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Arthur Hailey
Author of massive best-sellers in 'Hotel', 'Airport' and 'Wheels'
Saturday 27 November 2004
Arthur Hailey made up for the fact that he left school at 14 by spending a year at a time on solid research for his string of massive best-sellers. Whilst enjoying page-turning adventures such as
Airport and
Wheels, his readers would get the lowdown on whatever world Hailey was using as his setting: from hotels and airports to banks and hospitals. The result was 11 novels in print in 40 countries and 38 languages with phenomenal sales of 170 million copies.
Arthur Hailey, writer: born Luton, Bedfordshire 5 April 1920; married 1944 Joan Fishwick (three sons; marriage dissolved 1950), 1951 Sheila Dunlop (one son, two daughters); died Lyford Cay, New Providence Island 25 November 2004.
Arthur Hailey made up for the fact that he left school at 14 by spending a year at a time on solid research for his string of massive best-sellers. Whilst enjoying page-turning adventures such as Hotel, Airport and Wheels, his readers would get the lowdown on whatever world Hailey was using as his setting: from hotels and airports to banks and hospitals. The result was 11 novels in print in 40 countries and 38 languages with phenomenal sales of 170 million copies.
Such enormous success has rarely been rivalled, so the literary merits of Hailey's novels - which many critics questioned - are hardly a concern. Certainly he had a sure-fire approach: putting ordinary people in extraordinary situations and in those settings that he described so well. He claimed he never "invented" anyone, preferring to draw on real life.
He was born in 1920, in Luton, to working-class parents. As a child he was an avid reader and writer. "My mother let me off chores so I could write stories," he said later. He left school aged 14 when he failed to get a scholarship to grammar school. It was, he said later, "the saddest day of my life".
Although he suffered from airsickness he served as a pilot in the RAF during the Second World War, flying fighters in the Middle East and transport aircraft in India. He achieved the rank of flight lieutenant. The war first confirmed his religious faith then took it away:
In times of danger God can seem very close. I even thought about becoming a priest myself. But quite suddenly, as I was reciting the Creed in a church in Cyprus, where we were stationed, I found myself saying: "I don't believe this any more . . ." I lost my faith and became an agnostic.
Disillusioned by religion he was next disillusioned by politics after the war:
It was a time of acute shortages and austerity and I did not like what the socialist government was doing.
To get away from the post-war Labour government he emigrated to Canada in 1947, taking dual citizenship.
He took a job at the Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company, then moved into sales and, later, work as an estate agent. He was keen to do more creative work and was writing in his spare time.
In 1951 he married for the second time, to Sheila Dunlop, who met him in a magazine publishing house in Toronto, where he was a struggling journalist and she was a secretary. "He was overweight, I was tweedy," Sheila recalled. However, they shared similar backgrounds (she was a working-class girl from London) and similar goals.
His life changed when, one day in 1955, he was on a flight to Toronto. He wondered what would happen if the pilot and co-pilot were suddenly knocked out by food poisoning from the in-flight meal. "Then it would fall to a rusty old wartime pilot like me to bring the plane down safely." He saw it as a great idea for a television play. Over the next two weekends and the five nights in-between he wrote a screenplay, "Flight into Danger", which he sold to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for $600. The play was sold on to NBC and was a spectacular success.
Now the play is best known for being one of the inspirations for the spoof movie Airplane! (1980). Then, it changed Hailey's life. From that one success he was able to write full-time. "That was all I ever wanted to do," he said later. In 1958, Hailey's screenplay for the 1956 Flight into Danger was turned into a novel - Runway Zero-Eight - by two other writers, under the pseudonym John Castle. "When I read it," Hailey said later, "my reaction was, 'Why didn't I do this myself?' "
So he switched to writing novels. His first one, The Final Diagnosis, about a hospital pathologist who causes an infant's death by mistake, was published in 1959.
His first big publishing success was Hotel in 1965. It provided a blueprint for his subsequent best-sellers in two respects. First there was his research. He spent about a year researching hotels (including reading 27 books about the industry), then six months reviewing his notes and, finally, about 18 months writing the book. Then there was the plot: at the core an ordinary person faced with a major crisis but surrounded by multiple plot-lines.
Its success was helped by a well-received film, directed by Richard Quine, in 1967. The following year he published Airport, perhaps his most successful novel, about an airport manager coping with a bomber on a plane that is being piloted by the manager's womanising brother-in-law. It was snapped up by Hollywood and the film, starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin, followed in 1970. It paved the way for a tranche of disaster movies.
Being a success in the freedom-loving Sixties had an impact on Hailey's marriage. He was not faithful. "I see adultery as perfectly normal and natural," he said later. "Men are not naturally monogamous."
By the end of the decade Hailey was also becoming seriously rich. Tax was running as high as 75 per cent in America. His friend and lawyer Bruce Verchere recommended a tax haven for a couple of years. He suggested Lyford Cay in the Bahamas. The Haileys moved there in 1969 and liked it so much they stayed until Hailey's death.
Hailey published Wheels, about the world of automobiles, in 1971. The Moneychangers (1975) became in 1976 a mini-series starring Kirk Douglas, Christopher Plummer (who won an Emmy for it) and a host of other well-known faces. Overload followed in 1979, Strong Medicine in 1984 (with a mini-series starring Sam Neill in 1986), The Evening News in 1990.
In that year he announced his retirement. He was 67 but he had still spent time with rebel guerrillas in the Peruvian jungle as research for The Evening News. He said he was retiring to spend more time with his family. "Writing is a very selfish occupation," he said:
I can't tell you how many relatives I failed to visit or children's special days at school I missed because the novel had to come first.
His wife Sheila had already spoken bluntly about his selfishness in her book I Married a Best Seller (1978), in which she described him as:
ruthless, temperamental, sensitive, impatient, emotional, unreasonable, demanding,
self-centred, excessively hard-working, precise, pig-headed, fastidiously clean, manically tidy.
Hailey returned to writing later in the Nineties as a result of something that might have come out of one of his books. His best friend, Bruce Verchere, had an adulterous affair with Hailey's daughter Diane. The couple ran away together and Diane became pregnant. Verchere returned to his wife. Two days after twins were born, however, he committed suicide with a bullet in the brain.
Deeply miserable as the events unfolded, Hailey buried himself in work. The result was Detective, the Hailey take on the serial-killer novel, published in 1997. The same year he had undergone a triple bypass operation. (He had had a quadruple bypass when he was 63.) Detective was, as always, heavily researched - the only reason he didn't see a real-life execution in the electric chair was because there was a three-year waiting list.
Early in Hailey's writing career Anthony Burgess wrote:
When book-buyers buy books, they look for sex, violence and hard information. They get these from Arthur Hailey, whose characters discuss problems of hotel management while committing adultery before being beaten up.
Hailey's own take was quite straightforward:
What I aim for in all my novels is a good page-turning story set against a real-life background, so the reader can learn something about hotels or airports or the police as he reads a good story.
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In this paper, we review the empirical literature concerning the important question of whether or not food color influences taste and flavor perception in humans. Although a superficial reading of the literature on this topic would appear to give a somewhat mixed answer, we argue that this is, at least in part, due to the fact that many researchers have failed to distinguish between two qualitatively distinct research questions. The first concerns the role that food coloring plays in the perception of the intensity of a particular flavor (e.g., strawberry, banana, etc.) or taste attribute (e.g., sweetness, saltiness, etc.). The second concerns the role that food coloring plays in the perception of flavor identity. The empirical evidence regarding the first question is currently rather ambiguous. While some researchers have reported a significant crossmodal effect of changing the intensity of a food or drink's coloring on people's judgments of taste or flavor intensity, many others have failed to demonstrate any such effect. By contrast, the research findings concerning the second question clearly support the view that people's judgments of flavor identity are often affected by the changing of a food or drink's color (be it appropriate, inappropriate, or absent). We discuss the possible mechanisms underlying these crossmodal effects and suggest some of the key directions for future research in order to move our understanding in this area forward.
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- Does Food Color Influence Taste and Flavor Perception in Humans?
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Chemosensory Perception
Volume 3, Issue 1 , pp 68-84
- Cover Date
- 2010-03-01
- 10.1007/s12078-010-9067-z
- Print ISSN
- 1936-5802
- Online ISSN
- 1936-5810
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- Carmel A. Levitan (2)
- Maya U. Shankar (1)
- Massimiliano Zampini (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- 4. Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
- 2. Cognitive Science Program, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles, CA, 90041, USA
- 3. Center for Mind/Brain Sciences & Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Rovereto (TN), Italy


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Commodore 64 (1987), Atari 8-bit (1987), ZX Spectrum (1987), MSX (1987) and Amstrad CPC (1987) Strategy games with a real-time movement element didn't begin with Dune 2, and this was one early implementation of the... |
Odyssey (1972) Invasion is one of the six add-on games for the Odyssey released in 1972. It requires game cards #4, #5,... |
Commodore 16, Plus/4 (1985) Invasion 2000 A.D. is inspired by the arcade game Space Invaders and sees the Earth once again invaded by an... |
Windows (2000) Invasion Deutschland is the German version of the Dutch game AmsterDoom. Instead of Amsterdam the 15 levels represent important German... |
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Browser (2011) Your three planets are under attack! Can you, the Inoculator, save the day?Invasion of the Giant Planet Eating Bacteria From... |
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- 95 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
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- 5.00 2 Games in 1: Disney Princess + Disney's The Lion King 1 ½ (2004)
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- 5.00 2in1 Pack: Dragon's Lair - Space Ace (1998)
- 3.41 3-D Ultra NASCAR Pinball (1999)
- 4.55 3-D Ultra Pinball: Thrillride (1996)
- 5.00 3Tones (2009)
- 4.31 Action Hero 3D: Wild Dog (2006)
- 5.00 Action Pack - 4 Killer Action Games! (2003)
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Submitted: 06/28/2014
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- They call it the Big House and there really isn't anything else like it. Talented off road drivers are kicking up the dirt in Crandon this weekend for the annual Brush Run.
The weather cooperated for a full slate of racing action. Thousands of fans enjoyed the the thrill of being up close to the track. They were able to watch many different classes of racing, a few spills and lots of excitement.
Something new this year is an exhibition of UTV's, or Utility Terrain Vehicles. They're trying to gain more popularity in the Mid-West.
A couple of results from local drivers today include in the 1600 Buggy Class, Rhinelander's Mark Steinhardt continued his success at Crandon. Steiny got out to a good lead and took the checkerd flag with ease.
In the Super Stock Trucks Argonne's Jeff Fannin was near the front the majority of the race. Fannin finished strong in second place. This weekend he's racing for a special cause.
"Our race winnings this weekend we're donating back to the Ronald McDonald House charity in Marshfield today. Then tomorrow our winnings will go to the Wounded Warriors project," explains Fannin. "The Ronald McDonald House charities was a big deal because last year I became a father for the first time. My son came seven weeks early and we spent three weeks there. It opened my eyes to what a great charity that place is."
During the summer, Nick Baumgartner trades in his snowboard for off road racing.
The last time we caught up with the Iron River native, he'd just returned from his second Olympic games.
Now he's back behind the wheel of a truck and excited to have the chance to race close to home.
"When I'm traveling for snowboarding not everyone can come out and see me. Here I have a huge fan base," says Baumgartner. "I've talked to the school here a couple times in Crandon so it's cool to see all these people come out, especially the kids. They get so hyped on it. It's cool having that support and just coming out here and having fun. The adrenaline coming into turn one in Crandon is better than anything I've ever felt. This is what we're chasing for in life (this adrenaline) and we've found it here in Crandon."
You can still catch a full day of racing at Crandon on Sunday. Qualifying begins at 9am.
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Bridge Clinic in Wausau welcomed people to sign up for health insurance options Saturday.
The Open Enrollment deadline is February 15th. If you don't sign up before then, it could cost you $325 or more depending on your income.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says all the vehicles covered in Saturday's announcement had already been under a recall for the faulty air bags, but the carmakers' original attempts to fix the defects only worked about 85 percent of the time.
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Forest and wildlife associate professor David Drake and his students are humanely trapping the animals, running tests, then fitting them with tracking devices. The goal is to learn about traveling patterns, diseases the animals might have, and how they interact with other animals and humans.
Drake says foxes and coyotes are moving into areas where people are living. And if that continues, and the animals lose their fear of humans, they could become aggressive in extreme cases.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says residents should stay a safe distance from foxes or coyotes, and shouldn't feed them.
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- A winter storm warning will go into effect in the Milwaukee area and far southern Wisconsin on Saturday night �" and the National Weather Service says as much as 10 inches of snow could fall in Kenosha County by early Monday.
Snow is forecast to begin falling late Saturday and continue all day Sunday. Lake-effect snow is expected to combine with a low pressure system from the south to drive up snowfall totals in far southeast Wisconsin. Milwaukee could see up to 9 inches.
Blowing and drifting snow is expected and winds could gust to over 30 mph, making travel dangerous.
Other parts of the state, including Sheboygan, Dodge, and Waukesha counties, will be under a winter weather advisory starting Saturday night. Snow accumulations could reach 4 to 7 inches.
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- A standoff between police and a man in Hudson has ended with the man taken into custody.
Hudson Police Chief Marty Jensen says a man with a "known history of violence" was arrested shortly before 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
Police were initially called to the house at 3 a.m. Jensen says the man had trashed his ex-girlfriend's home and phone, but she was able to get to a friend's house and call police.
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The first fire happened at 9:12 p.m. The Lincoln County Dispatch Center got a call about a possible structure fire on County Highway WW in the Town of Pine River. That's east of Merrill, but when the Pine River Department got there, the house was in flames.
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MSNBC's Krystal Ball Claims Animal Farm Was Pro-Communist
There is great news for fans of George Orwell, who warned of the perils of the sort of government that is now consolidating power in our country. Even after liberals have total control, his books may not have to go the way of classics like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — not if they can be repurposed with the help of outlandish lies made possible by ignorance and doublethink:
MSNBC host Krystal Ball suggested Tuesday that George Orwell's famously anti-communist novel "Animal Farm" is an allegory for capitalism run amok – immediately setting the hair of literature professors across the country on fire.
Aside from the part about the hair on fire, this is completely on the level — even the preposterous name "Krystal Ball." She ran for Congress (as a Democrat, of course) in 2010.
This fundamental transformation of a book attacking oligarchical collectivism into pro-communist literature occurred while Krystal was defending the views of French socialist Thomas Piketty, who is very much in vogue among the ever more openly Marxist Democrat party these days.
Krystal didn't like it that proponents of economic liberty criticize Piketty:
"Even the august and ostensibly economically literate Wall Street Journal tells him to read 'Animal Farm,'" she noted. "Animal Farm? Hmm. Isn't that Orwell's political parable of farm animals where a bunch of pigs hog up all the economic resources, tell the other animals they need all the food because they're the makers and then scare up the prospect of a phony bogeyman every time their greed is challenged? Sounds familiar."
For the benefit of those who like Krystal never managed to get through the weighty 140-page tome:
In the "Animal Farm" written by renowned British political writer George Orwell in 1945 – not the "Animal Farm" that exists in Krystal Ball's head – a group of farm animals overthrow their human owner and declare "All animals are equal." Food is evenly distributed and political decisions are made by the community.
But a group of pigs immediately sets about using the politics of equality to accumulate power, exhorting the most powerful and successful workers to toil for the common good while they bask in the fruits of that labor. At the end the pigs become indistinguishable from their former masters, and their farm's charter is amended to "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
Leaving aside the obvious historical parallels between Animal Farm and the Soviet Union, the inescapable message is that government-enforced equality inevitably leads to oppression and further inequality, as fallible humans (or pigs) use powerful enforcement tools for their own personal gain.
Orwell himself referred to Animal Farm as his novel "against Stalin" — a tyrant who exploited the same ideology advanced by Piketty and Ms. Ball, both of whom presumably see themselves as belonging in the farmhouse smoking cigars with the other pigs, not out in the barn with the animals who aren't as equal.
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MLB Players Who Definitely Took Steroids
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Major League Baseball's steroid era started in the mid-1990s and went until the Mitchell Report was released in December of 2007. During that time, baseball was revived after the game was nearly killed by the player's strike of 1994. The revival came due to the large amount of home runs that were hit which hit its peak between the years of 1998 and 2001.
With Donald Fehr leading the Major League Baseball Players Association the sport had the worst testing policy in the world. Under the policy players were warned in advance when they would be tested giving them enough time to clear the drugs out of their system prior to the test. That created an epidemic of performance enhancing drugs in the game.
Since 2007 many players have been accused of using steroids. Some have been found guilty and punished for their discretions. Others simply live under a cloud of suspicion. In some cases they were never proven to have taken steroids though everyone knows that they did. This slideshow will look at Major League Baseball players who definitely took steroids. Some of the players were caught and suspended, some of the players admitted use following their retirement, and some it's just widely known of their use.
In 1992 an FBI investigation found a steroid dealer named Curtis Wenzlaff. Wenzlaff helped train several athletes including Oakland A's slugger Mark McGwire. Going through Wenzlaff's notes, investigators found that he had put McGwire on a mixture of steroids including Winstrol V, testosterone, and Equipoise. In Jose Canseco's 2005 book Jucied, he claimed to have injected McGwire when they played together in Oakland. After originally being ostracized by the public, later the book turned out to be true giving credence to Canseco's claim.
The New York Times reported that Sammy Sosa was one of 104 players that tested positive for performance enhancing drugs during Major League Baseball's 2003 survey test. While the drug he tested positive for was not released, it is highly likely that it was a steroid. Sosa famously went from hitting 8 home runs in 1992 to hitting 33 home runs in 1993. There was also a major difference in Sosa's physical makeup following that offseason.
Testifying before a grand jury about the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), Bonds admitted to using two undetectable steroids inadvertently given to him by BALCO. He claimed that he thought The Cream, which is used to hide steroid use, was arthritis balm and the THG was flaxseed oil. The substances were given to him by trainer Greg Anderson.
Palmeiro came before congress to testify about the use of steroids in baseball along with other stars. During the hearings Palmeiro vehemently denied that he used them saying "I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period." In August of 2005, just months after the hearings, Palmeiro tested positive for Stanzolol, an anabolic steroid and was promptly suspended.
In May of 2002, Ken Caminiti became to first Major League Baseball star to admit steroid use. In an interview with Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci, he said he began using in 1996 while he was attempting to recover from a shoulder injury. That year he would win the National League Most Valuable Player Award. In the interview he estimated that 50% of current players used performance enhancing drugs.
Jason Giambi was called to testify before a grand jury in 2003 where he admitted using undetectable steroids from BALCO which were provided by trainer Greg Anderson. Some of the steroids he admitted using were The Clear, The Cream, Deca-Durabolin, and injectable testosterone. He told the grand jury that he had gone to Anderson because of Barry Bonds success after using the trainer. That's what implicated Bonds in the case.
The most controversial player of the steroid era was Jose Canseco. In February of 2005, Canseco released an auto-biography called Juiced where broke the seal on the steroid era. He claimed in the book to have been using steroids for many years and to have injected several star players including Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Juan Gonzalez, Ivan Rodriguez, and Jason Giambi. Most ignored the claims originally but months later it turned out that most of the book as proven true.
In 2001 Canadian police questioned Juan Gonzalez's trainer Angel Presinal when he picked up an unmarked bag which contained anabolic steroids and Clenbuterol. The trainer told police the bag belonged to Gonzalez who at that time was playing for the Cleveland Indians. When Jose Canseco released the book Juiced in 2005, he claimed to have taught Gonzalez about using steroids while they were teammates in Texas along with Rafael Palmeiro and Ivan Rodriguez. He also claimed to have injected his teammates with steroids during that time.
Larry Bigbie was found to be a customer of convicted steroid dealer Kirk Radomski. The former Major Leauge player cooperated with the Mitchell Report investigation after he called Radomski for drugs while the government monitored his phone. Bigbie admitted to using a wide variety of performance enhancing drugs which includes anabolic steroids.
Gary Matthews Jr., the son of a Major Leaguer, had his name come up in 2007 as a customer of Applied Pharmacy Services in Mobile, Alabama. The company was busted for selling both steroids and human growth hormone over the internet. In February of that year Matthews was revealed to have used the associated with the company in an article by the Albany Times Union.
In 2009 Jose Canseco came out with another book called Vindicated. In the book he claims to have introduced Alex Rodriguez to a steroid dealer/trainer. Canseco said that he didn't reveal Rodriguez in Juiced because people knew he didn't like Rodriguez and would've questioned his motives. But with the truth that was later found out of the first book, what Canseco puts in these books can now be taken as truth.
In Jose Canseco's follow-up book, Vindicated, he reveals that he injected Magglio Ordonez with steroids. He also claims that he offered Ordonez an opportunity to be left out of the book if he invested in a documentary about Canseco's first book, Juiced. The plot to get Ordonez to invest was revealed in a New York Times article printed in January of 2008.
In an IRS affidavit, Jason Grimsley admitted to using steroids during his 15 year career but claimed to have stopped in 2004 when Major League Baseball instituted their new drug testing policy. After that he said he just used human growth hormone. Grimsley also gave names of other players that he knew used steroids though those names were later redacted.
In 2003 Armando Rios testified before the BALCO grand jury. In the testimony it was revealed that Rios admitted using BALCO drugs provided by Greg Anderson. The drugs included The Clear, The Cream, and injectable testosterone. The testimony was reported by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004 and used in the book Game of Shadows in 2005.
While Jason Giambi was one of the most known users of steroids, his younger brother Jeremy used them as well. The younger Giambi testified before the BALCO grand jury in 2003 that he obtained The Clear, The Cream, Deca-Durabolin, and injectable testosterone from Greg Anderson. Jeremy's testimony about Anderson mirrored that of his brother and was leaked by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004.
In 2003 Benito Santiago testified to the BALCO grand jury that he was given and used undetectable BALCO drugs given to him by Greg Anderson. The drugs he used included The Clear, The Cream, Winstrol, and injectable testosterone. His testimony was brought to the public in December of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and again in 2005 in the book Game of Shadows.
In 2009 pitcher JC Romero tested positive for the steroid Androstenedione. After the failed test, Romero stated, "I still cannot see where I did something wrong. There is nothing I should take away from the rings of my teammates. I didn't cheat. I tried to follow the rules." But his test says otherwise. He was suspended for 50 games for the incident.
Though he claims that he didn't use them, Glenallen Hill bought the anabolic steroid Sustanon from convicted steroid dealer Kirk Radomski around 2001. This happened after Radomski sent Hill a "sample bottle" of a human growth hormone free of charge earlier that year. Radomski claims that Hill later referred Mo Vaughn to him.
In an interview with ESPN baseball writer Buster Olney, Wally Joyner admitted that he used steroids in 1997. He described to Olney how he asked Ken Caminiti, a close friend, how he could obtain the drugs. Caminiti gave Joyner the phone number of a steroid dealer. Joyner then received pills through the mail from the dealer via Caminiti. Joyner claimed he only took three pills before deciding to stop.
The earliest account of steroid use comes from Tom House who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1971 to 1978. In a telephone interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in 2005, House admitted to using steroids for a couple of years during his career and estimated that six or seven pitchers from each team were experimenting with steroids throughout the 1970s.
Lenny Dykstra's former business partner, Lindsay Jones, sued Dykstra over ownership of a car wash. Jones claimed in the suit that Dykstra used steroids and gambled on Major League games during his career. In the suit, a bodybuilder and convicted steroid dealer, Jeff Scott, said he injected Dykstra with steroids "more times than I can count".
In his auto-biography, Juiced, Jose Canseco claims that he educated catcher Ivan Rodriguez about steroids along with other teammates Rafael Palmeiro and Juan Gonzalez. He claims that he later acquired steroids for his teammates and personally injected them "many times". Canseco claims in the book that all three used a combination of human growth hormone and the steroids Deca-Durabolin and Winstrol.
Todd Greene told investigators that during a "critical point" of his career he was worried that he wouldn't be able to provide for his family. So to remedy that problem, he used steroid prescribed to him by Dr. Ramon Scruggs. The revelation came to light in a New York Times article in 2009.
In 2005 Matt Lawton tested positive for an anabolic steroid called Boldenone Undecylenate. Following the positive result Lawton said, "I made a terrible and foolish mistake that I will regret for the rest of my life. I take full responsibility for my actions and did not appeal my suspension."
In 2006 New York Mets reliever Guillermo Mota tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and was subsequently suspended for 50 games. Six years later in 2012 Mota, now playing with the San Francisco Giants, tested positive for steroids a second time. As his second positive test he was suspended 100 games.
In 2007 it was revealed that between May of 2003 and June of 2004 pitcher Scott Schoeneweis received anabolic steroids from Signature Pharmacy through New Health Center in California. The anabolic steroids used were Stanozolol and testosterone. Both substances were banned by Major League Baseball at the time. Even though he denied the use, the revelation came to light in a Sports Illustrated article.
Miguel Tejada's name first came into the steroid picture following Rafael Palmeiro's positive testing. Palmeiro claimed that his positive test for Stanozolol may have been caused by a tainted B12 shot that he got from Tejada. In Jose Canseco's book, Juiced, he claims that he educated Tejada about the benefits of using steroids. Later in the Mitchell Report, Adam Piatt says that he purchased human growth hormone and testosterone for Tejada in 2003. Those three together show that Tejada used steroids throughout his career.
Between 2002 and 2005 infielder Matt Williams received over $16,000 worth of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone as well as other drugs from Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center. The anabolic steroids he used were Nandrolone and testosterone Cypionate. The revelation of Williams' use came to light in a 2007 article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Gov. Cuomo has taken important and courageous steps to protect New York's irreplaceable natural resources and its citizens, placing him in the forefront of environmental leaders nationwide.
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Many historical women whose accomplishments we are aware of today had to battle society's perceptions of women's proper place. Some women were fortunate enough to have the support of a man in their endeavors -- the "He for She" paradigm Emma Watson recently spoke of at the U.N.
It's worth noting that, enthusiastic as the proceedings were, they also carried a peculiar gravity. Perhaps this had to do with nostalgia's more serious side, the wish to honor what's gone before and the realization that all things cannot stay the same forever.
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It is 10 months since the United Synagogue initiated the search for a successor to Lord Sacks, who is due to retire as Chief Rabbi next September, six months after his 65th birthday and after 22 years in office. But it could be a little while yet before a name is announced.
The father of a stillborn baby who revealed the shocking advice given to him and his wife by officials over the Jewish burial procedure has described how a historic wrong has been righted over the last year.
This is a painful and unusually personal column, because it concerns the complete breakdown of management at my shul and the partial breakdown of community relations.
Tributes have been made to the former president of the United Synagogue, Sidney Frosh, who died on Monday.
Mr Frosh, who was 89, was an instrumental figure in moving orphaned children from the original Norwood orphanage to the heart of Jewish communities in North London in the 1970s.
Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue members, along with United Synagogue leaders, were dismayed to hear that three of the shul's four honorary officers have resigned.
V Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue has asked interim senior rabbi Shimshon Silkin to remain in the role for a further 12 months, having failed to find a successor to Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer.
A major United Synagogue is still without a permanent minister after a lengthy selection process and the snubbing of the candidacy of its interim rabbi.
The 1,300-family Borehamwood and Elstree Synagogue announced last Friday that after an "incredibly exhaustive" one-year search, no candidate would be recommended to succeed Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer.
When Baruch Levin arrived at Brondesbury Park Synagogue, the young rabbi found a community mired in apparently terminal decline.
Shabbat services attracted less than 30 people, none under the age of 60. The community had downsized, selling its old, decrepit shul and moving into the hall next door as a step towards "winding down".
Fans of the current chief rabbi have mounted a bid to keep him in the post after his official retirement.
Lord Sacks announced two years ago that he would be stepping down in September 2013, after a total of 22 years at the helm of the United Hebrew Congregations.
But with his successor yet to be named, supporters are hoping he will reconsider.
At least two out of every five Jewish babies in the UK are born to strictly Orthodox parents - the highest proportion ever cited in official Board of Deputies statistics.
Charedi children "now comprise 40 per cent or more" of all Jewish births, compared with a third when calculated in the last Board survey published four years ago.