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Overall, not too shabby a month for New Yorker fiction. As always I'm interested to hear what you think!
Allegra Goodman's "La Vita Nuova" (May 3, 2010). This one's a simple and subtle beaut. Amanda has been jilted by her fiance. He cites her being dark and brooding as his reason for ending their engagement, but she believes that the real reason was that he didn't love her. The news affects her very deeply and she reacts in the dark and brooding ways her fiance had cited. She brings her wedding dress to the school where she teaches art and lets the children have at it as a crafts project; she lops off her hair. Eventually she loses her job at the school for her inability to separate her personal life from her work, and she takes on a new job babysitting one of her former students, six-year-old Nathaniel. She gets along swimmingly with the boy, whose father we find out has the hots for Amanda, and whose mother hates her for being consistently late to work. Nathaniel describes Amanda as being imaginative. While at Nathaniel's father's house, she comes across Dante's "La Vita Nuova" in the study; love, according to Dante, weeps. Nathaniel's father doesn't love her, she reasons, because he doesn't weep. At Nathaniel's seventh birthday party, she breaks the news that she's leaving Boston to go back to New York (the only reason she'd moved there in the first place was because of her former fiance). In a heartbreaking scene, Nathaniel whales, unwilling to let her go. The ending is stunning in that it brings us back to the Dante reference from earlier: Realizing that the boy truly does love her by virtue of having wept, she embraces the boy to console him. …There were some moments in this one where I felt like I was reading Lorrie Moore. Amanda's sarcasm and the witty one-liners. The clipped sentences. That's not necessarily a knock on Allegra Goodman. This is one strong story. How Goodman works with the "Love weeps" motif is beautiful. I also loved the Russian dolls bit, which could have turned really cliche real fast. To have her siphon off her energy into her art by painting these blank dolls was, as Nathaniel would have said, very imaginative. This is on my recommend list.
Dagoberto Gilb's "Uncle Rock" (May 10, 2010). Hmm. It's the 1980s, and eleven-year-old Erick lives in Los Angeles with his single mother. She's a Mexican bombshell, and men always seem to be a constant companion to her (though it's not always the same man). And Erick is there to weather all of them. He's been there through the restaurateur, the trucking company owner, the engineer–the last in that line being the one he'd bragged to his friend Albert was his own father. That wished-for relationship never materialized however, much to Erick's chagrin. To replace the engineer was plain Roque, whom Erick never esteemed enough to even consider a potential husband to his mother. To him, Roque was more like family; he was his "Uncle Rock." (Interesting so far). Roque takes the mother and son to nearby Dodger Stadium one weekend to watch a game, as Erick is a big baseball fan. It's more a ploy to curry the boy's favor and satisfy Erick's mom than it is a sincere attempt to genuinely get to know the boy. It's an adult's world and Erick is merely suppelementary. At the game, Erick catches a home run ball, but the feat is quickly deflated of its momentousness because his mother and Roque don't make as huge a fuss about it as Erick would have perhaps liked. After the game, one of the players signs Erick's ball and slips him a note to pass to his mother. In the note, Erick reads that the player wants to get to know her, suggests meeting later that night, even provides his hotel room number. Erick runs to Roque and his mom with the signed ball, but not the note. …I was lukewarm to this little off-kilter story after I first read it, but it does linger enough to make you rethink that initial reaction. I like the conveyor belt of men that go in and out of Erick's and his mother's lives; and to see it in standstill at Roque the nobody/everyman is a great move. He's just a blip, a pause. We know the conveyor belt will move again–it may be the baseball player next, maybe not–and probably soon.
Nathan Englander's "Free Fruit For Young Widows" (May 17, 2010). We're in Israel, and Shimmy Gezer always gives free fruit to Professor Tendler. This is unusual in the mind of Shimmy's child Etgar because his father always only gave out of pity to young widows. Etgar learns the backstory behind Shimmy and Tendler piecemeal, only getting the fully story when he becomes a man in the eyes of his father at the age of thirteen. Etgar had known that in the war of '56, Shimmy had attacked Tendler for some misdeed, and that Tendler attacked back, beating Shimmy to a pulp. The missing detail that was only revealed to Etgar at thirteen was that Tendler had killed four commandos who had come to sit at Shimmy's table; he had done so to protect Shimmy, as the commandos were Egyptians. Still, Shimmy thought the act inhumane, regardless of whether they were enemy or not, and thus tried to beat him. Young Etgar is very much like this version of Shimmy in 1956, unable to understand Tendler's brutality. But after learning more of the "context," as Shimmy tells him, Etgar grows to understand why Shimmy gives those fruits away to Tendler. Both Shimmy and Tendler survived the Holocaust, but the latter was much worse the wear than the former. Shimmy recounts Tendler's return to his home, now inhabited by his old nursemaid and her family. Tendler had viewed them as his second family, and having lost his own had hoped to rebuild a new life with them, however improbable. So it was a shock to him to overhear the nurse, scared that Tendler had come to take back the house and ruin her family, plotted to have her sons kill him while asleep. It's a devastating moment in the story that only gets overshadowed by Tendler's reaction: With a pillow to silence the bullets, he takes a gun to each of the family members–including a baby–and kills them. Shimmy explains to his son that perhaps the "fault for those deaths lies in a system designed for the killing of Tendlers that failed to do its job. An error, a slip that allowed a Tendler, no longer fit, back loose in the world." And just like "their nation of unfinished borders and unwritten constitution [they] were trapped in a gray space that was called real life." Englander does a great job here of illuminating that gray space by way of Etgar, who initially only sees everything as black-and-white. It's a sad reality for everyone involved. In this gray world where people are at constant war, murder takes on mutated definitions. You learn to both condemn and justify murder, to find it inhumane but also understand it.
Roddy Doyle's "Ash" (May 24, 2010). I know I've read several of Doyle's works before in The New Yorker, but for the life of me I can't remember them. Unfortunately this story might go down that same route of being unmemorable. Which is a shame, because I want to like his stories. (If you can unlock the secret to his stories for me, I would invite you to do so). So this story: Ciara is going to leave Kevin. However she doesn't; she keeps bedding with him for some reason. Kevin's brother Mick consoles him as best a gruff beer-guzzling brother could (he himself has had his own marital troubles). In a series of funny dialogues with Mick, we come to understand the limbo in which Kevin is. Everyday brings a surprise. He doesn't know if she's truly gone this time, if he can go on and out having fun with his brother, or if she will return to him in bed once again. She does turn up in fact once more by the end, though this time with no sex attached. On the tv, Kevin finds out about the Icelandic volcano wreaking havoc with the airways, grounding all flights. We come to understand that their relationship is akin to those flights. They want to go on but can't, for some reason perhaps beyond them.
Jonathan Franzen's "Agreeable" (May 31, 2010). Stories like this remind me why I cleave to The New Yorker as one of my most reliable sources of high-quality fiction. The "agreeable" in the story's title refers to the main character Patty's perceived disposition during a life-changing incident (this comes back later in the story in the most heartbreaking way). Patty is seventeen, a sporty girl, a misfit in her own family. Her mother Joyce is a "professional Democrat" to whom Paradise was "an open space where poor children could go and do Arts at state expense." Her father Ray is a lawyer, pragmatic and to whom justice is defined flexibly. They are in their own way dysfunctional as a family. In a telling passage, Patty's view of her parents is grim (and unfortunately common): She "knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love that person all that much, if you were busy with other things." (Franzen really excels at showing a great disconnect between parents and daughter_. The already meager amount of Ray's and Joyce's love for their daughter is tested when Patty is raped by the son of the Posts, a family they know with political cachet. Joyce, understanding what she can lose politically by making an enemy of the Posts, consoles her just-raped daughter with a politician's caution rather than a mother's comforting touch. Even more monstrous is Ray's reaction to his daughter: Initially furious at the Post kid, he later recants and suggests to Patty–the lawyer in him suddenly activated–that litigation would be fruitless and ultimately humiliating. The odds, he explains, are stacked against her: Any witnesses to the incident would be friends with the Post boy; and in addition, any court or jury would find it highly suspicious that a girl like her, a "jock," would have acted so "agreeably," so docilely, during a rape–she did after all, as the typical pseudo-argument has it, let it happen. It would be better, he says, for her to forget and move on. (Though this is set in the '70s, it may as well have been set in the present day). I'll let you imagine how Patty, defeated, turns out as a result of this vote of no confidence from her own parents, her presumable protectors. The last image of this story, as well as the last line, are just so effective that I would rather have you read them for yourselves instead of spoiling you of their effect. …Simply put, this is a story in the purest sense; Franzen really gets a lot of mileage with the simple conflict he presents here. No narrative b.s.; the story promises on a good, solid ending, and delivers. Very high recommend.


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The Port of Long Beach Academy of Global Logistics at Cabrillo High School earned a Clean Air Award for a program to help high schoolers learn about non-polluting, zero-emissions, cargo-moving technology on the docks.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District honored the program during this month's 31st Clean Air Awards ceremony at the L.A. Grand Hotel in Los Angeles. The Port-sponsored academy at Cabrillo earned the Clean Air Education Outreach Award for connecting high school students to efforts to convert to zero-emission operations. The American Journal of Transportation featured an article about the award at ajot.com.
The logistics academy at Cabrillo High develops business-educated students prepared for the challenges of global logistics, supply chain management and international trade through hands-on experiences and academic learning. Launched in 2016, the academy introduces high school students to career opportunities in global trade and logistics and shows them how to prepare for those careers through a wide range of training and education programs including certificates, certifications and degrees offered by Long Beach City College and Cal State Long Beach.
The recent award recognizes the work of 60 Cabrillo students who partnered with industry experts to learn about cargo operations at the nation's second-busiest seaport for their "Zero-Emissions Transformation Capstone Project" that began in 2018.
Students worked in groups of five, each focusing on a different aspect of the issue. Real-world experts on zero-emissions technology presented every other week, and students participated in a field trip to learn about Port operations.
The students examined "C-PORT" – the Commercialization of the Port's Off-Road Technology project, a demonstration of the use of zero-emissions cargo-handling equipment at two terminals in Long Beach.
C-PORT is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment — particularly in disadvantaged communities.
"Connecting our Academy of Global Logistics students together with our work on zero-emissions technology was so gratifying. I'm doubly pleased to see the students and the Port recognized for this groundbreaking collaboration," Long Beach Harbor Commission President Bonnie Lowenthal said.
"I'd like to thank our partners in the California Air Resources Board, labor, the marine terminals, educators and the students, who all share in this recognition," Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero said. "I hope that these students and many more like them will join us as we continue to build the green port of the future."

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Celebrate Labor Day in Destin and 30A
As the long, lazy days of summer begin to drift away, it makes sense to start planning one last hurrah. You know, sneaking one more vacation in before your demanding fall schedule takes over. Labor Day is the perfect time to do just that, and we have plenty of great luxury vacation homes in 30A and Destin for you to choose from. Get ready to celebrate the unofficial end to summer in one of these stellar communities:
Seagrove Beach: Seagrove Beach is a laid-back but luxurious community, and like it, the homes offer a little bit of something for everyone. See for yourself at 'Seas the View'. Open for Labor Day, this eight bedroom home epitomizes 30A living with its coastal charm and gorgeous gulf views. Walk to the beach and enjoy a little rest and relaxation along the shore. From biking to paddle boarding, there's plenty to do at 'Seas the View' in Seagrove Beach this summer.
Seaside: Imagine a Labor Day spent along a beach made famous by The Truman Show. 'Desire' is the place to do just that. This four-story home sits along Ruskin Square, and is steps away from all things Seaside. This includes a colorful collection of boutique shops, first-class food trucks, and sugar white sands.
WaterColor: Take your holiday to one of the trendiest spots on 30A. Winding walkways, coastal dune lakes, and architectural elegance is what you will find in WaterColor, and the homes are no exception. Stay at 'WaterColor Reunions' and you'll see what we mean. Recently constructed, this seven bedroom home is work of art, perfect for any and every beach getaway.
Frangista Beach: Hit Frangista Beach for some fun in the sun before the autumn air sets in. Breezy porches, lushly landscaped lawns, and sparkling emerald green waters are iconic features of this Miramar Beach community. Experience it all at 'Casa Azul', a newly constructed five-bedroom beach home with a pool.
Destiny by the Sea: Slightly west of Frangista Beach, lies the exclusive community of Destiny by the Sea. With some of the largest beachfront homes in Destin, fabulous amenities, and dedicated beach access, this neighborhood and its homes are the complete package. Take a long weekend at 'Ocean Escape,' 'Gigglin Marlin,' 'Tuscan Villa,' or one of our many other Destiny by the Sea vacation rentals and experience a Labor Day getaway like no other.


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If so, can it detect products located 50 to 100 meters (164 to 328 feet) away?
—Name withheld
Active RFID systems can typically read tags from a distance of 300 meters (984 feet) or more, because active tags broadcast a signal, like a cell phone. Active real-time location system (RTLS) technology can tell you the location of a tagged object within 10 feet or so, though some systems have a greater level of accuracy. Active tags typically cost $50 and up, so if you are tagging inexpensive products, an active system is unlikely to be cost-effective.
Mojix offers a phased-array antenna system that can locate tags from more than 100 meters away. This solution is often described as a passive real-time location system. If you are tagging multiple items, this could be a more cost-effective solution for you, since the Mojix system reads ordinary, passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) tags.
—Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal
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A look back at last year's food
pantry drive
My Christmas Gift
(Dated Dec. 5, 2007)
By Mike Fak
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13, 2008]
I spent a great deal of time last weekend doing something that I
doubt anyone would consider normal. I was up in the air in a small
ticket booth suspended on the end of an industrial boom. Yeh, I will
The advertising manager at the radio station where I stumble
around a bit came up with the idea of promoting the station while
doing something good in the community. His idea was to raise our
station manager, Jim Ash, in the air four or five stories up, for
two days from sunrise to sunset. Only local residents purchasing
food for the local food pantry at the IGA where the high-wire act
was located would cause Jim to be lowered back to the ground. Being
a person who will try anything once, I did my radio show in the air
with Jim and hung around for a few hours more. Jim and I both
discussed the notion that perhaps people would come in droves to
donate food if I were left up in the air rather than lowered back
The next day I went up with Jim again to chip in a few words here
and there, but mainly to keep him company as the station played
Christmas music with frequent live feeds from the ticket box
swinging in the air.
Without a doubt the novelty was given its due by competitors. Two
local television channels and two area newspapers covered the story
of WLCN and the IGA trying to restock the local food pantry before
We received incredibly positive press and kudos from the community.
The IGA and Graue Inc., the car dealership supplying the trucks to
haul the food to the pantry, paid for airtime and were given
extensive thanks for their help. There were a few other great
sponsors, including the industrial crane company, who helped pay the
costs and received very positive advertisement in return. The event
was working as well as we could have hoped for. There had been seven
pickup trucks full of groceries collected plus almost $500 in cash
donations and more coming in every minute as the first day ended.
It was a marvelous blend of promotion, good business and charitable
giving. And then came my gift.
The second day, a sleet storm started to move in and we needed to
bring everything down. We needed to let the crane operator get
stowed away and back on the road before it became too treacherous to
drive the huge piece of equipment back home. As freezing rain fell,
still more and more bags of groceries were adding up in the trucks,
but it was becoming treacherous and we knew we had to pull the plug
on the food drive.
Our being lowered back to Earth was also a great chance for me to
go back into the grocery store's bathroom to soak a finger that I
had errantly burned a few hours before.
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While moving a small kerosene heater over for warmth in the small
booth, my hand came in contact with the blazing hot mantle, forming
a painful heat blister. The frigid air felt good, but running cold
water on it felt better.
As I walked through the store, I spent time glad-handing with folks
I knew. While walking around in the store thanking people, I caught
a moment of a mom and her two children chirping enthusiastically as
they walked down an aisle. A little girl about 5 and her brother,
perhaps 7, were yelling that this cereal was good or this soup was a
favorite. I remarked to myself how curiously animated these two
children were as to what they were picking out to have in their
home. I was wrong.
About 15 minutes later the trio came out of the store with the mom
carrying two full bags of serious groceries. She and her two wards
brought them over to one of the food pantry trucks, and I just had
to go over and say hello and thank them. It dawned on me as I saw
their actions that the children had been enthused about their
choices because they were picking things out they liked for children
they didn't know. Children like themselves who would find as much
contentment and joy in consuming the foods as these youngsters had
found in picking them out.
The mother proudly stated that her children chose the food
themselves. In just a whisper as I gathered myself, I responded that
I knew that.
As they walked away, the little girl turned, smiling, and wished me
a "Merry Christmas."
No, sweetie. Merry Christmas to you. You taught an old man to
remember that the magic in this world is always in the eyes and the
heart of a child. You also reminded me there is no age restriction
on being young at heart.
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Better water is a clear need
Everyone deserves safe drinking water. The litmus test: colorless, odorless, life-giving rather than life-threatening.
For the systems serving northeastern Louisiana, passing that test is a chronic problem.
Boil orders are common. One system in the region reported brain-eating amoeba.
In St. Joseph, the state Department of Health and Hospitals reports samples taken at the water well meet the Environmental Protection Agency's minimal standards for quality. But residents don't get their water from the well site. They get it through an aged infrastructure. By the time the water comes out of the faucets at home, it's pale yellow to murky brown.
St. Joseph residents have suffered long and hard, but they are not alone.
It's a problem that's too common, and too many people are served by undercapitalized water systems that can't afford to upgrade the extensive infrastructure.
The problem has the attention of Gov. John Bel Edwards. The new governor has instructed DHH and the EPA to join together to review concerns about water quality.
Last week, at the direction of Edwards, Louisiana's state health officer, Dr. Jimmy Guidry, led a meeting of state and local officials concerning the the town's water system. This meeting included the mayor of St. Joseph and representatives from the town's engineering firms, the DHH, the Division of Administration, the EPA, and state Sen. Francis Thompson's office.
DHH and Region 6 EPA in Dallas are working closely to address citizens' concerns and the complaints about the water system. The agencies and St. Joseph's leadership have discussed solutions to make improvements to the water system and what types of funding are available to address the issues.
Steps are being taken to assist the city in taking the necessary steps to begin receiving funds — up to $1.2 million — from the capital outlay appropriation.
Guidry will meet with officials from DOA's facilities and planning, and with state legislators to determine the best path forward to securing additional long-term funding. To access additional capital outlay funds, the project must be prioritized as a Level 1 priority. The funds for St. Joseph are currently designated as a Level 5 priority.
"The health and safety of the residents of St. Joseph is of utmost concern," said Edwards. "I have asked DHH to partner with the EPA and other agencies to address this long-running issue as quickly as possible."
Edwards, in his comments, addressed the years of neglect in St. Joseph. The governor appears willing to make clean, safe drinking water a priority.
That will prove difficult in a cash-strapped state. But Edwards is right. Water systems have suffered from years of neglect, and the health and well-being of the people is Louisiana have been placed at risk. The attention Edwards is paying the issue is refreshing.


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Psalm 146
Christian Standard Bible
Psalm 146
The God of Compassion
1 Hallelujah!
My soul, praise the Lord.(A)
2 I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing to my God as long as I live.(B)
3 Do not trust in nobles,
in a son of man,[a] who cannot save.(C)
4 When his breath[b] leaves him,
he returns to the ground;
on that day his plans die.(D)
5 Happy is the one whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord his God,(E)
6 the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea and everything in them.(F)
He remains faithful forever,(G)
7 executing justice for the exploited
and giving food to the hungry.(H)
The Lord frees prisoners.(I)
8 The Lord opens the eyes of the blind.(J)
The Lord raises up those who are oppressed.[c](K)
The Lord loves the righteous.(L)
9 The Lord protects resident aliens
and helps the fatherless and the widow,(M)
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.(N)
10 The Lord reigns forever;
Zion, your God reigns for all generations.(O)
The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible®, and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers, all rights reserved.


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Eight Months
Dear Lincoln, I have no idea where the past 8 months have gone. It's so hard for me to believe that we'll be planning your first birthday party soon! You are learning new things on what seems like a daily basis right now. You can finally get up on all fours and crawl forward, but… Continue reading Eight Months


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Baltimore Sun reporter Aaron Wilson breaks down the game film from Monday night's game between the Ravens and the New Orleans Saints at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
GAME PLAN: Gary Kubiak crafted a straight-forward game plan based on a physical approach, pounding the football with his trademark outside zone plays as the Ravens piled up 215 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 32 carries. The Ravens hit creases and displayed patience with the running game, sticking with it even as the New Orleans Saints were gaining traction through their big-play passing game. The offensive line, fullback Kyle Juszczyk and tight ends Owen Daniels and Crockett Gillmore sealed off defenders and created running lanes. Defensive coordinator Dean Pees was aggressive with his blitz package to try to equalize the Saints' advantage at the skill positions in pass coverage against a vulnerable secondary. The Ravens mixed up coverage and pressure enough to keep star quarterback Drew Brees off-balance. Safety Will Hill was the point man in trying to contain tight end Jimmy Graham
PERSONNEL: Daniels played 53 snaps, 90 percent of the offensive plays. Torrey Smith and Steve rarely left the field, playing 48 and 45 snaps, respectively. The Ravens have gotten to a point with offensive tackle Eugene Monroe's recovery from arthroscopic knee surgery where he's playing 100 percent of the snaps and not being substituted with rookie James Hurst. The Ravens are using more two-back formations than anyone in the league as Juszczyk and the I-formation have remained a vital part of the offense. He played 32 snaps, 54 percent of the workload. Bernard Pierce remains the backup running back ahead of rookie Lorenzo Taliaferro ever since Taliaferro fumbled against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Pierce had seven carries for 28 yards. Former second-round picks Arthur Brown and Terrence Cody were both healthy scratches. Marlon Brown played 24 snaps on offense, catching the one pass thrown to him for 14 yards. Wide receiver Jacoby Jones made a rare appearance on offense, playing three snaps in his hometown and carrying it once for three yards and a first down. Hill, rookie linebacker C.J. Mosley, middle linebacker Daryl Smith and cornerback Lardarius Webb played all but a handful of snaps. Outside linebacker Terrell Suggs' playing time increased to 61 snaps. Against a heavy passing team, nickel back Danny Gorrer played 53 snaps. Matt Elam played 20 snaps on defense, seven more than rookie Terrence Brooks.
WHAT WENT RIGHT ON OFFENSE: Justin Forsett had excellent vision, waiting for holes to develop as he gained a career-high 182 yards and scored untouched on a pair of touchdown runs. Forsett broke at least five tackles, has rushed for 903 yards and is on pace to finish the season 1,313 yards. Quarterback Joe Flacco managed the game smoothly and remained calm when pressured. Flacco completed 6 of 8 play-action passes for 60 yards. With the exception of an errant throw that should have been intercepted by linebacker David Hawthorne, Flacco was sharp and made sound decisions. He completed 18 of 24 passes for 243 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions. Steve Smith delivered an acrobatic touchdown pass in the back of the end zone while being held by cornerback Mark Dixon. Torrey Smith escaped coverage and was difficult to bring down after the catch with an average of 19.6 yards per reception. Flacco was only sacked once and hit three times. Punter Sam Koch had a 73-yard punt and averaged 63 yards on two punts.
WHAT WENT WRONG ON OFFENSE: Although Monroe had a great seal block on linebacker Curtis Lofton on Forsett's second touchdown run, Monroe struggled in pass blocking as he had trouble with Junior Galette. Left guard Kelechi Osemele whiffed on Galette on a sack, but overall had a solid game. Juszczyk lost a fumble deep in Saints territory. Daniels wasn't a big factor with just two catches for seven yards on five targets.
WHAT WENT RIGHT ON DEFENSE: The Ravens cranked up their pass rush, sacking Brees four times and hitting him eight times overall. Outside linebacker Elvis Dumervil sacked Brees twice and outside linebacker Terrell Suggs sacked him once. Pernell McPhee shot through gaps on a regular basis for three quarterback hits and four hurries and remains a disruptive force inside. Rookie inside linebacker C.J. Mosley recorded a game-high nine tackles to go with a sack, three tackles for losses and two quarterback hits. Nose tackle Brandon Williams anchored the middle and had four tackles. There was nowhere for Saints running back Mark Ingram to run inside as he was shut down on 11 carries for 27 yards and a 2.5 average while Pierre Thomas had just 19 yards on five carries.
WHAT WENT WRONG ON DEFENSE: Graham still managed to score two touchdowns and Brees passed for 420 yards. The Ravens were prone to surrendering big plays and had poor pursuit angles, especially safety Darian Stewart and Suggs on a 67-yard end-around by wide receiver Joe Morgan. The Saints went after Lardarius Webb and Gorrer as Webb gave up a 62-yard bomb to Morgan. Gorrer got outmuscled for a long sideline reception by Kenny Stills. Anthony Levine had issues outside, too, in his second NFL start. With Matt Elam beaten in single coverage by Marques Colston, Terrence Brooks had a chance to intercept the pass in the end zone, but failed to react instinctively and essentially watched as Colston barreled into the end zone. In an otherwise stellar season, Haloti Ngata was uncharacteristically quiet and unproductive at the line of scrimmage. His roughing the passer penalty on third down extended a Saints drive that led to a field goal.
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KEY PLAY: With the game tied in the third quarter, Hill read Brees' eyes and jumped a pass intended for Graham. The 44-yard interception return for a touchdown provided a lead for the Ravens. They never trailed or were tied for the remainder of the game.
BEST HIT: Rookie inside linebacker C.J. Mosley crushed Brees on a blitz as he got rid of the football just in time to avoid a sack.
GAME BALLS: Forsett (career-high for yardage, two touchdowns, 8.3 average per carry); Hill (interception for a score impacted the momentum heavily); 3. Steve Smith and Torrey Smith (combined for nine receptions, 187 yards and one touchdown on a dozen targets); 4. Dumervil (two sacks nine lost yards)
INTANGIBLES: It was an emotional performance anchored by wide receiver Steve Smith, who got the best of a wild altercation with safety Kenny Vaccaro. The Ravens were intense throughout the game, especially after halftime when defensive coordinator Dean Pees delivered a fiery speech imploring the defense to play to a higher standard.
LOOKING AHEAD: San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers is one of the toughest players in the league regardless of position. And Rivers has the benefit of throwing to tight end Antonio Gates and wide receiver Keenan Allen. The defense is led by veteran safety Eric Weddle.


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I saw her today. Judy S. was undergoing an upper endoscopy but I asked her to re-tell the story of how her soldier son-in-law in Iraq was saved by her deceased father.
She began and slowly teared up.
She described how Johnny told reported that he was resting in his barrack bunk when he tried to get up and go to the PX to buy some candy. He felt as if he was being held down buy a force exerted against his chest. He closed his eyes, then opened them. Pushing on his chest was elderly but powerful built gray-haired man wearing a black T-shirt with a yellow image of the Police Benevolant Association, gray shorts and sneakers. He said to him, "you can't go, she needs you".
He then disappeared and shortly afterwards there was a tremendous explosion. The PX had been bombed. Many GIs were hurt, a few killed.
Months later Johnny returned to the States and told the story to Judy, his then future mother-in-law and other family members. Crying Judy grabbed a family album and opened to a picture of her deceased father who was wearing exactly what Johnny had described. Johnny had never seen that album before. "That's him! That's the man who pinned me down to my bunk that day in Iraq. I probably would have been killed that day."


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This story just goes to show that even if you are a celebrity, sending texts can be an embarrassing affair. As a guest on "The Howard Stern Show," comedian Aziz Ansari talked about how he met actress Blake Lively and got her number.
He said that the two hit it off talking about their love for food and eventually ended up exchanging numbers. And then he said that once he started texting Lively, she completely ignored most of his attempts at striking up a conversation, much less a friendship.
Some of the text messages her shared on the show included talks of restaurants, questions of whether she was going to certain parties, and even Ansari asked Lively whether she would be able to tell mutual friend Karl Lagerfield to call him. And Lively never responded to any of the texts.
He said that after a slew of unanswered text messages, he sent a finally one in December 2011 in which he wished her a happy holiday season. And of course, he did not get an answer back. Ansari then texted her live on air, writing
"Read these messages on Howard. Hope that's cool. Doubt you'll respond to this."
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Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell will join forces in the coming days for a theater tour behind their collaborative collection, "Old Yellow Moon." The fall tour open up in Pennsylvania October 26th and extends into 2014. More dates are expected to be released. CHeck tour dates and more on the article here.
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In Gaussian distributions, what % falls within 1SD, 2SD, and 3SD?
Calculate the SD for the following data set:
What is coefficient of variation? What is an ideal range for the CV of a typical run?
Way to describe the precision of a run or the variability around the mean, expressed as a percentage of the mean:
CV = (SD/mean) x 100
Ideally CV between 1-10%
If a reference interval is set at ±2 SD, what % of patients would fall outside this ref interval?
4.5% since 2SD = 95.5%
What does partitioning mean in terms of reference intervals?
It's setting a ref interval for a particular population
Alkaline tide is a physiologic variation that can cause a patient's result to fall outside the reference interval. What is the cause?
HCl secretion after a meal → transient alkalosis
What lab value is 5x the upper limit of normal in adolescents?
Alkaline phosphatase
All of the following are physiologic deviations from normal reference intervals that can be seen in elderly patients
A) ↓Cre clearance
B) ↓Glu tolerance
C) ↓ releasing hormones (TRH, ACTH)
D) ↑ lipids
C - these go UP
What two lab values are higher in males vs. females?
CK and LDL cholesterol
A Muslim woman comes in to get labs drawn. Her chem panel shows elevated ketones and bilirubin as well as low albumin, K+, and Mg. Should you be concerned?
No, patient likely had prolonged fasting
All of the following can be seen with exercise
D) ↓neutrophils
D - neutrophils go up from demargination
What is the effect of going from supine to sitting or standing on lab values?
Proteins, substances bound to proteins, and formed elements (RBCs) increase relative to supine b/c hydrostatic forces increase, forcing water and small molecules out of circulation but leaving big molecules behind
How does prolonged tourniquet use affect lab values? Fist clenching?
K+, NH3, lactate values go up due to hemoconcentration; increased K+ from release due to contraction of forearm muscles
What should be the order of draws for the following tubes:
1) clx
2) Blue citrate tube/Coag
3) Red/no additive for chem, BB, and serology
4) serum separator tubes/blood serum for therapeutic drug monitoring
5) Lavender/EDTA tubes for cell counts
6) Green/heparin for plasma chem
1 → 3 → 2 → 4 → 5 & 6 (additives last)
*Coag is before tubes with additives to prevent activation of coagulation
All of the following cause systematic analytical errors
A) Constant bias (shows similar slope, diff intercepts on correl study)
B) Interferences
C) Reagent carryover
D) Proportional bias (shows diff slope & intercept on correl study)
E) Sample carryover
B - this causes random errors
Random errors in lab medicine are mainly caused by what two factors?
interferences (heterophile Abs, solvent exclusion effect) and technologist factors
If an EDTA tube is accidentally used for chem studies, what lab values are affected?
↑K+ and ↓Ca, Mg, CK, Alk phos because EDTA tubes are made of K-EDTA salts so K+ goes up and EDTA chelates the rest
What can happen if serum separator tubes are accidentally used for therapeutic drug monitoring?
artificial ↓drug levels from adsorption by gel - SST tubes are generally used for serum tests like virology or chemistry
All of the following can cause an artificial ↑K+
A) Fist clenching and tourniquets
B) EDTA tube accidentally used
C) Thrombocytosis
D) IV Contamination
E) Tube sitting out - delayed centrifugation
F) Leukocytosis
G) Posture
Here are the reasons for the rest:
B - glucose used up by RBCs, Na/K ATP pump gives up so K+ leaks out of dying cells
C - have muscle contraction and hemoconcentration respectively
G - EDTA tube has K-EDTA salt so K+ goes up
What is solvent exclusion effect? What types of analyzers are affected?
Solid phase of blood sample unusually high (ex. hyperlipidemia or paraproteins) → falsely low analyte concentration; indirect ISE analyzers
What type of distribution is required in a T-test?
What is the calculation for sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, and efficiency?
Sensitivity = TP/(FN+TP)
Specificity = TN/(TN+TP)
Efficiency = TP+TN/All results (total all boxes)
If a population dz frequency is 1 in 1000, and a test has a sensitivity of 85% and specificity of 95%, what is the PPV, NPV, and efficiency?
Efficiency = 95,085/100,100 = 94.99%
In blood draws, what do the blue, green, yellow, black, red, lavender, and gray topped tubes represent? What are they used for?
In the curve above, what do points a, b, and c represent?
: High sensitivity, low specificity (more ppl without dz will test +)
: Low sensitivity, high specificity (more ppl with dz will test -)
: Ideal but depends on what you want to accomplish with test
Define bias. What is an accurate result? What is a positive and negative bias?
Bias = True result - analytical result; an accurate result means the bias (difference btw true result & analytical result) does not exceed acceptable limits; positive bias means measured result > true result (over-Dx conditions), negative bias means measured result < true result (under-Dx conditions)
What is calibration? What is it used for?
Scaling the physical measurement with a known concentration; can use multiple calibration measurements to generate a std curve, then compare the signal of an unknown to signals from the knowns
What is the 1/3 rule in CAP accreditation?
If your lab's SD is <33% of SD allowed, good chance of passing
How often do labs receive unknowns from CAP for proficiency testing? What is a satisfactory result for lab accreditation by CLIA '88? What must the lab do if it fails?
3x/yr in batches of 5 samples; ≥4/5 (80%); investigate all unacceptable results, all failed proficiencies, and internal report signed off by staff & med director
In CAP proficiency testing, how are participants graded?
CAP calculates the std deviation index for each participant, then graded as acceptable (<2SD), needs improvement (<2-3SD) or unacceptable (<3SD) from the mean & SD calculated from all results from labs using same method (peer group)
How is std deviation index calculated?
SDI = (lab's result - mean of peer group)/SD for peer group
What does an accurate result depend on in a lab setting?
Calibration & Precision (SD or CV)
How is imprecision calculated?
Add up all intra- (same run, same day) and inter-assay (diff runs, diff days) variance
√(intra-assay + inter-assay variance)
How can you statistically compare the precision of two analyzers using the same analyte? What type of distribution is req'd?
Do F-test; Gaussian
What is QC and QA? What regulations enforce QC?
QC - part of quality assurance, system of rules to detect analytical errors that could lead to incorrect clinical interpretation of results; enforced by CLIA
QA - program of regular assessments of lab activity
What four categories of lab tests are stipulated by CLIA?
1) waived tests - follow mfr and/or good lab practices (U/A, FOBT, urine preg test)
2) provider performed microscopy (PPM) - follow good lab practices (wet mounts, KOH, ferning tests)
3) moderate complexity - have SOP, follow mfr directions, calibrate & run controls (most tests)
4) high complexity - same as mod complex but also require validating procedure (tests dev'd in lab)
T/F: The Joint commission and CAP have defined sets of rules for QC in labs.
False - they don't tell you what rules have to be used, you just have to have rules and use them consistently
When determining if an assay is working properly, what set of rules are followed when deciding if a control is within acceptable parameters? What if a control sample falls "out of control"?
Westgard Rules; you can't report pt results
Which of the Westgard Rules are due to random error? Systematic errors?
Random error
1) 1:3s (1 value ±3SD from mean)
2) R:4s (2 seq >4SD away from each other)
Systematic error:
1) 2:2s (2 seq >2SD on same side of mean)
2) 4:1s (4 seq >1SD on same side of mean)
3) 10:X (10 seq values same side of mean)
Which Westgard rule is merely a warning and does not require rejection?
1:2s (1 value ±2SD from mean)
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European Union and British negotiators set to meet in Brussels, in a last-ditch try to strike a post-Brexit trade deal before the implementation period ends on December 31. On Saturday, British PM Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen directed their teams to resume talks. Barnier tweeted that he and David Frost will resume their talks on Sunday and look upon a way forward.
The Times reported that out of 13 cabinet ministers 8 opposed Brexit and supported a no-deal scenario. On Thursday, the 27 EU states leaders will gather in Brussels for a two-day summit planned to address their budget disputes.
Analysis by Katya Adler
A German think tank estimates that up to 700,000 European jobs could be at risk. But European leaders want to make it clear that they will not personally intervene in the current deadlock in trade talks. There will be no last-minute handshakes.
However, the leaders engage in dialogue with their negotiators, but they do not want to be face-to-face with Boris Johnson.
European Union countries have joined together in a single market. Therefore, any leader of the EU, even in France and Germany, can be considered to be making a political compromise that could end the British agreement.
Critical Issues
The EU has warned that without access to the UK waters for its fleets, UK fishermen will no longer get a special grant to EU markets to sell their goods.
Fishing, level playing field and governance and dispute settlement are the three primary critical issues considered by journalists. The disagreement to these thorny issues will result in no workable agreement. EU and UK disagree on how much European fishing boats should have access to British waters, and how much they will get access to catch from the beginning of 2021.
According to the MoD's website, three River Class patrol ships with a crew of 45 sailors already work "at least 275 days in a year at sea enforcing UK and European fisheries law". Faisal Islam added the authorities have chosen to focus on "fish and chicks", live and fresh seafood, often transported from Scotland to French restaurants, as well as day-old chicks.
Resolving the Disputes
It is primarily about how the rules of this agreement enforced in the future and what happens if one party breaks them. The EU is urging powers to respond against the UK for breaking the rules in one area, hitting back in another.
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The average kids lunch is loaded with unhealthy ingredients. Today more than ever kids are malnourished even when they are eating. These meals lack proper nutrition which is causing so many problems within this population. They are eating an abundance of calories without the balanced profile.
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lol94 replied to jeanmi's topic in Politique etrangère / Relations internationalesRIP , condoléances aux familles !!
Très fort , Moffat !! =D
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Chapeau bas , Moffat . ;) Basé sur le Mosin-Nagant ,chambré en 7.62x53 mm R .
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lol94 replied to alexandreVBCI's topic in Politique etrangère / Relations internationalesVoici un état de l'armée georgienne avant les évenements : The Georgian Armed ForcesThe mission and functions of the Georgian Armed Forces (GAF) are based on the Constitution of Georgia, Georgia's Law on Defense and National Military Strategy, and international agreements to which Georgia is signatory. They are performed under the guidance and authority of the Ministry of Defense. The current authorized strength of the GAF structures is 28,666 personnel. The current Defence Minister is Davit Kezerashvili, and Chief of Joint Staff is Colonel Zaza Gogava. Land Forces The strength of Land Forces is 21,739 from which 2,215 are officers, 19,508 NCOs (contracting) and 16 civilians Land Forces constitute the bulk of the GAF. Land Forces of Georgia consists of the following units: 1st Infantry Brigade, located in Gori 2nd Infantry Brigade, located in Senaki 3rd Infantry Brigade, located in Kutaisi 4th Infantry Brigade, located in Vaziani 5th Infantry Brigade, located in Khelvachauri (temporary distribution place) and Khoni Artillery Brigade, located in Gori and Khoni Military Engineering Brigade, located in Gori Separate Light Infantry Battalion, located in Adlia Separate Tank Battalion, located in Gori Separate Air Defense Battalion, located in Kutaisi Communication Battalion, located in Saguramo Technical Reconnaissance Battalion, located in Kobuleti Military Police Battalion, located in Tbilisi Medical Battalion, located in Saguramo Main battle tanks T-72B1 - 59 units T-72M - 75 units T-72AB - 71 units T-55AM - 40 units AIFVs/APCs BMP-1 - 80 units BMP-2 - 120 units BTR-80 - 75 units MT-LB - 64 units BRDM-2 - 17 units Otokar Cobra - 100 units Towed artillery 2A36 Giatsint-B - 12 units 2A65 Msta-B - 18 units 2A18 (D-30) - 120 units Self-propelled artillery 2S7 Pion - 12 units 2S19 Msta-S - 3 units 2S3 Akatsiya - 26 units VZ 77 Dana - 47 units Multiple Launch Rocket Systems M-87 Orkan - 4 units RM-70 - 48 units BM-21 Grad - 120 units LAR-160- 15 units M-63 Plamen – 12 units Mortars 2B11 120 mm - 240 units M-38/43 120 mm - 365 units M75 120 mm – 250 units Georgian Air Force The Georgian Air Force consists of the air force and the air defense. The main missions of the air forces are: to control and defend air space of Georgia; conduct air intelligence and surveillance; provide support to the Armed Forces other Services; conduct air evacuation and search and rescue operations; air movement of personnel and military cargo transportation. The strength of Air Forces is 1,813 military and civilian personnel. Aircraft 22 Su-25KM 13 Su-25UB 12 MiG-25 4 Su-24 18 MiG-21 11 L-39 2 L-29 Helicopters 1 Mi-35 19 Mi-24P 21 Mi-24V 18 Mi-14 16 Mi-8 6 Bell 212 40 UH-1H 2 Mi-2 Air Defence 15 SA-11 38 SA-3 18 SA-8 35 ZSU-23-4 15 S-60 40 MT-LB with towed ZU-23-2 Georgian Navy Georgia Navy is responsible for maintenance of the sovereignty of the country and for protection of internal territorial waters and economic zones. Georgian Navy is responsible to participate in collective protection of region of the Black Sea under multilateral agreements and commitments. 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The primary goals of Navy Demonstration of the national Flag in sea waters. - Provide of daily activities for combat readiness and preparation of the Naval Forces. - Protection of territorial integrity from an attack and other threats together with other Authority Bodies. - Achieve progress in the harmonization process with NATO and International requirements and standards in coordination with other government bodies. - Protection of national and international economical activities in the Georgia's Responsibility Zone. - Interactions, cooperation and coordination with other ministries in environmental measures as well as in elimination of poaching, drug transit, trafficking and other illegal actions. - Planning and carrying out trainings, exercises and other preparation measures together with other types of the armed Forces. - Implementation of rescuing and searching operations, in the case of natural disasters aiding domestic population independently or in close cooperation with other authority bodies or neighbor countries relative structures. - Providing fire support during joint operations. - Ensure shipping transactions. - Lead counter-terrorism measures independently or with partner countries. - Providing special operations against objects located in enemy's zone. - Fulfillment of international commitments. 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The National Guard consists of 20 554 personnel; the main missions of National Guard are: Support civil government in crisis situations (natural, technological, ecological); Register mobilization recourses, study and deliver; Convene, select and man of citizens on the basis of the agreement, for the units, subunits and bases of the Armed Forces; Provide ceremony activities.
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D'accord , Tallmike . Pour le CIS 40 agl , il est fait par Singapore Technologies Engeneering . Pays utilsateurs : Singapour , Uruguay .
Armées européennes mediterannéennes- L'espagne acquiert la HK MG4E . The Oberndorfer based Heckler & Koch Group has won the international tender of the Spanish Army for the introduction of a new, light machine gun with the MG4 E in calibre 5.56 mm x 45. In accordance with the tender the Spanish Army states a requirement of a minimum of 1800 light machine guns, distributed in a period of four years. Decisive for the decision for introducing the MG4 E, was the fulfilment of the high requirements of the Spanish MoD which included intensive test and appraisal procedures. With the MG4 E Heckler & Koch has set off itself more than clearly from its competitors. This success for Heckler & Koch is anther proof for its consistent product philosophy – to supply only the best products to accommodate highest requirements in terms of performance, quality and safety standards. http://www.heckler-koch.de/HKWebNews/byItemID///22/3/3/15
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Proc. of the 11th Int. Conf. on Integrated Formal Methods (IFM 2014). Volume 8739 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2014.
The verification community has studied dynamic data structures primarily in a bottom-up way by analyzing pointers and the shapes induced by them. Recent work in fields such as separation logic has made significant progress in extracting shapes from program source code. Many real world programs however manipulate complex data whose structure and content is most naturally described by formalisms from object oriented programming and databases. In this paper, we look at the verification of programs with dynamic data structures from the perspective of content representation. Our approach is based on description logic, a widely used knowledge representation paradigm which gives a logical underpinning for diverse modeling frameworks such as UML and ER. Technically, we assume that we have separation logic shape invariants obtained from a shape analysis tool, and requirements on the program data in terms of description logic. We show that the two-variable fragment of first order logic with counting and trees can be used as a joint framework to embed suitable fragments of description logic and separation logic.
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By George Vrechek
Bert Lehman's story in the Oct. 12, 2018 issue of Sports Collectors Digest got my attention. I thought it was pretty special that collector Larry Leonard had reported a variation involving a dot and an asterisk on the 1955 Herman Wehmeier card, the subject of my article in the same issue. However, Lehman's story involved the discovery that some of the 1955 Jackie Robinson cards had Dodgers logos cut off on the left side. Neither the Robinson nor Wehmeier variation was miscut. Both variations have been in plain view since 1955, but never before reported.
Not to be outdone, Leonard has reported that collector Tom Billing noticed an additional variation on the scarcer Wehmeier cards. Wehmeier's Phillies logo was also slightly cut off on the left side. It appears to me that when they corrected the Wehmeier "no dot" version, they also widened the image on the left border by 1/16" in order to restore the entire logo. Consequently, they added 1/16" to the yellow name banner since the "H" in Herman is 1/16" further from the frame edge in the corrected version.
The truncated Robinson logo was similar to the Wehmeier logo except it was more noticeable, plus it is a little off on the top of the card as well. Topps fixed the problem by widening the entire card image. The right edge of Robinson remained the same but the left edge is 1/16" wider. The black banner extends further left and the "J" in Jackie is 1/16" further away from the end of the banner.
With two changes made on the Wehmeier card (the dot and the asterisk), you can understand why they also fixed the logo. Did they notice that the Robinson logo was cut off even more and corrected that at the same time? The logos on most of the cards in the set are at the edge of the frame or even extended into the white border. I guess it is time to look at the 1955 Topps a little closer. I checked several cards that were in the same column as the Robinson card on an uncut sheet, but didn't find any others with a logo problem.
Slight cropping differences have been noted on many 1956 Topps cards, which I described as the "flat hat" versions in a July 26, 2013, SCD article. Keep in mind, variation collectors are easily excited, as evidenced by silly prices already being asked for the Robinson card.
Gil Coan, a super-senior player
Five years ago I wrote a few SCD articles about the oldest living players who had appeared on baseball or football cards. Many of the former players have gone on to the Field of Dreams, but one former player, featured in an October 2013 article, is still on the theoretical team of super-senior major leaguers who have appeared on baseball cards. As of October 2018, 96-year-old Coan was in the top 10 of the oldest living former players. I counted only three players who had appeared on cards and who were older than Coan – Wally Westlake, Eddie Robinson and John Hetki.
I called Coan to see how he is doing. He and his wife, Dovie, still live in their home near the golf course in Brevard, North Carolina. They celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary recently. While he isn't feeding the cattle at his farm anymore and wasn't able to attend a recent alumni association gathering, he is still getting around and is always very cordial. As a long-time Brevard resident, he is well known. He said he was recognized at a restaurant recently by the father of one of the local players he had coached years ago.
Coan said, "Eddie Robinson, who played first base, called him not long ago and we talked. He had a strong voice."
Robinson and Coan were Washington teammates in 1949 and 1950. Robinson is a year and a half older than Coan.
Mrs. Sy Berger, doing fine
Thinking of super-seniors, I checked in with 95-year-old Gloria Berger, widow of the late Sy Berger of Topps. I also talked to Gloria's daughter, Maxine. Gloria is doing fine, still living in Rockville Center, New York, where she and Sy raised their three children.
She said, "FaceTime is wonderful. With three great grandchildren in Austin, Texas, and one in Portland, Maine, we visit several times a week."
She speaks energetically and with an upbeat attitude, not unlike that of Sy Berger who she first met in 1940 on a blind date set up by her best friend.
She mentioned that she still gets frequent contacts from their friends in baseball, including 87-year-old Willie Mays. In my 2008 interview with Sy Berger, Berger reminisced about first meeting Mays in the Giants' locker room in 1951. Mays had started his career going 0 for 12 on the road. Berger was a 27-year-old marketing whiz kid for Topps who talked his way into the locker room. On May 28, 1951, Mays homered in his first at bat at the Polo Grounds off Warren Spahn. Shortly thereafter, according to what Sy Berger told me, he inked his licensing contract with Topps.
Gloria said, "I am proud of what he (Sy) accomplished. I have lots of good memories."
Counting cards
I wrote a series of SCD articles in 2015 about expanding one's collecting horizons and collecting as much of the sport card universe as possible. I estimated that at least 160,000 sports cards were issued prior to 1981. Rather than focusing on having the highest graded sets, I suggested establishing goals based on the number of single, vintage sports collected. I felt that it would be quite an accomplishment to even collect half of the vintage cards produced. I proposed four recognition levels based on having between 35,000 and 50,000 cards, followed by levels of 50,000 to 65,000, 65,000 to 80,000, and 80,000 cards and beyond. Only pre-1981 single sports cards counted; variations didn't count.
My own collection was about halfway through the first level and my goal was to get to level 2 – 50,000 cards. I recently achieved my goal, but it wasn't easy. I felt that it got harder the closer you got to 50,000 cards. After you get through the popular large sets, there isn't much in the way of low-hanging fruit. You need to expand into sets like Parkhursts, disc sets, Frostade, Nu-Cards, Canadian exhibits, Atlantic Oil and a myriad of Topps inserts. There is only one collector I know who has reported getting close to the 80,000 card level. But we all keep looking.
Burdick boxers at the Met
The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art recently concluded the exhibit "On the Ropes: Vintage Boxing Cards from the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection." The exhibit included Burdick cards and other old prints and paintings depicting boxing from The Met's collections.
Collector Geno Wagner visited The Met and had the following observation: "I would say that the biggest thing is that it's not just a display of cards, but a display of how iconic boxers were at the turn of the century. The prints and paintings make it all come together nicely. It's about half cards, half paintings/photos."
The Met was happy to provide SCD with images of some of the items on display.
George Vrechek is a freelance contributor to Sports Collectors Digest. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.