The 2012 Boston Pizza Cup was held from February 8 to 12 at the Encana Arena in the Edgeworth Center in Camrose, Alberta. The winning team of Kevin Koe represented Alberta at the 2012 Tim Hortons Brier in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Teams

Draw Brackets

A Event

B Event

C Event

Results

All times listed in Mountain Standard Time.

Draw 1

Wednesday, February 8, 9:30am

Draw 2

Wednesday, February 8, 6:30pm

Draw 3

Thursday, February 9, 9:00am

Draw 4

Thursday, February 9, 2:00pm

Draw 5

Thursday, February 9, 6:30pm

Draw 6

Friday, February 10, 9:00am

Draw 7

Friday, February 10, 2:00pm

Draw 8

Friday, February 10, 6:30pm

B Qualifier Match

Draw 9

Saturday, February 11, 1:00pm

Playoffs

A vs. B

Saturday, February 11, 6:30pm

C1 vs. C2

Saturday, February 11, 6:30pm

Semifinal

Sunday, February 12, 9:30am

Final

Sunday, February 12, 3:00pm

References

The 2010 Boston Pizza Cup was held February 3–7 at the Olds Sportsplex in Olds, Alberta. The winner, team Kevin Koe, represented Alberta at the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Team Koe would eventually go on to win the Brier and capture the 2010 Capital One World Men's Curling Championship.

Although his team would have been entered automatically as the defending provincial champion, Kevin Martin did not compete because his team had won the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials and qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver which started shortly after the Boston Pizza Cup. As a result, 2009 runner-up Randy Ferbey was entered as the defending champion.

Teams

Draw Brackets

A Event

B Event

C Event

Playoffs

External links

The 2014 Boston Pizza Cup, the provincial men's curling championship for Alberta, was held from February 5 to 9 at the Lacombe Curling Club in Lacombe, Alberta. The winner represented Alberta at the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier in Kamloops.

Qualification process

Twelve teams qualified for the provincial tournament through several methods. The qualification process is as follows:

Teams

Knockout Draw Brackets

A Event

B Event

C Event

Results

All draws are listed in Mountain Standard Time (UTC−7).

Draw 1

Wednesday, February 5, 9:30 am

Draw 2

Wednesday, February 5, 6:30 pm

Draw 3

Thursday, February 6, 9:00 am

Draw 4

Thursday, February 6, 2:00 pm

Draw 5

Thursday, February 6, 6:30 pm

Draw 6

Friday, February 7, 9:00 am

Draw 7

Friday, February 7, 2:00 pm

Draw 8

Friday, February 7, 6:30 pm

Draw 9

Saturday, February 8, 1:00 pm

Playoffs

A vs. B

Saturday, February 8, 6:30 pm

C1 vs. C2

Saturday, February 8, 6:30 pm

Semifinal

Sunday, February 9, 9:00 am

Final

Sunday, February 9, 2:00 pm

References

External links

The 2015 Boston Pizza Cup was held from February 4 to 8 at the Peace Memorial Multiplex in Wainwright, Alberta. The winning Kevin Koe team will represent Alberta at the 2015 Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary.

Qualification process

Twelve teams qualified for the provincial tournament through several methods. The qualification process is as follows:

A Boston is a cocktail made with London dry gin, apricot brandy, grenadine, and the juice of a lemon.

See also

References

The Boston refers to a series of various step dances, considered a slow Americanized version of the waltz presumably named after where it originated. It is completed in one measure with the weight kept on the same foot through two successive beats. The "original" Boston is also known as the New York Boston or Boston Point.

Variations of the Boston include:

References

Boston is a novel by Upton Sinclair. It is a "documentary novel" that combines the facts of the case with journalistic depictions of actual participants and fictional characters and events. Sinclair indicted the American system of justice by setting his characters in the context of the prosecution and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Research and writing

Sinclair worked from a passionate conviction that the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti constituted "the most shocking crime that has been committed in American history since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln" and a belief that "It will empoison our public life for a generation."

He interviewed Bartolomeo Vanzetti twice and conducted research following the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. For his central character he used as his model a California acquaintance who recounted stories of her earlier life amid Boston's aristocracy. As part of his research he attended the funeral of a Boston industrialist. He recognized that some of his readers might find that disrespectful and offered this defense: "if you are a novelist you think about 'copy' and not about anybody's feelings, even your own." To verify dialogue, he even contacted a journalist to verify his fidelity in transcribing a jailhouse conversation. As a result, he avoided repeating the oft-quoted description of Sacco and Vanzetti, falsely attributed to Vanzetti, as "a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler." In hundreds of letters he sought to acquire and verify details, such as the timing and physical setting of prison visits. He asked other correspondents to review parts of the manuscript for errors.