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The Top 15 best rookie season players in NY Giants history

The NY Giants have had many successful players play for the franchise.

Several of those players have shown it all during their rookie season with the team.

From Phil Simms making a run at Rookie of The Year in 1979 to Odell Beckham Jr. immediately emerging as one of the NFLs premier wide receivers, and most dangerous deep threats in the vertical passing game, several NY Giants have made impressive first impressions as rookies.

In his rookie season, Diehl started all 16 games, becoming the first Giants rookie to do so since Mark Bavaro in 1985. He was the only rookie to start at the same position each game during the 2003 season.

Simms won his first five starts of his rookie year. He was 6-4 as a starter, threw for 1,743 yards and 13 touchdown passes, and was named to the NFL All-Rookie team. He was also a runner-up for Rookie of the Year.

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If you were a devoted reader of Soybean Digest in the middle decades of the last centurylikely a farmer who was either growing soybeans or seriously considering ityou might have witnessed a quiet invasion taking place on the series of maps printed in conjunction with the magazines annual review of new soy cultivars.

Cultivars, or cultivated varieties, are variants of domesticated plants adapted to specific uses, climates, and soils. Soybean Digest printed the names of varieties recommended for specific locations over an outline map of the U.S. that extended far enough west to include a corner of Texas.

Unlike names for apples or other public-facing produce, the names for soy cultivars were not intended to entice consumers with appetizing imagery. Instead, they were a pragmatic means to keep a wealth of genetic lineages straight: single proper names chosen, it often seemed, for reasons known only to the breeders. What to make of Clark and Kent, often recommended for neighboring counties in the North? Or, in the South, such varieties as S-100, CNS, and JEW 45 (bred by South Carolina farmer John E. Wannamaker, who lent his initials)?

There were, however, discernible shifts in naming practices. In the early 1900s, when the USDA began taking an active hand in importing thousands of samples of soybeans from Asia and sorting them into cultivars for American farmers, names indicating geographic origin, such as Peking, were common. By the late 1940s, names like Mandarin and Hongkong had become increasingly rare. Breeders instead chose names for soybeans, still widely regarded as a botanical immigrants, that more firmly rooted them on American soil. Northern breeders favored the names of presidentsAdams, Madison, Lincolnand tribal nations: Chippewa, Blackhawk, Ottawa. Southern names of the time included Arksoy, Volstate (for Tennessee, the Volunteer State), and Pelican (in honor of South Carolinas state bird).

These practices were inconsistent, though, next to one that emerged in the South in the mid-1950s that embodied a very specific regional identity. Somehow, a century after losing the Civil War, Confederate generals had returnedat least on the inside pages of an obscure trade journal. A new form of geographic identity was appearing in the South, beginning with a smattering of Jackson and Lee cultivars. By the last map of the series, in 1966, the rout of older varieties was nearly complete. They were crowded out by Hood, Hill, Hampton, Stuart, Bragg, Hardee, and Pickett.

This was not simply an invasion on paper. It pointed to a dramatic transformation of Southern agriculture, in which new soybean varieties played a major role once held by cotton. It was also a vivid indication of how this transformation largely excluded African Americans sharecroppers, who were being actively pushed off the land.

As much as the Confederate cultivars reflected large structural forces at play, they were largely the work of a single man, responsible both for the painstaking scientific work it took to breed them and for the choice of this particular naming practice. Edgar E. Hartwig was not a born Southerner. He grew up in Minnesota and received his Ph.D. in agronomy from the University of Illinois. He joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1941. Founded in its current form during the Civil War, the USDA was tasked with conducting research of direct benefit to American farmers, often in cooperation with state agricultural research stations.

In 1948, Hartwig was assigned to oversee the cooperative soybean breeding program for 12 Southern states: the 11 former Confederate states, plus Oklahoma. The North/South divide in cultivar breeding was not unusual. Soybeans, like many crops, are sensitive to conditions that vary markedly from north to south, such as summer daylength and the length of the growing season. An unintended consequence: soybean breeding did rather precisely map onto American sectional divisions.

Hartwigs outsized influence on Southern soybeans was, in part, due to his consummate skill at the exacting and time-consuming technique of backcrossing. Previous generations of American soy breeders had largely focused on sorting through existing lineages from the rich genetic heritage of Asia to find those well adapted to the countrys needs. Backcrossing was a more active form of breeding, in which two variants were mated, and then one was bred with successive generations of the resulting crosses until the others contribution was diluted to a small cluster of genes or even a single desirable trait.

This ability to mix and match genes was crucial for the success of soybeans in the South. Earlier in the 20th century, existing cultivars in the region were generally short and bushy plants, grown for hay. Increasingly, however, the real money in soybeans was coming from growing beans that could be processed into oil and animal feed. This required plants tall enough to be harvested by combines, pods not easily shattered by mechanical harvesting, and high yields of long-maturing beans rich in fat and protein. Northern cultivars had these traits, but breeders needed to combine these qualities with adaptations to Southern conditions, including shorter summer days and more numerous plant diseases. Hartwig was adept at the work, and as his cultivars went into circulation, soybean acreage in the 12 states in his program increased sixfold between 1954 to 1974 to almost 16 million acres, one quarter of the nations total at the time.

While the supply of new cultivars was crucial for this growth, it was only because fundamental changes in the agricultural economy of the South had created demand. New Orleans, for instance, grabbed a big share of the growing soybean export market to Europe, which sought the crop to help raise the postwar standard of living through increased meat production. Initially, this benefitted Midwestern farmers who could ship down the Mississippi, but Southern farmers soon recognized the opportunity as well. Soy acreage in Louisiana accordingly shot up from 73,000 acres in 1954 to 1.8 million in 1974. This period also saw the rise of the broiler belt, ranging from Arkansas, down into the Gulf states, and up through Georgia and the Carolinas, where caged chickens bred for breast meat were fattened on soy-enriched feed. The poultry industry helped Georgias soy acreage increase by a factor of 31 in 20 years.

Above all, soy appealed to farmers because it was not cotton. For decades, the region had struggled with gluts of its main cash crop and consequent low prices. The government periodically attempted to limit supply through acreage allotments and marketing quotas, but with limited success. Reformers had long sought to convert the Souths cotton monoculture to mixed rotations of small grains, oats, and winter wheat, but the Southern landowners were uninterested in any system that did not provide them a robust cash flow. This is what Hartwigs soybeans provided, enabling them to cut back cotton production. By 1960, American farmers were planting a little more than 15 million acres of cotton, down from almost 45 million acres at the crops peak in the 1920s.

This might provide the best clue for Hartwigs commitment to naming cultivars after Confederate generals. (Beyond acknowledging the obvious fact that this was his practice, he never publicly discussed his reasons.) As an agricultural modernizer, he was selling Southern landowners on an entirely new, mechanized system of agriculture, of which soybeans were only one element. Confederate generals, memorialized throughout the region in monuments and the names of parks, towns, and military bases, were a readily available form of nostalgia to drape over disruptive innovation.

Key to the effectiveness of this pitch was the race of the intended audience, which remained a constant as the region shifted from sharecropping to mechanized farming. Nearly 90 percent of landowners were white, who were initially attracted to the prospect of increased earnings. With cotton, they had customarily sold the fiber while allowing their tenants to sell the cottonseed to local mills. Now they could dispense with the labor of sharecroppers and keep the profits from soybeans for themselves. As a Louisiana State University bulletin calculated in 1943, it took 184 hours of labor for each acre of cotton, compared to 10 hours for soybeans.

The tradeoff was the need to invest more heavily in equipment, such as combines, as well as fertilizersparticularly potash and phosphatesand pesticides. As Hartwig emphasized in the many articles he wrote for such venues as Soybean Digest, the large yield of beans promised by his new varieties required this kind of capital investment. At a meeting of farmers in 1975, he in fact chided them for only getting 22 bushels of beans per acre. You ought to get 35, he told them. At the same meeting, however, an agricultural economist reported that soybean processors had soybean meal coming out of their ears in a tight buyers market, indicating that there was no guarantee that farmers would recoup their investment.

This highly competitive environment cut both ways. As the number of farm operators decreased by more than half between 1954 and 1987, the number of farms in the South partly or fully owned by their operators rose from 71 percent to 91 percent, making the regions agriculture in this sense more equal. But it was those best positioned to receive credit and government aid who benefitted. Such farmers were predominantly white. African Americans, poorer to begin with, suffered from discriminatory practices by both private and public lenders, notably the Farmers Home Administration, which systematically shut out Black applicants from government loans.

In 1920 there were 920,000 nonwhite farms in the South, a majority of them operated by tenants. In 1954, this had fallen to 430,000, or 26 percent of the regions farms. By 1987, the number would drop to a mere 27,000, or 3 percent of farms in the South. This decline represented the virtual disappearance of Black sharecroppers, but also of tens of thousands of Black owner-operators unable to compete on a fair basis. Ten years later, the number was 19,000.

So as Southern agriculture became less unequal, it also became much whiter. Even at the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, Hartwig could avoid pushback from Black farmers over his choice of symbolism.

The influence of the Confederate cultivars waned after the 1970s, when commercial seed developersgiven more patent rights to their seeds through the Plant Variety Protection Actlargely took the reins from USDA breeders like Hartwig. With a deluge of new cultivars, proper names were supplanted by alphanumerical designations like AG2702 and 5344STS.

In the meantime, Hartwig persisted in his enthusiasm for Confederate cultivar names, suggesting an embrace of Lost Cause mythology that went beyond strategic persuasion. He used all three of Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrests names on separate cultivars. Lamar was probably named after Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar of Georgia, who, while not a general, was famed for being the last Confederate officer killed in the Civil War. Lamar also invested in the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade as late as 1858. Hartwigs last Confederate soybean was Lyon, released in 1993, three years before his death.

By then, he was widely honored as the father of soybeans in the South. An endowed chair in Soybean Agronomy at the University of Mississippi was named after him and his wife. He was awarded the USDA Superior Service Award and the USDA Distinguished Service Award.

The Confederate soybean cultivars have receded into the past, but they were part of a larger pattern of systemic racism whose legacy can be felt to this day. Facing decades of pressure, the federal government has made halting progress toward redressing the wrongs it committed to farmers of color, most recently by promising them $4 billion of debt relief in the latest COVID aid package. Critics such as Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have decried this as reparations. In this context, is worth recalling Hartwigs soybeans as one illustration of the USDAs longstanding, built-in assumption that it served, above all, the interests of white farmers.

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Xi Jinpings new history of Chinese communism has little room for criticism of Mao Zedong. In February Mr. Xi issued a revised version of A Brief History of the Communist Party of China, the official party history, in preparation for next months commemoration of the partys 100th anniversary. This edition plays down Maos atrocities, in particular softening the partys historic 1981 condemnation of the Cultural Revolution. That places Mr. Xi in the dubious company of dictators for whom yesterdays weather can be changed by decreea power George Orwell attributed in 1942 to Franco, Stalin and Hitler.

Many of the victims of Maos Cultural Revolution, a 1966-76 purge of counterrevolutionary elements, were respected party leaders who Mao feared might threaten his personal power. Mr. Xis father, who had previously been demoted from vice premier to deputy manager of a tractor factory, was jailed and beaten. The teenage Mr. Xi suffered as well, and his half-sister, Xi Heping, died after persecution by the revolutions Red Guards.

It is striking that Mr. Xi would play down this crime that brutalized his family and him. Perhaps because he is now emulating Mao in seeking to become general secretary for life, he wants the Chinese people to know as little as possible about the chaotic final decade of Maos prolonged reign. The analysis of Maos mistakes in launching the Cultural Revolution, which likely left a death toll of more than one million, is largely replaced by a lengthy discussion of Chinese achievements in that period.

This sanitizing of history, reported by the party-affiliated Sing Tao Daily in Hong Kong as a straightforward news item, might not be obvious to the average noncommunist reader. Communist ideological debates are often deliberately obscure. But party members must pay punctilious attention even to small changes in convoluted language. Failure to do so can have serious consequences.

In April the party launched a telephone hot line and online platform for reporting historical nihilists, who fail to comply with the official party line. Since becoming president in 2013, Mr. Xi has condemned historical nihilists in the Soviet Union for repudiating Stalin and causing chaos in Soviet ideology. That history, and the Soviet Unions eventual fall, informs his reasoning in revising Chinese communist history. The change is a warning to party members to avoid harsh criticism of Mao or the Cultural Revolution. Under Mr. Xis anticipated lifelong reign, there will be no Chinese equivalent of Nikita Khrushchevs 1956 secret speech exposing the crimes of the Stalin era.

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Posted: Jun 22, 2021 / 06:25 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 22, 2021 / 09:44 PM EDT

SUMMER HAS STARTED?

We are barely two days into the start of summer and what a cool off in central Indiana. For the second time in under a week, very mild air returns and this brand of cool is even cooler than the last!

The heat index surged to 100 Friday afternoon after most of last week remained mild but behind a few cold fronts, low temperatures fell Tuesday morning to the upper 40s in many outlying locations. Some of the coolest lows included 48 at Tipton, New Castle, Crawfordsville and Zionsville with the coolest locations 47 Marion (Grant county) and 46 in Frankfort (Clinton county).

The low of 53 in Indianapolis is the coolest this month and the normal low for September 26th. Despite the summer sunshine, Tuesdays refreshingly mild high of 71 was the coolest for this date since 1992 a very important date in June records for Indianapolis.

Twenty-nine years ago, the ALL-TIME record low for the month of June was set at 37! Frost was wide-spread that morning in outlying areas!

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In honor ofAfrican American Music Appreciation Month,The HistoryMakersis thrilled to announce that that we are saluting thirteen MusicMakers and the musicians who inspired them withMusicMakers: This Is Our History. Tune in on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, at 6 PM ET / 5 PM CT / 4 PM PT to watch the tribute on our YouTube channel and please subscribe.

The MusicMakers highlighted include entertainment lawyer and music executive Larkin Arnold; music professor and composer William Banfield; blues harmonica player Sugar Blue; rapper and member of the Treacherous Three Kool Moe Dee, singer and member of The Originals Hank Dixon; gospel singer and television host Bobby Jones; singer and member of Gladys Knight & the Pips Merald Bubba Knight; music executive Miller London; singer and actress Freda Payne; singer and member of The Supremes Scherrie Payne; country singer Petrella Pollefeyt; trombonist and Motown musical arranger Paul Riser, Sr.; and operatic tenor George Irving Shirley.

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Neeley specializes in digging into a residences past, and its not often an easy task. You dont just Google your address and immediately print out your own houses biography.

Theres more you can discover if you cast a wider net and employ more tools of the house history trade: What was on the land before your house was built? Was it part of some other town or township, such as Alamitos Beach, Zaferia, or Virginia City before Long Beach annexed it? Was it a sprawling sugar beet field? A part of a historic rancho? Is it in a tract that is built on reclaimed marshland? Is there a story behind the name of your street? Do you know how your street got its name? What do you know about its architect or its architecture?

These are all part of the history of your house and theyre questions that interest Neeley, a librarian/historian who runs HouStories, providing stories and histories behind the homes and neighborhoods of homeowners and businesses.

Neeley, a resident of Belmont Heights, has a host of research tools at her disposal, as well as a bachelors degree in history from Gonzaga University, and a masters in library and information studies from UC Berkeley.

Some of the tools she uses in providing histories of more than 400 properties are fairly common, such as newspaper archives, old city directories (which are marvels in their own right, providing more than just phone numbers of people in town, but also individuals occupations and spouse names as well as cross-referencing street addresses), heritage sites like Ancestry.com and various historical archives housed at colleges and universities.

My main clients are people who have moved to Long Beach and want to know more about their home, said Neeley.

The COVID pandemic that crippled many businesses, didnt hurt HouStories at all, she said. People were at home and just looking at their house and becoming curious about its past.

A good portion of Neeleys clients come from the history-rich neighborhoods of Bluff Park, Bluff Heights, California Heights, Naples and Carroll Park.

There are, of course, stories about homes being haunted by ghosts. Some good, some falling into the ghostly cliche of being merely scary.

I had a house whose owners said was inhabited by children ghosts that moved toys around, she said. Sometimes with ghosts I call in a friend who can free the ghostsits not an exorcism, she just allows them to leave. But in the case of the child ghosts, the homeowners opted to keep them and let them continue to play with toys.

Some stories are more sinister. Neeley did a history of a home in Carroll Park that was owned by a Jewish family in the early 1930s when the Ku Klux Klan was quite active in Long Beach.

The family was Communist and had been holding a meeting of other Communists at their home one night in 1932 when the Klan showed up with and set up a burning cross on the familys front lawn and forced their way into the house. They dragged the family, the husband, wife and two children and beat them with rubber hoses and their fists before the police came upon the scene and put an end to the violence, even though, said Neeley, some of the Klansmen were on the force.

The daughters name was Malvina Reynolds, who was 32 at the time of the attempted kidnapping. She went on to become a world-famous folk and protest singer. She wrote Little Boxes, which became the theme song for the Showtime series Weeds, as well as the folk/protest song What Have they Done to the Rain. Both songs have been covered by multiple artists over the years, including Pete Seeger, Marianne Faithful, Joan Baez as well as more modern artists, such as Death Cab for Cutie, Elvis Costello, Randy Newman and Rilo Kiley who took turns performing Little Boxes for the opening credits on episodes of Weeds.

Neeley runs across oddities in the course of her researchand it would be odd, indeed if she didnt. The house that shes currently researching in Bluff Park had a closet with a water faucet in it. She found that the home had once been carved up and turned into a boarding house with individual rooms being rented out and the faucet was just a remnant of the era. And theres no good reason to remove it.

Another home had a safe plastered into the wall and its dial was the only thing that protruded from the wall. Naturally, the homeowners couldnt help but tear the wall out to get to the safe and whatever riches were inside. As Geraldo Rivera could have predicted, the safe was empty. Neeley discovered that a former owner of the home owned a safe company.

Neeleys quest is never-ending and shes currently looking for relatives or archival materials of developer Adam Wasem and architect George Riddle.

Wasem moved to Long Beach from Iowa in 1904 and bought up a lot of acreage along whats now Broadway in the Bluff Park neighborhood. He lived in a house he built shortly after his arrival at 2445 Broadway. It has been said that the ghost of Wasem still haunts the house.

Riddle, said Neeley, specialized in Spanish and Mediterranean revival architecture and built courtyard housing like El Cordova in Alamitos Beach. They were tiny houses, you might have 300-400 square feet and they feel palatial, said Neeley. They were full of niches and hallways, they all had a front and back door. When I look at new condos they might have the same square footage but theyre just boxes. Id love to see his archives if there are any.

Neeleys research on a home includes information on the events going on in the city when the house was built, its former residents, old photographs and other historical information. She publishes it all in a hardcover book. She gets $1,500 for the book.

HouStories other services include researching data to qualify a property as a Historic Landmark or its eligibility for Mills Act, which can save you money on property tax; conducting workshops; doing speaking engagements; offering custom tours of neighborhoods; and providing consulting on an hourly basis.

For info on the service, go to the HouStories website.

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MARION COUNTY, Ind. AMarionCountyprogram to help people with criminal backgrounds re-enter the workforce returns to in-person meetings.

StartingTuesday,theMarionCountyProsecutorsOfficeSecondChanceWorkshop is no longer online. Its reversing a switch that was made during the pandemic and is going back to face to face.

County prosecutorRyanMearssays there werebarriers to doing it online and returning to in-person removes those and allows them to make more of a connection with the people they are trying to help.

Theres people who dont have access to reliable internet. Andso,youkind of excludepeople when you do them virtual-based just because not everybody can log on to a website orhas the ability tocommunicate that way, said Mears.

Were asking these people personal questions about their background. And talking toa complete strangerover a computer is onething butestablishing that in-person relationship is even better. And the other thing is,its just easier to work through challenges and problems that you face and its easier to find a solution when everyone is in the room working together to try and figure these things out.

The point of the workshop is to help people with criminal history either get their drivers licenses or clean up their records.

We have to bring these services to people and access to justice is a real issue. And this is our way of reaching out to the community and saying, Hey, were trying to help so that people can move forward with their lives.'

The prosecutors office has volunteers and representation come and helpset aside thousands in traffic tickets and DMV reinstatementfees and then start the work to have someprior convictionsexpunged.

When kids feel like they have a better opportunity, they dont commit crime. And when adults havejobs,theydontcommit crimes, said Mears.

So,when youare able tohelp people get jobs and get into the workforce, these individuals are not going to be the ones out there committing crimes.So,this is the best crime prevention tool that there is.

The first one backisTuesdayand another onThursday.Theyre somethingMears says people were excited to see return, as shown by the sign-ups.

I think it also goes to show how many people are looking for help. We opened the registration for these twoevents,and we had 375 people register within 48 hours. Which tells you the demand. Weactually hadto close the registration.

Theyare planning to host at least one workshop a month moving forward.

It just tells me how many people are out there in the community who want help, who want to do better, who want to be in a position to move forward with theirlives.

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What happened on June 22 in the history of the New York Rangers

On this date in 2018 the New York Rangers had three first round draft picks for the first and only time in their history. While the picks have yet to fully live up to their promise, there are signs that this was a draft that could change the destiny of the team.

The first Rangers pick was ninth overall and with it, they chose Vitali Kravtsov, a young winger from Russia. The pick raised some eyebrows as the Rangers went with a highly regarded Russian player instead of some Canadian prospects like forward Oliver Wahlstrom and defensemen Noah Dobson and Evan Bouchard.

The second first round pick for the Rangers was 22nd overall and the team traded up to get there., sending a first and second round pick to Ottawa to move up four spots. They sent the 26th overall pick acquired from Boston in the Rick Nash deal along with the 48th pick in the second round acquired from New Jersey in the Michael Grabner trade in exchange for the 22nd pick from Ottawa so that they could draft defenseman KAndre Miller. Miller had excelled with the U.S. National U18 team and was committed to attend the University of Wisconsin.

The Rangers final first round pick was 28th overall, acquired from the Tampa Bay Lightning in the deal that sent Ryan McDonagh and J.T Miller to Florida. With that pick, they selected defenseman Nils Lundkvist, the 14th ranked European skater by Central Scouting. He was the 10th European taken in the draft.

Three full seasons have elapsed since that draft and we are starting to see results. KAndre Miller surprisingly made the varsity and had an excellent rookie season on the second defense pairing. Vitali Kravtsov played a full season in the KHL and made his NHL debut late in the season, showing some of the potential he had shown in Russia. Nils Lundkvist had an outstanding season in Sweden, named the best Swedish defenseman in the SHL. After his playoffs and the World Championships, he signed his Entry Level Contract and is expected to vie for a job with the Rangers in the fall.

The three picks for the Rangers was not the most for one team in one year. In 1974, the Montreal Canadiens had five picks in the first round, while Boston (1970), Colorado (1998) and the Islanders (1999) had four first round picks in one year.

In 2003 on this date the Rangers drafted defenseman Philippe Furrer, the first player they have selected from Switzerland. He was picked in the 6th round, 179th overall and he never made the trip across the Atlantic, playing his entire career in Switzerland.

43 players from Switzerland have played in the NHL including two for the Rangers. Defenseman Mark Hardy was born there because his Canadian father was playing for a Swiss team. Raphael Diaz was a defenseman born and raised in Switzerland and he played for the Rangers in 2014 in their run to the Stanley Cup Final.

Some of the most well known Swiss players include Nico Hischier, Roman Josi, Timo Meier and Nino Niederreiter.

20 NHL players have been born on June 22 with two former Rangers among them.

Darroll Powe was born on this date in 1985 in Saskatoon,Saskatchewan. He was a center who traded to New York in February 2013 from Minnesota for Mike Rupp. Powe was more known for his defensive play and penalty killing and he was scoreless in 35 games over two seasons for the Rangers. He spent the 2013-14 season in Hartford coming up to New York for only one game. He retired after one more season in the AHL at the age of 28.

Dean Turner was a defenseman, born on this date in 1958 in Dearborn, Michigan. Drafted by the Rangers in the third round of the 1978 Amateur Draft, he made it to the Rangers for one game in 1978-79, spending the season in Hartford where he totaled 275 minutes in penalties. He was included in the big trade to Colorado for Barry Beck in 1979 and he played 31 games for the Rockies. He retired after the 1982-83 season mostly spent in the AHL with three games for the Los Angeles Kings.

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History Rewritten: Records Fall at the West Coast Classic - Morning Chalk Up

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CrossFits ability to continuously measure our progress is one of its undeniable traits that gets so many of us hooked. So for those of us who get particularly stoked about comparing performances and measuring improvement, nothing was more exciting than the West Coast Classic in Las Vegas, NV this weekend.

Remind me: The West Coast Classic Semifinal featured seven workouts that had previously been tested at either Regionals competitions, the CrossFit Invitationals or the Games between 2013 and 2019, making it the quintessential chance to assess how some of the top athletes in the world have progressed in recent years, both as individuals and as a community as a whole.

A Closer Look

Event 1: 2016 Regionals Snatch Ladder10 squat snatches (185/135 pounds)8 squat snatches (205/145 pounds)6 squat snatches (225/155 pounds)4 squat snatches (245/165 pounds)2 squat snatches (265 pounds/175 pounds)

In 2016, the top mens time across all eight regions was Mat Frasers time of 6:05.29, while the top female time was 5:29.82 by Kara Saunders. Both times were taken down in Las Vegas: Tola Morakinyo had the top mens time with 5:49.53, and Kloie Wilson posted the top female time of 5:28.26.

Worth noting: Whats even more impressive than Morakinyo and Wilsons times was the depth of the field on the weekend. In 2016, only 33 percent of the mens field of 321 athletes across all regions completed the event under the time cap, while only 20.7 percent of the womens field finished. At the time, just finishing the workout was seen as a major accomplishment.

Notable individual improvements: In the competition against themselves, Noah Ohlsen, Cole Sager, Regan Huckaby and Kari Pearce all boasted huge personal bests from 2016.

Event 2: 2014 CrossFIt Games Legless27 thrusters (95/65 pounds)4 legless rope climbs21 thrusters3 legless rope climbs15 thrusters2 legless rope climbs9 thrusters1 legless rope climb

Legless in 2013 was the first time legless rope climbs were introduced in competition, and to say athletes struggled with the movement, especially on the womens side, is an understatement. In fact, only two women completed the workout under the 10 minute time cap that year: Alessandra Pichelli and Christy Adkins.

Worth noting: Twenty women on the weekend completed Legless before the time cap, 19 of whom bested Pichellis top time of 9:33.7 from 2013. Further, the fastest time on the weekend put up by Pearce (6:21.2) was more than three minutes faster than Pichellis in 2013.

Event 3: 2019 CrossFit Games Ruck Ruck6K Ruck Run with increasing weight each lap(10, 30, 40, 50 pounds for the women, 20, 40, 50, 60 for the men)

Though the event on the weekend was similar to the 2019 CrossFit Games, it was much more challenging at the West Coast Classic, and not just because of the hot desert sun that caused Kristine Best to withdraw from the competition and Dani Speegle to stop after the third lap.

Event 4: 2017 CrossFit Games Triple-G Chipper100 pull-ups80 GHD sit-ups60 one-legged squats40 calorie row20 single arm dumbbell push press (100/70 pounds)

In 2017, the Triple-G Chipper at the Games was won by Saunders in a time of 10:45.72 and Fraser in a time of 10:46.46. Both times were bested at the West Coast Classic.

Notable individual improvements: Shadburne crushed her time from 2017 by more than two and a half minutes, while Pearce shed more than a minute off her 2017 performance. On the mens side, Ohlsen improved his score by a minute and 39 seconds, while Sager crushed his 2017 time by more than two minutes.

Event 5: 2017 Regionals Finale30/25 calorie bike20 burpee box jump overs (30/24 inch)10 D-ball cleans (150, 100 pounds)

While the event in Las Vegas was similar to the 2017 Regionals event, there was one major difference: In 2017, athletes cleaned a sandbag at the end of the event, and on the weekend they used a D-ball. So a direct comparison is likely not 100 percent accurate.

But just for fun: Both the winning times from the 2017 Regionals competitions Sara Sigmundsdottir (3:26.92) and Andrey Ganin (2:54.39) were, once again, beaten at the West Coast Classic.

Event 6: 2014 CrossFit Games Push Pull9 strict deficit handstand push-ups18 toes-to-bar60-foot sled pull60-foot sled push10 handstand push-ups20 toes-to-bar60-foot sled pull60-foot sled push11 handstand push-ups22 toes-to-bar60-foot sled pull60-foot sled push12 handstand push-up24 toes-to-bar60-foot sled pull60-foot sled push

The Push Pull event on the weekend was the most different from its original form. The original event didnt include the 84 toes-to-bar, nor did it include sled (Torque Tank in this case) pushing. Further, the handstand push-ups repetitions were lower in 2014, and the pull portion of the workout involved pulling a weighted sled as opposed to a Torque Tank. Thus, the 2014 event was more of a sprint, while the event on the weekend had a 17-minute time cap.

Event 7: 2015 Regionals Closer15 ring muscle-ups1 squat clean (235/150 pounds)1 squat clean (255/165 pounds)1 squat clean (275/180 pounds)1 squat clean (285/190 pounds)1 squat clean (295/200 pounds)

Again, this final workout on the weekend in Las Vegas was similar to, but not the exact same as the 2015 regionals event.

Worth noting: Considering the barbells were considerably heavier at the West Coast Classic, a direct comparison doesnt seem fair. However, leave it to the athletes to boast comparable scores to 2015 even when the final barbell was 30 pounds heavier for the men and 25 pounds heavier for the women than it was six years ago.

Notable individual improvements: Despite the significantly heavier barbells, Pearce actually beat her time from 2015 by almost 30 seconds 2:32.0 in 2015 and 2:03.21 on the weekend while Noah Ohlsen posted the exact same time from 2015 (1:24)

The bottom line: As impressive as Pichelli was in 2014 when she showed the world how to kip a legless rope climb and finish Legless before the time cap, or as great as Fraser was on the Snatch Ladder in 2016, the athletes from the West Coast Classic proved just how much fitter they are today. The questions then become: What is the limit of human fitness? Is there a limit?

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In 1994, Princess Diana donned a plunging black off-the-shoulder gown that had lived in her closet for three years yet remained unworn until the June evening when she was set to attend a fundraising gala for Vanity Fair at the Serpentine Gallery. It was a last-minute switch, according to her stylist Anna Harvey, as the Princess had previously planned on wearing a Valentino dress until the look was prematurely leaked to the press. Diana chose this specific evening, the night that her former husband Prince Charles publicly admitted on television that he had cheated on Diana, to reach for the Christina Stambolian dress. Instead of shying away from the cameras that wouldve undoubtedly been trained on her that evening with or without the Christina Stambolian gown, Diana consciously chose to wear a dress that had previously felt far too daring and walk in with her head held high. Thus, the birth of the revenge dress.

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The premise of the revenge outfit is that the person looks so fantastically good that whoever wronged them feels a regret or shame that is revenge enough in itself. In the small and unlikely chance that you dont immediately think of the former Princess of Wales when you hear the term revenge dress, perhaps what comes to mind is Bella Hadid at the 2017 Met Gala wearing, well, a revenge body stocking.

The sheer black jumpsuit-style garment was figure-hugging right with a scoop back, an off-the-shoulder neckline, and skin-tight pant legs that traveled down to cover her black stiletto heels. Hadid was notably looking for a shockingly sexy look in the wake of her breakup with The Weeknd who was in attendance at the Met Gala with then-girlfriend Selena Gomez. The outfit, though not particularly on-theme for a Rei Kawakubo/Comme Des Garons: Art of the In-Between gala, was Hadids way of non-verbally communicating a state of mental and physical well-being post-split. In short, the goal was to display exactly what The Weeknd was missing while taking the higher road.

Perhaps you dont think of a specific outfit when you hear the phrase revenge look. Perhaps your mind focuses not on the clothes, but on the body that wears the revenge outfit. Maybe you watched Khloe Kardashians E! Network show that premiered in 2017 where contestants get fitness, beauty, and fashion makeovers thanks to a whole slew of stylists, trainers, and Hollywood-approved technicians. But whether you prefer a revenge fit or a revenge makeover, the storyline tends to remain the same breakup, glow up, revenge.

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So whats the formula for a revenge outfit?

Rolls of black silk + royal jewels + a wild sense of calm and rising above, la Princess Diana? Gold shimmer + a healthy tan + a glow of internal satisfaction despite just having separated from Brad Pitt, la Jennifer Aniston wearing Chanel in 2005? Cutouts + a mini skirt held together by a single safety pin, as demonstrated by Irina Shayk post-Brad Pitt? Does the outfit have to be well-fitted and slightly scandalous, or is it just meant to draw attention to your outfit and away from the situation that just happened?

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Katie Holmes take on a revenge look is less formal and more cozy, and yet equally if not more sexy than a glittering gown. In 2019, the actress donned a Khaite cashmere cardigan and bralette set styled by Julia Von Boehm and images of her hailing a taxi on Sixth Ave went viral. The knit set sold out, and to this day Katie Holmes remains an NYC street style icon to watch. Her bradigan remained the focus, rather than her split from Jamie Foxx after six years of dating. Those who swoon over her sprezzatura may not remember the breakup, but were sure that Jamie Foxx hasnt forgotten that particular outfit.

But the idea of a revenge look isnt just about post-breakup revenge or a former lover. To those who declare that revenge dressing is surface-level or perhaps even immature for its supposed focus on superficiality, let us redirect you to the well-timed return of the high heel. Dubbed the revenge shoe, the stiletto and the pointed toe are on the rise again as a way to take back the months of pajama pants, to make up for the days of slippers and house shoes. The nostalgia trend has swept Gen Z, decking themselves out with pony bead jewelry and baby tees only months after a pandemic stole precious months of their adolescent lives. Even the idea of revenge traveling, or the hard-earned huge uptick in travel as restrictions lift, is floating around in the public vernacular.

Revenge doesnt have to be a rage-filled tirade reclamation its about reclaiming and courage. And its okay to be sharp, happy, confident, angry, or aloof in the way that you dress because theres a beauty to the storytelling of it, after all. How will you be revenge-dressing this summer?

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