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Project Architect - Milton Keynes - £32,000, - £40,000 per annum + bonus
SKILLS REQUIRED: - Commercial, Mixed Use, Education, Design, Delivery, AutoCAD
Specialist growing practice with expertise in both the design and delivery of projects across the UK including Hotel, Education, Leisure, Retail, Commercial, Mixed Use and Residential projects are looking for an experienced Project Architect to join the practice in Milton Keynes to assist with an increasing workload in the education, residential and commercial sectors.
Duties will include progressing projects from concept through to completion including the production of design and technical packages, and leadership of technical delivery teams. Candidates must be able to demonstrate an extensive understanding of materials, construction processes, statutory approvals, and experience in contract documentation and construction administration.
AutoCAD experience is required. Revit skills are preferred but not essential. Experience in the use of Sketchup, Rino and In-design is a benefit.
Qualifications and Personal Qualities
-RIBA or ARB registered Architect with experience of working within the United Kingdom.
-Candidates must have strong interpersonal skills, be highly computer literate, self-motivated and a clear thinker, alongside a strong team player who can work in a multi-disciplinary team and able to work to tight deadlines
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Cook's Illustrated is dedicated to developing foolproof recipes for America's favorite home-cooked meals. And unlike glossy cooking magazines that are staffed by food stylists, Cook's Illustrated employs test cooks, editors, and food writers. Our test kitchen — the same kitchen in which we film our top-rated public television show, America's Test Kitchen — has three dozen full-time test cooks whose 9 to 5 job (well maybe 7 to 6 on baking days) is testing and retesting recipes 20, 30, sometimes 50 times until we can offer our readers a recipe we're confident will work. Every time you make it. They are "Recipes that Work".
We also offer ratings and reviews of cookware and kitchen equipment to inform you how different models compare and compete so that you can shop smart. We taste test supermarket ingredients and kitchen staples you use every day, so you know which brands taste best, and which are best avoided. And because Cook's Illustrated is 100% advertising FREE, you get unbiased, objective information. That's our promise to you.
Nostalgia isn't enough to make a dessert worthwhile. To rescue chocolate pudding from obscurity, we'd have to ramp up the flavor while preserving the silky texture.
More glamorous desserts and diners' appetites for increasingly darker, more bitter chocolate have pushed chocolate pudding into obscurity.
We were intent on bringing back this homey dessert with a version that would feature a careful balance of chocolate flavor and creamy texture.
After tasting a few test recipes with good chocolate flavor but unbearably gritty texture, we made a discovery that changed the focus of our recipe development: instead of adding to the grittiness (which we had originally believed to be true), cocoa powder actually makes for a smoother pudding. So for a pudding with both potent chocolate flavor and a supremely smooth texture, a combination of chocolate and cocoa powder was the way to go.
Once we made that realization, our pudding recipe came along easily. We zeroed in on the perfect amounts of bittersweet chocolate (our preference for this dish over other kinds of chocolate) and cocoa powder until our chocolate flavor was exactly where we wanted it. We then whisked in egg yolks, which added richness and body. A combination of milk and heavy cream contributed creaminess, and espresso powder added depth.
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By Michael Hicks
Berthoud Recorder
I've been openly critical of how the Colorado High School Activities Association decides which classification schools play in for various sports. Most of the time it is determined by enrollment size, but not always.
Berthoud High School, for a matter of fact, plays most sports in 4A. But the football team plays in 3A because most Colorado schools play the revenue-making sport, knocking the Spartans down to a competitive classification. Joining the football team in 3A this past fall was the boys' soccer team.
Jeff Benjamin's team normally would be required to play in 4A but was granted its request to move down after years of poor play. The result was a seven-win season that included a berth in this year's 3A state playoffs.
Now why do I bring this up again? Well, I've got a good reason. You see last week I was reading my hometown newspaper, the Culpeper Star-Exponent, online and an article by Sports Editor Shane Mettlen caught my attention.
Mettlen wrote an opinion piece on how the Virginia High School League not once, but twice, denied Culpeper County High School, my alma mater, its petition to move down from Class AAA to AA. Since the early 1990s, CCHS has been in Virginia's highest classification but this year the county opened a new school which drastically reduced Culpeper's enrollment by half.
But that didn't matter; Culpeper was stuck. Now to be fair, the VHSL only allows redistricting and reclassification every two years. Next year, CCHS will move to the Class AA Battlefield District with the county's other school, Eastern View. But that hasn't helped Culpeper this season.
The football team, like most fall sports, was horrid and the basketball teams are playing schools with more than 1,500 more students than Culpeper has.
Repeat that number with me. 1,500. That's not a misprint. That's the size of a small community in some rural areas. But, for now, my beloved Blue Devils are stuck playing schools with many more kids and many more options. That just seems wrong.
But rules are rules. That brings me to this: at least, the CHSAA has some compassion. While from a classification standpoint it didn't have to grant Berthoud's boys' soccer team's request to move down to 3A, it did for two years because that's the only way the Spartans are going to improve their program when they do have to move back up in 2010. And as we saw this season, the move worked out pretty well.
Berthoud's soccer team is on the way to redeeming itself after many years of struggling.
Just maybe the Virginia High School League could learn something from
CHSAA's example. I hope for my alma mater's sake they do, but it won't help any this school year.


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Time lapse video shows photos of President Obama every day for past 5 years
Today is the official inauguration of the President so here is Chicago-based artist Jeremy Tubbs take on the event:
President Obama - 5 Years - Presidial.org from Jeremy Tubbs on Vimeo.
Tubbs took five years worth of daily photographs of President Obama and created this time-lapse video. It contains over 2,500 photographs scraped from various online sources.
Tubbs says this is not political art instead it's an artwork about the incessant media coverage of politics.


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Ocean Five Hotel, Miami
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Great Location. Nicely runfrom A TripAdvisor Member
The rooms itself were very very clean. Small yes, but all the hotels around there are small. If you are searching around for a hotel, know that the outside of all these hotels look old, worn, and kind of sketchy but, inside, they are all quite nice.
The customer service was wonderul. Someone was always up front asking if you need anything and always giving great advise on where to dine or visit.
Beach towels are available at the front desk as well. There is wireless internet connection in the main lobby however, they also have a computer set up in the lobby for anyone to use... check your email and what not.
This place is very south but, not too south.... but yet, far away from the northern not-so-good area. It's perfect for a bunch of girls traveling alone.
I've only got one bad comment. Just when I thought everything went down smoothly, I had checked my credit card account after check out a few days afterwards. The hotel had charged my credit card for orange juice THEY SAY I had taken from the mini bar. My guest and I didn't even look at the mini bar! Anyhow, the girl argued with me for about 15 minutes insisting her staff "checks the mini bars daily and something was missing." I was more than annoyed with her demeaning way of basically calling me a liar. I got the charge taken off in the end. That was the only bad comment I have with regards to this place.
Good Locationfrom A TripAdvisor Member
Nice place, outstanding stafffrom rk-from-wi
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Enjoyed My Stayfrom A TripAdvisor Member
avoid the building site next door!from halikouna
Is This the Same Hotel Everyone Else Reviewedfrom A TripAdvisor Member
Great Location...Good Hotelfrom A TripAdvisor Member
The Good:
Front Desk & Cleaning Staff are awesome, incredibly kind and sociable. Hotel was clean. Space..you get what you pay for. Shower is nice. Location..Location..Location: 1 block from the beach and we were were able to walk down Ocean Drive to The Clevelander and grab a slice of 5AM pizza pretty much every night.
The Bad:
The hotel is far enough (not too far) to be away from the night noise..but currently there is construction going on next store which starts at 9am...and there is a lot of door slamming which starts at around the same time..These are not constants..so you can sleep through it..but expect to be waken up a few times afters 9am. Also no ESPN man!...missed the Orange Bowl highlights!
road warriors forget itfrom dealguyArizona
Ocean Five did not disappointmentfrom A TripAdvisor Member
Top Local Tips for Miami
Avoid Spring Break! Unless you are under twenty and one of the beautiful people, avoid Spring Break time - I felt totally out of place on South Beach. Go instead to Key Biscayne, to Bill Baggs Park.
Eating Out Dont be afraid to deviate form the menus, most restaurants will try and accomodate you only have to ask
Nightlife Fun South Beach has a really great nightlife, they have Niki Beach which is most popular on Sunday nights which is a dance club/bar/beach lounge. Right around there the have a few clubs owned by the Opium Group including Opium which is a outdoor/indoor nightclub. Towards 7th street they have a bunch of bars and dance clubs including Mangoes which is Cuban style with dancers performing on the bar and serving exotic drinks, they also have a hip hop section on the second floor. Once you get out their are one or two places they provide pizza 24 hours. One great, but pricey restaurant we visited was Grazie which is a local Italian Restaurant, you can expect to spend around 30-40 dollars per person without drink costs, but they have waiters who are constantly attending to your needs and provided some really amazing food. It is well worth the visit.
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Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan Set for COLLEGE REPUBLICANS; Gillian Jacobs and Anson Mount Have VISIONS; Jessica Alba Joins THE WRIGHT GIRLS
by Dave Trumbore Posted 325 days ago
Here's today's latest casting news:
- Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) are set for College Republicans, with John Krokidas directing.
- Gillian Jacobs (Community) and Anson Mount (Hell on Wheels) will join the Blumhouse thriller, Visions, directed by Kevin Greutert.
- Kevin Connolly will direct Jessica Alba (Sin City) in The Wright Girls, inspired by the 2003 Japanese film 2LDK.
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They say beauty is only skin deep, but for those deep-seated complexion issues, only the best Dermatolgist on Long Island will do. See who our readers' voted tops in their field.
Dr. Michael Dannenberg of Huntington Won Best Dermatolgist on Long Island!
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Acne and its ilk can be confidence-crushing at any time in life, from middle school to middle age. Michael Dannenberg's work helping Long Islanders remedy their skin problems has done more than just scratch the surface, and it shows—he's a winner in the Dermatology category for the 2010 Best of L.I. Patients talk about his high level of patience and attention to detail, qualities found in the very best doctors.
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Celine Dion, back from a vocal cord injury that sidelined her in February, plans to return to her residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas this weekend.
The Canadian pop star is due to do 36 shows beginning Saturday and running through Aug. 19. Dates announced this week: June 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 30; July 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 24, 25, 28, 29, 31; Aug: 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19.
Tickets run $55-$250, plus fees. Tickets also may be purchased via thecolosseum.com or ticketmaster.com. VIP packages also are available.
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One of the songs guaranteed on the Dion playlist is the hit My Heart Will Go On, from the smash movie Titanic.
Earlier in the week, Titanic star Kate Winslet caused controversy when she said on the Today show that every time she enters a room with a piano player, he or she starts playing the song and that hearing it makes her feel like throwing up. "I just have to sit there, you know, kind of straight-faced with a massive internal eye roll," Winslet said.
Dion's typically diplomatic response: First a joke. "If I just count how many times I've sung it, maybe it'll get me sick."
Then she said, more seriously, "'My Heart Will Go On gave me the opportunity to be associated with a classic that will live forever."
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When you die on Tibia you will lose 10 percent of your experience, magic level, skills…But where can buy blessings? For higher level players this is quite a lot, but it can be reduced. For free account players it can be reduced to 6 percent and for premium account players even to 2 percent. A first thing premium account players should have to reduce their death penalty is a vocation promotion. This promotion will cost you 20k and you have it for the rest of your live (as long as you're premium). It reduces your death penalty to 7 percent, and you don't lose your promotion when you die.
Further you have 5 blessings. Each blessing reduces your death penalty with 1 percent, so your 5 blessing will reduce your death penalty to 5 percent. Free account players can only buy 4 blessings, because one of the blessings is located on a premium place. In contradiction with the promotion, you will lose your blessings when you die, so every time you die you have to buy them again. Each blessing will cost you 10k, so if you have them all and you die, you lose 50k. The 5 blessings all have a name; the spiritual shielding, the embrace of tibia, the wisdom of solitude, the spark of the phoenix and the fire of the suns.
The spiritual shielding can be bought at the White Flower temple south of Thais. On the first floor of this building is the NPC that sells blessings. The embrace of Tibia can be bought north of Carlin right of the coloured stones that are standing in a circle. The NPC is on the first floor. The wisdom of solitude can be bought at Eremo. Eremo is a guy living on an island located between Edron and Cormaya and is accessible from the boat at Cormaya. Free account players can't buy this blessing. The fire of the suns can be bought south of Ab'Dendriel in the so called Suntower. An NPC located on the top of this tower will sell this blessing to you.
The last blessing, the spark of the phoenix is a little bit harder to get. You have to receive this blessing from 2 people. First of all you have to go to an NPC called Kawill to get the first part of this blessing. After that an NPC called Pydar will give you the second part of the blessing for 10k, or for 9k if you have a Phoenix Egg with you. He won't take the Phoenix Egg, you just get discount on the blessing and that's it. Both NPC's are at Kazordoon.
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You think the economy is bad? Maybe, but the tsunami of new companies creating health/medical tools on the web continues unhampered. A few to highlight today:
* HealthyDirectorymoz.com — a comprehensive directory of health and medical websites. It currently lists 907 active websites that you can look up under a variety of categories. Note that diabetes is buried under "Diseases and Conditions/Endocrine Disorders." Ugh. But the directory's quite impressive on the whole. It's creator Nicole M. recently wrote me via email:
I am 34 year old who was rendered T4 paraplegic 5 years ago. I have started a niche health directory called HealthDirectoryMoz because I am passionate about "QUALITY and USEFUL" health related websites.
Through this niche directory, I intend to create lasting value to patients, students & medical professionals and sincerely believe that we can have a mutually beneficial association …
* eHealthMe.com — another new site for patients who take more than one drug to check drug interactions and adverse effects, for both generic and brand name drugs. Please note that this one is still in beta testing. The creators say the results are "multi-dimensional" (not sure what they mean here) and the service is anonymous and free.
Sites like this are critical, I suppose, when you consider the stats: "Drug interactions and adverse side effects contribute to 4,000 American's death each week. Related costs are estimated to be $216 billion a year." Wow. A good reminder to check those pills before you start popping them.
* MyHumanRace.com — also in beta testing, a new website "that tries to take a very granular approach by linking the power of social networking with a database that lists all of the diseases treated at a major medical center in the US, all of the genes in the human genome known to cause disease, and all of the commonly prescribed medications." Wow.
Its creator, an MD by the name of Sohrab Gollogly, writes to me:
I'm a practicing orthopedic spine surgeon in Monterey, California, and I'm really interested in how the internet can be used more effectively to help people with very specific disease states or genetic conditions find each other and harness the wisdom of collective decision making… What I notice is that patients get a lot of erroneous information because they spell things incorrectly and there isn't a lot of "shape" to some of the user created content on the web.
His project is meant to tackle that problem. Go have a look and give him some feedback, will ya?
* Elephant Pharm — a new one-stop online pharmacy and "wellness store" for the San Francisco Bay Area. I mention this because I'm sure there are many such regional sites popping up. I wanted to note that the store itself doesn't look bad, but the "wellness survey" they are running on the site kind of pissed me off. It is clearly a ploy to collect demographic data not "regarding public perception of wellness" as they state, but rather for their own marketing purposes. Buyer, beware.
* Diabetes.Alltop.com — as Allison has noted, Alltop is an "online magazine rack" that aggregates the five most recent stories of the top 100 or so feeds of websites and blogs. The diabetes area currently features myself, Allison, Kerri, the two Scotts, Bernard, Shannon and a bunch more of us loud voices in the D-blogosphere. Neat.
And last not least, for you Daddies:
* SavvyDaddy.com – an online community for great dads, created by medblogger Tony Chen, who also happens to be Director of New Business Development at a prominent midwestern hospital. If you're passionate about being a great father and parent, do check it out.
On the D-front, Tony writes: "the social network continues to grow… and there are lots of dads with kids with diabetes that need a lot of support." Now there's an assertion I can believe.
Happy health surfing!


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Contact Governor Tomblin TODAY and ask him to sign House Bill 2471 and Senate Bill 435 into law
This legislative session marked huge victories for gun owners and sportsmen in the Mountain State as four critical pro-gun reforms were passed in the West Virginia Legislature.
Yesterday, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed two of these four bills into law, Senate Bill 369 and House Bill 2431.
SB 369, sponsored by state Senate Majority Leader John Unger (D-16), increases the number of states that recognize a West Virginia Concealed Pistol/Revolver Permit and allow residents of another state, who hold a valid out-of-state permit or license, to carry in West Virginia. This legislation is effective on July 12, 2013.
HB 2431, sponsored by Delegate Rupie Phillips (D-24), amends the application process for a Concealed Pistol/Revolver Permit, making West Virginia permit holders eligible for exemption from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for firearm purchases. Such carry permit holders have already cleared a background check, and HB 2431 conforms state law to federal law which leads to greater reciprocity for permit holders throughout the United States. This legislation is effective on July 16, 2013.
However, there are still two remaining pro-gun bills that require the Governor's signature, and he only has until Saturday to sign them into law!
Please call and e-mail Governor Tomblin TODAY and respectfully urge him to sign HB 2471 and SB 435 into law. Governor Tomblin can be reached at (304) 558-2000 or you can click here to send an e-mail.
House Bill 2471, sponsored by state House Speaker Rick Thompson (D-19), would prohibit the restriction of the lawful use, carrying, transfer, transportation, storage or display of a firearm or ammunition during any declared state of emergency. HB 2471 would protect law-abiding citizens in West Virginia from a violation of their constitutional rights reminiscent of what occurred in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, where law-abiding citizens were stripped of their lawfully owned firearms by overzealous government officials leaving them defenseless and unable to protect their families and property.
Senate Bill 435, sponsored by state Senator Herb Snyder (D-16) and amended by state Delegate Patrick Lane (R-38), would require Charleston and any other city participating in and benefitting from the underlying bill's Home Rule program that currently has and enforces local gun control ordinances to be consistent and uniform with the rest of the state. For those localities that take advantage of the Home Rule authority delegated by the state legislature, SB 435 would effectively eliminate municipal gun control restrictions such as the three-day waiting period and gun rationing for handgun purchases in Charleston.
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GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Police in Pennsylvania are investigating a complaint concerning a ghost hunt that went bust after a police officer mistakenly thought it was a burglary in progress.
The Gettysburg Times reported Tuesday that the Thanksgiving night ghost tour ended with two tourists and their guide being detained at gunpoint.
A patrolman passing a closed store in Gettysburg says he saw flashlights inside, so he went in and handcuffed and searched the three ghost hunters.
Police called the owner, who confirmed the tour operator had permission to use the allegedly haunted Civil War-era building. The first Union general killed in the Battle of Gettysburg was brought to the building after being fatally wounded.
The owner of the Victorian-style photography studio that occupies the building and permitted the tour has declined to comment.
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It is said that smiling changes how we feel and act; it's also said to have an influence on other people's moods. Doesn't your day get a little brighter when someone randomly flashes a smile at you, even the slightest one? But, what if you're afraid of smiling because your teeth aren't as white as you want them to be? What if you're too embarrassed to show your smile because you have a missing tooth? What if you're overall just ashamed of your smile?
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too many years design was studied very little in the Academy of Arts. during the communism there were norms after the factories were working, orders they had to be respected without any comment, designers being used too less on development projects. no privat sector was alowed, so try to imagine what a huge lack of challenge and experience in design could happen... :( the transition period started with floods from outside...the companies were using the working force and tools from here for cheap, but no project was starting to be developed. the other self-privatized factories were dieing slowly for the lack of development. why?..cuz noone had and has no idea what and how to do. well...sounds like kind of amnesia or something...but unfortunatelly its a real "dream" :( yet... some babyes they havent learn to walk yet. this year is the first generation graduating the product design section of Interior Architecture Faculty, one other educational oportunity in the field founded 5 years ago beside the old more Artistic one. lm shaking! l really feel little pity for these students, which some of them are great...but what can l say when l know that even the dean is so less familiarized with the "design" term :(( since few other 4-5 years Association of Furniture Producers were organizing national contest for avantgarde furniture design...outch! that hurts! u dont want to see the exhibited products! besides, u also wouldnt like to meet the persons which are involved in that: some dinosaurus ppl who ate a lot during the communist period and now they just try not to starve...uuuhhh...disgusting! well...there are still lots of hopes. the young generation is so much different. and quite good linked with contemporaneity. too pity there are still so many obstacles of the old one's presences and mentalities...but looks like the borders changed now. Radu Comsa (teaching coleague) and Iulian Bumbu were some Designboom winners, Square1 was present to Contractworld and Salone Satellite, Mihai Panaitescu ranking the first on Peugeot design contest... well, that brings me more happyness on my face, but l still hope to happen something that l cant describe it otherway better than a kind of "implosion/explosion" of design on this theritory... even the architects tried to introduce design into their competitions and awards...but even here are some gaps they cant get over... the judgement criteria dont consider the different kind of projects...so this case they just get over it without any mentions. that's quite sad, as long as many architects are designing products or objects as well, but in the same time is very dangerous to be perceived as a kick in the ass to those who dont imply into big buildings design preffering to stay stick with the small details and projects...which is kind of a diabolique vision from my point of view... sigh it left me to continue hoping.
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Spiders like our house. Until this week I have not wanted to have it sprayed, but one brown recluse bite later, my tune is changing. The little devil bit me behind my knee on Monday night. By Tuesday morning I had a black-and-blue spot with a dark center, and by 2pm I was feeling vertigo and nausea, so went to the doctor. She said it was a brown recluse, gave me a steroid and antibiotic shot and sent me to the pharmacy for more antibiotic pills. By 4:30pm I was trying to find a comfortable way to sit, wrapped up in a blanket to stop the chills. Fever set in. I started Facebooking for a little pity and advice, since as it happened no one was home that night, which made me feel rather pathetic. At 101.2 I was graduating to surreal, and my Fb posts show it! I was prepared to call ER if it rose to 102, but finally about 45 minutes after the ibuprofen I'd taken set in, it began dropping from a high of 101.4 to a steady 100. I could think and eat again. Watched an episode of "The Following." Went to bed, slept. . .
By morning I was feeling pretty chipper, so I went to work and then headed up to Louisville to listen to an interview of Michael Pollan (re his new book, Cooked) by Wendell Berry–more on that in another post. Then the stabbing began again. I went out to the car during the (boring) Q/A and put my leg up. Bactroban cream only works awhile. My friend Leslie drove part of the way home so I could keep the leg up. Went to bed thinking, "it needs rest," but what it needed was to complain some more, and some more. Finally got up at 2am and went to the kitchen, took another tylenol with codeine, had a glass of wine, and finally crawled back in to bed, and finally to sleep, at 4am, after too many games of Solitaire and Scrabble.
Moral of the story: Don't let Aunt Nancy bite you!
I was reminded of the nickname by Erika Brady, one of WKU's fine folklore professors, who responded to my Facebook trauma posts, so this morning I got back on google and low and behold, discovered that one of my favorite novels–one that I'VE published about–Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, integrates the "Ghanian spider-trickster, Kwaku Ananse," into the novel and in particular, the characters Joseph Lebert and Aunt Cuney. I wrote about African myths in my article, but did not know about Ananse. I wish I'd had this article (by Shanna Greene Benjamin, "Weaving the Web of Reintegration") when I wrote my own, back in 1996….but instead of my quoting her, she quotes me (twice). Sweet! Thanks, Shanna Benjamin . . . (if you see this, let me know!) So, if it weren't for my spider bite, Erika wouldn't have commented on the dangers of Aunt Nancy, which wouldn't have sent me off on my little google scavenger hunt, and would therefore have never turned up Benjamin's article quoting mine! Crafty web-making here!
Here's the little critter we're talking about:
I am not going to post any of the many grotesque images from google of the recluse bites of those poor folks out there who either didn't get help soon enough or for some other reason found their flesh disintegrating. Suffice it to say that my site is very black and blue, red, angry, and still growing. But now, thanks to my doctor, I have begun a second antibiotic. (Also thanks to her I've got some Lortabs for tonight)….
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You've sautéed, stir-fried, and steamed them. But have you ever tried stuffing your veggies? Diced lean meat, seafood, reduced-fat cheeses, fresh herbs, hummus, and more vegetables all make great fillings, as do whole grains such as brown rice, quinoa, or couscous once you're on Phase 2 of the South Beach Diet.
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Make a healthy filling. For soft vegetables that won't be cooked before stuffing, choose a chilled filling like tuna or egg salad made with low-fat mayonnaise, or even seasoned cottage cheese. For harder vegetables that will be stuffed and then baked, consider incorporating the flesh of that vegetable with other elements, such as herbs and hearty whole grains. In our Spinach-Stuffed Mushrooms, the stems of the mushrooms are removed from the caps, chopped, and sautéed in olive oil. This mixture is combined with cooked spinach before being stuffed back into the mushroom caps, which are also sautéed.
In our Stuffed Eggplant, the eggplant is halved and the flesh removed and chopped. It is then combined with bread crumbs, fresh garlic, finely chopped onion and mushrooms, diced red bell pepper, tomato sauce, and seasonings before being spooned back into the halved eggplant.
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At Wachs Chiropractic Health Center, all of our professionals are fully trained and experienced to provide you with the best chiropractic care. We want you to trust that you are getting the highest quality care each time you come to see us. But we're also people just like you - we have families and pets, we're parents and grandparents, we participate in sports activities and try to stay current with the news. We combine our expertise and professionalism with a personal, responsive and caring attitude to make you as comfortable as possible with our practice - whether you're sick or well.
Dr. Wachs received his bachelor's degree from University at Albany in 1984 with honors. He graduated from the prestigious Southern California University of Health Sciences in 1988. Shortly after, he earned certification as a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician (C.C.S.P.) from the American Chiropractic Association Sports Council. In 19991 Dr. Wachs founded Wachs Chiropractic Health Center in Chula Vista, California. This office was opened in the heart of a growing and vibrant area of the South Bay and has grown to become one of the most successful practices in San Diego. An ongoing commitment to providing state of the art chiropractic care in a caring and family friendly environment has allowed Wachs Chiropractic to help thousands achieve better health. Dr. Wachs' practice has always been equipped with the latest chiropractic equipment and technology to help you his patient's attain total health and well being.
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How to have Istiqaamah
Istiqaamah is often translated to mean 'uprightness, steadfastness and correctness.' It comes from the root word قام (qaama) meaning 'to rise' or 'to stand upright' and from this we derive words like مستقيم (mustaqeem) as in 'Siraat al-Mustaqeem' (Straight Path).
For the believer, Istiqaamah is a virtue that cannot be done without. It's a quality that we continually strive to attain although we may fail at times. In this age where fitaan (tribulations) have become widespread and open sins are the norm, many people have lost the istiqaamah they once had in them – the strength to stay upon the straight path.
Imam Suhaib shared some tips with us on how to have istiqaamah:
1) Have a strong relationship with Allah: The best way is with His Wahi (revelation), the Qur'an. Ibn Taymiyyah said, "If you want to taste the sweetness of emaan, then upon you is the Book of Allah."
2) Have a strong relationship in worshipping Allah: The da'ee (one who calls people to Allah) needs to pray his sunnah and he better be praying witr. The pious predecessors used to say, "be hard on yourself and be easy on the people." We should strive to increase in our worship and perform the nawafil acts to come closer to Allah.
3) Have good friends that will support you: Befriend those that motivate you and are not negative. The scholars say it is not nifaaq (hypocritical) if a person's Islam and emaan are better when they are around righteous friends because this is part of the sunnah of our deen. Allah says: "And keep yourself patiently with those who call on their Lord morning and afternoon, seeking His Face; and let not your eyes overlook them." (Quran, 18:28)
4) Choose a good spouse who will make istiqaamah your focus and remind you: The Prophet ﷺ gave us the example of the wife who would sprinkle water on her husband's face to wake him up for tahajjud (prayer before fajr) and likewise the husband who would do the same to his wife.
5) Read the stories of the pious people. Read the seerah of the Prophet ﷺ, of the Companions, of those who followed them and the righteous people. You will see that your struggles compared to theirs are nothing. You see that Allah gave them strength, and reading that will give you strength.
6) Work in a group: Don't be a solo artist. Shaytan will always try to get you to leave the community, but he will never get you to join one.
Based off of a discussion on the 21th Hadith of An-Nawawi's compilation of forty ahadith.
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Jazakallahu Khaira. These are very valuable points and should not be overlooked.
Especially, I love the words "be hard on yourself and be easy on the people."
Regarding the 5th point, InshaAllah, I will keep a book I have "Qasasul Ambiyaa – Stories of The Prophets
By: Moulavi Hifzur Rehman Seoharwy" on my study table and read everyday.
We need to work on all of them to stand upright in this age. Jazakallahu Khaira
Jazakallahu Khaira.
These are the most valuable points to focus on.
I like the words "be hard on yourself and be easy on the people."
Regarding the fifth point, Inshallah, I will keep a book I have "Qasasul Ambiyaa – Stories of The Prophets
by Moulavi Hifzur Rehman Seoharwy" on my study table and read everyday.
jazaki Allahu kul khayr for these notes. May Allah 'Azza wa Jall give us istiqama and keep us firm on siraat al mustaqeem ameen
Barak Allahu feeki for sharing these essential points.
May Allah grant us istiqamah.
As-salaamu 'alaykum,
This is excellent advice. Thank you, Imam Suhaib. Allah yubarik fikum.
I think there might be a mistake in the notation. The advice seems to be based off a discussion of Hadith 21 of Imam Nawawi's 40 (not No. 11).
Allah ma'akum jam'ian
Assalaamu alaikum,
Jazaakallaahu khair,
These are very important points especially "be hard on yourself and be easy on the people" this is an attitude that most of the du'at are missing.
Salam alaikum warahmatula hi barakatu, jazakallahu khair for the tips, i would like to make one addition though personally which is the fasting of monday and thursday, i feel it brings me closer to allah aswell.


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You know, among the best moments we have as students have not much at all to do with prescribed curricula. Some, of course, do. Among the most excruciating prescribed moments in my senior year of high school came when our English teacher, Marie Hildebrand, had us all memorize and then recite the opening lines of the 'General Prologue' to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In the Middle English. We all did it, one by one, from memory, and, of course, it was a frighteningly searing enough experience that I can pull it from my back pocket on demand. Many of us can.
Whan that Aprille with his shoures sotte
The drought of Marche Hath Pierced to the Roote
And bathed every veyne in swiche licour
Of which virtu engendred is the fleur....
and like that, for thirteen more teenage toungue-bruising lines.
Yet it was my senior year sociology teacher, Manny Kramer, who holds for me the Finest-Moment. I cannot tell you what I learned that Fall and Spring, '68-'69, though I believe it had to be something of value for Manny let those of us with 'A' averages off the final exam hook and I was among the Elect (as was, I think, about half our section).
On a dreary winter suburban Philadelphia morning, tall, thin, quiet, almost avuncular Manny, quite against his usual determinedly subdued manner...Manny electrified us. Apropos of nothing in particular he said that he wanted to tell us about the morning he met the Nazi Luftwaffe Commander, Hermann Goering, among the Third Reich's elite.
He had our attention.
Manny, he began, had been a very young reporter with the U.S. Army assigned to the War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg. He had never, he told us, never for any length of time considered approaching, let alone speaking to, the men whom, he said to us, "were monsters."
On the morning he met Hermann Goering face to face, Manny said, he'd arrived at the courtroom a little early because the night before he'd read that the American papers had carried in '42 or '3, when Germany still seemed invincible to so many, something Goering had said about Nazi air superiority and the inevitability of Nazi victory.
Hermann Goering had apparently boasted: "If the British or the Americans ever fly over German air space, you can call me 'Goldberg'!"
That wasn't something Manny Kramer, a Jewish boy from Philly, could possibly resist.
A moment after the MPs led Goering and his fellow defendants into the dock, Manny recalled -- his eyes I remember now as bright globes yet distant...the man was quite transported as he spoke to us -- he sidled up as close as he could get to where Herr Goering, stone-faced, was seated and whispered
"Guten Morgen, Herr Goldberg!"
Hermann Goering, turned on Manny Kramer the reddest, most vicious glare he had ever seen or had since.
Our teacher said he was certain that had the Nazi leader not been so very aware of his surroundings in an Allied military court, he knew in his gut and without a doubt in his mind that Goering would have reached out to snap his neck.
Manny paused; sighed. He said it ranked among the most satisfying moments of his life. I believe it. His face that day in class shone, and that, for me, how my teacher's face shone so that dreary winter morning, is among the finest memories I know I carry and will, always.
Hermann Goring in the Nuremberg dock, first row, first seat at the left as one faces the dock.
Goring cheated the hang man by taking poison before his hanging, a coward at the end, like the rest of the rats...
" No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer."
Addressing the Luftwaffe (September 1939) as quoted in August 1939: The Last Days of Peace (1979) by Nicholas Fleming, p. 171;
"Meyer" (or "Meier") is a common name in Germany. This statement would come back to haunt him as Allied bombers devastated Germany; many ordinary Germans, especially in Berlin, took to calling him "Meier". It is said that he once himself introduced himself as "Meier" when taking refuge in an air-raid shelter in Berlin.
It must also be said that Goldberg is a common name in Germany, too, and is not indicative of Jewish lineage. It merely means "Gold Mountain" or something of that nature. Same goes for the word "Berg."
Goering probably just got mad because your teacher acted as if he didn't know who he was (former top brass in a totalitarian nation). He probably had no idea he was subtly calling him a Jew, again, because this name is frequently given to both Jews and Gentiles in Germany, whereas in the US, the name is predominantly found among Jews.
And of course, it's possible that Goering used any number of Jewish last names and Jewish-sounding last names in his bombast, for which the man was famous.
Goering merely got mad, I'm betting, because he thought your teacher didn't know who he was.
Not because he misidentified him as a Jew.
(I'm surprised anyone would be able to get that close to the monsters on trial...wasn't Eichmann in a glass cage or something?)
As you can see in the photo, above, the men in the dock at Nuremberg in 1946 were not protected by glass or by any other measure besides, as you can see them in the same photo, the MPs.
As to Eichmann, the Israelis who tried him at Jerusalem in 1961 did keep him in a glass booth bc there had been death threats.
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This is not a matter of opinion. These facts are all wrong, the quote is wrong, it could not possibly have happened and the real quote (which you deleted) was not even published till ten years after you claim your teacher allegedly reported it.
Please do not spam me nonsense like this. It appears Open Salon has a sufficient glut of the gullible ready to swallow such claptrap.
But do you actually think that you could first get away with publishing such false, incredulous, rubbish and then also get away with spamming us all for debate only to quash free speech by deleting the credible commentary that utterly refutes every fact you rely on? Do you really think like the "history is bunk" Our Ford in Brave New World you could just go whisk, whisk, to delete the truth and no one would know? Really?


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Death and Drugs in Colombia
Y refundaron la patria…: De cómo mafiosos y políticos reconfiguraron el Estado colombiano [And They Refounded the Nation…: How Mafiosi and Politicians Reconfigured the Colombian State]
In February 2003, the mayor of a small town on Colombia's Caribbean coast stood up at a nationally televised meeting with then President Álvaro Uribe and announced his own murder. "Señor Presidente, I am the mayor of El Roble," Tito Díaz said as he walked toward the stage where Uribe sat with several cabinet ministers and officials from the state of Sucre, where the meeting was held. Pacing back and forth before the President, Díaz delivered what was probably the first public denunciation of a web of violence and corruption involving politicians and paramilitary groups—what he called a "macabre alliance"—that would eventually become an explosive national scandal. Singling out several local officials, including the governor, Salvador Arana, seated at the President's side, Díaz declared: "And now they're going to kill me."
President Uribe listened impassively for several minutes, then cut the mayor off midsentence: "Mr. Mayor, we have allowed this disorder because of the gravity of the matter, but we also ask that you be considerate of our time." Uribe is a small, tidy man, with a bland face that is boyish yet stern. When he addresses the public, it is with the commanding tone of the wealthy cattle rancher and the intensity of a man on a mission. "With utmost pleasure," Uribe then assured Díaz that he would order an investigation, "for transparency cannot have exceptions, and security is for all Colombians."
Within weeks, the national police stripped Díaz of his bodyguards. On April 5, 2003, he disappeared. On April 10 his corpse appeared on the edge of Sucre's main highway. He had been tortured, shot, and left in a crucifix position—feet crossed, arms extended, palms upturned—with his mayoral certification card perched on his forehead. A note, found later at his house, told his family he was setting out for a "dangerous meeting" with Arana. "If anything happens to me," it said, they should flee.
The mayor's then-twenty-three-year-old son, Juan David Díaz, left Sucre. But he did not abandon his father's case. Instead he joined a small, disparate group of Colombians—mostly journalists, justice officials, and other victims' families—who were seeking accountability for paramilitary crimes. Until then, attempts to investigate such cases had rarely produced results, other than the death of those who pursued them. Yet remarkably, over the next several years, their efforts would bring about what few had imagined possible in 2003: investigations—like the one Uribe had promised Tito Díaz—that would uncover a "macabre alliance" far more extensive and sinister than what the murdered mayor had denounced on TV.
Uribe, who was succeeded last summer by his former defense minister Juan Manuel Santos, may have been the most popular president Colombia has ever had. He took office in 2002 with a 69 percent approval rating; when he stepped down last August it was at 75 percent. He was also a favorite of George W. Bush—who awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom—and received high praise from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Administration officials have held up his policies as models for Afghanistan and Mexico, both struggling with a similar confluence of drug trafficking, corruption, and terror. Uribe's presidency has provided Washington what it needs to counter the pessimism those other situations inspire: a success story.
The story goes like this. When Uribe took office, Colombia was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Two illegal armed groups financed through drug trafficking—the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the United Self-Defense Forces (AUC)—were terrorizing civilians. The larger was the FARC, a leftist guerrilla army founded in the 1960s that had grown in the late 1990s to 20,000 combatants and by 2002 was encroaching upon Bogotá, the capital. It dominated vast regions of the countryside.
The AUC was a network of right-wing paramilitary groups that had wrested control of large stretches of the country from the guerrillas using a simple but effective strategy: causing communities to fear them more than they already feared the FARC. They massacred civilians by the dozen in town squares. They quartered people with chainsaws, cut off tongues and testicles. They often made sport of the slaughter—sometimes literally, as when they played soccer with the decapitated heads of their victims.
Uribe campaigned for president promising to provide "security for all Colombians." Once in office, he imposed a "security tax" on the wealthy and used the revenue—along with billions in US aid—to expand counterinsurgency operations, driving the guerrillas from the cities, highways, and towns. This campaign gradually deprived the FARC of its strategic initiative, while causing it to lose half its combatants, most to desertion.
According to the success story, Uribe's achievements in dealing with the paramilitaries were even more dramatic: peace talks with AUC commanders led to the dismantling of their organization, the voluntary demobilization of more than 30,000 combatants, and an end to all paramilitary activity in Colombia. What's more, AUC commanders agreed to prosecution for their many crimes in exchange for reduced prison sentences. The deal was unprecedented for Latin America, whose governments have a long history of granting blanket amnesties to end armed conflicts. Rather than sacrifice justice for peace, Uribe found a way to have both: the program was named "Justice and Peace."
The story is impressive. But it is largely untrue. Uribe's success in diminishing the power of the FARC was real, albeit marred by egregious human rights violations, and contributed to a dramatic drop in the national homicide rate. But the account of his deal with the AUC was fundamentally false, especially the notion that it was a new, improved version of the settlements other governments had made with armed political groups. In fact, what the deal more closely resembled was the one Colombia had made a decade earlier with the man who was then its most powerful and feared crime boss: Pablo Escobar.
In the mid-1980s, Escobar negotiated with the Colombian authorities to protect himself and other drug traffickers from extradition to the United States. When the negotiations failed, Escobar embarked on a campaign of mass murder that eventually won him a constitutional ban on extradition and special permission to serve time for his crimes in a luxurious "prison" he had built for himself on a hillside overlooking Medellín. But when pressure mounted in both Washington and Bogotá to end this arrangement, he abandoned the house and was soon on the run, not only from the Colombian police, but also from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the CIA, and Delta Force commandos. The hunt culminated in December 1993 when Escobar was gunned down on a Medellín rooftop.
The paramilitary bosses who founded the AUC just over three years later were mostly former associates of Escobar. They had gotten their start as leaders of vigilante groups set up in the 1980s to deter guerrillas from kidnapping drug traffickers. These groups had joined forces with large landholders and, with the military's support, expanded their operations from targeted retaliations to more widespread violence against suspected guerrilla allies, including leftist politicians and trade unionists.
These paramilitary forces united to form the AUC in 1997, partly to coordinate their military activities, and partly because the Colombian Congress was on the verge of lifting the ban on extraditions. The commanders apparently realized that, to avoid prosecution in the US, they might eventually need to strike a deal with the government that was more durable than Escobar's had been. They announced that their new organization would refrain from drug trafficking and pursue exclusively "anti-subversive" aims. And over the next five years, they carried out a PR campaign—involving prime-time TV interviews and a best-selling authorized biography of a top commander—to rebrand the paramilitaries as primarily a political group.
They did not abandon drug trafficking, however. In fact, by the time of Uribe's election in 2002, the AUC had become the most powerful network of drug traffickers in the country's history. Several weeks after his inauguration, the first US extradition request arrived, for two of its top commanders, on drug charges.
Uribe could have used the threat of extradition to press the paramilitary bosses to come clean. Instead, he established the Justice and Peace program, in which the "justice" component was largely a sham. The AUC commanders would be "incarcerated" for as few as three years on farms instead of in prisons, without turning over all their illicit wealth or naming their accomplices. They would emerge with their criminal networks intact, immune from further prosecution—and extradition—for the crimes to which they had "confessed." It was essentially the same prize Escobar had fought for. But as the product of a "peace" deal, it had a veneer of the legitimacy that could make it last.
In July 2004, the Uribe government arranged for the AUC commanders to make their case for "peace" before Colombia's Congress. Salvatore Mancuso, one of the commanders named in the 2002 extradition request, led the delegation. Mancuso had helped plan many of the AUC's most horrific massacres, and had become one of Colombia's most powerful drug bosses, a new Escobar.
Mancuso arrived in a Valentino suit, with a large security detail supplied by the government, and delivered a forty-five-minute speech—broadcast on national TV—in which he praised the AUC's accomplishments against the FARC and declared triumphantly: "The judgment of History will recognize the goodness and greatness of our cause!"
He received a spirited ovation. Several months later, Uribe suspended his extradition order.
In her Bogotá home, the journalist Claudia López watched Mancuso's speech in horror. How could it be that members of Congress were publicly applauding a mass-murdering drug trafficker? The question would haunt her in the coming months as she began traveling around the country and found, in many places, that people became visibly afraid when asked about local politicians.
She got the answer she feared the following May in another nationally televised broadcast from Congress. The speaker was Gustavo Petro, a congressman from a left-of-center political party—and the subject was Sucre. Petro had started investigating the region after a visit from Juan David Díaz, who came to Bogotá seeking help to bring his father's killers to justice.
Petro began his televised presentation with footage of Tito Díaz denouncing the "macabre alliance" to President Uribe two years earlier. He then laid out evidence he had gathered supporting the murdered mayor's allegations. And he warned that the collusion between politicians and paramilitaries—what he would later call "parapolitics"—was not limited to Sucre, but instead was the main threat to the rule of law facing the entire country.
Moved by Petro's speech, the thirty-five-year-old Lopez spent months searching for government data that might corroborate his warning. Comparing election results with statistics on paramilitary violence, she discovered that the members of Congress she had seen applauding Mancuso had been elected with highly atypical majorities in districts controlled by the AUC. The paramilitaries, it seemed, had fixed the elections.


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One part of that offering that was not discussed was the mysterious box that showed up on the steps of most small businesses in those markets. Google sent along one of the kits that was sent to 41,000 businesses in Charlotte to us here at Marketing Pilgrim. We thought the rest of the world might like to see what Google is up to. Once our own Places promo box arrived at the Marketing Pilgrim world headquarters (embellishment alert!) we thought we'd open it up for you too.


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Gov. Perry Launches $4 Million Mentoring Program for At-Risk Youth
Public-Private Partnership Will Help Children of Imprisoned Parents
DALLAS – Gov. Rick Perry today announced a $3.78 million grant to launch Amachi Texas, a statewide program to match trained adult mentors with children whose parents are in the state prison system. As a public-private partnership, the program combines the expertise and resources of the Office of the Governor, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the OneStar Foundation, and the Texas Workforce Commission.
"The mission of Amachi Texas is simple: to set thousands of Texas children free from the intergenerational cycle of crime and incarceration through the compassion of mentoring," Perry said. "Amachi Texas will mentor 1,300 children who have a parent behind bars, build infrastructure across the state to reach thousands more in the future, and I am confident it will serve as a national model as to what can be accomplished when caring adults take the time to become a mentor."
The Amachi Program was founded five years ago by the former mayor of Philadelphia, the Rev. Dr. W. Wilson Goode Sr. The program has since expanded to more than 100 cities across the nation. In the Nigerian dialect Ibo, "amachi" means "Who knows what God has brought us through this child?" The state's $3.78 million grant is the largest commitment ever made for an Amachi effort.
"The statistics show that children of prisoners are too often condemned to the worst of all fates – a life without hope. They are far more likely to struggle with depression, drop out of school, or fall captive to drugs and alcohol abuse," Perry said. "But with the Amachi mentoring program, we can reverse those trends and put thousands of children on a different and better path."
An estimated 7.3 million American children – about 70,000 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area alone – have a parent in prison, on probation or on parole. Studies show that children who have a volunteer Big Brother or Sister are 46 percent less likely to use drugs, 33 percent less likely to become violent, and 52 percent less likely to skip school.
"No child should be held captive by the influence of drugs, alcohol and crime, or sentenced to a lifetime of failure because of the mistakes of a parent," Perry said. "We must end the cultural tragedy of children meeting their parents and grandparents for the first time in prison. Let's give them hope with a guiding hand and through a labor of love."
Goode joined Perry at the announcement, along with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America national board member Frank Bracken; Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams, who is honorary state chairman for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Texas; Texas Board of Criminal Justice Chairman Christina Melton Crain, and Susan Weddington, president of the OneStar Foundation. Gov. Perry also visited Abilene today to announce the launch of Amachi Texas.
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Friday, March 21, 2008
PODCAST: The New York Yankees
Get ready for nine innings (or 30 minutes) of the greatest sports team ever -- the New York Yankees. Hear about their modest beginnings, their best players, and the fate of Yankee Stadium, their home for 85 years.
(And I apologize in advance for this week's echo-y sound...had some difficulty with one of my directional mics!)
Listen to it for free on iTunes or other podcasting services. Or you can download or listen to it HERE
Babe Ruth in 1915, as a Red Sox. He would be traded in 1919 to the Yankees, thus beginning the Curse of the Bambino.
Ruth was alledgedly traded to the Yankees to finance Frazee's musical No No Nanette. (Frazee's name appears on the top of this poster.) Full disclosure -- we dismiss this musical in the podcast, although musical enthusiasts might proclaim No No Nanette was very well worth it, if nothing more than for its signature song "Tea For Two." Its first run ran over two years in 1925 and a 1971 revival did win several Tony Awards.
Babe at his retirement....
Babe Ruth in 1948, with a young Yale player, George H. W. Bush
Yankees owners Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, with (fourth on the right) Red Sox owner Harry Frazee.
Yankee Stadium in its opening year 1923
The player who probably enjoys the greatest mystique in the pantheon of iconic Yankee stars -- Lou Gehrig
Joe Dimaggio with rival Ted Williams from the Red Sox. These two were almost traded with each other by their rival owners over an unfortunate night of cocktails.
DiMaggio 'the Yankee Clipper' retired in 1951 and soon found himself in an ordinary life with an ordinary wife.
And who doesn't love them some Casey Stengel, one of the best baseball managers who ever lived?
Mickey Mantle at batting practice
A 1960s Yankee board game
Billy Martin and the man who would repeatedly fire him, George Steinbrenner (Pic courtesy the New York Times)
The controversial but undeniably sensational Reggie Jackson
Billy Martin with Thurman Munson
Monument Park at Yankee Stadium, honoring the greatest in baseball. Thank God they moved it out of center field....
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- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2009 at 3:35 PM
I loved your piece on the New York Yankees. Though Billy Crystal likes to claim to be Yankee fan #1, I am sorry. It is in my DNA.ReplyDelete
My grandmother was a 2nd generation German immigrant who lived in the German ghetto of Baltimore at the end of the 19th century. The German ghetto was where Camden Yards is today. Occaisionally, she would play as a small girl, with that "bad boy" who lived above the "saloon" on the next block (George Heman Ruth).
My Dad's family moved from Baltimore to New York City shortly before the stock market crash of 1929. So, Ruth and Gehrig were already world famous "Bronx Bombers". Though my Dad never got to see the Babe play, he saw "the Pride of the Yankees", Joe DiMaggio, Bill Dickey, Lefty Gomez, Tony Lazerri and the other greats of the 20's/30's/40's.
I was born just outside of New York City on May 13, 1955. That was the day Mickey Mantle hit three home runs in one game. Mantle, Maris, Berra, Whitey Ford, Bobby Richardson and company were my Yankees.
My son was born during the World Series of 1978. His era is the Billy Martin and George (the "avenging angel") Steinbrenner era. Munson, Nettles, Reggie, Catfish, Sparky and Goose, etc. are his Yankees.
Baseball created the baseball draft in 1957 to break up the Yankee's dynasty. By the end of 1964 it worked. I remember waiting from 1965 through 1975 with no more Yankee pennants as I grew up. Apparently, God looked at the situation and decided it was wrong for him to have allowed the baseball draft. Therefore, he invented free agency and sent George Steinbrenner to earth as his "avenging angel". And God said, "that is good." The Yankee dynasty was restored!
Of course, from 1995 through 2002 we had the age of Joe Torre. And in that time we added the greatest 3rd baseman of all times (A-Rod) and shortstop (Derek Jeter) to add to 1b (Lou Gehrig). Of course, the outfield was always secure with Ruth, DiMaggio and Mantle. And our receiver corps of Dickey, Berra, Howard, Munson, Pasada, take your pick. . . But strangely, as my Dad always explained, it was "pitching" that made the Yankees great. After the 1920's the Red Sox always had a better hitting teams than the Yanks. The Yanks won with better pitching. Though Whitey Ford is the sole Hall of Fame caliber starter, many all-star starters always filled the rotation. And, of course, Casey Stengel invented relief pitching. And look at the Yankee's historical reliever corps: Ryan Duren, Papa Louis Arroyo, Sparky Lyle, Goose Gossage, Dave Righetti, Mariano Rivera. . .
The fifth generation Yankee "Clark" was born this year (an off year for Yankee pennants) just a little ways outside of Baltimore, Maryland (the home of the Babe).
I am glad Hank and Hal played the free agency market this year the way they did but still hung onto Jaba, Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy. As my Dad said, "you win the pennant with pitching."
Go Yankees in 2009!
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