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Updated: Jun 8, 2020
I have recently replaced my trusted Suunto Ambit3 Peak, a true work horse, by the Suunto 9 Baro, an innovative gem of engineering with an incredible battery.
The Suunto 9 Baro is the legitimate flagship, the top-end product of the Finnish company Suunto: an accurate, versatile and trendy sports watch that is right up there with the very best.
When you are focusing on a particular goal or setting off on a specific adventure, you want to make sure your watch can also cover the distance. With up to 120 hours in ultra-mode continuous registration and navigation, Suunto 9 is built to last.
Suunto 9 is designed and built to meet the demands of professional athletes as well as recreational athletes who just want that little bit more.
Don't worry about draining the battery. Three pre-defined battery modes - Performance, Endurance and Ultra - deliver 25 to 120 hours of recording time with GPS tracking. When you start recording, you will get an estimated time of how much battery time you have left in the current mode. If this is not enough, switch to another mode at any time.
If Suunto 9 detects that battery power is low during an activity, it will automatically suggest switching to another battery mode. The watch also indicates, via smart reminders, that you should consider your battery capacity for the next workout. It will notice when the battery is starting to run low. Why hasn't any other brand in this range of sporty wearables thought of this? This is simply genius!
In long endurance sports, battery life is often the limiting factor for precise capture of distance and tracking, as GPS puts a heavy burden on the battery. Suunto's unique FusedTrack™ algorithm combines GPS and motion sensor data to improve track and distance accuracy. This enables athletes to extend battery life by reducing GPS power without significantly reducing accuracy.
Recently, Suunto announced the retirement of their online training platform, Movescount. Instead, athletes will switch to SUUNTO APP, so everything is now centered on your smartphone.
The Suunto 9 Baro is still compatible with Movescount, but you have to make a choice. Suunto very much recommends choosing Suunto app as Movescount is not updated anymore.
The Suunto app has been developed in a very logical and user-friendly way. The upload is fast, which is an important factor. The app allows you to customize anything to match your preferences. You can plan routes and keep track of other Suunto athletes. It is also possible to link external apps from third parties such as Strava or Apple Health. You can expand the statistics of your activities with the necessary detailed analyses. You can personalize your sports if you want to measure your data during any activity, and this provides great added value. You can also create extra sport modes in addition to the 80 existing basic sport modes that Suunto offers. Unfortunately, certain data such as your sleep analysis do not get synced with external health apps and can only be analysed within the Suunto app itself. As the Suunto app receives regular updates, this may change in the future.
SuuntoLink must be downloaded and installed on your PC or Mac to provide the watch with the latest software, which is also designed to keep the GPS optimal. Suunto recommends updating the watch when a new software release is available. SuuntoLink is easy to use and can be used away from the Suunto app.
The Suunto 9 has obviously been made for athletes. The focus is on physical activities. When it comes to lifestyle, the watch is ahead of the competition. You can choose from various watch faces and different watch straps that you can buy as extras. The simple yet trendy design of the wearable is fashionable and matches the outfit that goes with any daily activity.
This sports watch does not support apps such as Spotify, Shazam and various bank apps. Suunto 7, for example, does, and this is one of the biggest differences.
Suunto 9 connects very easily with your smartphone via the app. You can operate the watch via three buttons on the side as well as via the touchscreen. The watch being a smart wearable, you can see live notifications of who is calling, read your calendar items, and view and retrieve messages. You can customize the notifications to meet your preferences by enabling push notifications inside your smartphone on an app-to-app basis.
Even though Suunto 9 does not have all the smart features of the mainstream smartwatch, it is certainly value for money. Suunto 9 has a sleep tracker, keeps track of your steps, records your total calories burned and shows the difference from the active calories you burn each day during your sports activities. These features also allow you to set your goals for the day and pursue them. Suunto 9 also has an activity meter, meaning that it indicates whether you are active and what your energy level is. This clever piece of technology also lets you know when you are under stress and how long this has been the case. Suunto keeps track of all of these data, which can be viewed on the watch and in detail via the Suunto app.
This wrist watch also has a training logbook linked to your training plan. Statistics analysis shows you how you are doing on a weekly basis and what the watch's advice is for your recovery period.
Suunto 9 has all the extras and features that make it a fully outdoor wearable. It has a barometric altimeter that is calibrated on the basis of GPS. There is also a temperature gauge which, it must be said, is only accurate when you are not wearing the watch. As an example, use the watch with the Suunto bike mount, which you can buy separately, when cycling. The watch also has a compass, storm alarm, GPS-tracking with navigation, sunrise and sunset notification, chronometer and a timer that can be set.
All of this means that Suunto 9 is an unrivalled sports watch, and it does not stop at training. The watch is compatible with various external sensors such as a cadence meter or a heart rate belt.
Via the wrist you can also monitor your heart rate 24/7 in a simple and convenient way. This is called optical heart rate. However, it is important to note that you should wear the sports watch according to the guidelines recommended by Suunto in its manual. Surprisingly, a test showed that the measurements of the optical sensor are very accurate. Kudos to Suunto for their integrated optical heart rate sensor developed by Valencell.
Training in heart rate zones as well as training in pace zones is perfectly possible. You can also set your own training goals. During exercise, Suunto 9 uses notification and vibration to indicate that you need to increase or decrease the intensity of your activity. On top of this, it is possible to combine several sports in one activity: think duathlon, triathlon, adventure races ...
Before you start training your specific and, if you wish, personalized sport, you can also switch certain modes on and off. You can choose and let the watch know whether you need for example SuuntoPlus™, intensity zones, your personal goal, navigation, type of lighting, GPS, optical heart rate, external sensors, type of battery mode, auto lap and auto pause.
After putting the watch into use and recording at least 2 activities related to walking and/or running, Suunto 9 will determine your fitness level. It classifies you into one of 6 different levels, it assigns a fitness age and provides an estimate of your VO2max. The more you exercise, the more accurately your personal fitness level is assessed. Of course, your VO2max is very much your own, which leads to an estimate based on an algorithm with various parameters. If you are already very fit, increasing your fitness level will be slower. If you are just starting to exercise regularly, you should see a rapid increase in your fitness level. Assessing your fitness level is one of this watch's many nifty extras.
SuuntoPlus™ is a new feature that came with the latest software update. It is a part of the watch that brings together all the new and exciting features of external apps on your wrist. Suunto have announced that they will introduce even more features in the future. The motivation here is to help athletes improve their performance. The two compatible apps SuuntoPlus™ uses today are Strava and Trainingpeaks.
I personally use SuuntoPlus™ with Strava to monitor my 'Relative Effort' in real time. This gives me a specific insight into the amount of work I put into my activities while I am doing them.
'Relative Effort' provides athletes with a personal measurement based on their heart rate zones, so they can adjust the effort along the way. When you are done, synchronize the activity with Strava and get even greater insight into your training. This way, athletes can dive deep into the performance data, and see how much progress they have made in general. You will also see where you are in your training plan. This is especially meaningful information if you want to achieve supercompensation for a race in such a way that you can plan your workout in the context of responsible and healthy training.
Navigation can essentially take place in two ways, on the one hand as part of an activity, on the other hand in stand-alone mode. Stand-alone mode does not record the activity/track for later analysis. If you choose the first option, the activity will be recorded for later analysis. Whichever option you choose, the principle remains the same in terms of where you can navigate to. This includes POIs (points of interest) and routes you can create or import into the app. It then syncs with your watch and you are ready to go. It's all very handy and easy to use.
It is clear that the Suunto 9 Baro is unique in its field, a fashionable and technically advanced multisport watch with all the characteristics of a true smart wearable. The watch boasts all the capabilities of a top-end outdoor wristwatch and contributes to a healthy lifestyle through its additional tracking capabilities. The watch also includes all of Suunto's classic sport and measurement functions. Even though this gem of innovation does not come cheap, it is most certainly value for money. You are sure to be blown away by the unusual battery strength that can be adjusted before and during an activity depending on the duration of the training. This smart application is unique in its field. This watch is designed for the professional athlete but will also appeal to the recreational sportswoman or sportsman.
As Suunto puts it: this sports watch is "built to last, just like you."
This review was achieved in collaboration with Maaike Van Den Meersschaut,
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Geek Reading July 9, 2015
There is a varied selection of articles today, but I am going to focus on the job and startups. On O'Reilly Radar, there is a very good article about flattening organizations. More importantly, they address the fact that there is always an implicit hierarchy and you need to reconcile that with your organization structure. Mark Suster at… Read More Geek Reading July 9, 2015

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A. After Life for the Righteous: What?B. After Life for the Unrighteous: What?C. Kingdom Matters
After Life for the Righteous: What? Life before Death: God's Ultimate Intention: The Kingdom of Heaven
After Life for the Righteous: What? Life after Death: Hades & Paradise
After Life for the Righteous: What? Life after Life after Death: Resurrection Rewards New Creation
i. Resurrectiona. Jesus' Death Acts 2:31 (NRSV) 31 Foreseeing this, David spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, saying, 'He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh experience corruption.'
b. Jesus' Resurrection Luke 24:36–43 (NIV) 36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." 37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?
39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have." 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.
c. Jesus' Ascension Acts 1:9–11 (NIV) 9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."
So where did Jesus ascend to? 2 Corinthians 12:1–4 (NKJV) The Vision of Paradise It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord: 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— 4 how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Kingdom of • God
d. New Creation Body 1 Corinthians 15:20–26, 35, 42-44, 49–54 20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. 24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
The Resurrection Body 35 But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?" 42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
49 And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven. 50 I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
e. Our Resurrection The first Christians did not simply believe in 'life after death'; they virtually never speak simply of 'going to heaven when they died' and when they do speak of heaven as a post-mortem destination they seem to regard this 'heavenly' life as a temporary stage on the way to the eventual resurrection of the body. 'Paradise' is, rather, the blissful garden where God's people rest prior to the resurrection." (Wright, Surprised By Hope 2007)
Jesus: Presence & Appearing • Appearing (phanerōthē)/comes again (parousia). Colossians 3:4 (NIV) When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
1 John 2:28 (NIV) 28 And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming 1 John 3:2 (NIV) 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Revelation 6:12–17 (NKJV) 12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. 13 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. 14 Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.
15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"
2 Peter 3:10–13 (NIV) 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. 11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be?
You ought to live holy and godly lives 12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. 13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.
f. Judgment Seat 2 Corinthians 5:10 (NIV) 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
Revelation 20:11–15 (NKJV) 11Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.
ii. REWARDS 1 Corinthians 3:10–15 (NIV) 10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw,
13 his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. 14 If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
iii. NEW HEAVENS NEW EARTH Revelation 21:1–5 (NIV) 21Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,
"Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." 5 He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."
Revelation 21:22–27 (NIV84) 22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.
25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Revelation 22:1–7 (NIV84) 22Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations
6 The angel said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place." Jesus Is Coming 7 "Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book."
GOD'S ULTIMATE PURPOSE Ephesians 1:9–10 (NIV) 9 And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10 to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
Romans 8:18–23 (NIV) 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
1 Corinthians 16:22 Marana tha: Come, O Lord
Next week: 4. Life after Death: What?Unrighteous Grave Matters


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Part 1: Primp!
Part 2: Ladies & Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones!
Part 3: Best Coast (and nachos)!!!
Part 1: Primp!
Part 2: Ladies & Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones!
Part 3: Best Coast (and nachos)!!!
Hello, hello!
So, for last week's nacho night, I decided to earn extra hostess-y credit and make dessert. Since I was already turning the oven and stove on for the nachos, I figured, what the hell? Let's get sweaty and then we'll get full.
I've been wanting to try a recipe out of this little, circa 1963 cookbook, found at a thrift up in Cambridge, Minnesota.
It's hard to swing a spatula in a thrift-store book section without whacking a Better Homes & Gardens cookbook. They're everywhere, and usually pretty cheap!
Anyway, back to the dessert. Pineapple Upside-Down Cake is sooooo yummy and as I found, easy to make. (It's filed in the kids-can-make-it section of the cookbook, that's how simple it is!) I love how this beauty basically frosts itself! Here's how to do it…
3 T. butter
1/2 c. brown sugar
4 canned pineapple slices (save pineapple juice from can, too!)
7 maraschino cherries
1 box of yellow cake mix
Step 1: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Melt butter and pour into round, oven-safe cake dish. Blend in sugar with melted butter, pat out evenly.
Step 2: Place one canned pineapple slice in the center, and arrange three halved slices and the cherries around the whole slice. This is the "frosting."
Step 3: Prepare batter according to package directions, but instead of using water, use pineapple juice (add water if there's not enough). Pour batter over fruit.
Step 4: Bake 45 minutes. Cool in pan on rack for 10 minutes. Turn upside down on big serving plate. Cut and serve warm, ideally with vanilla ice cream.
Recipe found in "So-Good Meals," part of the Better Homes & Gardens Creative Cooking Library.
If you give this recipe a try, let me know how it goes!
Happy Wednesday, luvs.
I found this ever-so-helpful tutorial on You Tube today about how to achieve an adorable, summery pin-up style 'do. This gal is too cute, and unlike many beauty (and crochet!) You Tube instructors, she moves at a reasonable pace, i.e. s-l-o-w.
I'm eager to put my thrifted scarves to use this summer, and this is just one more way to rock them. Now that my head's done up like a '40s housewife, where else would I be off to except the kitchen? It's Wednesday, so that means nachos. And giggles. And beers. Tonight's variety: turkey chili with homemade nacho sauce made with real cheese. Nom.
Hey y'all!
I'm so pleased to introduce you, dear readers, to my Blingo-loving buddy, April Swinson. This gal's a ball of sunshine—beautiful, bright and filled to the brim with all kinds of talents. From writing catchy ad copy to crafting ridiculously adorable headbands for her ever-popular Etsy shop, this little lady does everything with an easy wit and generous spirit. Did I mention she whips up out-of-this-world cupcakes on the regular? Because, yeah, she does that, too.
April's no stranger to many of the Twin Cities best thrift store spots, and her always stylish wardrobe includes many a second-hand treasure, including the summery 'fit pictured below.
Shirt, Downtown Minneapolis Salvation Army, $1
Vintage skirt, Tatters Clothing, $12
Seychelles shoes, Minneapolis Downtown Salvation Army, $1.99 [Seychelles for $2!!! SO jealous!]
Vintage purse, Blacklist Vintage, $18
Locket necklace, an adorable antique store in Stillwater, $8
Me: What's your favorite thrift store in town? Why?
April: The Downtown Salvation Army gets me every single time. It's a great stop for clothes, cute, cheap shoes and even old furniture. In terms of vintage stores I'm quite fond of Blacklist Vintage—it's a great place to play dress up and they have, hands down, the best hat and fascinator collection in town. Oh, and I shan't fail to mention that the little ladies that run the place are always so very pleasant and charming. I miss their cozy old location, but their new one will do just fine too, I suppose.
Me: Your house and closet are full of awesome thrifted goodies. What are you top tips for successful thrifting?
April: A. Take your time, don't be afraid to dig and disregard the current context. Much of the time, if I simply see something on the shelf or in a bin, I'm not all that excited about it. I have to think about how something would look either being worn (paired with something I already have in my closet) or on my shelf in my home if I'm looking at housewares, etc. It's easy for things to look dusty, dingy and drab in a thrift store, but part of the fun of thrifting is realizing the potential in old, forgotten or disregarded items.
Me: Do you have a favorite piece of vintage clothing?
April: I have a set of kerchiefs that my grandmother gave me that I simply adore. They are so feminine and proper, but I rarely drop one into my purse because they are so precious to me. Since being the proud owner of said handkerchiefs, I can say confidently that no gal should be without at least one.
Me: What's on your thrifting wish list?
April: I'm not one to swoon over labels and brands, but I've seen not one, but two vintage Coach wallets recently that were purchased by my friends from a thrift store and I've convinced myself that I need one too. An old, pretty brown one with a clasp at the top would be perfect. If you see one anywhere, let me know. [You got it, girl!]
Me: It's summer! What are you excited to do?
April: See ponies! I've only been to Canterbury once, but I'm hooked and I'm really looking forward to going back and betting on the horses with clever names. Admittedly, I know close to nothing about horse racing and have nothing else to go off of. [I was there, and yes, picking the best names was indeed her strategy. I admittedly fared no better, though, betting only on horses from my home state.] I'm also excited to grow a few things of my own. Unfortunately, I don't own a home and my gardening prowess and space is limited, but I purchased a beautiful lettuce and tomato plant a few weeks ago that I'm pretty jazzed about.
Me: Your Tulabaru shop is clean sold out, girl! What are some of the new things you're working on? And please say you'll be restocking soon!
April: Oh, poor Tulabaru. It has been somewhat tossed to the side over the past few months for more important, yet less fun, tasks that life has demanded. But! That's all about to change. There will be new items up for sale on Etsy in no time at all. [Yessss!] A few weeks ago, I picked up some beautiful vintage brooches and lace that I'm really excited to use for hair pins and headbands. I've also been making a lot of big, billowy bows that I'd like to incorporate more. Another goal is to make more items for all of the kiddos out there. Maybe it's just me, but I think every little girl should have a bow, ribbon or headband to wear proudly atop her head.
Isn't she a sweetie? I put together a little slide show so you can take a peek at more pics from our little photo session. Some of the photos stars include Joe (garage owner), Kiki (adorable husky), cops (arresting someone for a DUI) and an awesome 1946 Dodge Ram that I'm utterly gaga over.
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Well, I'm off to spend a couple hours in the company of this very special little gal.
Aaaaand, if that wasn't enough fun for a day, it's Wednesday which means tonight I'll be eating nachos, drinking Pacificos and catching up with a handful of my favorite ladies (minus one, who is hanging out with her Grandpa-in-law-to-be…we'll miss you Jamie!)!!
I <3 nacho night!!!
I hope you all have lovely Wednesdays!
Hey thrifty people!
Spring's put a fresh pep in my step, and I've been taking that energy and started strolling my lil self to work a few days a week. Sure it takes an hour, but it's also really fun. I listen to music, notice new things in my neighborhood (hello yard roosters!) and arrive at work with a healthy dose of exercise under my belt. Win-win-win, in my eyes!
The only not fun part of the whole arrangement is that I sorta hate my backpack. I feel like a high-school freshman fashion don't every time I wear it. It has way, way, way too many pockets and it's a very boring black. Which of course, led me to ask: Do cute backpacks exist? Can you look good with a pack strapped to your back?
It seems like answers to both questions is YES.
I'm drawn to the most simple styles, like these two rucksack-like packs.
This one from Modcloth is right on in terms of simplicity and it's pretty cool that it's made from 100-percent recycled cotton. But, I think it'd be too small to tote everything I need for the day (i.e. laptop, lunch, change of clothes, etc.).
This vintage Boy Scout ditty is also simple and rucksack-y, but again, perhaps too small? I'm not digging the $60 price tag either. There has to be a cheaper similar option found at the surplus store, right?
And last but not least, this colorful knapsack by local knitwear designer Annie Larson is so charming, but for $130, I could buy myself a new bike and ride to work. It is undoubtedly awesome though. Good thing lusting is free.
Anyway, I'm going to keep my eyes peeled thrifting this weekend, and maybe hit up an army surplus store to see what affordable options they have. Do you have any ideas of where to look?
I hope your Cinco de Mayo has treated you all well! I'm trying out a new recipe for nacho night, from a new-to-me food blog, Real Mom Kitchen. I'm skeptical of heated cream cheese, but my fingers are crossed it turns out. Last week's experiment turned out awesome, but you never know. Even if the food sucks, I'm guaranteed a night full of giggles. Cannot wait!!
Hasta luego, lovelies!
P.S. Have you entered the giveaway yet? You have until Thursday night, so hop to it!
Animal Ark Thrift Store
I know, I know, a thrift store in St. Paul? Where the hell is that?? Typically the only things that can get me over that way is a visit with my Auntie Sharyn who lives in Lowertown or a hot date with my honey at Mancini's. This thrift however, has entered into that good company, quickly becoming something else worth crossing the river for. Because, you see, this is a big thrift store that can house some pretty fantastic finds.
Situated at the top of a long hill in the adorably named neighborhood of Swede Hollow, the biggest strength of this place lies in the housewares section. If you're looking to outfit a kitchen, top to bottom, with mostly vintage or quality used stuff, this is where I'd send you. (Big brother are you reading?? Get a colander already dude!) The entire left side of the store is essentially just household goods. Pass by the fancy sets of china displayed out front, there are plenty of deals to be had once you start digging an aisle or two back. There's a lot to look at, so take your time. Some things you can reliably find here: an assortment of old salt and pepper sets, decanters, beautiful cake stands, vintage stemware, kitschy cookbooks and service items, all reasonably priced.
Note: The staff works the Internet to research prices, especially on the china and dishes. It's not unusual to stumble across some pieces that are marked pretty high—whole sets of china for $150, for example—with the eBay summary taped to the shelf underneath.
Moving on…I can't say I know very much about vinyl, but they sure seem to have a lot, and every record is $1. The stacks are stashed in the back room, which also has all the men's clothes, lighting, gardening stuff, some furniture and electronics, all of which they have a healthy selection of.
In terms of clothes, you'll have to go often to score anything remarkable. Some of my favorite things I've picked up here wardrobe-wise are some leather Brazilian-made clogs and this sporty Lee denim jacket I'm in love with. You can rely on variety of costume-y, grandma-like jewelry—think lots of beads, clip-on earrings, cuff bracelets, fake gold, belt buckles, etc. Scarves and hankies are also had aplenty.
The furniture displayed is in good shape with inoffensive, serviceable designs. I'd say it's priced fairly, but not cheaply. A woman working there mentioned a whole 'nother space adjacent to the shop, that's chockful of furniture that you can get escorted to and browse, if furniture is what you're seeking. Of course she told me this on my way out the door, so I can't tell you first-hand what's back over there. Good to know, though, right?
Sale-wise, every time I've visited, art's been 50 percent off. While the majority consists of cheesy prints, I've found some charming crewel and cross-stitched pieces as well as some frames that would be worth shelling out a buck or two for. All brown dishes (covered crocks and company) always seem to be 50 percent off, too. I haven't noticed across-the-board discounts on clothing, but they do put stuff on sale when the seasons change.
The service here is the only things I can complain about, because, it wasn't the best the last time I was there. The lady was curt, and honest to goodness, I felt like I ruined her entire morning by asking her to ring me up. She didn't include part of my purchase, meaning she had to run my card twice. I might as well have kicked her in the shins, it was that painful for her. Everyone has tough days, but c'mon…be nice! She was a volunteer, too, which made her sour 'tude even more inexplicable. It's volunteer work, not work work. Be pumped!
Where does the money raised here go? According to Animal Ark's website, the shop generates approximately $60,000 a year for the shelter, the animals and their care. As Minnesota's largest no-kill shelter, Animal Ark serves more than 1,000 homeless animals every year in their Hastings shelter and through their network of foster homes. The fact that the "rabbits are kept in a luxury bunny suite that includes all the amenities a house rabbit deserves," makes my heart happy. Bunny suites for the house rabbits—for cute's sake! If you're considering adopting a dog or cat (or rabbit, I suppose), I dare you spend a few minutes on their site and not fall head-over-heels in love with one of the many eligible furballs.
To me, they're a worthy organization and I'm 100-percent content to have my thrifting dollars support their mission.
Here are some of my favorite finds from this shop:
Go here to find: Dishes, kitchen utensils, vintage sheets, jewelry, pet supplies, kitschy art, furniture (dining tables, especially)
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Do they take credit cards? Yep! (They also sell pet licenses for St. Paul pooches and kitty cats.)
While you're there: Um, well, let me preface this by saying I know next to nothing about St. Paul, BUT, when Mary and I were there last Saturday, we stopped at Swede Hollow Cafe and dang, everything looked awesome. Half the place was digging into caramel rolls the size of a baby's head, and they also had a decent sammy selection. I had a cubano (fancy term for coffee with milk and brown sugar–news to me, too) and it was sufficiently hot, sugary and caffeinated.
Where it is:809 E. 7th Street, St. Paul
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Contact: 651.772.8983, www.animalarkshelter.org
I've been a bad blogger, and for that, I am sorry. I had a big presentation at work this morning, and it's been taking up a lot of energy. Other things that have been keeping me busy? Early a.m. yoga at the Guthrie, seeing these two bands last night at First Avenue, eating obscene amounts of soul food from this place, research disguised as shopping for the June issue of METRO magazine and as usual, dog walking, chores and a healthy dose of goofing off.
Tonight's plans revolve around putting away some nachos (and a Pacifico or two) with a couple delightful ladies, a weekly tradition I'm fairly obsessed with. I'm trying a shrimp nacho recipe—I could eat both nachos and shrimps everyday of my life and be happy, but I'm not 100-percent sure I'll love them together. [Update: I totally did! These turned out super yummy.] If I can manage to avoid splashing any more pineapple juice onto my just-washed bangs like I did a minute ago, we should be in OK shape. Back to the kitchen I go…


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Supreme Court Refuses to Address Partisan GerrymanderingComments
I should have known better than to be optimistic about Kennedy based on the oral arguments:
The Supreme Court declined on Monday to decide two challenges to partisan gerrymandering, citing technical grounds.
In a case from Wisconsin, the court said plaintiffs there had not proved they had suffered the sort of direct injury to give them standing to sue. The court sent the case back to the lower courts to allow the plaintiffs to try again.
In a second case, from Maryland, the court ruled against the challengers in an unsigned opinion.
The decisions were a setback for critics of partisan gerrymandering, who had hoped that the Supreme Court would decide the cases on their merits and rule in their favor, transforming American democracy by subjecting to close judicial scrutiny oddly shaped districts that amplify one party's political power.
As Jack Balkin has written:
Standing doctrine is among the most unprincipled and arbitrary parts of American constitutional law. The Supreme Court has expanded and contracted standing requirements repeatedly over the years in order to accommodate cases that a majority of Justices want to hear or would rather shut down.
The argument that the plaintiffs lack standing is not at all convincing, but the Court's four liberal nominees presumably went along because denying standing is better than rejecting the claim on the merits. Kagan's concurrence, which convincingly explains why partisan gerrymandering with modern technology is a disaster for democracy, tries to be optimistic:
Kagan: "the federal courts will not tolerate partisan gerrymandering for long." Republican judges: "just watch us."


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He reviews marriage and the life of women, the human figure, festivals, theatre, dances, games and meals, religion and the erotic, greek literature, prostitution and the services provided by the Hetairaea and the position of male homosexuality in Greek life/5.
Han's Licht's "Sexual Life in Ancient Greece" provides a fascinating account of ancient Greek society with a focus on sexuality.
Exploring many different aspects of daily life from marriage customs and clothing to festivals and beauty contests, it offers a fantastic overview of Greek society and ideals not to be missed by those with an interest.
He explains that because the Greeks envisioned highly erotic gods sexuality was not considered shameful, as it is by today's moral codes, which are based in Christianity. A comprehensive work, Sexual Life in Ancient Greece covers issues including castration, excrement, obscenities, and traditions surrounding childbirth.
Book tells it straight about sex lives of ancient Greeks one of the hottest reads in Greece. The book, Love, Sex and Marriage: A Guide to the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks, has become a.
From Ancient Greece, modern Western civilisation has derived many of its artistic philosophical and political ideals. But, in certain areas of sexual tolerance and inventiveness, we still have much to learn from the land and age which produced the most flourishing and creative culture of the ancient world.
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"Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians had erotic preferences and sexual taboos we've seldom heard about," says California author and historical detective Vicki León in her new book The Joy.
Aug 14, · The images that follow present just a few of these sexual curiosities in Ancient Greece - sometimes satirical, sometimes familiar, and often strange. J.C.
McKeown is the author of the new book The Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts From the Cradle of Western Civilization (Oxford University Press). Sexual Life in Ancient China is quite an interesting read given that it was written in the 's when most existing literature on China was in the "orientalist" school, which was dominated by Western academics who argued about the meanings of words and were often quite conservative, chastising "the East" for being backward, non-Western, etc /5.
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Pederasty in ancient Greece was a socially acknowledged romantic relationship between an adult male (the erastes) and a younger male (the eromenos) usually in his teens. It was characteristic of the Archaic and Classical periods. The influence of pederasty on Greek culture of these periods was so pervasive that it has been called "the principal cultural model for free relationships between.
To the causal observer, it seems the ancients were more open about their sexuality then we are today. In ancient Rome there were artworks in living rooms or studies depicting erotic images of lovers performing various sexual acts and in ancient Mesopotamia mass-produced terracotta plagues would show couples having sex.
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By The Food Tease on March 30, 2015
Some people revel and dream about meeting their favorite Hollywood actor or their number one sports hero let alone a Grammy winning band. Mine was meeting and hearing the words of wisdom from the legend himself…being face to face with one of my culinary sources of inspiration – Joan Roca!!
Joan Roca, chef of the famed restaurant El Celler de Can Roca, is considered to be one of the best chefs in the world, with three Michelin stars and countless other awards under his belt including having his restaurant be chosen as the World's Top Restaurant in 2013 by Restaurant Magazine.
Thanks to The Wine and Food Festival, I was about to hear Joan talk about his culinary vision and the work that him and his brothers do – What a marvel it was being in the presence of this culinary icon who remains humble sharing his spot at the 'pinnacle of culinary success' with his younger brothers at their restaurant El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain.
Brothers Joan and Josep opened El Celler de Can Roca in 1986 alongside their parents' simple restaurant in a working class suburb of Girona. In 2007 they relocated to the current premises up the road. By then Joan, a hugely accomplished chef, and wine aficionado Josep had been joined by their much younger sibling Jordi, who was forging his own stellar career as a pastry chef. The combination has proved to be a gastronomic holy trinity! The union of the three brothers, each a master of his art (executive chef, pastry chef, front of house and sommelier), would underpin El Celler's future success.
Right from the start of the press conference, there was already a huge buzz – the anticipation of Joan's presence to the stage. In stellar form, as Joan was introduced the press audience (myself included) cheered as he took the podium. Such presence his stature commanded – not in an egotistical manner but one out of respect. It's only fair to mention that I was feverishly writing these notes as I listened to the translator through my overtly 80's style sized headphones all the while being hypnotized by Roca's presence. I had to focus on the task at hand and plug at it.
Joan didn't waste any time talking about what matters the most to him – family and food and how they are intertwined, especially since even to this day Joan makes it a point to have breakfast, lunch and dinner almost everyday at his parents house. Which funny and sweet enough is located a couple hundred metres from the brother's existing famed restaurant. Joan emphasized that "culinary arts around the world are all interconnected". That modern cooking must have roots, be able to perceive where you are cooking, that it has to be fun and more importantly that it has to nourish your creativity.
Being asked what was one of the 'perks' of being the best in the world, Joan smiled and with that – a huge roar of applause overtook the room! Once the room was silent, Joan explained that he has seen a new order of cooks. Joan mentioned that we (society), are so used to using the Michelin rating for evaluating chefs, however; in the last 10 years he has seen a change. A change where there are more and more rankings that the public wants to see and see very quickly.
From a 3 Michelin star chef, he said that these rankings need to be taken with a grain of salt. "What matters most is that our customers leave happy and want to come back, regardless of whether the restaurant is number one, two, three or fifty, or whether we have three stars or two. We need to take responsibility and apply an ethical code, an awareness with your surrounding as it provides awareness to that region. By doing so, farmers and small producers and everything else that brings value to that area will then be recognized".
Having brothers who are masters in their own respected field, has led the Roca brothers to fulfill their goal and make their dreams come true by having a creativity centre at the front of their restaurant.
While local products are essential at El Celler de Can Roca, the brothers also finds it important to travel for inspiration, getting techniques from different cultures and bringing those techniques back to use with their local ingredients.
The Roca brothers are not foreign to using and developing their own kitchen gadgets and tools to perfect their skills and bring food to another level. Listed below are some of the techniques that the Roca brothers have utilized in their restaurant:
Joan discussed how his kitchen is dedicated to alchemy, herbology, distillation and fermentation. He also mentioned that there was significant research done at the restaurant for discovering the right cooking techniques to evoke moods…something I have never heard of before.
Everything that they serve is meant to touch on one or more of the following: tradition, memory, academia, product, landscape, wine, sweet, chromatism, transversal creation, perfume, freedom, innovation, poetry, boldness, magic, sense of humor. At the core, they seem to focus on a combination of product ("We are lucky to come from a region that has produce of a high quality, and we have a very deep and rooted gastronomic tradition in our region," said Roca); innovation (using interesting gadgets and technology, some of which they invent themselves); and both memory and tradition (seeking inspiration from traditional Catalan cuisine and from their parents and childhood).
For a restaurant that is revered as one of the best, it has unfortunately (but understandably) an 11 month waiting list for reservations. I for one feel that it would be a privileged honor to have dinner at this remarkable establishment and see for myself the creative forces at work and their masterpieces that will no doubt evoke emotions as I consume them.
I will leave you with a quote that Joan said in reference to his style of cooking and how emotions will play an important role that left me thinking about this creative genius…"Awaken the innocence of memories without forgetting the past."
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Slick Can Play
Slick can play. That's the first thing to know about Slick. Slick can play. Slick is Whitey Herzog's nickname for Andy Van Slyke, formerly one of Herzog's St. Louis Cardinals, now the estimable 28-year-old centerfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates. One would assume that Herzog, the Cardinals' manager, called him Slick with good reason. Van Slyke's wife, Lauri, knows plenty of good reasons. "So cocky, so cool and arrogant, so full of pride," she says.
From across the kitchen table at the Van Slyke home in Chesterfield, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, Slick curls up the corners of his mouth like the Cheshire cat, or the Vicomte de Valmont, or Nuke LaLoosh. He raises one eyebrow in agreement.
"Yes," he says to her. "If you don't think that way, great things will never happen to you."
Lauri already knows this. She and Andy have been together for, what is it now, 12 years? They have three sons—A.J., Scott and Jared, the baby. Jared came in with the New Year, and on this afternoon he's being held securely in Van Slyke's strong hands. Jared wouldn't be any safer with Allstate. Slick has great hands. "And wheels, arm strength and power," he says. "Yep. Was God-gifted with the tools."
True. Slick can play the outfield. And what Slick does best is go get it. In 1988 he led National League outfielders in putouts (406) and total chances (422) and was fifth in fielding percentage (.991). He had 12 assists and only four errors in 152 games in centerfield. Two plays from last year will tell you about Van Slyke's season. Against the Cardinals in their home opener, he raced in to shallow center, dived flat out and stole a sure hit from Vince Coleman. During the last week of the regular season, in Pittsburgh, with one out in the top of the ninth and the Pirates leading 3-2 and needing to beat the Cardinals to clinch second place in the National League East, St. Louis second baseman Luis Alicea lifted a fly to centerfield. Jose Oquendo tagged at third. Slick moved back a few steps, ran in with an educated, ballplayer's stutter-step, caught the ball and threw Oquendo out at the plate for the double play.
Watching with special interest from the dugout on both those plays was Herzog, who knew as well as anyone that Van Slyke, as he trotted off the field after that final out of that final-week victory, was carrying some fabulous stats in his pocket, stats that at season's end would read: .288 batting average, 25 home runs, 15 triples, 100 RBIs, 101 runs and, for good measure, 30 steals.
"With Andy Van Slyke, what you see is what you get. He'll never be more than a .270 hitter with 60 or 70 RBIs."
—Whitey Herzog, 1986
Slick can play. Slick can play just about anything. The first time he went bowling, Van Slyke rolled a 200. He had a 36-inch vertical jump at age 17 and can still shoot the eyes out of the basket. At 6'2", he can dunk with authority. He plays golf four or five times a year and the last time out shot an 84. He picked up racquetball in two minutes, and you don't want to see him on the tennis court if you've got an ego to preserve. Slick would probably be a whiz at Nintendo, but he lets A.J. take care of that. "I can get the princess in Super Mario Brothers," says A.J. evenly. No doubt. A.J. is five years old.
Like son, like father. Ask the mother. Andy met Lauri nearly 12 years ago, when he was playing summer league basketball games in Utica, N.Y. Lauri Griffiths was a local beauty who had come to a game to meet Ron Evans, a young man who just happened to be Van Slyke's biggest athletic rival. "I threw in five long jumpers in a row," says Slick. "Lauri yawned. She looked the other way." After the game Andy walked straight up to Lauri and asked her for some gum—"Actually, I asked for some of her Juicy Fruit," he says. She turned and left. That night Andy found her and told her that she was going to a Doobie Brothers concert with him—and told her to inform her parents. The 16-year-old Van Slyke didn't have a driver's license. He drove anyway. What is it Lauri says now? "So cocky, so cool and arrogant...."
And why not? Last season Van Slyke won a Gold Glove and was named an All-Star outfielder in the National League, meaning that for one season he was judged a better centerfielder than Eric Davis of the Cincinnati Reds. Read that sentence again in 10 years. Slick understands. "Oh, I think Eric is on another level," he says. "It's just a matter of experience and concentration level, which will come for Eric."
"Eric Davis is an unbelievable baseball player," says Pirate manager Jim Leyland. "And Kirk Gibson was incredible last year. But the best all-around performance in the National League last year came from Andy Van Slyke."
"Andy Van Slyke is a throwback to the old-fashioned player," says Syd Thrift, former Pirate general manager and the man who brought Slick to Pittsburgh. "Just a bear-down, clutch player. There's no stat for runners held—runners that don't dare try to run on him. And when he's the runner, he goes from home to third better than anyone in the National League. He takes pregame outfield practice even in 100° August heat. You know anybody else who does that? Then he makes it all look so easy."
Which is not to say that he'll ease up. "That Gold Glove is the only trophy of mine you'll see out," says Van Slyke. "I can get better. I will get better."
"All that's left for him to do is to hit lefthanded pitching just a little bit better," says Leyland. "Some guys' athletic ability won't allow them to do it. But time does it when you're talking about an athlete like Andy Van Slyke. Time and hard work. He'll do it. No doubt in my mind. He'll do it."
"Slick, when you go home, that's as close as you 're gonna get to the Hall of Fame."
—Whitey Herzog, 1983
Slick grew up as Andy, in New Hartford, N.Y., just outside Utica, 30 miles as the crow flies from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Andy was younger brother to Matt, older brother to Patrice and Mary, and the son of Ginny and Jim Van Slyke.
On winter days Andy and Matt would play basketball with two balls—one of the balls was kept in the house to stay warm so that when the other one got too cold to bounce well, the boys wouldn't have to stop playing. "The competition between Matt and Andy was always very keen," says Jim, 59. "And I always thought Matt was even a better athlete than Andy."
"My father is a scholar," says Andy. "He wasn't all that much on ballplaying, as I remember." Indeed, asked when the ambidextrous Andy (throws right, eats left, writes right, golfs both ways) became a lefthanded hitter, Jim says. "God only knows. I don't." Jim is a Colgate man, a former principal, first for six years at Perry Junior High, then at New Hartford High until 1985. One need not ask where the Van Slyke children matriculated during this time. Jim is now the town justice of New Hartford.
"So Andy doesn't think I was much of an athlete, does he?" asks Jim. In fact, the elder Van Slyke had been a pitcher, once upon a time, good enough to be offered contracts by both the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians. He preferred instead to take a scholarship to Colgate. "To tell you the truth, I guess I was just chicken," says Jim. "My older brother Bill had thrown his arm out in Class D ball. So I don't think I had the confidence. And that's what you need if you're going to play ball."
Andy, the principal's son, never had confidence when it came to school. Even now he says, "I liked school. I liked it closed." There were reasons for his disaffection. As a two-year-old, he had an ear infection so severe it caused a partial hearing loss in his right ear. On top of that, Andy had dyslexia, a reading disorder. But his father was the principal. "My father was a very strong disciplinarian," says Andy. "I remember once I got into a fight with this guy, and after I beat him up, I got suspended and the other kid didn't." Says Jim, "He had to know the rules."
Playing ball was Andy's salvation. "Oh, I could see that Andy could play," says Jim. So could Andy. "Oh, my head was big," he says. "All I had to do was show up. Practice? Practice for what?" Andy was a catcher. No one ran on New Hartford High. As a sophomore he hit .430, and the scouts were around from then on. "I thought I was the greatest thing in the world," says Van Slyke. And then one day, at the start of Andy's senior season, the baseball coach, Mike Callan, called him into his office. Callan, a mild-mannered man, was holding a fungo bat. "He just shattered the table in his office with his bat," says Van Slyke. "He used a lot of choice four-letter words. He told me to clean up my act or I'd be kicked off the team. He said that I had a chance not many have. He said I could be a major leaguer. Trouble was, after he told me that, my head swelled up like a balloon."
Still, at the end of Andy's senior year, the Cardinals made him the sixth draft pick in the country. "I viewed it as the sixth draft pick in the entire world," says Van Slyke. The next day he broke his wrist on a freak play at first base in New Hartford High's last game of the season. Jim, who had always had his doubts about baseball as a livelihood, took this as a bad omen.
"Gosh, Ginny and I used to have shouting matches about it," says Jim. "I'd say, 'Gin, he's not going to make it,' and, boy, would she get mad. She'd scream at me, 'Damn you, he is too going to make it! Haven't you got eyes?' "
The way Andy saw it, being a ballplayer would at the very least preclude the need for schooling. He enrolled instead in the College of the St. Louis Cardinals and was shipped to Gastonia of the South Atlantic League in 1980. But he already had big league written all over him. When baseball people said he played the field like DiMaggio, he shrugged. For all he knew, maybe he did. Meanwhile, his off-the-field style was hardly so restrained. "The independence I was seeking was destroying me," says Van Slyke. "I saw too many sunrises." Not only did he close his share of bars but also, a la Bull Durham, he and a few of his teammates actually did hose down the field one night after a bender, in hopes of getting out of a day game. Gastonia played the next day anyway. "The manager made us squeegee the field," says Slick.
Whether in right or center or at third base—"I still think I could have made the big leagues as a catcher," he says—a player like Van Slyke wasn't long for Gastonia. "And thank goodness," says Lauri. Van Slyke moved up to St. Pete in 1981, to Arkansas in '82 and then spent just two months with the AAA Louisville Redbirds in '83. He was hitting .368 when he was called to the head of the class, on the same day the Cardinals traded Keith Hernandez to the New York Mets.
In a pregame introduction on an NBC Game of the Week in 1983, the fresh-out-of-the-minors Van Slyke was introduced by Joe Garagiola as the next Stan Musial. As soon as they went off the air, Slick turned around and pointed to his back. "Look Joe," he said, "it says Van Slyke back there."
But Herzog made his opinion clear from the start: When Slick played rightfield, he was the best rightfielder in the National League. But he didn't play against lefthanded pitching. "I guess I couldn't live up to Whitey's expectations of me," says Van Slyke. "I questioned his judgment in playing Tito Landrum ahead of me [against lefthanders]. But then I thought, Hey, he's Whitey Herzog. I began to doubt me."
Van Slyke says he has never worked harder than he did during the 1986 off-season. "I was possessed," he says. "I knew I'd get there. The second half of the '86 season, I hit .310. Then to be traded....
"On April Fools' Day [1987], Whitey called me in, and I knew, man. I knew. Whitey didn't look me in the eyes that day. He said, 'Slick, you probably know.' Then he said, I appreciate what you did,' and all that stuff, but that meant nothing to me at the time. So much of that loyalty rah-rah stuff was destroyed when I was traded. I called Lauri, and she didn't believe it. She thought it was an April Fools' joke. When I got home, she was bawling. We loved it in St. Louis. We had made friends outside of baseball, and we loved that. But handing the job to Jim Lindeman over me...No, I never understood that."
"Leaving the Cardinals was hard for Andy," says Lauri. "In his heart, he'll always be a Cardinal. Always."
But a Pirate is what he became. Thrift had had his eye on Van Slyke for a while. "Willie McGee had been hurt and Van Slyke was playing center for Whitey," says Thrift. "That's when I saw him and I knew. It's geometric, playing center. You have to know the proper angles. He never wasted a step. I watched him and couldn't believe it. So we worked the deal [Van Slyke, catcher Mike LaValliere and pitcher Mike Dunne for catcher Tony Pena]. I think Van Slyke is a better hitter, a better all-around player when he's playing centerfield."
"You have to concentrate all game. Every day," says Van Slyke. "That didn't happen to me until I became a Pirate. The reason is Jim Leyland." Leyland and Thrift persuaded Barry Bonds to move to left so Van Slyke could play center. "I've got a lot of that confidence back now," says Van Slyke. "You can't be tentative at this level. I want to be the man. I'll never doubt myself again."
"Andy Van Slyke should have been Most Valuable Player in the National League last year."
—Whitey Herzog, 1989
If you took 30 years and several inches of waistline off Herzog and darkened his flattop a tad, you would be looking at a dead ringer for Van Slyke. Herzog the manager has one of the finest eyes for talent in the game; Herzog the player was a borderline major leaguer, a player who looked as though he would hit better than he ever did. And he was a centerfielder. This was the scouting report on centerfielder Herzog: good defensive outfielder, good speed, great hands, barely adequate as a hitter. Could it be that when Herzog watched Andy Van Slyke, he saw Whitey Herzog? "I was a good defensive player maybe," says Herzog, "but I never was no Andy Van Slyke. Never."
After Slick arrived in Pittsburgh, he told his father that Leyland had talked more to him in a week than Herzog had in four years. That was the way Slick saw it then. "Now I can appreciate how much I had learned about the game. I have great respect for Whitey Herzog," says Van Slyke, who's wearing a Whitey Herzog T-shirt.
"Andy Van Slyke is a helluva player and a helluva person," says Herzog. "I suppose we kept expecting more than he was ready to give, and we just ran out of patience."
Van Slyke and the Pirates haggled over contract lockout language before he finally signed on Feb. 18 of this year—a $5.5 million deal for three years. They should be the finest three years of his career. And maybe, just maybe, he and Lauri will move out from under Herzog's considerable shadow and leave St. Louis behind. Why did they stay there so long anyway? "The schools," says Slick. "The principal here is an outstanding man. That's important. Believe me, I know."
Van Slyke has donated two pitching machines to Maryville College, just 10 minutes from his house. He doesn't like to say he donated the machines since he uses them more than anybody. He grabs a bat, stands in, thinks Tudor, thinks Fernando, and hits 150 simulated lefthanded pitches in a row. Once he hits lefthanded pitching, there won't be anything in baseball that Slick can't do. He just can't do it for the Cardinals.
The Pirates don't usually call Van Slyke Slick. Instead, because of his intense nature, they've taken to calling him Norman, as in Bates. But the Pirates know one thing, even if it doesn't have quite the same ring to it: Norman can play.


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Reuters reports after CNBC that Tesla cut contractors from the Tesla Factory in Fremont, California and the Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada, which both suspended production in late March (see details here and here). There is no word about the Tesla Gigafactory 2 in New York, which also suspended production.
The unofficial report says "hundreds of workers", which probably means that Tesla is trying to limit costs, starting with the external workforce. That's not surprising if there plan for restarting production soon.
""It is with my deepest regret that I must inform you that the Tesla factory shutdown has been extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as a result, Tesla has requested to end all contract assignments effective immediately," Balance Staffing, a workforce management company, said in a memo sighted by CNBC."
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Hopefully, Tesla will come out of the crisis unscathed. The company delivered 367,656 cars in 2019, and 88,400 in Q1 2020.
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Memphis City Jail inmate lookup: Bond, Offense Date, Bookings, Inmate Roster, Who's in jail, Arrests, Release Date, Court, Mugshots, Arrest Date, Booking Date, Bail Amount.
Memphis City Jail is a medium security detention center for adult inmates that is locally operated by the Memphis City Police Department. This facility serves the city of Memphis and the surrounding area.
The Memphis City Jail houses inmates that have been convicted of crimes and serving a sentence that is 12 months or less as well as those who are still awaiting trial. Inmates that are sentenced for more than 12 months are transferred to a federal or state prison.
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In order to keep everyone safe and secure the Memphis City Jail staff inspects all incoming and outgoing mail. Please refrain from sending any contraband in the mail.
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Keep in mind that all mail is opened under the supervision of a jail staff member.
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Aims To investigate the expression of epithelial cell transforming sequence 2 (ECT2) in invasive breast cancer and its prognostic significance.
Methods ECT2 immunohistochemical detection was performed in 165 breast cancer specimens and 100 normal control tissues. Univariable and multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression model analysis was used to confirm independent prognostic factors. The PHREG procedure linear hypotheses testing method was used to analyse survival data.
Results Expression of ECT2 in breast cancer was significantly higher than that of the normal control group (p<0.001), and it was related to tumour grade, the status of lymph node metastasis, TNM staging, recurrence status, menopausal status, and the Ki-67 proliferation index (p<0.05), and not related to age, tumour size, tumour type, expression of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor 2, and triple-negative disease (p>0.05). Univariable analysis showed that expression of ECT2, the status of lymph node metastasis, triple-negative disease and Ki-67 proliferation index were related to the overall survival of patients with breast cancer (p<0.001, p=0.006, p=0.001, p=0.041, respectively). PHREG procedure linear hypotheses testing results for overall survival revealed that high expression of ECT2, lymph node metastasis, triple-negative disease and high Ki-67 proliferation index predicted lower overall survival rates. Multivariable Cox regression indicated that high expression of ECT2 and triple-negative disease were independent prognostic factors for patients with breast cancer (p<0.001, p=0.004, respectively).
Conclusions Expression of ECT2 may be one of the main causes of the occurrence and development of breast cancer, and high expression of ECT2 as an independent prognostic factor predicts a poor prognosis. ECT2 could also be a potential molecular target for designing therapeutic strategies for breast cancer.
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In Ghana, more than half a million primary school age children are not enrolled in school, largely because their parents are unable to pay for the uniform and school supplies necessary to maintain even the most basic level of education (UNICEF). To make matters worse, education beyond junior high school (J.H.S) is out of the reach of most students in rural communities, where no free secondary education exists.
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