance or government contributions in Israel - it's all donor funded." The British Friends of Reuth had encouraged the Israeli leadership to see what lessons could be learned.

But the visitors stressed there was much the British system could learn from Israel's social care. "We have the Jewish soul," Mr Broza said. "There are things we consider that others wouldn't. One is sexual rehabilitation. A lot of people don't want to talk about that but we want to make sure a young Jewish soldier, injured from the waist down, is still able to have a family and have a normal sexual relationship. We also have a strong tradition of volunteering because of national service."

Ms Mandelbaum held fund-raising evenings in London.

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A shout at the radio moment

From The Independent, September 2003: "The fugitive Asil Nadir will not apply for legal aid when he returns to Britain to face trial, his lawyer has insisted.

Peter Krivinskas, Mr Nadir's long-standing solicitor, said that "rich friends" would fund his defence. "There has never been any question about legal aid. His friends will help him," said Mr Krivinskas.

There had been reports that Mr Nadir wanted the taxpayer to finance his defence. Although he appears to live comfortably in Turkish Cyprus, where he fled in 1993, Mr Nadir is a declared bankrupt in the UK."

June 2011: Asil Nadir is to receive legal aid. To the tune of �145 an hour. Stepping out of his Mayfair home... (pick up wires.)

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Boston industrial estate explosion linked to illegal alcohol

Police investigate reports of illegal vodka distilling after Lincolnshire blast kills five men

Police are investigating whether an industrial unit where five men were killed in an explosion in Lincolnshire was being used to brew illegal alcohol.

Firefighters found five men at the property after an explosion shortly before 7.30pm on Wednesday in the Broadfield Lane estate in Boston. A sixth man was taken to hospital suffering from severe burns.

Local reports suggested the industrial unit was being used to produce alcohol, but police said that was only one line of inquiry. Investigators were keeping an "open mind and following up all relevant lines of inquiry", said a police spokeswoman.

"There has been all sorts of rumours along those lines," she said. "It is far too early for us to speculate."

Inquiries were on going and would involve a "full forensic examination of the unit" and fingertip searches of the cordoned-off unit to establish what was inside, she added.

Following the explosion on the industrial estate, including a collection of light industrial outlets including a mechanic's workshop and a vehicle wrecking yard, firefighters had to cut their way into the small unit after intense heat from the explosion had melted the doors. A car outside the unit was also incinerated.

The bodies of the five dead men were discovered inside the industrial unit. The sixth man was taken to Boston Pilgrim hospital with serious injuries, before being transferred to the Queen's medical centre in Nottingham.

Steve Moore, area manager from Lincolnshire fire and rescue service, described the incident as one of the worst he had seen in his 28-year career. "When the first crews attended they were faced with a really serious fire and a casualty who was outside the building suffering from burns," he said. "Their initial reaction was to treat the casualty. The incoming crew then started to fight the fire."

He added: "It was a really hot, intense fire. As far as the crews I have spoken to, its the single greatest loss of life in fire in their experience."

Ian Nuttall, 42, who lives 200 yards from the scene, said he noticed a commotion and smoke coming from the "lock-up" at about 7.30pm. "There was a rumour going round that it was some Polish nationals who have been brewing their own vodka which is a bit of a problem around here at the moment," he said.

Earlier this year, raids by HM Revenue and Customs, police and Lincolnshire trading standards seized goods including fake vodka from six international stores in the town. HMRC said forensic testing of the counterfeit alcohol, seized in March, showed it contained chemicals unsafe for public consumption. At least one store has lost its alcohol licence, while another has been suspended from selling alcohol.

Boston East councillor Mike Gilbert said: "I'm very anxious to find out exactly what's happened. It's a lot of people dead and a great tragedy."

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On Assad, Israel and external enemies

In his 2004 book The Case for Democracy, Natan Sharansky says it better than I ever could:

"Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilise their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability."

It is undoubtedly terrible to think of the 20 people who were said to have been killed yesterday on the border between Syria and Israel.

Their deaths achieved nothing, not for Israel ? once again the subject of international condemnation - not for the Palestinians and certainly not for the peace process.

Well, not nothing. Because there is someone for whom those deaths were not an unmitigated disaster.

At this point, Syrian President Bashar Assad's involvement in yesterday's border provocations remains the subject of speculation, although Israel's Danny Ayalon seems clear that Assad and his forces encouraged a group of angry Palestinians to go and effectively poke Israel with a stick.

Even more curious than the fact that yesterday, hoards of protesters could find their way to the border without intervention from the Syrian police, is the fact that today those protesters are being sent home.

Clearly, the Syrian authorities could have stopped yesterday's protests quite easily (Assad's forces have shown themselves quite capable of stamping out dissent). Surprising, then, that they didn't.

At this point, it's still only speculation. But if you were in public relations, looking to advise a dictator who had allegedly authorised the butchering of 1,200 citizens in the space of three months, what would your suggestion be? Bearing in mind the West had already put their money where their mouth was with another despotic regime not far away.

At a guess, I'd say it would be to change the story. Find a new headline. Distract the media and take the heat off. And what better way to do that than blame everyone's favourite bogeyman.

Israel is responsible for the deaths, as any state is responsible for enemy casualties during a war. But Israel didn't send those protesters there; in fact, Israel repeatedly warned that doing so would be viewed as a provocation, just as Britain would be wary of an invading army of angry Frenchmen approaching the border.

As I said, what happened was horrific. Not least, because imagine living in a country under a leader who would deliberately and willingly send his countrymen to a situation which could only ever end badly.

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WJR seeks assistance for hungry Africans

World Jewish Relief has launched an emergency appeal to assist the millions across the Horn of Africa facing severe food shortages.

The region's worst drought for 60 years has been compounded by increasing grain prices, fodder shortages, livestock deaths and conflict. An estimated eight million-plus people need urgent assistance.

"This is not a famine - yet," said WJR chief executive Paul Anticoni. "Decades of food assistance programmes in the region have enabled sophisticated early warning systems to forecast when severe food deficits are predicted.

"Now that the alarm bells are ringing, we have a responsibility to act and avert an even more complex emergency."

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Israel looking good for 2003

Ronen Hershco believes Israel can host a successful European Under 21 Championship in 2013.

Hershco, the director of the national teams department at the Israeli Football Association, attended the recently concluded Under 21 finals in Denmark.

He said: "Most of the hotels and venues are near the coast, and Jerusalem is one of a kind, so it will be an amazing opportunity for the players, Uefa and everybody that will come.

"I know what it can bring to our country. It can show we can reach other tournaments and the precedent will be set for the national team to participate at the highest level."

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Big sixth inning carries Akron Aeros to win over Erie SeaWolves: Minor League Report

Columbus, Kinston, Lake County and Lake Erie all lose on Saturday, but Mahoning Valley wins.

View full sizePD fileBeau Mills hit a two-run home run for the Aeros on Saturday.

AAA Columbus Clippers

Mud Hens 5, Clippers 2 Toledo scored a pair of runs in both the seventh and eighth innings as it defeated visiting Columbus in an International League game. Columbus reliever Carlton Smith (2-2) was charged with both the loss and a blown save, his second of the season. Smith surrendered two runs, both earned, three hits and a walk in just two-thirds of an inning.

Notes: Clippers right fielder Ezequiel Carrera was 3-for-4 with two runs scored. For the season in Columbus, he is hitting .293, with 94 hits in 317 at-bats.

AA Akron Aeros

Aeros 8, SeaWolves 6 Akron scored six in the sixth, which carried them to an Eastern League victory over Erie, Pa., at Canal Park. Ben Copeland socked a two-run double in the inning, and Raul Padron drove in another run with a double. Beau Mills blasted a two-run home run in the bottom of the fourth inning that cleared the bleachers in right field.

Advanced A Kinston Indians

Keys 10, Indians 7 Frederick, Md., outslugged Kinston, N.C., in a Carolina League game. The host Keys slugged four home runs and the Indians three. Strongsville native Anthony Gallas hit his second homer of the year for the Indians, a three-run shot in the fifth inning.

Notes: Gallas, an outfielder, is hitting .169, with 14 hits and 13 RBI in 83 at-bats.

A Lake County Captains

Lugnuts 7, Captains 6 Lansing, Mich. rallied for three runs in the top of the eighth inning and won a Midwest League game at Classic Park in Eastlake. The Lugnuts' rally was aided by a Captains error and a wild pitch. The Lugnuts helped themselves with two singles and a triple. Nickolas Sarianides (4-4) took the loss in relief. He was charged with three runs, two earned, and three hits in 1 innings.

Notes: The Captains were 4-for-15 with runners in scoring position and stranded eight.

A Mahoning Valley Scrappers

Scrappers 4, Crosscutters 3 Williamsport, Pa., scored two in the bottom of the ninth but came up short and lost to Mahoning Valley in a New York-Penn League game. The Scrappers scored all their runs in the first two innings. Mahoning Valley's Daniel Jimenez (1-0) pitched five innings and gave up one earned run on four hits. Enosil Tejada gave up both Crosscutters runs in the ninth but still picked up his second save.

Independent Lake Erie Crushers Rascals 5, Crushers 1 River City belted 14 hits and defeated lake Erie in a Frontier League game in O'Fallon, Mo.

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Rabbis answer call from Liberal HQ

The first female Scandinavian rabbi is part of a new ministerial team at Liberal Judaism's central London headquarters.

Sandra Kviat was one of four Progressive rabbis ordained on Sunday by Leo Baeck College at a service at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood. She will mainly advise on the educational content of national and congregational ventures. Another new rabbi, Anna Gerrard, joins the team with responsibility for community development and young adult projects.

The others ordained - Lisa Barrett and Marc Neiger - will respectively serve the cross-communal secondary school JCoSS and Progressive communities in Brussels.

Rabbi Ariel Friedlander and cantor Gershon Silins are also part of the rabbinic team, headed by Liberal Judaism chief executive Rabbi Danny Rich. Rabbi Friedlander is university chaplain, Mr Silins will be developing musical programmes.

The appointments will also ensure a rabbinic presence at the Montagu Centre HQ from Monday to Thursday able to respond to a variety of inquiries. Communities will have their own head office contact.

"This is a landmark moment for Liberal Judaism and will fulfil many of the goals we set ourselves as a movement," Rabbi Rich said.

"Our London office is inundated with inquiries from constituents on sensitive matters, so it is very important to make sure there is always a rabbi on hand to answer those questions.

"Equally as important, it means every Liberal community, and especially our emerging ones, will now have full rabbinic support and guidance."

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Clippers pitcher Barnes injured in loss

Columbus pitcher Scott Barnes injures his left knees as the Clippers lose to the Toledo Mud Hens, 4-1, Sunday. Akron Aeros, Lake County Captains and Lake Erie Crushers also lose.

MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT

AAA Columbus Clippers

Mud Hens 4, Clippers 1 Infield prospect Jason Donald and starting pitcher Scott Barnes both left the game with injuries in a loss at Toledo. Barnes' injury, according to the Columbus Dispatch, appears to be serious. The 6-4 lefty went down in a heap with a left knee injury after fielding a bunt in the sixth inning. Columbus manager Mike Sarbaugh said that coach Lee May Jr. heard the knee pop from where he was standing in the dugout. In the top of the sixth, Donald pulled up at second with an apparent injury to his right hamstring after legging out a double, and left for a pinch runner. He later said he just had a cramp.

Notes: Barnes is 7-4 with a 3.68 ERA. He has appeared in 16 games and made 15 starts. He has fanned 90 batters in 88 innings. He was an eighth-round pick by the Giants in 2008 and was traded to the Indians organization in 2009 for Ryan Garko.

AA Akron Aeros

SeaWolves 10, Aeros 4 Erie, Pa., scored three runs in each of the last three innings and won an Eastern League game at Canal Park in Akron. Reliever Bryan Price (2-3) was the losing pitcher. In 1 innings, he allowed three earned runs on four hits, walking two and striking out none.

Advanced A Kinston Indians

Indians 3, Keys 2 Marty Popham (3-0), a 6-6 right-hander, gave Kinston, N.C., 7 strong innings, and the Indians won a Carolina League game in Frederick, Md. Popham struck out nine, walked none and scattered seven hits, including one home run. Tyler Holt and Abner Abreu slugged homers for Kinston.

Notes: Strongsville native Anthony Gallas was 0-for-4 for Kinston. The leftfielder is hitting .161 in 87 at-bats.

A Lake County Captains

Lugnuts 7, Captains 1 Lake County scored its only run in the second inning and lost a Midwest League game to Lansing, Mich., at Classic Park in Eastlake. Mike Rayl (5-3) was the starter and loser. He gave up five runs, all earned, and eight hits in five innings.

A Mahoning Valley Scrappers

Crosscutters 6, Scrappers 2 Mahoning Valley starter Robert Nixon (1-2) surrendered nine hits and four runs, all earned, in six innings, and the Scrappers lost a New York-Penn League game at Williamsport, Pa. Two Crosscutters pitchers held Mahoning Valley hitters to five singles.

Independent Lake Erie Crushers

Rascals 6, Crushers 2 Lake Erie committed five errors and lost a Frontier League game in O'Fallon, Mo., to River City.

More news and statistics on Indians minor-league teams at cleveland.com/tribe

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Cord Phelps, Zach McAllister key Clippers' win: Minor league report

Colimbus won, 5-1, in 10. Jared Goedert clouts two homers although Akron loses two. Kinston wins. Lake County loses before a second-game rainout. Lake Erie wins.

Chuck Crow, The Plain DealerPitcher Zach McAllister at a workout for Indians prospects last winter.

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AAA Columbus Clippers

Clippers 5, Tides 1 Catcher Paul Phillips singled home the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th inning, and SS Cord Phelps capped the four-run inning with a three-run double for the Clippers in the International League game in Norfolk (Va.). 3B Lonnie Chisenhall homered for the first Columbus run in the sixth inning. Clippers RH starter Zach McAllister, who is 7-0 with a 2.29 ERA, got a no-decision, holding the Tides to one run on four hits and no walks in seven innings, while striking out five. RH reliever Zach Putnam (3-1, six saves, 2.96) pitched scoreless eighth and ninth innings to get the win, and RH reliever Josh Judy finished with a scoreless 10th inning. 

Notes: Cord Phelps' double made him 1-for-5 and extended his hitting streak to 10 games, during which he is 14-for-40 (.350) with four doubles, two home runs and 12 RBI....Lonnie Chisenhall has hit in five straight, going 9-for-22 (.409) with two homers and two doubles....LH reliever Nick Hagadone, acquired from the Red Sox organization when the Indians traded Victor Martinez to Boston in July, 2009, was 1-0 with one save in three outings since being promoted from AA Akron. He is a combined 3-1 with a 1.67 ERA in 27 innings with Columbus and Akron, striking out 28 and walking seven while holding opponents to a .177 batting average with no homers. Hagadone was considered an elite Red Sox prospect but had to undergo Tommy John elbow surgery in 2008.

AA Akron Aeros

Senators 7-5, Aeros 6-1 Akron dropped the Eastern League games to Harrisburg Thursday at Canal Park, falling in a suspended game and then in a seven-inning contest. The first game was resumed after being suspended with the teams tied, 1-1, in the second inning on Wednesday night. Aeros’ 1B Jared Goedert slugged a solo homer in the first inning and a three-run homer in the eighth. RH starter Austin Adams (4-4, 2.81) took the loss, allowing two runs in 1 1/3 innings before the game was stopped on Wednesday. Aeros LH T.J. McFarland (1-3, 5.09) went the full seven innings in the second game, but got the loss — Akron’s third straight to match a season-high — allowing six runs (four earned) while fanning five and walking one. Aeros LF Tim Fedroff went 1-for-4 with a double in the suspended game, extending his hitting streak to 19 games, then didn’t play in the regularly scheduled game. His .373 batting average continues to lead the league. 
 
Notes: RF Matt McBride doubled in each game and was 4-for-7. He’s on a seven-game hitting streak, going 10-for-25 (.400) with two doubles, one triple, two homers and eight RBI....Goedert has played in seven games since missing the first part of the season with a strained oblique. He is 7-for-26 (.269) with two doubles, three homers and eight RBI.

Advanced A Kinston Indians

Indians 9, Dash 8 Kinston scored eight runs in the bottom of the first inning for an 8-1 lead and held on for the Carolina League win. RH starter Brett Brach (4-3, 2.84) pitched five innings for the win, striking out six while allowing one run on three hits and three walks. The Indians' eight-run first featured CF Abner Abreu's three-run homer, his third homer of the season. RF Bo Greenwell had an RBI double, 1B Chase Burnette an RBI triple, 2B Justin Toole a run-scoring single, and SS Casey Frawley a two-run single. RH reliever Preston Guilmet (0-0, 1.02) got his 10th save, despite yielding his first runs of the season -- two in the top of the ninth -- on two homers.

Notes: Adam Abraham is 8-for-26 (.308) with four doubles, two homers and eight RBI in his last eight games....RH reliever Adam Miller, considered Cleveland’s top pitching prospect before finger injuries jeopardized his career, gave up three runs in the eighth inning on two hits and a walk, while fanning one. Miller had pitched nine scoreless innings in his previous six games, fanning 12 while allowing two hits and three walks, since his one-inning, four-run outing on April 30, which was the first time he pitched in a game since 2008....Guilmet had pitched 16 2/3 scoreless innings in his first 15 games, fanning 16 while giving up nine hits and one walk. He gave up three hits Thursday night, struck out three and walked one.

A Lake County Captains

Silver Hawks 5, Captains 1 RH Cole Cook (1-5, 5.11) took the loss in the seven-inning Midwest League game in South Bend, Ind., allowing four runs on six hits in four innings. Anthony Gallas drove in the Lake County run with his league-leading 20th double. Gallas was 1-for-3 and leads the league with a .358 batting average. A scheduled second game was postponed by rain.

Notes: LH starter Michael Rayl (4-0, 1.96) is 2-0 in his last three starts, allowing two runs on 10 hits and one walk in 18 innings, with 24 strikeouts. Rayl has fanned 44, walked 10 and held opponents to a .174 batting average and one homer in 41 1/3 innings this season....RH reliever Dale Dickerson (0-1, 1.47) has not allowed an earned run in his last 10 games, spanning 13 1/3 innings.

Independent Lake Erie Crushers

Crushers 4, RiverHawks 2 LH starter Andrew Weeks (2-0, 2.46) earned the Frontier League win for the Crushers at Rockford, Ill. Weeks held the RiverHawks to one run on six hits and two walks in six innings, and struck out five. CF Patrick Norris had three hits for the Crushers, and LF Kellen Kulbacki, DH Nick Mahin and catcher Joel Collins had two hits each, including a double for Collins.

Notes: The Crushers (3-3) play their home opener on Friday night at 7:05 against the Joliet Slammers at All Pro Freight Stadium in Avon....Nick Mahin is 9-for-22 (.409) with three doubles, seven runs and four RBI....Patrick Norris is 9-for-23 (.391) with three RBI and three runs. 

Source: http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2011/05/minor_league_report_56.html

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Clearing up the GAA kick-out conundrum

Tony Leen
FILE this one under ‘learn something new every day’.
Last Sunday, not only I, but a man with a few All-Ireland medals in his pocket, Trevor Giles, wondered how Munster final referee Dave Coldrick (not to mention his linesman and umpires) were ignoring the fact that the Cork kick-outs from Alan Quirke were not travelling outside the mandatory 20m line before they were considered live and legal.
Turns out we know next to nothing, or in my case, nothing at all. Munster PRO Ed Donnelly has been on to clarify the (presumably updated) rule with regard to such practices.
Says Donnelly: “Referee David Coldrick was correct in not awarding a free for any short kick-outs on Sunday which may not have made it outside of the 20 metre line. There are two rules which cover this - Rule 4.28 and 4.29 of the Official Guide
4.28  To be inside own 20m line when one’s team is taking a kick-out, except as provided in Rule 2.7.
4.29  For another player on the team taking a kickout to play the ball before it has travelled 13m.
So in the case of the kickouts in question, so long as the players are outside of the 20 metre when the ball is kicked AND the ball travels 13 metres, then a defender can collect possession. With the ball placed usually pretty central and on the 13 metre line, a kick out that goes towards the sideline easily travels the 13 metres and the defender is quite entitled to gain possession accordingly.
“The key part people are sometimes not familiar with is the “travels 13 metres” bit. There is no rule in the GAA which says the ball can't be touched inside the 20 metre line by a defender so as such the exclusion zone is only for when the kick is being taken and while the ball is travelling the first 13 metres - whether the kick is straight, backwards, sideways etc. doesn't matter.”
In fairness to Donnelly - who’s making a fine fist of the onerous task of replacing Jim Forbes - he wasn’t correcting in a slap-you-down type of way that some GAA officials are partial to.
“I don’t proclaim to be a rules expert but I know this rule from a previous life as a Club Secretary a few years ago where I was of the same opinion as you but when I checked it out, the rule is quite clear.”
So now you know.

 

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Pears claims gold treble for Team GB

Trevor Pears added to Team GB's growing medal haul with three golds in the swimming competition on day two of the European Maccabi Games in Vienna.

Taking part in his first European Maccabi Games, Pears, 47, won the 50m fly, 100m freestroke and 200m freestroke.

Pears, the Chief Executive of the Pears Foundation, returned to the sport after a 15-year sabbatical. He warmed up for the EMG by taking part in the Middlesex Masters.

Looking back on a dream debut, Pears said: "I wasn't expecting to win, especially in 100-degree temperatures poolside.

"I'm loving every minute of being part of the team.

"I'm very proud of being Jewish and being British."

The only GB Open swimmer in the delegation, Pears said: "It's important we're here and it's great to be in Vienna."

Pears was a county swimmer in his teens but stopped aged 17. He now swims an hour a day, every day and is a member of the Swiss Cottage Swimming Club.

He is scheduled to participate in the 50m freestyle tomorrow.

There was also success in the pool for Hollie Fisher and Naomi Ayrton.

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US firm 3M could summon Liam Fox to give evidence in blackmail case

Subpoena from 3M would force defence secretary Liam Fox to answer claim under oath in US court

Liam Fox, the defence secretary, may be forced to give evidence in a blackmail trial in the United States, the Guardian has learned.

The "unprecedented" legal action could make Fox the first serving British cabinet minister to give evidence in a serious legal case in America.

The Guardian understands that American conglomerate 3M is considering serving Fox with a subpoena. It will demand that he gives evidence over a claim that he was aware of a threat to interfere with the award of a knighthood to 3M's British-born chief executive, George Buckley.

It has been alleged that Porton Capital, a private equity partner of the Ministry of Defence, demanded that 3M hand over $30m (�18.5m) or risk the embarrassment of the government interfering with the knighthood that was awarded to Buckley in June's Queen's birthday honours list.

It has been alleged that Fox was party to a conversation about the suggestion.

A 3M subpoena would force Fox to answer the claim under oath. An email to Porton Capital from 3M's lawyers, which has been seen by the Guardian, said: "We request that you accept subpoenas on [Fox's] behalf for the production of documents and deposition upon oral testimony."

Lawyers for 3M have yet to serve a subpoena on Fox.

Harvey Boulter, chief executive of Porton Capital, which worked with the government to develop innovative technology in the battle against MRSA, has been accused of blackmail and served with legal papers. Boulter and Porton Capital deny the claim.

According to 3M's lawyers, Boulter told them that if an earlier legal battle over the MRSA technology was not settled out of court he would use his political influence to interfere with Buckley's knighthood.

The blackmail case is built on several emails Boulter sent to 3M's lawyers last month. "As a result of my meeting [with Fox] you ought to understand that David Cameron's cabinet might very shortly be discussing the rather embarrassing situation of George [Buckley]'s knighthood. It was discussed today," Boulter said in one of the emails.

"Governments are big and sometimes decisions in one part are not well co-ordinated."

Bill Brewer, 3M's lawyer, said: "We are committed to determine who aided, abetted or participated with Boulter in any manner relative to the demands that were made to 3M on 18 June."

In a new statement, Boulter again claimed that he and Fox discussed the litigation. But an MoD spokesman said: "Dr Fox discussed an entirely different matter when he met Mr Boulter. At no point was there any mention of anyone's knighthood, nor did he enter into any discussion about this legal case."

Mark Stephens, a high-profile medialawyer with London firm Finers Stephens Innocent, said: "Calling a serving British cabinet ministers to give evidence is pretty unprecedented."

Stephens said that if the subpoena is served Fox would be pushed to give evidence in America or speak to US lawyers in a British court.

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GB women put nine past the Germans

Sara Lyons was the hat-trick hero as Team GB claimed their first victory of the women?s football competition, thumping Germany 9-1 in Vienna.

Swept aside 7-0 by red-hot favourites USA in their opener yesterday, GB bounced back in style, forging ahead inside the first minutes.

Further goals from Raquel Lewis, Sophie Lawrence, Jen Palmer, Samantha Miller, Michaela Green and an own goal completed the rout.

GB captain Tamar Koch said: "It was an outstanding performance from the girls. We took control early on in the game and ripped open the German defence time and again.

"Today was a very good example of a team performance.

"It culminated in our best-ever result for GB in women?s football."

Koch said the team had no problems lifting themselves after the heavy defeat against the USA. "We were confident that we could outclass the Germans.

"It was important to score the first goal early and we continued to play a patient passing game even after they scored to make it 2-1."

Commenting on Lyons goal-scoring feat, Koch said: "Sara was unbelievable. She picked up her game and showed uncanny movement. She was strong and thrived on the excellent movement from our wingers."

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Luis Valbuena's 2 homers, 7 RBI and David Huff's pitching gem lead Clippers: Minor league report

Valbuena's hitting .318. Huff struck out 10, allowing one run in seven innings. Kinston splits twin-bill. Akron and Lake County were idle. Crushers lose.

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MINOR LEAGUE REPORT

AAA Columbus Clippers

Clippers 8, Bisons 2 SS Luis Valbuena (.318) drove in seven runs with a grand slam home run, a two-run homer and a bases-loaded walk, and LH David Huff (5-2, 4.04) struck out 10 and allowed one run on four hits and no walks in seven innings as the Clippers won an International League game in Buffalo (N.Y.). Valbuena has seven homers this season. CF Ezequiel Carrera (.286) and 3B Josh Rodriguez (.229) both had two hits for Columbus.

Notes: Valbuena, who has 17 doubles to go with his seven homers, has hit safely in 21 of his last 22 games. In that stretch, he is batting .418 (33-for-79) with seven doubles, three homers, 20 RBI and 15 runs.

RH Jeanmar Gomez (6-1, 2.28) is 3-0 with a 1.50 ERA in 36 innings over his last five games, allowing 25 hits (one homer) while striking out 25 and walking 13....Huff has won his last two starts, allowing two runs on nine hits and two walks, with 13 strikeouts, in 14 innings....RF Chad Huffman (.274) is 11-for-24 (.458) with four doubles and two homers during his current seven-game hitting streak....IF Jason Kipnis (.293) is 9-for-18 (.500) in his last four games, with two homers and a triple.

AA Akron Aeros

The Aeros were off on Monday.

Notes: 1B Beau Mills (.292) is on a 10-game hitting streak, going 16-for-42 (.381) with two home runs, two doubles, eight RBI and eight runs....RH Paolo Espino (3-0, 2.91) has struck out 56 and walked 10 in 52 2/3 innings. He is 2-0 as a starter, with a 2.45 ERA in 11 innings. His other start was on May 21. As a reliever, Espino is 1-0 with one save and a 3.02 ERA in 41 1/3 innings....RH closer Cory Burns (0-3, 16 saves, 3.24) has struck out 36 and walked six in 25 innings....RH reliever Matt Langwell (2-1, three saves, 1.23 ERA) has not been scored upon in his last eight outings, pitching 11 1/3 innings with 11 strikeouts, no walks and allowing eight hits....OF-1B Matt McBride (.280) was 2-for-3 with an RBI as the DH. McBride is batting .324 (47-for-145) with 10 homers, 10 doubles, three triples and 36 RBI in his last 38 games....LF Tim Fedroff (.341) is 4-for-8 with a double in his last two games. He was 0-for-16 in his previous four games, after hitting safely in 28 of 29 games....The Aeros (31-33) take a three-game winning streak into Tuesday night’s game at Canal Park against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (37-25). It begins a six-game homestand.

Advanced A Kinston Indians

Indians 2-1, Red Sox 0-2 Indians LH T.J. House (4-6, 4.41) pitched a seven-inning, complete game one-hitter in the opener of the Carolina League doubleheader in Kinston (N.C.). Peter Hissey's bunt single leading off the sixth inning was the lone hit off House, who struck out six and walked four. The Indians scored both of their runs in the bottom of the sixth, one on a Salem error, and the other on a wild pitch. SS Casey Frawley (.218) had two of Kinston's three hits.

RH Clayton Cook (6-4, 3.12) took the loss for Kinston in the seven-inning second game, giving up a two-run homer to the Red Sox' David Mailman in the second inning. Cook struck out nine, walked one and gave up five hits in 6 2/3 innings. RF Anthony Gallas doubled home the Indians' lone run in the bottom of the first inning. It was his first at bat for Kinston after being promoted from Lake County.  

Notes: RH reliever Kyle Landis is 1-0 with one save in six games with Kinston, striking out 14, walking none and allowing one hit in 10 innings....House has won his last two starts, giving up one run on three hits in 13 2/3 innings....The Indians were coming off their 3-2, 23-inning win at home over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans on Sunday night. The innings are the most ever played in a Carolina League game. The league began play in 1945. The Kinston Free Press reported on Sunday night that 33,610 games had been played in Carolina League history.

A Lake County Captains

The Captains were off on Monday.

Notes: 1B Jesus Aguilar (.264), leading the team with nine homers and 37 RBI, is 16-for-38 (.421) with four doubles and two homers in his last 11 games....The Captains (27-36) take a five-game losing streak into their Tuesday night game against the Great Lakes Loons (34-29) at Eastlake’s Classic Park.

Independent Lake Erie Crushers

Beach Bums 7, Crushers 1 Traverse City (Mich.) handed the Crushers their fifth straight loss in the Frontier League game in Avon.

Notes: Going into Monday night’s game, the Crushers’ leading hitters were infielders Nick Mahin (.324) and Andrew Davis (.308), and outfielders Scott Houin (.300) and Patrick Norris (.300). Davis was leading the team with three homers and 20 RBI....The Crushers were getting superb relief pitching from RH Ruben Flores (2-0, three saves, 0.82), who had struck out 19 and allowed just four hits in 11 innings, and RH Kelyn Schellenberg (0-0, 0.61 in 14 2/3 innings).

Source: http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2011/06/luis_valbuenas_2_homers_7_rbi.html

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Left-hander Scott Barnes pitches seven shutout innings in Clippers win: Minor league report

Barnes, 23, has 33 strikeouts in his last 22 2/3 innings. Aeros lose big, Captains lose close. Kinston rained out.

Karen Schiely, Akron Beacon JournalScott Barnes, now with the Columbus Clippers, pitching for the Akron Aeros last season.

AAA Columbus Clippers

Clippers 7, Red Wings 1 LH starter Scott Barnes (4-1, 4.21) pitched seven shutout innings, holding Rochester (N.Y.) to three hits and two walks while striking out eight in an International League game in Columbus. 1B Jared Goedert (.233, two home runs) slugged a two-run home run and 2B Jason Kipnis (.284, six homers) followed with a solo clout in the fourth inning for a 4-0 Clippers lead. SS Luis Valbuena (.319) extended his hitting streak to 19 games with a double and single. Kipnis also singled twice and Goedert lined a run-scoring single.

Notes: Barnes, 23, is 2-0 with a 1.99 ERA in his last four starts, striking out 33 while allowing 18 hits and 10 walks in 22 2/3 innings. The Cleveland Indians traded 1B Ryan Garko to the San Francisco Giants for Barnes on July 27, 2009. Barnes was then pitching in Class A and considered one of the Giants' best pitching prospects. San Francisco picked him in the eighth round of the 2008 draft....Valbuena is 30-for-69 (.435) during his hitting streak, with six doubles, one homer, 13 RBI and 11 runs....RF Chad Huffman (.267) is 7-for-14 with two homers and a double in his last four games....3B Lonnie Chisenhall (.256) is in a 9-for-56 (.161) slump over his last 14 games, with two doubles, one triple, 10 walks and 12 strikeouts....CF Ezequiel cArrera (.275) is 7-for-40 (.175) with no extra-base hits in his last 10 games.

AA Akron Aeros

Rock Cats 14, Aeros 3 Akron RH starter Joe Gardner (3-5, 4.47) gave up eight runs (four earned) in 2 2/3 innings, and LH reliever Eric Berger was tagged for six runs in 2/3 an inning as the Aeros fell behind, 14-1, in the first four innings of the 10:35 a.m. Eastern League game at New Britain (Conn.). Akron CF Jordan Henry (.267) had three hits, and getting two hits apiece were 2B Matt Lawson (.276), 3B-SS Karexon Sanchez (.238) and C Juan Apodaca (.164). Aeros RH reliever Bryan Price pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings.

Notes: LF Tim Fedroff (.341) is 0-for-12 in his last three games, after hitting safely in 28 of his previous 29 games, when he went 48-for-116 (.414) with 23 RBI and 21 runs....OF-1B Matt McBride (.277) is 43-for-133 (.323) with 10 doubles, three triples, eight homers, 30 RBI and 23 runs in his last 35 games....1B Beau Mills (.293) is on a seven-game hitting streak, going 12-for-28 (.429) with two homers and two doubles....C Chun Hsiu-Chen (.292) is 10-for-27 (.370) with three doubles, two homers and seven RBI in his last seven games....Bryan Price has a 1.20 ERA in his last eight games, fanning 12 and walking five.

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The Indians' game at Wilmington (Del.) against the Blue Rocks was postponed because of rain.

Notes: Going into Thursday night’s game, C Roberto Perez (.254) was 14-for-26 (.538) in his last eight games, with three doubles, one triple, six RBI and four runs....SS Tyler Cannon (.239) was on a seven-game hitting streak, going 11-for-26 (.423) with two homers, two doubles, six RBI and six runs....1B-3B Jeremie Tice (.315) was 9-for-19 (.474) with two homers, one double, five RBI and five runs in his last four games....OF Tyler Holt (.260) was tied for the Carolina League-lead with 35 walks. Perez was sixth with 30 walks and 1B-3B Adam Abraham (.254) was seventh with 29....Abraham was hitting .315 (17-for-54) with eight doubles, three homers, 11 RBI and 10 runs in his last 14 games....OF-1B Chase Burnette (.235) was 8-for-17 (.471) with one triple, six RBI and four runs in his last four games....RH reliever Tyler Sturdevant (3-2, one save, 1.91) was holding opponents to a .198 batting average, with 36 strikeouts and seven walks in 33 innings.

A Lake County Captains

Timber Rattlers 5, Captains 4 RH starter Kyle Blair (3-4, 5.66) took the loss for the Captains in the Midwest League game at (Grand Chute) Wisconsin, allowing four runs in 3 2/3 innings. Lake County LH reliever J.D. Reichenbach kept the game close, holding Wisconsin to one unearned run in 4 1/3 innings, striking out four while allowing two hits and a walk. The Captains got two RBIs from 2B Argenis Martinez (.221) on a single and a groundout; an RBI double from DH Brian Heere (.205); an RBI single from SS Ronny Rodriguez (.218). 

Notes: RH starter Mike Goodnight (5-3, 2.14) is 3-0 with an 0.91 ERA in his last five starts, allowing 16 hits in 29 2/3 innings while striking out 30 and walking 11. Goodnight is holding opponents to a .171 batting average this season....Going into Thursday night’s game, 1B Jesus Aguilar (.249) was 10-for-27 (.370) with three doubles, two homers and five RBI in his last seven games....SS Nick Bartolone (.211) was 11-for-32 (.344) with one double and one triple in his last 10 games....SS Ronny Rodriguez was 8-for-27 (.296) with two homers and a triple in his last seven games....RH reliever Rob Bryson, since being assigned to the Captains out of extended spring training, he pitched twice, striking out four while allowing no hits and no walks in two innings.

Source: http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2011/06/minor_league_report_59.html

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The Synagogue and the Naked Lady

On the way to shul last Shabbat, I mused upon a mystery: how is it that some synagogues come familiarly to be known by the roads in which they are located, while others do not.

London?s North-Western Reform Synagogue is invariably known as Alyth Gardens. Think too of Lauderdale Road (the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Maida Vale), or Raleigh Close (Hendon United) or Kinloss (Finchley United, situated in Kinloss Gardens).

But then Mill Hill Synagogue or St John?s Wood Synagogue are always referred to as Mill Hill or St John?s Wood, not by their streets.

Some steibls are popularly known after their presiding rabbi, such as Hager?s or Reb Chunna?s in Golders Green. A few communities bear Hebrew names, most famously the Machzikei Hadass. More recently, some Progressive synagogues have begun to opt for Hebrew names and one new United Synagogue, Alei Tzion in Hendon, has chosen to do so, too.

But synagogue names are rarely imaginative or evocative. I always fancied that Kinloss should be known, after the well-known statue nearby, as Our Congregation of the Naked Lady.

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Form lines skewed for Tribe and Rebels

Michael Moynihan

AS players, Denis Walsh and John McIntyre lived under the old dispensation, the pre-backdoor era of win or bust. They won't be pertubed by suggestions that Saturday night's game between Cork and Galway is a snapshot of their stewardship of those counties.

Clare's collapse and Patrick Cronin's indiscipline against Offaly skew perceptions of their last days out.

Galway destroyed Clare in Pearse Stadium, but the alignment and technique of some Banner players in attempting blocks and tackles indicated zero morale: take Joe Canning's goal as the basic text in that regard. Accordingly, how much weight can be attached to that result?

Cork were cruising against Offaly in their qualifier in Páirc Uí Chaoimh when Cronin was red-carded: 20 minutes had passed. That means the men in red played over fifty minutes with fourteen men, so it was hardly surprising they tired towards the end and were almost caught on the finishing line.

Go back further and the picture doesn't clear up either. Run a line of form through Tipperary and you'd say Cork were better than Clare, but Cork only finished one point closer to the All-Ireland champions (eight behind) than Clare did, when all is said and done.

Galway ended their Leinster championship game with Dublin six points in arrears, with fifteen men to Dublin's fourteen after Ryan O'Dwyer's second half dismissal. Unlike Cork-Tipperary, though, Galway could have changed that result if Cyril Donnellan had popped a pass to Joe Canning fourteen metres out just after half-time.

On that basis Galway have room to manoeuvre. To improve. McIntyre will be happier with his side's four goals against Clare than Walsh will be with his side's ten against Laois, for instance.

The Galway manager also has a slightly more mature team physically, which should count for something, and more of an idea where to play Joe Canning, which should count for a lot. The bizarre positioning of Canning out on the prairies of midfield has been abandoned, which is good for Galway – and bad for Cork.

For all that, Walsh will know he has a couple of trumps. The fact that Paudie O'Sullivan had to withdraw to midfield in the Offaly game has obscured the understanding he's struck up with Patrick Horgan in the full-forward line; they'll reawaken that in Limerick.

But how will Cork win puck-outs against Galway without Patrick Cronin getting his hand up? This may be the area that gives Walsh a sleepless evening or two.

And it may be the reason John McIntyre is the happier man on Saturday night.

 

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