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First published in August 23, 2008 Armenian Reporter.
Ossetia War: Lessons for Armenia
by Emil Sanamyan
Burnt Georgian army tanks near the center of Tskhinval, South Ossetia on Aug. 10, 2008.
WASHINGTON – Within hours the long-running stand-off between Georgia and Russia-backed South Ossetia became a full-blown war causing hundreds of deaths, primarily among Ossetians but also among the now-defeated Georgian army.
The fighting took place less than 100 miles from Armenia and had an immediate impact on it. Above all, it exposed the security vacuum in the region, of which Armenia is also a part.
Is Armenia ready for a repetition of a similar scenario in Karabakh?
Immediate results of Russian-Georgian fighting
Half the world away – on the other end of Asia – most of the world leaders, including President George Bush and Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, gathered for the opening of the Olympic Games.
As they sat in the VIP seats of the Beijing stadium, Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili, long-touted as Mr. Bush's foreign policy "success story" and a thorn in Mr. Putin's side, threw most of his U.S.-trained army into a savage attack on South Ossetia.
That happened just hours after the Georgian leader, in a televised address, promised to cease shelling of the Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali, which was surrounded on nearly all sides by Georgian military positions. As events unfolded, it became clear that the Georgian operation was planned in advance, but its planners had failed to anticipate what came next.
Russia intervened within hours and on a massive scale. Had it not been for that intervention, which resulted in a defeat of the "NATO standard" Georgian army within 48 hours, and subsequent Western diplomacy to check Russian military moves within Georgia, large-scale fighting might well have claimed even more lives.
Nevertheless, the three days of shelling and shooting resulted in nearly a wholesale destruction of Tskhinvali – a town about the size of Stepanakert – and displacement of close to 100,000 people, both Ossetians and Georgians.
The rapid pace of these events, the human toll involved, the apparent shifts in the regional balance of forces and, above all, Armenians' security predicament in Nagorno-Karabakh necessitate an urgent review of Yerevan's policies.
Lesson 1: Ethnic hatreds and advanced weapons make for a deadly mix
Mr. Saakashvili studied in some of the best schools in Europe and the United States. He has made it clear that he wants Georgia to be part of Europe. Georgia has already adopted the European Union flag.
While his record on corruption and democracy in Georgia is checkered, under the Saakashvili presidency, Georgia has made obvious progress.
None of this stopped the Georgian president from launching a massive indiscriminate bombardment of South Ossetia and an attempt to wipe out both its small self-defense forces and, effectively, the fewer than 70,000 ethnic Ossetians living in the area.
Now let's look at Azerbaijan. It has much more money and more deadly firepower than Georgia did before this week. Azerbaijan's ruling family does not care much for promoting democratic facades or currying Western favor, and it has repeatedly for years threatened to attack Armenia (including the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic).
This combination of capability and stated intent creates an immediate present danger to Armenian lives and must be appreciated more seriously and addressed more effectively than has happened to date both in Armenia and the diaspora.
The quick and devastating defeat of a country that, like Azerbaijan, sought to "restore its territorial integrity," or more accurately avenge old grievances through fresh violence only to bring new humiliation upon itself, should serve as a cold shower for Azerbaijan.
But Armenians cannot rely on President Ilham Aliyev's rational cost-benefit calculation.
The risks are just too high. Considering the levels of anti-Armenian rhetoric – which are beyond anything Georgia's leaders have ever employed vis-à-vis Ossetians, Abkhaz, or Russians – Mr. Aliyev or, to borrow from the words of the Russian president, another "lunatic" Azerbaijani leader may feel the "need to shed [Armenian] blood" overwhelm other cares he or she might have.
The threat is real and must be addressed.
Lesson 2: Crisis preparations are necessary before a crisis arrives
Still, most Armenians – and this is especially true for the diaspora and Yerevan – live in a blissful ignorance of threats their homeland and their lives are facing.
Even among professional individuals whose job it is to protect Armenia and neutralize its enemies, one frequently observes the attitude that Azerbaijan either "doesn't have the balls," "doesn't have the army," "won't risk losing oil," or "the United States and Russia won't stand for it."
After the Georgian attack on Ossetia, the Armenian government needs to answer a number of key questions.
Does it consider losing hundreds, if not thousands of civilians within a matter of hours, an acceptable risk? Azerbaijan today has the capability to cause such destruction.
What is it doing to stop the flow of weapon systems to Azerbaijan – particularly the type of weapons that can cause such devastating harm? Like Georgia, Azerbaijan gets most of its weapons, including the more deadly ones, from one state – another Western darling, Ukraine.
What has Armenia done to try to stop and reverse this process? Has the Armenian government made it clear to Azerbaijan that it would too pay a disproportionate price for causing Armenian civilian deaths? How has that been demonstrated?
What has the Armenian government done to prepare its population for a possible attack? Do Armenians sitting in Yerevan cafés, chewing sunflower seeds at opposition rallies, or watching television in their homes know the location of the nearest bomb shelter?
When were Armenian reservists last gathered on any significant scale? When were they last trained or tested? Do they know where to report in case of war?
Crises require more than planning for immediate security and military operations. Considering the rapid nature of warfare today, once again demonstrated in Ossetia, and the role public opinion plays in shaping policy, preparations for crisis management must include a strong media component.
Are Armenian-Americans ready for such a crisis?
Lesson 3: External guarantees carry unacceptable risks
The main reason Georgians thought they could attack Ossetia with impunity is because as part of the peace agreement the parties signed after their brief 1991–92 war, Ossetians had to yield firing positions they captured from Georgians to Russian peacekeepers.
Before the August 8 Georgian assault, Russian peacekeepers repeatedly failed to address recurring violations by Georgia of its agreements and provide for the security of the Ossetian population. As a result, even if Russia intervened faster than anticipated, Ossetian civilians bore the brunt of human casualties and material losses, with their community devastated.
Armenia too experienced "peacekeeping" of Soviet Russian forces when they were sent to "protect" the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in the late 1980s. By 1991, on orders from Moscow, went as far as to help Azerbaijan expel Armenians from parts of Karabakh.
But this is not a Russia-specific problem.
Too many United Nations peacekeeping operations in recent years – from Croatia and Rwanda in the mid-1990s, to more recent NATO policing in Kosovo and African Union operations in Sudan have failed in their stated effort to protect populations whose lives are threatened.
The reality is the peacekeepers and the countries that dispatch them care more about their own security than a foreign country they have pledged to protect.
Armenians are fortunate that foreign peacekeepers were never introduced after the Karabakh war ended in 1994. Combat capabilities of the Armenian Armed Forces along with the territories they currently hold in and around Nagorno Karabakh form two basic foundations of Armenian security.
Lesson 4: The "peace process" must be about strengthening peace and preventing war
Exchanging territories under Armenian control for promises of foreign protection without a clear and unambiguous resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijan dispute carries deadly risks for Armenians.
But, with the possible exception of the 2001 Key West deal, this is exactly what mediators have proposed throughout the conflict mediation efforts that followed the 1994 cease-fire.
This clear and unambiguous document must establish a new border between the two countries and a transparent process of disarmament and demilitarization. Clearly at this time Azerbaijan is not ready for such a resolution and would rather protract the status quo. But, under such circumstances, neither should it receive any of the territories now under Armenian control.
In fact, in recent years, in addition to a refusal to talk peace seriously, Azerbaijan has been following a policy of provocations and testing Armenian positions along the Line of Contact, just as Georgia had in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The central focus of Armenia's foreign policy should not be the endless search for a "mutually acceptable" settlement with Azerbaijan, but urgent measures to prevent a repetition of the Ossetia events, only on a more devastating scale between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
This must include strengthening of the cease-fire with Azerbaijan through an expansion of the unarmed international monitoring mission; enforcement of the 1995 agreement on preventing violations of the ceasefire; Azerbaijani pull-out from the no-man's lands it occupied in recent years dangerously nearing Armenian defense lines; and development of an agreement on the peaceful settlement of the conflict that would include specific disarmament clauses.
As Russia's retired Ambassador Vladimir Kazimirov has warned repeatedly, and most recently just three months ago at a conference in Stepanakert, an Armenian campaign for peace, involving the elements listed, is urgently needed.
Lesson 5: The regional balance of forces has shifted
After years of confused and contradictory policies and an often simply disinterested attitude toward the Caucasus, Russia is back with guns blazing. This is not a Soviet monster, but a new country that very much is trying to be a copycat of the United States, at least in its foreign policy.
Russian propaganda about Ossetia in recent weeks would remind American viewers of what they saw on the eve of and during the Iraq war, including references to humanitarian causes and legal grounding for the intervention, and demonization of the
opponent's leadership.
In another sign of increased sophistication, Russian armed forces in their Georgia operations have succeeded in limiting the "collateral damage" the air strikes inevitably cause.
The Russian command even accommodated the request of the local officials in the town of Poti, and instead of air strikes on the U.S.- and European-equipped Georgian navy,
Russian military men arrived in person to dynamite and sink Georgian naval vessels at sea at a safe distance away from the port.
Even more impressive was Russia's ability to deceive Mr. Saakashvili and his U.S. supporters (see story on military operations forthcoming). The apparent trap Russia set for the Georgian army in Ossetia followed by a wholesale dismantlement of the Georgian military infrastructure – for which U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars or more since 2001 – showed the Russian leadership's new-found ability to fuse its resource-driven enrichment with inherited intellectual capacities into an effective conduct of war.
Signs that the United States is losing its "unipolar moment," as some U.S. commentators have described America's dominance in world affairs since the collapse of the USSR, have been there for some time.
After becoming bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush Administration has so far failed to achieve its goal of confronting Iran effectively. Iran's neighbors, even the two occupied by the United States, have publicly declined involvement in anti-Iranian policies.
And earlier this year even Israel has for the first time began direct contacts with Iranbacked Hezbollah in Lebanon and, through Turkey's mediation, resumed talks with Syria.
And this week Turkey, a longtime, but by now apparently former U.S. ally, reportedly declined access to U.S. naval vessels into the Black Sea to deliver aid to Georgia.
Armenia has benefited greatly from its relations with the United States. But America's contribution to Georgia's assault on Ossetia raises troubling questions.
As the Ossetians were being devastated on the night of August 8, Assistant Secretary of State Dan Fried accused them of "provoking" the Georgian aggression and to this day there has been no clear American condemnation of the Georgian action.
A major lesson of Ossetia war is that Russia, Armenia's strategic partner, is capable of conducting destructive military operations against a U.S. ally in the Caucasus, and U.S. is powerless to stop Russia.
Armenia's relationship with Russia has been longer and, on the balance, may be even more positive than with the U.S. But Armenia is also troubled that Russia is now essentially dismantling the Georgian state – one of Armenia's two oldest and friendliest neighbors.
In these unfortunate circumstances, Armenia should try to contribute to normalization of Russian-Georgian relations by all possible means. But more importantly it should act on lessons learned from this crisis to safeguard Armenians.
Friday, September 26, 2008
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Lt. Gov. Bill Halter released today results of a public opinion poll on state lottery structure. The people prefer a 2.5 gradepoint requirement, rather than something higher, for lottery scholarships; no income restrictions; simple scholarship participations rules.
Well, of course they do.
Too bad the people won't make the rules. The legislature will.
One more reason for the legislature to dislike Bill Halter. He's always pushing stuff -- his candidacy, a state lottery, simple and fair rules for a state lottery -- that voters prefer over their ideas.
GO HERE for John Williams' coverage of Halter's news conference. Notable comments include his call for a two-year cooling off period before lottery commissioners can turn into lobbyists.
Poll Shows Statewide Voter Support for Merit-Based Lottery Scholarships
70% of Respondents Favor 2.5 GPA As Scholarship Standard
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VNC Alternatives: Remote Desktop Software
After using VNC for a long period of time, I ran into a situation where I couldn't use it.
Last week, my parents were having some issues with their laptops (future post regarding McAfee Total Internet Protection 2010), so I decided to look into some remote control software since they are in Florida and I'm in Ohio.
Since my mother and father have a firewall, I figured this was going to be a challenge to walk my parents through a firewall configuration and allow me to connect to their machines, so that eliminates VNC from my list of possible candidates.
My requirements for remote desktop software were simple:
- Easily work with firewalls instead of against them
- Simple installation (for my parents)
- Free (of course)
The search begins
After looking around for some alternatives to VNC, I ran across LifeHacker.com that had a list of the five best remote desktop tools. So I decided to examine the list.
Out of all of the remote desktop tools, I selected TeamViewer to test first because it matched all of my requirements. They even have a portable version for mobile users.
I asked my father (the technical one) to go to teamviewer.com and download the application. After both of us installed it, we ran TeamView and the all-in-one application had a key and password to create a session between both machines.
The permission-based access of the PC is an excellent way to allow the user to accept an incoming request for help.
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Team Viewer provided me with the following outcomes:
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Team Viewer is exactly what I was looking for and will be sticking with them for a long period of time (since my father is now the technical user of the family). ;-)
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As we studied each other, I began to observe a hint of a slit, a touch of pink underneath her covering. Feeling movement between my legs, I suspected my soldier was saluting her breath-taking beauty, but I refused to waste a single second by looking away from Liz. My heart hammered at my rib cage, my lungs seemed determined to demonstrate just how much air they could inhale at one time. Yet I wasn't alone, even with my eyes riveted to Liz's most feminine attribute, I could see her belly rise and fall from her breathing.
Distracted as I was, I knew Liz was giving me well more than the agreed two minutes. When her hands began to move, my instant reaction was nonetheless to think, "Oh God, not already." Maintaining my unblinking attention was greatly rewarded. Instead of bending from the waist to reach her bottoms, Liz squatted, lowering her entire body.
By the time her fingers touched the waistband, her knees had spread wider, and with her butt near the floor, I was finally able to glimpse EVERYTHING between her legs. A line of bright pink clearly peeked through her dark bush; I saw things that I didn't know the names for.
Looking calm as you please, she drew the bottoms up, then headed out my door.
"Liz, I can't say just now much beyond thank you. I'll talk to you tomorrow."
"I'll close your door. As soon as I get to my room, we'll both be doing the same thing."
If Liz had turned around, she'd have seen me grab my shaft, then seen sperm erupting from me. Before I could even grab a tissue, I was deep into an orgasm so potent that I couldn't hold myself upright. The way my body jerked, an observer might have thought I was being electrocuted. I was so incredibly innocent, I'd never imagined that my sister ever fondled herself. The image, the concept, of her playing with her pussy, perhaps at that very instant, kept my balls pumping and my penis waving for far longer than I'd ever experienced. The faint awareness that she'd confided that revelation after seeing my penis only added fuel to my enflamed brain.
Chapter 4
I didn't get out of bed until lunchtime on Saturday. My poor pud was sore from self-abuse. I had a date Saturday night. Thank goodness we went to a school play, I was so distracted I wouldn't have been good company. As usual, I did wonder about my date's body, but my mind kept drifting back to Liz.
Liz had been dating for two years longer than I had, and more frequently. How far she had gone with those boys became a new angst for me to fret over.
While trying to watch the play, images of Liz's beaver would crowd out the dialog. I wondered if her breasts still looked the same as they had two years ago when she'd displayed them for me.
Then, as images of Liz's body would fill my head, all I'd seen would be pushed aside by wondering what I hadn't been able to see. It was only when Liz had squatted down to grab her bottoms that I gotten a hint of just how much of her anatomy had been obscured by her pubic hair, how much I'd missed by her having stood erect for all but a second.
By Sunday, when I was finally able to speak with Liz, my head was spinning. Foremost on my mind was telling Liz how attractive I thought she was. There was no way she couldn't know she was a desirable, sexy girl, yet I swear she blushed at my compliments.
Even though there was more on my mind, more I wanted to say, the words wouldn't come. Liz sensed I was beating around the bush about something, she prodded me to spill my guts and be done with it.
After a few deep breaths and a couple false starts, I managed to outline my fascination with her, confiding how I'd think about wanting to see her naked even when I was out with a girl a liked. Finally, I confessed to my now overwhelming desire to really see everything between her legs. At last I was able to blurt out that I was desperate to learn what a girl really looked like. "I want you show me everything, to teach me about a girl's body... down there."
Instead of any of the things I was mentally expecting, Liz calmly said. "Twenty Dollars."
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Thanks to a Manhattan doctor who'd heard about the big Walleyes in our lake, I earned the next extra $20 and a bit more during a school holiday 4 days later. Good thing, I'd been ready to dip into my savings, which I very much didn't want to do. I was committed to having a nest egg by the time I graduated high school.
I traded in the dog-eared 5's plus one of the ratty looking 10's I been paid for my day on the lake, for a crisp new $20.
A bespectacled Jackson was into Liz's hands that very night. Since our folks were planning to visit close friends Sunday afternoon for a small birthday party, we agreed upon that time for my 'lesson'.
Chapter 5
Just hearing the engine start in Dad's Dodge Saturday afternoon was enough to set my heart racing. They were finally on their way to a party at the Dobson's. Soon Liz should be coming to my room.
Minutes later, Liz sauntered into my bedroom. Though she only wore a white blouse and jeans, the way they hugged her form made Liz look sexy as hell. From my prone position on my bed where I'd been dreaming about her, I snapped into a sitting position, silently awaiting her directions.
Before I could ask what I should do, her hands went to her waist. Unsnapping the brass button above her fly, her right hand then pulled the zipped down. For a few moments her arms hung by her sides, allowing me a peek at the shiny white panty material now visible where the flaps fell apart. Following that pause, she worked the jeans off her hips until they fell in a pool around her ankles.
"Stand up so I can lay on your bed." came Liz's softly spoken request.
Standing, Liz moved past me, moving my pillow near the middle of my bed. Turning to her, I watched every motion has she lay down with her head on my pillow and her body towards the foot of the bed. By pulling her knees up, she was able to fit entirely on the lower half of the bed.
"Move down to the foot of the bed so you can see... what you wanted."
In a flash, I stood at the end of the bed, staring down at her panty-clad groin.
"I'd like you to take off your pants so I have something to look at while I'm lying here, it'll make me feel a little less like a piece of meat."
My pants practically flew off my body. As I reached for my bulging Fruit of The Looms, Liz spoke. "Take your time, let's do it together."
The moment I began to lower my underwear, Liz lifted her hips allowing her panties to slide over her buns. Keeping her legs pressed together, she squirmed until they were past her knees. Releasing the silky garment, it fell to the floor. Slowly Liz spread her knees, revealing herself completely.
My penis bounced along with my heat beats as I stared at Liz's fantastic pussy. Having given me a few seconds to mutely stare, Liz asked, "What do you want to know?"
"I... I... want to see you, I... want to know about you... there."
Gently her hands moved her pubic hair one way then another; she helped me view her vaginal lips. Unconsciously, I crept forward until my shins pressed against the bottom on the bed. I was towering over Liz, standing between her widely parted knees.
"It would be OK if you want to touch yourself while you look. In a moment, I'll show you how I give myself pleasure."
Gripping my shaft, my fist slowly moved in the universal, piston like fashion of masturbation.
Placing a hand on either side of her crease, Liz lectured to me using gentle tones. " When I get... aroused, my lips grow puffy and very warm. Officially they're called labia majora. They swell until they look like little hills, normally they're sort of flat. Opening herself so I could see between her lips, the moist pink flesh drew my eyes like iron to a magnet.
"I have... hidden parts that stay covered unless my body is... preparing for... sex. Then it gets slippery in there, so... skin can slide around OK."
Her fingers glided to the lower end of her crease.
"These delicate inner lips swell and open pretty far as I... a girl gets more ready. Doctors call them labia minora. Normally they cover and protect the place where a man... would go... when a girl was ready for him. You may not be able to see the... opening, but..."
Following a long pause, Liz wormed her middle finger inside herself.
By testicles began to earnestly tighten, clear fluid flowed freely from my tip.
"My finger is in my vagina. While it can feel incredible... to a girl, to have a man inside... there. Up here is very, very important for a girl to... enjoy sex."
While the free hand spread the folds apart, Liz withdrew her finger, moving that hand up to toy with the pink thing that looked like a little finger.
"This is my clitoris. If I'd been a boy it would've developed into a penis. For a girl, it becomes a little tube filled with very sensitive rod. When it gets moved around or rubbed just right, it makes... a girl feel so good I... she could scream from the pleasure. This is what I do when I'm trying to... when I'm almost..."
The hand she'd held her folds open with moved up to her right breast, she fondled her mound through her blouse and bra. But the middle fingers of her other hand were soon massaging directly on top of her plump clitoris. She began slowly, but in under a minute, Liz's fingers were a blur.
Before the minute was half over, my shoulders hunched forward, my chin fell, my mouth gaped, and my knees bent. As my body had absorbed Liz's precious sights and unsuspected aromas, the tingling moved from feeling really good, to REALLY good, to fabulous, to heavenly, to ecstasy, then far beyond.
I'd felt my sperm being readied, then pushing though my tubes, then, as I stared at Liz's frigging fingers, sperm shot out of me. The first bolt went as far as her breasts. Thick ropes of semen steadily erupted from my drenched tip. As the strength of my ejaculation gradually weakened, I left a trail of puddles down her torso, over bare the bare tummy, onto her dark fur and flying hand. By the time I'd finished, droplets were scattered over both inner thighs and exposed buns below her pussy.
By the time my spewing finished, I was hunched over like a ninety-year old man, but my eyes remained fixed on Liz's pussy. Liz reached an orgasm during the time I was making a mess on her incredible body. I don't recall even thinking of any words for the climax I witnessed, but I instinctively understood that her hips jumping, her visible lower buns clenching tight, her fingers achieving a blinding speed, all together they meant my sexy sister had experienced the female version of what I was feeling.
I guess I knew that sex was supposed to feel good to a girl, but it was major revelation that it could be the intense pleasure I observed. Even in the throes of bliss, unable to stand erect, I still watched closely as her fingers gradually slowed, watched until they finally stopped. By then I was on my knees, holding my shrunken penis, breathing like a bellows.
When at last she composed herself sufficiently, Liz rolled off the bed. Picking up her jeans and panties, she walked towards the door. As she passed me, Liz stopped for a second. I tried to look up to her face, but my eyes couldn't rise above her sodden pussy, now mere inches from my face. I managed to rasp out "You are the most amazing... " before my voice betrayed me.
Tenderly, Liz ran her fingers through my hair from my forehead to the back of my neck before walking out my door for the bathroom.
Falling towards my bed, I nonetheless managed to watch her gorgeous buns sway where they peeked out beneath her curved shirttail until the bathroom door closed behind her.
Chapter 6
I briefly left my room a couple times later that day, once for a quick sandwich and a couple times for a pee and a drink. But other than telling Mom that I'd eaten a bite just before they got home, I was too emotionally and physically drained to see anyone.
Even though I resumed dating the following weekend, I couldn't get Liz out of my head. While more curious than ever about whatever girl I was out with, Liz's body became my Holy Grail.
Roughly three weeks after my 'plumbing lesson', I asked Liz to join me for an evening walk. That wasn't an unheard of event, as we'd matured, we would share a walk once or so a month. Maybe she guessed I had something on my mind, Liz spoke nary a word as we strolled.
Finally, the words gelled in my head. "Liz, a like a lot of girls around here, but you are the woman that attracts me the most. There is something about you that makes you... more special than I can describe. I've thought about this a dozen times each day since you... taught me about... biology. Liz, guess it's obvious I'm still a... I've never... Liz, will you teach me the rest?"
Her pace never varied as we continued our walk. Reaching the huge elm that marked a mile from home, we turned as usual. A few steps later, she took my hand, but remained silent as we strode on. There wasn't a thing I could think of worth saying. My head swan with hopes and fears. She hadn't said a word, but she hadn't yelled, or flat out said 'no'.
As we reached the front door, as I turned the knob to open it for Liz, as she stepped in ahead of me, I heard "One Hundred Dollars." Never turning back to me. Liz went up to her room.
Liz was long gone before I managed to stagger up to my room. Anyone seeing me lying still on my bed with my eyes closed would have assumed I was at rest. Yet inside my stomach churned, my heart pounded, and brain crackled with activity.
When I heard "One Hundred Dollars", for the tiniest fraction of a fraction of a second, my shocked mind tried to form "You rotten whore..." but I cut that notion down in mid-thought. Reigning in my runaway head, I forced myself to think.
Who is obsessed with whom? I had no concept of how unappealing my requests might be to Liz. Maybe she totally hated those show-and-don't-tell sessions. Maybe she thought I was pathetic, or worse. Everything we'd done had happened after a lot of me hounding her. Maybe, maybe, maybe... And let's face it, if she'd just said, "Ya wanna screw me? Sure, no problem. Let's go do it." Wouldn't I be tempted to call her a slut in anger some day?
Eventually, I got past the wondering and doubts that were on the verge of making me a complete lunatic. Forcing myself to comprehend the awesome reality that I was only $100 away from losing my virginity, with the girl I wanted more than any other, allowed my thinking to finally straighten out, plus other things.
School was about to let out. I could make a lot more money during the Summer, naturally. But to clear a C-note, plus sticking to my savings goal, meant I'd have to bust my hump like never before. I'd sworn years ago to have a stash so I could start a business when I graduated; I HAD to follow my plan.
Hey, if I could just make an extra $10 each week, in ten weeks I could be in heaven. With my thinking becoming more logical, I knew having Liz initiate me was worth a king's ransom. Whatever I had to do, I would. Having Liz was worth any sacrifice. Let's face it, could ten times that amount ever buy something that would mean as much to me? No way!
So now I had a plan. My first decision was to stop pushing the vision of Liz, on my bed, with her legs spread, out of my mind! For now I'd drop my drawers and masturbate like crazy. Later I could list all the ways I could think up to generate extra income.
Chapter 7
I won't bore you by listing all the hump-busting jobs I took on, but most of it was work with a capital W. Twelve weeks is what it took me. There was a two-week stretch where it rained damned near every day. Yet the day arrived when I came home from the bank with a mint condition bill sporting Mr. Franklin's likeness. As I drew the old fashioned looking specs on him, I tried to remember... hadn't he invented bifocals or something to do with glasses?
After a shower, dressing, and generally doing everything I could to make myself as presentable as possible, my 100 clams and I traveled to Liz's closed door. You might think I wouldn't be nervous, but I was, tremendously. Even my knock on the door sounded nervous to me.
"Come in." was my cue.
Stepping in, I spied Liz on the old easy chair she used for most of her reading. Kneeling beside the chair, I clutched her left hand, opened her fingers until her palm was flat, then carefully laid the decorated $100 face up.
Her expression flickered, I knew the tiny glassed I'd drawn had registered, we hadn't spoken a word about our conversation of three months ago. But I knew this was a lot bigger deal than asking to see "boobies", I was paying her to take my cherry. My conscience compelled me to speak.
"Liz, guess I'm worried that you might have thought I'd never want you enough to actually earn this money. I need you to know that I want you more than anything. But I can't tell you how much I adore you, then push you into something you weren't... "
When I paused, searching for words, Liz ended my stumbling offer to renege with a simple, soft-spoken "When?"
"Well... there's girl stuff I'm mostly in the dark about. Guess, I'm pretty much ready all the time, so maybe you should just let me know when it's good for you."
A sweet smile spread across her face, her voice was warm, "I'll let you know. It was nice the way you asked."
Leaning in, I did something I hadn't done in ages. I kissed Liz, almost full on the mouth. Gently, her lips pursed slightly, returning my kiss. Never imagining this far ahead, having no further idea of what to do or say, I stood, turned, then beat a hasty retreat to my room where I spent all night dreaming of a day to come.
Chapter 8
Though outside it was a cool, dreary, rainy late August night, I was as bright and cheery as I'd ever felt. Our folks had just left for the VFW Hall in Plainfield. Following a fund raising dinner, they'd be staying for speeches and schmoozing with local political wannabes. Since the drive alone would be nearly an hour each way, they clearly would be out until the wee hours.
Three days earlier, Liz had casually mentioned that this evening would be a good time to conclude out business. She was as poised as if she'd been suggesting it would be a nice night to help me balance my checkbook. Who knows, maybe it meant little more to her. It sure meant a hell-of-a lot to me.
No start time having been mentioned, and me being too nervous to press for particulars, I'd merely showered and spiffed up before the folks departed. Having changed into nice pants and a pressed shirt, I waited expectantly in my room for events to unfold.
Time distorted so badly for me that each minute dragged by with a painful slowness. I'd left my door open, choosing to read a new science fiction book by Isaac Asimov about robots. I'd just accepted the fact that no matter how many times I'd read page 1, tonight I wasn't going to remember what it said.
Mercifully, as I flipped the paperback into my headboard, a lovely Liz wearing a simple, but delightful frock appeared in my doorway. I arose from the bed a bit too fast. Desperate to appear grown up, calm, and collected, my voice betrayed my true anxiety when it croaked, "Come in, please."
Probably a girl could have told you every detail about the pattern and shade of her dress, I only recall it showed her marvelous figure, was a light color, and had some kind of flower pattern. My hyperactive male brain was too busy trying to see the female form within the dress for much else to register. Still, it was her face and eyes that consistently held my gaze.
As usual, I could gauge little from her slight smile or her few words. Since I was obviously glued to my spot, Liz strolled over to me. Before I had time to wonder what to do, she turned halfway around saying, "unzip me."


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HP's EliteBook Folio Ultrabook getting screen upgrade option in March, will offer 1600x900 resolution
HP to offer 1600x900 screen option in March for their EliteBook Folio Ultrabook
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Old Anderson High School Reunion
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Think snowmobiling in Montana and locations like West Yellowstone and Cooke City likely pop into your mind. But the Big Sky state is a little larger than you might think. And on the horizon of that big sky are many other riding hot spots that have all the powder and half the crowds.Like the Lolo Creek area to the south of Lolo Hot Springs and the big country on the north side. The riding in this area is exceptional to say the least. Deep annual snowfall, open hillsides, tree-littered ridges, steep canyons and the like adorn the mountain ranges along the Idaho-Montana border in this particular stretch. Back to the geography lesson. Lolo Hot Springs is located about 45 minutes south then southwest of Missoula, MT. Driving from the full-service city up to the natural hot springs lodge requires a scenic drive up the winding Highway 12. Once you reach the hot springs, you have a choice. Ride some of the 350 miles of groomed trails in the range, or pick a peak and go cross-country. Be aware, riding up here requires lots of. gas and time. Get a room and plan on staying awhile.When riding a new area, it often helps to have someone show you around. We asked Mike and Steve Cassidy, the guys who build aftermarket suspension components and rolling chassis under the Fabcraft label, to take us on a ride we'd never forget. It's been a year and it's still very vivid in our minds. We stayed at one of Lolo Hot Springs Resort's newer cabins (more on that later) and met up with the Cassidy brothers early in the resort parking lot. The region's weather had gone on vacation to Palm Beach and the clouds didn't know whether to rain or snow. The week before we arrived, there was a thick layer of the kind of powder you daydream about. But, like we said earlier, the weather was . well, it rained the day before we arrived for our mid-February ride. Rain down low never bothers us much. It usually indicates white stuff in the higher elevations and that's exactly where we were headed.
RidingMike led us out of the lot to the south. We crossed to the east side of Highway 12 and followed the trail along the East Fork of Lolo Creek. It wasn't long before Mike was looking for an opening to shoot uphill. The snow was getting better and the sun was poking through the clouds. We carved our way across a long series of sparsely-treed hill sides, playing in the deep, fluffy snow and doing our best to burn up a tank of fuel while we could. Our first stop was atop the aptly-named Granite Knob, a rounded high point overlooking Granite Lake, with views of Lolo Peak to the northeast and the Selway/Bitterroot Wilderness' Bass and St. Mary Peaks to the east and southeast. If you kicked deep enough into the snow on Granite Knob, you would uncover a slab of stone as smooth as a kitchen countertop. Seeing that solid stone under such a fragile layer of snow brought on one of those moments where you realize bouncing off the wrong bump in the snow could rearrange your front bumper with your rear bumper. We dropped off-straight off-Granite Knob and clipped the corner of the lake as we continued our journey south. Mike's goal for the day was to get us to Beaver Lake and hopefully atop Beaver Ridge to the lookout tower. But there were plenty of play areas along the way and we spent time marking each and every one of them up as best we could. One such playground was a couple of clear-cut slopes known by the locals as Bump Hill. It got the name for all of the car-sized granite boulders that are strewn across the hillside. Ancient rocks deposited by receding glaciers, covered in several feet of snow, made the entire area look like a toad's back. And they made for some interesting terrain to negotiate. The rocks created a tube and channel effect and it almost seemed at times like you were trying to climb up a bobsled track. We stopped here for a little test ride and photo session (the Fabcraft boys brought along two of their custom-built sleds, so we killed two birds with one stone-see the report on Fabcraft's specialty sleds elsewhere in this issue). Since the drainage at the bottom of Bump Hill was down in the lower elevations, we were back in the wet snow. The only place to go from here was up.And up we went. A long, gradual hillside, marked occasionally by the switchback logging roads, took us back into the dry, fluffy powder that we'd encountered earlier. It was here, too, where the sun made its longest appearance of the day, giving us about 45 minutes of play time in some of the best powder we'd been on in years. This particular part of the forest had been taken by a couple of forest fires recently. The fire had picked its way up part of the ridges, leaving blackened snags in an otherwise open playground. The combination of sun, deep snow and rolling hills made for a little slice of heaven. The powder was so deep at this elevation that you could lay the sled over to carve a circle and be completely buried by the piling snow. And the scenery that the brief sunshine afforded us was astounding. We rode the higher reaches of the ridgelines, dropping down to cross drainages and snake through canyons until we reached Beaver Lake. Nestled tightly against a steep pocket of a mountainside, Beaver Lake sits directly below Beaver Ridge. The lake drains north where it eventually runs into Brushy Creek and Spruce Creek before turning west. Access to the overshadowing Beaver Ridge is best from the east shore of the lake. But, as we quickly discovered, it's by no means easy-especially in the deep snow that had blanketed the area the previous few nights. But, following Steve Cassidy and another rider in our group, we managed to break a path up the technical lines and gain the eastern rim of Beaver Ridge. For a brief moment, as we sat on top of the lower part of the ridge line, the clouds we had been riding in for the past hour broke and gave a glimpse of the northern flanks of Ranger Peak-an 8,817-foot rocky mountain that sits on the Idaho-Montana border in the Selway/Bitterroot Wilderness. In fact, at this point directly above Beaver Lake we were a stone's throw from the boundary of the Wilderness area. We continued riding the ridgeline to the west, gaining elevation as we picked our lines through the thick trees and deep windrifts. When we reached the lookout tower atop Beaver Ridge, where there are supposedly terrific views into the Wilderness area, we could barely see our ski tips. It was time to head back down, regroup and work our way back to the resort. On our way out of the toolies, we crossed Brushy Creek, shot up the ridge to the northwest and rode through the Lost Park area and stopped by the Lost Park warming hut, maintained year-round by the local snowmobile club, the Missoula Snowgoers.
LodgingAs we mentioned earlier, there is enough riding in the Lolo area to keep a group busy for days. The area we rode to the south of Lolo Hot Springs was just a slice of the pie. Riding areas abound to the north and west of the resort and more than 350 miles of groomed trails keep even the busiest of trail riders entertained.But if you're going to ride the Lolo area, you might as well stay at the Lolo Hot Springs resort-and enjoy all the time you spend off the snowmobile as well. Lolo Hot Springs resort is built around the famous natural hot springs that Lewis and Clark once encountered 200 years ago. Water from the natural mineral hot springs is cornered into a hot soaking pool, with temperatures in the 103 to 105 degree F range. An outdoor flow-through swimming pool maintains a year-round 86 to 94 degree temperature. Lodging at the resort is handled through 34 rooms in the lodge, with both double and single-queen rooms, along with four recently-added cabins. The cabins each have two queen beds, a bathroom, kitchenette and television. The resort features a restaurant (with great prime rib and zesty barbeque ribs) and bar with pool tables and gaming machines. Resort owners Don and Linda Stoen can handle groups of practically any size and even handle getting you from Missoula's airport and back if you choose to fly in. Snowmobile rentals are available, as are horses in the summer, since the lodge is open year-round. The best part about riding this part of Montana, as opposed to some of the more crowded areas elsewhere in the state? "When guys come out here," Don Stoen states, "they're not a number. And that's what they like about it."And that's just what we like about it, too.
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The actor has been in and out of rehab. His tippling allegedly affected his work on "The Tudors," in which his performance as Henry VIII often was over the top and campy.
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Using Orange: High, Low, Sophisticated and Fun
Orange doesn't have to evoke thoughts of pumpkins when used indoors, instead let it be a bold statement, balanced either with sophisticated elements or something a bit more fun. Jump below to see this sofa in a totally different set up along with a more affordable option:
In both living rooms the only thing in common is the orange sofa, but the rooms couldn't have more different feels.
Sophisticated: In a more grown up space, the orange sofa gets back up from darker wood, metal accents and neutrals making the orange stand out but not in a 'hey look at me' way. It becomes more of a sultry orange, if you will.
Playful: Stack bold colors on top of bold colors. Turquoise, hot pink and mustard all carry the same punch that the orange does and all the cozy textures and squishiness help to make the room feel fun and easy.
Affordable: Try your hand at one of these looks by starting with Ikea's Tylosand Sofa in Orange for $900. For a fun look check out this pillow as a start. For a sophisticated look try one of this West Elm Drum Side Table.
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LOS ANGELES -- For the first time in nearly a year, many Southern California regions are now reporting an average price for regular gasoline at under $3 per gallon with others teetering on the edge as prices continue to plummet, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California's Weekend Gas Watch.
"For the last two weeks, we've seen drops of 3-4 cents per day," said Auto Club spokesperson Jeffrey Spring. "The downward pace has certainly accelerated, and it's difficult to tell when or where it will stop."
In the Inland Empire, the average per gallon price is $2.96, which is 25.1 cents under last week, down 65 cents from last month, and 18 cents less than last year.
�The average price of self-serve regular gasoline in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area is $3.01 per gallon, which is 20.4 cents less than last week, 59 cents lower than last month, and 12 cents under last year. In San Diego, the price is $2.94, which is 23.7 cents under last week's price, 66 cents below last month, and 23 cents lower than last year. On the Central Coast, the average price is $3.08, down 20.1 cents from last week, 62 cents below last month, and 20 cents below last year.
Michelle Steel, Third District Member of the State Board of Equalization (BOE),� released figures on gasoline consumption in California showing a decline of 5.6 percent in July 2008 from July 2007.
Californians consumed 1.26 billion gallons of gasoline in July, which is 74.2 million gallons below that of July 2007.


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Ever hallucinated while driving? Ever been busy texting, adjusting the radio, applying makeup, calling your friends, grabbing your coffee that you dropped in the floor, or any combination of all these, and realized that you were about to hit something or someone? And was that something you almost collided with a planet?
A pilot for Air Canada was flying passengers from Toronto to Zürich – funny how some of the best jokes start this way… Anyway, it is apparently okay for pilots to set an alarm clock and take a nap during flights! I mean, why not let the one person who is responsible for the lives and safety of everyone on-board sleep during the boring parts! The perfectly allowed nap was supposed to be only 40 minutes by Canadian regulations, but the crafty pilot managed to sleep for an additional 35 minutes!
Maybe this is why the cock pits are locked…think about it…how hard would it be to take over a plane if the pilots were sleeping when you attempted to hijack it? It also makes me wonder how many plane crashes were due to heavy sleeping? The alarm is going off in the background, but Captain Jim doesn't hear it and the next thing you know the plane hits a mountain.
Anyway, back to Air Canada…the pilot woke up disoriented. He saw a bright light directly in front of him and freaked out – thinking it was a US C-17 cargo plane headed straight for him! He threw the plane into a nose dive before the co-pilot realized that they were about to collide with the C-17 (which was actually supposed to be below them at 34,000 feet)! The co-pilot pulled on the stick causing the plane to quickly ascend back into the sky. In the span of a few seconds the plane dropped and rose 400 feet – all to avoid hitting Venus. Seconds after pulling back up the C-17 passed 600 feet under them!
That's right…the mystery light that the pilot was so worried about hitting was Venus. The second planet from the sun. Unless we have suddenly acquired the technology from Star Wars, I have to ask what the pilot was smoking before his nap. Because if he was fucked up in some way, at least then it would make sense. After all, once while drinking absinthe, I thought Mars was going to fall on me and crush me like a Cheez-It.
16 passengers were injured during the rise and fall of flight of Air Canada 878. The passengers described the flight as something from a horror movie. People were being thrown around, food carts were on the ceiling, flight attendants ended up in some guys lap – okay that last part might not have been that bad…Imagine that you are sleeping, your seat-belt is undone, and suddenly everyone is screaming and you're on the ceiling! I imagine it looked like a life size version of Hungry, Hungry Hippos – only replace the marbles with people and the hippos with parts of the plane!
I wonder if anyone was in the bathroom trying to join the mile high club? If so, do you think they may have thought they caused the turbulence? She could have been like "Brad did the plane move?" and he would have answered "Yeah baby, it moved for me too."
The flight crew supposedly offered all the passengers free peanuts and coffee to smooth the situation over. Then they suggested that even though the fasten seat-belts light was not on, perhaps everyone should wear one for the rest of the flight.
This story, along with the one I told you a few weeks back about the pilot wanting to take people to see Jesus, is one of the reasons I drive everywhere. And at least while driving, I won't end up on Venus…


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I've done a news analysis on the subject for the Chronicle. Some takeaways: Yes, Britain is as wacky about libel law as you've heard. No, the rest of the world does not agree that the First Amendment is the Best Thing Ever. And the unlikely heroes of the story? Librarians.
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Libel Tourism, Early Summer Edition
Threatened with a libel lawsuit over a review in Art Journal, its flagship publication, the College Art Association decided to settle rather than duke it out in British court. Libel law in the U.K. notoriously favors plaintiffs. Hence so-called libel tourism, in which plaintiffs file suit in Britain or other countries where, sans a First… Continue reading »
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Feeling daring how about a sponsored abseil on your own or for moral support as a team.
Arts and Crafts Fair
Put yours and others talents into action and show of and sell your work for a good cause
Organise your own auction, get rid of some of your own items or contact local companies for prizes.
Afternoon Tea
Tea set, scones, sandwiches, a few cakes, add some friends and a fun event is ready to go.
Bungee Jump
Take the leap for the Red Robin Trust – go on!!
Beat the goalie
Pay to play and show of your football skills
Bad Tie/Hair Day
A fun activity for in the office or at School, find the wackiest tie or the craziest hairstyle and show it of for a good cause.
Bring and Buy Sale
Collect together donated items for a stall cakes, books, toys, bric-a-brac and raise some money.
Cake Sale
With baking programmes being so popular put your baking skills to the test and sell your goodies to others.
Coffee Morning
Any opportunity to get people together, pop the kettle on, some treats on a plate and gather with others for a natter and raise some money.
Colour Theme Day
Wear it red, blue, green, yellow or multi-coloured for the day!
Make up your own or how about 'guess the baby' – quick and easy competitions are easy to set up and do.
Cricket Match
Each team pays a fee to enter against one another to find the overall champion!
A great one on your own, a team or as a family to cover those miles.
Dress down day
Ditch the uniform or the suit and wear your comfy clothes for the day.
Put on your dancing shoes and strut your stuff on the dancefloor, entry fee, snacks and competitions to make your evening a fun event for all.
Easter egg Hunt
A seasonal activity to hide eggs, have fun and hunt for those chocolate eggs – yummy!
Fair or Fete
Various stalls with a variety of things on offer – Cakes, games, bric-a-brac, drinks.
Five a side Football
Challenge teams to enter as part of a football fundraiser.
Fashion Show
Stage a fashion, invite local companies and businesses to show their items whilst you sell tickets and organise a fabulous evening.
Fun Run
Tie up those running shoes, put on a silly wig or outfit and run for fun, organise your own or join a pre-organised event to push yourself.
Golf Day
Sign golfers up for a golf day, pay the entry fee and play for prizes.
Guess the number of ….
Sweeties in the jar, weight of the cake, balloons in the car.
Give it up
Give up that something that you cannot do without, could you give up chocolate for a good cause?
Halloween Party
Wicked witches, vicious vampires, get together for a fun filled party.
Head Shave
Will you shave your hair off for the Red Robin Trust?
Offer your ironing services at a cost
It's a knockout
Teams doing silly games in silly costumes – sounds fun!
Jumble Sale
Have that big clear out and sell your goods to raise money.
Karaoke evening
What's your song to get up and sing? – Arrange an evening to sing your hearts out.
'Ladies who lunch' day
Do you need any other reason for a get together.
Lands End to John O'Groats
Could you cover the miles for the Red Robin Trust.
Money boxes
Save up those pennies and pop in a pot to save for the Red Robin Trust.
Miles of coins
Can you make a mile of more with a variety of donated coins.
Mini Olympics
On your marks, get set, go……
Musical evening or concert
An evening of music to raise awareness and money for the Red Robin Trust.
Night at the Races
Organise a dog or horse racing evening, a great social event.
Nearly new sale
Gather together donations and set up a stall.
Name the teddy
A classic and simple fundraising activity.
Odd clothes day
Mix and match you clothes for the day.
Odd job day
Help out a neighbour, family and friends with those little jobs they keep meaning to do.
Penny pot
Keep those pennies, they soon add up and small change can make a big difference
Pancake Race
Hold your own Pancake race and challenge your family, friends and colleagues.
Quiz Night
In your local school, pub or anywhere – charge an entry or buy a table to participate
A sponsored silence ….. sssshhhhhh!
Whether it's a mile, 5K, 10k, half or full marathon every step is for a good cause.
Rugby Match
Each team pays to play in one big tournament.
Get sponsored to swim lengths for the Red Robin Trust.
Sponsored events
When organising fundraising events think about making it sponsored – a great way to collect money.
Table top sale
Raise awareness and money whilst getting rid of some unwanted items.
Talent Contest
Do you have a hidden talent – magic, singing, dancing, why not put it to good use.
Treasure Hunt
Pay to play and hunt for the hidden treasure.
Underwear out
Wear your underwear on the outside, just like a superhero!
Vehicle Rally
Classic car and bikes show are a fantastic fundraiser.
Vintage wine tasting
Why not add some cheese tasting into the evening too.
Why not try something new or set yourself a challenge, use the opportunity to do something you have always wanted to do, but didn't dare try!!
Running or cycling not your thing, why not walk it instead.
Xmas Disco
Ok it begins with a 'C' but Christmas/Xmas is a time for fun and fundraising.
You ready to fundraise – after reading this list, the Red robin Trust hopes you are ready to start organising your own event!
How about a marathon Zumba session – could you keep going for a good cause!
Zany clothes day
Wear something a bit different to School or Work.


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Angels fans to bring Matsuiland north to Oakland
First came an inflatable Godzilla doll in an A's No. 55 uniform. Now a production inspired by Mickey Mouse's crew has greeted Hideki Matsui.
Matsuiland came to the A's spring-training park over the weekend, and it will move to Oakland's right field on April 1. It's a mobile nation-state defined primarily by a huge sign, the creation of fans to welcome Hideki Matsui to the Angels last season.
Claude Bilodeau, a fan from Downey, and his two brothers, Denis and Rock, crafted the original Matsuiland with both Anaheim's Disneyland and the Dodgers' Mannywood as inspirations. The slugger made it simpler to continue the brief Matsuiland legacy by moving onto one of the two cities in the majors that have "land" at the end of their names. (Matsui says he grew up as an A's fan, so Oakland apparently had that edge on Cleveland.)
The original sign was spelled out in Angels red and had a halo hovering over the first "a." The Bilodeaus met Matsui on the Angels' field near the end of last season and arranged to hand over their Angels model to the Matsui baseball museum in Nomi City, Japan, Claude Bilodeau said. The 2011 version has green-and-gold letters in the A's classic font.
"We're hoping that the A's fans embrace him," said Bilodeau, toting the 10 letters that make up the new sign and wearing a green T-shirt with "Matsuiland" written on the front. He has admired Matsui from afar for years, as he transitioned from a Japanese superstar to the 2009 World Series MVP for a Yankees team loaded with bigger names.
The denizens of Oakland's right-field bleachers will take custody of the sign (or signs) at the season opener. Ross Retzler, a regular in the section, found Bilodeau through Facebook, and they arranged a meeting.
"One of the things that makes it so cool is that Matsui being a left-handed hitter, most of his home runs will reach where we're sitting," Retzler said.