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Misery & Clemency
"I'm not here to talk about the past. I'm here to be positive about this subject. "
-- Superhuman baseball-obliterating home run machine Mark McGwire, in a March 17 congressional hearing on the use of illegal steroids in baseball
On this sunburnt Friday in March, as the Orioles of Baltimore collide with the visiting Twins of Minnesota inside the cozy confines of Fort Lauderdale Stadium, renewal is itself reborn in two words: Spring! Training! Here, childhood daydreams are animated in grass and paint and clay and groin adjustment. Never hath the outfield appeared so verdant, the sky so limpid, the kosher dogs so corpulent, the surrounding sidewalk so cracked and blotchy. To note that this is a day redolent of innocence and happiness and revival would be a hyperbole of understatement.
Here, in spring training, fans young and old can get as near to sluggers Rafael Palmeiro and Sammy Sosa as a bipartisan congressional committee was just 24 hours earlier. "It's Steroidgate," says Fort Lauderdale saxophonist Dave Prince, who formerly played with such local bands as Boloney Sandwich. "I'm glad they came back today. I would have been bummed if Sammy and Rafi had been hanging." That's to say, detained in Washington, D.C., where Palmeiro (551 career home runs) adamantly denied using illegal steroids and Sosa (573 career homers) seemingly forgot how to speak English in mumbling his denials.
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Prince, a lifelong Orioles fan, leans against the low chainlink fence by the O's bullpen and recalls the halcyon days when the New York Yankees trained in this very stadium. Don Mattingly (222 career home runs) and Rickey Henderson (297 career home runs) would go for beers nearby after the game, and Prince says he once had the honor of racing Henderson, the sport's all-time stolen bases leader, in a bar parking lot.
As Prince finishes his tale, he sees an O's right fielder munching seeds on the field and wisecracks: "Oral steroids."
Sosa grounds out to end the sixth inning, and some choirboy stands up in the bleachers. "Get back in the dugout now!" he yells. "You're nothing! You're a hack! You suck!"
A young, paunchy Chicago Cubs fan, Ilija Matoski, tires of the game and packs his 6-month-old daughter, Bronwyn, into her stroller. "Might go hit up the strip club," he says, maybe kidding. "You get in free with child."
Down the fence, the pitchers sit with their backs to the crowd, talking in low tones that suggest they feel the presence of the autograph seekers a foot behind them. One tells a story just loud enough that the wind doesn't blow it toward home plate. Some players had been discussing where in Fort Lauderdale to seek female company -- "which girls hung out where, that sort of thing" -- when one of them (and the wind edited exactly who) cut to the chase by declaring, "I just want some straight cunt."
Ah, spring!
Baseball is, if nothing else, endlessly durable. The game recovered from the Black Sox scandal of 1919, from two world wars, from the Giants' and Dodgers' diasporas, from the invention of the designated hitter, from eight work stoppages since 1972, from the cancellation of the 1994 World Series, and this year, it must recover from accusations by Jose Canseco (462 career jonrónes) and others that its biggest stars and most prodigious feats, including those by Palmeiro, McGwire, and others, were aided by hypodermic needles jabbed into pimply asses.
In the subtropical subparadise that is Florida, 18 big-league teams make their March homes and play 285 games around the state -- 130 of which fell after the steroid hearings. For me, a rural Arkansas kid who grew up watching ballgames on an old TV with crummy reception, the chance to rove the sport's Garden of Eden while a sordid scandal unfolded was too enticing to ignore. So late this past March, I began plotting a journey across the Sunshine State's breadth of America's pastime. The game famously reincarnates every year at this time, but, I wondered, can it cleanse itself when the players seem bent on polluting the very reasons anyone cares about baseball in the first place?
Then, Saturday night, I place a call on the way home from a bar.
"Hello?" the voice answers. It sounds rough.
"Hey, Dad, what's going on?"
"Oh," he replies, "Dad just died."
My granddaddy, James Edward Eifling, had suffered from heart and liver problems. Father to three, granddad to nine, he made it to 75. The memorial service would be Thursday, at the First Baptist Church in Grady, a town of 500 souls and one stoplight planted in the south Arkansas delta.
Knew this was coming. Should have told him. Something, anything. Earlier. One ten-minute phone call would have done it. My first close relative to die.
To his grandkids, he was a lovely man, if distant. A child of the Depression who grew up shooting birds and squirrels for food and, for fun, pitching softball. He'd practice in the rare down hours that a young man raised on a rice farm could steal, perfecting his delivery with his brother catching in front of a barn-wall backstop. In his teens, he pitched for the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. team in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It was the late '40s, and 5,000 people showing up in the stands for a town game was a monumental civic event.
He didn't go to college. Instead, he worked his way up to conductor in 36 years with Cotton Belt Railroad. He sang in church, cared for the elderly. He was game for fishing trips at the reservoir near his house, for watching the hummingbirds swarm the feeders outside his back porch, for telling tales of drivers trying -- and sometimes failing -- to beat trains across railroad crossings.
He was such a crack shot with a .22 rifle that he and his brother, Vernon, used to shoot matchboxes out of each others' hands at distances of 10, 20 yards. He astounded his two young sons once by shooting a crow from the top branch of a 100-foot cypress tree at 100 yards. They told him they wanted him to hit it in the head. He merely hit the neck.
He was a rapscallion sweetheart.
The front seat of a car, it turns out, is as fine a place as any for weeping.
The next day, my instinct is to curl up in a ball on the couch and put a pillow over my head. I don't know how I'm going to get home, how my dad is going to hold up, nothing. But the stadium is ten minutes away, a friend has bleacher tickets, and I have a drug scandal to kick around. So before death has had a chance to sink in, I'm watching the New York Mets play the Orioles in Fort Lauderdale, close enough to the field to see the spit spray from Mets centerfielder Kerry Robinson when he sneezes.
As Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez once said, there's no crying in baseball, and this is a lousy place to mope. The salty sentiment that permeated the stadium two days earlier is gone. What remains is a sense that the deadline poets who every spring spout encomiums to baseball aren't total gasbags. Families are everywhere; at $8 a head, parents tote oodles of kids. High winds have chased away all but the wispiest clouds. Above, a skywriter puts touches on a giant j; the rest of his design is illegible white puff. The outfield grass really is an otherworldly shade of green.
A macabre thought forms before I can abort it: Would ash make good fertilizer?
"You know who announced his retirement yesterday?" someone in the bleachers says. "Roberto Alomar. He made two errors in one inning and retired after the game." He made it to 37.
When the Mets bat, Sosa (1,530 career RBI) prowls right field, his midday shadow an ink stain on the green canvas. Someone calls out, "Hey, Sammy! I've got some wine I need a cork for!" You get caught corking one lousy bat, you never live it down. He'll be enshrined in the Hall of Fame one day, Sosa will, not as the lithe, base-swiping dervish he was in the early '90s but as the prodigious slugger he became, with those satchel cheeks, those ludicrous forearms that he partly credited to, of all things, Flintstones Vitamins. He's the superstar with a bounce in his home-run trot and a chewy center to his bat.
"Bud! Bud Light!" calls a burly man making his way to the stands with a tub of ice on his shoulder. "Don't be afraid to tip the bartender!" Duke Johnson of Miami has sold beer for the Marlins since that team began play in 1993 and begins his season every year here at Orioles games. When he smiles, his eyes narrow to feline slits and the partial gold cap on his front tooth gleams. Everyone knows Johnson as Elephant Man, because of his bulbous green hat with orange floppy ears and an orange trunk. It doubles the size of his noggin.
"Sosa gives more balls [to fans] than any other player," he says later, the right shoulder of his white T-shirt stained with sweat and dirt. "I read in the Bible that it's better to give than to receive. Sammy's a guy who has received a lot, but he still takes time to give."
Maybe, but we know about the cork and those, ahem, chewable vitamins. The guy clearly is not above cheating. What about the juice?
"False allegations," the Elephant Man says, probably listening to his gut as much as his sizable head.
Turns out that "bereavement" or "emergency" airfares mean, in some cases, a 3 percent discount. The only feasible way to avoid paying two weeks' take-home pay for a ticket home is to fly in and out of Orlando, 200 miles from Fort Lauderdale. Florida being Florida, there's plenty of baseball between.
Solo road trips are lonely affairs, but they offer time to think. My grief is at a dull hum. What do I know of my granddaddy? I wonder whether he grew up enjoying baseball. All I know about Arkansas baseball is that St. Louis Cardinals greats Dizzy Dean and Lou Brock were born there; it turns out Dean's first start in the majors came the year Granddaddy was born. Brock was born in 1939, not long before Granddaddy was to learn the piano and, at age 13, begin playing funerals.
Rather than head straight to the land of Mickey, I first go west to Bradenton, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates and their stadium, McKechnie Field, which sits a few blocks west of a juvenile detention center, as if anything could be more disheartening for a young ruffian than to hear a baseball game from beyond whorls of razor wire. Today, the game is sold out to a capacity of 6,001, and the Detroit Tigers are thumping the miserable home team.
Inside the press box, where scribes massage Thinkpads, the dents of old foul balls in drywall peer from behind framed glass. When a batter clips a ball back over home plate, the statistician flinches. "Jesus," he says, "that sound always scares the shit out of me." In the late innings, when Tigers infielder Tony Giarratano (no major league home runs) slaps a homer onto the graveled roof of the Boys Club across the left-field fence, making the score 13-2, a newspaper writer named Jim Lane asks aloud, "When does the mercy rule kick in?"
With the game never in doubt (and the result meaningless anyway), John Gierl, age 35, supervises his 5-year-old son, Tyler, who's romping in an inflatable castle behind the right-field bleachers. Their trip from suburban Pittsburgh is an annual rite. The father was coached by his own father until age 13. "It was always something between my dad and me," he says. "We could play catch."
Gierl went on to play centerfield at La Roche College in Pennsylvania. He remembers tales of players juicing even back then. Given the millions of dollars dangling in front of major leaguers, he can't bring himself to blame them for making the decision. But he's glad he doesn't have to explain too much to his young son. "You almost just have to hope they grow up strong," he says of ballplayers.
Sometime in the ninth, the attendants clear the bouncy castle to deflate it, and Gierl's boy bounds over. "What's up, bud?" the father asks.
Tyler fumbles in putting on his tiny zippered shoes, then runs down the concourse to his mother without saying a word. "This year will be my first year coaching T-ball," the father says. "We'll see how it goes."
Fatherly love thrives in the tacit realms of example and deed -- for the Gierls, it's in baseball coaching; in the case of my granddaddy, it was dominoes while the living room clock ticked and chimed on the half-hour. But that sort of relationship challenges a pair to see each other regularly or make an effort to call. I left Arkansas to attend college in Chicago in 1997, then moved south to Florida. We hadn't talked much since then.
Repairing such a relationship can be toilsome when, for instance, a grandson fails to keep in touch with his forebears -- or when a father loses sight of his boy. At the congressional steroid hearings, Ray Garibaldi, a California father, described the life of his 24-year-old son, Rob, a college ballplayer who used steroids. The young man suffered from "mania, depression, short-term memory loss, uncontrollable rage, delusional and suicidal thinking, and paranoid psychosis" before he shot himself in the head, according to Ray. The father first learned of his son's drug use when the young man assaulted him.
As the game ends, the black-faced gulls descend upon the spilled peanuts and popcorn scraps in the bleachers. Fans line up a dozen deep for signatures from a Pirates outfielder named Chris Duffy. Another game awaits, just up the road aways.
Three hours later and 30 miles nearer the flight home, at Tampa's Legends Field, a scalper in a grass lot offers a ticket to the sold-out Yankees game for $30. I haven't the energy to haggle. "If anyone asks," he says, "say you paid face. If not, they take the ticket and the money, and we don't get either one back."
The classiest organization in sports, the Yanks. They play here at Legends, a 10,000-capacity scale version of the House that Ruth (714 career home runs) Built. The announcer asks the gathered throng to "please be a professional fan" for the 7 p.m. game against the Philadelphia Phillies. Attending Long Island fathers call their sons "pal." A woman in the front row of the second deck slouches and props her feet against a rail, freeing her lower torso muscles to expel a resounding Bronx cheer, presumably in support of the home team.
When Jason Giambi (281 career round-trippers) is announced in the starting lineup, the crowd roars with approval, this despite (or perhaps defying) offseason news that the 2000 American League MVP admitted to a grand jury that he used steroids. Giambi's response to the reports was a penitent news conference in which he apologized profusely without saying, "because of all the legal matters," exactly what he was sorry for. Just call him "The Unnatural."
"At least Giambi's honest," someone says in the stands behind home plate. "Better than Bonds." That would be Barry Bonds, the dominant San Francisco Giants right fielder, one of the only other players in the majors known to have used steroids. Bonds (703 career taters) of course did explain, less than convincingly, that he didn't realize the topical cream he rubbed on his legs was a steroid.
In the early innings, when superstar third baseman Alex Rodriguez (381 career homers) is caught stealing, a baseball tour guide named Jay Buckley asks, "You don't think he's on steroids, do you?" Who the hell knows, these days. Buckley, a baseball guide for 23 years, says interest in his tour is definitely down in 2005. Some players also appear to be shrinking, notably Ivan Rodriguez (250 career moonshots), the Marlins-cum-Tigers catcher who must have lost 20 to 30 pounds last winter.
"Most of these athletes have no depth perception anyway," Buckley says. "They don't think anything is gonna happen to them.
"If you're a young player and you think steroids might help you make $500,000, $1 million a year for five years, won't you be damn tempted to take them? And if you're a good player and you think steroids can help you become a superstar making $8 million to $10 million a year, wouldn't you do it despite the health risks?"
After the game, an easy 5-1 Yankees win, a mid-20s couple prowls in the grass parking lot waving T-shirts. The fronts read "Steroids All-Stars." The one in San Francisco Giants colors has Bonds' number 25 with an asterisk on the back with CHEATER across the top; the one in Yankees colors has Giambi's number 25 with SORRY across the back.
Paul Giza and Andrea Delisi took a month off from waiting tables in Belmar, New Jersey, to tool around spring training peddling the shirts. Giza had the brainstorm in February, registered a website, printed 200 shirts, and beelined for Florida.
A gangly redheaded teenager approaches and weighs the options. "I hate Bonds more," he says, echoing the prevailing consensus, and buys a shirt.
"I just can't believe that Bonds wasn't called" before Congress, Delisi says. "How do they pick these people? And I felt so bad for McGwire."
People sluice past. They laugh. Mostly.
"Funny shirts," Paul Giza calls to fleeing fans. "Unique souvenirs."
"You should be ashamed of yourself," a fan says softly.
"That's ridiculous," Delisi says a second later.
"You're rooting for him," Giza says to the fan. "You're paying his salary."
For the record, that salary was $12,428,571 last season. In 1936, a year after my fellow Arkansan Dean won 28 games, the Cardinals paid him $28,000.
Wednesday morning, the flight leaves Orlando in the dim early morning, and I connect in Chicago. A small plane descends through the cotton-ball clouds a few miles from the airport and skirts above the chicken houses, rusted truck graveyards, and horse pastures of northern Arkansas, where my childhood transmuted into something like adulthood.
In the county just south lies the yard where that first pop fly slipped out of my glove and loosed blood from my 8-year-old nose like a spigot. (Didn't cry, though. Instead, Dad took me in front of the bathroom mirror to laugh at the painless scarlet mess.) This is where I grew up watching games on TV with my two brothers and Pops, cheering for no logical reason the hirsute Michelin man John Kruk in the 1993 Series that the Phillies lost to the Blue Jays. The sport became real for me miles away and years later, in college, at my first major-league game, the Cubs' second of the 1998 season. Against the Montreal Expos, in an ass-cold Wrigley Field, Sosa homered, then did so 65 more times by that season's end.
Back in Fayetteville, Arkansas, that summer, I earned my first writing paycheck covering a Babe Ruth baseball game for the local paper. I specified that the $25 check be cashed as a twenty and five singles. Still have that first dollar bill the teller handed over.
The drive south is 250 miles, through dark, through mountains, through forest, through Little Rock accident traffic and, finally, across delta, flat as a shaken soda. Years peel back as the odometer clicks forward -- not to a simpler past but to a simpler present.
The next afternoon, cars edge the stripeless black road beside the little church in Grady. Inside, the pews runneth over. With my parents and brothers, among some others, I sit in the slightly raised choir loft, behind the pulpit, looking out on the people, overwhelmingly strangers to me, gathered to pay their respects. The preacher stands at the pulpit, beneath the wooden ceiling that arches like an overturned boat hull. He leads a prayer and reads the 51st Psalm, which begins:
Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions
and my sin is always before me.
Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are proved right when you speak
and justified when you judge.
That psalm is known as the "Miserere," which is Latin for "be merciful." The prayer suggests that God forgives those who suffer and then confess. Religion skipped a couple of generations in my family, and most days, I don't miss it, but at this moment, a prayer on redemption comes as a welcome salve, an antidote to my stammering sadness.
My dad cries. I can't imagine he's ever felt more mortal, because I haven't.
Outside, the sun shines upon brown tilled fields.
The flight back to Orlando on Saturday is a Godawful mess, with storms that thwack the airport, delay the landing, and crop the final innings of the Cardinals-Astros game in Kissimmee. Water is life, life is hope, hope is the stuff these flimsy spring games subsist upon, yes. But the drink quashes the 7 p.m. Dodgers-Nationals nightcap, leaving fans to queue and haggle at the ticket booths outside Space Coast Stadium in the soggy dark.
These are the diehards. No problem getting them to vent about 'roids.
"It's not like it used to be," says Robert Blake, a native Bostonian who has attended baseball games since 1947 and who tonight, with his wife, Ginnie, is exchanging his rained-out tickets. "I saw Ted Williams [521 career home runs]; I saw Joe DiMaggio [361 career home runs]. I saw them all.
"Everybody still loves baseball," he continues. "They just don't like some of the people that are playing it. McGwire, Bonds -- you know all the names. They destroyed baseball."
That may be overstating matters a tad, but steroids do allow players to trade their longevity for quick physical recovery, a patently antibaseball arrangement. The game is played, and records accrued, over years, decades, thousands of games. The hell with "Sorry."
There should be no clemency without misery when grown men entice -- and, ostensibly, in competitive terms, compel -- young players to poison themselves, risking jaundiced skin, withered testicles, stunted growth, mood swings, rage, mania, depression, psychosis, suicide. SORRY and CHEATER bring death to baseball. They put crying in baseball.
Then, Sunday morning, Easter, I place a call on the way south to Jupiter for an afternoon game.
Dad again. He says it meant a lot to him to have his three sons fly in on no notice from California, D.C., and Florida. I tell him, no problem. He asks what I'm working on, and I tell him a baseball story, talking to fans about steroids.
"It's good you have a job that lets you do that kind of thing," he says. I have to agree on a day such as today.
He seems in a hurry to get off the phone somehow, as though he's about to choke up. "I love you," he says, and I reply in kind, and he hangs up, and I'm back in the car, a hundred questions unanswered.
One thing I do know. By the time I was born, Granddaddy, of course, had already married my grandmother, Lucille, whom I call to ask a few questions. She recalls him at their wedding in 1951 as a man athletic and musical. They had two sons and a daughter before he took a job on the railroad, which spirited him away from home. On both sides, there were difficulties; the prime one was his absence, physically and emotionally. They divorced after about two decades, and 21 years ago, he married Wanda, a long-time sweetheart. This biography I inherited mostly as history.
But faintly, I remember as a 5-year-old joining my grandfather on a visit to his mom, my great-grandmother, Beatrice Eifling, whom the family calls "Granny Girl." She was in her mid-80s and confined to a nursing home. When Granddaddy came calling, he was notorious for joking and chatting with the nurses and other patients. He brought joy to quarters bled of it and in so doing helped his mother let go of her life soon after our visit. Among those who knew him, that act became one of the redeeming qualities of his life.
Later on Sunday, Marlins infielder Mike Lowell (135 career home runs) sits in front of his locker at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, far north Palm Beach County, in a state of half-dress, talking spring, talking juice.
"I don't think [fans] are coming to the field because they forgive players who are on steroids," he says. "I think they're coming to the field because the game that they want to see is exciting.
"I think it's the vast minority of players that have done it," he continues, "and all the players who have played the game clean get upset. I'm a fan of the game. When we're not playing and the playoffs are on, I watch it, because I like watching baseball."
The stands are flooded with red for the reigning National League champs, the Cardinals. The grassy berm in right field, where families spread blankets, features a squirmy mash of red-clad kids who pile like newborn pups at the top of a stubby wall that the Cardinals reserve pitchers lean against, signing the occasional baseball. Kids wielding Sharpie pens wait here for entire games, a recipe for graffiti. "Bassball is the Best Sport in the World," one shaky hand declares. "Marlins are big Retards" writes another.
Most of the replica jerseys present are for the following players: Albert Pujols (160 career homers); Jim Edmonds (302 career homers); Scott Rolen (226 career home runs), and Mark Mc-freakin'-Gwire (1 billion career home runs), who gets an early mention in Canseco's new book, Juiced: "Mark and I would duck into a stall in the men's room, load up our syringe, and inject ourselves... [S]teroids made Mark much bigger and much stronger..." And that becomes the image that Hall of Fame voters will weigh when Big Mac's name appears on the ballot, alongside him lifting his young son in a giant's hug after home runs.
"Life is decisions," says a McGwire dress-alike named Dann Huffman, a mustachioed 53-year-old fan smoking near the batting cages. "Everybody makes mistakes. And I have no problem with somebody making mistakes. You've just got to pay the price, put it behind you, and go on."
Huffman ought to know; after playing catcher in high school and college because he's "a control freak," he began working for the federal prison system at a halfway house for white-collar criminals. As for major leaguers, "it's their body, their money, their lives they're dealing with," he says. "The players are the ones who are going to be paying the price for it later... when they're 45, 50 years old and their joints are wore out and they start having heart problems. If you want to shorten your life by five, ten, 15 years in order to play the game at a higher level, knock yourself out."
In that sense, McGwire isn't like Paul Bunyan, Thor, the Terminator, or whatever other mythologized nonsense was applied to him in the late '90s, when he hit 245 home runs in four years. He and his juiced ilk are more like Achilles, the hero of Greek lore whose mother, Peleus, had the choice of granting him a long, quotidian existence or a short, glorious life. She picked for him the latter. Through The Iliad, he romps as a nigh-invincible destroyer. Yet today, his name is synonymous with his sole weakness.
Huffman is wrong. McGwire's body isn't the issue. Baseball is America's pastime and a game of grandfathers, fathers, and sons. And when McGwire got the chance to ask mercy for his transgressions before Congress, God, Bud Selig, and the hoi polloi who cheered him, he instead retreated. We can't just ignore him, and possibly Sosa, and maybe Palmeiro, and probably Pudge, and definitely Canseco, and definitely Giambi, and definitely Bonds, as we all ignored the problem for all those years. We need to raise bloody hell about the sham unfolding before us.
McGwire, though, has probably suffered enough. As he sat, incongruously bespectacled, enormous, tap-dancing past perjury last month in Washington, it was evident that he has shouldered enough guilt, enough misery, for his sins. He's entitled to mercy if only he'll ask.
At the end of my baseball sojourn, I place another call to the family. Still trying to figure out who Granddaddy was, maybe for this story, maybe out of curiosity, maybe searching for some form of atonement. My uncle David sympathizes.
"I didn't know him well either," he says of his dad. "He wasn't easy to get to know.
"There's a lot of people of that generation like that, emotionally detached," he says. In large farm families with high mortality rates, "there was a tradition of not getting so attached to your family that if something happened it would devastate you. I think we're still suffering the consequences of that."
Yet another call, my first ever to great uncle Don, my granddaddy's older brother. I tell him I'm working on a baseball story, and he tells me about Granddaddy's pitching softball for the Coca-Cola team in Pine Bluff. He wasn't gifted with a natural fireball pitch but instead mastered tricky finesse pitches. "Your granddad had a way of caressing that ball," Don says, and I can imagine the sturdy, strong version of Granddaddy that I never knew.
To those boys, play was a luxury, Don says. He recalls a time when he worked so long on the rice farm that he stumbled into the kitchen and passed out on the floor. The smell of cooking roused him. He sat up in his filthy work clothes, broke fast, and headed back out. "Farming," he says, weighing a topic on which I know naught. "I could talk all night about farming."
He tells great stories, Uncle Don does. We talk for an hour, easy, on a Friday night. In my search for a grandfather, it seems, I found an uncle, if years too late, yet perhaps in time.
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Re: [SCA-Archery] Re: Bowyer (Bow Making) Class
- greetingsthere are many such opportunities if people look around , there is ojam in Oklahoma and mojam in Missouri , and I'm sure many others out there.where one can learn to make bows , of both laminate ( no fiberglass ) and self bow types. as well as other primitive living skills. for a relatively minimal financial cost : )( I made an Osage selfbow cost me about 30 hours and $100.00 ( $20 membership, $80 stave ) , I have a bamboo backed epay laminate cost me about 10 hours and $70. )yes as you get more experienced it takes less time : ) but show me where I can go buy a custom self or laminate bow to my specs for even the combined cost of both my bows ?anyway , you may even be able to locate a bowyers and fletchers guild in an sca group somewhere near you : )where ever you can get the chance to learn this stuff , please go, ( and bring friends , it's nice to chat while you work ; ) it's actually a lot of fun , and worth every penny you put into it, even on those sad occasions when that almost finished bow develops a sudden hinge, or commits suicide due to a hidden flaw , its still a teaching moment ( even if frustrating at the time : / )Be Safe , Be Happy, Have Fun .
Arthur----- Original Message -----From: MichaelSent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 9:41 AMSubject: [SCA-Archery] Re: Bowyer (Bow Making) Class
Good Gentles,
I received some very good questions in response to my post. Following are the questions, and the response I received from my friend:
1) would classes be on weekday or weekends?
2) how many sessions?
3) how long between sessions?
4) what costs would be associated with the class?
5) what tools will be provided?
6) what tools will we need to bring?
7) what questions have I missed?
8) please answer the questions that are the answers to question 7.
Weekend. Right now, most likely Feb/March
possibly 2 sessions
Fr/Sa, adjustable.
Cost depends on how much hands on VS how much lecture - I can lecture and demo for fairly cheap - more hands on means more materials and more cost.
More hands on means a list of tools to purchase, at a reasonable cost, which you bring/keep.
The biggest question missed is:
What kind of bow/arrow making class do most want?
Overview of many types and designs, with a purpose of deciding what direction I would most like to focus, perhaps for another class;
Why do I want to take such a class, is it to be able to protect and feed my family when the only thing left we can own is sticks;
I think old tech is cool and I always wanted to know 'how does that work';
I have X type of equipment and I'm looking for direction on changing to Y type or I need to get better at hitting where I want
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Options: Hands-On vs. Lecture
Hands-On means narrow focus, one bow type, a list of tools to bring/buy, lots of work, class feels short really quickly, higher $ cost per customer. Main advantages: real physical experience in making bow and arrow, smaller class; But, may not be the type you really want.
Lecture + some hand-on means wide overview, lots of notes and questions, several bow types, several arrow types, few if any tools needed, a small amount of work, class will be shorter, much lower $ cost. Main advantages: lower cost, enough information to decide what kind of class or information you really want or need, pointer to what to do next; But you will have limited real physical experience, larger class.
Combo Class - somewhere in between. This would mean a that your physical experience would be hands-on but short, because each student would get to do a few passes at each step. Medium class size. Some lecture for the overview. Small amounts of hands-on into different methods.
Focus Class - Hands-On with specific focus. The collection of students knows exactly what they want and are looking for specific time set aside to gain knowledge, test skills, and benefit from advanced supervision.
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The Union signed FC Delco Council Rock Dynamo and Penn Charter product Chris Albright to help bolster its back line. Albright, a veteran of 13 MLS seasons, joins the Union after appearing in just eight games for the New York Red Bulls last season.
A lot of Union fans have clamored for the club to sign a native Philadelphian (other than homegrown youngsters Zach Pfeffer and Jimmy McLaughlin). Going back a few years most fans assumed that local player would be Bobby Convey. Instead, Albright is the first local, veteran player to sign.
In case you were wondering, Albright is a real deal Philadelphian. Want proof? Watch and listen to the video above.
The video, shot in 2006, features Albright and FC Delco alum Ben Olsen, who is now the head coach of D.C. United, discussing Randall Cunningham. Albright flexes his Eagles knowledge and drops a reference to Randall's 91-yard punt against the Giants at the Meadowlands.
Actual, you know, analysis of the acquisition after the Jump...
So, what, other than impressive Eagles knowledge, does Albright bring to the Union. He's a veteran who has been through the MLS wars. He's a three-time All-Star and former MLS Best XI player.
Yes, he's struggled with injury recently, but he'll provide some much-needed experience to an extremely young club. How young is this team? Including Albright, only four of the 24 players on the roster are older than 27 years old - and one of the Thirtysomething's (Lionard Pajoy), has never played in MLS before.
Also, with starting right back Sheanon Williams likely to miss significant time over the summer representing the US in the Olympics (assuming the US qualifies, which they should), the Union needed depth beyond 2012 second round pick Raymon Gaddis.
Speaking of the Olympics, Albright represented the US at the 2000 games in Sydney, Australia. He was also a member of the 2006 US World Cup team. Albright, along with Olsen and Convey, is one of the most accomplished and decorated players to emerge from the Delaware Valley.
Rev's Chris Albright-related Peter King-esque Note That May Only Interest Me: Friend and Level reader Chris Glowacki, a former Penn Charter and Ursinus wide receiver, checked in with me and advised that Albright did not even play soccer his senior year at Penn Charter. He instead played wide receiver, where he started ahead of Glowacki (no hard feelings) for the football team. Despite not playing soccer his senior year of high school Albright went on to play at college powerhouse Virginia, where he became an All-American.


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THE plan to build a new multi-million pound primary school in Raglan will be heard by Monmouthshire council's planning committee next week.
The authority plans to build the new school, which would provide places for 210 pupils, as part of its 21st Century Schools programme on the Brooks Holding site off Station Road.
The new school would provide places for 210 pupils – but its infant and junior buildings will be used until it has been completed on land to the east of Barton Brook.
As part of the 21st Century Schools programme, primary schools are encouraged to educate all their pupils under one roof.
Costs of £4.5 million would be met equally by Monmouthshire council and the Welsh Government.
Originally passed by the committee last November, the plan has been taken back there because of a discrepancy between the boundary of the site approved last year and the one that would be required.
If the plan is passed for a second time, the old infant school building will be demolished and surrounding land will be developed for a car park.
The junior school building will be handed over to the council's estates department.
The council has said previously that the replacement school will offer a standard of facilities similar to those at Caldicot's Dewstow Primary School.
Plans for the new building was originally unveiled at a council meeting in June 2013.
And as part of the council's consultation, seven representations were received.
A resident said they were concerned over the volume of traffic using Station Road, while another said the building should be moved further south to allow tree planting and landscaping to limit noise and give neighbours more privacy.
Currently the school's buildings suffer poor energy and high maintenance levels.
There are limitations over access comfort levels, light levels and ventilation and this is reflected in the county's condition survey records which indicate Raglan is among the six schools that fall into the lowest category.
The council said the new car park has been designed with its highways department and only car parking for staff, visitors and disabled people would be accessed from Station Road.
And a modified priority junction would be installed off Chepstow Road for the car park and for traffic calming measures.
A 20 miles per hour zone would be introduced along the road running alongside the school.
The planning committee will meet on Tuesday.


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TEL AVIV (Sep. 22)
Israeli authorities are currently selecting candidates from among those volunteering to serve as part of an Israeli police force in Haiti.
Gavriel Amir, the retired chief police inspector and former prison commissioner, will head the Israeli contingent, which will include 30 current members of the police as well as retirees.
The Israeli detachment will be part of a 1,500-member international team of police that will take over civilian peacekeeping duties in Haiti. The force will follow the arrival of American forces there this week.
It is not yet known when the Israelis and other members of the international peacekeeping force will go to Haiti.
The police will be equipped with pistols and will be instructed to open fire only in self-defense, Amir said.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin authorized the contingent on Sept. 11, after President Clinton telephoned for Israeli assistance in the effort to bring democratic rule to Haiti.
Clinton did not request Israeli military involvement, but was seeking civilian police participation to bring about the return of law and order in Haiti.
While the exact duties of the international civilian peacekeeping force have not yet been defined, the Israelis chosen for the police unit are expected to begin learning the rudiments of the Creole patois spoken by the majority of the islanders.
The official language of Haiti is French, but the local population uses a Creole tongue spoken by few people outside the Caribbean nation.


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Peugeot 'surprising diesel' by Euro RSCG London
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Euro RSCG London's new global TV and cinema campaign to promote the Peugeot 307 HDi focuses on the "smoothness" of its diesel engine. The ad opens with a little girl carefully painting at what looks like a table. She dips her brush in a glass of water beside her and meticulously colours in the picture, before resting her paintbrush in her mouth. The camera then reveals the girl is sitting in the back seat of the Peugeot 307 HDi. The commercial ends with the line: "the new smoother 307 HDi: the surprising diesel."


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New Saigon Songs, Mixtapes & Videos
Alphabet Assassins: 10 Best Alliterative Hip-Hop Songs, Ranked [Feature ]
Depending on who you ask, there are countless criteria for what constitutes a great emcee. One nearly universal, indisputable quality of an emcee's dominance, however, is wordplay. An emcee's ability to... Read More
A-Villa ft. Saigon, Jon Connor, Joe Budden & BJ The Chicago Kid - Sucker Free [Stream]
The newly-released freshman set from Windy City beatsmith A-Villa comes fully stocked with guest bars, and you won't find a single buster, herb or lame among the dozens of artists assembled for the set. In other words,... Read More
Saigon - Let's Get Smart [Stream]
Fresh off the release of the third critically-acclaimed entry in his Greatest Story Never Told saga, East Coast mic murderer Saigon returns with yet another fresh single off the set. On Let's Get Smart, hip-hop icon DJ... Read More
Saigon - GSNT3: The Troubled Times of Brian Carenard [Album]
In anticipation of the project's September 30, retail release, Saigon is offering up his latest full-length, GSNT3: The Troubled Times of Brian Carenard, for free, full streaming exclusively in The DJBooth. The Brooklyn... Read More
Saigon ft. Big Daddy Kane - One Foot in the Door [Stream]
It took Saigon a hot minute to find a platform that would allow his story to be told, but those who were paying attention knew he had serious potential from the get-go. Just ask Jay Z, who cosigns the NYC rhymesayer in an... Read More
Saigon ft. Memphis Bleek, Lil Bibby & Kool G Rap - Mechanical Animals [Stream]
You can tell a lot about a rapper from the company he keeps. The connects Saigon's called upon for his latest single, however, could hardly be more diverse. In fact, I can only think of one common denominator between... Read More
Saigon - Nunya [Stream]
Saigon may be anxious for his story to be told, but he isn't an entirely open book; some sh*t about him is just "Nunya bidness." For example, don't you dare get in his face and start asking for his baby... Read More
Saigon ft. Papoose & Omar Epps - Sinner's Prayer [Stream]
As Saigon enters into the third chapter of The Greatest Story Never Told, the narrative is beginning to take a dark turn. On the first official single off his junior album (evidently Best Mistake was just a test run), the NYC... Read More
REKS x Hazardis Soundz ft. N.O.R.E. & Saigon - Garvey [Stream]
Boston phenom REKS has never been shy about his affinity for the Black Power movement; in fact, he's at his best when spitting bars with a aggressively political edge. Thus, it's easy to imagine the passion and... Read More
Saigon ft. G Martin - Best Mistake [Stream]
Update: We have added the Fabrizio Conte-directed visuals for Saigon's Best Mistake. Like all of us, Saigon f**ks up from time to time. When he looks back on his missteps, though, there's at least one he'd... Read More
G.Huff ft. Saigon - Grown Guys [Stream]
With the fronting, beefing and other juvenile behavior that often seems to be the norm in the hip-hop game, it's easy to forget that rappers are, with a few notable exceptions, Grown Guys. Sick of seeing emcees fail to... Read More
Saigon - Our Babies 2 (It's A Crazy World) [Stream]
Underground ambassador Saigon is no stranger to conflict. From a brief sting in jail, to being stabbed with a wine bottle and driving himself to the hospital, the New Yorker has been around the block more than a few times.... Read More
Saigon ft. Marsha Ambrosius - Game Changer [Stream]
We'll go ahead and assume that many of you are familiar with New York rapper Saigon, but that doesn't mean you know about a close call he got into back in 2006, right before the release of his debut album The... Read More
Saigon - The Greatest Story Never Told 2: Bread And Circuses [Album]
A prodigiously-delayed debut that very nearly lived up to its title, Saigon's The Greatest Story Never Told LP won widespread critical acclaim when it finally dropped last February. Now, the Spring Valley, New York emcee... Read More
Saigon - Blown Away [Stream]
Though Saigon kicks off his latest jam with the demand that the powers that be, "free all political prisoners," the NYC underground mainstay quickly adds a caveat: "Even though a lot of y'all are lucky to be... Read More
Saigon ft. Lecrae & DJ Corbett - Best Thing That I Found [Stream]
New York rhymesayer Saigon may be known for his brolic rhymes, but at the start of his latest record Best Thing That I Found it's made quite clear that we're in store for a much different tune from the artist.... Read More
Iron Solomon ft. Saigon & Emilio Rojas - Monster [Stream]
Last October, Iron Solomon stepped into The DJBooth with Redrum Radio, a mixtape whose grimy beats and murderous lyrical themes made it perfect for Halloween rotation. With the 31st just around the corner, Solomon's... Read More
Saigon - Relafriendship [Stream]
For as much ink has been spilt on the dreaded "friend zone" dilemma, the options it presents are pretty damn clear cut: either drop the expectation of romance and cultivate a true friendship with the person in question,... Read More
Saigon - Feet on the Ground [Stream]
On his last feature, single numero uno off his forthcoming sophomore set, Saigon reminded fans that he's Not Like Them; "them," of course, being the lames who would sell out their block and their peers for 30 pieces... Read More
JR & PH7 ft. Freeway, Saigon & Ras Kass - Who Want What [Stream]
Hip-Hop is popular worldwide. Think about that for a second. Rappers from the U.S. are going overseas and rocking shows in cities from Oslo to Stockholm to Berlin, just to name a few, so it's only right an int'l... Read More
Saigon ft. Styles P - Not Like Them [Stream]
Is it just me, or have there been some serious black power vibes in the Booth lately? Just days after the release of Gun, a single which saw Brooklyn's Rilgood invoking the radical anti-cop message of Huey P. Newton,... Read More
Mike Beatz & Adonis ft. Saigon - Entourage Flow [Stream & Download]
It's no surprise that Entourage is a favorite among rappers: not only was the series all about the quest to make it in the entertainment business, but it featured a real-life representative of the hip-hop hustle in the... Read More
Saigon ft. Jovan Dais - Women Are the New Dogs [Stream & Download]
Update: Click "Watch Now" above to view Saigon's 159 Films-directed "Women Are the New Dogs" video. With his latest street album just a day away from release, Saigon is amping up anticipation... Read More
Saigon ft. Quan - Where to Find Me [Stream]
Trying to track down Saigon? Might want to check the 'hood—according to this newly-released mixtape single/video, that's where he spends all of his time. On Where to Find Me, a currently unknown... Read More
Cormega ft. Action Bronson, Roc Marciano & Saigon - MARS [Stream]
Large scale collaboration cuts can often be difficult waters to navigate due to the plethora of personalities and styles. At times, they don't work out so well. Sometimes, though, they are right on the money. Cormega's... Read More
SonReal ft. Saigon - Bedtime [Stream & Download]
Looking for a lullaby? Look elsewhere—though the inaugural leak off SonReal's forthcoming free album is titled "Bedtime," it's highly unlikely to put you to sleep. On this aggressive underground... Read More
Saigon - Hungry [Stream & Download]
If previously-featured leaks Another Man Down and I Am 4 Real didn't tip you off to the fact that Saigon's stomach has been rumbling, the NYC underground buzzmaker's latest effort should do the trick. On the... Read More
M-Phazes ft. Saigon, Inspectah Deck & Bekay - The Raw [Stream]
Giving songs a new life via remix is as much a part of hip-hop as DJ cuts and braggadocio lyrics. The brand new M-Phazes remix of Coalmine Record's inaugural single release, The Raw, featuring Saigon, Inspectah Deck and... Read More
Saigon ft. Lil Fame - Another Man Down [Stream & Download]
Need help meeting your RDA of hard-hitting East Coast hip-hop? Saigon has you covered; fresh off the giving listeners the first taste of his next mixtape with I Am 4 Real, the Northeastern mainstay (a performer in The... Read More
Saigon - I Am 4 Real [Stream]
If there's one rapper who doesn't need to reassure listeners of his realness, it's Saigon. As the Big Apple underground mainstay's musical output attests, he can be relied upon to keep it... Read More
Statik Selektah ft. Styles P, Saigon & Jared Evan - New York, New York [Stream]
Full disclosure: The native Bostonian in me is angry to see my fellow Beantown representative Statik Selektah involved in a track called New York, New York (Yankees suck), but the hip-hop head in me knows that it ain't... Read More
The Road to A3C - Saigon [Feature ]
DJBooth is proud to announce that Shane Eli will be rocking on our stage for this year's A3C Festival in Atlanta. Born in Brooklyn, Saigon (aka Brian Carenard) credits an early life prison stint with both teaching him how to... Read More
Saigon - I Know Now [Stream]
With the festival just a week away, iHipHop Distribution presents another fresh single (the sixth in total) off their forthcoming A3C Vol. 1 compilation. On I Know Now, it's Northeastern mainstay Saigon who takes center... Read More
Saigon - Married to the Game [Stream & Download]
Of all the emcees who claim to be Married to the Game, Saigon might be the most believable; after all, if the NYC native were less than one-hundred percent committed to his spouse, her constant B.S. and mind games (including... Read More
Termanology ft. Joell Ortiz, Bun B, Saigon & Freeway - Say It (Remix) [Stream & Download]
Can I have a personal moment? Growing up in Boston as a hip-hop head was hard – the city had some dope emcees, but for the most part we never got respect on a national level. Show Off compatriots (pun intended) Statik... Read More
Saigon - The Greatest Story Never Told [Album]
It was the second season of HBO's hit show Entourage and the writers had cooked up a storyline that demanded Turtle, the crew's amiable but always ineffective sidekick, to become the manager of an aspiring rapper. But who... Read Full Review
Saigon ft. Joe Budden - Bring Me Down (Pt. 3) [Stream]
Saigon's The Greatest Story Never Told may have been one of the most anticipated hip-hop albums ever, and that was proven as it became iTunes' #1 selling hip-hop album just hours after its release. Although the... Read More
Saigon ft. Faith Evans - Clap [Stream]
Wait, could it really be? Could Saigon's uber-ironically titled album The Greatest Story Never Told, an album whose delays reached Detox proportions, finally be hitting the shelves? You're damn right it is. With... Read More
Saigon - You Make Me Sick [Stream & Download]
Saigon is upset. I mean, I'm as concerned with the future of hip hop as the next guy, but I think Saigon is losing sleep over this stuff. I know we got a bubble-gum rap epidemic on our hands but damn 'Gon. Still,... Read More
Exclusive Preview of Saigon's Long-Awaited "Greatest Story Never Told" [Feature ]
The Greatest Story Never Told almost became The Greatest Album Never Heard. Label issues with Atlantic forced Saigon to move on to different avenues to release his album. With most of the album being recorded over four years... Read More
Saigon - Bring Me Down [Stream & Download]
When you've been the victim of as much industry B.S. as Saigon, you have two choices: get really damn good at making lemons into lemonade, or simply give up. Fortunately for fans of quality hip-hop, the Brooklyn... Read More
Saigon - Warning Shots 2 [Album]
They say that all geniuses are a little crazy – or often a lot crazy – and if that's true than Saigon's definitely in contention for a genius title. Let's review. First, the man named himself after a city that was... Read Full Review
Saigon - Aye, Aye, Aye [Stream]
Perhaps the most widely-used vocal sound effect in hip-hop is "aye!" Popularized by Juelz Santana, the interjection was ruined for many by its high-pitched repetition on nearly every track featuring OJ da... Read More
Statik Selektah ft. Lil Fame, Saigon & Sean Price - Critically Acclaimed [Stream]
Critics take note: Statik Selektah and his crew are prepared lay the smack down on anyone who dares award them less than an A+, 5-star, one-hundred-percent great review. Fortunately for all who want to keep both their... Read More
Saigon - Change Gon Come [Stream]
Though the hip-hop landscape's changed considerably over the latter half of this decade, outsiders' impressions of the genre are still colored by the same old "gangsta" stereotypes. Saigon certainly... Read More
Saigon - So Cruel [Stream]
Just when we were beginning to think Saigon's long-awaited The Greatest Story Never Told would live up to its name, a fortuitous turn of events took place. Soon after squashing his ridiculous beef with Joe Budden,... Read More
Saigon Partners With Amalgam Digital to Drop "All In A Day's Work;" Prepares for Booth Interview [Feature ]
Boston, MA -- Saigon has partnered with Amalgam Digital in a new deal to market, promote, and release music in a unique fashion. Saigon's first release with Amalgam Digital will be All In A Day's Work, a digital-only... Read More
Saigon - The Rules [Stream]
In the intro to The Rules, Saigon admits with a shrug that, since he got out of prison, writing raps has been low on his priority list – there's just too much else to do! Though this might seem like an... Read More
J The S ft. Saigon & Rich Rivera - Oil [Stream]
On the newest single off his recently-released My Will mixtape, Boston's J The S sets his sights on the substance that made "Arab Money" synonymous with big bucks – I'm talking, of course, about Oil. ... Read More
Scram Jones ft. Rhymefest, Haffa, & Saigon - Yes We Can [Stream]
Tossing his hat into the inauguration-record ring, NYC producer Scram Jones hooks up with three talented emcees to salute the man who turned "Yes We Can" into "Damn, we did!" Over Jones' tuneful, sampled... Read More
Saigon - Trans-Atlantic Slave Deal [Stream]
It's an all-too-common story in today's music industry: a rising star is seduced by major-label promises of fame and fortune, only to find himself tied down to a contract that has him going nowhere fast. If... Read More
Saigon ft. Lil Fame - WW4 [Stream]
As a host on perhaps hip-hop's most prominent radio station, New York City's Hot 97, Peter Rosenberg knows true talent when he hears it. Inspired by some of today's best up-and-coming talent, Rosenberg has... Read More
Saigon ft. Baby Cham & Kardinal Offishall - Chillyboom [Stream]
Happy to be off Atlantic Records, Saigon is currently looking for a new label home on which to release his debut, titled The Greatest Story Never Told. The DJBooth has picked up a possible new single from the... Read More
Statik Selektah ft. Cassidy, Saigon & Termanology - To The Top [Stream]
When it comes to rap, producers are just as responsible as emcees for a track's success or failure. Unfortunately, while the man on the boards may be half of the equation, he typically receives far less than half of the... Read More
Saigon ft. Just Blaze - Gotta Believe It [Stream]
Whether you want to Believe It or not, rapper Saigon will actually drop his long-long-long-awaited debut album, The Greatest Story Never Told, sometime before the end of this decade. In an official announcement via... Read More
The Roots ft. Saigon & Truck North - Criminal [Stream]
No matter where in the world you live, racism is prevalent. For centuries, minorities have been unfairly beaten, shot and tortured because of their ethnicities and unfortunately, as of late, we have sadly been reminded... Read More
Scram Jones ft. Nino Bless, Saigon & Crooked I - Third Degree [Stream]
Usually when you hear the word "scram," someone wants you to go away. In the case of NYC's Scram Jones, however, those who hear his production work had best pay close attention; the New Rochelle native... Read More
Saigon ft. Memphis Bleek - Ryders (Da Ville To Da Stuy) [Stream]
Last week, rapper Saigon released a statement through his MySpace page that detailed why he has decided to officially quit rapping. The guest star on the hit HBO show, Entourage, claims he decided to pursue a career in... Read More
Saigon ft. Swizz Beatz & Jay-Z - Come On Baby (Remix) [Stream]
As Saigon has waited for the opportunity to release his much-anticipated debut album, The Greatest Story Never Told, both internally and publicly he has grown impatient. Although after signing with Violator Management... Read More
Saigon ft. Swizz Beatz - Come On Baby [Stream]
Saigon finally gets his wish as Atlantic has cleared the way for the first 'official' single to be released off his highly anticipated debut album, The Greatest Story Never Told. Produced by Just Blaze, Come... Read More
Joell Ortiz ft. Jadakiss & Saigon - Hip-Hop (Remix) [Stream]
Within the first 10 seconds of Hip-Hop, Joell Ortiz sends a message loud and clear: If you think you know what hip-hop is, you have no clue. Since Ortiz already accomplished that mission on the original version of this... Read More
Saigon ft. Game, BG & Trey Songz - Pain In My Life (Remix) [Stream]
With a remix of his single Pain In My Life, Saigon proves once again his status as a lyrical assassin. Originally featuring only Trey Songz, the remix brings out painful verses from both The Game and BG. A... Read More
Saigon - Dreamz [Stream]
With anticipation running ramped over his 2007 debut album, The Greatest Story Never Told, finally on the horizon, Saigon drops his Return of the Yardfather mix tape. With production from 9th Wonder, Saigon spits rhymes... Read More
Saigon ft. Trey Songz - Pain In My Life [Stream]
Fresh off of his guest spot on the popular HBO television series Entourage, Saigon comes with his new single Pain In My Life. Featuring fellow Atlantic Records recording artist, Trey Songz, the single oozes realness... Read More


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16 civilians killed during attack on Somali Parliament
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Islamic insurgents attacked a building in the Somali capital where Parliament was meeting yesterday for the first time this year, pounding the area with mortars. At least 16 civilians were killed in the fighting that ensued, a medical official said.
No lawmakers were killed or wounded in the attack, police spokesman Abdullahi Hassan Barise said. Previous sessions of Parliament had been postponed since December because of threats from al-Shabab, an Al Qaeda-linked militant group in the lawless Horn of Africa nation.
A number of lawmakers have fled the 550-member Parliament in Mogadishu and resettled in neighboring countries because of insecurity.
Militants have killed nine legislators over the last few years for supporting the Western-backed government of President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed. The government has been unable to provide security for them because it controls only a small part of Mogadishu.
Somalia has not had an effective Parliament for the past 19 years after warlords overthrew longtime dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
Government forces backed by African Union troops fought back yesterday, pounding the insurgents' positions with mortars.
Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu's ambulance service, said his staff counted 16 bodies. An additional 31 wounded people were taken to local hospitals.
In a separate development, a driver contracted by the World Food Program was killed Friday by three gunmen outside a hotel in the town of Galkayo, in what was believed to be clan-related violence.
Senior police officer Mohamed Ahmed confirmed the killing and said police were investigating. Peter Smerdon, a spokesman for the World Food Program, said the organization has no indication the slaying was connected to the driver's employment.


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2013 Audi Q5 Named to Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com 10 Best Luxury SUVs
Today, Audi of America announced that the 2013 Audi Q5 was named one of the 10 Best Luxury SUVs of 2013 by Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com, the leading provider of new car and used car information. Kbb.com editors chose the 2013 Audi Q5 for its combination of richly modern design with dynamics that deftly balance comfort, performance and ease.
"We're pleased that the Audi Q5 – the best-selling Audi crossover– has received the Kbb.com stamp of approval," said Mark Del Rosso, Chief Operating Officer, Audi of America. "With June year to date sales up 35.2% compared to last year, it's clear that consumers are continuing to respond positively to the Audi Q5's sportiness and sophistication, spaciousness and functionality."
Admired for its smooth and efficient 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine, the Q5 also was highlighted for its V6 and hybrid variants, giving buyers options that suit their needs. For 2013, the Q5 received a freshened design that includes new unmistakable LED headlamp design, new front grill, bumper and new rear tail lamps and lift gate. The interior received some additional changes that gave the vehicle a richer feel by adding chrome and alu-optic finishes on the window and MMI controls respectively.
The Q5 features an award-winning 3.0T Supercharged engine that delivers 272 horsepower and 295 lb-ft of torque, or the fuel efficient and powerful 2.0T engine available as the entry to the Q5 model line. The Q5 combines the sports appeal of a sedan with high variability of its interior space and many practical solutions for recreation and everyday driving.
For more information on the 2013 Audi Q5, please visit http://www.audiusa.com/models/audi-q5.
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Hello Guys,
I was wondering if any of you GCs have found a good software package for esimates. I find myself spending a lot of time in the evening doing quotes using my own created package and would love to upgrade to something better and faster. I looked on line but anything I seen is either huge package and lots of $$ or not really applicable in Canada.
If you know of some software available that is fair in price and a good result please let me know
Many thanks to all of you.
Hi Frank- I have been using Quickbooks for Contractors for a couple of years now & am quite impressed by it. It not only does your estimating, but looks after your books, banking, payroll, sub-contractors, tax returns, inventory- you name it, this program does it. And it is specifically designed for contractors. I paid about $350, and it is well worth it. I am still in the learning stages as far as the taxation/book keeping is concerned, but the estimate and invoice, vendor/customer areas are easy enough to navigate. Hope this helps.
Hi Bill
Many thanks for your suggestion, I will look into the quickbooks for sure. I heard about the ability of this software but had not thought about using it for anything else but accounting. Good to know
Many thanks.
PS. do you get into doing any custom homes? and If so are you running into people that think they can have one built for $120 to $140/sqft??
Hi Frank- I was into custom homes years ago, but as an employee/foreman, so I had no knowledge of pricing. I did have someone ask recently about building custom at $110. sq. ft. and told them that not only did that seem low, they would not get much bang for their buck at that price. I stay out of the custom home market because there are too many contractors doing that already in this area- actually this whole area is oversaturated with contractors now due to a lot of big lay-offs, company closures.
1 more word on the Quickbooks Frank is the simple use of it. Once you set your company up in Quickbooks- takes about an hour- you can start using it right away. You add items- tasks your company performs- as you want, as well as vendors, customers, sub-trades. It is what this program does that you can't see that makes it such a great tool to utilise.
Take care Frank.
Hi Bill, i really appreciate your help and direction on QB. I will pick up a package this week and let you know how I like it.
Once again, many thanks
Hi frank I use quick books to and it helps a lot with all my business needs. and you can customize it to the way you do business. It is not as much as the things you been looking at.
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When I saw the headline at TPM, I had to email our resident Palmetto State barista, Alvin McEwen to ask: "Alvin, what is going on in your state?!"
Picking up on the ancestral tradition, South Carolinians have spent much of the last two years asserting various forms of independence from the federal government and attempting to block different federal laws. Now a state senator from the Palmetto State has decided it's time for South Carolina to create its own currency.
State Sen. Lee Bright (R-Roebuck) says that federal spending and increased monetary intervention by the Fed have placed the entire US Federal Reserve system on a path to monetary collapse. And when the crash comes, state residents will need to rely on the stable South Carolina currency to weather the storm.
"If folks lose faith in the dollar, we need to have some kind of backup," Bright told the Spartanburg Herald-Journal on Friday.


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Indie film director Troy Duffy will someday overcome the creative blocks he has suffered in trying to make All Saints Day, the much-anticipated sequel to The Boondock Saints. Though only released in 1999, that film is already a classic in the underserved cinematic genre depicting Boston-based, Irish-Catholic-catechism spouting, arsenal-brandishing, law-giving dispensers of mortal justice. Perhaps Duffy can draw inspiration from Miami Police Chief John Timoney, who is notable for at least a few of those proclivities.
During a demonstration of police gadgetry for the press this past Friday, the city's top cop gamely agreed to guinea pig a high-voltage Taser -- on himself. Timoney locked arms with police spokesman Delrish Moss and Sgt. Angel Calzadilla and went for it. Police trainers attached probes to the trio's pants legs; then there was a sound like a giant fly being zapped into the afterlife. The three men jumped.
The Bitch (who assures readers that the following is in fact a fundamental statement in many Irish Catholic manifestoes) was disappointed when the chief did not hurl the same invective -- "You're bad! Fuck you!" -- at the Taser that he had at a protester corralled during November's free trade protests.
Instead the chief, who claims to have previously twice experienced the searing of the hand-held device, exclaimed, "Jesus! I forgot how much that sucked."
Fry will be done.
Mud Slide
Tomás Mestre has now truly earned his title as the king of dirt. Mestre is the politically connected (Alex Penelas fundraiser) waste hauler (lots of county contracts) who sued a Redland woman clean out of her house.
It started in 1997, when potential toxins cropped up in a Mestre-owned dirt dump in Ellen Perez's neighborhood. The dirt contained elements of arsenic and ammonia. County officials tested the area's underground wells to see if drinking water was contaminated. Perez read a county report and mistakenly interpreted it to mean that arsenic had intruded into her well; she said as much in the press. Mestre proceeded to SLAPP her down (that's Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). Through his high-priced lawyers Mestre claimed Perez "intentionally made false statements" about his company, Ouster, to put it out of business. He didn't have a chance of winning. And he didn't. The case was tossed. But it took three years -- three very expensive years for Perez and family.
"As a result of the long struggle over the Ouster facility and the lawsuit filed against me in June of 2001, my family and I are faced with the necessity of selling our home and leaving the area," Perez wrote in a letter to friends and supporters. Perez had private lawyers for the first year of the lawsuit. When she couldn't afford them anymore Michael Pizzi took the case pro bono.
"I'm kind of proud of the work I did on that case," Pizzi says. "In the end we exposed the county, we exposed him, and we got the case dropped."
The Bitch couldn't reach Perez, who has been sick in addition to her other woes. But her letter, forwarded by friends, couldn't have put it more succinctly: "It certainly seems slightly ironic that I spoke out against the activities of the Ouster Corporation to protect my home, my family, and my health, and have lost so much of it in the process," she wrote.
Clothesed Off
By the end of the summer, Miami will have lost two hip urban shops, M-80 and Osiel Store. The Design District-based M-80, which was co-owned by fashion writer, nightlife promoter, and woman-about-town Anna Maria Diaz-Balart and professional stylist Maria Barraco, shut its doors in May. "After two years, I felt I had gotten a lot out of it, and it was time to move on to the next thing," explains Diaz-Balart over the phone from New York, where she is interning with tres cool rock label Frenchkiss Records (home to Les Savy Fav and the Detachment Kit).
Meanwhile Osiel "Ozzy" Rojas has been slowly packing up his inventory of clothes, IDM records, and vintage toys. When he's done, he plans to set up an online vinyl store at www.adivisionofyou.com. "We've had a great response," says Rojas, who opened last year on Washington Avenue with the help of a few private investors. "But now I'm looking forward to doing other ventures."
Though both Diaz-Balart and Rojas say their businesses were modestly profitable, neither was able to significantly expand its customer base beyond the handful of local devotees who were more interested in cutting-edge sounds and independent designers than celebrity-spotting, played-out corporate fashions, and bad hip-hop. So does the demise of these stores, not to mention the recent closing of Miranda, mean the Magic City isn't ready for the underground culture currently thriving in New York and other major metropolitan areas?
Diaz-Balart says no, and points to other Miami spots such as b-boy shop YoYo and the art gallery/boutique OBJEX Artspace as proof that there's life beyond South Beach tackiness. "I don't want to say that the Miami market doesn't support [small boutiques]," she says, "because I think other people should try."
Unsporting Conduct
You heard it here first: The bad blood between the Miami Heat's newly minted superstar, Shaquille O'Neal, and much-beloved former center Alonzo Mourning has the anatomy of a serious grudge that will only get uglier in the coming months.
Shaq just happened to blow into town during the week of Zo's Summer Groove, Mourning's three-day fair, one of the biggest charity events in all of South Florida, which raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for Miami's needy children in just one weekend. Since a battle with kidney disease forced his retirement, Mourning has put his time and money cheerfully into the community.
For professional athletes and celebrities of all stripes who happen to be in town, it's almost obligatory to be seen -- and see the young fans -- at Zo's. But Shaq wasn't there. Make no mistake: This was a dis. O'Neal and Mourning have had a nasty public back-and-forth for years, instigated mostly by Shaq.
The mantle of most famous Heat player could have been turned over with grace and style, but O'Neal used the opportunity to hand Mourning a childish slight.
I Do Not Know You, Sir
Attorney Gabriel Martin is challenging his former boss Bennett Brummer in the election for Miami-Dade County Public Defender. Martin faced Brummer, who has held the job for 28 years, on July 17 at a forum sponsored by the Unrepresented People's Positive Action Council (UPPAC).
During the debate, Walter Harvey, president of the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association (formerly the Black Lawyers Association), asked Martin about his involvement in Miami's black legal community. Martin responded that he'd met with local leaders, among them the president of the Ferguson Bar Association. That came as a surprise to Harvey, who said he did not recall ever speaking with the candidate.
Martin explained: "I said that I had been talking with Kenneth Walton, the president of Wilkie D. Ferguson [Bar Association] through July 1. I wasn't embarrassed, I was surprised. They never indicated there was a new president."
Walton confirms speaking with Martin and adds he attended meetings and helped organize community events. But Bill Isley, UPPAC's president, said Martin's gaffe left the impression that the candidate was out of touch. "It didn't make him look good," Isley said.
What good is a Frank Gehry-designed building if it is going to face an alley where two popular Lincoln Road restaurants dump trash?
Earlier this year the New World Symphony scored a coup when the performance company's representatives and the Miami Beach City Commission agreed to a deal allowing the symphony to build an estimated $40 million, 50,000-square-foot studio and concert hall on two city-owned surface parking lots on Washington Avenue and Seventeenth Street, just north of Lincoln Road. The ambitious project is being designed by Gehry, who created the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The symphony will pay the city a dollar a year in rent, in addition to covering the construction costs of the new building, a park, and a municipal garage for at least 320 cars.
New World Symphony supporters hoped Gehry's involvement would drown out complaints by Lincoln Road merchants over the impending loss of the surface lots, which can accommodate up to 505 vehicles in a city where off-street parking is a scarce commodity.
According to city manager Jorge Gonzalez, the symphony recently submitted a preliminary plan for the Washington Avenue site that blocks traffic on Drexel Avenue from Seventeenth Street to Lincoln Lane, a one-way street that doubles as dumpster alley for Lincoln Road tenants between Pennsylvania Avenue and Washington. The new building's configuration would put the concert hall's entrance adjacent to the dumpsters belonging to stalwart Yuca and Rosinella's, an Italian eatery.
The site plan apparently didn't sit well with Miami Beach real estate owner and former ambassador Paul Cejas, who owns the 420 Lincoln Rd. building. Cejas recently enlisted the high-powered services of Miami zoning lawyer Stanley B. Price and attorney Harold Rosen, a former Miami Beach mayor, to plead with city officials to reject the symphony's site plan. "He doesn't have a problem with the symphony," Price says, "but we want to find a way to balance their interests with our interests."
Cejas, whose wife sits on the symphony's board of directors, and his attorneys recently met with Gonzalez, who says he has convened a meeting between New World and the real estate owner's representatives to discuss alternate plans. "It's something we'll have to resolve," Gonzalez says. "But the symphony's preference is to close off Drexel."
Pigeons: The Sequel to the Sequel
The Bitch, after writing about distraught Miami Beach residents who called the cops on a mystery man seen caging up their beloved pigeons, has since heard from several alert readers who insist that pigeon-napping is part and parcel of life's rich pageant.
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Most recently, Ofcr. Andy Kuncas of the Miami Beach Police Department called The Bitch to talk birds. "Last winter, after getting some complaints, I found a couple of guys who had about 50 or 60 pigeons boxed up in ... an old, beat-up Chevy Caprice," Kuncas says. "I wasn't really sure how to proceed. I wasn't sure how that would be criminal."
The confounded cop called the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and was told that pigeons are fair game. "Apparently they're considered a nuisance animal," Kuncas explains.
Neither of the young men in the car spoke English, so Kuncas waited for a translator. "Turns out they were selling the pigeons for Santería rites. I don't know how much they were getting, maybe a couple of bucks apiece. It's not something that's going to make you rich."


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Im not saying they dont have too many options for overstable or pro stable though either.
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Pennyfather revels in win over rivals Colchester
PUBLISHED: 11:23 04 November 2012 | UPDATED: 11:33 04 November 2012
CHELMSFORD City boss Glenn Pennyfather was understandably waxing lyrical after his Clarets side dumped neighbours Colchester United out of the FA Cup yesterday.
The non-league hosts were good value for their 3-1 win at Melbourne Park, thanks to a brace from Donovan Simmonds and a late third from Jamie Slabber. Michael Rose replied for the U's with a free-kick.
Pennyfather, the former Southend and Ipswich Town midfielder, was in buoyant mood when addressing the press just after the final whistle – the first question prompted an enthusiastic three-minute response from the delighted boss.
"It's absolutely unbelievable," enthused 49-year-old Pennyfather.
"I've heard a lot of people say it, when you get results like this. You're a little bit in shock, trying to take everything in.
"When we went 1-0 up, I thought me might have stung Colchester into a bit of action.
"But I thought we got our game-plan spot on today.
"There was a little bit of turmoil at the start, with losing Robbie Edmans to injury. He's been fantastic since he's been on loan from Dagenham for us.
"So it was Plan B, C and D come into operation, and we eventually got the right one!
"David (Rainford, assistant manager)) and myself had a good chat about it overnight – not all night though! – and this morning, and I thought we got that spot on.
"We knew that we had to stop Colchester playing. I've watched them three times and the are a good side, in really good form.
"So I'm delighted with the way that we have gone about our work," added Pennyfather.


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I often use matlab remotely connecting to a machine running Scientific Linux via the NX client. When I hover the mouse over a piece of text in the editor underlined due to some mlint message a little box with a message about the error pops up. If I click on this box, focus is switched to the matlab command window.
This means I am in a race to click on the line before the box comes up, every time I want to fix an error of any kind, or just click on a line that has an mlint message. If I lose, I am sent to the command window.
This is very very very very annoying.
Particularly as I typically use the Editor popped out of the main interface in a separate window.
Is this a bug, and does this happen to everyone, or is it just because I am connecting via NX? Is there a way around it? I'm using matlab r2009a, and would prefer not to turn off mlint completely.
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Will Swenson to Take LES MISERABLES Hiatus Beginning 7/22 for Alliance's BULL DURHAM
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, John Behlmann, Melissa Errico and Will Swenson will star in BULL DURHAM, the new musical based on the beloved 1988 film, which Sports Illustrated proclaimed the "#1 Greatest Sports Movie of All-time." BULL DURHAM will premiere at the Alliance Theatre on September 3, and will run until October 5. Swenson, who will play '"Crash" Davis', will appear in the new musical while on hiatus from the Broadway revival of Les Miserables, where he currently stars as Javert. Swenson will be gone July 22 through October 5. A replacement has not yet been announced.
Directed by Kip Fagan, BULL DURHAM has a book by Academy Award-nominee Ron Shelton (director and screenwriter of the Bull Durham movie) and music and lyrics bySusan Werner, whom the Chicago Tribune called, "one of the most innovative songwriters working today."
Swenson's prior Broadway credits include: Priscilla: Queen of the Desert (Drama League Nomination). Will received a Tony, a Drama Desk and a Drama League Nomination for his performance as Berger in the Broadway revival of Hair. He also played the role on London's West End. Other Broadway credits include: 110 in the Shade, Lestat, and Brooklyn: the Musical. Off -Broadway:Murder Ballad, Little Miss Sunshine, Rock of Ages, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Adrift in Macao, The Slugbearers of Kayrol Island, Camelot with the New York Philharmonic. Tours include Miss Saigon, We Will Rock You and Fame! Film and Television credits: "Gods Behaving Badly", "The Switch", and the upcoming "This is Where I Leave You", "The Good Wife", "Law & Order", "6 Degrees". Will is also a film maker. His first film "Sons of Provo" about a clueless Mormon Boy-Band, which he directed, co-wrote and starred in, won several film festivals.
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