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Grassroots | A big day for Haiti, a big day for little Haitians
Miami | Haiti past, present and future came together earlier this month on an urban oasis in La Petite Haiti. After 10 years of negotiation and bureaucratic delay, an all too rare inner-city, publicly funded, full-size soccer pitch opened May 3 on one-time industrial ground north of downtown.
In the end, consecration of the park became an act of remembrance to Emmanuel "Manno" Sanon, referred to as an "objet d'art du football haitien" in obituaries following his death in February, at 56, from pancreatic cancer. Sanon's home was in Conway, Florida, outside Orlando, but he had maintained contacts in Miami as well as his broader significance within Haitian culture. His goal against Italy in Haiti's first and only World Cup finals appearance in 1974 proved, at some level, Haiti's existence to the world.
Some grumbled that the Sanon Soccer Park had cost too much, took too long to be realized and lacked the necessary amenities, but on opening day it looked like paradise. One would be hard pressed to find such an unbroken greenscape—consisting of a regulation FIFA field and practice area along with airy, covered grandstand—elsewhere in urban America (see also Feb 9).
The atmosphere took on aspects of Carnival with roving bands of konè (trumpet) players and revellers. Pointing to one group that bounced and drummed during a series of three friendly matches, local businessman Edward Leon said, "This is what it is like in Haiti," referring to the rara festival or Haitian Mardi Gras, the time to acknowledge the return of life. In front of the stadium, kids splashed in a water park surrounded by palm trees; water sheeted from the top of what looked like a giant mushroom. Vendors sold goat's-meat pies and banaan peze (pressed plantains), accessorized by sugary fruit drinks. A steady kreyòl patter burst from the announcer's booth—comments on the play and sales pitches for currency-transfer shops and bargains on international dialing rates.
Given its longtime connection with the Haitian diaspora—intellectuals, exiled by François Duvalier, started arriving in Miami and South Florida in the 1950s—Little Haiti, while boasting its own institutions and creative force, has retained some of the factionalism in Haitian society. "There is division here, too," says Marleine Bastien, executive director of Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami (Haitian Women of Miami). But, echoing the comments of other Miami-based Haitians, Bastien mentions soccer's rallying power and its capacity to give life a communal purpose. "The only time Lavalas, Convergence and other factions come together is for soccer. Everyone is there. When there is a game, people wave the Haitian flag."
According to Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center, some 400,000 Haitians and Haitian Americans live in the Miami-Dade region, having arrived in increasingly impoverished and desperate waves beginning in the 1970s. A soccer park fills a gap in the slow reconstitution of a neighborhood that many Haitians, once established, seek to leave. Haitians have made their mark locally in creating radio stations and newspapers and in winning political office, but the centrality of football to Haitian life could not find a steady outlet.
Miami attorney Andre Pierre, who emigrated from Haiti in 1983, opened his own firm to emphasize immigration law and has represented several hundred asylum seekers. He played in the opening friendly match on May 3. His recollections of playing street and school soccer in Haiti are strong:
In Haiti, even while you're in school during recess—they used to call it "gym"—we play soccer. … This is what we do for a living. … Playing soccer, it's not [just] a matter of being in a sport. [It's] understanding team concept, understanding how to be disciplined, understanding how to be on time. And you're doing it because you love it.
Tales of gangland violence and Haitian self-loathing add resonance to the statistics compiled in 2005 by the Sant La center. Little Haiti's poverty rate exceeds 30 percent, with an average annual household income of just over $14,000. Child abuse, domestic violence, violent crime and substandard housing coexist with language barriers, cultural misunderstanding, social isolation and fear to create a malaise that could begin to be addressed with well-managed soccer programs to complement the shimmering new park.
A Miami Herald story appearing the day before the Little Haiti festivities suggests the stresses that mount on newly arrived residents. Nadeige Laleau came to Miami in 1984 with the intent of joining her father. He fled, however, before she even touched American soil, leaving her to struggle for years with chronic depression that once required hospitalization. "I didn't think I would make it past 18," Laleau told the newspaper. She only found purpose when a teacher noted her facility for languages; she speaks Haitian Creole, English, Spanish and French.
Further, a loophole in U.S. immigration law puts recently relocated Haitians at jeopardy of deportation from which Cuban Americans, Hondurans, Salvadorans and Nicaraguans in similar circumstances are protected. The zeal with which immigration authorities pursue improperly documented Haitians has severed parents from families and created shadow-like figures moving almost daily from one house to another to avoid detection (see Ana Menendez, "Immigration Being Unfair to Haitians," Miami Herald, May 4).
A soccer park, clearly, will not solve all of these woes. Mario Apollon, who ran the Miami-based Youth Education through Soccer, said he had to fight with his parents to play the sport. In Haiti and Miami, being a soccer player sometimes correlates with, in Apollon's words, being a "street guy": "You can have the talent, but that doesn't mean that you are a street guy. … If you play soccer, that doesn't mean you're not educated. I had to fight with that philosophy so my parents can let me play soccer. When I came here I always wanted to prove to them that soccer is not something [harmful]."
Wallace Turnbull, who has worked with Baptist Haiti Mission since 1946, recalls an almost innate appreciation for the sport among the island's youth. He writes of toddlers kicking avocado seeds and the dangers that thorny acacia plants posed to bladder-filled balls. Solid rubber spheres came to be preferred, although much of Haiti's vegetation has since been sacrificed for charcoal, part of an environmental catastrophe of which topsoil erosion, water pollution and losses in agricultural productivity are the consequence.
In a highly stratified Haitian society, a centuries-old legacy of an exploitative plantation economy, football has offered some consolation for the perennially poor. Qualification for the 1974 World Cup finals and Sanon's goals against Italy and Argentina, even though Haiti lost all three of its group-stage games in Germany, gave some exposure to what Jean-Philippe Belleau calls "one of those invisible sports nations."
University of Virginia Haiti expert Robert Fatton speaks of the Duvalier regime's partial dependence, "for its well-being," on the national side's performance in the 1970s and alludes to particular clubs' associations with society's upper tiers (see podcast below). To the mind of Robert Duval, founder of L'Athlétique d'Haiti in Cité Soleil, "The elites have always shied away, the people of money have always shied away from soccer."
He describes, in fact, his grassroots organization as a model of self-sufficiency, relying on local resources ("those who believe in social justice") and its associations with mobile-phone company Voilà and Yéle Haiti, the foundation of Haitian musician Wyclef Jean, for backing of its soccer, basketball, athletics and education programs. Given food riots in April, Duval said he now must devise a sustainable agriculture program, on top of his efforts to back a Caribbean soccer league as an alternative to the Haitian system. Although L'Athlétique, established in 1996, has contributed players to the senior national side, Duval says of Fédération Haïtienne de Football, "They don't give us a dime."
Sanon and other players from 1974 had their own tribulations with Haitian soccer authorities. Le Nouvelliste, a French-language newspaper in Port-au-Prince, characterized a meeting between the Préval government and representatives of the 1974 team in May 07 as a reconciliation, a belated recognition of what the players had done to place Haiti on the map of world sport. Writer Enock Néré says the meeting "was an act deserving of the [René] Préval government and served to reconcile these heroes, frustrated to have been abused and cheated, without shame, by unscrupulous leaders" ("Pour dire adieu à Emmanuel Sanon," Mar 5).
The power of deeds such as Sanon's and those of his teammates lies, however, in their capacity to reach the population directly, without mediation from authorities. Fatton's connection to this generation of Haitian players came almost accidentally. After living in Spain, he had developed his own artistic flair for prolonged cries of gól and came to the attention of Radio Métropole. "Suddenly," Fatton recalls, a Métropole producer "gave me the microphone and said, 'You're on.' And that was it. I was on." A resident of Pétion-ville, Fatton had the opportunity to see Sanon's rise through local side Don Bosco, a small club compared to Port-au-Prince teams with large followings. The team won the national championship in 1971 for the first time. Feeling for the 1974 national team, says Fatton, was accentuated as a result of the poor infrastructure for athletic training.
You would see them literally in the streets of Port-au-Prince running, because we had very few places where they could run. They would go up the road to Pétion-ville, which is a very tough, long kind of a ride. You would see them several times a week running for four or five kilometers on that very painful road. It was extremely hot. They knew they were representing the country.
Images from Sanon's 2½-hour state funeral in Haiti on Mar 5 remained fresh in mind two months later. Emmanuel Sanon Jr., asked to dedicate the Miami park, appeared in casual clothes, in contrast to the dark suit in which he had been pictured on Haitian state television in March, along with political leaders such as President Préval and Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis (Alexis was dismissed in April).
Sanon's funeral had packed Stade Sylvio Cator, named after the Haitian long-jumper and 1928 Olympic silver medalist. Sanon's death inspired a deluge of homage in the Haitian press, recalling him as the "poto mitan" of Haitian sport. The phrase refers to the center pole of vodou ritual. Sanon had been recognized as a centerpiece of Haitian expression even before his exploits in Munich in 1974. The song "Toup pou yo," rendered by renowned compas (konpa) musician Jean Elie Telfort ("Cubano") and released before the World Cup journey, helped make both Sanon and Telfort household names.
The idea of christening the Little Haiti park in honor of Sanon had been hatched only weeks before the opening as city leaders grappled with a contentious suggestion to name the entire Little Haiti project, also including a community center and culture complex, after late Miami Commissioner Arthur E. Teele Jr.
Teele had been involved in initial meetings on the park in the late 1990s, but his name now is uttered in hushed tones. Tarnished by allegations of corruption, in 2005 he committed suicide in the lobby of the Miami Herald. Present commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, whose constituency also includes Overtown and Liberty City, said the city would name the forthcoming community center after Teele. A public-address announcer dedicated the last goal in the final friendly game to Teele's memory.
Having spent $25 million on the park, the city did not settle for school-size soccer fields surrounded by metal bleachers. The vision from the beginning was large, originally to encompass 60 acres of blighted industrial ground and trailer parks. Scaled back, the Sanon park nevertheless sets a high standard for urban, public-access soccer destinations, including a grandstand with transluscent cover—essential in the South Florida sun—and floodlights. But members of the Miami soccer community had to turn in embarrassment May 3 at the sight of players changing behind the few trees scattered about. Showers were arranged at a nearby high school.
Spence-Jones acknowledged that the city had not approached the U.S. Soccer Foundation for support, although the USSF sets money aside for development of fields in urban centers. City leaders only learned that changing rooms would be required with recent formation of a soccer committee to help guide the development. "It's crazy," Spence-Jones said. "The point is we're here now. We can at least expand and at least the community will have something."
Little Haiti had not before had its own park. That it had to fight so long for a place to showcase the Haitian national sport can be read against a long struggle to escape, as Haitians, from overriding perceptions of a dysfunctional people that cannot govern themselves. Comments at public forums preceding the park's opening gave voice to fears from local business owners that the facility would become another crime center once the inevitable deterioration had occurred.
The park reconnects, via another vital cultural avenue, a vast diaspora community to its heritage. This becomes obvious in passing through the Little Haiti Cultural Center before the soccer matches, where works of local artists as well as paintings from sister city Jacmel, Haiti, occupy new exhibition space. Spence-Jones intends the exchanges to be ongoing, in the visual arts as well as in football.
L'Athlétique's appearance was the anticipated event of opening day. Duval reclined with pleasure, elbows propped on a grandstand railing, and watched his coaches and charges, many on their first trip to the United States, put the Brazilian-inspired futebol arte on display for eager locals who filled the stand and stood behind police tape ringing the field. Any display of native technical ability from the much smaller Haitian side, opposed by an improvised lineup of talented high school players from Miami, drew cheers. When a diminutive Haitian defender calmly executed a drag-back to evade a towering striker close to his own goal, supporters burst into song and shouts, celebrating the young Haitian's willingness to play his way out of trouble.
There was no question that the crowd was here to back the team from Cité Soleil. Men in the grandstand wadded up American money and threw bills onto the pitch at halftime. L'Athlétique players put the money into their bags; later, city workers trolled the area in front of the stand, collecting cash in hats. The Haitian team won 4–1.
The work with footballers from Haiti's most impoverished neighborhood has become "more real" to Duval than his earlier advocacy for democracy and social justice. Such advocacy had earned him confinement in the Casernes Dessalines during the Duvalier regime. (Cells in the military barracks, now planned for preservation as a museum, provide the setting for the culminating tale in Miami writer Edwidge Danticat's book of linked stories, The Dew Breaker.) At Casernes, Duval witnessed the deaths of hundreds of his fellows; the former footballer for Violette AC of Port-au-Prince withered, dropping to 90 lbs. Intervention by Jimmy Carter secured the release of Duval and of 105 other political prisoners in 1977.
What Haiti has lacked to this point, according to President Préval, is an accounting of and reconciliation following the Duvalier period from 1957 to 1986. Nostalgia for the jobs, electricity and overseas-study opportunities during the father-son dictatorship suggests that memories of the period's horrors have not been secured. "In the Protestant faith, when people convert, they speak," said Préval. "They talk to remove all of their sins from their conscience. That is what we need" (Jacqueline Charles, "Haiti Keeps Alive the Truth of Past Evils," Miami Herald, Jan 2).
In soccer, fading domestic glories have heightened support for Argentina and for African teams but, above all, for Brazil. Haitian soccer fans, writes Belleau, refer to themselves as "Brazilians." After 1974, "Haitian society had no occasion to access the acts of collective communion such as those that took place in the [World Cup] participating countries. In the idea the peoples create of themselves, an international victory in soccer yields symbolic capital, and this is precisely because soccer is the most popular sport … the only truly universal religion."
Along with religious parallels, soccer also offers suitable analogy for Haitian persistence, at home and in diaspora, in working in solidarity to facilitate new businesses, community improvements and education. Soccer fits well with a collectivist tradition of which anthropologist Mark Schuller writes. He quotes a Haitian proverb, bourikchaje pa kanpe—"The overloaded donkey can't stand still."
If you face many problems at once, you must keep going.
Stéphanie Renauld Armand, A Taste for Haiti: Haitian Creole Cuisine (n.p.: S. R. Armand, 2004); Jean-Philippe Belleau, "The Country That Would Be Brazil: Soccer, Representations, and Identity in Haiti," trans. Sophie Hawkes (paper presented at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, 2000); Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker (New York: Knopf, 2006); Robert Fatton Jr., "Haiti: The Saturnalia of Emancipation and the Vicissitudes of Predatory Rule," Third World Quarterly 27, no. 1 (2006): 115–33; Amélie Gauthier, "Haiti: Empty Stomachs, Stormy Politics," Open Democracy, 21 Apr 08; Kimberly Green, Once There Was a Country: Revisiting Haiti (documentary, 53 min., Green Family Foundation, 2004); Peter Hallward, "Option Zero in Haiti," New Left Review 27 (May–June 2004): 23–47; Gepsie M. Metellus, Leonie M. Hermantin, and Sophia Lacroix, "Effective Outreach Strategies in the Haitian/Haitian-American Community of Miami–Dade County," Working Paper Series: SL WPS 04 (Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center, Miami), June 2005; Mark Schuller, "Haitian Food Riots Unnerving but Not Surprising," Worldpress.org, 29 Apr 08.
More than 2,000 packed Little Haiti Soccer Park on Aug 2 for an exhibition between Miami FC and the Haitian national team, according to the Miami Herald. The game ended 1–1.


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October 2013
The big plant
Just five days now until the big planting week which will take place all over the UK as part of the Spring Bulbs for Schools investigation! I do hope the weather is kind to us!
Six and a half thousand pupils will plant bulbs as the 1st step in this exciting climate investigation.
English and Welsh schools will be planting on the 21st of October and Scottish schools on the 25th.
To all of you planting:
- Remember to make your labels before you plant!
- Please read this before Planting your bulbs to ensure a fair-test!
- Please send me or Tweet me pictures of your class planting to use in this blog.
My Twitter account is www.twitter.com/professor_plant
Good luck bulb buddies!
Professor Plant
Things I've been doing part two...
So part one of my epic sharing of photos with you looked at our summer art and craft activities. Part two is all about the food festival and a couple of craftivist sessions.
On a lovely sunny day up in the Italian gardens we had a picnic and took part in the Craftivist Collective project all about fashion. The project is all about how we love fashion and hate sweatshops, and as part of our event we talked about where we buy our clothes and what we can do to help the situation. It definitely made us all think more about ethical fashion and sustainability!
Another Craftivist project we've been a part of this year is the #imapiece jigsaw project. Earlier in the year we had a session where we made fabric jigsaw pieces embroidered with messages about global hunger and sent them to the craftivist collective to be a part of a huge installation. Just a couple of weeks ago we got a part of the installation back (300 pieces out of a whopping 700 or so) and exhibited it in St Fagans: National History Museum. We have also been adding to the installation ourselves, it will be up for a few days yet, so come and see it and let me know if you would like to add your own message.
For the food festival this year, myself and genius gardener Bernice made herbal teabags! Bernice picked and dried mint, lemon balm, fennel seeds and Elderflower from the gardens here in the museum and then we bought some teabags to fill and made little envelopes to put the teabags in for safe keeping, or as a sweet gift. We also made sure we had a pot of tea on the go all day and almost everyone liked our blend!
The last thing I wanted to tell you about is the Wedding Fayre that was held here a couple of weeks ago. You probably already know that you can get married here in St Fagans, either in the castle or in Oakdale. Well, now you can also have a hen afternoon tea party as well! as part of this tea party you can learn to dance, have hair and make-up done (vintage style), or get all crafy with me! The photos show what kind of things we could make... tissue pom-poms, name places, bunting... it will be lovely and I can't wait to take part!
That's all for today, but I do have some knit and sew group photos to share next time, and look out for half term halloween arts and crafts and quilt club on the 2nd and november. Happy Autumn!
Things I've been doing part one....
I've been taking photographs of all the activities I've been a part of, but keep forgetting to update the blog with them. Therefore this is going to have to be a two-parter as I have so much stuff to update you all with.
Ok. Let's go:
Our summer art cart activities included the super successful Iron Age shield making workshop. Ian (the celtic guy) and I spent two days running the workshop and we were really lucky to have volunteers on hand too as with all the glue, paint and celtic pattern designing it was pretty crazy. As you can see from the pictures, the finished results were just beautiful. I love the one that looks like maybe Chagall had a hand in it.
Artist Tracey Williams made the most wonderful house out of cardboard with visitors over the summer, inspired by our buildings on site. It was a lovely community project which I stupidly don't have any photos of!
I spent the rest of august doing a variety of art and craft workshops - we did some sketching of nature in the bird hide, made dragonflies out of wooden pegs and did gorgeous drawings and collages of the lily pads in the Italian Gardens with a bit of inspiration from Monet. We also did some sewing and made felt flower badges which were really popular.
If you took part in any of these activities, do you have any photographs you could share? and what did you think of our locations this year? was it fun going to the Italian gardens (I know I enjoyed it) or was it too far away from the main entrance? let me know!
A Journey from the Amazon to Natural Selection
Continuing our celebration of the life of Alfred Russel Wallace...
We welcomed over 300 A-level students to National Museum Cardiff for this special event in partnership with Cardiff University School of Earth and Ocean Sciences.
At the invitation of Prof Dianne Edwards F.R.S, Prof Steve Jones F.R.S gave a talk entitled 'Is man just another animal?'
Prof Jones discussed our shared ancestry with other primates, the genetic evidence for human evolution, and cast light on Wallace and Darwin's different views on the subject. Professor Steve Jones is Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College London and an author of several popular science books.
And Theatr na nÓg gave an excellent performance of their play 'You Should Ask Wallace'.
The play took us through Wallace's life as a young boy growing up in Wales to embarking on epic adventures to the Amazon and Malay Archipelago where he discovers the theory of evolution. His great findings would compel Darwin to publish his seminal work on the origin of species.
An exhibition on Wallace's life will open on 19 October at National Museum Cardiff.
Walking in the footsteps of Wallace
Last week Museum staff and students from Cantonian High School journeyed to the Neath Valley to explore the life of Alfred Russel Wallace.
We spent a day re-tracing his footsteps from Pontneddfechan up to Sgwd Gwladys waterfall, exploring the geology and biology of the walk, with help from experts from the Natural Sciences department.
On his death 100 years ago, Alfred Russel Wallace was widely praised as the 'last of the great Victorians'. Famous for independently discovering the process of evolution by natural selection alongside Charles Darwin, today few remember this great Welsh scientist.
Wallace was inspired by the landscape of south Wales, and spent many years walking the valleys and mapping the natural history. The student's photographs, video footage, sketches and interviews will become part of a display at National Museum Cardiff in January 2014. This display aims to tell the story of Wallace in Wales and hopefully inspire others to go and explore for themselves.
This project has been made possible thanks to the generous support of a Life Patron of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales.
An exhibition on Wallace's life will open on 19 October at National Museum Cardiff.
An experiment of bulbous proportions!
Hi! I'm Professor Plant and I'd like to welcome the six and a half thousand young scientists across the UK that are taking part in the Spring Bulb for Schools Investigation this year!
Twelve thousand bulbs will be planted and monitored as part of this long term climate investigation being co-ordinated at Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. If there was a world record for the most people planting bulbs simultaneously, (in several locations) we could smash it!
All the bulbs have been counted up by our fantastic volunteers (see the pics) and are steadily being delivered to the 150 schools across the country. I'd like to welcome each an every pupil and teacher who will be working on this project!
- Take a look at the map to see where the bulbs are being sent across the UK
- If you haven't already received my letter please follow this link
- Before each bulb is planted, each pupil must also adopt their bulb and promise to care for it. If you want to know how see this link
If you are wondering where the bulbs came from and how they got to your school - please read then read on y friend Baby Bulb is going to explain:
"My bulb buddies and I come from a nursery plantation in Manorbier, near Tenby in Wales, it's called 'Springfields'. We didn't spring from the fields, but we were picked and loaded onto a van ready to go to our new homes. At first I was a little afraid, but then when I met Professor Plant at the Museum I understood that I would be cared for by a nice young person and that I have an important job to do. We have all been selected to help us understand how the weather can affect when my friends and I make flowers. My parents before me grew here too, Springfields have been growing us 'Tenby Daffodils' for about 25 years, and we are one of the two daffodils that are native to the British Isles".
Just a few weeks until planting now! I can't wait!
Professor Plant
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
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In June, 2013, the Senate version of this legislation, S. 2538, was introduced by Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI).
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2011 Jerry Rice Award Finalist Major: Human Performance and Sports Science 2013 - Redshirt Junior Season Played in seven contests, making four starts… Completed 84-of-140 passes for 1,168 yards… Threw 13 touchdowns without an interception… Recorded three scores against Tennessee Tech (9/21), Central State (9/28) and Jacksonville State (10/12)… Threw a 80-yard touchdown at Tennessee Tech (9/21)… Set new season-highs in the final game of the year in the NCAA Playoffs at Eastern Illinois (12/7) in attempts (38), completions (25) and yards (242)… 2012 - Redshirt Sophomore Season Started 10 of 11 games played... Completed 215 passes out of 358 attempts for 2,751 yards and 18 touchdowns... Rushed 46 times for 40 yards... Had a career-high 28 completions on 44 attempts and 355 yards at UT Martin (11/17)... Threw three touchdowns against Austin Peay (9/15), at Jacksonville State (10/20) and versus the Skyhawks... Had a long pass of 80 yards at Bethune-Cookman (9/22)... Rushed for a score versus Eastern Kentucky (10/5) and at Murray State (11/3)... Made one tackle against the Colonels... Held a passing efficiency rating of 135.61 2011 - Redshirt Freshman Season Led Tennessee State with 140 completions for 1,899 yards and 12 touchdowns. Threw 21-of-26 completions for 304 yards in the loss at Austin Peay...Threw over 250+ yards in four games and over 200 yards in five games...Connected on a career-high pass of 80 yards to Calvin McNairl against Air Force...Caught two of his own passes for eight yards against Austin Peay...Rushed for a season-best 27 yards in the victory over UT Martin...Saw limited action before starting against Air Force on Sept. 24...German returned to FCS competition and had three-straight games of 230-plus passing yards and two touchdowns, earning OVC Newcomer of the Week honors after each game...He finished the season with two games of 250-plus yards, including passing for 254 yards and three touchdowns in a victory over UT Martin...Earned fourth OVC Newcomer of the Week honor of the year after that contest... Led TSU to 24th nationally in total offense (416.0 yards/game) and 32nd in scoring offense (30.45 points/game)...Ranked 50th nationally with a 130.05 passing efficiency rating...Was 58th in the NCAA FCS level in total offense with 197 yards per contest...Is the second Tennessee State player to earn Freshman of the Year honors since the award was first given out in 2004, joining running back Javarris Williams (2005)...Garnered a spot on the OVC All-Newcomer team..Named finalist for the inaugural Jerry Rice Award. 2010 Redshirted during the 2010 season. Blanche Ely HS Graded out at 40 on ESPN College Football recruiting... Broward County Player of the Year...Second team 5A all-state...Co-MVP Broward-Dade All-star game...After being named Broward County Player of the Year, he took home the game MVP following an impressive performance, going 6 for 9 for 155 yards and two touchdowns, helped lead Broward County to a 29-20 win over Miami-Dade in the 14th Annual Nike Dade/Broward All-Star Game...Miami Herald's First Team All County...Broward Player of the Year...Sun Sentinel's First Team All County...Miami Herald's Athlete of the Week...Offensive Player of the Week...WNNN Radio's Player of the Week...Second Team All State...Fritz Pollard Alliance - Salute to Excellence Honoree...Graded out 5.5/6.1 on Rivals.com...Totaled 94 carries for 86 yards for a .91 average rushing for five touchdowns...Scored 34 points including five touchdowns, two extra-points, one two-point conversion...Completed 183-of-359 passes for 2,574 yards and 16 interceptions throwing 27 touchdown passes...Career numbers include 3,100 yards passing and 32 touchdowns. Personal Son of Robin Bauer and Kenny German...Born on Oct. 22, 1991.


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Reinsdorf: Michael Jordan's baseball stint was no strikeout
By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN email@example.com February 15, 2013 11:50PM
Michael Jordan as he prepares to take batting practice prior to his first game as a professional baseball player in 1994. | AP
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Don't even try telling Bulls and White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf that Michael Jordan's attempt at baseball was a flop.
''There's a common misconception among people that Michael Jordan failed as a baseball player,'' Reinsdorf said. ''And in my opinion, nothing could be further from the truth.''
Jordan stunned the sporting world on Oct. 6, 1993, when he announced he was quitting basketball. He doubled down on that shocker by later saying he was going to give professional baseball a try. He had played baseball in high school, the sport his father, James — who had been killed by robbers that July — had always dreamed Michael would play.
''The last time he had played baseball was as a 17-year-old, as a pitcher, in Wilmington, N.C., where the competition was obviously not very big,'' Reinsdorf continued. ''The next time he played baseball, he was 31 years old, so he hadn't played in 14 years. He was signed as a hitter, not a pitcher, and sent to AA ball. We don't send anyone to AA ball when we draft him. You draft somebody after three years of college and he still goes to A ball. But we had to send him to AA because the facilities weren't adequate to handle the media anyplace else. And he hit .202 in AA without having played for 14 years. I thought that was phenomenal. And then he went to the [Arizona] Fall League and he hit [.252] against the top prospects in Major League Baseball.''
Determined to make it happen, Jordan secretly drove to Comiskey Park in the fall of '93 — well before revealing his plan to play baseball — for daily get-togethers with Sox trainer Herm Schneider for the purpose of getting his body in baseball shape.
''Nobody ever saw him because we had a plan where he would call me when he was five minutes away from the ballpark and I would go where the TV docks were at that time (along 35th Street) to let him pull in,'' Schneider said. ''I'd put the doors down right behind him.
''We'd go to the training room and we started strengthening the hands, shoulders, elbows. It was totally different than what he was used to. You need your hands in basketball, but not as much as you do in baseball for gripping a bat, throwing a baseball and having a glove on your hands.''
After going through spring training in Sarasota, Fla., Jordan hit three homers, drove in 51 runs and stole 30 bases (in 48 attempts) for Birmingham in 1994, his only season in pro baseball. Those around him were awed by his intense work ethic, focus and determination.
''[Hitting coach] Walt Hriniak was the most intense person I think I've ever known, and he will tell you that Michael Jordan was the hardest working athlete he had ever come across,'' Reinsdorf said. ''The first day of spring training, he went up to Michael and said, 'Is this some kind of joke that you're here?' Walter said, 'You meet me at 7:30 in the batting cage.' According to Walter, Michael was there every morning at 7:30, sometimes hitting until his hands were bleeding.''
In the NBA, rookies are drafted into starting lineups and sometimes make All-Star teams. In baseball, first-round draft picks go to Class A ball with three years of college experience. There is a tougher learning curve and less reliance on getting by with pure talent in baseball.
''You could put me on the court with the Bulls and I could take a jump shot and it might go in,'' said Curt Bloom, the play-by-play radio man for the Birmingham Barons. ''Or I might be able to catch a pass from Jay Cutler. But for a guy at 30 or 31, try to hit a 90 mph fastball with sliders and curves . . . You find the top 10 athletes today, and they're going to struggle trying to make contact. It was just astounding. He worked so hard to succeed.
''To me, the astounding number was the three home runs — all hit at home in a large, notorious pitchers' park. I got to see the incredible work ethic. The sweat dripping in the batting cage. The seriousness. This might have been [a joke] to media, and Sports Illustrated took its shot [with a 'Bag it, Michael!' front page headline], but it was not a joke to him.''
Jordan had talked to Reinsdorf before about playing Class A ball, so the baseball idea didn't come as a huge surprise.
''We had had a serious conversation where he said he couldn't play basketball anymore, that he was burned out,'' Reinsdorf said. "And he wanted to get away from basketball. That was a total shock.
''I always thought basketball was where he belonged, but I was in total agreement with him after the 1993 season that he should step away. I didnt think he should step away forever — he was saying it would be forever — but I didn't think it was a mistake because the guy was doing what he wanted to do.''
If not for the strike that wiped out major-league ball from Aug. 12, 1994, to April 2, 1995, Reinsdorf believes Jordan would have played at the AAA level and gone on to reach the majors as a backup outfielder.
''I don't think he would have been a frontline player, but I wouldn't put anything past him because he's such a driven athlete,'' Reinsdorf said.
Jordan got the itch to return to basketball, which he did in time for the 1995 playoffs. Missing two seasons may have lightened Jordan's pile of championship rings, but it was necessary, Reinsdorf said. And it added to legend. He returned with that two-word ''I'm back'' press release.
''I don't know if baseball took away from his legacy, but the coming back was so dramatic,'' Reinsdorf said. ''The myth was bigger when he came back because he came back in the middle of the season and had a disappointing playoffs when we got eliminated by Orlando. And that caused him to spend the next summer working out like a madman bringing in players from all over the country to play with him. And if you remember the next season, we were 72-10. He was on a mission to prove something. Maybe playing baseball contributed to that.
''It was huge: 'I'm back. I'm back.' He came back much bigger than when he left.''


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About KnightBandit's Garage
About me and my passion for cars
It all started very young. I loved Dukes, Knight Rider, A-Team, Smokey. But it was that Black Trans Am that I fell in love with from Smokey and KR that got me all into Firebirds. From there I learned more and more about Firebirds and Pontiac which furthered my love of cars. I'm sad to see Pontiac go, but it left a great legacy of Muscle cars. From GTO to the new G8. Pontiac sure has left it's mark and I'm proud to own one.
My first car
1988 Toyota Celica GT
Car I wish I still had
The Celica, it was fun, but I love my current car a whole lot more.
My dream car
I own it. with the exception of having a 1979 Pontiac Firebird or any year from 1967 - 1992.
Car clubs I'm in
Firebird Nation, LS1 Tech
- Type of racing: Demolition, tour, and drag
- Driver: 88 Dale Jr
- Driving song: Any LFO song
- Car movie: So many to choose from But Smokey is the best
- Car book: The key to the Golden Firebird (Never read it I just love the title)
- Car magazine: Muscle (HPP)
- Car game: GTA IV
— Profile last updated: Sep 3, 2011
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I'm planning on updating Raphaels powertrain from V6 to LT1 V8. Found some sellers and and can't wait to buy one and plop it in my car and see the progress. ^_^
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ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared 146 of 159 Georgia counties a primary disaster area because of production losses due to prolonged drought and high temperatures.
The governor's office said Thursday that the designation is in response to Gov. Sonny Perdue's request last month.
SAVANNAH - Exposed by erosion at the edge of a crumbling bluff, the pit discovered beneath 2 feet of sandy dirt at first appeared to be a grave just long and deep enough to bury a human body.
An excavation by archaeologists on Ossabaw Island revealed something more puzzling - just a few small bones, apparently from fingers or toes, mixed with charcoal, bits of burned logs and pottery shards more than 1,000 to 3,000 years old.
ATLANTA - Georgians can celebrate a reduction in the state's gasoline tax as they welcome in the New Year. But it will mean less revenue for transportation projects.
The state tax was lowered by 4 cents per gallon to 14.6 cents starting Thursday. Georgia's gas tax is adjusted twice a year based on the average price of gas. When that average price dips - as it has in recent months - the tax goes down as well. Gov. Sonny Perdue rescinded an executive order he issued in June that froze the tax as prices skyrocketed over the summer.
ATLANTA - Georgia's budget woes aren't stopping the state from ringing in the new year with a hefty tax break for the insurance industry.
ATLANTA (AP) - A man who faces a possible death sentence for a killing almost three years ago filed suit Wednesday against officials of Georgia's public defender system, claiming he has been denied representation for eight months.
ATLANTA - Georgia's slumping economy could breathe new life into an effort to permit alcohol sales on Sunday in the state, supporters said.
State Sen. Seth Harp said he will reintroduce the Sunday sales measure in the legislative session set to begin Jan. 12.
ATLANTA - The vast economic crisis has left scores of Georgia's houses empty, its banks shuttered and sent thousands of its residents searching for jobs even as its unemployment rate balloons to heights not seen since Ronald Reagan was president.
ATLANTA - State child welfare officials have to do a better job of finding permanent homes for 500 children who have been in foster care for three years or more.
U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob issued an order Monday as part of the settlement of a lawsuit to reform foster care systems in Fulton and DeKalb counties.
ATLANTA - Privacy advocates are questioning an aggressive Georgia law set to take effect Thursday that would require sex offenders to hand over Internet passwords, screen names and e-mail addresses.
Georgia joins a small band of states complying with guidelines in a 2006 federal law requiring authorities to track Internet addresses of sex offenders, but it is among the first to take the extra step of forcing its 16,000 offenders to turn in their passwords as well.
SAVANNAH - Power has been restored to downtown Savannah after an underground electrical explosion rocked the city.
Georgia Power spokesman Jeff Wilson said the company is still investigating the cause of the Monday morning blast. He said it could take a few weeks to determine what happened.
ATLANTA - Courthouse gunman Brian Nichols avoided a death penalty when a Fulton County jury failed to return a unanimous sentence, but local prosecutors are encouraging their federal counterparts to bring additional charges in hopes that Nichols could still face lethal injection.
Federal prosecutors would face higher legal standards to pursue death charges against Nichols based on the fact that one of his four victims was a federal agent. And the U.S. Attorney must first begin the lengthy process of getting approval from the Justice Department.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - An explosion in underground electrical cables blew off manhole covers and started several fires in downtown Savannah Monday morning, prompting police to evacuate several stores and restaurants, many of which were without power. No injuries were immediately reported, police said.
Police received calls around 8:49 a.m. reporting that manhole covers had been blown off at the an intersection in the heart of the downtown district, said department spokesman Gene Harley. About an hour later, firefighters had put out three separate fires where the covers blew off.
ATLANTA - Gasoline prices across Georgia are at their lowest level in nearly five years, and may continue to fall.
AAA Georgia said Monday, the statewide average price for a gallon of regular is $1.53, down 20 cents since last month.
SAVANNAH - Police are evacuating businesses in downtown Savannah after an apparent underground explosion.
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ATLANTA (AP) - A judge on Saturday sentenced the man who killed four people in a brazen courthouse escape to multiple life sentences with no chance of parole and hundreds more years on more than fifty charges.
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Kadner: Public invited to Dem Party powwow
By Phil Kadner email@example.com December 12, 2012 8:14PM
Frank Zuccarelli (center). File Photo
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As many as 15 candidates for the 2nd Congressional District seat formerly held by Jesse Jackson Jr. are expected to appear Saturday at a Democratic Party slating session in South Holland.
The public will be allowed to attend the session in the board room of South Suburban College, 15800 State St., beginning at 10:30 a.m., according to Bob Storman, a spokesman for Thornton Township Democratic committeeman Frank Zuccarelli.
Each candidate will be introduced and will have approximately 10 minutes to plead his or her case to the township and ward committeemen in the 2nd District. The committeemen then will cast their votes in closed session but return to open session to announce the results.
The committeemen cast weighted votes based on the number of people who voted in the 2nd District Democratic primary election in March.
That mean's Zuccarelli's support would represent 20,156 votes, the most among the committeemen. Zuccarelli is expected to support state Sen. Donne Trotter (D-Chicago).
Rich Township committeeman Tim Bradford has a weighted vote of 11,393; Bloom Township committeeman Terry Matthews has 8,929; Bremen Township committeewoman Maggie Crotty has 4,013 and Calumet Township committeeman Robert Rita, 161. Bradford has said he will support Robin Kelly, a top Cook County administrator and former state representative.
Six Chicago ward committeemen will also vote for the party nominee. The greatest weighted vote from Chicago is that of 7th Ward committeewoman Sandi Jackson, the wife of the former congressman, at 7,723 votes.
I am told Jackson has not indicated whether she will attend the meeting or if she would even send a proxy to cast her vote.
Others on the slate-making committee from Chicago include 5th Ward committeeman Leslie Hairston, with 3,937 votes; 8th Ward committeeman Michele Harris, 2,862 votes; 9th Ward committeeman Anthony Beale (who's a candidate for the 2nd District seat), 6,845 votes; 10th Ward committeeman John Pope, 3,672 votes, and 34th Ward committeewoman Carrie Austin, 2,155 votes.
The district extends from Chicago's Hyde Park community through the south suburbs to Kankakee, so Democratic officials from Will and Kankakee counties will also cast weighted votes Saturday. Larry Walsh, the Will County Democratic chairman, will have 4,530 votes and Kankakee County Democratic chairman John Willard 4,500 votes.
The total weighted vote is 80,876. To win the endorsement, a candidate needs a simple majority plus one — or 40,439 votes.
"I've been trying to add up the numbers, and I don't think anyone's going to get the necessary votes," one party insider said.
Trotter is supposedly the early leader with about 27,00 votes committed to him and Kelly and state Sen. Toi Hutchinson (D-Olympia Fields) appear to be in a close race for second place.
Former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson received early support from Walsh, but a source told me he thought Walsh might eventually commit to Hutchinson, who's considered the leader for support in Kankakee, where she has an office.
Other notable candidates expected to appear at the slating meeting include state Sen.-elect Napoleon Harris and former state Rep. David Miller.
"I had a guy call me saying he wanted to be considered because a lot of people know him," Bradford said. "I asked him who those people were, and he told me he used to be a mailman and everyone on his route knows him."
I'm not sure how much the Democratic Party's endorsement would mean, but 80 percent of the voters in the 2nd District cast Democratic ballots Nov. 6, so putting the party's endorsement on campaign literature could sway some people.
"I would obviously like to see Kelly slated since I'm backing her," Bradford said, "but I think the best thing for the party might really be an open primary. Let the voters decide who would best represent them, not party insiders."
Trotter still enjoys the support of Zuccarelli despite facing a criminal charge that he attempted to bring a gun aboard a United Airlines flight at O'Hare International Airport.
The Cook County state's attorney's office on Wednesday said it plans to present the case to a grand jury, but Trotter told newspaper reporters he's still running for Congress.
Saturday's session is likely to be a long one, with more than a dozen politicians scheduled to tell slatemakers why they deserve their support.
Most will talk about their long history of representing areas of the district in the Illinois House, Senate or in Congress. Others will boast of their civic and business contributions.
With so many doing so much for the 2nd District, you might believe it's one of the best places in the country to live. But unemployment and home foreclosure rates are high, many businesses have closed their doors and property tax rates have skyrocketed.
You have to wonder if life for the average person would be any worse in the district if none of these people had ever held office.
They've all done very well on the public payroll. The public has not.
Democratic slatemakers aren't likely to confront their candidates at this meeting.
But I would certainly like to hear how they would respond.


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This yogurt definitely has a moderately tangy flavor which nicely balances out the sweetness. There is a mild blueberry flavor, but it's really not much - in fact, other than the light purple color of this yogurt, there's not much else that suggests blueberries. Also, a thin layer of ice crystals do form at the top rather readily, like Anne said in her review, but it doesn't detract too much from the flavor.
Each 1/2 cup serving of Kemps FroZing Blueberry Frozen Yogurt provides 110 calories, 1 gram of total fat and 19 grams of sugars (told you it was sweet).
The ingredients list starts with cultured nonfat milk, high fructose corn syrup * blueberry base which also contains HFCS, sugar, water, corn syrup, blueberry puree, natural flavor & citric acid. This is followed by corn syrup & sugar plus a few more ingredients.
I did like the taste of Kemps FroZing Blueberry Frozen Yogurt, but it's not really a complicated flavor profile - it's sweet & moderately tangy. Again, I got this for free, but a quart retails from $4.29 to $5.49. The nutrition facts are better than Haagen-Dazs Wildberry Low-Fat Frozen Yogurt, which has 27 grams of sugars and Blue Bell Banana Split Nonfat Frozen Yogurt which has 24 grams of sugars, but still, I probably wouldn't buy it at that price - I would probably satisfy my sweet tooth with a Edys Smoothie Real Fruit and Frozen Yogurt Bar.


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