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Minor League Fresno Grizzlies v. Tacoma Rainiers. Watch as the ballgirl climbs the left field wall and makes an amazing catch!
Patrick Henry Hughes was born without eyes and with a tightening of the joints that would prevent his 
limbs from ever straightening. But at nine months he took to the piano, by age two he was playing requests, and now -- as a straight A undergrad majoring in Spanish at the University of Louisville -- he and his father function as a single member of the Cardinals marching band. "He's my hero," says his dad, who works the graveyard shift at UPS in order to spend as much time with his son as possible. "Imagine the possibilities I didn't know that I now know from hearing him play."
See The Music of Possibility -- Patrick Hughes and His Father
Hat tip: Joey
This is almost unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in catcher cones. This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa.
Amazingly, 97% of the machine's components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa - farm equipment!
It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video but, as you can see, it was WELL worth the effort.
It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian. Hat tip: Pat Eichner.
For the first time in decades, Memorial Day weekend showed a decrease in travel. Although the numbers aren't in yet, the FTA announced that road travel in March was down by 11 billion miles, which is the worst decline since these statistics were first reported in 1942. Obviously, the culprit is the price of fuel, which is currently hovering around the $4.00 per gallon mark, depending on the grade you use.
There’s a new term for the homebound holiday; "the Staycation," which consists of locally based frivolities such as going to a nearby amusement park, movie theatre, or just not leaving the house at all. This phenomenon is not only the "next" thing–it is actually happening right now. See New Jersey & Company.
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An absolutely on-target parody of mainstream media, imagining how they might have covered the invasion of Normandy with today’s enhanced technology—and today’s relentless negativity.
Hat tip: Charles
I can't wait to see the Democratic version! Hat tip: Steve B.
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