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Versatile actor Peter Falk returns to his role as the legendary cigar smoking sleuth, Columbo.
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"I love the smell of cigar smoke," continues Falk, who also smokes cigarettes. "I remember Joe Mantegna inviting me to a party at this restaurant on Beverly Boulevard that Jack Nicholson owns. I think it's called the Monkey Bar, and it's also part cigar club. Well, when I walked in there, there was such a thick cloud of cigar smoke that you could hardly see across the room. I got hit by that great smoke. Oh, it was heaven. It reminded me of the old Madison Square Square Garden or my days in the pool room when I was a kid growing up in Ossining, New York. You just don't find many public places today where you can go and fill your lungs and nostrils with delicious second hand smoke.
"Recently I went to a party Dabney Coleman was throwing for his daughter, who had just got married. Well, a guy there took out a Cuban cigar and handed it to me. I thanked him and eagerly lit it up. I was so eager I didn't even bother to get out my cigarette lighter. I just grabbed the candle on the table where my wife and I were sitting and used that. Well, the first couple of puffs were heaven. And then suddenly the whole 25-buck cigar went up in flames that got bigger and bigger. I said, 'What is this--Halloween?' I thought it was a trick someone was playing on me. I nearly burnt the joint down before I could put it out. At that point I couldn't see what was so great about a Cuban cigar. And then it dawned on me what had happened. I'd gotten wax from the candle all over the cigar when I was lighting it. That's what turned it into an incendiary missile from Havana."
Falk laughs and, cocking his head to one side in his inimitable Columbo fashion, adds, "I guess the point of all this is that as much as I like to smoke them, the affection and the care that real cigar smokers heap upon their stogies is something that is absent with me."
Falk enjoys smoking cigars so much that the plot of his first "Columbo" of the new season, "A Trace of Murder," which aired in May on ABC, was built around cigar smokers. "The fellow who gets killed doesn't smoke cigars; the fellow that they're framing does smoke cigars. Who's framing him? The wife, or the man she's having an affair with? Now Columbo goes to the murder scene. So does the man who's having an affair with the wife; he's the forensic expert on the case. So the forensic guy is the one involved in framing her husband, who he and the wife are trying to get rid of so they can live happily ever after. Or should it be 'whom'? Well, who the hell cares about good grammar in such a suspenseful situation?" He interrupts himself with a laugh. "One of the ways they frame him is to leave a piece of the kind of cigar that he smokes at the scene of the murder. This cigar is an expensive one. It's made of a very distinctive kind of Havana tobacco leaf, and it becomes an important piece of evidence."
Despite Falk's heavy cigarette habit, he hasn't slowed down. "I've been smoking 55 years and my mother, who's 92, has been puffing for 71. It's easy for me to deceive myself that it's all in the genes. I've never even tried to quit. I must admit, however, I have imagined looking in the mirror on the [hypothetical] day I got the bad news regarding the 'big C' and saying, 'You weak, stupid sonofabitch. It serves you right.' "
Falk says he can understand the position of vocal nonsmokers, but "I just wish they weren't so wacky. You could light a cigarette in the Grand Canyon and, 12 miles away, there's a voice with a pair of binoculars saying, 'Put that out! I'm allergic to smoke.' For Christ's sakes," he laments, "I hear you can't even light up outdoors at Dodger Stadium anymore. What kind of a world is this getting to be where you're not even allowed to smoke outdoors at a ball game?"
Peter Falk was born in Manhattan on Sept. 16, 1927, to Michael and Madeline Falk. Later the family moved to the Bronx, and when Falk was around 6, they settled in Ossining, on the Hudson River, a hamlet better known for the presence of Sing Sing Penitentiary than for being the childhood home of the future Lieutenant Columbo.
Falk's mother is Russian and his father was Polish, with a mix of Hungarian and Czech further back in their ancestry. So, contrary to Falk's public image, he is not an Italian but a mixture of very hardy Eastern European stock.
In Ossining, Michael and Madeline made a fairly good living running a dry goods store. Because of its proximity to Sing Sing, Ossining benefited from the traffic going to and from the penitentiary and therefore was more prosperous than many small towns during the Great Depression years.
But the Falks had more serious problems than trying to make a living in those days. "When I was three years old, I was attending a pre-kindergarten school, in the Bronx," Falk recalls. "Because my mom was working in my father's store, there was no one at home to take care of me, so I attended one of those day-care places. One day my teacher called my mother in and told her that I ought to have my eyes examined, because I was always cocking my head to one side when I was attempting to look at something. So my mom took me to a doctor, who examined me and found a malignancy in my right eye. He took her aside and told her that I'd have to have the eye taken out right away. So like in a day or two, they checked me into the hospital. I remember standing in front of an open elevator door with my mother and the doctor in the hospital. I wasn't quite sure what was happening to me. Suddenly Mom said to me, 'You just get in the elevator, son. I have to go back to your room and get my purse.' Then the doctor took my hand and walked me into the elevator. I remember telling him, 'Just hold on a minute. My mother went to get her purse. She'll be right here.'
"The next thing I knew I was asleep, and it was all over."
Pretty traumatic for a three-year-old to wake up and find he had only one eye.
"Another memory I have of that period is of me and my mother standing in front of a store window, looking at eye patches. I wore one in the beginning, but after I was a little older they gave me a glass eye. Glass eyes aren't as practical as the plastic ones that came in a little later. In hot weather the glass eye used to stick. I remember being told to take it out every night and put it in a glass of water. Sometimes I did, and sometimes I got careless and just put it on the table next to my bed. After a while the glass eye starts getting scratched, and it has to be replaced if you don't want to look like you have a terrible hangover. But the plastic eye is much lighter, and more comfortable."
Falk admits that in the beginning he was terribly self-conscious about having a glass eye, and dreaded the moment when someone would ask him about it. "But then there's that time when you finally realize that no one gives a shit whether you have one eye or two. What helped me was knocking around doing sports with the guys."
Falk participated in most of the team sports in school, baseball and basketball in particular. He was good at both games in spite of his handicap, once he got over his self-consciousness. "I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, 'Try this.' I got such a laugh you wouldn't believe."
In spite of his size, the five-foot-nine Falk also made the town basketball team, which during the season went up against the Sing Sing team, inside the prison. "Because of my eye I wasn't a very good shooter, but because of my size I was fast as hell and that's why they used me. But the inmates were too tough for us. We got our ass beaten by them.I remember one inmate who was a terrific player. His name was Piggy Sands. He was in for life. But he sure could play basketball."
During his senior year, Falk received his first taste of acting (except for an appearance in a summer camp play several years before) when he filled in for a fellow student who had fallen sick two days before the performance. Ironically, he played a detective, taking the stage in the third act.
Although he was a good student, Falk had no idea of what he wanted to do when he got out of high school in 1945. The one way of making a living that never crossed his mind was becoming an actor. "In Ossining when I was growing up, I put my time in on the street corner, or in the pool room, and I liked sports but of course could never play any of them professionally because of my one eye. But I would have been embarrassed to tell any of my friends that I had any idea of being an actor. My conception of being an actor was very naive and very romantic. I thought actors were some rare species. I thought they were artists, and I thought artists were Europeans. I thought they were from Europe, because I never saw any actors where I came from."
In the summer of 1945, Falk enrolled in Hamilton College in upstate New York. "I thought college was going to be like high school, where I never worked too hard to get by. I loved everything about high school and I thought college would be the same. But when I got up there, I was in for a shock. No women. Small population because of the war. And half of the guys were veterans who had been in the war and were up there studying. They were very serious, so it was no fun there. And as I said, no girls. I only stayed about a month. So I thought I'd see if I could get in one of the [armed] services. The war was on its last legs, but it wasn't quite over."
Falk laughs as he remembers trying to join the Marines. A pharmacist's mate was giving the eye test, but according to Falk, he wasn't very sharp. "He never noticed that I covered my false eye twice and read the chart 20/20 both times with my good eye. I thought I was in, but suddenly the doctor in the next cubicle looked over and said to the pharmacist, 'You dumb cluck, can't you see he's tricking you?' " With that, the doctor took over the examination and, of course, discovered Falk's glass eye.
Three months later, having been rejected by the armed services, he joined the Merchant Marine. "There they don't care if you're blind or not," says Falk. "The only one on a ship who has to see is the captain. And in the case of the Titanic, he couldn't see very well, either."
After he was assigned to a ship, Falk walked into the sleeping quarters, which were empty, "except for a big fat guy named Joe, who was sitting in the upper bunk across from mine. I don't know what got into me, but for some reason I decided to play a joke on him. So when he asked me how come a young kid like myself was in the Merchant Marine, I told him I had a slight physical problem. With that, I sat down in my bunk and took out my two front teeth--at that time I had a bridge on my upper front teeth. Anyway, I took it out and laid it on the bench in front of my bunk. Then I reached in and took out my eye and dropped it on the bench next to my teeth. It made a nice sound effect. As Joe was doing a double take, I then bent over and with both of my hands pretended to be twisting my leg, as if I had a false leg, which I was unscrewing to take off. Suddenly Joe's face went white, and he leaped off his bunk and said, 'I'm going out on deck for a while.' "
Harking back to his formative years, Falk says, "There's a time when you're young when you're very sensitive about things like a false eye. But once you get older you realize you can get a laugh with it. Now it's second nature to me. I mean, if somebody asks me which eye is the bad one, I have to stop and think about it."
After a year and a half in the Merchant Marine, Falk returned to Hamilton College, where he stayed for two years, except for the summer in between at the University of Wisconsin. He then transferred to the New School for Social Research in New York City, after which he fell in love with a girl and followed her to Paris.
The two bummed around Europe for a few months and wound up, after the border opened, behind the Iron Curtain in Yugoslavia, where Falk stayed for six months, supporting himself by working on a railroad for the Tito government, and, finally, succeeded in getting himself arrested over a minor incident involving currency that a restaurant wouldn't accept. After he was released, Falk returned to New York, thinking, "Jesus Christ. I'm 26 years old. I'd better do something about earning a living." Whereupon he enrolled in Syracuse University.
It was at Syracuse where Falk met his first wife, Alyce Mayo. He married her five years later, in 1958. The couple eventually adopted and raised two daughters, Jackie, now 29, and Catherine, 26. Alyce and Peter were divorced in 1976 but remain friendly.
Prior to enrolling at Syracuse, Falk received a bachelor's degree in literature and political science from the New School around 1950. He then earned a master's degree in public administration from Syracuse, which enabled him to land a job as an efficiency expert in Hartford for the state of Connecticut.
"I was such an efficiency expert that the first morning on the job, I couldn't find the building where I was to report for work," he recalls. "Naturally, I was late, which I always was in those days, but ironically it was my tendency never to be on time that got me started as a professional actor."
While he was working in Hartford, Falk got a hankering to start acting again. He'd had some experience fooling around in amateur productions, starting in high school and into his college days. So he joined a community theater group in Hartford called the Mark Twain Masquers, where he was paid nothing but acquired a lot of experience. "I did one play after another--The Caine Mutiny, The Crucible, The Country Girl...in fact, you name it, I did it.
"While I was with the Masquers, I learned that France's first lady of the theater, Eva La Gallienne, was giving an acting class for professionals at the White Barn Theater in Westport, Connecticut. La Gallienne was internationally famous, with a reputation as an actress that was right up there with Helen Hayes, Judith Anderson and the other important ladies of the theater.
"Westport was about two hours from Hartford, but I decided I'd like to see what it would be like to be working with professionals, so I drove down, and somehow lied my way into the group, which met every Wednesday. But I was always late because of the long drive down from Hartford. So I went to my boss--I had a vacation coming--and told him I didn't want a vacation. I just wanted him to let me off every Wednesday afternoon early. He said OK, but I was still always late because of the traffic. And my car, which was always breaking down.
"Now Eva La Gallienne was a very formidable woman, in keeping with her worldwide reputation, and she had very little patience with excuses. One evening when I arrived late, she looked at me and asked, 'Young man, why are you always late?' and I said, 'I have to drive down from Hartford.'"
She looked down her nose and said, "What do you do in Hartford? There's no theater there. How do you make a living acting?" Falk then had to confess that he wasn't a professional actor at all. Whereupon she looked at him sternly and said, "Well, you should be." That was all the aspiring actor needed to hear. He drove back to Hartford, and the next morning told his boss he was quitting.
Falk stayed with the La Gallienne group for a few months--just long enough to get a letter of recommendation from the renowned actress to a theatrical agent at the William Morris Talent Agency in New York.
"I don't remember his name," recalls Falk. "But I do remember that about three minutes into our meeting he told me, 'You know, son, you could never do television or the movies.' Now, I didn't know what he was talking about. It never occurred to me that he was talking about my eye, because it had become so natural with me to only have one eye. But aside from that, I didn't know what he meant. Whoever expected to be in the movies and go to Hollywood, anyway? I just wanted to be a stage actor. My goal was just to get into The Actors' Studio. That would have made me happy. And if my expectations went beyond that, I would have said, 'If I could just once be on Broadway, if I could walk into a bar and there were other actors there, and they would know that I was also an actor, and that I was making a living as an actor, that would be all I asked of life.' And television at the time--it was around 1952--was just starting, and who expected to get into that? So when this agent said that to me, I said, 'I just want to be on the stage.'"
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BLUEBIRDS striker Tom Knighton looks set for a move to Bridgwater Town after being released by Chippenham Town this week.
The 25-year-old has made just three starts under Bluebirds boss Mark Collier and opted to cancel his contract at Chippenham this week as he looks to link up with former Hardenhuish Park assistant Richard Fey at Bridgwater.
Knighton joined Chippenham from Yate Town in November 2012 and has found the net eight times so far this season.
"It looks like Tom's going to Bridgwater. He trains well and he's a good lad to have around, but he's not a glove that fits us, really," said Collier.
"He's a contracted player so he had to cancel his contract with us and then it became a financial issue – Tom and the club have agreed on that front.
"It's just a football issue with him and nothing else. He's not what we want from a front player, but we wish him well.
"We have to improve the squad and juggle the books as well. We can't just bring people in without sometimes moving other people out.
"We've moved Tom on and we're trying to mould our own team. We've inherited a squad of players and we'll continue to make sure that we bring the right ones in to improve as a side."
Collier is also hoping to snap up former Swindon Supermarine goalkeeper Kent Kauppinen, 22, as back-up for Ben John.
The Chippenham manager said: "The reason we're speaking to Kent is that Ben John's girlfriend is about to have a baby so we're just looking for some cover just in case that happens in the next few weeks and we're left without a goalkeeper.
"Kent's a free agent and he'll come to training tonight now that we've got a bit of space to organise the signing."

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Great Pocono Open
June 12-13, 2010
Hickory Run State Park, White Haven, PA
F.E. Walter Dam, Lake Harmony, PA
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FIELD IS LIMITED to 72 Pros & 90 Ams! With that being said, pre-registration is now open at http://www.greatpoconoopen.com/ and there are already pre-reg?s coming in!!!
Registration 8:00-9:15 @ Hickory Run/Players meeting
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Physical Abuse During Pregnancy
Although pregnancy is generally considered to be a happy time for couples, abuse can happen more often and get worse when women are pregnant. Not only do abusive men often become more abusive when their partners are pregnant, but a pregnancy can be the first time a woman experiences abuse from her partner. If your partner seems jealous of the developing baby or the extra attention you are getting; is more needy for your exclusive attention; tries to control where you go, who you see, or the money you use; verbally attacks you; or physically threatens you or someone else, you are at risk for physical abuse during your pregnancy.
If you are physically abused while pregnant, your baby is also at risk for physical harm or death. This is not a time to hope that the physical abuse will stop—some women find that violence gets worse when they are pregnant. This is a time to find safety for yourself and your child or children.
If you are concerned for your safety, devise a safety plan:
- Pack some clothes, toiletries, important papers, and phone numbers, and store them someplace away from home.
- Try to put together a private fund of cash.
- Identify a safe place to go, such as a women's shelter or a friend your partner does not know.
- Keep a list of emergency phone numbers, including a women's shelter and the police.
- Contact your local domestic violence prevention group for advice and support.
- Seek assistance from your health professional's office if you need help, are injured, or don't know where to go.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline can link you to help in your area. A nationwide database includes detailed information on domestic violence shelters, other emergency shelters, legal advocacy and assistance programs, and social service programs.
Contact information
- Call 1-800-799-SAFE (1-800-799-7233).
- Call 1-800-787-3224 (TTY).
- Visit the website at www.ndvh.org.
- Send email to firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also send email through the website's contact page. (Email is not confidential or secure.)
Current as of: November 20, 2015
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review: Sarah Marshall, MD - Family Medicine & Kirtly Jones, MD - Obstetrics and Gynecology
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The Evolution of the Google Search
Posted by Carrie Smaha | Posted in Search Engine Marketing | Posted on 13-01-2012
The results are in. Google's "Search Plus Your World" feature will be emerging over the next couple days. This format will be the most substantial change Google has ever made to their search results. Google continues to evolve search capabilities for public, personalized, social and private content.
In 2005, Google began including personalized content in search results, but only for people that opted-in. Then in 2009, Google took another step towards more complete search results by including social content. This content stems from people you know, not your personal behavior. Originally, personalized and social search results were listed separately, but in 2011 they merged to provide one all-encompassing result feed.
The Search Plus Your World takes the all-encompassing result feed one step further by including private content. Now before you write Google a threatening email, the private content search results are only shared with you, not the world. Private content is pulled from the Google+ social network and includes wall posts, photos, profiles and any other materials that you or friends from your Google+ network have shared. In a basic explanation, 'private content' is truly content that you have shared through your Google+ account and is now being incorporated into your search results and the search results of your Google+ friends.
Read more to see how Google's Results Get More Personal with "Search Plus Your World."


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A driver who took a teenage girl on a high-speed police chase that ended in a crash could face jail.
Officers on patrol in Chaucer Gardens, Sutton, spotted Croydon man Rhys Cleary with a 16-year-old girl behaving suspiciously behind the wheel of a Vauxhall Zafira on Wednesday, March 26.
One of the officers approached the car to speak to Cleary but he sped away and turned right into Collingwood Road.
The officers gave chase in a marked car and followed the 25-year-old to Oldfields Road where he reached speeds of up to 90mph on the wrong side of the dual carriageway.
He ran through three sets of red traffic lights - past the spot where a speeding driver ran down and fatally injured traffic PC Andrew Duncan while he was on duty last year.
The route of the chase. Click on the letters for information
He proceeded to drive the wrong way around the Rosehill roundabout and only stopped when he crashed into a set of traffic lights in Bishopsford Road towards Mitcham.
Cleary still refused to give himself up to the police.
Unhurt in the crash, he fled the car on foot but police tracked him down to a garden in Pershore Grove and arrested him.
The teenage girl was also unhurt in the crash.
Cleary, of Coldharbour Lane, admitted dangerous driving, failing to stop when required by police, failing to stop after an accident, having no insurance and driving not in accordance with a licence in front of Croydon magistrates on Thursday, March 27.
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Donor Bill of Rights
The California State University and the California State University Foundation subscribe to the following Donor Bill of Rights endorsed by the American Association of Fundraising Counsel (AAFRC), the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), and the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).
Philanthropy is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To assure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the not-for-profit organizations and causes they are asked to support, it is declared that all donors have these rights.
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The Gforce Software impOSCar software synthesizer has been updated to version 2. Some of the new stuff includes a Ring Modulator, New Filter Types with Drive, Chord Memory and more. Far more interesting (to me anyway) is the insane hardware controller for it from Touch Digital Controllers. Just look at that image above! It's over 1k so you have to ask yourself if you would rather have a real analog synth.
"101 control inputs comprising; 83 knobs, 7 led lit buttons, 2 punch in/out switches and 9 momentary buttons with 9 linked led, midi in/out led, MIDI-in and 128 channel simultaneous USB and MIDI out processor. The 101 panel controls are all voltage controlled components so give the player the highest possible resolution into the digital domain. Beautiful custom made aluminium knobs – old school vibe!" – touchdigitalcontrollers.co.uk
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HOW TO: Jennifer Aniston's "California Babysitter"
Chris McMillan, Living Proof Spokesperson and the creator of many of top finishes on Hollywood Beauties, is offering his secret on how to create what he calls Jennifer Aniston's "California Babysitter" hair. "It's that hair that I always thought was cool when the sitter came over," he says. "It's just good, sexy hair. It's one of her favorite hair styles." The creation is really quite simple and McMillan relies on a great foundation of products to get the fresh, shiny and healthy finish.
McMillan, using all Living Proof products, offers his tips and techniques to get the look:
1. Wash and condition with Living Proof Full Shampoo and Conditioner.
2. Apply Full Mousse to wet hair. Massage around the crown for added volume.
3. Apply No Frizz Weightless Styling Spray to the hair to keep it looking smooth and healthy.
4. Place a deep, side fringe.
5. Using a large round brush, blow the hair straight.
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Green at home at PGA Tour q-school
Nathan Green hopes home-course advantage and last year's experience will help him through this week's second stage of US PGA Tour qualifying school.
The Novocastrian is among 24 Australians teeing it up at six different venues across the US for four rounds.
For the final time before new rules dismiss direct access to the PGA Tour, hundreds of golfers from around the world are competing to advance to the six-round final qualifying stage in Palm Springs from November 28-December 3.
From next year, the q-school will only provide access onto the secondary web.com Tour, with the cards which previously went to q-school graduates to be up for grabs in a playoff series between PGA Tour golfers who failed to retain cards and web.com Tour players who played well.
Green and Jarrod Lyle were the only Australians to go all the way through qualifying to reclaim tour cards last year.
The winner of the Canadian Open three years ago, Green tees it up for the second stage at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, with plenty of local knowledge as it's his home course in the USA.
He qualified through the same stage on the same course last year, on the number, before getting the last card in the final q-school stage with a blistering final round.
"It's disappointing to be back here again but I am always thinking there is light at the end of the tunnel to turn it around," Green told AAP.
"I think I'm a better golfer then what I have shown the last few years so I'd love to stay on tour and compete like I did my first few years.
"You just have to realise everyone is there for a reason. They've either had a bad year or there are a handful of good young guys who got through first stage.
"You just have to handle the nerves and get the job done.
"I have been here before and I know what it takes to get through and hopefully, at the end of the week, it's a good story for me."
Joining Green in second-stage action will be fellow Australians Aron Price, Daniel Nisbet, Steven Bowditch, Matt Jones, James Nitties, Michael Sim, David McKenzie, Rhein Gibson, Mathew Goggin, Jamie Arnold, Nick Flanagan, Matthew Griffin, Ashley Hall, Gavin Coles, Peter Lonard, Won Joon Lee, Anthony Summers, Steve Allan, Marcus Both, Nick Cullen, Luke Hickmott, Bryden MacPherson and Kieran Pratt.
The reality of the situation isn't lost on Sydney's Price.
"This is the last chance for guys to do a John Huh and go from making nothing to making $2 million," said Price of the American rookie who made it through 2011 q-school and went on to beat Australia's Robert Allenby in a playoff to win the tour event in Mexico early this season.
"There is a little bit of pressure and obviously this is my last chance to get to the PGA Tour this way."
Flanagan is in doubt after reportedly hurting his shoulder while surfing although he already has full status on the secondary web.com Tour for next year after winning an event in 2012.
Stuart Appleby will need to invoke a one-time exemption for being in the top 50 of lifetime money winners if he is to return to the top tour after he decided to play in the Australian Masters rather than Q-School.
Rod Pampling and Nick O'Hern have free passes to the final stage while Adam Scott, Jason Day, Geoff Ogilvy, Aaron Baddeley, John Senden, Greg Chalmers, Marc Leishman, Robert Allenby, Scott Gardiner, Cameron Percy and Alistair Presnell are already exempt for the 2013 US PGA Tour.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kanye West led a slew of new rap music debuts on the U.S. weekly Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday, as his latest album "Yeezus" topped the chart but fell below industry sales projections.
"Yeezus," West's seventh solo studio album, sold 327,000 copies in its first week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan, falling below Billboard's expectation of 500,000 copies sold.
The album scored the third biggest opening week sales this year, behind singer Justin Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience," which opened with 968,000 copies in March, and French electro-dance duo Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" debuting with 339,000 copies in May.
Unlike most albums that are promoted heavily ahead of release, "Yeezus" was released June 18 after West debuted new tracks at a music festival earlier in the month.
Despite the hurried release, critics gave the album positive reviews, saying West's aggressive lyrics and dance beats were "daring and "ambitious.
Rapper J. Cole landed at No. 2 this week as his sophomore album "Born Sinner" sold 297,000 copies, exceeding industry projections that placed sales around the 150,000 mark.
Indie rapper Mac Miller's "Watching Movies with the Sound Off" debuted at No. 3 with 101,000 copies sold.
Miller's strong opening echoes that of his first album, 2011's "Blue Slide Park," which became the first rap record produced by an independent label, Rostrum Records, to debut at No. 1 since 1995 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Last year, indie rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis' "The Heist" debuted at No. 2 and to date, has sold more than 843,000 copies in the United States, marking a growing presence of independently produced rap music on the music charts.
Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland debuted at No. 4 with her latest solo album "Talk a Good Game," rounding out the new albums debuting in the top 10 this week.


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Tiny Titans was an ongoing 50 issue comic series created by Art Balthazar that began its run in 2008 and ended earlier this year. It starred a miniaturized roster of Teen Titans characters set in an elementary school environment where Deathstroke is the principal and where detention is the greatest injustice they fight.
The Tiny Titans collectible figure set features the five main characters Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Raven.
The outer box is made to look like a school bus with the characters riding in the windows and Principle Slade driving. The artwork is done by Art Balthazar and features all sort of little details and characters all over, and a short comic strip on the back.
When you open the top of the box you see that each character is packaged in an individual bubble with unique character-themed backgrounds.
The figures themselves perfectly capture the art style of the comic and can be placed along an included logo base, complete with a hovering stand for Raven.
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Swine flu potentially devastating to less equipped nations - 17 Sep 2009
Swine flu potentially devastating to less equipped nations - 17 Sep 2009
With health authorities saying that total number of cases is too high to attempt a count, swine flu fatalities globally have reached 3,751. The death toll rose in Venezuela to 55, and in Oman to 18, while Mozambique reported her first death, and Northern Ireland, UK, reported her second.
Hong Kong reported 580 new cases within 24 hours, while Serbia's infection rates rose to 69. In New Zealand, Otago University's Dr. Michael Baker reported that swine flu affected the indigenous Maori population and Pacific Islanders at higher rates, where hospitalization rates were much higher than between 43 and 94.2 per 100,000 people, compared to Europeans who had hospitalization rates of 14.1 per 100,000.
Because those contracting a severe case of the disease often need costly care, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that swine flu's impact is already more severe in developing nations.
Aggravating factors include a reduced health facilities, staff, and medical supplies, and lack of access to safe water and sanitation.
Meanwhile, researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) performed autopsies on over 90 people who died of the swine flu virus.
In those for whom the virus was fatal, the virus had hidden itself deep within the lungs, causing acute respiratory distress syndrome, an often fatal condition in which patients are left gasping for breath.
We sorrow for those who are mourning the loss of a loved one or fear this new contagion.
Our prayers for a healthier world population made immune to all such harms through a shift to the preventative, humane, and virtuous plant-based lifestyle.
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Ajahn Brahm says in MMB ( p.98) that after the twelfth step of the Anapanasati Sutta (MN118, "you obtain a happiness of jhana so similar to enlightenment happiness that he [the Buddha] named it sambodhi sukha (MN 16, 21). It's a place where the defilements cannot reach... your are awakened and free during this time."
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PeterB wrote:Agreed. Each spring has be traced back to its own source...or left alone.
During my involvement with Buddhism it was my contention that the same applied to the Mahayana and Theravada too.They each needed to be subject to their own lights.
I agree also, in that it is almost impossible to understand a religion from the other side.


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The dawn of a new season is upon us and that brings lofty expectations from team officials and fans after the annual draft, free agency whirlwind and offseason trades have revamped rosters and hopes.
Making the list of head coaches under the magnifying glass for the upcoming season is the all-time winningest coach in league history, a young coach with three studs in their prime and a couple of rookie sideline generals faced with towering challenges.
Tightening of the Collars
The following coaches will undoubtedly feel immense pressure if they get off to a rocky start, encounter any sustained losing streaks or fail to turn their respective teams' fortunes around quickly.
Erik Spoelstra, MIAMI HEAT
Name a head coach that has won big consistently without elite talent? Dominant players have routinely throughout the course of history catapulted coaches and their philosophies from the background to the forefront.
After compiling a 90-74 record and leading Miami to the playoffs in his first two seasons, mainly on the shoulders of Dwyane Wade, the 39 year old Spoelstra has been given even more firepower with the addition of two-time reigning MVP LeBron James and five-time All-Star Chris Bosh.
The influx of superstar talent will serve as a gift and a curse.
On the bright side almost every NBA franchise would love to have one of the James, Wade and Bosh trio headlining their lineup, but the addition of arguably three of the top 10 players in the game today has already raised the stakes to sky-high levels with season tickets sold out within hours of James' decision.
Current ABC/ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy and Bulls vice president of basketball operations John Paxson believe the new look HEAT have the talent to challenge the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls 72 win season and the Los Angeles Lakers' 33 game winning streak set in 1972.
From the moment James announced his decision to head down I-95 south, the rumors started flowing around HEAT team president Pat Riley, winner of five NBA titles as a head coach, eventually stepping down from the office to replace Spoelstra.
Riley has constantly denied his desire of returning to the bench, but if Miami gets off to a rocky start with the raised goals already in place, Spoelstra could be an early scapegoat.
Mike D'Antoni, New York Knicks
Knicks fans patiently waited for the "summer of LeBron" that supposedly would lead the king to the Big Apple in his quest for global stardom. That didn't happen and instead the organization added the talented Amar'e Stoudemire and steady point guard Raymond Felton via free agency to run D'Antoni's frenetic paced offense.
While those additions are solid building blocks toward future success, they in no way guarantee a return to the playoffs where New York hasn't appeared since 2004.
D'Antoni, who has amassed a 61-103 record in his first two seasons with the club, was hired by Knicks team president Donnie Walsh and both men are under contract through 2012.
However, with reports circulating that the 69 year old Walsh may retire due to health concerns, D'Antoni may be on shaky ground if that scenario plays out and Walsh's replacement wants to roll with one of their guys.
It's also important to note that D'Antoni's former club, the Phoenix Suns, have won 100 games since his departure two seasons ago and made a Western Conference Finals trip this past campaign showing no ill impacts after his departure.
If the Knicks aren't on a playoff trajectory by the All-Star break with a near $100 million deal handed to Stoudemire, who already has familiarity with D'Antoni's system, the coach's job security will likely deteriorate rapidly.
Jim O'Brien, Indiana Pacers
The Pacers have gone 104-142 in O'Brien's tenure with the franchise. Admittedly the team has been devoid of elite level talent, with the exception being forward Danny Granger, as the club has been bogged down by hard to move bloated contracts the past few years.
Expectations for the Pacers this upcoming season were relatively low before last week's trade that brought in 2010 rookie surprise Darren Collison in exchange for Troy Murphy's expiring contract.
Now, as HOOPSWORLD's Yannis Koutroupis wrote, the Pacers are suddenly expected to make a strong playoff push with Collison presumably supplanting T.J. Ford as the team's starting point guard.
With fans anticipation building at receiving a player with Collison's potential even more pressure is on O'Brien to come out of the gate strong. Problem is the Pacers play ten playoff teams from last season in the first sixteen games (San Antonio, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Denver, Houston, Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Oklahoma City and Los Angeles Lakers). Compounding the bad news is Collison recently fracturing his finger. Although he's expected to be ready by training camp you can never assume that the injury won't turn into a nagging ailment throughout the year.
Don Nelson, Golden State Warriors
Nelson became the all-time winningest coach in NBA history last season, but has generated only 54 victories over the past two seasons. The Warriors will be operating under new ownership and that group will eventually want to place their imprint on the organization. The three-time NBA coach of the year is in the final year of his contract and at 70 years old isn't the likely candidate to lead the charge in Golden State's rebuilding efforts.
Add into the mix, the numerous run-ins Nelson has had with players over the past few seasons (Al Harrington / Stephen Jackson) and you'd be hard pressed to find many that believe the coaching legend will be on the Warriors' bench for the 2012 season.
Jay Triano, Toronto Raptors
Triano went 40-42 in his first full season with Toronto (he's 65-82 overall) and had to deal with a plethora of issues such as managing team chemistry and inexperience in 2010.
Last summer, Raptors president and general manager Bryan Colangelo made a slew of moves to compliment Bosh by acquiring Hedo Turkoglu, Jarrett Jack Amir Johnson, Antoine Wright and Sonny Weems which didn't go as planned. Turkoglu would eventually demand (and secure) a trade, while Bosh headed for greener pastures by departing in free agency.
This summer, Colangelo signed Johnson to a much criticized $30+ million free agent deal that will have Triano under pressure to play the young forward big minutes and justify the lucrative contract. The Raptors also added former Nuggets forward Linas Kleiza.
Fans in Toronto still expect to compete even with the loss of Bosh and there has been rising skepticism over the fact the club has had to break in a new roster yearly.
If Colangelo starts to feel the pressure during a early season slow start he could go the Joe Dumars (Pistons president of basketball operations / six coaches in 10 years) route and replace his coach early to deflect blame.
First Year, First Impressions Count
The following coaches through no fault of their own must come out of the gate quickly and clearly establish their scheme and philosophies.
Monty Williams, New Orleans Hornets
Williams will enter his rookie season having to deal with the potential circus surrounding All-Star guard Chris Paul's happiness in New Orleans. After a meeting with the club's front office and Williams last month, Paul emerged and said he was "happy" with the direction the franchise was going. Even with that temporary endorsement, Paul's focus is on winning and that's something the Hornets aren't expected to do a lot of even with the recent addition of forward Trevor Ariza in the Collison deal.
Paul is coming off of an injury plagued campaign and his backup (Collison) that filled in admirably in his absence is now running the show in Indy. Any significant time missed by Paul if he's not fully healthy without Collison will immediately put the team at a big disadvantage. The Hornets currently do not have a legitimate backup point guard on the roster.
Keep an eye on these stresses placed Williams, a rookie coach, to overcome.
Byron Scott, Cleveland Cavaliers
It's basically unfair to place Scott on this list after losing a player the caliber of James, but Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has stuck to his comments that Cleveland will win a championship before Miami.
While Mo Williams and Antawn Jamison are steady complimentary players that have achieved All-Star status in the past, their game as frontrunners would barely push the Cavaliers to contention for an eighth seed let alone a title.
With lofty expectations coming from the top, Scott may be feeling the heat early.
Read more NBA news and insight: http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?...#ixzz0x6CsVGCA
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In the World of Baseball Memorabilia, it is Best to Keep Your Eyes on the Ball
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On the bill of one cap are the signatures of Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. A pepper toss away is a one-penny mutascope with a frame-by-frame account of Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World," the blast that sunk the World Series hopes of the Brooklyn Dodgers on Oct. 3, 1951. There are some 500 items with Ruth's signature and another thousand with Joe DiMaggio's. There's Ruth's last bat, a 40-ounce club that he used to mash three homers in a game in Pittsburgh in 1935. Spend 10 minutes among Halper's collection and you will grow tired of gawking and saying "no one else has this piece."
But it's true. Halper, 57, owns the largest, most spell-inducing collection of baseball memorabilia in the world, a good part of it filling every nook of five rooms in his home. He even has a mounted lock of Ruth's hair, with an inscription reading "I guarantee that the enclosed hair is my own, George Herman Ruth." Barry Halper is the Ayatollah of Acquisition, the Baron of Barter, the Papa of Procurement. If the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, offered its museum spread for Halper's straight up, Halper might reject the proposal. He could demand additional compensation. Maybe cash, two draft choices and a player to be named later.
"Look at these cigar boxes," Halper says, pointing to a shelf display. Honus Wagner and Cap Anson are illustrated on the lids. It was commonplace for sports heroes to appear inside the covers in the early part of the century. A photo of a smiling Ruth shows him smoking a cigar and holding a sign that says "Vote for Al Smith." There's a poster of "The Big Cat," Johnny Mize, urging us to "Smoke the Ultimate Cigar: Macanudos."
Most impressive of all is a sheet of paper bearing the signatures of all 15 sluggers who hit 500 homers. Centered on a poster board, the sheet is surrounded by each player's autographed baseball card. No one but Halper has the signatures of the 15 legends together, mostly because the 500-homer players' careers--from Ruth to Eddie Murray--span 83 years of baseball history.
Despite his awesome accumulation, Barry Halper is not a typical example of what's happening with the business of baseball collecting. The "hobby" includes cheats and those who would trade their mother for a 1952 Mickey Mantle Topps card. What's happening out there?
"It's disgusting," says Halper with the emotion of someone who watched a favored child turn bad. "I always say, wherever there's money to be made, it promotes thievery. People take a fake signature and put it in a picture with Mickey Mantle and sell it for $500. I can tell most of the time, but I've also been fooled." As evidence, he shows me a Mantle item, pointing out how the connection of the "n" and the "t" in Mantle's signature is suspect.
Then there was the fiasco involving Lou Gehrig. Babe Ruth had stationery that said "Babe Ruth, New York" across the top. Using this idea, one recent swindler had stationery printed that read "Lou Gehrig, New York" across the top. In a typed letter to an unknown person named George, Gehrig writes, "Bet on us to win the AL East this year." Someone going to this length to defraud people should realize that there was no AL East until 1969, 31 years after Gehrig's alleged letter was written. Halper adds a second evaluation of the forgery: "Gehrig's real stationery read 'Lou Gehrig Larchmont, New York' across the top." Larchmont was the town in Westchester County that Gehrig called home.
The industry scandals will continue. Fake signatures, phony authenticity certificates, out of sight prices for big-name autographs, surly behavior from the athletes--the baseball collectibles enterprise is a veritable Field of Schemes. Just ask Mark Jordan.
Jordan is the owner of Mark Jordan Inc., a business located in The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, where the major league Rangers play. His business is authenticating and selling signatures. Jordan, 42, got his start in 1967, the first of five years as a batboy in St. Petersburg, Florida. "That's when I got real interested researching what was good and what was not," Jordan says. "Some of the unauthentic signatures around are pieces that bat boys and clubhouse and p.r. people sign for players.
"There are two schools of forgery. Movie stars have people answer their mail, and the signatures are not authentic. As a young collector I tried to figure it out. I knew who answered [the players'] mail and who didn't. For example, [in the early 1960s] Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris may not have signed for the Yankees," Jordan says. "In a major league clubhouse there are boxes of balls to be signed; marginal players sign all the time. They then give them out to advertisers or whoever they want to give them out to. But guys like Mantle and Reggie Jackson would only sign them some of the time. Lou Gehrig, even while he was sick, was still appearing on all Yankee team balls. Knowledgeable collectors conclude that his wife, Eleanor, signed many of his letters and photos in 1938 and in 1939. He still signed certain things, until he got incapable of doing so.
"Then there are a few people who forge for a living; even the people who do it for a ball club. If all you do for a ball club is sign three or four names missing from a team ball, you get pretty good at it."
But Jordan got wise to the fakes. "I developed my research and took courses on paper and ink and other things, because I also collected in other fields. I have no degree." Still, he has become expert at discerning fakes by looking at the ink, the size of the signature, even the spot where the signature is signed. "Inside knowledge comes after 25 years of doing this. Some guys just don't sign the same place on the ball." These days the location of choice for a signature is called "the sweet spot," that spot on the ball where the distance between the stitches is narrowest. But this spot is only a recent preoccupation. "Nobody gave any care to the sweet spot until the early to mid-'70s shows," Jordan says, "but Ruth usually signed on the sweet spot." If balls at a card show are from players who signed in the 1960s or before and they are always signed on the sweet spot, there may be reason for suspicion. "Forgers have to do things right to fool a knowledgeable collector," Jordan continues. "Unfortunately, they don't have to do many things right to fool an average collector."
Jordan doesn't like to point out what customers should look for in forgeries, for that information benefits the forger in his deception, who'll just clean it up. But he does offer some advice. "If a Gehrig ball is signed on the sweet spot, that's a red flag." Another warning signal for Gehrig signatures is single signed balls, which were rare in his day. More balls were signed by teams then, so an overabundance of single signed balls by Gehrig is suspect. "Some guys are mediocre to good at forgery and others are really good. Some can do the whole damned 1912 Giants team. The average knowledgeable collector can't see this. There are only two or three who are knowledgeable about autographs and I happen to be one of them."
Jordan has taken it upon himself to validate genuine articles and expose forgeries. "I have my own authentication company and I will give out a certificate of authenticity," he says. He charges $100 to $150 for an average autograph and up to $250 to validate team balls, which generally contain 10 to 25 signatures. He spends most of his time authenticating higher-priced items. "A Cal Ripken autograph is not worth sending to me," he says. "It's only worth $100." But for more expensive items, such as cards, photos or balls signed by Mantle or Ruth or Hank Aaron or DiMaggio, his service is worth it.
While a Jordan certificate of authenticity carries some clout, many do not. "From an honest person certificates of authenticity are fine; from a dishonest person it's part of the lie," says Jordan. "Just because a person has an ad in a publication or a table at a card show, that doesn't mean their material is real. It has been very difficult in this industry to police the offenders; law enforcement agencies are not that cooperative. Some promoters throw dealers out but have gotten sued for doing so." And Jordan leaves would-be collectors with a valuable rule: "Serious collectors must do their research."
Barry Halper has. As collectors go, he is an exception. Most of his collection does not require verification. So extensive is Halper's collection of cards, uniforms and other artifacts--which covers every last inch of available floor and wall space in the lower level of his home--that he needed to put more than half of it in storage. Other uniforms, paintings and photos are on loan to Mickey Mantle's Restaurant in Manhattan, a joint so full of his memorabilia that it could be renamed Halper's North.
Halper has given more than 100 tours of his treasures. He tries his best to be patient with reporters who ask for the spelling of Gehrig and others who inquire, "What is a Triple Crown?" Sports Illustrated photographers once roamed his rooms for two weeks. "I just can't keep having people come over to the house," he says with a sigh. Then there are the determined waifs who call at all hours to have their 1948 Bowman Yogi Berra card appraised. When Halper's assistant, Tom D'Alonzo, tells them such a card is worth about $500, the caller fumes, "That can't be true; it's worth much more than that." It isn't. And if they wanted to argue with the answer, why did they call the Expert of Exchange in the first place?
No wonder Halper is looking to have well-heeled investors purchase his collection and give it ample room to breathe in a museum. He has retained the New York investment bank of Lazard Freres & Co. to find a suitable home for his wares. "I still want to be part of it," he says. "I want it in the [New York] metropolitan area for the public to see." One possible location is nearby Hoboken, where legend has it the first "modern" baseball game was played on June 19, 1846.
Anyone looking to buy will have to ante up some serious cash. The New York auction house Christie's finished its appraisal of his collection in November 1995. After armies of appraisers examined Halper's diamond treasures for more than six months--"Men and women came every other day; I couldn't take it everyday," Halper says wearily--they had put a price on every last bit of merchandise. (The priciest bit of attire was Gehrig's autographed uniform from 1936, the first year the "NY" appeared on the pinstripes. The appraised value? $400,000. He also owns one of the rare Honus Wagner cards. "The Wagner card would probably get $1 million at auction," Halper says of his mint condition T-206 card.)
Finally, Christie's put its assessment on paper. The total valuation: a whopping $42,268,626. And two cents. The 775-page appraisal, contained in two binders, itemizes each article--excepting his baseball cards, which number more than 30,000--over 100,000 articles in all. Since the estimate was made nearly two years ago, the value of the collection is no doubt rounding third and heading toward $50 million.
Despite such princely figures, it is not money that motivates Halper. "I don't keep it for the value," he insists. "I keep it because I love baseball." Is he earnest? Fifty years of persistent collecting is proof positive. At a time when the sports collectibles market is more chock full of rogues, suckers and bloodsuckers than a hundred P.T. Barnums could ever have dreamed up, Halper presides over his hoard like a museum curator. He has motives other than money. "I've been offered more than $10,000 for the autographed team photo of the 1927 Yankees," Halper says. "But I'm not going to sell it." Selling items piecemeal is not the direction he wants to go. No doubt an item-by-item sale would result in a greater price. No matter. "I don't want to make this a fire sale," he says.
Halper possesses an unquenchable desire for historical completeness, an urge to fill in every gap in baseball history. He has the uniforms of all of the players in the Baseball Hall of Fame except Eppa Rixey, a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds from 1912 through 1933. "I spoke to his grandson a few times, Eppa Rixey III. He doesn't have one," Halper says. "I've offered the Hall of Fame a Gehrig uniform and a Ty Cobb uniform. They can't give me Rixey's uniform because it's donated."
The Rixey uniform is notable if for no other reason than it'sone of the few items Barry Halper doesn't have. He owns 400 bats (including silver ones, given to the annual batting champions), 1,800 balls, 30,000 cards, 1,000 uniforms, 4,000 photos, 1,000 contracts, 4,500 personal papers, 500 rings and pins (like Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers ring from 1947, the year he broke baseball's color barrier) and 3,000 other items that don't fit the previous classifications, like Alexander Cartwright's Hall of Fame plaque.
Halper has so much material that it keeps you wondering, How did he ever lay his hands on that? The answer? In a word, perseverance. His desire for thoroughness led to his acquiring all the relevant props from the infamous Yankees-Royals "Pine Tar" game played in July 1983. The ensemble included the too-tarred bat that George Brett used to conk a Goose Gossage fastball more than 400 feet, a can of pine tar, Brett's Kansas City jersey and the ball itself. After he got the ball, Halper asked Gossage to sign it. "Dear Barry: I threw the fucking thing," was his affectionate inscription. Halper has since traded the bat back to Brett in exchange for the one he used to rip three homers off Yankees pitcher Catfish Hunter in a 1978 playoff game.
Obscure articles abound, such as Babe Ruth's gold spittoon and the Triple Crown trophies that belonged to Ted Williams (1947) and Carl Yastrzemski (1967). Always his own man, Williams wouldn't heed the "black tie required" at the bottom of the dinner invitation to receive the trophy. (He probably used the time to go fly fishing.) Yaz wouldn't accept his trophy because Major League Baseball misspelled his name. Yaz wrote Halper a card to authenticate the trophy. "To Barry, this Triple Crown trophy was spelled wrong and I rejected it. I was supposed to receive another, never did. You have the original and only one; Carl Yastrzemski, 1983." Across the room is Shoeless Joe Jackson's commemorative watch for winning the pennant in 1919. A bat split in half is inscribed, "To the boys of Chicago, Babe Ruth." It is signed by all of the 1932 World Champion Yankees. "The boys of Chicago" were Al Capone and his associates.
Halper started collecting almost a half century ago. The chance that a new collector will match his acquired bounty is about equal to the chance that some player will match Ruth's .690 lifetime slugging average. "If Rockefeller made a reappearance he couldn't buy another collection like this," Halper notes. "He couldn't find it." True enough. It's far too late in the game to get this stuff anymore. It's the bottom of the eighth inning for people seeking 50- and 100-year-old baseball items. Halper got started before the first inning, before anyone took collecting very seriously.
Born Dec. 3, 1939, Barry Halper grew up near Rupert Stadium, a semipro baseball park in Newark, New Jersey. He grew up when baseball was first and foremost; no other sport competed for a boy's idle time--or, in Halper's case, "idol time"--in quite the same way. He first began to hang around the stadium in 1948 to watch the Yankees' AAA International League Newark Bears play. Developing a relentlessness that his future hobby would require, he kept asking players to sign balls. He then took them home and tossed them into the closet. To get him to stop badgering the players, a player known as the "Mad Russian," Lou Novikoff, gave him a uniform. Unwrapping the paper from Novikoff's offering, Halper discovered an old Detroit Tigers uniform belonging to outfielder Barney McCoskey. Halper didn't throw this prize in the closet; he hung it. Word spread around the league like a scouting report about this kid who hung out at the park and collected stuff. By the time he reached high school, Halper had 75 uniforms. A valuable lesson still awaited the young Halper: just because something costs nothing doesn't mean it's worth nothing.
Like many kids growing up in the long shadows of Yankee Stadium's three tiers, Halper had notions of playing baseball, and he would go on to pitch for the University of Miami. But as an eight-year-old, he was also enthralled with his new hobby. In 1948, shortly before Ruth passed away, a "Babe Ruth Day" was held at Yankee Stadium. Halper attended the game and scurried under a police barrier, asking the weakened Babe to sign a piece of paper. Without uttering a word, the Sultan of Swat signed. Nine years later, in 1957, Halper took that same sheet to Jimmie Foxx, the second member of the 500-homer club (he finished with 534). As luck would have it, Foxx was a coach at the University of Miami during Halper's tenure there. (Unfortunately, Halper was better at collecting baseballs than he was at throwing them.) Foxx told the freshman, "I'll sign it soon, when Mel Ott comes to visit." So Halper waited. In that way, Halper would get Foxx and Ott--the third member of the 500-homer club, with 511, on the same sheet with Ruth, who hit 714. Sure enough, when Ott visited Coral Gables one day in late December, he and Foxx both signed. Their signatures follow Ruth's on Halper's sheet. Less than a year later, Ott was killed in a car crash. He was 49 years old.
Barry Halper went to work at his family's paper company in 1959, as his father, David, and his grandfather had done before him. In 1991, as president and chief executive officer of the firm, Halper retired. "I didn't sell the company," he says. "I decided for my health and sanity to liquidate it." Tired of rising at 4 a.m., he would use the time he saved to fill in the gaps in his sprawling collection. He was already a "limited partner" of the Yankees. How limited? "George [Steinbrenner] never likes us to say anything about it," says Halper. "But I'll say it's less than five percent." Less than five percent of a team that's worth more than $300 million.
Halper has long known how great his accumulation of diamond gems is. He had met Joe DiMaggio at an Old Timer's game in 1976 and invited him to his home. "When DiMaggio came here for the first time in 1976, he said, 'You have the finest collection of anyone anywhere in the world,' " Halper recalls, beaming. And that was 21 years ago.
While being a great source of pride, the collection has caused some friction as well. Of his first wife, Carole, Halper says, "She loved baseball until we got married." Evidently, diamonds are not every woman's best friend. He has two children from his first marriage--Steven, 31, and Marni, 28, and a son, Jason, 22, with his second wife, Sharon. It would appear that the baseball gods had intervened in the meeting between Barry and Sharon, whom he married in 1974. "Her father is named Herman and his brother and sister were George and Ruth--George Herman Ruth," Halper marvels. And now, all these years later, what does Sharon think of baseball stuff? "She'd love to see the day when it's all out of the house," he fires back.
Halper's primary modus operandi is the trade. He'll attend a huge impersonal card show if he has to, such as the Atlantic City, New Jersey, gathering of the surviving 500-homer members in 1996, but he prefers what he calls "the barter system." His best trade occurred with boxing historian Burt Sugar. "Burt Sugar came to my home and saw a picture of Walter Johnson in a clothing ad. 'I have something that would make you give up this piece,' he said. 'What if I come back next week with something of equivalent value?' " So Sugar returned with a wrapping of newspaper and polyurethane. Halper opened it to discover Babe Ruth's duffle bag with the inscription "Babe Ruth, NYC." "I gave him the Walter Johnson piece and he took a 1914 'Miracle Braves' team photo, with the images engraved on leather," Halper recalls. "I reacquired both pieces from other people over the next five years. Back to papa," he says with a laugh.
Another favorite trade happened back in the 1970s at a card show in Dearborn, Michigan. A CBS executive asked Halper and another collector, Bill Mastro, to bring their three most valuable cards. "So I have my cards and Mastro has his," Halper recounts. "Bill looked at my 1933 Goudey Lajoie [Napoleon Lajoie, the Hall of Fame infielder for the Cleveland Indians]. 'Yours is mint and mine is only excellent,' Mastro said, commenting on the grading of the cards. But Mastro's card was autographed. Bill says, 'Boy, this is the best Lajoie card ever.' " Halper proposed an even-up swap of the two cards. Mastro balked. Halper said his offer was good only for the next five minutes. The old squeeze play worked and Mastro said, "OK."
Halper's haul also contains elements of the dark side. There's the shotgun that Ty Cobb's mother used to kill his father after finding him with another woman. Halper acquired the gun from Cobb's biographer, Al Stump. On a shelf is a National Baseball Hall of Fame "lifetime pass," which reads, "Admit Pete Rose, May 1984." Rose signed it, "Barry, I shouldn't need this pass to get in the Hall of Fame. Your pal, Pete Rose." (The pass wouldn't help Rose. Because of evidence that he bet on baseball games, he was banned from baseball in 1989 and made ineligible for the Hall of Fame.) A neat row of balls includes the signatures of all eight Chicago White Sox players banned from baseball for consorting with gamblers and throwing the 1919 World Series against Cincinnati, the infamous "Black Sox Scandal."
Then there is an autographed picture of Harry Pulliam, the National League president in 1908. "Pulliam was the only one in baseball ever to commit suicide," Halper says. (Actually, others in baseball have committed suicide, including Donnie Moore, a California Angels relief pitcher, who killed himself on July 18, 1989, less than three years after surrendering a two-out, two-strike, ninth-inning home run to the Red Sox's Dave Henderson in the 1986 playoffs). "It was over a famous play on October 8, 1908. But he committed suicide in '09." The historic play became known as Merkle's Boner.
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text: All-star closure for Scott lineman By Ryan Pritt June 13, 2013 Story Share Chris Dorst Scott's Dakota Ball will play for the South Saturday night in the North-South Football Classic. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Scott offensive and defensive lineman Dakota Ball is one of several players who will likely play his last competitive football in the North-South Football Classic at 7 p.m. Saturday at Laidley Field.The fact that Ball is playing at all is just another example of the toughness and determination he showed throughout the end of his senior season.Ball was a first-team all-state and Cardinal Conference selection this past season, despite missing two of the Skyhawks' final three regular-season games with a torn meniscus and ACL in his left knee. The injury occurred while playing defense in the first quarter of the Skyhawks' 47-6 loss to eventual Class AA champion Wayne."When I went down I heard a pop and I knew something was wrong," Ball said at the South's practice Thursday afternoon in Institute. "I tried to stand up and it just wasn't happening."After sitting out a couple of games and beginning light rehab, his knee showed enough improvement for the doctor to leave Ball with a couple of choices - either undergo surgery immediately or try using a special knee brace, delaying surgery, and testing his pain tolerance.The choice was easy for Ball, who continued his senior season and, appropriately enough, returned on Scott's senior night in the season finale against Logan.He played sparingly throughout Scott's playoff run, and although he was less than 100 percent and had his playing time limited, Ball said he is happy with the decision he made."There were times where [the pain] was bad but it was worth it," Ball said. Scott won its first-round playoff game before falling to Keyser in the second round, finishing with a record of 8-4 after spending a good deal of time ranked No. 1 early in the season.After the season, Ball did undergo surgery on the knee and worked himself back into shape in time to participate in this week's practices and festivities."[Rehab] was really hard because you can't go out and work your butt off," Ball explained. "To get back you've got to be really patient and take your time with it."Ball said the experience of playing with other elite seniors in Class AA and beyond has made his patience and rehab worth it. "It's nice to meet all the people I've been playing against and figure out how they practiced and how everything went for them," Ball said. "I've met a lot of people I never knew and it's been great hanging out with them all week. It's been a real fun experience for me."Now that he's here, Ball will play center and some defensive line for the South, blocking for the likes of Wayne's Brandon Spurlock and others.Spurlock and the Pioneers handed Scott its first loss of the season and nearly put Ball out for good, but maybe the best thing about this week is watching rival players put past gridiron conflicts aside and compete together. Ball said he is just fine opening up holes for the talented runner from Wayne."It's great having him on my team now, I'm very thankful he's on my team," Ball said. South coach Joe Dean of Midland Trail has 35 players, each of whom has a unique story, but he said coaching players like Ball this week has been rewarding."It's a really nice story and he's a great young man, too," Dean said. "We have a great group here."For many of Dean's group, Saturday will mark the end of a career in terms of football.Ball is included, but will try to establish a career elsewhere by attending the University of Northwestern Ohio and pursuing a degree in diesel technology. He was unable to find a school that offered both football and that particular degree, and Ball made the decision to hang up his pads for good. He admitted he would eventually like to return to the game as a coach, but after a devastating knee injury nearly kept him out of the most important games of his senior season, having one more game and being able to write his own ending will be closure enough."No regrets, but it's going to be bittersweet," Ball said. "I feel blessed to at least have one more game under my belt."Reach Ryan Pritt at 304-348-7948, firstname.lastname@example.com, or follow him at twitter.com/Rpritt. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 DHHR: WV medical marijuana law will need $2 million in upfront costs 2 Correctional officers need raises, lawmakers told 3 Capital High closed for the week after high mold, C02 levels found 4 Stats back KU coach's praise of WVU offense 5 Charleston council moves up user fee increase to $3 by January Tug teammates together again Previous Story Baldwin leads South's North-South softball sweep Next Story


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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Doug Fister battled some command issues in his next-to-last start of Spring Training, but only allowed two runs in 4 2/3 innings thanks to some timely defense and four strikeouts to counter his four walks.
It was a breezy Sunday at Tradition Field, but Fister managed to keep the ball on the ground for the most part, inducing two 6-4-3 double plays to quell a couple of Mets rallies. After retiring the first two hitters of the fifth inning, he walked Kirk Nieuwenhuis and gave up a single to Justin Turner before taking his leave.
He was relieved by Darin Downs, who got Ike Davis to fly out to center field to end the threat. Fister threw 88 pitches total, 48 for strikes.
"He's still having a little bit of command issues with his fastball, but overall he threw well," said catcher Alex Avila, who also caught Fister's last outing and said the right-hander looked sharper on Sunday. "His stuff was good. It's just a matter of him getting his mechanics down and being able to repeat them."
After the outing, Fister now owns a Spring Training ERA of 6.52, over the course of 19 1/3 innings in six appearances. Avila said the last pitch Fister is continuing to work on perfecting is the sinker, particularly inside to left-handers.
"He's always been a bit of a slow starter, at least the last 2 1/2 years or so that I've caught him," Avila said. "But he's on the right track and it looks like he's going to peak at the right time."
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LOS ANGELES – The interim coach and the kicker paced the sideline with demons on their shoulders, whether they acknowledged them or not. Memories can't be fully repressed, even on the football field.
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Ed Orgeron no doubt remembered the fourth-down call that didn't work, the turnover on downs that sealed his fate as the coach at Mississippi six years ago. Andre Heidari had in the back of his mind, well, any number of kicks that have sailed wide this year, most recently a first-quarter wide-right extra point.
Football is a weird game. Decisions are made, rituals are repeated and sometimes they work. That's how Orgeron and Heidari ended up in a sea of happy humanity Saturday night after unranked USC pulled out a massive 20-17 victory over No. 5 Stanford in front of a sellout crowd of 93,607 at the Coliseum.
Heidari, whose job has been in jeopardy twice in the past month because of his struggles, hit a 47-yard field goal with 19 seconds remaining as the Trojans broke a four-game losing streak to Stanford.
"For some reason, there was a belief on Monday that we were going to win this game," Orgeron said.
Orgeron, his hair mussed and his shirt stained with who-knows-what — energy drink, sweat, lipstick or all of the above — emerged as a hero. Since taking over for Lane Kiffin, Orgeron has won five of six games. As absurd as it sounded two months ago, USC is not out of contention to make the Rose Bowl.
Who would have guessed that Heidari, regularly first in the USC whipping-boy line, would be the hero?
Heidari nailed the winning kick — his longest since August — then ran toward the opposite end zone as teammates gave chase. If they doubted him, after his earlier extra-point miss, after his missed 46-yarder last week against Cal, after his two misses in a four-point loss to Notre Dame, they put on brave faces.
"Guys came up to me and said, 'We know you've got this. We know you do it every day in practice,'" Heidari said. "It's a regular kick. I run onto the field, line it up and find my target."
If that sounds like bluster, consider that most kickers don't weigh 200-plus pounds. Heidari, a gritty Bakersfield native, is in his third year as USC's kicker. He wasn't scared.
That put him in direct contrast with a Coliseum full of fret, one that had been through an emotional journey for the better part of the previous half-hour. Or, really, the previous three-plus hours.
The Trojans (8-3, 5-2 Pac-12) took a 17-7 second-quarter lead thanks to some stellar play from quarterback Cody Kessler, then watched it erode. Stanford made a short field goal at the end of the first half, then tied the score, 17-17, on Tyler Gaffney's 18-yard touchdown run midway through the third quarter.
By the fourth quarter, USC's defense, which used almost no substitutions, was gassed but was able to come up with two huge plays and set the stage for one massive coaching decision.
Stanford drove to the USC 10, but safety Dion Bailey intercepted Stanford's Kevin Hogan to keep the game tied with 10:39 left. After two USC failed possessions, Stanford's offense got to midfield with just more than three minutes left when USC safety Su'a Cravens intercepted a tipped pass at the USC 44.
That left USC's offense, which had stagnated in the second half, one more chance. On third-and-11, Kessler found Nelson Agholor for a 9-yard reception, which set up fourth-and-2 at the USC 48.
Orgeron had to remember. On Nov. 23, 2007, his Mississippi team led Mississippi State, 14-0, early in the fourth quarter and faced fourth-and-1 at its own 49. Orgeron decided to go for it instead of punting, and the Rebels lost 3 yards, turned over the ball on downs and went on to lose, 17-14.
Orgeron was fired weeks later and still points to that one choice as an "emotional decision" that cost him his job. So, six years later, in a slightly different situation, what did Orgeron do? He went for it.
"I knew I was taking a chance," Orgeron said, "but I looked into the guys' eyes and I knew they wanted the chance to win the game."
USC went for it, even with a receiver, Marqise Lee, who was limping on the field after being injured three plays later. Kessler said offensive coordinator Clay Helton called a play that wasn't even on the quarterback's wristband, a quick slant to Lee, who, presumably, could still run.
"I looked at (Lee) in the huddle and I said, 'Are you all right?'" Kessler said. "He said, 'One more play. I've got one more play in me.'"
Kessler and Lee connected on a 13-yard slant pass that got the ball to the Stanford 35. Two plays later, Kessler found Agholor for 11 yards, and minutes later, Heidari was the hero.
Orgeron, at this point, would probably replace Max Nikias as USC's president in a popular vote of students and alums. If the Trojans should win their last two games, Orgeron will make it exceedingly difficult for Athletic Director Pat Haden not to name him as Kiffin's full-time replacement.
And while Orgeron, a gruff line coach, has persistently deflected praise to his players and assistant coaches, he couldn't hide his emotions from his players.
"He probably doesn't want me to say this," Kessler said, "but when I went to give him a hug after the game, his eyes were watering."
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