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1. At a public talk someone asks you, "okay, I understand what you reject, but I wonder what are you for? What institutions do you favor that will be better than what we have for the economy, polity, gender, race, ecology, or whatever you have vision for?
Eric Mann: To begin with, I have always rejected this question because it often functions to put social movements on the defensive. It risks caricaturing the great rebellions, revolts, and revolutions of all time as simply "fight back" struggles that were somehow limited to being "against" something while "lacking" an alternative vision. As if the great movements against U.S. apartheid and segregation, and against U.S. genocide in Vietnam were "negative," when in fact they were the positive center of millions of people's lives for decades. This question's point of view hides fundamental political differences that need to be clarified. My anti-imperialism and opposition to the U.S. Empire is positive. It is not "positive" to talk about a "new" America. Given (1) that the systems of capitalism and imperialism are built on exploitation and oppression, and (2) that social movements initially arise in response to the atrocities made necessary by an unsustainable economic/political system, my long-held strategic view, and that of the Strategy Center, has been to build a united front against US imperialism. [Our full paper, "Grassroots Organizing for a World Revolution," elaborates this strategy.] My life work has been against racism and imperialism.
That said, "what I am for" is captured by the slogan, "Countries want independence, nations want liberation, people want revolution." I believe in socialism as the negation of capitalism and the positive outcome I am ultimately fighting for. I want to see a fundamental revolution to a sustainable economic system with a democratic political system: a socialism for the 21st century, as is currently being developed in Latin America. However, as a transformative organizer, I do not view long term transformation as the alternative to immediate demands for social welfare and to the fundamental immediate demand embraced by many nations and peoples around the world: "U.S. Stop!"
I am part of an organization that wants to "Free the U.S. two million." That is a positive outcome, given the racism of the mass incarceration system. I am for stopping racism, for shutting down our entire prison system, and that is very concrete. We are asked, "So are you for letting most of the people out of prison?" We say, "Yes, perhaps 90 percent of them to begin with. Drugs should be decriminalized and legalized—along with everything but the most violent crimes. And even then, only with the most humane rehabilitation system and decent prison conditions." "So, are you saying that society would be better even though many of those in prison did commit acts that we would think are criminal?" I say, "Yes."
We have two framing slogans that shape our work, "Yes to the social welfare state, no to the police state. Yes to the environmental justice state, no to the warfare state." We want equality, civil rights, democratic rights and human rights. We want a seven-generation Black reparations package for the sins of slavery, Jim Crow, 'convict' slavery, war on drugs and labor exploitation for all people of African descent. We want self-determination for Indigenous Nations with full land rights and sovereignty and with the right to secede. We want the planet earth to survive and thrive, that is, we want the U.S. to end its war on the planet, emitting over 25% of all green house gases into the atmosphere–bringing the planet and its inhabitants, a few degrees Centigrade closer to oblivion. We want independence for Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, Okinawa, which means we want the U.S. to close its over 800 bases of occupation around the world, along with the misogynistic and oppressive sex trade that accompanies the U.S. military. We want sovereignty for the Cuban, Venezuelan, Bolivian governments and their people, free of U.S. embargos, military intimidation, diplomatic isolation or aggression, as they struggle for a path for true solidarity and forge a socialism that best fits them. We want self-determination for the Chicano/Mexico people, with the right to break open the illegal so-called "US/Mexico" border, and the right to choose their relationship with the U.S. or Mexican state. We want liberation of women and free, safe, legal abortion. We want immediate amnesty for all immigrants living in the U.S. We want a new Left that is dedicated to fighting racism and white chauvinism in the U.S., a new Left that will not replicate the historical, white-settler master narrative of "one nation under god" and "U.S. exceptionalism," which, inside the Left has too often taken the form of a "colorblind" fight for socialism based on white privilege and the spoils of empire and racism! We want a new Left that will build a movement to weaken, dismantle and ultimately overthrow the U.S. Empire by affirming self-determination for Third World Nations and oppressed nationalities inside the U.S.—which means a new Left of many who are prepared to put their bodies on the line for these principles.
Regarding the question, "what institutions do you favor that will be better," we want a social welfare state, not a police state. However, we do not believe that capitalism is a sustainable system; we do not believe that the state that protects U.S. imperialist interests will reform itself even under great pressure. We believe democratic reforms must be won through popular struggle. With regard to the forms of organizations we build, I believe in building strong left institutions—institutions that can organize oppressed nationality working-class peoples and fight for the radical expansion of rights under the present system while modeling the democratic participation that will lead us into the future. I believe in training new Left leaders dedicated to mass participation of the people they organize, the people who are the human scaffolding of a future anti-imperialist, socialist movement. I have seen times when we at the Strategy Center articulate a very detailed revolutionary reform program, such as "freeing the U.S. 2 million" prisoners, only to be met with content-less generalities by some "socialists" who proclaim, "Yes, but we need a society where the wealth is shared, we need a society not based on the exploitation of labor" as if that general sentiment is a "higher form of discourse" than breaking down the powerful racist, classist institution of the U.S. prison system. We are for an anti-imperialist, anti-racist socialism, but disagree with an uncritical, populist, set of abstract socialist proclamations, saying things that are obvious, such as "we all deserve something better than the exploitative system of capitalism," yet not delving into a critical scientific, historical, and material analysis of the nature of U.S. imperialism and the historical crises for 20th century socialism.
2. Next, someone at the same event asks, "Why do you do what you do? That is, you are speaking to us, and I know you write, and maybe you organize, but why do you do that? What do you think it accomplishes? What is your goal for your coming year, or for your next ten years?
Manuel Criollo: In our opening essay ("Grassroots Organizing for a World Revolution"), Eric Mann and I were trying to make a constructive challenge to the pre-cursors of the new Left movement we all want to bring into being. We believe that we must change the character of the U.S. Left; a new Left must be rooted in and born out of the social movements of Black, Latino, API working class peoples and white anti-racist working people. My own practice led me to this theory, and this theory has guided me as I have joined an organization, the Labor/Community Strategy Center, and, after graduating from college, situated myself within the very working-class community I have lived in all my life. That is why I do what I do.
Some people have been critical of Eric and me for focusing so much in our essay on the practice of the Strategy Center, arguing that it appears self-promoting. We were surprised by this criticism, and yet, sadly, it does reflect a political disagreement over how important it is for everyone to have a vital on-the-ground practice, so that anyone saying they have ideas for the future of the U.S. left is doing organizing work of which they are proud. It reflects an important reason that we don't have a coherent left Movement: We think there is too much self-promotion by people who do not have any practice or do not hold their theory or practice up to a critical and self-critical light. The reason we/I spent so much time in our paper discussing our work is that we believe our work not only accomplishes concrete historical advances for working people but also provides the basis for the collective struggle for clarity that our movements so desperately need.
This is not the first time that social movements for radical change have developed within the U.S., therefore we need to see leading theories tested in practice. We need opportunities for common practice to create the possibility for greater unity built on lessons we share. I think what we are doing at the Strategy Center is among the best work in the country—in theory and in practice. I am proud of that work and tried to write a paper that would bring to life the many leaders attracted to and born out of that the practice. Imagine a multi-racial, multi-generational, multi-lingual group working together in Spanish, Korean, and English to make a social revolution. Imagine changing the entire transportation system of a county of 10 milion people, forcing the Los Angeles MTA to invest $3 billion in a new clean fuel bus system for the urban poor of color—against their will for sure, even though now they advertise on every bus—"The largest clean fuel fleet in the United States"—and everyone in LA laughs and observes, "Sure, MTA, because the Bus Riders Union created it, forced you to buy the buses, demanded, 'Stop the lying, start the buying' and finally you bought 2,500 clean CNG buses, each one at a cost of $300,000 or more, hired more drivers and mechanics, creating real Green Jobs. Many on the left come to LA to tell us it is our practice that gives power to our theory of the anti-racist, anti-imperialist united front, and how open and aboveboard we are with this practice to a mass constituency of bus riders, working-class high school students, universities, and the media.
Imagine a self-identified left organization, the Strategy Center in LA, negotiating with every mayor of LA who knows us by our first names—the late Tom Bradley, Richard Riordan, James Hahn, and Antonio Villariagosa—and winning reforms from all of them. Even when we at times took them on frontally, we always kept lines of communication open because in the end, our goal was not to denounce them; our goal was to create the conditions under which they would change policies in favor of the Black and Latino communities, the multi-national working class led by the Black and Latino workers.
My goal for the near future is to work with Eric to continue building this work and this organization, along with Francisca Porchas, Barbara Lott Holland, Sunyoung Yang, Esperanza Martinez, Kendra Williby, Grandma Kim, Woodrow Coleman, Tammy Luu, Damon Azali-Rojas, and dozens more of the great organizers at the Strategy Center. We have 3 major campaigns challenging the very fabric of a county of 10 million people: our Clean Air/Global Warming Campaign, Bus Riders Union "Fight Transit Racism" campaign now in its 16th year and going strong, and our Community Rights Campaign getting kids out of the pre-prison complex in the high schools.
If we want to build a united front against U.S. imperialism, we must build organizations, left institutions, coalitions, federations, large mass events. Toward this end the Strategy Center is part of the coalition, Grassroots Global Justice, and actively participates in the Social Forum process. In 2010 at least 20,000 people will be at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit. One key theme for the conference that we will be involved with will be, "How do we confront the Obama machine, free the U.S. 2 million, end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, stop CIA efforts to overthrow Chavez and other elected and popular leaders in Latin America?"
3. You are at home and you get an email that says a new organization is trying to form, internationally, federating national chapters, etc. It asks you to join the effort. Can you imagine plausible conditions under which you would say, "yes, I will give my energies to making it happen along with the rest of you who are already involved?" If so, what are those conditions? Or – do you think instead that regardless of the content of the agenda and make up of the participants, the idea can't be worthy, now, or perhaps ever. If so, why?
Eric Mann: This is a great question. I have always been an anti-imperialist internationalist, in support of international campaigns such as U.S. Out of Vietnam and Boycott Apartheid South Africa as well as the historic efforts of the world communist movement to form international organizations. Based on lessons from these experiences, I believe the conditions for successful international work are based on support for the right of self-determination for oppressed nations and protection of the strength and integrity of constituent organizations. I do not view this as a question to individuals but to organizations. I have always been part of an organization—from CORE to SDS to League of Revolutionary Struggle, to the New Directions Movement of the United Auto Workers, to the Strategy Center. Each organization has had many international relationships.
But not every invitation is positive or will have a positive outcome. The Strategy Center would respond to any invitation but would not participate in any initiative to form a single international organization (in which currently independent organizations become subordinate as "chapters" to the international) or any initiative based on the subordination of national sovereignty of nations and peoples oppressed by U.S. and European imperialism in the name of an abstract, colorblind, "working class" that considers movements of national liberation a threat.
That said, the Strategy Center has had many successful international relationships—as an NGO at the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, and the UN World Conference on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, where we worked on the NGO organizing committee and I spoke to the UN on behalf of the NGO organizations against a theory of "partnerships" between NGOs and polluting corporations. There we developed relations with the African National Congress (ANC), Congress of South African Trade Unions, (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). The Strategy Center has been invited and sent delegations to Cuba, Chiapas, the SUTAUR-100 (Mexico), France, Germany, Italy, and South Korea. We have allied with trade union organizations and environmental justice/indigenous peoples campaigns. We have participated in the World Social Forums in Venezuela and Brazil.
The Strategy Center has also allied in many nation-wide coalitions—some based on significant strategic and tactical agreement, such as the First and Second People of Color Environmental Justice Leadership Summits, the Black Radical Congress, and Grassroots Global Justice (each initiated by other organizations) and the current Transit Riders for Public Transportation (which we initiated). We also have sought participation in formations with much broader temporary unities, such as the Boston Social Forum, the US Social Forum in Atlanta and, coming in 2010, in Detroit. We have also participated in explicit nation-wide left-building projects within the United States, with grassroots organizations as well as with anti-imperialist and socialist organizations—Freedom Road Socialist Organization, League of Revolutionaries for a New America, and other organizations with whom we had significant disagreements but wanted to pursue a long-term strategic unity. We want to see organizations coalesce but envision coalitions and federations of organizations, not an international or national single organization of individuals gathering in regional chapters.
One issue that always becomes a sticking point for us, especially in left unity proposals, is the crucial struggle to identify our differences. In our view, this critical process is currently beset by a self-defeating tendency to declare the most principled political discussions and debates "sectarian" and a frightening and ineffective effort to paper over important differences in the name of "unity." Given the historical debates in the Left and the past 30 years of anti-Left counterrevolution, it's only fair to assume that people and organizations are coming from very distinct positions. But often in the eagerness to grow the Left, there has been a tendency to say, "Let's not be negative and dwell on our differences. Aren't we all left? We hate capitalism, we all think racism is bad and we need an alternative. Besides, we don't want sectarianism." But in fact, many of those groups do not work together in the real world because our actual politics are so different that even when we are in the same city we are not day-to-day allies against a common enemy.
What any group sees as the strategic objective will impact its choices on the ground. So without a real, grounded set of discussions and, yes, even debates to clarify differences, an inter-organizational project can foster a superficial unity, lead to frustration, and ultimately misunderstanding, which can only retard the movement further. We need to struggle to clarify our differences, not to divide us, but in order to clearly understand what will be the points of unity, the main challenges toward working together, and "what's still up for grabs."
We also must consider the source of the call. Time is currency for the Left and there are some organizations that ask for the time of social movements in implementing ill-thought-out, marginal, or disconnected ventures. If I got something in the mail from a person I didn't know or trust, I would say no. If I received an abstract "call," no matter how brilliant I would say no. On the other hand, if a group with a strong base on the ground and an exciting theoretical paper gave the call, even if we didn't know them we would be interested. But the reality is that we think we know almost all the front-line organizations in the movement right now. There are not that many of them, sadly, and those that have grown in stature and have a social base have sought each other out for many regional and national alliances. In practice, we have always said yes to strong proposals, organizers and organizations.
Getting to Yes. What are some components that we at the Strategy Center value in alliances:
- Unity on demand development (counter-hegemonic demands);
- Tactical sense of agreement on an exciting tactical plan—a sense of how to operate in a united front, how to struggle, build unity;
- A shared history of work, so that we know how people will behave and find them reliable allies;
- High level of personal and organizational trust—when problems develop there must be a basis to solve things with good intentions and good will;
- Having a base on the ground;
- Oppressed nationality leadership and majority—Black and Latino organizations at the heart of a multi-racial movement;
- An anti-racist culture and training for white organizers;
- Black and Latino working class leadership;
- Women's leadership;
- It's a class struggle, a race struggle, a women's struggle—identity and unity in the same person;
- A niche that is real, that fills a need.
4. Do you think efforts to organize movements, projects, and our own organizations should embody the seeds of the future in the present? If not, why not? If yes, can you say what, very roughly, you think some of the implications would be for an organization you would favor?
Manuel Criollo: Our strategy is to build the anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist united front. For us questions of organizations, movements, and projects are all in the realm of tactics. We think the main seed of the future is effective coalitional and allied cooperation in the present. Definitely, we strive to cultivate seeds of the future in the present.
For us, this challenge begins with our own organization. The following are key aspects:
- Racial composition would be a crucial criterion in building an organization: majority Black and Latino, working class, women, urban poor;
- Collective decision making—toleration of and respect for minority views.
- Mutually agreed upon hierarchies, that is to say, at every level it is agreed upon who are the top leaders and organizers. Of course they consult and often have direct votes but often they do not. From the beginning, our organizers asserted, "We go into battle with powerful enemies, so we want leaders who are accountable, have a track record of success, but on the spot have the full support to make critical decisions in the heat of battle."
- A combination of strict accountability and a strong work ethic. Minimize the "economic whip" and emphasize moral and political unity and incentives.
- Winning things in the real world, so that people can look to the hiring of women, better wages, 2500 new compressed natural gas buses, less police on campus, reduction in greenhouse gases, increase in infant nutrition, more staffing at emergency rooms, 1,000 more buses, 1,000 less police. Historically, "the socialist, communist, and anti-imperialist Left" defeated fascism, carried out the Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cuban, and Venezuelan revolutions, ended slavery and Jim Crow, built the CIO, and now is challenged with ending the mass incarceration of Black and Latino youth, and ending the bloody U.S. invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
In short, the organization should be majority Black, Latino, AP/I (which already reflects the population of California, and the future of the country) and should have an overrepresentation of oppressed nationality peoples, majority or more women, majority working class, and strong LGBTYQ participation in its composition. Social composition isn't everything but if that foundation does not exist an organization has no chance to succeed, whereas if it does exist, then an organization has a solid foundation for future success.
The organization should treat other organizations and people with whom they disagree with dignity and respect and fight for agreements and struggle toward clarity of differences, no matter how small, to unite all who can be united against a common enemy, even on a specific issue or day or hour in history.
In terms of the seeds for a future political program, I want to reference an excerpt of the Strategy Center document Toward a Program of Resistance to answer this question, on how we approach our organizational forms, demands, and future aspirations:
"The Program Demand Group, born out of this history of common work, is applying this approach in an effort to devise ideological and structural challenges to the foundations of empire. As we present the strategic demands that follow, we want to explain the framework we are using in demand development.
A . Anti-imperialism. We select demands that situate a specific campaign within an international framework of opposition to U.S. imperialism in order to confront structural racism, national oppression, xenophobia, patriarchy and suffering from indignity that is perpetrated throughout the world by the country in which we live and work.
B. New constituencies for a strategic alliance. We select demands that coalesce new constituencies to expand the base of working class people of color who are capable of leading a strategic alliance of the multiracial, multinational working class and the oppressed peoples' movements for liberation.
C. Unity in diversity. We select demands that have the potential to build unity within the multiracial working class in the U.S. while addressing the specificity of needs of different peoples. We select demands that create opportunities for oppressed nationalities, women, and immigrants to expand consciousness and lead struggles.
D. Learning through new forms of counterhegemonic struggle. We select demands that create new forms of struggle that break out of a culture of accommodation to expand space for antagonistic, adversarial negotiation with corporations and the government. We select demands with counterhegemonic content that can challenge the domination of capitalist ideology. We select demands that create collective learning experiences that expose the complex interrelationships of the U.S. political system we are challenging and create the basis for ideological transformation.
E. Institution building. We select demands that create new forms of organization as platforms for expanding power from which to demand greater rights, power and influence.
F. Redistribution of resources/Redress and reparations. We select demands that, if won, would radically redistribute power and resources to the oppressed. We select demands that, if won, would redress the wrongs of historic oppression and superexploitation specific to peoples who have suffered from the brutality of U.S. imperialist expansion."
5. Why did you answer this interview? Why do you think others did not answer it?
Eric Mann & Manuel Criollo: It's simple. If you chose to write an essay about "where is the movement going" (in our case, "Grassroots Organizing for a World Revolution"), then the least you could do is take seriously as an organizer the requests for further participation that Mike Albert, Bill Fletcher, and others have encouraged. In our work if our allies ask for money, we donate. If people ask for a subscription, we subscribe. If people ask us to fill out a questionnaire and it is central to how they think the process can move forward, we do it. If people who are our allies ask us to attend a rally, demonstration, program, fundraising dinner, we do so. This is the most minimum currency of left unity.
It is especially important for organizations to respond. The process allows us to clarify our views and to put them forth into a conversation with other organizations. The views of individuals are often readily available through print and web publications. For us, we see the Labor/Community Strategy Center as a movement-building organization and want to support the work of RESOC and other movement building initiatives. We don't know why others did not respond since it doesn't make sense to say the RESOC process is valuable enough to warrant submitting an essay but not valuable enough to answer a questionnaire despite 10 very patient reminders from Mike.
Again, great respect for Mike Albert and others who are managing this project. It is a pleasure to be part of it.


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Saturday, 3 August 2013
Godley Hall Inn
This is from the book 'OLD GODLEY' by Thomas Middleton.. I can't make out the artist so can't give them credit.. It got me thinking of the artist that Hyde as produced.. More so the drawings and paintings of our Town.. If you have any or copies of any can you send a picture of them in to our email address. I think it would make a neat addition to the blog.
All the best to you all
Posted by Hydonian at Saturday, August 03, 2013
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There use to be a very famous artist called "Killroy" in Hyde, his work could be seen in the old toilets on Greenfield Street. He certainly had a talent for human anatomy.
- Saturday, 03 August, 2013
- Tom said...
Hi Colin
I've studied his work a few time myself.. :O)
- Saturday, 03 August, 2013
Look's like Mr.Kilroy was Hyde's best known artist, or perhaps the people of Hyde have no interest in art and culture.
- Sunday, 04 August, 2013
Hope that's said tongue in cheek, Karen. Hyde has produced many fine artists and there are many people in the town with an interest in art and culture.
- Monday, 05 August, 2013
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We walked into the hospital with a boisterous, sports-minded 7-year-old who had just celebrated his birthday a week earlier.
When we left the hospital 13 days later, Ayden was in a wheelchair, couldn't walk, had double vision, facial palsy, partial loss of his left-side body functions, was unable to care for himself and had a scar that ran from halfway down the back of his head to his neck.
The removal of his brain tumor was a success, but the future of cancer treatment loomed like an ominous black cloud. We were overwhelmed on so many levels: by grief, by Ayden's depression, by medical bills and by the prospect of all of the treatments that Ayden would be experiencing in the months to come.
Over the past year, Ayden – now 8 – has had 30 days of radiation, an ongoing chemotherapy regimen and physical and occupational therapies. The avalanche of medical and insurance bills was and is daunting. We already had been denied help because of our income and insurance, but what about life? Life happens all around us: bills, groceries, the activities of four children, gas – oh, the amount of money we spent on gas to and from the hospital on a daily basis was horrendous!
My husband and I have always been involved in charities by volunteering or donating to others, but we never thought we would be the ones in need.
The Talbert Family Foundation was a breath of fresh air.
Their question, "What can we do for you?" filled us with hope. Friends, family and strangers wanted to know how they could donate money for Ayden's treatments. TFF allows just that. They provide a nonprofit platform where people can donate to Ayden or other TFF beneficiaries, and donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law. In return, the families get 100 percent of the money. No administrative fees, no salary payouts – just a way for people to generously help and be sure that their entire donation goes directly to the person they are supporting.
We were surprised when one of dozens of medications that Ayden would need was billed at $1,100 per month – our cost after $3,000 was billed to insurance. I thought the pharmacy had made a mistake. I left that day maxing out another credit card. Then Julie Talbert stepped in and took the burden off our hands. The Talbert Family Foundation paid the bill.
In July, a group of friends started planning a benefit for Ayden and another TFF recipient. When they needed advice, Talbert was there to answer questions and help guide them in making it a success for everyone involved. Sadly, the other child lost her battle with cancer. TFF asked whether they could help with the funeral costs.
The Talbert Family Foundation has given us hope and help when we needed it most. We are forever grateful for them.
– Misty Elsasser is the mother of four children, including Ayden, who was diagnosed with a medulloblastoma on March 14, 2012. To support Ayden, visit fb.me/AydensPlace.
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This got me thinking (and I've thought of it before):
I agree totally that during the NFL regular season, every game feels important as there's just one game every week. Each and every game means a lot, and there's 6 days to buzz about it and get the excitement built up.Originally Posted by PacerFanAdamThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I think the NBA could be the same way. 16 games is far too short, but 82 games is quite a lot, too. I wonder if there's a way to split the difference? Reality says no way in hell does this ever happen, but I still want to speculate. I'm just throwing this # out, but what if the regular season was cut in half, to 41 or maybe to round it down, 40 games? Still plenty of time to work through things as a team, but the players will be much fresher, and I'd wager much healthier, all season, and each regular season game suddenly means a lot more, so intensity and fan excitement would both increase substantially.
I'm not trying to look at this from a business perspective, so don't even go there if you can help it; I know that's why this will never happen: $ goes down for the league unless they get creative.
But looking at it from an entertainment and quality of sport perspective, I think it could be a really good thing if handled properly. Build more interest in the game, for the players and the fans.


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I wouldn't miss the Santa Claus Parade for all the Lambs at the liquor store.
As I mentioned a few columns back, Dad's office was above the Family Barber Shop, across from the War Memorial on Duckworth Street, so all of us children would watch in anticipation from the second-storey window for the first float to appear. Then we'd beat it down the splintery stairs to watch the procession. I was terrified of a clown named Boob who knew Dad and used to thwock me with his belly knocker. I'd want to race back upstairs and watch the rest of the parade from the safety of the window.
This year on Sunday, not only can we look forward to the Santa Claus Parade but also the official kick-off of the 2012 Old Fashioned Christmas Raffle. If you're among the thousands of people watching the parade on Water Street, pop in to 336 Water (a few doors west of Bistro Sophia) and your mind will be carried back to another raffle from another time. Like the Mount Cashel Raffle before it, all proceeds from the Old Fashioned Christmas Raffle go to charity — The Autism Society of Newfoundland and Labrador and Opera on the Avalon.
Two years ago when the idea of an Old Fashioned Christmas Raffle was conceived, Elaine Dobbin, patron of the The Autism Society of Newfoundland and Labrador, asked Cheryl Hickman, founder and artistic director of Opera on the Avalon to partner with Autism, as she thought they were a worthy cause and they could add value in terms of organizing and volunteers.
Opera on the Avalon is an annual festival held in June which brings world-renowned teachers in the opera world to mentor young emerging artists who also come from all over. The participants immerse themselves in lessons and master classes and the festival culminates in two fully staged operas complete with sets, costumes and orchestra. The event is a great opportunity for young artists and it has brought opera to our province.
Gerrie Nicholas, event organizer and volunteer, says preparing for and running the raffle has been a moving experience.
"The first year I went to distribute posters at RONA (which used to be Chester Dawe) — if you've ever been you know they have long-standing employees who have been there forever — when I mentioned the old Mount Cashel Raffle, this man's eyes lit up and he started talking about the sawdust on the floor, live turkeys and how the raffle was part of everyone's Christmas tradition," says Nicholas.
"Then a group assembled because they too had fond memories to share. It was magical," says the only non-townie on the Raffle committee. "Having grown up in Carbonear I was not familiar with the raffle. I have come to know it through the eyes and stories of those I've come in contact with. One man at RONA told me his mother worked at Mount Cashel as a caregiver to the orphans. Her work there was enriching and when they closed, she continued to nurture the boys."
Don O'Keefe grew up at Mount Cashel and worked at that raffle from the age of seven until it closed in the 1980s.
"I was there during the Second World War, ringing the bell," says O'Keefe. "In later years I sold tickets and did the microphone bit. I had to repeat the same thing every 30 seconds.
"Two for five, four for 10, women can do it as well as the men, or Don't pass by, come in and try." Try your luck to win a frozen chicken, turkey or ham is what O'Keefe is referring to.
"Later on, when we realized Mom and Dad wanted to win something for the children, we started bringing in teddy bears and stuffed toys," says O'Keefe, who basically ran the raffle some years. "The Christian Brothers came and went every four years, but I was there all the time. They'd come to me and say, 'What's on the go here?'"
Ron Coady who grew up on Newtown Road remembers going to the Raffle as a child. "You'd go inside and it'd be jampacked. There'd be fellas spinning the wheel shouting, 'two for a nickel, four for a dime'. It was always hot in there with live turkeys and a mess of tickets and sawdust on the floor."
After Coady married he used to bring his children to the raffle. "I took the two kids down one year and after spending $180, I still had nothing," says Coady. "Don O'Keefe took me aside and said, 'I'll sell you anything for $5.'"
The Raffle meant a lot to O'Keefe. "After I moved out I still knew the boys who were still residents and saw them growing up right up to the '80s. I was going back home every time I went to the raffle. I felt at home."
Dobbin says many people have fond memories of the Mount Cashel Raffle and love the fact that the raffle has been brought back, even if only for a few days and a different cause. "One couple came in and said their grandparents started taking them to the raffle," says Dobbin. "But they never had the opportunity to share it with their children, so they were thrilled to now share such happy memories with their grandchildren."
"I attend a lot of fund raisers," says Dobbin. "But this one is different because it is unsophisticated. Better still, it's affordable for everyone and a reminder that fun can be in simple things."
So here are the goods on this year's raffle. It'll only be downtown one day — Sunday, Nov. 25, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Then it'll be at the Avalon Mall next to the fireplace in the food court for two days — Saturday, Dec. 8, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Dec. 9, noon-5 p.m.
The average time between spins is eight minutes, but the bigger the crowd, the faster the spins. There are four events going on:
1. Wheel Spin: tickets are 50 cents — winner gets to pick from assortment of prizes of giftware and toys. Every 15 minutes there is a spin for a turkey or pail of salt meat donated by Terra Nova Foods (works like the Regatta spins).
2. Daily Hamper Draw: $5 ticket for a chance to win a Christmas food hamper (Christmas dinner and all trimmings)
3. Prize Draw: $5 ticket, with three winners drawn at close on Dec 9. Prizes include Christmas tree and wreath decorated by Eric White including 12 wrapped gifts, a 42" LG LCD flat screen TV donated by Sears and LG and a chest freezer also donated by Sears.
4. Car Draw: $1 ticket for 2013 Hyundai Accent (four-door) drawn Dec. 11.
If you'd like to help out, call the Autism Centre 722-2803. You can help out all the regular volunteers, including the staff of Pipers Stores and Targa Race organizers.
You might even be lucky enough to spot a celebrity. In past years Snook (Pete Soucy), Andy Jones, Mary Walsh and Fergus O'Byrne have all made appearances.
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Pat from Gander writes: "I love all your articles actually — but this one in particular. I am a librarian and love to share good reads. Just finished 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' by Rachel Joyce. This would be a great pick for your book club. It reminded me of 'Major Pettigrew's Last Stand' by Helen Simonson — which is another must read.
"I am reading 'Love Anthony' by Lisa Genoa. It's really good. As is 'A Walk Across the Sun,' and 'The World we Found.' Also — if your club enjoys Newfoundland and Labrador titles — Trudy Morgan Cole's books are well worth the read, and where she lives in (St. John's), she loves to attend book club meetings if invited. So many books … so little time … so little housework being done — ha! Read on! Keep up the good writing, too."
Alison writes: "I wanted to say that I really enjoyed your book club article. As a librarian, I love seeing people enjoy books. There are some great titles there that I will have to check out — I have meant to read 'Still Alice' for a while now. I just had one note for you — Lionel Shriver is a female. She wrote the very chilling 'We Need to Talk About Kevin."
Kevin writes: "I enjoyed this article. It may have been an editing issue, but I couldn't help noticing that you refer to Lionel Shriver as "he." Remember, she won the Orange Prize for "We Need to Talk About Kevin."
(Susan's note: Oops.)
Tonya writes: "I always look forward to your informative, upbeat articles in The Telegram. Your last one on your book club made me think of a related theme to suggest to you for a future article. For instance, how does one find a book club to join?
"As you may know, many book clubs operate in St. John's, each one with different ways of gaining members, selecting books and choosing venues for discussion. …
"For example, I belong to two clubs (for a while I was in three and having to read three books a month!), each of them operating quite differently. One, which you can check out online (see www.mun.ca/wamun), has grown from a single group in the 1970s reading mostly fiction to a non-fiction group and three sections of the mostly fiction group. The latter meets two afternoons and one evening per month to accommodate members' schedules, with all sections reading the same book.
"If you recall, a couple of years ago The Globe and Mail, in its weekend Arts section, for a time highlighted a different book club each weekend and it was always interesting to read about how it originated and so on. I'm sure you receive many column suggestions from your readers so you can just add mine to your stack."


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USOC July Athletes of the Month Announced
Nick Hanoian and Emily Vinson have been chosen as USOC July athletes of the month. Both athletes paddle in flatwater sprint kayak events. Nick Hanoian is a member of San Diego Canoe and Kayak Team. Emily Vinson is a member of Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club.
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When F1's 22 drivers revved their V6 turbo engines for the first start of the season in Melbourne three days ago, not everyone was impressed with what they heard.
Among them was Bernie Ecclestone, who wasted no time in telling anyone with a microphone that these engines, which he's hated all along, are wrong for Formula One.
It's no surprise Ecclestone should find himself underwhelmed by the first flying start with the new engine formula, because he wasn't there to hear it. Twenty-odd V6 turbo engines will sound a little gutless to you if you're in a different continent.
Australian Grand Prix promoter Ron Walker, who can usually be relied upon to toe the Ecclestone party line, also chimed in. Walker's widely-reported comments to The Age about the race being "not what be paid for" need to be seen in that context, as well as the fact that the Australian Grand Prix's contract is up for renewal next year.
With Ecclestone already talking about making changes to the engines to alter the acoustics within the next few races, a bit of perspective on the new sound is needed.
How concerned are F1 fans about the noise made by the new engines? An F1 Fanatic poll of 700 readers conducted during the weekend showed a mix of views with the balance of opinion towards the positive:
The majority of fans appear not to be unduly concerned by the noise but a significant minority (30%) aren't happy with what they're hearing. This tells us there's more right than wrong about the sound of the new engines, and though there is scope for improvement F1 should ensure any alteration is a change for the better, and prioritise that over acting hastily.
Leaving aside the question of whether anything can be done immediately, as the specifications of this year's engines were homologated last month, there are huge potential downsides to making sudden, ill-considered changes to the engine.
Tweaking the exhausts to increase the noise, for example, could seriously alter the performance and economy of the designs, with obvious consequences for each team's competitiveness. And having only just digested an enormous rise in engine development costs, F1 badly needs stability in its regulations to allow the cost of engines to fall and relieve the pressure on its smallest teams.
There's no doubting the new engines are quieter than the old ones. The FIA says the noise level has fallen from 145 decibels to 134, which at close quarters is still above the threshold of pain.
However as Ecclestone banished all but the wealthiest of fans from F1 paddocks three decades ago, few get that close. And if the blast of engine noise seemed underwhelming at Melbourne, a temporary venue where spectators can get fairly close to the action, it's going to be even less at vast expanses like Bahrain and Shanghai.
But sheer volume alone isn't everything, a point made by many readers in their responses to the poll above. Though quieter, each of the new engines offer distinctively different sounds, which the bland V8s didn't. They also allow fans at the track to hear other sounds – the screech of tyres locking and, usefully, the commentary on the public address system.
We also need to see the change in engine noise in its wider context. Formula One is not the only racing series embracing smaller-capacity turbo engines to stay in step with the needs of road car manufacturers. And noise pollution regulations are an increasing problem for some circuits, something quieter racing cars could help to address.
As Ecclestone's naked hostility to the new engine technology even extends to trashing his own sport in the press at the first race weekend of the new season, you have to wonder how hard his broadcasting company are trying to make the engines sound good as they can on television.
But by urging a rush to change the engines F1 risks making hasty, expensive and potentially controversial alterations which could cause more problems than they fix. Knee-jerk reactions like this usually cause the sport's biggest changes for the worst.
F1 should take time to see how the public's attitude to the engines develops, see if it is reflected in ticket sales and viewing figures, and make considered changes based on gathered data.
In the meantime its top priority should be to correct past knee-jerk mistakes – those which F1 fans have unequivocal views about:
- Vettel must cut out the temper tantrums
- Beginners' luck? Liberty Media's 100-day honeymoon
- The Bull that cried wolf: Red Bull threaten to quit F1 again
- Alonso's shock IndyCar move is good news for (almost) everyone
- F1 shouldn't get hung up about its looks – or sound
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Incheon, Korea, June 11, 2011 – In the third week of the 2011 FIVB World League, Italy held on to first place in Pool D with a 3-1 (23-25, 25-19, 25-21, 25-20) victory over Korea.
Korean center Lee Sun-Kyu's blocking helped Korea take the advantage early in the first set and he was ably supported by the fast attacks of Kim Jung-Hwan on the right and Lee Sun-Kyu in the center, enabling Korea to move into a two-point lead, which they were able to maintain to the end.
Italy responded by playing to their strengths with some good high blocks in the second set and cruised to a six-point margin of victory.
Italy continued with their good form in the third set and moved into a six-point lead at 12-6. Korea changed their lineup, bringing in Han Sun-Soo and Kwon Young-Min, which helped bring some stability to the team, but they were too far back to turn things around.
Korea went ahead in the fourth set behind the serves of Kim Jung-Hwan and Choi Hong-Suk's sustained attacks, but Italy recovered with strong defence and powerful offense, and were five points ahead at the end.


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Pixies Fire Kim Shattuck
Kim Shattuck has been fired from the Pixies, according to a tweet the bummed bassist fired off last night. Shattuck — previously best known as frontwoman for SoCal pop-punk mainstays the Muffs — had joined the band earlier this year to replace founder Kim Deal, who announced her departure just before the alt-rock heroes surprised fans in June with 'Bag Boy,' their first new music in a decade.
"Disappointed to learn that my time w/Pixies ended today," Shattuck tweeted. "Amazing experience.Focusing attn on Muffs & new album. All the best to everyone."
As the NME points out, Shattuck was notably absent in group interviews, and while lead singer Frank Black and guitarist Joey Santiago had both praised Deal's fill-in, noting the enthusiasm she'd brought to recent live shows, her silence may have been indicative of friction within the band.
The remaining Pixies have yet to comment on Shattuck's apparent dismissal or reveal who will handle bass duties when they hit the road in January with Best Coast, Cults and FIDLAR on an extensive North American tour. Spunky punk bassists named Kim might want to start updating their resumes.


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I was flipping channels the other night when I came across the nearly unwatchable Hall Pass (2011), a simpleminded movie with an even simpler premise: When the partners in a long-term marriage get sexually antsy, they start fantasizing —
And they become obsessed with the question, "Will I ever have sex with anyone but my wife/husband before I die?"
Two suburban dads, Rick and Fred (played by Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis), get the chance to find out when their wives, Maggie and Grace (Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate), grant them a once-in-a-marriage "hall pass" — a weeklong free ticket to sexual adventure. Their rationale seems to be that a lighthearted fling might forestall an actual affair. Also implied is the notion that a good marriage should be able to withstand this sort of sexual generosity.
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What do I think? I think they're playing with fire.
No matter how casual its immediate lustful attraction, sex often develops into an emotional bond — one that could threaten the original couple. I also believe that most people are way more territorial than they let on. They can easily imagine themselves handling a free night out, but it's nearly impossible for them to visualize their partner in the throes of passion with someone else.
"Let's be honest here," you might reasonably say. "Lots of people have a sexcapade without their partner discovering it. Wouldn't it be more honest — more respectful — to be open with each other?"
Um, no. Toby Keith summed it up nicely when he wrote, "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." His line gets at the truism that secrets may be a good thing: Even if both parties agreed to the experiment ahead of time, learning what happened in the sex lab can haunt one or both spouses so much that it destroys the relationship. Isn't that what nearly scuttled Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore's marriage in Indecent Proposal? (Your own hall pass, of course, is unlikely to feature a million-dollar proposition from Robert Redford.)
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So consider the potential emotional fallout from getting, or granting, a hall pass of your own: Regardless of what the two of you consent to in advance, you could easily find yourselves unable to handle the emotional wreckage of your own hearts.
That said, I feel honor bound to report that I've seen a hall pass or two invoked without catastrophe.
One couple in a very long marriage confided to me that they had always followed a "5 percent privacy" rule — a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy that freed each of them to devote one night in 20 to whatever they wished to do. This time off could include having sex outside the relationship, but it remained unknowable to (and inviolable by) the other party.
Their arrangement worked beautifully for more than 40 years. Then came the rocky night when it emerged that the husband had always viewed the pact as purely theoretical, whereas his wife had been putting it into regular practice. Though shocked to learn that his wife had been redeeming her hall pass, he was forced to simmer down when she reminded him that he had agreed to this state of affairs four decades earlier. The 5 percent clause was kept in place. The relationship stayed strong and happy.
Still, I can't help wondering: What if that man hadn't reacted so graciously when he learned that philosophy had morphed into reality? Theirs was, and is, a swell marriage — but what if that hall pass had become a "Hell, no!"?
If my position sounds conservative, it's because I'm dedicated to conserving happy couples. I understand the desire for sexual variety and adventure. But I also think it's impossible to know how we would react if we agreed to a hall pass — and it actually happened.
See also: The Male View of Marriage: Listen In
So, alluring as it is, I have to say "pass" on the hall pass. Loyalty and exclusiveness build the trust and commitment that a relationship needs to endure. Non-monogamy happens, sure — but to build it into a marriage is way too risky.
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Today: While the Dow gains to set a second consecutive record closing price, Apple (AAPL) and other tech stocks decline. Also: SolarCity's first earnings report as a public company shows much larger losses than expected, and Microsoft owes big money to the EU.
Dow continues to set records, but Apple and Google hold back tech stocks
The Dow's record-breaking rally kept going Wednesday on the strength of more positive news on the U.S. economy, but Apple's volatility continued with a drop that helped send tech stocks down on the day.
One day after establishing a record closing high, the Dow Jones industrial average climbed another 0.3 percent to set a new all-time high, as investors were cheered by a private reading of payroll records that showed employers added 198,000 jobs in February, more than the 152,000 economists expected the federal government to announce in Friday's jobs report.
While some expected a pullback after the record levels seen Tuesday, experts said that continuing strong reports on the economy will prevent such an occurrence, as belief that the U.S. economy is on the right track is the main factor behind Wall Street's resurgence.
"When you reach a record high, it triggers introspection about whether we're overvalued, but I don't expect a pullback because the reasons we've climbed are still in place," David Joy, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial, told Reuters. "The market has the opportunity to move higher until there's evidence those factors will die out."
While the Dow set another record, the other two main U.S. stock indexes trailed, with Apple's inability to sustain positive momentum a large factor. The Cupertino tech giant fell 1.3 percent to $425.66 Wednesday, pulling its market capitalization lower than $400 billion and handing the title of most valuable U.S. company back to Exxon Mobil — the third consecutive day that the two companies have switched spots on the list.
While Apple stock has plunged more than 35 percent from highs seen in 2012, analysts have continued to support it, with price targets averaging more than $600 for the stock, even as it struggles to touch $450 a share. That support seemed to crack on Wednesday, however, as Citigroup and Barclay's lowered their price targets for Apple and expressed concerns that the reigning champ of consumer devices may soon lose that title as well.
Citi, which already had a lower-than-consensus price target of $500, dropped it even further to $480 and used the words that most scare Apple investors: "reduced demand."
"Indications of reduced demand to Apple's suppliers contribute to our existing concerns that end demand for 10-inch iPad and iPhone 5 in particular is softening, reflecting share loss by Apple in both the tablet market and the smartphone market," the investment bank's trio of Apple analysts wrote, mirroring earlier reports of lessening demand for Apple products that contributed to earlier Apple stock weakness.
Barclay's dropped its price target from $575 to $530, expressing optimism nonetheless, and Merrill Lynch analyst Scott Craig maintained his price target but reported that search volume for the iPhone is dipping at a worrisome amount.
Not all the news Wednesday was bad for Apple, however: the company still has the highest share of the U.S. smartphone market, according to a ComScore report, and actually had a larger lead on Samsung than in previous quarter's report. CEO Tim Cook also has met with the leader of Beats Electronics to discuss a streaming-music service, according to a Reuters report, which Apple could use to boost iTunes.
Google (GOOG), which had been booming as Apple waned, dropped as well Wednesday, despite a Bloomberg investigation that showed a valuation gap between Apple and Google that should make the latter even more attractive to investors, with the added bonus that Google has its fingers in so many more pies than Apple.
"There's only one company benefiting from all the growth areas of the Internet — be it video, mobile, local, social, display advertising," B. Riley analyst Sameet Sinha told Bloomberg News, speaking of Google. "Apple has just done well in devices, nothing else."
Google dropped 0.8 percent to $831.38.
Other large-cap Silicon Valley companies gained Wednesday, with the two area firms that are included in the Dow among the strongest performers. Cisco (CSCO) gained 2.3 percent for the second straight day, and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) increased 2.8 percent as reports suggested it was looking into the price necessary to purchase rival Dell. Intel (INTC) and Oracle (ORCL) also gained, adding 1.1 percent apiece, helping the SV150 index and Nasdaq avoid a large negative swing with Apple and Google losses.
SolarCity stock plunges in late trading following disappointing earnings report
One of Silicon Valley's newest entrants to the market was pounded by investors after its first earnings report as a public company Wednesday, as San Mateo's SolarCity announced that its losses in the last three months of 2012 were more than double what analysts expected.
The solar installer reported losses of $1.10 a share on revenues of $25.3 million, far below average expectations of 49 cents a share on revenues of $36.7 million, according to Thomson Reuters.
The company has found many willing investors since its December initial public offering, with shares rising heartily from the $8 IPO price in the first day of public trading and continuing to steadily rise through Wednesday's session, when the stock closed with a gain of 3.9 percent at $19.27. However, shares plunged more than 9 percent in after-hours trading following the earnings report's release Wednesday, trading closer to $17.50.
The unhappy news for the solar sector came on the heels of a strong trading day, as Raymond James upgraded the top two solar manufacturers in the United States, First Solar and San Jose's SunPower (SPWRA). Those two stocks gained 3.2 percent and 1.8 percent respectively as analysts said the risk-reward imbalance previously seen in the sector was easing.
Microsoft penalized for breaking antitrust pact with European Union
Microsoft was a trailblazer Wednesday, but not in a good way — the software giant became the first company found to break a settlement agreement with the European Union, and will pay handily for it.
The EU found that the Washington company failed to live up to its end of a pact on the Internet Explorer Web browser, the focus of antitrust charges against the company that led to a 2009 deal. Microsoft was supposed to ensure that consumers who purchased a Windows operating system were presented with a choice on Web browsers, which it failed to do in millions of Windows 7 installations.
The penalty: $733 million, which many observers called excessive. Keith Hylton, a professor of law at Boston University, told AP the fine was "far in excess of any benefit Microsoft could have gotten from the error, and vastly in excess of any harm to EU consumers, who are all aware of alternatives to Internet Explorer."
Microsoft stock fell 0.9 percent Wednesday to close at $28.09.
Silicon Valley tech stocks
Up: SolarCity, Tesla, HP, Cisco, Ruckus, SunPower, Symantec, NetApp, Oracle, Intel, Workday, Gilead, Splunk, Juniper, Netflix (NFLX), Electronic Arts
Down: eBay (EBAY), Jive, LinkedIn, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Palo Alto Networks, VMware, Yahoo (YHOO), Zynga, Applied Materials, Adobe (ADBE), Facebook
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Down 1.76, or 0.05 percent, to 3,222.37
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 42.47, or 0.3 percent, to 14,296.24
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Up 1.67, or 0.11 percent, to 1,541.46
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Ages 15-18 (H.S seniors may attend)
Location: Kaiser Stadium-Queens, NY
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Starts: 9:00am / Ends: 6:00pm
Camp Cost: $125.00
Thank you for your interest in the Ed Blankmeyer Red Storm H.S Summer Mini Camp. This is an excellent opportunity for you to meet the Red Storm coaching staff and familiarize yourself with St John's University campus.
The Ed Blankmeyer Red Storm H.S Summer Mini Camp will provide you with valuable instruction for your development as a player and an opportunity for you to display your talents.
The one-day mini clinic will consist of a Professional style workout and live games overseen by the St John's University coaching staff along with a selected staff of area high school coaches and college players.. We are looking forward to your participation.
During and after games there will be an optional campus tour for any players or parents.
Interested in a group rate of 5 or more players? Please e-mail Ed Blankmeyer at email@example.com or call 718 990 6148
This session is designed for the prospective student-athlete who has a serious interest
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Players receive:
1 day of elite professional instruction
Dual position option. Pitch and play a position for a additional $30.00
Opportunity to meet, learn & be evaluated by current SJU coaching staff & players
Invaluable experience for future baseball success
Remaining spaces as follows:
Pitchers 4
Catchers 3
1st basemen 1
2nd basemen ..... Closed
Third basemen 1
Shortstop .... Closed
Outfielders 2
Tentative schedule:
July 24th
08:30 a.m: Registration
09:15 a.m: Stretch
09:30 a.m: Live defense
11:00 a.m: Batting practice
12:30 p.m: Lunch
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03:30 p.m: Game 2
06:00 p.m: Game 3 (if necessary)
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Please check your email regularly as this is our primary way we communicate. Any additional information that we need to convey as the camp draws closer will be passed on to you via the e-mail address that you supplied when you signed up for camp. Please make it a habit to check your e-mail daily, this will eliminate any confusion and or miscommunication.
Check-in for camp will begin at 8:30am at the field. Rain date will be July 25th
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From the East (LI): Northern State Parkway west, exit at 188th street. Turn left at light and make immediate right onto service road. Follow service road to Utopia Parkway (2nd light) and make right to campus on left OR Long Island Expressway west, exit at Utopia Parkway (Exit 25), left on Utopia Parkway take to Union Turnpike. Continue through Union Turnpike. Campus is on right. Entrance is on right. Enter through Gate 1.
From the West (Brooklyn): Belt Parkway (east) to Van Wyck Expressway (678N), exit on Main Street Union Turnpike.
Proceed to third traffic light, make a right turn onto Grand Central Parkway service road to Utopia Parkway, make left on Utopia. Campus is on left. Entrance is on left. Enter through Gate 1. OR Jackie Robinson Parkway (east) to Grand Central Parkway (east), exit at Utopia Parkway and take a left at Utopia Parkway. Campus
Lunch will be provided and players are also welcome to bring snacks.
This is day camp only. No overnight option available.
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NASCAR is doing the right thing by allowing the National Rifle Association to sponsor a Sprint Cup race next month at Texas Motor Speedway.
By doing so, it should be noted that NASCAR is not endorsing the NRA by letting the controversial organization sponsor a race. It's just letting a racetrack cash the NRA's check.
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Texas Motor Speedway announced Monday that it's April 13 Sprint Cup race will be called the NRA 500, a deal that has stirred up considerable debate over the track aligning itself with the politically charged organization, especially at a time when gun control is such a controversial issue.
While the NRA is a polarizing group, it is not a hate nor discriminatory organization. With the difficulty in finding sponsors these days, NASCAR is not in a position to tell tracks not to take a sponsorship deal that likely exceeds $1 million.
It's highly unlikely that anyone who opposes the NRA is all of a sudden going to join the organization because it sponsors a NASCAR race. Seriously, is anyone who supports gun control going to change his or her opinion because the NRA sponsored a NASCAR race? That might work for a beer company or a restaurant, but it's not going to work for one of the most political organizations in the country.
NASCAR publicly supported a sponsorship deal last month designed to honor and raise money for the 26 victims of the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. Michael Waltrip's No. 26 Swan Racing Daytona 500 car carried a message asking fans to donate to the Sandy Hook School Support fund to help families of the victims and people in the Newtown, Connecticut community.
Yes, the NRA could see a small boost in fund-raising from NASCAR fans who already support the organization so it might make some of the money it spends for the sponsorship back through donations. People who have been meaning to join might end up joining because of the race sponsorship.
But just because the NRA might use this to increase its membership and fund its efforts is not reason enough for NASCAR to say no.
Many charities and organizations have attached their names to NASCAR races, and requiring NASCAR to do research on who actually bankrolls those groups and make a decision on whether they should sponsor a race or not opens up a minefield.
NASCAR can't get into the business of delving into the politics of every race sponsor. Plenty of companies have policies that NASCAR wouldn't endorse. If it banned the NRA sponsorship, would it also have to ban sponsorship from Chick-Fil-A over its support of anti-gay groups?
Hopefully, this dust-up will fuel even more debate on the influence and policies of the NRA that can help supporters and opponents alike make more informed decisions.
That being said, NASCAR officials can't just stick their heads in the sand. NASCAR does need to watch this sponsorship carefully. If it gets a sense that fans don't watch the race because of the sponsorship, then it might need to get involved.
My gut feeling tells me, though, that it won't have a measurable impact. If it does, then it's likely that the track won't renew the sponsorship — bad ratings impact the sales price for a race sponsorship, and TMS' parent company, Speedway Motorsports Inc., has too many of those to sell to have a sponsor that drives down that value.
The bottom line is the NRA wants access to NASCAR fans because it hopes they will hear its name, consider its message and join its cause.
There's nothing wrong with that. I have confidence in NASCAR fans that they don't follow any group blindly. They're smart enough to make decisions for themselves, regardless of who is sponsoring the race.
So let the NRA sponsor the race in Texas, where it will be well supported by many of its gun-owning fans.
It's OK for NASCAR to allow sponsorships that might make fans more responsible members of society rather than just deciding whether Jeff Foxworthy's Grit Chips (a sponsor of an upcoming race) are any good or not.