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Wikipedia reports, "A nymph (Greek: νύμφη, nymphē) in Greek mythology and in Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek polis. They are believed to dwell in mountains and groves, by springs and rivers, and also in trees and in valleys and cool grottoes." And in sea caves! - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymph
New JOHHNY RANGER MCCOY Instagram! instagram.com/45surf
Welcome to your epic hero's journey! The beautiful 45surf goddess hath called ye to adventure, beckoning ye to read deeply Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, whence ye shall learn of yer own exalted artistic path guided by Hero's Journey Mythology. I wouldn't be saying it if it hadn't happened to me.
PRETTY! Canon 5D Mark II Photos of Beautiful Blonde Swimsuit Bikini (Green One Piece Swimsuit!) Model Goddess with Pretty Blue Eyes in a Sea Cave !
Some video of the goddess:
She was tall, thin, fit, and very pretty with long, blonde hair and blue eyes! From Sweden!
The Canon EOS 5D Mark II EF 24-105/4L IS USM was my workhorse until I got the Nikon D800 & D800E with the 70-200 mm 2.8 VR2 zoom.
Canon, Nikon, you can't go wrong with the pretty 45surf model goddesses! (Though the D800 is my new love.)
May the goddess inspire ye along a hero's journey of yer own making, and the path of yer own taking.
Was a classic socal autumn morning with a bright, blue, sunny sky! Hope the photos make you feel like you were there! :)
May the HJM Goddesses guide, inspire, and exalt ye along yer heroic artistic journey!
Shot in both RAW & JPEG, but all these photos are RAWs finished in Lightroom 5.3 ! :)
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A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess guards the beauty of dx4/dt=ic and embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic journey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.
A Gold 45 Goddess guards the wisdom of dx4/dt=ic -- my physics theory which appears on all the 45surf clothes. Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! :) You can read more about my research and Hero's Journey Physics here:
herosjourneyphysics.wordpress.com/ MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic--the foundational equation of all time and motion which is on all the shirts and swimsuits. Every photon that hits my Nikon D800e's sensor does it by surfing the fourth expanding dimension, which is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic!
May the Hero's Journey Mythology Goddess inspire you (as they have inspired me!) along your own artistic journey! All the Best on Your Epic Hero's Journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy! Catch those photons as they surf the fourth expanding dimension!
Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of Captain George S. Nares ...
Edinburgh :Neill,1880-1895.
Wallpaper realizado con Photoshop al estilo minority report. Tutorial www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRC3ncq52No
We have partnered with the Fair Labor Association to map the cocoa supply chain in order to prevent the use of child labour in cocoa-growing areas in Côte d'Ivoire.
Wikipedia reports, "A nymph (Greek: νύμφη, nymphē) in Greek mythology and in Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek polis. They are believed to dwell in mountains and groves, by springs and rivers, and also in trees and in valleys and cool grottoes." And in sea caves! - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymph
New JOHHNY RANGER MCCOY Instagram! instagram.com/45surf
Welcome to your epic hero's journey! The beautiful 45surf goddess hath called ye to adventure, beckoning ye to read deeply Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, whence ye shall learn of yer own exalted artistic path guided by Hero's Journey Mythology. I wouldn't be saying it if it hadn't happened to me.
PRETTY! Canon 5D Mark II Photos of Beautiful Blonde Swimsuit Bikini (Green One Piece Swimsuit!) Model Goddess with Pretty Blue Eyes in a Sea Cave !
Some video of the goddess:
She was tall, thin, fit, and very pretty with long, blonde hair and blue eyes! From Sweden!
The Canon EOS 5D Mark II EF 24-105/4L IS USM was my workhorse until I got the Nikon D800 & D800E with the 70-200 mm 2.8 VR2 zoom.
Canon, Nikon, you can't go wrong with the pretty 45surf model goddesses! (Though the D800 is my new love.)
May the goddess inspire ye along a hero's journey of yer own making, and the path of yer own taking.
Was a classic socal autumn morning with a bright, blue, sunny sky! Hope the photos make you feel like you were there! :)
May the HJM Goddesses guide, inspire, and exalt ye along yer heroic artistic journey!
Shot in both RAW & JPEG, but all these photos are RAWs finished in Lightroom 5.3 ! :)
New Instagram! instagram.com/45surf
Join/like my facebook page! www.facebook.com/45surfHerosJourneyMythology
Follow me on facebook! facebook.com/elliot.mcgucken
A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess guards the beauty of dx4/dt=ic and embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic journey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.
A Gold 45 Goddess guards the wisdom of dx4/dt=ic -- my physics theory which appears on all the 45surf clothes. Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! :) You can read more about my research and Hero's Journey Physics here:
herosjourneyphysics.wordpress.com/ MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic--the foundational equation of all time and motion which is on all the shirts and swimsuits. Every photon that hits my Nikon D800e's sensor does it by surfing the fourth expanding dimension, which is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic!
May the Hero's Journey Mythology Goddess inspire you (as they have inspired me!) along your own artistic journey! All the Best on Your Epic Hero's Journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy! Catch those photons as they surf the fourth expanding dimension!
Chocolate cake made using Nestlé Dessert chocolate, the leader in the baking chocolate segment in France for more than 40 years.
Wikipedia reports, "A nymph (Greek: νύμφη, nymphē) in Greek mythology and in Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek polis. They are believed to dwell in mountains and groves, by springs and rivers, and also in trees and in valleys and cool grottoes." And in sea caves! - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymph
New JOHHNY RANGER MCCOY Instagram! instagram.com/45surf
Welcome to your epic hero's journey! The beautiful 45surf goddess hath called ye to adventure, beckoning ye to read deeply Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, whence ye shall learn of yer own exalted artistic path guided by Hero's Journey Mythology. I wouldn't be saying it if it hadn't happened to me.
PRETTY! Canon 5D Mark II Photos of Beautiful Blonde Swimsuit Bikini (Green One Piece Swimsuit!) Model Goddess with Pretty Blue Eyes in a Sea Cave !
Some video of the goddess:
She was tall, thin, fit, and very pretty with long, blonde hair and blue eyes! From Sweden!
The Canon EOS 5D Mark II EF 24-105/4L IS USM was my workhorse until I got the Nikon D800 & D800E with the 70-200 mm 2.8 VR2 zoom.
Canon, Nikon, you can't go wrong with the pretty 45surf model goddesses! (Though the D800 is my new love.)
May the goddess inspire ye along a hero's journey of yer own making, and the path of yer own taking.
Was a classic socal autumn morning with a bright, blue, sunny sky! Hope the photos make you feel like you were there! :)
May the HJM Goddesses guide, inspire, and exalt ye along yer heroic artistic journey!
Shot in both RAW & JPEG, but all these photos are RAWs finished in Lightroom 5.3 ! :)
New Instagram! instagram.com/45surf
Join/like my facebook page! www.facebook.com/45surfHerosJourneyMythology
Follow me on facebook! facebook.com/elliot.mcgucken
A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess guards the beauty of dx4/dt=ic and embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic journey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.
A Gold 45 Goddess guards the wisdom of dx4/dt=ic -- my physics theory which appears on all the 45surf clothes. Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! :) You can read more about my research and Hero's Journey Physics here:
herosjourneyphysics.wordpress.com/ MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic--the foundational equation of all time and motion which is on all the shirts and swimsuits. Every photon that hits my Nikon D800e's sensor does it by surfing the fourth expanding dimension, which is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic!
May the Hero's Journey Mythology Goddess inspire you (as they have inspired me!) along your own artistic journey! All the Best on Your Epic Hero's Journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy! Catch those photons as they surf the fourth expanding dimension!
We awarded the Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value to Fundación Paraguaya for its 'Self Sufficient Agricultural School' model. This rural development programme in Paraguay gives high school students in rural communities the entrepreneurial and practical skills they need to lift themselves out of poverty.
We have entered a partnership with the International Diabetes Federation to promote diabetes prevention and to raise awareness of the disease worldwide.
Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report team were invited to come out and see the awesome Swag Bag that Distinctive Assets put together to take the sting out of not getting an Oscar at this years 86th Academy Awards. From fashion to luxury accommodations and chocolate, they thought of everything one would need to feel better about being nominated but not getting an Oscar this year.
The 2014 Distinctive Assets “Everybody Wins” Swag Bag valued at over $80,000!
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Chocolate soothes all wounds, so these talented nominees will be served exquisitely savory wine-infused chocolate from Chicago-based Chocolatines. In the spirit of gifts that give back, a 10,000 meal donation of Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres' Halo natural pet food to the animal shelter of their choice through Halo's partnership with Freekibble.com. Additionally, nominees like Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Leonardo DiCaprio will enjoy Hydroxycut Gummies + Lean Protein Shakes + Protein Bars, innovative Swiss-made Slow Watches, Betty Jane Homemade Candies, Acure Organics cutting-edge skincare, Jan Lewis Designs bangle bracelets + silk neckties, 2011 California Cabernet from Cannonball Wine Company, Narrative Clip wearable automatic camera + app, PolarLoop activity tracker, Bee Free Honee made from US-grown organic apples, Blossom Blends bespoke teas, MACE pepper gun, fine art from Gizara Arts, Jitseu Handbags, the LOADED book series, Steamist Total Sense Home Spa System, Aviv 613 luxury vodka, Wrag Wrap luxury sustainable gift wrap, Dosha Pops, VETVIK “The Covert” luxury leather iPhone5 cases, HISY Bluetooth camera shutter remote for Apple devices, Mane ‘n Tail haircare plus Conceived by Nature styling products, The Green Garmento Gargantote + reuseable dry cleaning bag, Le Petit Cirque aerial lessons, Naked Luxury Condoms, Epic Pet Health electrolyte therapy, M3K Beauty products for exceptionally vibrant skin, DrainWig, acupuncture sessions with Heather Lounsbury, personal training sessions at Huntley Drive Fitness, Rouge Maple “best maple syrup you’ve ever tasted”, Slimware portion-control plates, °Coolway “no damage” Go Pro Blow Dryer, Simon’s Happy Pet Shampoo, Wonder Glow Organic Lipgloss from Makeup Studio by Diane Capt, lifetime subscription to Headspace.com, CherryT Knit & Co. cable knit mittens, Krystal Klear Water whole house water filtration system, the O-Shot procedure by Dr. Charles Runels, ARTAS Robotic Hair Transplant System performed by Dr. William Yates, Max Martin luxury American-made shoes, and deluxe vacation packages to the Canadian Rockies (Rocky Mountaineer), Hawaii (Koloa Landing Resort), Las Vegas (PR Plus), Mexico (Imanta Resorts) and Japan (Walk Japan).
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Mingle Media TV and Red Carpet Report host, Paige Sullivan, were invited to cover the 2013 Do Something Awards (#DSAwards) hosted by actress Sophia Bush along with celebrity presenters Malin Akerman, Lucy Hale, Cynthia Nixon, Russell Simmons and Aisha Tyler. This year’s high-energy show is honoring celebrities Patrick Dempsey, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jennifer Hudson, LL COOL J and Kelly Osbourne for being amazing social change leaders, along with five “do-gooders,” 25 and under, who are in the trenches, creating substantial change in our world.
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This year’s five nominees have gone above and beyond to make a difference addressing important issues. Nominees include Sasha Fisher (Spark MicroGrants); Daniel Maree (Million Hoodies Movement for Justice); Jillian Mourning (All We Want is LOVE - Liberation of Victims Everywhere); Lorella Praeli (United We Dream); and Ben Simon (Food Recovery Network). www.vh1.com/shows/events/do_something_awards/2013/index.j...
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Those who do not live in Scotland may be unaware that this YES sign indicates an affirmative response to the question "Should Scotland be an independent country?".
In a referendum to be held on 18 September 2014 this issue will be decided by those who are registered to vote in Scotland.
In my view, the underlying belief of those on the YES side is that it is right and proper for a nation to aspire to govern itself, that it may experience difficulties in doing so but in working through those difficulties it will develop the maturity required to hold its head high in the community of nations. The YES side believes that now is the time to "grasp the thistle".
The NO side appears to hold the view either (i) that a 'mature nation' status is not worth working for or (ii) that, while it might be desirable to become a mature nation, the inevitable difficulties could not be overcome.
I listened live to the 2 hours and 40 minutes of this parliamentary debate and thought that Mike Russell's ten minute winding-up speech (transcript below) characterised by its positive approach, exemplified that contrast with the negative approach of his opponents during that debate.
THE PARLIAMENT OF SCOTS (12 AUGUST 2014)
DEBATE ON THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES OF INDEPENDENCE
WINDING UP SPEECH FROM MIKE RUSSELL
Official report:-
The Deputy Presiding Officer:
Thank you. I call Michael Russell to wind up the debate. Cabinet secretary, you have until 5 o’clock.
16:49
The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning (Michael Russell):
Let me give the chamber a revelation: I think that on the evidence of this afternoon’s debate there are no votes in this chamber that are up for grabs in the referendum and that it is pretty clear that there are no undecideds on these benches.
However, there might be some undecideds watching at home. I suspect that they might well have turned off by now, particularly after Jenny Marra’s speech, but if they are still watching I suggest to them that, if they are trying to come to a judgment on the basis of this debate—there are people in the gallery who might want to make such a judgment—they should do so on the basis of what has been the positive view and what has been the negative view.
Look at the positive view that all my colleagues in the chamber have expressed and at the endless, destructive negativity that we have heard from Labour, the Liberals and the Tories.
I will start with the clearest view of the currency issue. As ever, the First Minister got it right in the chamber last week. I will repeat his exact words. He said:
“It is our pound, and we are keeping it.”
There are no ifs and no buts. That is the guarantee. That is plan A to Z. For the benefit of those who are still trying to frighten people out of what is theirs—people such as Mr Henry, who asserted that Scots will not be able to buy food or go on holiday after independence, and Mr Fraser, who tellingly referred—
Hugh Henry:
Will the cabinet secretary take an intervention?
Michael Russell:
No, I will not. I am sorry; one contribution from Mr Henry in an afternoon is more than enough.
Mr Fraser referred to the currency belonging to someone else, which was very interesting. I will repeat what the First Minister said so that there can be no doubt. He said:
“It is our pound, and we are keeping it.”—[Official Report, 7 August 2014; c 33159.]
Hugh Henry:
On a point of order, Presiding Officer. Mr Russell has just made a statement in which he attributed words to me that I did not say. Is it in order for members to fabricate words that were not said during the debate and attribute them to other members? [Interruption.]
The Deputy Presiding Officer:
Order, please. What members say in their speeches is entirely up to them. It is not for me to decide what they should and should not say. However, the Official Report undoubtedly shows every word that has been said in the chamber.
Michael Russell:
I am sure that Mr Henry will reflect on that when he looks at what he has said about me and my writings. I am sure that he will think about that carefully. Mr Henry’s words speak for themselves, as does his depressing demeanour.
The debate has been one of great contrasts. I go back to positivity and negativity. My friend Mr Swinney talked about ambition, achievement, resources, potential and raising the eyes of Scotland to what can be achieved. In my area of special interest, he talked about the need for transformative childcare and the world-leading position of Scottish higher education. What was the result? [Interruption.]
The Deputy Presiding Officer:
Order, please.
Michael Russell:
The result was that, 10 minutes in, Mr Rennie gave the knee-jerk plan B its first outing. Mr Brown then leapt back in. Project fear was in there working hard.
The other side of the unionist coin then showed itself. It was quite stunning. Alex Johnstone chuntered on from a sedentary position about the fact that everything that was mentioned was a product of the wonderful union, but he was interrupted by Jenny Marra, who said that everything was the result of the failed SNP. There we have it: that is a contrast. Labour hates the SNP more than anybody else, and the Tories love the union more than anything else. Neither of those is a prescription for a safe future.
Believing that a Labour Government will remove weapons of mass destruction is also not a prescription for a safe future. There is no evidence for that whatsoever. How else are we to get rid of weapons of mass destruction, except by independence? That is the reality.
It was telling that, when Mr Swinney mentioned Trident and what we need to do, the reaction from Labour and the Tories and even from the sole Lib Dem who was there was derision. They want to put bombs before bairns and Trident before teachers. That is their shame.
Let me carry on.
Neil Bibby (West Scotland) (Lab):
Will the cabinet secretary take an intervention?
Michael Russell:
No, I will not take an intervention. I am sorry.
The reality of the debate was shown clearly. It was about that negative view. Nothing could be done. We had to ask what that was about. Maureen Watt got it 100 per cent right. She analysed the debate early on. The great fear that exists in project fear is the could-should-must progression. If any member on the Labour benches could admit that Scotland could be independent—I will come to Elaine Murray in a moment, as she did that momentarily—the whole fantasy will collapse.
The reason why it collapses is that that leads to the argument that Scotland should be independent, which is the argument that my colleagues made this afternoon. It goes a step further to the argument that Scotland must be independent.
The biggest illustration of that was given by Malcolm Chisholm. Yet again, I was saddened by a speech by Malcolm Chisholm. I have admiration and time for Malcolm Chisholm; he is laughing, but I do. I do not think that he and I differ very much in some of the things that we want to see, but here is the difference. [Interruption.]
The Presiding Officer (Tricia Marwick):
Order.
Michael Russell:
Labour members want to laugh at this, because it is beginning to strike home.
The difference is that I and my colleagues have a plan for how to achieve those things. We know how poverty can be eliminated in Scotland. We know—
Iain Gray:
Will the minister give way?
Michael Russell:
No—I want to finish my point.
I know that it is annoying to Iain Gray, but the truth of the matter is that it is possible to have a plan to change Scotland and to do those things. We can set out with those intentions and we can work hard to meet them, or we can—as Labour members would have us do—simply keep our fingers crossed that we get a Labour Government that could possibly pursue the things that they want to see in Scotland rather than the things that Ed Balls and Miliband want to see south of the border. I say to Malcolm Chisholm that that is not a plan: that is keeping your fingers crossed and putting party before principle.
Malcolm Chisholm:
The cabinet secretary may have a plan, but the whole point of all the Labour speeches has been to point out that it is not a plan that can be delivered without an economic foundation. Before he gives us any more claptrap about the negativity of Labour members, will he reflect on the fact that by far the biggest and most disgraceful scare of the referendum campaign is what the yes side is saying about the NHS? [Interruption.]
The Presiding Officer:
Order! Order!
Michael Russell:
How interesting. Mr Chisholm is being wildly applauded by Jackson Carlaw, who—
The Presiding Officer:
Sit down, Mr Russell.
That is quite enough. There is far too much heckling and far too much noise. The minister is speaking, so allow him to do so. This is a Parliament; it is not a public meeting or a hustings. There are people in Scotland who are listening to the debate. Make it worthy of them.
Michael Russell:
Why was Jackson Carlaw—the person who got so agitated about the issue of the NHS last week—applauding so much? Because we have hit the nail on the head. If the financial power lies outside Scotland, the decision on the priorities of Scotland and how to deliver those priorities will always lie outside Scotland, too. For every £100 by which expenditure is reduced south of the border through privatisation of the health service—privatisation that was started by Labour—£10 is lost from the Scottish budget.
Neil Findlay:
Will the cabinet secretary give way?
Michael Russell:
No.
For every £100 that is removed from public expenditure through privatisation of higher education south of the border, we lose £10. That is the reality. That is the nub of the debate. We can choose to make our decisions in Scotland, to take our responsibilities in Scotland and to have opportunities in Scotland, or we can always dance to someone else’s tune.
Malcolm Chisholm wants to see the progress in Scotland that I want to see. I repeat what I said earlier: the SNP has the plan to do that. It puts its confidence—[Interruption.] We can hear the Tories laughing; we can always hear the Tories laughing when the people of Scotland want to progress.
Here is the choice: we can say to the people of Scotland, “Take responsibility, and then you will have the opportunity to change this country for the better”; or we can tell them to listen to those who will not accept the reality and who will always keep their fingers crossed that England votes the same way that they do. Those voices will always disappoint and let down the people of Scotland. That has got to stop.
The lesson this afternoon is entirely clear: there is a jobs plan for an independent Scotland, there is a finance plan for an independent Scotland, there is a currency plan for an independent Scotland and there is a plan to make an independent Scotland the country that it could and should be. The people who stand in the way of that are this unholy alliance between Labour and the Tories.
The Presiding Officer:
You need to finish, cabinet secretary.
Michael Russell:
They are the people who have plenty of ambition for their political parties and none for their country. [Applause.]
The Presiding Officer:
Order.
That concludes the debate on the economic opportunities of independence.
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SUNDAY TIMES - 21st September 2014
Michael Russell
In a sense I have been campaigning for independence across Scotland not just in the last four weeks but for forty years. But I don't think I have ever had such an emotional political experience as last Saturday standing in the Station Square in Oban listening to Dougie Maclean sing his anthem of Scottishness, Caledonia.
It didn't matter that someone had forgotten to bring an extension lead, so there was no power for the microphone. It was irrelevant that an early sea mist, now burning off, had prevented the First Minister from making a helicopter campaign stop and equally irrelevant was the stretch limo with a huge "NO thanks" logo tied round it ( one of the bizzarest sights of the campaign) that kept cruising past. Dougie sang and 250 people - young and old, from all parties but mostly none, sang along with a quiet intensity that brought tears to my eyes and to eyes of many others.
That event started a whole day of remarkable activities - a car cavalcade of more than sixty vehicles that wound its way across Mid Argyll with so many participants that a church hall in Lochgilphead had to be commandeered to feed them, a flash mob of dancers and musicians on a green beside the sea and finally a laser show lighting up a huge YES sign on the island of Kerrera in the bay facing the town.
This was politics, but not as I have known it. YES Scotland started out as an umbrella organisation and ended up as a mass movement . It's creativity and energy was replicated not just across my constituency - in Dunoon, in Campbeltown, in Rothesay, in Lochgoilhead, on Islay and on Mull - but across the whole of Scotland in a diverse, multi layered movement that demanded and will go on demanding not only attention but also real change.
Although Thursday night delivered a bitter blow to many of those who had invested so much of themselves in that movement I do not think it will go away. Indeed it must not go away. It's commitment, enthusiasm and vigour are needed as never before if Scotland is to move forward united.
It is this movement that can really test the will of politicians to deliver the new dispensation that the Westminster parties promised in the final days of the campaign and it is this movement that can press an agenda that is focussed on outcomes which benefit and empower real people not just the political classes.
As Alex Salmond said on Friday in his moving resignation statement, holding Westminster to account for the delivery of its new promises has to be done by the whole of Scotland and that process needs to be lead by citizens themselves. If it changes and benefits all the parts of the present UK so much the better as long as that not an excuse for endless delay.
I have undertaken more than sixty public meetings in Argyll & Bute over the past nine months. One of the biggest took place on Ardrishaig the night before the Dougie MacLean event at which I shared a platform with Professor Allan MacInnes and Lesley Riddoch, both longstanding friends. Lesley spoke about this new politics too and was given a standing ovation by the over capacity crowd jammed into a tiny church hall. That enthusiasm reflected growing demand for a different set of priorities and a changed way of doing things - bottom up not top down.
That is what independence is but it's core values - fairness, equity, hope, opportunity, equality, justice - go well beyond the the 1.6 million who chose that option. Lots of voters on both sides were sending a message about the need for those things that cannot now be ignored.
That is why the "faster, safer and better" change offered in the 3 UK leaders Daily Record "Vow" was in the end persuasive for so many. They disagreed on the means but not on the ends.
So that is also why the SNP as the Scottish Government has to be an active part of the process now being outlined by the UK Government. We must heed the urgings of those we have worked with and take part in a constructive, urgent and focussed process to decide on the range of powers required and accelerate their introduction whilst ensuring that they are devolved further into communities and made capable of adaptation to local need and local direction.
That will not be easy for anyone but it is the essential next step - a step demanded by Thursday's result and which can also act as a unifying mechanism. We can help make a new Team Scotland and learn from it though it will be a Team Scotland weakened when not led by Alex Salmond, to whom the whole country owes an enormous political debt.
I am undoubtedly still a nationalist and I want to see independence. But this referendum campaign, undertaken in an Indian summer of warm sunshine amongst the most beautiful scenery in the world, criss crossing sea lochs, sailing to islands and motoring amongst mountains, has taught me a great deal.
A passionate desire for a better country is shared by many of our fellow citizens, young and old inside and outside conventional politics. A different set of priorities and policies - some already introduced by an SNP Government over the past 7 years - is possible. Alienation from politics and society isn't inevitable because inspiration casts out indifference. Decisions are better when made with people, not for them.
I have had the great pleasure of an invigorating campaign in Dalmally and Dunoon, on Luing and Lismore, through Glendaruel (where I live) and Glen Barr and by the shores of Loch Etive and Loch Riddon. The conclusion of those journeys was not the one I hoped for a month ago when the Sunday Times asked me to contribute at the end of the campaign. But the people have spoken and when that happens politicians have to listen - wherever they are.
With reports of funnel clouds sighted in a neighboring county today, I set out to chase some storms down. However, each time I got to one of my vantage points, I found myself in the middle of a downpour. I kept on racing ahead of the clouds and then getting stuck under them. After a frustrating few hours, I pulled into a park near my house to practice shooting with my 10-stop ND filter.
This is a 30 second exposure at f/22 of a little walkway that is still mangled from the Hurricane Irene storm surge. Not sure what the plans are for it, but fixing it doesn't seem to be a priority right now!
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TERROR CULTURAL - PICHADORES DECLARAM GUERRA CONTRA GRAFITEIROS
FOLHA DE S.PAULO
terça-feira, 28 de outubro de 2008
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"Atropelo"
Os ataques romperam o acordo que sempre existiu entre pichadores e grafiteiros: o de que um não "atropela" o outro, e vice-versa. "Atropelar", neste caso, significa pintar por cima. "O "pixo" é anarquia, é contestação, é confronto. Estamos em busca do confronto artístico, em contraposição ao conforto da arte decorativa e das galerias", defendeu um.
"Para mim, isso é ressentimento mal resolvido. Coisa de pessoas ignorantes que acabam privando a população pobre do acesso à arte de rua, que está lá, exposta gratuitamente", respondeu um dos mais prestigiados grafiteiros nacionais, que se identifica como "Nunca", 25.
A briga foi ensaiada. No dia 6 de setembro, um grupo de pichadores atacou a Galeria Choque Cultural, uma dentre meia dúzia na cidade de São Paulo que se especializou em trabalhos de grafiteiros.
"O grafite virou mainstream total. É arte domesticada, feita para decorar ambientes que querem se passar por modernos", disse um pichador.
Para ele, os muros de bairros como a Vila Madalena (zona oeste) tornaram-se um show-room a céu aberto das galerias. "Eles grafitam nos muros e os playboys vão às galerias arrematar os trabalhos para levar pras suas casas ou escritórios."
Segundo "Nunca", a ação do último fim de semana é obra de uma minoria, gente muito jovem, que desconhece a história comum de pichadores e grafiteiros. "Eu mesmo comecei como pichador, lá em Itaquera [bairro da zona leste], há 12 ou 13 anos. Sempre houve respeito entre pichadores e grafiteiros. A ignorância é que atrapalha."
Latinhas holandesas
"Nunca" é autor de uma série de grafites sobre índios. Expôs na galeria londrina Tate Modern, com a dupla estrelada da "street art" nacional: Os Gêmeos (nome artístico dos irmãos Otavio e Gustavo Pandolfo, também de São Paulo).
"Nunca" tem trabalhos espalhados por toda a cidade. Vive disso. Saiu de Itaquera e hoje mora no Cambuci (centro). "Mas já pintei muito portão de aço, já fiz muita coisa decorativa", diz.
Este é um problema. "A pichação perdeu seu espaço, porque todo dono de muro ou portão, para evitar o "pixo", acabou contratando um grafiteiro, certo de que assim evitaria nossa ação. E eles se venderam."
Dados da Prefeitura de São Paulo calculam em 5.000 o número de pichadores da cidade, a maioria dos quais vive na periferia. Quem passa pelas imediações da galeria Olido, no centro, pode vê-los trocando "autógrafos" escritos no estilo próprio em papel A4, que são arquivados em pastas.
O preço da pichação já distingue o pichador do grafiteiro. Se os primeiros compram sprays vencidos em lojas de tintas, sempre nacionais, os grandes grafiteiros só trabalham com latinhas importadas. As melhores são da marca Montana, espanholas ou holandesas, de R$ 13 a R$ 20 a unidade. Há trabalhos que usam algumas centenas de latinhas.
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The “Real” KOM League
Flash Report for
Week of October 9, 2016
On October 6, 2016 a preliminary report was posted at: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/30037985332/ At that time I mentioned that some updating would be done in the next 24 hours. One of the things mentioned in the report was Billy Hoeft and the relationship to Don Biebel. In the report Biebel was urged to get in touch and provide some comments about his boyhood friend and high school teammate. Biebel read the report, at his Sacramento, CA estate, and it started a three way e-mail party among him, Bill O’Donnell of Durham, NC and myself, right here in Columbia, MO. Like most things that get mentioned in these reports they expand. The story turns out to involve a number of young men from Oshkosh, Wisconsin’s high school baseball team of 1949. Three of them made it to the major leagues in ways some people might never guess. So, to be up to speed for the next Flash Report, you might wish to study up on William Frederick Hoeft, Donald Floyd Biebel and Laurence Henry “Dutch” Rennert.
To make it easy to do your research here are a few links to the aforementioned trio:
Don Biebel
www.google.com/search?rls=aso&client=gmail&q=dutc...
Billy Hoeft
www.google.com/search?rls=aso&client=gmail&q=dutc...
Dutch Rennert
www.google.com/search?rls=aso&client=gmail&q=dutc...
And, while you are looking ahead you might wish to take a look back, one decade, to a story found in the Columbia, Missouri Tribune from September of 2006. One recipient of this report is Bill Clark and he doesn’t have a computer. His son prints these reports and gives them to him. So Casey doesn’t need to print out the following link. Bill you can go back to your old files and dig out the one wrote wrote about the KOM league reunion in 2006 at Carthage, Missouri.
archive.columbiatribune.com/2006/sep/20060920Feat001.asp
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Recommended reading
If you are limited in your time and interest in reading this report I suggest you go directly to the obituary of Vincent Nicholas Kokenge and see how it dovetails to the obituary shared seven years ago with that of Martin Claude Reisch. Each pitched for the 1947 Chanute Athletics and probably the only game Reisch ever started, Kokenge finished.
As with most reports an attempt is made to include a photo of the team on which a deceased member played. Vince Kokenge and Martin Reisch may or may not have been present when the 1947 Chanute A’s team photo was taken. There are two players in the back row that I have not been able to identify even with the help of five guys who are in that photo. www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/30037985332/
Here are those who were there when the “family” portrait was taken:
Front Row: Earl Anstaett, Lou Bejma, Bobby Johnson, Jack Jordan and Francis Urban.
Middle Row: Sam Dixon, Sheldon Lewis, Charles Kunkle, Don Phillips and Bob Phillips.
Back Row: Team President W. C. McCullough, Joe Eperasy, Rex Simpson, Unidentified, Unidentified (Possibly, Vince Kokenge), Bernie Tye, Jake Thies and Charles Bates-Manager.
There are two -major league players in that photo. One had been there and the other headed in that direction. If you don’t know who they were look it up. If you are still stumped and interested in knowing, let me know.
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A personal request:
Put yourself in this scene. It is a cold, dark morning on December 1. You are a member of a service club and it meets before the sun comes over the horizon and you are expected to drive to the meeting site, sign in, listen to a few announcements, eat breakfast and listen to some old guy drone on about something that happened when Harry Truman was President of these United States. Gosh, I miss Harry. By the way Harry Truman was in the same town, Columbia, Mo., where the presentation will be made, when Franklin Roosevelt died.
Back to the issue. Put yourself in the place of the service club members who have to appear to be interested in what the speaker has to say that has been lined up by the program committee chairman. On top of that that speaker appeared before that same group three years earlier.
Now, put yourself in the shoes of the speaker. The chances are the same speech could be presented once again but since the speaker is senile he can’t recall what was presented. Most likely a few members of the service club would remember and they’d either leave in disgust or heckle the speaker off the platform.
So, in short, that is where Yours truly stands, or sits, as the case may be, as his last appearance in a public forum rapidly approaches. The most daunting task of any speaker is to follow the three “C’s” of public speaking. If you need a refresher they are: Clear, Concise and Ceated.”
Now I come to my point. If you were in an audience to hear a speaker talk about something that transpired 63-70 years ago and only knew the general topic was about baseball, what questions would you pose? Tough job, right? Well, I’m asking my “vast” e-mail family to join me at the service club. No, no, not in person but by sending along a question or two that you would ask if you had to get up early and trudge through the early dawn hours in order to keep your perfect attendance record intact.
If you send a question, that is selected to use in my presentation, you will be given full credit for your effort and if you happened to have played professional baseball I will even embellish your career by 10 or 15 points in batting average or a have a dozen more wins tacked on if you were a pitcher.
There are no restrictions to the kind of questions that will be considered. I fully expect about six people to respond to this request and with that I’ll probably use my verbosity skills to fill the full 30 minute time requirement and maybe empty a meeting hall in a lot less time than that. Send me a question or two. Thanks!!!
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Vincent Kokenge
www.legacy.com/obituaries/argusleader/obituary.aspx?n=Vin...
Sioux Falls, SD ~ Vincent N. Kokenge, 93, died on 9/28/16.
Funeral services will begin at 11 AM on Friday, 10/7/16 at George Boom Funeral Home in Sioux Falls. Visitation will begin at 5 PM on Thursday at the funeral home with the family present to greet friends from 5-7 PM. In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation.
Vincent Nicholas was born on Sept.12, 1923 in Sioux County, IA to Joseph & Catherine (Kellen) Kokenge. He was raised and received his education in Sioux County attending and graduating from Paullina High School in 1941. It was as a child that Vince developed a love of baseball. Playing ball out of Granville, IA Catholic High School, Vince eventually signed to play minor league baseball with the New York Yankees organization in Quincy, IL. That dream of the "bigs" did not come to pass, but he did spend several years in Iowa and Nebraska as a baseball player. From baseball Vince moved on to throwing a hook from the left side as a bowler. In 1989 Vince was inducted into the South Dakota Bowlers Association Hall of Fame.
Vince was united in marriage with Delores Kroeger on 11/10, 1947. In 1967 he started Kokenge Painting Service, a business he owned and operated until his retirement in 1988.
Grateful for having shared his life are his wife, Delores Kokenge; 6 children: Mike (Marcia) Kokenge, Larry (Colleen) Kokenge, Kathy (Jim) Lang, Cindi (Tony) Ruggiero, Pam (Jeff) Cox, and Ron (Barb) Kokenge; daughter-in-law, Michelle Ward; 22 grandchildren; 40 great grandchildren; 2 great-great grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Vince is preceded in death by his parents; son, Douglas Kokenge; and brothers: Raymond and Virgil Kokenge.
Ed comment:
A couple of notes were received about the death of Mr. Kokenge and I shared this with Jack Morris, baseball necrologist. “Vince gave me a lesson on how to pronounce his name many years ago. The "g" is silent and he told me to say the word ‘cocaine’ and I'd be pronouncing his name correctly. Baseball Reference didn't show what handed he was but he was a lefty.”
Baseball Reference officials aren’t going to change anything without some type of documentation and I shared this newspaper quote from the Iola, Kansas Register. For documenting that fact it is contained in the Iola Register. June 28, 1947--Vince Kokenge. a lefty, who lost to lola 5-3 Wednesday night, was called on to finish the game and he performed reasonably well. He retired his first two batters, but Hal Fortine then drove a triple to left to. score (Ken) Aubrey and (Bill) Chandler.
A little more background. Kokenge was the batboy for the Sioux City Cowboys of the Western league in the mid-1930's. He was the batboy while Hal Luby was on that team. I suspect that was 1935-36. While with the Chanute A’s, in 1947, Kokenge posted a 3-6 record. His nickname with his teammates was Cocaine.
With the death of Vince Kokenge the number of former 1947 Chanute A’s players, still living, are down to four: Gerald Cross—Ft. Smith, Ark., Sam Dixon—Lawrence, Kans., Robert H. Peel—Hutchinson, Kans., and Frank Urban former Carthage resident who now lives in Springfield, Mo.
Bob Peel has long operated a women’s cosmetic supply company in Hutchinson, Kansas and has traveled the world in that capacity. However, nothing comes close to an experience he had in 1985 from Oct. 7 thru 10. He was aboard the Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, when it was hijacked by Palestinian Liberation Front thugs. He saw the entire episode unfold, even the death of Leon Klinghoffer. Don’t have space to rewrite that event from 31 years ago this week but here is a refresher course site: www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&am...
One member of the 1947 team was never found. His name was Rice Martin. He attended the University of Missouri in the spring of 1947 and then showed up in Chanute for a short time. The Chanute newspaper said that he attended Missouri University and listed his hometown as St. Louis but no trace of him was ever found.
Could this be Rice Martin? After looking at the 1947 Chanute roster for over two decades something finally clicked in that vacant spot above my shoulders. The only instance that I ever found the name, Rice Martin, was in a Chanute sports column. However, there was a Martin Claude Reisch who was born 8/27/1924 in St. Louis. He was in the Army from 7/5/1943 to 4/8/1946. It wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility that he went to the University of Missouri in 1947. Reisch appeared in the same May 28, 1947 sports column as does the late Vince Kokenge.
May 28, 1947--Chanute's starting pitcher, Martin Reisch, pitched only to four batters —Bugs Redden, who doubled, Paul Box, who singled, Ken Aubrey a walk and Bill Chandler, who singled. Two scored on Chandler's hit. Vince Kokenge, a lefty, who lost to lola 5-3 Wednesday night, was called on to finish the game and he performed' reasonably well. He retired his first two batters, but Hal Fortine then drove a triple to left to score (Ken) Aubrey and (Bill) Chandler.
Conclusion: After 25 years of carrying Rice Martin, on my database of Chanute A’s, I officially and ceremoniously deleted his name this past week. The person was Martin Claude Reisch and he passed away June 17, 2009 in Ft. Worth, Texas. Although, I’m not 100% sure, those four Iola batters he faced on May 27, 1947 may well have represented his entire professional baseball career. When I spoke with Reisch some 20 years ago our conversation didn’t cover that subject.
In the August 4, 2009 edition of this seldom seen and even less often read publication I shared the obituary of Reisch. Four months after his passing his wife also died. Here is Martin’s obituary:
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Martin Claude Reisch, 84, retired news bureau manager for Bell Helicopter Textron, died Monday, June 8, 2009.
Service: Memorial Mass will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday, June 19, with rosary at 2, at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, 2016 Willis Lane, Keller.
Martin was born Aug. 27, 1924, in St. Louis, Mo. He pitched in baseball's minor leagues alongside some up-and-comers including Yogi Berra. A veteran of World War II, Martin was called to serve under Gen. Patton following the D-Day landing at Normandy.
After the war, Martin moved to Denver, Colo., where he met and married Elodie. He was the first civilian to work at the U.S. Air Force Academy, serving as sports publicity director. He later joined the Rocky Mountain News as sports columnist. During this time, he also wrote a weekly sports column for the Denver Catholic Register and hosted a bowling radio show interviewing personalities such as Don Carter. In 1966, Martin moved to Fort Worth to join Bell Helicopter Textron as chief of national media. He retired from Bell after 21 years.
Martin was always active in church and school activities. He coached Little League, was an assistant Cub Scout master, headed parish committees, and was a longtime member of the Knights of Columbus.
Martin and his wife of 60 years, Elodie, traveled the world together and enjoyed spoiling their many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his son, John Reisch.
As a final act of generosity, he has willed his body to the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth to be used for educational purposes.
Survivors: His wife, Elodie; children, Norman and wife, Pat, of Colorado, Jim and wife, Sandy, of Dallas, Bill and wife, Betty, of Bedford, Mary Colette and husband, Don McCall, of Mansfield, Madonna Trujillo of Fort Worth, Annette and husband, Frank Kearns, of Bedford; 12 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Published in Star-Telegram on 6/17/2009
For a photo of Mr. Reisch you can go to the following URL and it will also contain the obituary that is included in this report.
www.legacy.com/obituaries/dfw/obituary.aspx?n=martin-clau...
(Ed note: There is a possibility that URL is no longer active, since this posting seven years ago.)
Ed note:
(This note was also written seven years ago at the time Reisch’s obituary was posted.)
Just so the readership knows that I know, one aspect of the obituary is not factually correct. The statement made that he played in baseball’s minor leagues with Yogi Berra is incorrect. Reisch may have played against Berra in St. Louis kid team baseball, but I cannot document that either. Some of you former St. Louisans my remember Reisch and you can fill me in on his non-professional history.
For Reisch to have played against Berra, in the professional ranks, old Yogi would have had to have played in the KOM League. Reisch’s career with Chanute was less than five games as a pitcher, in 1947. The Chanute newspaper from that era reported that Reisch’s nickname was “Specs.” Of course, the wearing of glasses was rare in that era and organizations frowned upon young ballplayers wearing them. Bob Field played for Miami, Okla., in 1946, and he told me it nearly cost him a chance to play for that club due to wearing spectacles
A quote from the September 17, 1957—Long Beach, Independent. Ken Sanders, UCLA grid boss, said "I doubt if anyone could name any players on the Air Force Academy team which UCLA plays Friday night, but we could because we wanted some of them . . . namely halfback George Pupich and guard John Dolan.”.. ..” “The Air Force is going after the same type of kids we are…good scholars who can run off tackle!" said Martin Reisch, Air Force Academy publicity chief.
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Comments about last week’s report
Well you outdid yourself!! This one will take a while to go thru everything! Will start with the pictures of Alphie - boy has he grown up.
Know my Pop is reading over my shoulder with the rest - so many names of so many guys he would recall & some I even recognize after following the Hall reports.
Am recovering from stem cell injections into right knee week ago Tuesday. Used bone marrow & fat this time so am hopeful it will do the job. Dang arthritis is a literal pain!!
Keep these reports coming. The "crossing Johnny Hall" has a great ring!!—Barb Eichhorst—St. Louis.
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`nother good one john Jim Skog—Davenport, Iowa
Ed reply:
Thanks for the encouragement. One other reader has also said he enjoyed it. That would be Walt Babcock. I think you two got together on this one.
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A good read after your no report time. How did you get in the Carthage stadium with your grandson? I wanted to get in a couple of years ago to see the blue seats with the plaques on them. Weren't they acquired from Atlanta? Because of your mother's story, I know how you do enjoy fried green tomatoes. Immediate mystery: World Series and November election results. Jim Jay-Kansas City A’s batboy 1956-57
Ed reply:
I got in the Carthage Stadium for I knew where the keys were. Alan Bull was overseeing the place and I went over to his office on the park grounds and told him I wanted in.
I don't much care who plays in the World Series so I can't care much who wins. I know who is playing in the other fall classic and I do know where I stand on that subject. In fact, I don't believe anyone is undecided. I think some people use the line of "undecided" line in order to get attention or to be paid for their vote. Yes, money does go to people to vote for certain individuals. In fact, when I get those harassing robo calls I ask the person if their candidate is prepared to pay me more than their opponent has promised.
I never answer a telephone poll, honestly. Last time I was a 25-year old female Latino who is leaning toward Gary Johnson.
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Hi John--Enjoyed all the stories of (Darryl) Strawberry, (Dick) Wakefield etc. I grew up 20 miles from Rochester, NY and remember when Johnny Antonelli got the big bonus of about 50K, I believe. That sure sparked me with enthusiasm for my own pitching dreams.
One of the great HS pitchers was Billy Hoeft of Oshkosh HS (Wis) I think he graduated in 50 or 51. Signed with Detroit. Had a 15 year MLB career.
Thanks for all of your writing for us baseball junkies ! -- Bill O—Durham, NC
P. S.
The mind is a weird thing. Inside it I am about 18 looking at myself be 82.
Ed reply:
Thanks for the comments. I recognize all the names you mentioned I agree with that statement about 18 and 82. It reminds me of the little boy sitting on the curb crying. An older man came up and asked the boy why he was crying and the reply was "I can't do what the big boys do." At that moment the old man sat down beside the boy and commenced crying with him.
Ed comment:
Billy Hoeft’s high school catcher was Don Biebel. Biebel was signed by the Chicago Cubs and by virtue of that was assigned to Carthage, Mo. for part of the 1950 season and all of 1951. Don managed in the Cub organization after his time looking after me on road trips and making sure I had something to eat, especially at Miami, OK one night. He wound up be the traveling secretary for the Chicago Cubs as well as the last public relations director for the Kansas City A’s. I still call him a friend when he takes the time to read these reports and responds. Come on Don, send me a note about Hoeft.
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I could read this type of material and stories forever as I long to remember the (Baxter Springs) Whiz Kids and setting in the stands and watching games as a toddler. My dad told me many stories about what was going on later in life.
My cousins came down from Iowa and they were older. Back then they used to give out snow cones or popsicles for baseballs returned to the concession stand. As we were getting ready to go home the floor board in the back seat was covered with baseballs. My cousins told my father that they got tired of eating them and just put the balls in the backseat. He of course made them return them. Thomas Drake
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JOHN, I SEEM TO REMEMBER MICKEY ROBERTS FROM MY STAY IN CARTHAGE IN 1951. DID HE GO TO THE U. OF MISSOURI AND HAVE A SISTER ABOUT MY AGE. I BELIEVE I MET HIM ON THE OCCASIONS HE WOULD COME HOME TO CARTHAGE FROM COLLEGE. MAYBE A BAD MEMORY. WALT Babcock—Cape Cod, Mass.
Ed reply:
You probably are thinking about Terry Roberts who was Mickey's cousin.. He attended MU on a football scholarship and was an All Big Seven lineman. Mickey didn't graduate from high school until 1952. He may have come around with some of the guys you ran with such as Jim McKinney, Charlie Scott and Danny Woodward. Mike didn't have any sisters.
Babcock’s reply:
THANKS, FOR REVIVING MY MEMORY. YOU ARE CORRECT. THANKS, WALT
Ed reply:
I'm correct, as always, right?
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A former Independence Yankee-- John M. Bachar Jr. still churning out the numbers.
A member of the 1947 Independence Yankee pitching staff was John M. Bachar Jr. not to be confused with Medar Joseph Backers another pitcher on that team. Bachar was born in Chicago in 1928 and Backers in Detroit in 1927. Over the years I communicated with Backers who died in St. Clair, Mich. in 2010.
For many years Bachar has been a statistical guru in the California system of higher education and now writes for Progressive Magazine in his emeritus status. While playing in the KOM league he was a student at Northwestern University. If you want to know more about him here is a link. www.laprogressive.com/author/john-m-bachar-jr/
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Once again, the conclusion
Defying all the odds of time and finding material about an old league that went belly up at the end of the 1952 baseball season, this concludes another report. Will there be another one? The answer to that question basically depends upon the feedback received.
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