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Anklebiter, aka Michael McClellan 1988 (I'm 14 now) School Well I think I will just list Dad's as I play all the games he does, so ....Munchkin, Heroclix, Mechwarrior (dark ages), Lord of the Rings skirmish game, Dicelands-Great White Sea, History of the World, Graverobbers from Outer Space, When Darkness Comes, d20 Call of Cthulhlu, DnD 3rd Edition, Diablo2, Master Labryrinth, Talisman (and a few which he hasn't played), Twilight Imperium, Civilization the Board game, Inquisitor, Vinci, Lord of the Rings Risk, Medina and Napoleon in Europe Myself, about 2000, but me and dad trade cards freely. Six (only four good ones) Mostly at home but I try to play at every tournament I can as this is actually quite restricted for me as many pubs do not allow people of my age. |
Q1: How (and when) did you begin your career as a VTES-player? Who introduced you to the game? Where did you play originally? My Dad (and Mum) introduced me to the game when I was 8 when we were on holiday in Corsica .From then I have been playing VTES in Portsmouth. I guess I got started because I had enjoyed playing magic for some time but I found it rather flawed and my poor Dad and Mum having to play crappy duels all the time. |
Q2: Which of the Sets and Expansions to VTES is your favorite, and why is it your top choice? I think it is bloodlines because my favourite deck was made with its coming however that was a snap judgement because if I started to think about it I would be here FOREVER! |
Q3: What is your favorite deck to play, and why? That is a very difficult question but at the moment it is my Kiasyd deck because it wins games and is an amusing and challenging deck to play, and it is not so good as to put a target on its head. |
Q4: If you could add something to the game, what would it be? Nothing. However I have thought every expansions new rules were excellent so I think I will just leave it to the professionals. |
Q5: What do you do to help promote the game / why are you in this list of people? I am on this list because I am the youngest player so far to win a tournament, aged ten . That was also only my second tournament, the first I came second in. I also edit Dads E-mails to a lesser extent. Unfortunately a combination of homework, clubs etc are keeping me from doing much more at present. |
Q6: What is your favorite deck style for casual play / tournament play? At the moment it is Bash and Bleed for casual play and sneak bleed with a twist of lime for tournaments. |
Q7: Is there a difference between your casual play and tournament play? Not really, I have always kept me deals to the best of my ability and always enjoy every game in its own big or little way. I am obvously more on edge at a tournament as I don't like it when I make one mistake that messes up my game (naturally I'm not overjoyed when it happens in casual play but I mind It less). |
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Type: Bug/Rock
Species classification: Rock Inn Pokemon
Sturdy – Leaves 1 HP when Pokemon would otherwise be one-hit KOed
Shell Armor – Not affected by critical hits
Dream World abilities: Weak Armor – Decreases defense and increases speed each time user is hit with a damaging attack
Location found (Black/White): Desert Resort, Route 18
Wild hold items: Hard Stone (rare)
Egg groups: Bug, Mineral
Capture rate: 190
Gender ratio: 50/50
Effort values: 1 Defense
Evolution family: Dwebble > Crustle at level 34
Dwebble and Crustle bear a strong resemblance to another duo of dual Bug-type crabs from the original 151, Paras and Parasect, but they still manage to set themselves apart with a cool design and a secondary Rock-type as opposed to Grass (and luckily they avoid Dry Skin Parasect's record-breaking 5x weakness to Fire).
Both Dwebble and Crustle can only learn physical attacks through level up and breeding, but that's not a problem because that's what they're best at. X-Scissor is always a good STAB choice, and Earthquake too, of course. Crustle's biggest asset though is the status move Shell Break, which raises Attack, Special Attack and Speed all by two stages each, and lowers Defense and Special Defense by one stage each. That extra speed boost is most welcome too, since its base Speed stat actually drops when it evolves.
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Posted by madeleine on 07/23/2007
How does Joe's Shanghai not have a better review on Menupages? I've eaten at Joe's well over a hundred times, and I've been to all of the different locations. The soup dumplings are literally the BEST of all of the Chinese places offering them. Same with the scallion pancakes. If you're friendly with your waiter, he's sure to offer you dishes that aren't really on the menu, like special whole fishes and Chinese greens in garlic sauce... Anyone who hasn't been to Joe's yet really needs to rush down there and give it a try!
Posted by katie on 04/24/2007
Yes i agree its a little crowded in there, but communal tables are very authentically asain. For the price you pay, which is very very affordable, you shouldn't expect waterfalls and fine china. For those of you who complain about the food, maybe you just aren't ordering the right things. Also, yes the waiters are a little grouchy but considering its packed from dawn to dusk and they have to deal with tourists and foreigners all day, anyone who's ever been a waiter will understand their aggitation. So be patient and enjoy the food. I'm chinese and i've been going to fine asain restaurants in the usa and china all my life. The food here is authentic. So if you plan on ordering chicken and broccoli dont expect it to be the same crap you get at the local take-out place. If you are not used to it, too bad. Their fish and beef are always tender, the soup dumplings very tasty, their jellyfish appetizer light and wonderful (although some may not perfer it). I also recomment the 'seafood crookpot' which i'm not sure if its on the menu, but is wonderful!!. Full of huge scallops, shrimp, crab meat, vegtables and tofu. Its so big i always bring leftovers home enough for 2 days. SO if you appreciate authentic food, or aren't affraid of trying something new, go here, and enjoy but please please do not go order fried rice and chicken wings....
Posted by jeff on 03/06/2007
I have been bringing friends to joes for years and i hae to say each time has goten worse. The crab and pork buns have gotten stale and not worth the trek down town, however when your done and see how cheeap the bill is it makes you come back
Posted by Ernest M. Skinner on 01/25/2007
I went here for the soup dumplings, and since I live in Chinatown, I can safely say that they are FAR less accomplished than many others that one can get. One can also summon one's self esteem and not be mistreated by waiters in a noisy, over-crowded, rushed atmosphere. Maybe tourists are willing to be treated poorly for average food in an unpleasant atmosphere, but not this diner.
Posted by NYAsian on 10/25/2006
When you go to eat in Chinatown, make sure the place is packed with Chinese people. Then you know you are getting good food that the Chinese people will eat themselves. Sure, Joe makes good soup buns, but who wants it when the wait staff is more sour than the black vinegar sauce for the soup buns. Noodles? do they even bother to boil it first before serve it? This chain and it's staff has become so smug because everyone lists them as the "Must taste" in Chinatown. "Must avoid" is more like it.
Posted by not a lame tourist on 10/16/2006
i never understand why tourists order stupid crap at chinese resturants like fried rice, or lo mein, the place is known for soup dumplings, it makes great soup dumplings! It's like going to a steak house and not ordering steak! the food comes out fast and efficiently. A noisey and bustling place to eat. affordable and comfortable atmosphere, much nicer than its uptown counterpart.
Posted by bert on 08/27/2006
Though we arrived at 11 AM, the waiter was impatient with us for taking too long to order, especially when we told him we were not interested in the soup dumplings. The shrimp in the "Sauteed Shrimp and Hunan Pork" were not prepared well. The rest of the meal was adequate.


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DeLonghi's Icona range is four appliances, a kettle, 4-slice toaster, 2-slice toaster, and pump coffee maker, in a choice of four colours.
DeLonghi's Icona range is four appliances, a kettle, 4-slice toaster, 2-slice toaster, and pump coffee maker, in a choice of four colours.
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Adam Howey (9) and twin brother Alex (18) will look to help Sandburg avenge last season's playoff loss to New Trier. | Supplied photo
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Revenge has been on the mind of the Sandburg hockey team all season.
On Monday, it will get the chance to exact it.
Fifty-one weeks after New Trier Green ended the Eagles' playoff run, Sandburg has an opportunity to return the favor when the teams meet in the state quarterfinals Monday. The meeting was set up after the Trevians topped Glenbrook South 8-1 and Sandburg beat Highland Park 6-4 on Monday in the second round of the state tournament.
Last season, the Trevians eliminated Sandburg 3-2 in a hard-fought state semifinal battle that went down to the wire. A week later, New Trier Green defeated Glenbrook North for the 11th state title in program history.
"Revenge is definitely on our minds,'' the Eagles' Adam Howey said. ''We are excited for the chance to play them. It would mean a lot to us to beat them because last year was a disappointment. That loss still stings."
To beat the Trevians, the Eagles know they must play one of their best games of the season. In the first two rounds of the tournament, against Highland Park and Notre Dame, Sandburg's offense flourished, scoring 13 goals. But against New Trier, one of the top teams in the area, it's the Eagles' defense that must step up.
"For us to have a chance, our goalie (Ryan Lewis) must be phenomenal," said Alex Howey, Adam's twin brother. "We also have to do all the little things well: block shots, win faceoffs, clear pucks. When it's do-or-die, we can't have errors like those cost us the game."
After their win over the Giants in the second round, many of the Eagles players stayed at the Edge West Ice Arena to watch the Trevians take care of business. What Sandburg saw was a quick, talented squad that has similarities to the team it faced last season despite player turnover. New Trier, the No. 1 seed in the tournament, graduated 13 seniors but still boasts plenty of talent.
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My brother asked me about doing his head gaskets in his riding mower with a Kohler Cv730 engine and I'm unsure if I am up to task on this. A local shop wanted $400 to do the repair. Are these Kohlers worth the repair and do they normally go well? |
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Best way for you to determine the correct answer to that question (the "unsure of capability" part) is to go to the Kohler website and download a free PDF copy of the service manual for that engine family. The Kohler manuals are good and when you study the procedure in the manual you will be better able to decide if it's you or not. One thing you want to be sure to do if you try it is to shoot plenty of pictures of everything before you remove the first part and after that, shoot pictures at every step or part removed. How many times have folks gotten themselves into a bind because they didn't record the disassembly process? You might even check the videos on yoo toob to see if there is something on the exact engine. But do get the Kohler manual first and start studying. There are other members here who make their bread money working on Kohlers and will probably offer encouragement too. |
Yes, review the manuals. It will take a 3-4 hours of your time if you are mechanically experienced -of course depending on the application. Some just take longer. If you have good dexterity and a set of gear wrenches, you can cut down the time and keep exhaust pipes on many times. That is if the heads on your engine are retained by bolts rather than studs. |
Thank you for the suggestion, gents. I will get the gaskets ordered. Please stand by! |
Time to figure out your cleaning supplies. Clean up is the most tedious part as you need to not gouge the aluminum. My favorite is the course, kind of plastic looking scuffing pads. A gentle removal w/ a razor blade to get the bulk of the gasket away first, then use your scuff pad or scotch brite. When all the debris is gone, wipe down with some spray carb clean or mineral spirits on o towel. Remember to lower the piston slightly to get at any bits out that found their way in there. You also want to clean the chamber of the hard deposits and refresh the spark plugs too. Plug the push rod galley with a clean towel and put the piston at the top to help keep contaminants out. have fun! |
I wanted to report back that the repair is done. In watching a Youtube video, I saw where they scraped the head gasket off w/ a puddy knife and didn't do further clean up. I went further as you suggested and it was amazing how much more gasket material came off. Thank you, thank you. I'm much more confident that the repair will last. I would go poor doing these for a living as it took over 5 hours. I felt that I had to remove the exhaust pipes even with it having bolts that held the head down. The gasket blew out in between a small hole that went through the head and the large cylinder hole. I see that the gasket is mad differently now so I would hope it is meant to last. I winged it on one part where the instructions said to install the gasket with the numbers up. I assumed that it meant towards the head and that maybe the instructions were meant for the side shaft models that the heads are on top. Did I do good? Thanks again everyone for your support. |
5 hours is "student time", you are a student. The word "UP" defines as "toward cylinder head" in this case. Your score is nearly 100%. Good results. |
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5 hours is much faster than 4 hours twice. Being slow & methodical for a "learning experience" is usually a much shorter path to a successful outcome. I build bicycle wheels. When I take a methodical approach, I end up with a GOOD, evenly tensioned wheel much faster. |
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Excluding the impact of the "polar vortex" on first quarter real gross domestic product (GDP), business activity advanced at an impressive pace in 2014. If our forecast for the fourth quarter is accurate, the U.S. economy's real GDP will show a 3.5% average gain in the last three quarters of the year. This performance stands out among its peers and we are projecting a similar economic momentum for 2015.
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You may remember Oobleck from your elementary school days when you were learning the difference between liquids and solids—it's an easy-to-make rebellious mixture that insists on being both. It's a non-Newtonian fluid, which means its ability to resist infiltration is based on the speed of an object hitting its the surface; toothpaste, blood, shampoo and (notably) ketchup are common examples. And, as demonstrated in a video by The Discovery Slow Down, it's not just a for kids. If only we had known the possibilities as we sat in our 9-year-old bodies carefully eying up the mystery mix, we probably would've had a much better day at school.
Check out this video showing all that Oobleck has to offer:
The Oobleck 'sandbox' at the end of the video is a classic—quicksand, of course, being a canonical non-Newtonian fluid—but the best part of the video might be around 45 seconds in, when the small spikes of the mixture start crowdsurfing like bits of Flubber in response to bass vibrations. If you had completely forgotten about this curious concoction and need a reminder on how to make your own blend, there's a great recipe on wikiHow, but seeing as it consists only of water and cornstarch, it's safe to say you can't really mess it up.
While we obviously have a thing for designer toys (like this wonderfully over-the-top rubber band machine gun), sometimes it's better to stick to the basics—and it doesn't get much more rudimentary than Oobleck. (Fun fact: The name "Oobleck" comes from a Dr. Seuss story called Bartholomew and the Oobleck.) Plus, you'll probably have more fun rediscovering it as an adult than the child or preteen you're introducing it to.
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"Great and easy summer salad! I saw the peas at the farmers market and they looked so good I bought them without thinking what I would use them for. But this was great! I didn't have fresh mint or parsley so I used some dried mint and bit of mint sauce. I also put in some cilantro and used shaved parmesan cheese. Fresh, light, and tasty!""


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Interventional cardiology
Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases. Andreas Gruentzig is considered the father of interventional cardiology after the development of angioplasty by interventional radiologist Charles Dotter.[1]
A large number of procedures can be performed on the heart by catheterization. This most commonly involves the insertion of a sheath into the femoral artery (but, in practice, any large peripheral artery or vein) and cannulating the heart under X-ray visualization (most commonly fluoroscopy). The radial artery may also be used for cannulation; this approach offers several advantages, including the accessibility of the artery in most patients, the easy control of bleeding even in anticoagulated patients, the enhancement of comfort because patients are capable of sitting up and walking immediately following the procedure, and the near absence of clinically significant sequelae in patients with a normal Allen test.[2]
The main advantages of using the interventional cardiology or radiology approach are the avoidance of the scars and pain, and long post-operative recovery. Additionally, interventional cardiology procedure of primary angioplasty is now the gold standard of care for an acute myocardial infarction. It involves the extraction of clots from occluded coronary arteries and deployment of stents and balloons through a small hole made in a major artery, which has given it the name "pin-hole surgery" (as opposed to "key-hole surgery").
Procedures performed by specialists in interventional cardiology:
- Angioplasty
- Also called percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), angioplasty is an intervention for the treatment of coronary artery disease.
- Valvuloplasty
- It is the dilation of narrowed cardiac valves (usually mitral, aortic, or pulmonary).
- Congenital heart defect correction
- Percutaneous approaches can be employed to correct atrial septal and ventricular septal defects, closure of a patent ductus arteriosus, and angioplasty of the great vessels.
- Percutaneous valve replacement: An alternative to open heart surgery, percutaneous valve replacement is the replacement of a heart valve using percutaneous methods. This is mainly performed on the aortic valve (percutaneous aortic valve replacement/TAVI procedure)
- Coronary thrombectomy
- Coronary thrombectomy involves the removal of a thrombus (blood clot) from the coronary arteries.[3]
Surgery of the heart is termed cardiothoracic surgery. Some interventional cardiology procedures are only performed when there is cardiothoracic surgery expertise in the hospital, in case of complications.
See also[edit]
- ^ Lakhan SE, Kaplan A, Laird C, Leiter Y (2009). "The interventionalism of medicine: interventional radiology, cardiology, and neuroradiology". International Archives of Medicine 2 (27): 27. doi:10.1186/1755-7682-2-27. PMC 2745361. PMID 19740425.
- ^ Hurst, J. Willis; Fuster, Valentin; O'Rourke, Robert A. (2004). Hurst's The Heart. New York: McGraw-Hill, Medical Publishing Division. p. 484. ISBN 0-07-142264-1.
- ^ "Evanston Northwestern Hospital Interventional Cardiology". Retrieved 2008-03-06.
External links[edit]
- Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions
- Angioplasty.Org
- European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI)
- Interventional Portal: Relevant links for interventional cardiologists


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Michael Sokolove is the author of the recent nonfiction book, The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw (click here for my review), as well as an earlier biography of Pete Rose, Hustle: The Myth, Life, and Lies of Pete Rose. Last week he was kind enough to talk with me for a while about Strawberry, Rose, and a few other things of interest. Here's part one of our conversation. Enjoy.
I wanted to start out with something that you wrote about in the introduction to the book. You said that as a boy, you were "virtually inhabited by sports." I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit about that.
Michael Sokolove:
Well, I just played all the time. I was a pretty good baseball player. I was a high school baseball player, I was a high school basketball player. And, you know, I was of the generation -- I'm forty-eight -- so I was watching Wide World of Sports, and we didn't have ESPN, and I just watched all the sports there were to watch. And that's pretty much until I realized that I wasn't going to be a pro athlete, which there was never any remote chance of, in fact, I wasn't that good. But, you know, until I got pretty far along, that's all I thought about, until I was in my mid teens. I read about it, I read the sports pages, when I wasn't playing sports, I was thinking about it all the time, and it just... I was obsessed by sports in the way that lots and lots of kids are.
BC: Was baseball any more or less loved than these other sports?
MS: Well, when I was a kid, I loved baseball more than I do now, I must admit, because it was still the preeminent sport in my mind, and in a lot of people's minds. And I think it was a better sport, it was played in real stadiums, not retro stadiums. I grew up going to Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia. It just had a grit and an authenticity to it that I loved. My own pet peeve about baseball right now is that the games used to take two hours and fifteen minutes, two hours and thirty minutes. Now as an adult, now they take three and a half hours, sometimes for a 3-2 game, and I don't have three and a half hours. Maybe I did when I was a kid, I don't now. And I'm the kind of person who sees a game, each game, whether it's baseball or any game, as like a narrative, a story with a beginning, middle, and an end, so I'm not really very satisfied watching a couple of innings. Watching a couple of innings or part of game is never very interesting for me, so therefore I have to have three and a half hours, and I don't much anymore.
BC: That's been a criticism of baseball in the playoffs especially, that the game slows down even more than it is in the regular season. Do you feel like you're more likely to watch a game in the playoffs, even with that length of time?
MS: Well, I'm a little more likely, but the time is an issue. Because, yes, they do take longer, and they go so late at night, and I honestly don't know who can watch a game until past midnight. Now of course, you guys on the west coast are lucky, they don't go that late. On the east coast, who the hell can watch a game that late? A lot of people blame the commercials, I blame the players. It's mostly, you know, wristband adjusting, crotch adjusting, all the twitching and mannerisms takes longer than the damn commercials. And all the throwing to first base, and all the trips to the mound, and all the double switches. I feel like the game has lost the flow that it had. It's always said that baseball's played without a clock... but you can't take advantage of it. (Laughing) But this is just my pet peeve.
BC: I can see that.
MS: Yeah, no kidding.
BC: So also in that introduction you were writing about, and you mentioned earlier, a love for reading stories in the sports section. Do you think that's what led you to your eventual career?
MS: Yes, I do. Because I read some beautiful writers. I was really lucky to have grown up in Philadelphia. So, I read the Philadelphia Daily News, which was a great sports section, I read the Philadelphia Bulletin, which had a writer named Sandy Grady, who moved on to political writing, who was an unbelievable writer. And these were people who all had some vision and knowledge of not only sports but how sports fit into a larger context. And when I was young, Dick Allen, who we called Richie Allen in Philadelphia, was just coming up in Philadelphia, and there was a great racial and social drama watching Richie Allen's career. He was mistreated by Philadelphia fans, who displayed quite a lot of bigotry, and Philadelphia fans were the ones who were hardest on Jackie Robinson, it's a tough town. And I was incensed by that, and I think at that point I made some equation between sports and racial and social justice -- that drama is often played out in sports, in sort of subtle or not so subtle ways.
BC: You also mentioned that you spent a year as a beat writer in the National League. I was wondering, which team were you covering, and when was that, and what was that whole experience like?
MS: That was the 1987 Cincinnati Reds that I covered, one year, and it was for complicated career reasons, which I won't want to bore you with. I wanted to go from the Philadelphia Daily News to the Philadelphia Inquirer, and for some very complicated and boring reasons, I had to go somewhere for a year, and I decided, hey, I'll cover baseball for a year, so I did. And you know, I loved the baseball. I have to admit there were lots of parts of the experience I didn't love. I didn't love the clique of baseball writers. I had friends among those baseball writers, I found them as a mass of people, you know, in a group, as sort of not the most pleasant group to hang out with. They sort of replicated the cliques of the clubhouse. You were sort of in or you were out, and it wasn't that much fun.
BC: I actually teach middle school.
MS: Oh, really? What do you teach?
BC: I teach English and reading, and my wife does as well, at the same school, and we talk often about how what we see in our students, and their middle school type behavior, is really replicated in almost every phase of life. And what you were saying about the writers's being very cliquish kind of reminded me of that.
MS: Well you are a brave man to teach middle school.
BC: You know, that's what people say, but it's really so much fun. Every day is just an awful lot of fun... In your time as a beat writer, I would think that an experience like that, being so close to the game, maybe even too close to the game, could really influence your opinion of baseball. Do you think that that did one way or another?
MS: I still loved the game, it was the year that Eric Davis had this magical year where he really did look like he was the next Willie Mays...
BC: Right, he had seventy stolen bases, right? Something like that?
MS: Yeah, he was wonderful, he was magical, and I enjoyed going out to the park every day and seeing Eric Davis play. I did get a close-up view at the narrow-mindedness and backwardness of baseball, and it is socially in so many ways the most backward sport. Now some of that is really charming, you know, it's what makes baseball quaint. But when you get beyond the quaintness, you see some real bigotry, and it was a surprise to me how much of it remained. You know, sort of, closed to new thinking, whether the thinking is about baseball or anything. I mean, I have to admit, I didn't love all the baseball folks, whether it was the players, or the coaches, or the managers They're in a bad mood all the time. There's no two ways about it. (Laughing.)
BC: I'm curious where your interest first came in Darryl Strawberry, specifically, and also this '79 Crenshaw team.
MS: Well, I was asked by my editors at the New York Times Magazine to write a profile of Strawberry, and that profile appeared in the Spring of 2001. Quite frankly, it was a great career thing for me. I had just left the Philadelphia Inquirer, and I was writing for a new publication, and it was a cover story. Sometimes as a writer you sort of hit it on the fat part of the bat, and that only happens every once in a while, and this, I did feel like was a good story. And I had offers from book publishers to write a profile of Darryl Strawberry, and I said, you know, actually no. I just wrote this 7500-word profile of Darryl Strawberry, and I don't see where I would like to expand that into a 100,000-word biography. But then, sort of collaboratively with the publisher Simon&Schuster, we came up with the idea of going back and not doing Darryl, but doing Darryl as just one character in this larger book that would center around this great high school baseball team at Crenshaw. So it was sort of collaborative, and that was much more attractive to me, because it was something new. It was something new, I knew a little bit about it, and I think a lot of us who do journalism are attracted by the new. You know, you keep on moving on, and I hate to go back over old ground. So this was new ground, and it became much more interesting.
BC: So Strawberry, of course, is the name that everyone knows, but his performance on the field during that year, 1979, and I guess the subsequent year, didn't completely overshadow his teammates, as someone might think, did they?
MS: No, and it's an interesting lesson in sports. He wasn't the best player on that team. Chris Brown was undoubtedly the best player on that team. It's possible that Reggie Dymally was a better high school player, it's possible that Cordie Dillard was a better high school player. But people in pro sports, as small-minded as they may be, they are not stupid about what they do, and they recognized correctly that whatever Darryl was in high school, in relation to the other great players on his team, at six foot five, and not even having gotten close to growing into that frame, and with all the strength that he would gain, he was the great pro prospect. You know, he had the physical package, and they were absolutely right about that. But as a high school player, he was just one among many. So the pro guys were right about his potential. What they didn't know was what his high school teammates knew. They couldn't have put words onto it at the time, but they knew that Darryl was sort of chipped up emotionally, that he didn't really have the right stuff. And they knew that as any teammates would know of their teammates. You get a sense of someone's competitive nature, and they knew that Darryl's was flawed.
BC: One thing that was mentioned in your book was yes, Chris Brown was a better player. I almost got a feeling that there was, and tell if I'm wrong please, something in between resentment and jealousy of Strawberry, not necessarily in the mistakes that he's made since leaving Crenshaw, but even at the time. Was there anything like that?
MS: No, you're not wrong at all. You know, Darryl and Chris recognized themselves as the two big dogs, and Darryl's personality wasn't such that he'd have a lot of envy over that. Darryl had other problems -- it probably wasn't any big deal to Darryl. But Chris sniffed this out right away. He felt always very competitive with Darryl, and even to this day won't really quite give it up, you know? He's still pissed off about some stuff. When they retired Darryl's number, he was like, "Why didn't you retire my damn number?" And on and on and on, I mean, like two brothers.
BC: So how many players, roughly, from that '79 team were drafted?
MS: When all was said and done, I'm gonna try and remember, when all was said and done, I believe it was a dozen. That includes guys like Marvin McWhorter, who got drafted after a couple years of college or junior college ball. It includes Lee Mays, who was a pitcher and wasn't really in the book because he was the one guy who wouldn't talk to me, for reasons I never have understood. But twelve, when all was said and done.
BC: That's pretty amazing.
MS: Yeah, that really is.
BC: One other thing about Strawberry. I actually watched him a lot during his various tours of duty with the Yankees, and it was always amazing to me how impressive he still was. The fact that this broken down, 34-, 35-, 36-year-old guy could still have such an incredibly quick bat, could still influence a game while he's sitting on the bench. What could Darryl have been, and besides the obvious, why didn't he get there?
MS: I mean he could've had, I'm gonna say 600 home runs. Because in his era, it wasn't possible for...
BC: People weren't hitting fifty, sixty home runs.
MS: They weren't hitting home runs, for whatever reason, the size of the ballparks, the ball, the pitching. But I'm gonna say somewhere between 500 and 600 easily, and plus all the drama that he brought. He could've been everything that people had hoped for, there's no doubt. He didn't lack a damn thing physically. And what happened? I don't know. He was distinctly not suited to compete at that level. He had almost like a product flaw, and that product flaw was that that sort of inner core that you need, that sort of selfish core that pushes everything else away so that you can do your work as an athlete. On a scale of one to ten, the guy who's got the ten on that is Michael Jordan, but there are variations. You don't have to be Michael Jordan. But Darryl had like a zero. That thing that makes you selfish in the best way in sports, Darryl didn't have it at all. It's like he came without it, so that he right from the start let everything in that distracted him. And it wasn't just drugs, or drinking. It was everything.
BC: You mentioned Michael Jordan, and I've always kind of felt that these individuals like Michael Jordan, like Tiger Woods, who are the most talented at what they do and also are working harder than everyone else, I guess when you put that along side Darryl's story, it's almost easier for me to see people ending up like Strawberry than working. I mean, if you're the most talented kid you've ever seen, I guess it's easy for me to see how you could develop some lazy habits and be satisfied with that.
MS: I guess, and there are areas in between. There's a part, not a part -- there's a large part -- of Jordan and Tiger Woods that are just really pricks, that aren't very nice people, that aren't very giving people. And Darryl, when he was at his worst, could be that person. He could be a prick. But I don't know anybody who would generally describe that as Darryl. You know, I mean he wasn't that mostly. He was just like a confused, you know, puppy dog is more like it.
BC: In your time spent with Darryl, what was your prevailing attitude, I guess? Did you feel sorry for him, did you condemn him for his choices, were you wistful for what could have been?
MS: All of the above. You know mostly, I don't condemn him. The part that makes me angriest about Darryl is when starts mouthing the platitudes that he's heard in drug rehab or church, and that's probably a bad thing for me to say, but... Darryl's of average intelligence, but hasn't really made the most out of the intelligence that he has, so Darryl is attuned to any language that he hears that takes any sort of responsibility away from himself. So if somebody in church says "it's all in God's hands," Darryl takes that to an extreme that even many people of faith would find inappropriate. When Darryl says "it's all in God's hands," Darryl is saying that you know, "I'm not really responsible for my own actions," and he hasn't been, basically. And I hope now, at forty-whatever he is, that maybe things are gonna go okay for him for a while. But that's been Darryl's problem. "Not my fault," in various ways. And I do get angry at that.
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Does anybody know which garden centre sells seven sons trees, HEPTACODIUM MICONIOIDES, in GTA ? Thx. |
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Thx a lot, smivies. I searched Humber's tree catalog and didn't find. And then I found it in the shrub list. Will pay a visit soon. |
I bought 2 of them last year from Humber. Very neat, they are about to bloom now |
Lakeside Garden in Brampton has even better selection of Seven Sons Trees then Humber does, but they are bigger and pricier than in Humber Nurseries. They sell them for $59.99 (about 1.5+ meters tall) and one specimen near the entrance on display is magnificent for $89.99 (more than 2 meters tall). The entire nursery is now between 20% and 50% off their entire stock... you may call them for the exact price/discount http://gardengallery.ca/lakeside/ |
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Often, big ideas come out of long road trips. In 2010, two Chicago moms, Kristina Lowenstein and Catherine Tannen were driving their kids to camp when they shared a wish to do more community service with their families. Before having kids, they both actively volunteered but now it wasn't so easy – their lives were hectic. They wanted to connect their kids to the issues they faced every day like hunger and pollution but struggled to find meaningful volunteer projects that welcomed people of all ages.
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"What a great way to teach our kids about volunteering and preserving nature. They absolutely loved helping out and I had a great time too!" (Parent, Gompers Park Project)
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Marcia Festen
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Gabrielle Martinez is co-founder and Managing Partner of agencyEA. After receiving a degree in Economics and Spanish from Lake Forest College, Gabrielle honed her skills in the hospitality and catering industry, eventually founding agencyEA with husband Fergus Rooney. As Managing Partner, Gabrielle oversees the agency's talent, culture and growth. For the past consecutive three years, she has served as lead designer of The White House holiday décor, managing the theme, creative design and logistical execution. Along with her two daughters, Gabrielle regularly volunteers with The Honeycomb Project. She resides in Chicago with her family.
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Ruth Swibel
Ruth Swibel is a learning specialist with expertise in literacy development and language-based learning difficulties. After earning a master's degree in Education from Harvard University, Ruth worked at schools in Atlanta and Chicago, where she supported students with learning disabilities. Ruth also develops and teaches custom reading and writing development workshops for parents and teachers. Her volunteer experiences have included participating in the launch of a conflict-resolution program for middle school children, working at an anti-corruption nonprofit organization in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and participating in Honeycomb volunteer events with her two daughters.
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Catherine Tannen received her undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, earned a juris doctor from Boston University School of Law. She works as a staff and contract attorney impart for the Cook County Public Guardian's Office representing foster children in abuse and neglect cases, litigating civil rights lawsuits on behalf of foster children and advocating for adults with disabilities. Her volunteer experiences include working as a rape crisis counselor, teaching refugee children in Costa Rica and working with a women's cooperative in Nicaragua. Catherine lives in Chicago with her husband and two kids.
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This winter, when he hasn't been putting on bandannas, getting his tips frosted, or taking heat for not acquiring his main free agent targets, for publicly disagreeing with ownership over the Rafael Soriano contract, and for suggesting that Derek Jeter will wind up in the outfield before his deal is done, New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman has been taking up some curious new hobbies.
Back in December it was rappelling– specifically, down a building at Landmark Square in Stamford, CT– and this week, as you can see in the video below, he took a turn at… um… bartending.
But the evening, a charity event to raise money for prostate cancer research, wasn't without an element of baseball newsworthiness. Cashman was asked to address his comments about Jeter and Soriano, which he unsurprisingly downplayed, and he insisted that there's nothing awry with his relationship with the Yankees.
Hat tip to the New York Post, and to Sports Crackle Pop for the YouTube clip.