Brad Frace pitches Nazareth to 4-3 victory in opening round of Region 2 American Legion baseball tournament

Brad Frace has experienced the dark side of baseball, having been cut twice from Nazareth Area High School's JV team and missing the first three weeks of Nazareth's American Legion season last month after having his appendix removed.

That was the back story of the pitcher manager Jason Brown sent to the mound Saturday afternoon in Nazareth's game against Salisbury in the opening round of the Region 2 American Legion Baseball Tournament at Bear Stadium in Boyertown, Pa.

But Frace, a right-hander, became the big story of Game 2 of the tournament, pitching seven brilliant innings while leading the 15-time Northampton County League champions to a 4-3 win over Lehigh County League runner-up Salisbury 4-3.

Nazareth (18-8-2) advances to the winners bracket where it will face the winner of Saturday night's Boyertown-Pottstown game at 7:30 tonight. Salisbury (16-8) faces the loser of the Boyertown-Pottstown game at 1 p.m. in the double-elimination tourney.

Frace gave up just five hits and only a first-inning run while throwing 99 pitches and striking out three against three walks.

"How about Brad Frace?" Brown said. "He didn't play high school baseball until his senior year and he missed the first three weeks of our season with the appendix deal. The kid is just thrilled to be in the starting rotation. He throws a two-seam fastball that cuts away from right-handed hitters. He can throw it in good spots and he throws it for strikes. He made a lot of good Salisbury hitters look average."

"I just threw my fastball," said Frace, who was cut his freshman and sophomore years from the Nazareth JV team and didn't go out for it as a junior. "I threw maybe 10 curveballs, tops. I just tried to keep the ball away from everybody."

Salisbury, comprised of almost the entire Salisbury High School team that dominated the Colonial League while reaching the PIAA Class AA semifinals in the spring, scored a first-inning run off Frace on Justin Aungst's RBI single, but couldn't do anything else against the slender 5-foot-10 righty over the next six innings.

"(Frace) shut down the middle of our lineup," Salisbury manager Scott Heppenheimer said. "Our hitters were getting repeatedly frustrated that they couldn't hit him."

All four of Nazareth's runs were unearned as the result of six Salisbury errors, five of them coming in a three-run sixth off starter Nic Ampietro. Jake Suarez started the rally by reaching first when right fielder Zach Seitz dropped his fly ball and stole second.

Anthony Gaetaniello laid down a sacrifice bunt and reached base when catcher Evan Kulig threw the ball away at first, scoring Suarez. Shortstop Javier Rivera bobbled Tyler Pastor's ground ball, allowing Gaetaniello to score. Jake Carty then drove in Pastor by dumping a single to right.

Nazareth got an all-important insurance run in the top of the ninth on Salisbury's sixth error and a booming triple to left by Tanner Buss.

That run was significant because Nazareth had to weather a two-run single by Ryan Utsch in the ninth off Carty, who came on in relief in the eighth, but got out of it to earn the save.

NAZARETH (ab-r-h-bi) Gaetaniello cf 3-1-1-0, Pastor rf 4-1-1-0, Hallman c 3-0-1-0, Carty 1b/p 4-0-1-1, Talmadge lf/1b 4-0-0-0, Snyder ss 4-1-0-0, Trenberth dh 3-0-0-0, Kline lf 1-0-0-0, Buss 3b 4-0-1-1, Suarez 2b 4-1-1-0, Frace p 0-0-0-0. Totals 34-4-6-2.

SALISBURY (ab-r-h-bi) Vangeli cf 5-0-0-0, Kulig c 3-1-1-0, Aungst 2b/3b 4-0-1-1, Ampietro p/2b 3-0-0-0, Rivera ss 3-0-0-0, Adams c 1-0-0-0, Cooperman 3b/p 3-1-0-0, Kresley lf 3-1-2-0, Seitz rf 2-0-0-0, Santanasto rf 2-0-1-0, Utsch 1b 4-0-2-2. Totals 33-3-7-3.

Nazareth (18-8-2) 000 003 001--4 6 1

Salisbury (16-8)??? 100 000 002--3 7 6

E -- Pastor, Kulig, Aungst, Rivera 3, Seitz. DP -- Salisbury 1. LOB -- Nazareth 5, Salisbury 7. 2B -- Kresley. 3B -- Buss. HBP -- By Carty (Cooperman). S -- Gaetaniello. SB -- Gaetaniello, Suarez 2, Kulig 2, Rivera. CS -- Gaetaniello, Carty, Kresley.

Frace, Carty (8) and Hallman; Ampietro, Cooperman (6) and Kulig, Adams (6). W -- Frace. L -- Ampietro. Save -- Carty.

WP -- Ampietro. Umpires -- HP: D. Houck; 1B: E. Houck; 3B: Mike DiGiacomo. T -- 2:13. A -- 150.

Source: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/07/brad_frace_pitches_nazareth_to.html

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Should We Give Pot to Suffering Pets? Animal Expert Darlene Arden Says Yes

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Darlene Arden is a certified animal behavior consultant who recently began to advocate for medical marijuana?on behalf of pets. She says her purpose in life is to speak for the voiceless, so who better to defend than our furriest companions?

?Pets cannot speak up and say ?Hey, this hurts,?? she says, noting that just decades ago it was common veterinary practice not to provide any pain medication for pets. ?There was a time when veterinarians would do surgery and not give the poor animals any kind of pain control in the belief that if the animals felt pain, they wouldn?t move that body part.?

Of course, cats and dogs do feel pain just as humans do, and they function far better with pain medication. Arden says pet owners should do everything possible to relieve their animal?s pain. ?

?I think we should be living in a kinder, gentler society,? says Arden. ?Animals need love and they give us unconditional love, so the least we can do is help them.?

Arden is an authority on the care of toy breeds and has written several books on pet care. In lectures around the world and in regular animal care columns she speaks on behalf of our pets. After recognizing the benefits medical cannabis can have for human patients in pain, she says it?s time to think about using the herb to treat pets, too.

?You think about how much good this has done for cancer patients, and yet in most of the country not only is it withheld from pets, it?s withheld from people who desperately need a drug that has been proven to work, because [the government is] afraid of the drug people, the ?potheads,?? she says. ?That means they?re punishing sick people because they don?t want well people to get it. That, to me, is crazy.?

Arden is neither liberal nor conservative. She says she simply votes for whichever policies make the most sense. While she has never smoked weed, after researching the topic extensively she became an advocate. Between the relief cannabis can provide to medical patients, and the negative historical impacts of prohibition on society, she says legalization seemed an obvious choice. ?

When a ballot initiative was up for the vote to legalize medical marijuana in Arden?s home state of Massachusetts?in 2012, she voted for it. While the initiative passed, Massachusetts has yet to open a dispensary due to ongoing rhubarb over regulation and location. ?

Jump over to California, where medical marijuana dispensaries have operated since 1996 when Proposition 215 legalized the drug for medical purposes, and you?ll find a few animals already being treated with cannabis via an ingestible ?magic cheese.?

Los Angeles veterinarian Doug Kramer, who runs the Vet Guru animal center, became the first vet in the nation to offer medical cannabis to animals, he told New York Daily News,?when he treated his elderly husky, Nikita, with marijuana. He said after he gave the dog cannabis, she ?stopped whimpering and started eating, gaining weight and meeting him at the door again.? While the dog passed away weeks later, he was able to improve the quality of the end of her life.?

Kramer also told New York Daily News he believes that the active ingredient in pot, THC, could be the key to mitigating pain for dogs in particular. In an interview with the Missoulian, Kramer said he?d grown ?tired of euthanizing pets? when he thought there was more he could do to help them feel better.?

?I felt like I was letting them down,? he said in the article.

Republished with permission from: AlterNet

Source: http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/should-we-give-pot-to-suffering-pets-animal-expert-darlene-arden-says-yes/52081/

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Department of Energy study: Fracking chemicals didn't taint water

In this June 25, 2012 file photo, a crew works on a gas drilling rig at a well site for shale based natural gas in Zelienople, Pa.

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PITTSBURGH ? A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press.

After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas trapped deep below the surface stayed thousands of feet below the shallower areas that supply drinking water, geologist Richard Hammack said.

Although the results are preliminary ? the study is still ongoing ? they are the first independent look at whether the potentially toxic chemicals pose a threat to people during normal drilling operations. But DOE researchers view the study as just one part of ongoing efforts to examine the impacts of a recent boom in oil and gas exploration, not a final answer about the risks.

Drilling fluids tagged with unique markers were injected more than 8,000 feet below the surface but were not detected in a monitoring zone 3,000 feet higher. That means the potentially dangerous substances stayed about a mile away from drinking water supplies.

"This is good news," said Duke University scientist Rob Jackson, who was not involved with the study. He called it a "useful and important approach" to monitoring fracking, but he cautioned that the single study doesn't prove that fracking can't pollute, since geology and industry practices vary widely in Pennsylvania and across the nation.

The boom in gas drilling has led to tens of thousands of new wells being drilled in recent years, many in the Marcellus Shale formation that lies under parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia. That's led to major economic benefits but also fears that the chemicals used in the drilling process could spread to water supplies.

The mix of chemicals varies by company and region, and while some are openly listed the industry has complained that disclosing special formulas could violate trade secrets. Some of the chemicals are toxic and could cause health problems in significant doses, so the lack of full transparency has worried landowners and public health experts.

Over the last four years the debate over fracking chemicals has attracted tremendous attention from state and federal agencies, public health experts, and opponents of fracking. Yet while many people have focused on the potential threat from the chemicals, experts have come to believe that more routine aspects of the drilling process are more likely to cause problems. Poor well construction that allows excess gas to escape, spills of chemicals or other fluids that take place at the surface, and disposal of wastewater are all issues of concern.

Jackson said most of the problems that the Duke researchers have seen have been related to well construction, not fracking chemicals.

The study done by the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh marked the first time that a drilling company let government scientists inject special tracers into the fracking fluid and then continue regular monitoring to see whether it spread toward drinking water sources. The research is being done at a drilling site in Greene County, which is southwest of Pittsburgh and adjacent to West Virginia.

Eight Marcellus Shale wells were monitored seismically and one was injected with four different man-made tracers at different stages of the fracking process, which involves setting off small explosions to break the rock apart. The scientists also monitored a separate series of older gas wells that are about 3,000 feet above the Marcellus to see if the fracking fluid reached up to them.

The industry and many state and federal regulators have long contended that fracking itself won't contaminate surface drinking water because of the extreme depth of the gas wells. Most are more than a mile underground, while drinking water aquifers are usually within 500 to 1000 feet of the surface.

Source: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765634277/Department-of-Energy-study-Fracking-chemicals-didnt-taint-water.html

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Verizon smartphone revenue up in Q2 2013, half of all 7.5 million activations were iPhones (updated)

Verizon's latest quarterly report reveals a carrier chugging along nicely, thank you very much. Total revenue (including wireless and wireline) is up slightly to $29.8 billion, while wireless service revenue on its own grew by 8.3 percent compared to the same quarter last year. Nearly a million (941,000) new retail postpaid customers joined the VZW brigade, some of whom may have been drawn to the carrier's expanding LTE service, which is now available to 301 million Americans, as well as to new handsets like the Nokia Lumia 928 and possibly even the BlackBerry Q10 (or maybe not). In any case, those high-margin subscribers helped to increase profit by 14 percent -- so long as you're the kind of person who's content to be guided by "non-GAAP consolidated adjusted earnings per share." There's also no sign of the pension-related issues that affected the company last quarter, which leaves this carrier high and dry, regardless of how smartphone saturation may be affecting others along the food chain.

Update: In its earnings call, Verizon added that 59 percent of traffic on its network is on 4G LTE, and 52 percent of its smartphone activations (around 3.8 million device activations) were iPhones.

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