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As the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31, Barclay graduate Morgan Silva became the new owner of the brick and mortar mercantile affectionately known as "Vic's." Stocked with dry goods, tools, hardware and a wall of coolers, the renovated 1911 brick and mortar building on Main Street has become more than just your typical come-and-go shop since Vic Hannan opened it in 2005.
As the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31, Barclay graduate Morgan Silva became the new owner of the brick and mortar mercantile affectionately known as "Vic's." Stocked with dry goods, tools, hardware and a wall of coolers, the renovated 1911 brick and mortar building on Main Street has become more than just your typical come-and-go shop since Vic Hannan opened it in 2005.
"The nearest place to buy groceries was Greensburg or Pratt and I thought a hardware store and grocery store, a place to buy candy and groceries could be a profitable venture," said Hannan who, at first, almost gloated about the $10,000 purchase price but quickly mentioned the $40,000 he spent on roof repairs and fixtures. "It cost a lot more to open than I thought it was going to, but it was fun."
Hannan returned home just a few years prior after spending his adult life in Lincoln, Neb. He said he wanted to leave the "big city" and came back to Haviland after purchasing land from his elementary school teacher.
"I felt at the time and I still feel this way, Haviland needs a service like this," said Hannan. "It's pretty cool that people can come in and buy almost any item they need. I'd like to think it's a fun place to come to sit, drink coffee, talk about what's happening and see friends."
Silva, a 20-something mother of two, began working at the store while finishing her psychology degree at nearby Barclay, a Quaker university based in Haviland.
She came to Haviland with her sons from Wyoming, though she said she is originally from Montana.
"I wanted a job that would allow me to have more time with my kids and go to school," she said. "Vic was really flexible, allowing me to take care of the kids and take classes. It was nice because I could work close to home and not have to travel far."
She completed her degree last May and was accepted into a master's degree program at Friend's University in Wichita, but she decided not to go.
"When I graduated I was trying to figure out what to do next. I had a bunch of different options and some other job opportunities. I just couldn't find peace in any of those choices. I decided to stay. I met a really great guy so I figured I would keep working for Vic. I was happy doing that."
Hannan said he first mentioned the idea to Silva about six months ago.
"We talk a lot, because she's a great listener," laughed Hannan, " I told Morgan if she was interested in taking over the store she could have it."
"At first I thought 'no way,' but I kept it in the back of my mind," said Silva. "It took a little time for me to get comfortable with idea, but I brought it up to Vic and asked him how serious he was about it."
She said there were lots of "someday" and "sometime" conversations between the two of them. "Then all of a sudden it was 'how about on January first you take over?'
Hannan said it was always his intention to eventually sell the business to someone else. But over the six years he's owned it, the criteria changed. It was no longer just about a "buyer" but it became about the "right buyer." he said.
With only two retail businesses left on Main Street, the hardware store and Origin's Coffee House, Hannan said he wanted someone who could run the business and keep it open.
"I had a few people express an interest in purchasing the store," he said. "But I didn't think the few people I talked to would be enthusiastic about the store. I didn't think they would be willing to put in the hours or would be able to handle the problems associated with running the store. I see those abilities in Morgan. I see them in her, I really do. I am excited for her. It's not going to be easy. I'm hoping people in the community give her a chance."
Hannan didn't hold back, gushing about Silva who, only a few weeks ago, was his employee but is now his boss. "She's the coolest person to work for," said Hannan, smiling ear-to-ear. "She's a cool person. She knows what needs to be done. She's a natural. She's been a pleasure and everyone likes her. If there is anyone who has a chance of finding success taking the store over, it's her."
Not unlike other small town retailers, Haviland Hardware is trying to drive business back to local stores.
Hometown grocers have been hit the hardest. Most large retailers can provide a "one stop" shop for groceries and home goods and reduced pricing through large-scale purchasing at "super centers."
National retail chain stores like Wal-Mart and Dillons have locations less than 30 minutes away.
"I wasn't raised like that," said Hannan when asked about "bottom dollar" retail shopping. "My mother always bought her groceries locally. Even if a 'super center' existed, she would have bought her groceries locally. She knew the owner and she knew she needed to do those things to keep the community going. If we don't take care of the people who have a store in the community, they will leave. I wish people would honestly ask themselves 'what kind of support do they offer their local stores?'"
Hannan said the bottom dollar shouldn't be the only factor when deciding on a purchase. "I only buy gas at the Haviland Co-op. We need the co-op. I don't care what the price is somewhere else."
He also wanted to remind people in the community that Silva lives in Haviland, has two small boys and when people spend money at the hardware store "the money is going to stay here."
As a Barclay student and a new member of the community, Silva said she was initially influenced by rumors in town about the local grocery store and its prices.
"I'd always heard people say that 'oh Vic's is too expensive' or 'everything is out of date.' There are perceptions people have of the store. But once I came in and looked around I realized those things weren't true."
Silva will purchase the fixtures and inventory and rent the storefront from Hannan who will remain the owner of the building.
The expenses for Silva will be significant. Both her and Hannan agree that without increased local support, the long-term future of the store is questionable.
"We want to keep our regular customers happy and meeting their needs," she said. "We also need to find ways to bring in new customers, meet their needs and let them known what we carry. I like being able to get things for people if I can. That is one of the great things about a small town store. We can get things that other stores can't. We can tailor our inventory to fit our customers."
Silva said that one of the best things about having a grocery store in town is accessibility.
She had been the owner for less than one day when she got an emergency call from a local resident.
"They needed cough medicine for their child," she recalled. "The roads were really bad and they couldn't drive. We opened for them. If we don't have regular support we won't be here when things like that happen. We won't be here in those times of need."
Her first year is sure to be a challenging one, quietly admitting that she'd never taken a business class. But Silva understands that the people of Haviland and her former boss have entrusted her not just with a business, but with an integral part of the community.
"I've got to meet all these different people," she said. "It's pretty neat that there is a place in town for all of them to come together. Sometimes people come in and just need someone to talk to. I really enjoy talking with people and getting to know them."
Silva has already made some changes, recently becoming a Woman, Infants and Children (WIC) provider.
The WIC program, part of USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, assists low-income families with young children and infants with grocery expenses. "I think it's really necessary and great. There are a lot of new moms in Haviland. It supports healthy families with healthy food," said Silva.
She plans on expanding their sandwich selection, which have seen some success of late and is thinking of diving into the soup business later in the year. "I work during the day, so I know what it is like being here at lunchtime without a lot of options."
Possibly the biggest change will come not from Silva, but from her customers who, for the past five years, have called it "Vic's."
"We've had a couple of people try to say 'we're going to Morgan's.'" laughed Silva. "That one might take a while."


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While his music library is entirely digitized, cloud-ified, external hard-drived and archived, in his closet hides a tomb of tapes: cassette tapes, to be exact. He is part of an underground cassette network that holds on to the plastic past of low-fidelity memories. He keeps his CDs and albums less hidden, but the truth is he loves the tinny texture of the sound that emanates from his speakers. His technostalgia is palpable.
If you've ever longed for the meditative days of waiting for dial-up Internet, the 8-bit bleeping of a Commodore 64 or the glorious monotony of playing Dig Dug on your Atari, you may just have a touch of technostalgia. Sure, digital instant gratification is super - but every once in a while, wouldn't it be heaven to sink into your LoveSac with a Nintendo Game Boy and just whittle the time away with a sidekick of batteries?
Technostalgia is wide-reaching and as deep as a ream of dot matrix paper. Here's how the fever and phenomenon are making a wide swath of generations swoon.
Technostalgia isn't relegated to chat rooms. Savvy entrepreneurs and companies are cashing in with 80s arcade apps and many other nouveau vintage ideas. As technology becomes more sophisticated, application designers have taken a trip back to the past in their souped-up DeLoreans. Upcycled applications include Atari's Greatest Hits along with arcade favorites like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Super Breakout and Missile Command.
You can also revive your old stereo hi-fi with Stereolizer, an iPad application that looks just like your bitchin' system from the 80s; but with its millennial twist, the app allows you to access streaming radio stations from around the world. If you're angsty for analog and miss the oversaturated, grainy photos of your childhood, use Hipstamatic to recreate the "look, feel, unpredictable beauty, and fun of plastic toy cameras from the past."
And if you want deeper cuts, try the following apps: The Magic Square, which revives Merlin from the dead; the Commodore 64 (which needs no further introduction, thank you); and yes, there's even an app for LED Football, also known as Football by Mattel.
Your favorite songs already take you down a one-lane path to your sixth grade skate party or your high school prom. But when you add the warmth of vinyl or the nostalgic "hug" from a cassette tape, the experience is almost tangible. You're not alone. Vinyl record sales increased 55 percent in the United Kingdom this year. Nielsen SoundScan reports that digital sales are outpacing CD sales, but you just can't recreate the authentic spinny sound from a marred CD, can you?
Chiptune music is another trend that has hacker culture by the joysticks. Also known as "8-bit" music, this genre relies heavily on hacked gadgets from back in the day, such as the Commodore 64 and Atari 800. But the most popular chiptune gadget, according to Dan Scheraga, is the Game Boy. (However, don't count out a circuit bent Speak & Spell or toy voice changer.)
The chiptune movement has its own celebration, Blip Festival, as well as a documentary called "Reformat the Planet" that delves into this underground, low-fi subculture. You can also share and upload your own blips to 8bitcollective, a file sharing Website catering to hardcore blipophiles.
If there's one thing the slow Internet movement and technostalgia have reminded us, it's that safety and security really were a lot simpler back in the day. Sure, viruses have always been around and many hackers have AARP cards now, but there was a time when Spam was just something you ate and then fought your sibling for the tin key. Now it's part of your daily digital life, among other annoyances and potential havoc.
Don't get too mired in nostalgia for those pre-phishing days of yore. Instead, let go of the past and prepare for the future. Let someone else worry about the safety and security details.
And let your techy secrets out of the closet. It's not as if Doug's wife didn't know about his cassette fetish. After all, she still has all the mixed tapes he made for her between 1990 and 1994.
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After a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, governments and foundations from around the world pledged more than $9 billion to help get the country back on its feet.
Only a fraction of the money ever made it. And Haiti's President Michel Martelly says the funds aren't "showing results."
Roughly 350,000 people still live in camps. Many others simply moved back to the same shoddily built structures that proved so deadly during the disaster.
Martelly says the relief effort is uncoordinated and projects hatched from good intentions have undermined his government. "We don't just want the money to come to Haiti. Stop sending money," he tells Shots. "Let's fix it," he says, referring to the international relief system. "Let's fix it."
Disaster specialist Dr. Tom Kirsch from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine agrees with Martelly. "Clearly we saved lives," he says. "Clearly we put people in tents. Clearly we did all kinds of stuff. But at the same time the level of chaos and the overall ability to reach needy people, we don't know how well we did."
Kirsch, who's been in Haiti several times since the quake, added, "We could have written a check to everyone in Haiti for — I don't know — $10,000 a piece, which would support them forever rather than the way we spent it."
So where did all that money go?
We got to put that question to reporter Jonathan Katz, author of the new book The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. He was Haiti bureau chief for The Associated Press at the time of the quake. Here are highlights from the conversation, edited lightly for length and clarity.
Shots: Aid pledged to Haiti — $9.3 billion worth from 2010 to 2012 — is about a third of all global health aid donated in 2012. What happened to the money that was supposed to go to Haiti?
Katz: Money did what money tends to do in most foreign aid situations. That is, rather than being a model in which a rich country gives a poor country a big bag of cash and says, "Here spend this on fixing things up from whatever the latest crisis was," what actually happens is that very little of the money actually leaves the donor countries.
First of all, you've got billions of dollars that are promised but just never delivered. You've got billions of dollars more that were sort of creative accounting. Donor nations say they're providing debt relief, yet those debts were never realistically going to be paid back. So some of the money is sort of fictive.
So how much actually made it into Haiti?
Even among the real money, if you look at what was labeled as humanitarian relief, in the months right after the quake, that amounts to about $2.5 billion.
Ninety-three percent of that money either went to United Nations agencies or international nongovernmental organizations, or it never left the donor government.
So you had the Pentagon writing bills to the State Department to get reimbursed for having sent troops down to respond to the disaster.
If we're talking about reconstruction, it's really a misnomer to think that relief aid was necessarily going to have the effect of rebuilding a country in any shape or form.
So what was that money spent on?
Band-Aids. Literally bandages. Short-term relief. Tarps to put over your head. Food to fill emergency gaps in supply.
But food gets eaten. Tarps wear out. Band-Aids get pulled off. And ultimately, all that money is spent, but people aren't left with anything durable.
When you hear about all these billions of dollars [in aid donations], the imagination is that they're going to go and rebuild the country after the earthquake. They were never intended to do so and, lo and behold, they didn't.
There are often complaints after big disasters about waste and inefficiencies. Was the Haiti earthquake different from any other international disaster or is this typical?
What is interesting about Haiti is the extremes.
There are lots of places that have weak governments, but Haiti's government is weak in a special way. It's the product of so many years of aid going around the government and international efforts to undermine the government. Presidents being overthrown and flown out on U.S. Air Force planes and then reinstalled and then overthrown again. That left the Haitian government in such a weakened state.
Then the disaster itself was also so much more extreme. It was so concentrated. It hit the capital city. Whether your estimates for a death toll is in the 80,000 range or closer to the government's estimate of 316,000 — in a city of 2.5 million people — it's just an extraordinary number.
It was an incredibly horrific disaster. It hit the country right at its heart and destroyed a government that was already weakened.
But beyond that, the attitude that so many foreign aid groups have regarding Haiti is that you can basically come in and do whatever you want. So there was no accountability, no coordination.
People were just running around doing what they thought was best or what they thought was best for them. And it really created a mess.
Three years after the earthquake in Haiti destroyed much of Port-au-Prince, that country's president had a shocking thing to say about the international relief effort. The billions pledged are, quote, "not showing results." President Michel Martelly says his dream that post-quake Haiti would be a huge construction zone never materialized. Hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims are still living in makeshift camps and only a few thousand units of new permanent housing have been built. The slow pace of progress is raising questions about how well the international community can respond to such disasters. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (Foreign language spoken)
JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE: Statistically, 42-year-old Bibeta Louissaint is a success story. She's an example of how the international community moved an earthquake victim out of the squalid camp and back to her original neighborhood. After the 2010 quake, Louissaint set up a tarp shack in front of the collapsed national palace, along with 15,000 other people. Then she waited - for weeks, for months - as aid groups debated housing solutions, rolled out prototypes of temporary shelters and schemed about creating grand boulevards lined with apartment blocks.
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BEAUBIEN: It was wasted time, Louissaint says of the two years she spent living under a plastic sheet in the camp. Last year, the Canadian International Development Agency funded a program which had a simple goal: empty Louissaint's camp. She was given $500 and a ride back to her previous neighborhood. She fenced off an old foundation with sheet metal and officially left the ranks of the internally displaced.
LOUISSAINT: (Through translator) So you can see here there is no roof, so when it rains the water comes here and can get inside.
BEAUBIEN: In addition to killing more than 200,000 people, the 2010 Haitian earthquake left a million and a half homeless. Three years and billions of dollars later, most of the earthquake victims have been left to find housing on their own, or to move back into the same shoddy construction that proved so deadly during the disaster.
JONATHAN KATZ: That kind of was the clearest categorical failure.
BEAUBIEN: Jonathan Katz was the Haiti bureau chief for the Associated Press. That bureau collapsed around him in the quake. He's just come out with a new book called "The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster." Katz chronicles how much of the billions of dollars in aid money never got to Haiti. Some of it went to writing off Haiti's debts. Some of it never left the U.S.
KATZ: You had, you know, the Pentagon writing bills to the State Department to get reimbursed for having sent troops down to respond to the disaster.
BEAUBIEN: Of the money that did reach the ground, Katz says most of it was spent on stuff to keep people alive - food, tarps, bandages.
KATZ: The food gets eaten, tarps wear out, Band-Aids get pulled off. And ultimately, you know, all that money is spent. The people aren't left with anything durable. So the imagination is that, you know, when you hear about all these billions of dollars that they are going to go and rebuild the country after the earthquake. They were never intended to do so, and lo and behold they didn't.
BEAUBIEN: Haitian President Michel Martelly is more blunt and says the international relief system failed in Haiti.
PRESIDENT MICHEL MARTELLY: We don't just want the money to come to Haiti. Stop sending money. Let's fix it. Let's fix it.
BEAUBIEN: Martelly complains that the international aid agencies poach Haiti's best and brightest to work as drivers. He says the relief money is uncoordinated, and projects hatched from good intentions undermine his government. Tom Kirsch with the Johns Hopkins Center for Refugee and Disaster Response agrees with all that. Right after the quake, Kirsch went to Port-au-Prince as a doctor to help patch up the injured. Since then he's returned repeatedly to try to assess how well the disaster response went.
TOM KIRSCH: Clearly we saved lives. Clearly we put people in tents. Clearly we did all kinds of stuff. But at the same time, kind of the level of chaos and the overall ability to reach needy people, we don't really know how well we did.
BEAUBIEN: Haiti remains the poorest country in the hemisphere, and Kirsch says he understands the complaint from many Haitians that they could have done more with the billions of dollars in aid if they'd controlled it themselves.
KIRSCH: We could have, you know, written a check in everyone in Haiti for, I don't know, $10,000 apiece, which would support them forever, rather than the money the way we spent it. And so, yeah, there's tremendous inefficiencies and stuff.
BEAUBIEN: He says that ultimately the response to the earthquake will be judged in terms of how well Haiti does in the long-term. Kirsch points out that three years after the Asian tsunami, Banda Aceh, Indonesia was still struggling to recover but now actually has rebounded significantly.
KIRSCH: It takes years to recover. People have a misconception that you have a disaster and you go on, you do some things and everything's better. Well, I'll tell you, New Orleans, after Katrina, is still recovering in the U.S. They still have hospitals closed and their economy's less and people have moved out. So even in the U.S., it's not a magic thing that happens that everything just gets better.
BEAUBIEN: Even if it's not magic, disaster relief is also not an exact science. And Kirsch says the international community needs to do a better job of figuring out what works and what doesn't after major disasters. Jason Beaubien, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Weinzierl castle in Lower Austria, which still stands today, can be considered to be the birthplace of a chamber music genre, which is firmly established in our present-day repertoire. The young Haydn was invited to spend some time at this place by a wealthy musical friend and often met up with the steward at the castle, the castle priest and the cellist Anton Albrechtsberger to make music. Although his first two works for "2 violins, viola and bass" still have five movements, their musical value establishes the success of the string quartet in its own right.
- String Quartet B flat major op. 1,1 Hob. III:1
- String Quartet E flat major op. 1,2 Hob. III:2
- String Quartet D major op. 1,3 Hob. III:3
- String Quartet G major op. 1,4 Hob. III:4
- String Quartet E flat major op. 1,0 Hob. II:6
- String Quartet C major op. 1,6 Hob. III:6
- String Quartet A major op. 2,1 Hob. III:7
- String Quartet E major op. 2,2 Hob. III:8
- String Quartet F major op. 2,4 Hob. III:10
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It has become increasingly clear that Major League Baseball must protect its pitchers.
On May 7, 2013, when Toronto Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ was struck in the base of the skull by a ferocious line drive that rocketed off of the bat of Tampa Bay outfielder Desmond Jennings, we were given a reminder about one of the genuinely dangerous aspects of playing baseball. Happ had essentially no time to react as a well-hit ball ricocheted off of the side of his head and bounded down the first base line and all the way into right field. He immediately collapsed and grabbed his head before being taken off the field on a stretcher.
It was a scary, sobering moment, but Happ was relatively lucky. While he did suffer a skull fracture and a laceration below his left ear, he is expected to make a full recovery.
But other players haven't been so lucky. In fact, Cleveland Indians outfielder Ray Chapman is the only major league player to have died directly following an injury on the field.
On August 16, 1920, New York Yankees pitcher Carl Mays delivered a submarine-style pitch to Chapman in the bottom of the fifth inning. It was during a time when balls were frequently dirtied and scuffed ("spitballs"), and with the game running into the evening, Chapman was short on daylight. Because of this, he was unable to see the pitch that struck him in the head, and never even attempted to move out of the way.
After a sickening 'thwack' in which Mays thought the ball had actually struck the end of Chapman's bat, Chapman took several steps, collapsed, and became incoherent. He had to be carried off the field and died 12 hours later. Shortly after, spitballs were outlawed in baseball, but it wasn't until 1970 when batter helmets actually became mandatory.
While batters are now afforded sufficient protection, pitchers remain at risk.
Pitchers are still often in the process of completing their throwing motion by the time a batter swings at their pitch, and it can be difficult for the player to react to a ball hit back at them at over 100 mph.
Just last September, Oakland A's pitcher Brandon McCarthy suffered a brain hemorrhage and a skull fracture from a line drive that required two hours of emergency surgery. Had McCarthy been struck during Chapman's time, he likely would have died. Nearly the exact same thing happened to Boston Red Sox pitcher Matt Clement in 2005.
As almost any athlete will tell you, injuries are often an unavoidable aspect of sports.
So what can be done?
Major League Baseball is taking the matter seriously, and they've taken steps to address the issue. One of the proposed ideas is a hat liner made of Kevlar to help protect the head. Players such as Rockies pitcher Jorge De La Rosa have already come out and supported the idea. McCarthy has voiced his opinion.
Clearly, Major League Baseball needs to provide players with some sort of optional protection. Even if it isn't satisfactory or quite what the league wants, something should be offered, and it should be done soon.


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text: Saturday afternoon covering the Conquistadors' basketball game, watching a game where the visiting team almost won with only three players on the court, brought back a lot of crazy memories for me from my first tenure with the Daily Globe. I sat at my old spot in the south press loft for a while after the game and remembered looking across the way at the old crowds and the number of DCHS, DCCC and Tournament of Champions games I covered during the winters and the Dodge City Legend of the defunct-United States Basketball League in the spring. Sitting in "my" loft as some called it (there was a sheet up there one game naming the area after me), I remembered the first games I covered the first time I was here (Dodge City High against Salina Central in 1999). The Lady Demons led by seniors Crystal Lampe and Kenya Woods and four freshmen won (with the young ninth-graders announcing when interviewed that they had arrived); then the Demon boys shutout the Mustangs in the opening quarter on the way to their victory. And the memories just kept flowing. — Clayton Kerbs hitting a shot from 40 feet away to beat Great Bend which actually brought the student section on the court to celebrate. There were a few other buzzer-beaters, but I can't remember who hit many of them, but the Kerbs' one stands out in my mind. — Another student celebration I remember was when the Red Demons fought back (I don't remember their opponents, but the Demons were the heavy underdog) to win, causing another celebration. (Side note: I also liked it that almost every year, a student gets the honor of dressing and looking like DCHS boys basketball coach Dennis Hamilton — including faux bald cap — in the front of the student section.) — Perhaps the highest moment in Legend history for me was the 2003 season when the team went 28-5, including a fade-away in the corner three-point basket by Artie Griffin with less than 10 seconds left in the USBL championship game for a 99-98 victory over the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs. -- The Lady Conqs closed one season with Jim Turgeon having to do perhaps his best coaching job when the team, whittled down to eight because of injuries and disciplines, clawed their way to an unbelievable run to the Region VI championship game. That was the year before the Lady Conqs eclipsed a number of game and season records in the program. -- The Conqs' men winning the 2006 and 2007 Jayhawk West titles after being selected seventh and third in the preseason coaches' poll for the respective seasons. -- The Legend's winning streak at the Civic Center that went from 2003 through 2005. I can't remember, but I think the streak was at 45 when it was broken. One note you may find interesting, I didn't cover the loss that broke that streak. That goes to former Globe writer and current Manhattan Mercury sports editor Joshua Kinder. I remember him coming back to the office saying: "Unbelievable. I get a chance to cover the team and they lose." Also, I didn't cover the Legend in 2006, Kinder did. I covered a couple of games, both wins. Then I covered the Legend again in 2007 and they didn't lose a home game that season. So the last Legend game I covered at home that was a loss was more than 10 years ago. -- The last game I covered at the Civic Center was my final day with the Globe and the final home game ever for the Legend, a win over the Oklahoma Storm that gave our professional team its fifth regular season title to go with three league championships (2000, 2003, 2005) in eight campaigns. A few other unusual memories came back: like the time the Guymon coach told his player to sit on the ball after he crossed half court and his player followed his coach's orders to the letter. The funniest memory for me involved a three-game, three-night homestand for the Legend and was actually during a time I wasn't at the games from May 22-24, 2001. Neither general manager Tom Nelson nor head coach Kent Davison had heard from me to interview for any preview. The game on the 22nd took place and neither had still hadn't seen nor heard anything from me, so Nelson was a little peeved. No, he was very peeved. I showed up around the start of the second half of the game on the 23rd, but told him I couldn't stay. He asked why not and why no preview. I told him I had become a father around noon earlier in the day and had been at the hospital before-hand and was going back at that moment. His reply: "I'm happy for you at this moment, but I'm not happy with you." He called the next day and apologized saying he would have done the same thing under those circumstances. I knew apologies weren't necessary and we had a good laugh. There are so many more memories at the building I could discuss but my thoughts changed to my final thought leaving the Civic Center in 2007, which I thought would be the last time in the building, once the special events center (now the United Wireless Arena) would be built. A lot of what I would have thought would have happened did. Leagues and tournaments decided on the more modern facility, as did the Conquistadors for their games. I know the middle schools are currently using the Civic Center, but what happens when their improved gymnasiums are finished? The building had a facelift before I left and is still a beautiful place to stage events. Let's try to continue using the building for some event, even if not sports-related. It's too much a part of the town's history and is still just as useful as ever.


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Haha some of you said "Welcome Back" on my last post, but I am STILL here in NY, those were just some pics I took so far...but nope still here until Thursday.
Anyway, I wanted to do some crazy makeup, so I did yellow and fuschia last week and it actually looked cool in person...but yeah it's one of those looks you find yourself doing once. I used some of the NYX Chrome Eyeshadows
What I used:
- Monistat Chafing Gel (as primer)
- Meow Cosmetics Primer Powder
- MMBB Silk Naturals in "Medium Beige"
- MAC Blush in "Fashion Frenzy"
- MAC PP in "Soft Ochre"
- NYX Chrome Eyeshadow in "Yellow" on inner half of lid
- MAC Eyeshadow in "Chrome Yellow"
- NYX Chrome e/s in "Sunny Day" (pink) on outer lid and contour
- MAC Pigment in "Bright Fuchsia" on outer-V
- MMBB e/s in "highlight" as highlight
- MAC l/s in "Show Orchid"
- Lancome Lipgloss in "Seashell"
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
FOTD: Yellow & Fuschia
Haha some of you said "Welcome Back" on my last post, but I am STILL here in NY, those were just some pics I took so far...but nope still here until Thursday.
30 comments
- MakeupByRenRen said...
ohhh i love this look! hot pink and yellow...what a happy combo! i'm still practicing doing more natural bridal looks on myself so i can be ready to do my friend's wedding makeup...can't wait till i can get back to bright looks like this one!
- March 19, 2008 at 11:44 AM
- DigitalFaery said...
Its looks really cool, you should do a look with such crazy colors more often, it suits you very well!!
And i just want to add that you are a great source of inspiration!
- March 19, 2008 at 11:50 AM
- missjaclynrose said...
that is so vibrant and bold! love the color combo! you look radiant as always.
- March 19, 2008 at 12:34 PM
- Christiana Divine @ Memoirs of A Shopping Addict said...
oOOo! I REALLY REALLY REALLY love this look. :) Fuschia and yellow together look AWESOME! :D LOVEEE IT! Hehe.
- March 19, 2008 at 12:34 PM
- Mrs. Lynne, MakeupFix.net said...
Sassy yet fun. I love it!
- March 19, 2008 at 1:29 PM
- ilurvemakeup said...
Gorgeous!!! :)
- March 19, 2008 at 1:43 PM
- The Apprentice said...
Very nice!
Boo hoo, I haven't been able to wear eye m/u for 2 days now because I don't want to irritate my eyes (swollen from sinus trouble).
- March 19, 2008 at 1:55 PM
- Thushaa said...
Aw Nessa, this looks so hot! Loves it.
- March 19, 2008 at 2:12 PM
- Linda said...
this is soo pretty. i love it! but if i were to try that on myself i'd probably get stares. do you notice that when you wear bright makeup?
- March 19, 2008 at 5:37 PM
- nilla cookie said...
oh my gosh, Vanessa!! I LOVE this! You've got skills, girl - I couldn't do this if I tried. Teach us!!
- March 19, 2008 at 6:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
omg color-gasm! I absolutely love it!!!
- March 19, 2008 at 6:56 PM
- Liz said...
soooooo cute and vibrant!
- March 19, 2008 at 8:06 PM
- Liz said...
soooooo cute and vibrant!
- March 19, 2008 at 8:07 PM
- yummy411 said...
ooh this is so cute and fun!!!
- March 19, 2008 at 8:31 PM
- Shop With A Vengeance! said...
Bet you definitely stand out in the crowds of NYC!
- March 19, 2008 at 8:49 PM
- _elle said...
wow that looks hot!
- March 19, 2008 at 10:45 PM
- Grayburn said...
This is one of my favorite looks!
- March 20, 2008 at 4:04 AM
- imee said...
that so wild, but i totally love it!
- March 20, 2008 at 1:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
How do you pronounce Fuschia? I like your makeup by the way.
email- email@example.com
- March 20, 2008 at 2:38 PM
- Anonymous said...
So vibrant, I love it!
- March 20, 2008 at 4:17 PM
- cybele said...
you make the yellow eye shadow look so easy to wear! I am really enjoying your blog.
- March 20, 2008 at 11:03 PM
- Bliss said...
Pretty FOTD, you totally suit this colours and im totally loving your lippie colour combo :).
- March 21, 2008 at 1:47 AM
- ✞ANGELA✞ said...
awesome as always~
really love it~
- March 21, 2008 at 8:15 AM
- Sheila Ferrari said...
Im impressed. Great job!
- March 21, 2008 at 2:03 PM
- iamgrape1119 said...
This is so girly and cute! You look AMAZING! I wish I had your skin!
- March 23, 2008 at 3:49 PM
- (g)ezebel said...
i shoulda done your yellow and fuschia instead of the fuschia and teal i did last friday. what a mess i made. :0/
- March 23, 2008 at 6:30 PM
- Nic Nic said...
wow! love the fuscia and yellow!!
- March 24, 2008 at 8:18 AM
- Peace, Love and Makeup said...
I love the color combo, very pretty for summer. Kinda reminds me of a flower :)
- March 24, 2008 at 10:05 PM
- Maria said...
Nice post
- June 21, 2011 at 8:45 AM
- Maria said...
Your lipstick and foundation is really good In fact you can wear grey suit to suit your fashion look.
- June 22, 2011 at 4:40 AM


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That said, I stopped by the Walmart display at BlogHer last week because Paula Deen was there since Walmart is going to be carrying her baked goods. My kids love watching Food Network and trying out her recipes. I was personally just trying to see if her sons were there. (Did I just say that out loud?) I mean, I just wanted to hear her talk because she's got that quintessential southern accent that just makes you smile.
She offered me a sample of her baked goodies. "Here, try a gooey butter bar," she said.
I asked her, all concerned-like, "There's not any butter in these, is there?"
She looked at me like I was completely stupid, then said sarcastically, "No. Try one."
I like her! LOL!
So, I have this reusable Walmart bag to give away to one reader. It contains some sort of lip gloss, a dry erase picture frame, some baby food and a pedometer. But the best part is that the bag is signed by Paula Deen!


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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Fascinating Day Of NASCAR TV On Saturday
The night race at Charlotte changes lots of things on the weekend for NASCAR fans. One of them is the TV menu. Saturday brings a rich mix of NASCAR TV programs that have been on-the-air since February and are now in full stride.
The morning starts with the 10AM version of NASCAR Now. This week, Ryan Burr is hosting the show from the ESPN2 studios and his partner Nicole Manske is reporting live from Lowe's Motor Speedway. This show has been solid all season and this is the scenario that works the best.
Burr has an extensive studio news background and was a fulltime anchor on the ESPNEWS Network. Manske hosted The SPEED Report last year, but her background is field reporting and interviews. This duo has really clicked and this high-profile show should be well worth watching.
It will be SPEED up next at 3:30PM with Tradin' Paint. Jeff Hammond from the NASCAR on Fox team will be the media guest. He will join host John Roberts and Kyle Petty for a conversation on the NASCAR issues of the week. Last Sunday, Ray Dunlap was the guest and almost blew a gasket arguing with Petty in what may have been the most interesting show of the season.
There are lots of topics for the Tradin' Paint Producer to select from this week. Tight tempers from The Chase drivers, a sour economy and the possible Chapter 11 filing by GM could well be on the agenda. This program either thrives or dives depending on the topics being discussed.
At 4PM on SPEED is NASCAR Performance. Larry McReynolds and his Producer from the NASCAR Media Group (NMG) have worked very hard to make this show a fan favorite. Chad Knaus and Bootie Barker have completely opposite personalities, yet each is in the exact same job with good results. Those two combine with McReynolds to answer viewer email and talk about the tech topics of the week.
An original creation this year is a TV series called NASCAR in a Hurry that can be seen at 4:30PM. SPEED put this show together with hosts Adam Alexander and Randy Pemberton to re-purpose the video shot by the TV crews and NMG of the racing weekend. It is an easy way to get up-to-date on the current NASCAR happenings and has been a success in its rookie season.
SPEED rolls-out the franchise at 5PM with NASCAR RaceDay. There should be a huge crowd for this live show right in the backyard of the SPEED TV Network. Host John Roberts basically spends two hours trying to corral his panelists Jimmy Spencer and Kenny Wallace. Hermie Sadler and Wendy Venturini are the reporters for this program who play a very important role in updating the stories from the infield while the SPEED Stage sits outside of the track itself.
This week, Roberts and company will be welcoming the duo in the news from last week. Tony Stewart and Regan Smith will both be live guests, no doubt reviewing the exciting finish from Talladega. Nationwide regular Brad Keselowski will also be on the program.
The NASCAR TV train moves over to ABC at 7PM for NASCAR Countdown. Allen Bestwick hosts the program from the ESPN Infield Pit Studio. As usual, Bestwick will have Rusty Wallace and Brad Daugherty on his pre-race panel. This program follows live college football, but the schedulers left enough room for this thirty minute show.
The big Sprint Cup Series night race is next at 7:30PM. This is a long and grinding race that demands a lot of energy from the TV crew and announcers. Dr. Jerry Punch, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree worked a long day on Friday that went into early Saturday morning. The Nationwide coverage had red flags and big accidents but good coverage by the ESPN team.
On Saturday night, Tim Brewer will be in the Tech Center and ESPN will have four pit reporters. Mike Massaro, Dave Burns, Jamie Little and Shannon Spake will be hustling to try and keep up with both the stories of the race and the stories of The Chase.
One big surprise has been the strong NASCAR Now wrap-up show that follows the Cup races on ESPN2. All of the strongest parts of the NASCAR on ESPN and NASCAR Now TV resources get poured into this one hour program. On this Saturday, the program will air at 11:30PM after the race. Ryan Burr will be the host.
Unfortunately, ESPN only airs this wrap-up show during the ESPN/ABC portion of the Sprint Cup coverage. Perhaps, the program might return on a fulltime basis in 2009. Scheduled on Sunday race days at 10PM, this show sneaks-in right behind the three hour racing review shows on SPEED.
Speaking of SPEED, they are once again holding the Victory Lane program until 8PM on Sunday night. This is the middle piece of the Sunday night puzzle with The SPEED Report starting the evening at 7PM and Dave Despain and Wind Tunnel coming along as the finale at 9PM.
SPEED has a tough time scheduling Victory Lane on a Saturday night for one simple reason. There is no way to tell when the Sprint Cup race will end. As NASCAR fans who have watched live races at midnight and beyond know all too well, NASCAR likes to get the show in and move on.
NASCAR fans get to choose from almost ten hours of TV programming on Saturday alone. This diverse schedule and the featured race should be enough to satisfy any racing appetite. Well, until the next racing weekend of course.
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31 comments:
- Dot said...
I didn't see the ARCA race listed for Sunday on the previous page. It will be on SPEED. Do you just post the NASCAR races?
- October 11, 2008 at 1:46 AM
- eleventool said...
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- October 11, 2008 at 7:12 AM
- Anonymous said...
ARCA race from Toledo Oh. on Speed
Sun.10/12 2:00 P.M. ET.
Wed.10/15 3:00 A.M. ET.
Tks.JD Ron Il.
- October 11, 2008 at 7:55 AM
- majorshouse said...
I thought that the Nationwide race last night was better than it had been in some time. I am still no fan of Jerry Punch in the booth, but thought the race crew in general did a much better job showing the racing as well as covering the action in the pits because Lord knows there was pelnty of it going on.
- October 11, 2008 at 9:35 AM
- bevo said...
Be interesting to see how the ratings go tonight with the race going against LSU-Florida, Oklahoma St-Missouri and Penn St-Wisconsin plus the ALCS game. They better be on top of their game with the broadcast to avoid losing viewers during the race
- October 11, 2008 at 11:20 AM
- bevo said...
OK how about this development in the Chrysler-GM talks and the effect on NASCAR? The holding company that owns Chrysler is also talking to Nissan.
- October 11, 2008 at 11:26 AM
- Vicky D said...
Bevo I wonder if the broadcasters will mention this during the race tonight. I bet not. JP will be too busy saying that such and such a car is sailing into the corner!
- October 11, 2008 at 11:48 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Did you guys notice that Ricky Craven was once again on the morning preview edition of NASCAR Now?
Very quietly ESPN has been using him more-and-more with good results. He worked great with Ryan Burr.
- October 11, 2008 at 11:55 AM
- bevo said...
Didn't catch NASCAR Now, College Gameday at Texas-ou. I like Craven though, he doesn't get into the hype.
Dang it, Musburger is doing the Texas game. Time for the radio
- October 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
Best thing to happen to N.N.
Tks.JD. Ron Il.
- October 11, 2008 at 12:03 PM
- 3bud said...
bevo if the 2 merge it could produce some major competition for Toyota Honda etc. I,ve been a Bow Tie guy all my life but if this will keep GM going in these changing times thats good ,and hopefully keep them in NASCAR. I can't imagine no Chevys in the feild in the future.
- October 11, 2008 at 12:30 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
When you get a sec, Google the Chevy Volt. Once three or four car makers have these type of vehicles for mass market sale, the world will change very quickly.
- October 11, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- Vicky D said...
JD, very quietly ESPN is adding Craven to some of their broadcasts. I liked him with the glasses too.
- October 11, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- cvt said...
With Craven's bona fides I can't think of a reason to bring Boris Said back. Craven ought to be used during the broadcast instead of Rusty Wallace, he's better at broadcasting and has no conflict as an owner.
He and DJ are about as good as it gets from ex-drivers.
I think we're lucky to have Burr doing the broadcasts too. He's really good at what he does and I can't help but think the brass at ESPN have taken note as well and will be moving him to higher profile assignments.
- October 11, 2008 at 1:19 PM
- Matt said...
I love Craven on NN. Today I was surprised to hear his bold comments on Edwards and how he should keep his focus on the track, but I completely agreed with him.. I'm glad he spoke his mind.
I also think he should replace Rusty.
- October 11, 2008 at 1:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
Speed can't do Victory Lane live tonight since F-1 is on. I sympathize since I work local news and on Saturdays football or baseball always seems to screw up our broadcast.
- October 11, 2008 at 1:30 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 1:30PM,
SPEED's problem is bigger than F-1. One rain delay or a couple of red flags could end the race beyond the point where Victory Lane should either be in progress or ended. It's a mess.
I hope SPEED and NASCAR flesh-out a way to do this show live after every race next season regardless of the day of the week or time of day.
It has the potential to be one of the most powerful and popular shows on SPEED, and instead it is a tape-delayed mess that has all its content reviewed by The SPEED Report before it ever airs.
The off-season should be fun for a bunch of the NASCAR TV networks.
The theory of the Chevy Volt is that it will elminate gas use totally by 75% of the commuting work force in North America.
- October 11, 2008 at 1:47 PM
- Dot said...
Since the Volt will replace gas, what will NASCAR do? Hell, they still use carbs.
- October 11, 2008 at 1:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
JD--Ryan mentioned on yesterdays NN that Ricky would be there all weekend...they even had a cot for him to sleep on *giggle* but not much food for him :)
I'd love to see them have VL on live regardless of what time the race ends. Then folks will have a choice. Some can stay up late and for our West Coast friends it's still early for them even if it is 2 am eastern. Or can record and watch during the day.
- October 11, 2008 at 1:58 PM
- Sophia said...
Thanks for the tip to google Chevy Volt. I hope it does FANTASTIC in testing and hits it's target dates. I have two musician buddies that drive Toyota prius and are VERY happy with them.
I agree VL should follow THE RACE. I am in EST and a late night person but folks can tape or DVR. And why must EVERYTHING revolve around EST? West coasters DESERVE an after show and it's earlier for them...so NASCAR needs to rethink MANY times....but I don't want to digress. ha
- October 11, 2008 at 2:07 PM
- majorshouse said...
I did see Craven on NASCAR Now and I agree that they should use him more and evenrepalce him over Rusty as well for all of the reasons that I have already heard.
- October 11, 2008 at 2:24 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Some guys started making kits you could by online to allow hybrid cars to be plugged in at home.
Chevy is just moving the rock one more notch up the hill. It should be interesting.
- October 11, 2008 at 2:51 PM
- Anonymous said...
I apologize for being the skunk at the picnic,but you might want to dig a bit deeper into the Volt on Google. GM went on record as saying that as long as they build the first generation Volt, they will never make a dime selling the car even while selling it for between $30,000 and $40,000. Further,GM said it plans to build no more than 60,000 per year.Probably only a 1000 will be available in late 2010 if they can stay on schedule.Prius sales have maxed out at roughly 250,000 per year as a point of reference.The Prius has just broken even financially even though it was introduced in Japan in 1997 and here in either 2000 or 2002. They had been losing $2000 per car. The Prius battery used to cost $4200.Don't know what it costs today.It is NMH (Nickel Metal Hydride). This is a bad year for cars,but we'll still sell 15 million this year.Gas hybrids represent roughly 2% of new car sales.The lithium ion battery in the Volt is $10,000, weighs 400 pounds and will probably require replacement during the vehicle's life. At least one Company is exploring leasing the batteries.I agree with JD.An affordable, mass produced electric car WOULD change the world, but there are still many challenges ahead,too many to cover here.
- October 11, 2008 at 2:54 PM
- 3bud said...
JD i know all good things must come to an end, I was fasinated by the interal combustion engine since about the age of 5 or 6 stated building lawn mower engines around 8 or 9 and was well into cars by about 10 years old,now I have a shop for about the last 20 years. Technolgy has benn changing since i started in a shop in the mid to late seventy's. The Chevy Volt although I'm not big on change I know it's a comin, and I know that is where we are headed, I guess at this point if we can keep our auto industry going that is what wil need to be done. I have worked on a couple of toyota prius, I guess now the learning begins.
- October 11, 2008 at 2:56 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
The key is that it is not electric, but a charged battery that just starts a normal engine when it gets to a certain low point.
I get all kinds of email stuff as a result of my site, and some of it is wild.
Whoever gets a lightweight battery that can run a mid-sized car 40 miles a day is going to be the next Bill Gates.
The percentage of drivers who commute less than 40 miles a day is staggering.
Chevy better get in gear, there is a group waaaaaay out east that is working very hard on this challenge.
They already dominate NASCAR.
- October 11, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- stricklinfan82 said...
I agree with your comments on Victory Lane. I'd watch it every week if it came on the air immediately after the race network signed off. As it is now I never bother any more because everything is basically old news by the time it comes on the air (especially when it's more than 24 hours delayed for Saturday night Cup races).
I sure would like to have an extended immediate post-race show to go with the 3+ hours of immediate pre-race coverage we get every week. If Fox, TNT, and ESPN/ABC aren't going to set aside room for immediate post-race shows themselves, a live Victory Lane immediately upon the race network's sign-off would be the perfect substitute in my opinion.
The current 'norm' of 3+ hours of immediate pre-race and only 5 minutes of immediate post-race followed by NASCAR darkness all across TV for the next several hours leaves much to be desired, from my perspective.
- October 11, 2008 at 3:10 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
SPEED is sitting on a goal mine with Victory Lane, they just do not quite get that yet.
This becomes very clear now that ESPNEWS and SportsCenter has shoved NASCAR to the back burner once again.
- October 11, 2008 at 3:22 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
There is a new post up where we will talk live alongside of the Saturday afternoon pre-race shows.
- October 11, 2008 at 3:29 PM
- 3bud said...
I think getting alot of people to buy these is going to be a task , they also need to make the batteries a little more efficient.At one point I remember they where flown to different parts of the world to be manufactured, which also kind of defeats the whole saving fuel idea.But you are right JD if GM doesn't get it into gear Toyota will pass them. But I guess I'm just Old School, give me a Chevy Small Block any day
- October 11, 2008 at 3:30 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
We are working live comments on the in-progress shows on Saturday in a new post.
Please refresh your browser.
- October 11, 2008 at 3:38 PM
- bevo said...
Have you heard if anyone with NASCAR is following the KERS development for next season in F1?
For everyone KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems) recovers energy during deceleration. NASCAR could probably use it on road courses and short tracks.
Oh by the way...
- October 11, 2008 at 3:40 PM


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This week's prompt made me think immediately of my seamstress mother. But I wrote recently about her in Happiness is Stitching. So instead I picked up on the theme of Flags and Patriotism .
Here are four embroidered cards from the First World War, sent by my grandfather William Danson of Poulton-le=Fylde (left) to his wife and family back home. They are part of a larger collection which is one of my family history treasures.
During WW1 silk postcards and handkerchiefs were bought as souvenirs by soldiers who were serving on the Western Front. Local French and Belgian women embroidered the different motifs onto strips of silk mesh which were sent to factories for cutting and mounting on postcards. There were two kinds of cards, one was a piece of embroidered silk mounted onto a card and the other was two pieces of silk sewn and mounted to form a pocket to contain a message or a silk handkerchief. It is an example of an industry which appeared as a result of war and must have been a useful source of income for families in France and Belgium.
Flags attract me! So when I am abroad, I always make a point of trying to capture an image of the country's flag,
Outside the Hotel de Ville in Paris


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Red Sox shortstop Iglesias looks to build off openerBy MICHAEL SILVERMAN
Boston Herald
April 02. 2013 10:31PM
NEW YORK - Jose Iglesias stood in the shadow of Jackie Bradley Jr. all spring long, and frankly he isn't going to escape it anytime soon.
But the Red Sox shortstop played one pretty sweet game Monday in his first appearance on a major league Opening Day roster.
Three hits, one RBI - the first for the team this year - and one run scored, and his usual stellar defense, including making the key relay throw on an inning-ending double play in the eighth.
That all meant he could take a bow after the 8-2 victory over the Yankees.
"Definitely. I've been feeling good since the first day in spring training, so I can't complain," Iglesias said. "I worked hard this offseason, I put myself in the best position as possible, and now here, the first day in New York, Opening Day for me, it was fun, especially to go 3-for-5 and get that win, too. Everything's going well, everything is going perfect."
Place Iglesias' three hits end to end and they don't reach the outfield wall at Yankee Stadium, not even the short right field corner.
His first hit, the RBI single in the second inning, squirted in the gap between short and third, landing in shallow left field. The bases were loaded at the time, and Yankees ace CC Sabathia was on the mound. Iglesias' single gave the Sox their first lead of the season, and he later scored in that four-run inning that set the tone for everything that followed.
His next time up, he put down a perfect bunt for a hit, something he's been encouraged to do a lot this spring. He popped up in the fifth with the bases loaded, but in the seventh he beat out a slow roller to third base for his third hit.
"It doesn't matter" how far the hits go, Iglesias said. "I saw the chance to bunt and I did. I put the ball in play and I beat the throw. That other at-bat when I came in with the bases loaded, I was able to beat the ball, so that's all you can do - hit the ball and be in the best position possible."
Iglesias' defensive ability seldom has been questioned, and he had a strong game at shortstop. Five assists and one putout, plus he handled the big play in the eighth. Junichi Tazawa took a sharply hit ground ball by Ichiro Suzuki and did a 180-degree turn, pegging a strike to Iglesias, who whipped it to first in time to catch the speedster.
"That was good, (Tazawa) threw me a perfect throw to second base," Iglesias said. "We've been working on that all spring. I think the pitchers have been (doing a) really good job about that. I was able to turn it."
Once Stephen Drew returns from his concussion in the next week or two, Iglesias is expected to head back to the minors.
But if he keeps playing like Monday, Iglesias just might start stealing some of the spotlight being shined on Bradley.


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Thursday, January 31, 2013
P comme p'tit sac
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It's always such a treat to see Paris via your search for something tasty!ReplyDelete
When I lived in Paris I learned to say "Oui" like a Parisienne, in which you do not actually pronounce the word as much as you simply inhale it. Have you heard that yet?Replies
I hear 'WAY' many times minus the inhalation...Delete
Oh, after grazing through all your newest temptations, I'd be so happy to have a p'tit 'orange gingimbre'! *dream*ReplyDeleteReplies
I could probably mail you ONE Merisi!! :)Delete
p'tit a p'titReplyDelete
p'tit gris
p'tit four
There are a LOT OF p'tits!!
That transparent sac is elegant, letting one adore the macaron. I like: "Si on prenait un petit café." Your Moleskine is like an old fashioned suitcase (full of treasures) with its collants....My French teacher doesn't let us say "WAY", says it doesn't have enough politesse for a visiting student of French...esp. a student d'un certain âge... She said it's like "Yeah." I picture you flying about Paris & landing at all these destinations! " Bon après-midi. R.ReplyDelete
Oh and that newspaper bag: it's the one Isabelle has at Mornings in Paris!ReplyDeleteReplies
It's easy to fly around Paris when you have a monthly carte Navogo...Delete
But tomorrow I go back to being Cinderella and the pumpkin, new month - no carte
I will feel less free for sure
So many rules to learn in French but many speak slang even the upper crust...
Love your painting, Carol. Reminds me of the fête du macaron last year; great fun. Remember asking for a big bag for all our p'tit macaron loot bags? What a hoot! Yep, it was a p'tit problème. Hm. Pistacherie. Never thought of asking for empty wee bags and putting my homemade ones in them. Sneeky!ReplyDeleteReplies
I doubt they would sell the p'tit sacs minus the Pistacheria but you could probably charm them to do so JillDelete
Thank you Thank you for doing this heavenly blog....I'm only back to the states 3 months and I am already planning my next trip....bringing my dearest friend who has never been!!ReplyDelete
You give me the dose of this great city I need to get me through my wait!!!!
Your phrase "compressing the words like an accordion" is so much better than "elision." My neighbors loved, loved, loved the Henri Le Roux caramels! See you soon. OK?ReplyDelete
Love little bags and stickers:)ReplyDelete
All familiar sounds to me of course:)
Un tout petit peu plus s.v.p. / A little bit more please.ReplyDelete
Your post today was full of all the things you show you're passionate about. I just loved it, give us more. I hope you don't have to be Cinderella for long :-)
- Anonymous9:14 AM
I do read your posts (almost) every day and just love your musings on the loveliness of Paris. Have you ever considered writing a book about your experiences in Paris? You truly have a unique perspective and I could see a combination of visuals and text that would make it very popular. Just a thought…..ReplyDelete
Working on it bien sur ClaudiaDelete
The best reason to be in Paris!
- Patricia in Brasil9:32 AM
I just can't stop reading your posts!...ReplyDelete
You talk about everything I also love the most: Paris, ballerinas, cakes, macarons, London, anything beautiful and truly enjoyable.... and, for me it is the cherry on the top of this delicious cake, all filled with the most gorgeous watercolors..... oh, be still my heart!!
Thank you so much for sharing so many beautiful experiences and colors!
Wishing you all the best!
With joy from Brazil,
Multo obrigada Partricia!Delete
Oh my! I can't imagine using one of those lovely p'tit sacs to pick up the puppy's p'tit caca! But it is nice to know that someone is thinking of cleaning up after the dogs in Paris. Merci.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yr so funny Connie! Paris chine have everything elegant...ahemDelete
Carol, you continue to send us such wit and visual delight from Paris! I love your watercolor journal.ReplyDelete
The petit sac concept is also to be found when one visits Kee's Chocolates on Thompson Street here in NYC. I stop by every so often for an exotic macaron.
Thank you for reminding me I must buy a new MetroCard today! xo
How can you even ask what to do with those sacks? After you paint them, collage them!!!ReplyDelete
I agree with Jeanette, M o L, collage them!ReplyDelete


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"We shall not cease from exploration,
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive
where we started and know
the place for the first time."
T.S. Eliot
delivered into the crucible of awareness
rising from the ashes
changed into the universal flow of being


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