Comets find a way to win

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VELMA Just a few minutes after Velma-Alma junior Ty Richardson was hit by a pitch from Lindseys relief pitcher, Alec Richardson followed in his cousins footsteps to win third place in the Jake Leffler Wooden Bat Tournament Saturday.

It was a walk-off hit by pitch and the Comets (8-12) had pulled out the 5-4 win. Alec Richardson said that it was the best hed ever felt when getting hit by the ball. The Comets had scored a run without getting the ball out of the infield to win the game in the bottom of the seventh inning. Coach Colt Allison was happy with his players patience at the plate.

I just told the guys, You have to make the pitcher work, Allison said. Make him work at the knees, and it did pay off. He hit a couple kids there and I felt like we were pretty fortunate.

As the Lindsey pitcher slammed his glove on the ground, Velma-Alma celebrated a win that was close to not happening.

With two outs in the top of the seventh and nursing a 4-3 lead, the Comets showed their inexperience. Lindsey tried to steal with its game-tying runner on second. The smart play would have been to let him have the bag. A single would have scored him on second, so it didnt matter having him on third.

Allison took the blame on himself for freshman catcher Tyler Martin overthrowing third to score the game-tying run.

I just think it was instinct, and he reacted, Allison said. It was a poor job from the dugout, not from him. He needs to be told.

Martins brother, Colby, picked him up. He pitched a gem in the close win and said it felt great to have his brothers back in the end.

It means a lot, Colby said. He needs to pick his head up, because he is a big part of this team.

It was the second win of the night for the Comets, who have won four of their last five. The first one of the day was a 9-5 decision against Healdton, which included a home run by Ty Richardson.

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Comets Enter Partnership to Create New Indoor Soccer League

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April 12, 2014 - Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) Missouri Comets INDEPENDENCE, MO (April 12, 2014) - In conjunction with management from the Baltimore Blast and San Diego Sockers, the Missouri Comets have entered into a partnership with the Professional Arena Soccer League (PASL) to create a new league that will unify professional indoor soccer across the country.

Interview with PASL Commissioner Kevin Milliken, San Diego Sockers President Phil Salvagio and Missouri Comets Owner Brad Likens - http://youtu.be/s3UikbMKySQ

Professional Indoor Soccer has been around since the original Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) began in 1978. After the demise of the North American Soccer League (NASL) in 1984, the MISL became the highest level of professional soccer in the United States.

The original Kansas City Comets were founded in 1979, the Baltimore Blast in 1980 and the San Diego Sockers in 1982. Although the opponents and players have changed, these teams continue to entertain fans with exciting fast paced, high-scoring action.

The Missouri Comets were reborn in 2010, joining the Baltimore Blast in the latest version of the MISL. The Comets and Blast have reached the playoffs in each of the four years since Missouri's return. The Blast and Comets are responsible for the last two MISL Championships.

The San Diego Sockers were reborn in 2009 to what was then the PASL-Pro. That year they began a winning streak that saw them win more games than any other professional soccer team in United States history. From December 29, 2010 until January 27, 2013 the Sockers won 48 games in a row. During the streak, they managed to win four straight PASL Championships.

This new partnership will unite teams that have played in two separate leagues over the past several seasons into one league playing at the highest level in North America. More details will be announced soon regarding additional teams, schedules and league rules.

"We are looking forward to continuing our existing rivalries from the MISL, with the Wave, Ambush, Lancers, Silver Knights and the Blast," said Team President Brian Budzinski. "At the same time, rekindling old rivalries with such storied franchises as the Sidekicks and Sockers will be great for long time indoor soccer fans"

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Comets Indoor Soccer: The Comets, one of the most storied & iconic sports franchises in Kansas City's history, returned in 2010 to begin a new era at the Independence Events Center in Independence, MO. Picking up right where they left off, the team has earned post-season berths every season, 15 League Awards, two MISL MVPs and the MISL Championship in 2014; the Comets are continuously striving for success on and off the field.

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Fatima scores in double digits in pair of wins

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Fatima batter Reid Kessel dodges an inside pitch Saturday afternoon during the Comets' game against Lutheran St. Charles during the Capital City Invitational. Photo by Kile Brewer.

Their longest hit of the day ended a long day full of very good offense.

Will Robertsons three-run home run lifted the Fatima Comets to an 11-0 win in five innings against the Lutheran: St. Charles Cougars in the fifth-place game of the Capital City Invitational at Vivion Field.

It gives us confidence that we know we can compete against these size schools, Fatima coach Scott Kilgore said. Were ecstatic, I dont know how I couldnt be pleased with our performance.

The Comets scored a combined 26 runs in 12 innings Saturday, including a 15-9 victory against the Eureka Wildcats earlier in the day at the American Legion Post 5 Sports Complex.

The Fatima lumber came out of its slumber after totaling just four runs in losing their first two Invitational games Friday.

This is what were capable of, Kilgore said. (Friday), we were in a bit of a funk. Granted, there was outstanding pitching. But we saw quality pitching today and we were able to do things against it at the plate.

The Comets used five singles to score three runs in the bottom of the first inning against the Cougars, then had three singles and a walk in a two-run third to make it 5-0.

The closing kick came in a six-run fifth. After the first two Comets were retired, Matt Temmen walked, moved to second on a Zack Hudspeth single and advanced to third on a wild pitch. Pinch-hitter Brady Weavers then walked to load the bases.

John Fick, who hit the ball hard all weekend, then lined a single to left to make it 7-0. Logan Vogel followed with another RBI single that made it 8-0 with runners on first and third.

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World's largest swarm of genetically modified mosquitoes released in Brazil

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London, Apr 12 : The world's largest ever swarm of genetically modified mosquitoes has been released in Brazil to combat infectious disease, according to reports.

Jacobina, a farming town in Bahia, has been plagued for years by dengue fever, a mosquito-borne tropical disease and a leading cause of illness and fatality in Brazil.

According to the Global Post, the newly hatched Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have been engineered to wipe out their own species, the Independent reported.

Last year Brazil reported 1.4 million cases of dengue, for which there is no vaccine - the most severe form of the illness, dengue hemorrhagic fever, can lead to shock, coma and death.

The so-called "Franken-skeeter" has been genetically modified (GM) in a laboratory with a gene designed to devastate the non-GM Aedes aegypti population and reduce dengue's spread.

The mosquitoes contain a lethal gene but are kept alive in the laboratory with the help of the antibiotic tetracycline. Once they reach larval stage, the males are separated from the females, which are subsequently destroyed.

Then the males, which don't bite, are released so they can mate with wild females. Their offspring inherit the lethal gene and then die before they can reproduce because they are not treated with tetracycline.

--ANI (Posted on 12-04-2014)

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In depth: 10 supercomputers that are saving the world in super-fast time

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Supercomputers are astonishing feats of engineering, boasting mind-blowing processing power and the ability to calculate the answer to life, the universe and everything. But to some they are supervillains rather than superheroes. For decades governments around the world funded supercomputers with military applications in mind, and some of the most powerful machines ever made were put to work modelling missile trajectories and simulating nuclear war.

Today's supercomputers still do some of that, but they're increasingly being used with the very best intentions: to model the effects of climate change, to find better ways of using energy, to investigate new materials, design new kinds of vehicles and to predict natural disasters.

Take IBM's Watson: after a brief career winning game shows, it's taken a more serious job identifying the most effective treatments for a common brain cancer known as glioblastoma. The system has also been used to identify appropriate treatments for patients with lung cancer.

Watson is an impressive machine, but as supercomputers go it's actually quite modest: its 2,880 processor cores and 16TB of RAM sounds great until you discover that Tianhe-2, aka Milky Way 2, has more than three million cores and 1,375 tebibytes of RAM. That's enough to run Crysis 3 with everything turned up to eleven - so what does it and its fellow supercomputers do all day? Allow us to introduce the world's ten most powerful computers and the high points of their CVs.

China

Reckon your quad-core PC is pretty powerful? The National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou, China, has a machine with a staggering 3,120,000 cores delivering 33.86 petaFLOPs. The machine was developed by China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) and as you might expect the defence side of things is shrouded in secrecy, but Chinese media reports say it'll also be used to predict earthquakes, for climate modelling and to help China's car industry. That latter claim has baffled many observers: automobile engineering professor Bian Mingyaun of Tsinghua University told the South China Morning Post that using a supercomputer to design cars was "like running after a chicken with an axe quite unnecessary."

Japan

Fujitsu's K Computer is another former number one: in 2011 it was the first computer to top 10 petaFLOPs. It's installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, where it runs a variety of applications for tasks including disaster prevention, medical science and climate modelling. That requires a lot of power: at full pelt the K Computer uses the same amount of energy of nearly 10,000 suburban homes.

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Yosipa Announces Release of Share My Soul

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BANGALOW, Australia (PRWEB) April 13, 2014

Sometimes inspiration strikes out of the blue, and sometimes it is found in another persons story. For the poet Yosipa, it came through her own challenges growing up, and she has created an evocative, honest and heartfelt compilation of poems in her new book, Share My Soul: A Gift to the World (published by Balboa Press).

Written and compiled over 20 years, the topics range from family and relationships to nature and society. Share My Soul is a collection of more than 50 poems that reflect the authors journey through a difficult childhood, discovering spirituality and other life experiences.

Most of the works in Share My Soul were inspired by Yosipas time in Byron Bay, Australia, where she lacked access to television and other electronics. The absence of technology allowed her to look inward and explore her creative spirit. The book inspires readers to not only reflect and interpret the poems in their own way, but also to discover and share their own creativity.

I wrote most of these poems during a period of reflection in the beautiful and vibrant Byron Bay, said Yosipa. My past experiences, negative and positive, were exposed and I felt inspired to share my take on healing, love and community.

Share My Soul By Yosipa Softcover | 6 x 9 in | 64 pages | ISBN 9781452509730 E-Book | 64 pages | ISBN 9781452509747 Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the Author Yosipa is self-motivated and driven by her passion for living, spirituality and discovery. After leaving home at age 15, she proceeded to make her own path in life with various jobs, classes and personal discoveries. Yosipa currently lives in Bangalow, Australia, with her three children.

Balboa Press, a division of Hay House, Inc. a leading provider in publishing products that specialize in self-help and the mind, body, and spirit genres. Through an alliance with indie book publishing leader Author Solutions, LLC., authors benefit from the leadership of Hay House Publishing and the speed-to-market advantages of the self-publishing model. For more information, visit balboapress.com. To start publishing your book with Balboa Press, call 0800 0962774 today. For the latest, follow @balboapress on Twitter.

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