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The 2001 Cardinals featured second baseman Russ Adams, the league's Outstanding Pro Prospect who would become a first-round pick in the following year's MLB draft. In 2002, Orleans was led by the league's Outstanding Pitcher award winner Brian Rogers, who posted a microscopic 0.40 ERA for the season, and all-star catcher Ryan Hanigan, an Andover, Massachusetts native who was named the league's Outstanding New England Player. The team finished atop the East Division with an impressive 29-13-2 record, and prevailed over Y-D in the playoff semi-finals, but was shut down by Wareham in the title series. |
Manager Carmen Carcone brought the Cards back to the title series for a second consecutive season in 2003, the team powered by playoff MVP and CCBL home run derby champion Cesar Nicolas. After taking the semi-final series from Brewster, the Cardinals faced Bourne in the championship series. Game 1 was a low-scoring extra-innings affair at Eldredge Park. After Bourne went ahead 1-0 in the third, the Cards tied it in the fourth on a deep Nicolas dinger to left, his third homer of the playoffs. The teams remained even at 1-1 going into the bottom of the tenth, when the home team loaded the bases and won it on Myron Leslie's walk-off RBI single. Game 2 at Bourne was another tight one, with Game 1 winner Ryan Schroyer coming on in relief to get the final six outs, five of them by strikeout, to nail down the 5-4 Orleans victory and complete the series sweep. |
Skipper Kelly Nicholson took the Cards' helm in 2005 and led the team to a first-place finish in the East Division. Nicholson's Cardinals featured CCBL Outstanding Relief Pitcher Steven Wright and Emmanuel Burriss, who led the league with 37 stolen bases. After taking the semi-final playoff series from Chatham by winning both ends of a day-night playoff doubleheader, Orleans once again met Bourne for the title. Game 1 at Eldredge Park was scoreless going into the bottom of the ninth when the speedy Burriss scored the game's only run in dramatic walk-off fashion by tagging up on a foul pop. The Braves proceeded to clobber the Cards in Game 2 at Bourne by a score of 10-1. But Orleans answered early in Game 3, scoring nine runs in the first three innings. The Cards shut down Bourne hitters behind the stellar pitching of Brad Meyers and closer Wright, and cruised to a 13-1 title-clinching victory. Meyers shared playoff MVP honors with Burriss, who reached base five times and scored three runs in the finale. |
In 2006, Nicholson's team starred future CCBL hall of famer and Outstanding Pro Prospect award winner Matt Wieters. A league all-star catcher, Wieters batted .307 with eight home runs, including a colossal shot off the right-centerfield bandstand at Eldredge Park. |
The 2009 season saw the team change its nickname, following an agreement between the Cape League and Major League Baseball which stated that if a CCBL team shared a nickname with an MLB team, the team would have to obtain its uniforms through a Major League Baseball Properties-licensed vendor. Wanting to maintain its independence and longstanding relationship with local vendors, the Orleans team opted to change its moniker to the Orleans Firebirds. |
Throughout the 2010s, the team continued to be skippered by Kelly Nicholson, who surpassed Laurin "Pete" Peterson as the longest-tenured manager in team history. The team qualified for the playoffs in nine of ten years in the decade, winning East division titles in 2011, 2015 and 2017, and reaching the championship series in 2013 before falling to Cotuit. Eastham, Massachusetts native Sue Horton, the team's general manager since 2000, received the league's Dick Sullivan Executive of the Year award in 2016. |
Notable players of the decade included CCBL hall of famer Kolten Wong, who hit .341 with 22 stolen bases to claim the league MVP award in 2010. Future major league all-star Marcus Stroman pitched for the Firebirds in 2010 and 2011, and Trevor Gott was the league's Outstanding Relief Pitcher for Orleans in 2011. The Firebirds boasted the league's Outstanding Pitcher award winners in back-to-back seasons with Kolton Mahoney in 2014, and Mitchell Jordan, who tied a CCBL modern era single season record with a 0.21 ERA in 2015. The 2018 Firebirds featured league Outstanding Pro Prospect J.J. Bleday, a CCBL all-star outfielder who hit .311 with five home runs. |
Firebirds Stephen Scott and Carter Aldrete won back-to-back all-star home run derby crowns in 2017 and 2018, and center fielder Jimmy Herron was MVP of the 2017 all-star game for his game-winning RBI in the East division's 5-3 win. New Bedford, Massachusetts native Jared Shuster was the league's Outstanding New England Player in 2019. A league all-star, Shuster posted a 4-0 record with a 1.40 ERA in 30 innings, striking out 35 while walking only five. |
The CCBL Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame honoring past players, coaches, and others who have made outstanding contributions to the CCBL. Below are the inductees who spent all or part of their time in the Cape League with Orleans. |
The Firebirds were one of the first teams in the Cape Cod Baseball League to have student broadcast interns. |
= = = Telegrafgränd = = = |
Telegrafgränd (Swedish: "Telegraph Alley") is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden. Stretching from Skeppsbron to Österlånggatan, it is a parallel street to Slottsbacken and Skeppar Karls Gränd. |
The alley is named after the telegraph inaugurated in 1869 and located in the block north of the alley. Prior to this it was named "Saltkompanigränden" ("The Salt Company Alley") after the salt manufacturer from Västervik who had a warehouse built on a site they bought in 1647. In 1508, the alley was called "Lindhwidz grend", presumably after a skipper known as "Lindivd skeppare", who in 1512 was fined for having brought 100 loads of "mould and muck from the gate to the bridge" (e.g. into town). |
In 1875, several companies operating in the neighbourhood urged that the name to be changed to the present name, arguing that the old name was circumstantial and often confused with other local names ("Saltmätaregränden" ("The salt Measurer's Alley"), today Gåsgränd, and "Saltmätaregatan", in today's Vasastaden), and the City Council raised no objections. A proposal from Gamla stan's folk society in 1953 to reinstate the old name proved unsuccessful. |
The present building at Number 2 ("Aeolus 1") was constructed for the national telegraph department ("Telegrafverket") in 1868-1870 to the design of architect Ludvig Hawerman followed by various devastating reconstructions before the restoration of Ivar Tengbom in 1951-1959. During the Middle Ages, this was the location of the northernmost defensive tower in the eastern city wall built during the 14th and 15th centuries. As a result of a reconstruction in the mid 18th century, the lot of the salt company building facing Slottsbacken was united with the one facing Telegrafgränd and in 1782 the building was completely reconstructed again. It was the location for the National Archives ("Riksarkivet") and the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities ("Kungliga Vitterhets-, Historie- och Antikvitetsakademien" (KVHAA) or "Vitterhetsakademien" for short) during the period 1848-1863. |
In medieval times, the building along the south-eastern part of the alley ("Bootes 5" facing Skeppsbron) was separated from the southern part of the block by a narrow alley, the western end of which is still discernible on 3-5, Österlånggatan. The eastern end of the alley was bought by Secretary Israel Israelsson Lagerfelt (1610-1684) who built the present building on the lot. |
The building at Number 4-6 ("Aeolus 3") was designed by Ingvar Tengbom 1952-1954. On the lot the councillor Erik Fleming had a three-storey building constructed in the 1660s. On its demolition the original decorated wainscots were discovered and saved by the Stockholm City Museum. |
The basement of Number 1 ("Bootes 4") is possibly preserved from the Middle Ages, while the Y-shaped wall anchors between the first and second floors are considerably younger, the third floor is from the first half of the 17th century, and the top floor if from 1652. The building was extensively rebuilt in 1875 and 1902 which gave the façade most of its present appearance. |
The building at Number 3 ("Bootes 3"), rebuilt in the 17th century, was united with the building on the opposite side of the alley during the 18th and 19th centuries. It was rebuilt in 1907, from when it got most of its present appearance, while it conceals remains of medieval walls shared with Number 5. |
While both the interior and the exterior of Number 5 ("Bootes 2") mostly dates back to a reconstruction in 1764, the extent of the building is a century older, and the walls of first three storeys are preserved from the Middle Ages (the fork-shaped wall anchors and the decorated doors are from the 17th century though). |
= = = Eritrean Highlands = = = |
The Eritrean Highlands are a mountainous region in central Eritrea. Bordered to the south by the Mareb River, it is a northern continuation of the Ethiopian Highlands. The region has seen tremendous deforestation since the colonial period, which began in the late 19th century. The Highlands are at particular risk of deforestation and associated soil erosion. Furthermore, the region, lying south of the Sahel are at particular risk of desertification and frequent drought. The Highlands experience, as most tropical regions, two seasons; the rainy season ("kremti") is from June-September while the dry season is from September to June. The average temperature for Asmara, which is above sea level is approximately 16°C, but other places range from about 10°C to 25°C. |
The Eritrean Highlands are drained by four major rivers towards Sudan, and by several smaller rivers into the Red Sea coast of Eritrea. Flowing towards Sudan and the Nile are the Gash and Setit rivers, while towards Sudan without reaching the Nile are the Barka and Anseba rivers. The eastern escarpment of Eritrea is drained by numerous small streams. |
The highest point in Eritrea is located in the Eritrean Highlands at Emba Soira above sea level. |
Many believe that forest cover in the Eritrean Highlands was as high as 30% but has since declined to 1%, however, others including Louise Latt have suggested that there has never been such a dramatic decline in forest cover. |
The eastern edge of the Highlands falls off dramatically towards the Red Sea which causes two climatic systems to overlap. This region is oft noted for its perennial forest cover. This is also the region that Eritrea's Merara coffee is grown. |
The soil conditions in the Eritrean Highlands is also quite complex. The predominant soils are chromic, eutric, and calsic cambisols of strong red colour. Other soils found in the highlands are lithosols, xerosols and fluvisols. |
= = = Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft III (1929–1931) = = = |
Selected Letters III (1929-1931) is a collection of letters by H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in 1971 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,513 copies. It is the third of a five volume series of collections of Lovecraft's letters and includes a preface by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. |
"Selected Letters III (1929-1931)" includes letters to: |
= = = Gustave Roussy = = = |
Gustave Roussy (24 November 1874 – 30 September 1948) was a Swiss-French neuropathologist born in Vevey, Switzerland. |
As a hospital interne in Paris, Roussy worked under neurologists Pierre Marie and Joseph Jules Dejerine. In 1907 he earned his doctorate from the University of Paris, and in 1925 was appointed professor of pathological anatomy at the "Faculté de Médecine". Later on, he was named dean (1933) and rector (1937) to the faculty of medicine at the university. |
Roussy made several contributions in the field of neurology, in particular, his investigations on the role of the thalamus and the autonomic nervous system. |
During World War I he was chief of neurology of the 7th Military Region Besançon, publishing extensively on his experiences with battle-related wounds. He was the author or co-author of a number of works on psychological and neuropsychological issues as a consequence of war. |
In 1946 he published a 1000-page monograph titled ""Traité de Neuroendocronologie"" in regards to his research in the field of neuroendocrinology. With Jean Camus (1872-1924) he performed important studies involving damage to the hypothalamus. |
Roussy was interested in the study and treatment of cancer, becoming director of the "Institut du Cancer" in 1930. Today in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif is the Institute Gustave-Roussy, a private institution devoted to oncology. |
Along with other physicians are three eponymous disorders named after him: |
= = = Cerro Macá = = = |
Cerro Macá is a stratovolcano located to the north of the Aisén Fjord and to the east of the Moraleda Channel, in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of Chile. This glacier-covered volcano lies along the regional Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone. |
Cerro Macá is a relatively small volcano with a volume of only .It has a summit elevation of approximately 2,300 m above sea level and features glaciers that in 2011 covered an area of . The edifice is partially eroded and a sector collapse is probably the origin of a large steep sided depression in the summit area. Pyroclastic cones with associated lava flows are found on its southwestern flank but also on the other slopes of the volcano, as far down as sea level and in the Bahia Aysen. |
The volcano is part of the southernmost Southern Volcanic Zone of Chile, where volcanism is caused by the subduction of the Nazca Plate. Other volcanoes in the area are Melimoyu, Mentolat, Cay and Cerro Hudson. Macá specifically is formed by basalt and basaltic andesite. |
1,440 ± 40 calibrated radiocarbon years ago a moderate explosive eruption deposited the MAC1 tephra, which reaches thicknesses of east of Macá. Ash from past eruptions has been tentatively identified close to Cochrane Lake. A more recent eruption occurred in 410 ± 50 AD. |
In the early 20th century volcanic activity was observed at Ensenada Pérez, close to the southwestern flank of Macá. |
= = = Towthorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire = = = |
Towthorpe is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, it forms part of the civil parish of Fimber. It is situated in the Yorkshire Wolds just north of the B1248 road, approximately north-west of Driffield and south-west of Sledmere. |
= = = D55 motorway (Czech Republic) = = = |
D55 motorway (), formerly R55 expressway () is a highway in the Czech Republic. When completed, it will connect all main cities along the river Morava. |
Only two small segments are completed, others are planned. |
= = = David Stuart = = = |
David Stuart may refer to: |
= = = County Hospital (film) = = = |
County Hospital is a Laurel and Hardy short film made in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ollie is in hospital with a broken leg, Stan comes to visit and ends up getting Ollie kicked out; on the way home Stan crashes the car. |
Ollie is in the county hospital with a broken leg. Stan pays him a visit (he did not have anything "else" to do) bearing a "thoughtful" gift of a bag of hard-boiled eggs and nuts. Ollie complains he cannot eat hard-boiled eggs or nuts and asks Stan why he did not bring a box of candy. Stan explains boxes of candy cost too much and that Ollie did not pay him for the last box he had brought him. While eating an egg, Stan knocks over a jug of water and Ollie hits him on the head with a bedpan. |
The doctor (Billy Gilbert) comes in to examine Ollie and tells him he should be in the hospital for at least two months. In a genius sequence of slapstick, Stan uses the traction weight to break a nut and Ollie's plastered leg hits the doctor on the head. The doctor grabs the weight in anger and falls out of the window. Ollie's leg flies up to the ceiling as the doctor dangles precariously. |
The angry doctor orders both patient and guest out of the hospital at once. "You had nothing else to do so you thought you'd come around and see me," says an irritated Ollie. "Here I was for the first time in my life having a nice peaceful time and you had to come and spoil it. Get my clothes." Before leaving, Stan first manages to destroy a pair of trousers belonging to Ollie's roommate (who is also going home) and then accidentally sits on a hypodermic needle loaded with sedative. The nurse comes in, discovers this and nearly collapses into hysterical laughter. |
Stan attempts to drive Ollie home, but is nearly asleep at the wheel due to the sedative, and the car careens wildly through the streets in a token comic "reckless driving" sequence of hilarious (yet obviously staged) traffic chaos...until Stan finally smashes the car between two streetcars, bending it into a 90 degree angle so that he can only drive round and round in circles. |
= = = I Know My First Name Is Steven = = = |
I Know My First Name Is Steven is a 1989 American television miniseries about kidnap victim Steven Stayner. The two-part miniseries was first broadcast by NBC on May 21–22, 1989. Screening rights were sold to a number of international television companies including the BBC, which screened the miniseries in mid-July of the following year; later still, it was released as a feature-length movie. |
It was nominated as Best Miniseries or Television Film at the 47th Golden Globe Awards and received four Emmy Award nominations. |
Steven Stayner, a seven year-old boy, is kidnapped by Kenneth, a man caught up in his isolation and loneliness, finding that the only solution to the problem is to claim a boy for his own. Once he, with the help of his partner in crime, Irving Murphy, manages to follow through with his plan, he immediately begins to "groom" and bribe Steven to desire to stay with him. Steven, however, despite protesting against Kenneth, saying that he wanted to go home, had no choice in the matter. As the sexual abuse happened for the first time, Steven moaned, "leave me alone," and Kenneth responded by continuing his acts saying, "Don't be afraid." These acts of molestation, child rape, and holding photos of Steven naked, continued for seven years. |
It wasn't until Steven was fourteen, that the abuse was disclosed, and he was rescued from his perpetrator. Because Kenneth kidnapped another young child, a boy named Timmy, Steven built up the courage to prevent Timmy from going through the same thing that he went through when he was Timmy's age. He brought Timmy to the police, and when he did, he was questioned and pressed until he confessed that he was the victim of a kidnapping by his "dad," Kenneth. |
Steven later testified in court on Timmy's behalf, and then later, in a hearing for accusations of the crimes that Kenneth committed against himself. After a painful testimony, Kenneth only received twenty months in prison for the kidnapping and sexual abuse against Steven. |
= = = Cyclone Kyrill = = = |
Cyclone Kyrill was a low-pressure area that evolved into an unusually violent European windstorm, forming an extratropical cyclone with hurricane-strength winds. It formed over Newfoundland on 15 January 2007 and moved across the Atlantic Ocean reaching Ireland and Great Britain by the evening of 17 January. The storm then crossed the North Sea on 17 and 18 January, making landfall on the German and Dutch coasts on the afternoon of 18 January, before moving eastwards toward Poland and the Baltic Sea on the night from 18 to 19 January and further on to northern Russia. |
Kyrill caused widespread damage across Western Europe, especially in the United Kingdom and Germany. 47 fatalities were reported, as well as extensive disruptions of public transport, power outages to over one hundred thousand homes, severe damage to public and private buildings and major forest damage through windthrow. |
The storm was named "Kyrill" on 17 January 2007, by the Free University of Berlin's meteorological institute. The storm was named after a Bulgarian man living near Berlin, whose family donated to the university's "Adopt-A-Vortex" programme. |
A European windstorm is a severe cyclonic storm that moves across the North Atlantic towards northwestern Europe in the winter months. These storms usually move over the north coast of the United Kingdom, towards Norway but can veer south to affect other countries including Ireland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Poland. As these storms can generate hurricane-force winds (and sometimes even winds at the strength of major hurricanes), they are sometimes referred to as hurricanes, even though few originate as tropical cyclones. |
These storms rank as the second highest cause of global natural catastrophe insurance loss (after US hurricanes). |
Kyrill was unusual in that its field of hurricane-force winds was very broad, affecting large areas of Germany as well as neighbouring countries at one time. Kyrill brought wind gusts of up to even in the North German plains. German weather experts have described the storm as a "once in a decade" event. |
After making landfall in Ireland and the UK in the late hours of 17 January 2007, the storm swept across Ireland and Great Britain on the night of 17 to 18 January, with winds of at The Needles, recorded in Dublin, recorded at Aberdaron on the Lleyn peninsula, at Mumbles near Swansea and winds of at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan. |
The German Meteorological Service had advised people to stay indoors and avoid unnecessary trips on 18 January, and wind strengths of up to 12 on the Beaufort scale were seen across the Netherlands and Germany as the storm made landfall. The storm moved across the German states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia first, then spread across the whole country in the evening hours of 18 January. Wind gusts as high as on the Wendelstein and on the Brocken in the Harz mountains were recorded. The storm then moved eastwards, its center crossing Lower Saxony between 18:00 and 19:00 CET, moving toward the Baltic sea, its cold front spawning several tornadoes in Germany, three of which have been confirmed as of 22 February. In the Poland the highest wind speed was measured on Sněžka in the Krkonoše mountains, where wind gusts reached . In the Czech Republic winds as high as disrupted both rail and air traffic; record high temperatures reached in Prague. |
The UK Met office in a case study stated that Kyrill would have generated a red warning on the colour scale they adopted in 2008. |
The storm was classified Hurricane-force 12 on the Beaufort Scale. |
On the day of the landfall, an approximate 25,000 homes in southern England were without electricity after electricity pylons were damaged by the storm. Same day, the German states of Brandenburg, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt were hit by a massive power cut. 52,000 homes were without energy, according to local utility "envia". The German district Siegen-Wittgenstein had issued a state of emergency, with schools remaining closed on Friday, 19 January, and roads not to be cleared right away, but closed instead until the situation improved. By the second day of the storm, more than one million homes were left without power in the Czech republic with another million households without electricity in Germany and tens of thousands dark homes in Austria and Poland. |
In Poland, a flood alarm was issued in several localities due to large rainfalls and the storm damaged several houses in the region of Jelenia Góra. In Ukraine, the supply of oil through the Druzhba pipeline came to a complete halt as a result of the storm. |
Strong winds over the Alps became foehn wind and caused unseasonally high temperatures in Italy (up to in Turin). |
In Ireland thousands of homes were left without power and heavy downpours caused flash flooding. |