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When Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss died last week, it didn't take long for the conversation to turn to his place among the best owners in the history of sports.
Perhaps it's only fitting that the disastrous public reappearance of Jeffrey Loria renewed debate this week over who is the worst.
In the city of Miami, there is no debate. The Marlins owner is so reviled he might want to avoid going to his year-old stadium lest he find a mob ready to run him out of town.
His payroll is so low the team he will trot out opening day would have trouble competing in the Pacific Coast League, much less the National League.
Meanwhile, taxpayers are on the hook for a $634 million stadium that might have more tropical fish swimming around inside than fans in the stands.
If he's not the worst owner ever, it's only because there's a lot of competition for the title. The late owner of the Cincinnati Reds, Marge Schott, comes to mind, so does Robert Irsay, who fled Baltimore in the middle of the night and took the city's beloved NFLl Colts with him.
But Loria is certainly in the top five.
His decision this week to embark on a public relations campaign to convince fans he was right to trade the team's top talent - Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson, among others - because he wanted to make the Marlins better, reeked of arrogance. It didn't work mostly because Loria acted the way he always acts - like he's the smartest person in the room.
Maybe he is. This is a guy, after all, who parlayed a small investment in the Montreal Expos into ownership of a team and a new stadium in Miami.
He got handouts from Major League Baseball for years, and got lucky with a World Series winner a decade ago. Now he's got fans paying the freight - and rewarded them with a team so devoid of talent that the payroll is expected to be only $45 million this season, the lowest in baseball.
The trouble with smart people, though, is that sometimes they begin to believe their own press releases. That seems to be the case with Loria, who hired a high-powered PR firm to try to mend his image in South Florida and, more importantly, convince people they should spend more of their money at his ballpark.
The campaign began with his open letter to the citizens of Miami defending everything he's done and promising good times just around the next corner.
"We're in this together and I humbly ask that we start fresh, watch us mature quickly as a ball club, and root for the home team in 2013," Loria wrote.
That went over about as well as former manager Ozzie Guillen praising Fidel Castro in Little Havana last season. But it got worse when Loria met the press, not all of whom seemed to be on board with the idea that the Marlins need to make their owner more money before they can be competitive.
Asked at one point if he had pulled a con job on Miami residents, Loria bristled.
"A con job? I'm not even going to answer that," he said.
Actually, con job might be an understatement. He convinced local businessmen and politicians not only to build him a new ballpark, but guarantee him almost every dime generated from it.
He took on payroll because it was part of the deal to get the ballpark, but backloaded the contracts so he didn't risk much of his own money doing it.
Then he dumped the new players he signed before the year was over. True, they didn't perform as expected, but the contracts were structured in a way that sure seemed suspicious.
Now Loria is raking in more money from MLB's new television deals than he is paying players. He's guaranteed tens of millions in profits even if his team doesn't win 50 games. And if he's not the most popular person in South Florida, well, so what.
Loria won't even commit to signing the team's only remaining star. Giancarlo Stanton isn't eligible for arbitration, and Loria said he wants to see him play another year before deciding to pay him major money.
Apparently the 71 home runs Stanton hit during the last two years ago weren't convincing enough.
Fans are reacting to all this the only way they know how - by refusing to buy tickets to watch an inferior product. The pitch Loria made to get his new stadium was that baseball fans would come out in droves if they had a proper ballpark with a retractable roof. But the turnstile count last year was just 1.4 million, a million below expectations. This year will be even worse, with season ticket sales, so far, not even half the 12,000 sold for the inaugural season. Not even the lure of watching fish swimming in aquariums behind home plate seems to be helping.
One newspaper called Loria the most hated man in baseball, and with Frank McCourt no longer controlling the Dodgers and Alex Rodriguez on the disabled list, it's hard to argue with that.
No, Loria may not yet be the worst owner ever. But give him time and he may get there.
Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg


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We had the chance to ride these sleds in the mountains of western Wyoming in January (see video below) and, while you'll have to wait for the March issue of SnoWest Magazine for the full scoop, this sled is going to be a hit. It is without a doubt the best-handling, best-performing 4-stoke mountain sled Yamaha has produced--by far.
The 2015 SR Viper MTX will be avaialble in three versions (MTX, MTX SE and MTX LE) and two track lengths (153 and 162) and four colors (black/grey MTX standard, red/white MTX SE, blue/white MTX SE and blue/orange MTX LE).
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At the present moment we are the exclusive, national distributor of several respected and constantly growing sales brands, such as Marmot, Aku, Teva, Hoka One One or Smartwool. Moreover facing the expectations of B2B clients and final consumers, since 2009 we have been developing an original brand – Rockland – offering tourist & camping equipment. In cases of Rockland, Teva or Hoka One One, Raven is the exclusive distributor also in the Eastern European markets; especially in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Ukraine.
The economic side of leading the yielding profits company has never overcome our core values. We feel more like the enthusiasts of healthy and sporty lifestyle, that active practitioners are also our clients and final consumers, than the businessmen. Together we create one great outdoor family – for us mountains, sports, travels or running are not only hobbies, but a passion that we were able to join with work.
We believe that our products will contribute to the realization of your tourist & sport passions and ambitions.
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ALA Store
Take time to see what's new at the ALA Store, located in Lobby B, between the two entrances to the Exhibit Hall.
Store Hours
Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 8:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m.
Monday, 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
ALA Editions
Appearing next to best-selling and classic ALA Editions books, a dozen new titles will be making their first conference appearance in Denver. From Rob Reid's More Family Storytimes to Peggy Johnson's Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management, 2nd edition, ALA Editions has something for every shelf and every aspect of programming and professional development.
ALA Graphics
In addition to the best-selling Twilight celebrity READ poster, ALA Graphics will debut new posters, featuring America Ferrera, Hugh Laurie, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Coraline, Library Lion, and Owly will appear, along with many other character poster favorites. New posters, bookmarks, and incentives will be available in preparation for National Library Week and Teen Tech Week celebrations. The full line of READ CDs, as well as the revamped READ CD Box Set, will be available for you to check out. READ CD Demos for anyone interested, including current users, will be available Saturday and Sunday from 2:30pm – 3pm in the ALA Store.
Daily Specials
The ALA Store will be featuring a new Daily Special each day, with savings up to 30%!
Friday: 1 Owly poster, 1 Owly bookmark pack, 1 copy of A Box Full of Tales by Kathy MacMillan at $53.40. Save 20%!
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Fifty years ago this week, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a report on smoking and health that, arguably, changed the daily habits of more Americans (and, subsequently, millions of other people around the world) more profoundly than any other single medical report in history. On Jan. 11, 1964, Surgeon General Luther L. Terry and a committee of experts concluded that cigarettes, in a word, kill.
AS LIFE put it to the magazine's readers in its Jan. 24, 1964, issue:
The 10-man jury had been out for more than a year weighing the case against cigarets [sic]. New Surgeon General Luther L. Terry, holding in his hand the jury's 387-page report, announced to the nation its unanimous verdict on the cigaret: guilty as charged of being a menace to health.
Cigarets, said the report, are a major cause of lung cancer and chronic bronchitis. And they help shorten a smoker's life in a number of other ways.
Many Americans hoped the verdict would be different: tobacco people, farmers, politicians, suppliers, advertising men – and, not least of all, the American smoker, who has mightily resisted the idea that his old and comforting friend, the cigaret, had all along been a villain.
According to a more recent study, in the years since the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee lobbed its bombshell into the national debate about smoking, more than 8 million American lives have been saved because of the committee's unprecedentedly dire warnings. (It's worth noting, meanwhile, that an estimated 18 million Americans have died from smoking-related illnesses in the past five decades.)
Here, LIFE.com presents a series of photos that ran in that January 1964 issue, illustrating the results of a study conducted by Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond of the American Cancer Society at the time of the Surgeon General's report.
One final note: The LIFE article referenced above barely mentions women and smoking, and when it does, its message is somewhat cringe-inducing. "Today," the article notes, "fewer women smoke than men. Those who do tend to smoke less heavily and inhale less deeply." [Emphasis ours.]
However, an ad for White Owl Miniature cigars in the very same issue specifically addresses LIFE's female readers:
"A word to women," reads the ad copy. "A good cigar can calm a man down, relax him, settle his thoughts, make your life more enjoyable."
Allow us to translate: If your man is often anxious, restless, confused, addled, jittery, out of sorts or just unpleasant to be around, stick a miniature cigar in his face. You'll be glad you did.
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk.


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"I think Kiva is doing a great job keeping in touch with the volunteers, given how remote and all over the world we are. They still manage to engage us through events like the holiday marathon and the other forms of communication such as the newsletter."
City: Toronto, Canada
Languages: French, Spanish
Team: Qui Va Bien
Time with Kiva: 1 year and 2 months
Outstanding contributions to Kiva:
S. Mason translates French and Spanish loans for Kiva. She initially started with translating French loans and also decided to assist with the Spanish loans. Over the holidays, she was one of our top translators after adding Spanish to her languages. She has translated a massive 102 loans in the month of December alone, and has topped 450 loans in total!
Here's a short Q&A with this remarkable volunteer:
How did you find out about Kiva?
I first heard about Kiva through a friend who is a Kiva lender. I looked up the website and saw that Kiva was looking for French-speaking translators. I applied and have been translating for over a year. I recently added Spanish to my languages and now translate both French and Spanish loans.
What is your favorite partner or region?
I really enjoy the variety of loans that I get to translate coming from different Field Partners in different regions. I enjoy translating the profiles of borrowers involved in diverse sectors. Since I was in Nicaragua for some time, I am always happy to see loans from there, and from the cities I had visited while I was living and volunteering there.
Tell us about a memorable profile you have reviewed.
I have translated many interesting profiles, but the one that stuck with me was a borrower from Africa who wanted to buy bananas for producing beer. I had no idea that banana beer even existed! I researched on the internet and to my surprise, I found that beer could be made from bananas!
Where is your favorite place in the world to travel?
My two favorite places are France and Canada. Since my mother is from France, I frequently visit my family there and really enjoy meeting them, spending long hours eating and talking, laughing over five-hour-long French meals. I enjoy being in Paris. The last time I visited Paris was a year ago.
Tell us an unusual or surprising fact about yourself.
Here are two unusual facts about myself, completely unrelated. Although I lived in Canada, since my mother was French I didn't speak any English till I was about four years old. Also, I volunteered for the Red Cross in Nicaragua for five months, where I lived with a Spanish host family. I had learnt Spanish in school and my time in Nicaragua and living with the host family made me comfortable with the language. Living and working in Nicaragua was a really great experience.
Interested in volunteering for Kiva? We're always looking for volunteers with translation or editing skills, and we'll soon be starting our search for Team Leader candidates to support up to 30 volunteer editors or translators. To find out more and get notifications on when our various applications will be opening, go to our Volunteer Opportunities page.
About the author
Nida Jafri
Nida Jafri was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. After completing her Bachelors in Economics and International Relations from the University of Sussex, England in 2008, she returned home and joined the banking sector where she worked for the product development team for debit cards and mobile banking. It was there that her interest in attempting to reach the unbanked segment developed. After completing two years in the corporate world, she pursued her passion of teaching high school students, Development Studies and Sociology. Her life in the last two months has drastically changed, leaving family behind, getting married and moving to an absolutely new country. Living in the lovely city of San Francisco has been an adventure bringing her the good fortune of coming closer to her goal of working for global economic development, by becoming a Kiva intern first working for 6 months with the Global Partnerships Team and now working for another 6 months with the Review and Translation Team. In these few months she has been on a path of self- discovery taking a fond interest in cooking, baking, salsa lessons, running and playing soccer.


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Advanced U.S. Weapons Flow to Syrian Rebels
Supplies of Antitank Missiles Will Test Whether Fighters Can Keep Arms Out of Extremist Hands
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have supplied Syrian rebel groups with a small number of advanced American antitank missiles for the first time in a pilot program that could lead to larger flows of sophisticated weaponry, people briefed on the effort said.
The new willingness to arm these rebels comes after the failure of U.S.-backed peace talks in January and recent regime gains on the battlefield. It also follows a reorganization of Western-backed fighters aimed at creating a more effective military force and increasing protection...


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Fish Vision Ultraviolet UV Reflective Lure & Jig Paint.That is all you need for a successful fishing experience, whether your fishing for fun or in a competitive environment. It's no longer a UV secret! Fish Vision is not a messy powder paint, it is a easy to work with liquid paint! Just brush, dip or spray your favorite jigs and lures!
Look at the pictures below to see exactly how Fish Vision works. The lure in the middle is painted with Fish Vision UV lure & jig paint, the left lure is a regular jig and the lure on the right is a glow jig. The lures are viewed with a UV camera, and you can see how the Fish Vision painted jig glows as all of the jigs are submerged deeper and deeper. In 10 feet of water, you can barely see the left and right lures, in 20 feet of water, they basically disappear. But the patent pending Fish Vision UV painted jig is still bright and bold for the fish to see and bite at!
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Pacific Birds is the website of Dick Watling, Pacific naturalist, author and environment consultant.
Pacific Birds provides details on and ordering information for Dick Watling's and other publications on the birds and wildlife of Fiji and neighbouring countries of Samoa,American Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and Wallis & Futuna.
Pacific Birds provides the latest checklists for Pacific Island countries.
Pacific Birds provides trip reports and interesting observations of the region.
Pacific Birds provides links to other Pacific bird websites, conservation groups and consultancy services.


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Building Community Goodwill to End Violence Against Women
We envision a world where gender- based violence is unacceptable, where perpetrators are held accountable, and victims receive the compassion, support, and justice they deserve.
Start by Believing is a public awareness campaign uniquely focused on the public response to sexual assault. The goal is to change the world, and outcomes for victims, one response at a time.
For more information on how you can launch a campaign, please visit our
Start by Believing website.
With support from the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), EVAWI provides technical assistance on the law enforcement response to sexual assault and VAWA forensic compliance
Please note that we cannot provide on-site training.
Also, our grants are limited to adolescent and adult victims of sexual assault (not child victims).


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Long saga of blown-out BP well in Gulf is coming to an end
WASHINGTON — BP announced this morning that its engineers will soon begin pumping cement into the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico through a relief well and will have completed sealing it by Saturday, killing for good a deep-sea well whose explosion 150 days ago killed 11 offshore drilling rig workers and sparked an economic and environmental catastrophe whose size is still being calculated.
In a statement, BP said that because engineers had determined that no oil or gas was in the original well when the relief well intercepted it on Thursday afternoon, technicians would move immediately to the cementing process. Had oil and gas been found there — something that had not been expected — BP would first have dumped heavy drilling mud into the well.
"It is expected that the MC252 well will be completely sealed on Saturday," BP said in its statement, using the abbreviation of the well's official geographic designation in the Gulf's Mississippi Canyon.
BP has said that the well would be abandoned and that no effort would be made to produce from it in the future.
The final sealing of the well, which exploded April 20, was an anticlimax to the drama that had enveloped the Deepwater Horizon site for much of the spring and summer. As many as 60 ships at a time, including drilling rigs, crowded the area 48 miles off the Lousiana coast during the summer as BP sought to shut down the gusher. Television broadcast live video feeds of crude oil boiling into the water from the crippled well. Flames roared in the air above as two drilling vessels flared natural gas collected from the well. Thick crude oil blanketed the ocean's surface.
That scene began to change when technicians succeeded in closing off the well with a containment cap on July 15, and then used heavy drilling mud and cement pumped in from the top to seal the well in early August. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the Obama administration's point man on the spill, said last week that the well posed no further threat to the Gulf.
Completing the relief well, which BP had begun drilling May 2, was considered a final safety measure, however. Allen had said that government scientists remained concerned about the possibility that the August cement job had not sealed the well's annulus — the space between the wall of the wellbore and the drilling pipe — and that oil and gas could still flow from the rock reservoir into the well and to the seafloor.
But BP said that technicians aboard the Development Driller III platform found no evidence of hydrocarbons in the annulus after they determined that the relief well had hit its intended target on Thursday.
Even with the well sealed, work will continue at the site. BP said another offshore drilling rig, the Development Driller II, will continue to search for the drilling pipe that was originally in the well when it exploded, but has since vanished. Officials had expected to find the pipe when they lifted the well's failed blowout preventer from the seafloor last week. No pipe, however, was found to be holding the blowout preventer in place.
The blowout preventer, which was designed to clamp onto the drill pipe and seal it in the event of an explosion, is now on the mainland, where investigators are trying to determine why it didn't work.


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Lionel Messi struggled in the thin air of La Paz, fluffing a gilt-edged chance to end his goal drought against Bolivia, while Colombia marksman Radamel Falcao was kept scoreless in Venezuela on Tuesday.
However, with a rampant Ecuador crushing Paraguay 4-1 in Quito, South America's top three teams remain in charge of their World Cup qualifying chances as the race for the region's fourth direct ticket to next year's finals in Brazil hotted up.
Uruguay, Copa America holders and the region's best-performing team at the 2010 World Cup, lost 2-0 in Chile and sank below the qualifying line as their opponents and Venezuela climbed above them into fourth and fifth.
Argentina managed well in the thin air at nearly 4,000m above sea level in La Paz to draw 1-1 with Bolivia, putting behind them the 6-1 defeat suffered by Diego Maradona's team four years ago, but they might have won had Messi made the most of a late chance.
Messi stole the ball from a defender and came face-to-face with Sergio Galarza, but a moment's hesitation cost him dear and allowed the goalkeeper to block his shot.
That preserved Bolivia's record as the only South American team to have denied the little ace a goal.
"That's another point we have added and [this result] strengthens the squad, [but] we deserved all three," Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella told reporters.
"Obviously, we have good chances [of qualifying], we've gone from moderate optimism to greater optimism," he said after taking four points in four days following Friday's 3-0 win over Venezuela in Buenos Aires.
Colombia went to Puerto Ordaz in Venezuela seeking a fifth win in a row after their 5-0 rout of Bolivia at home on Friday, but they came away empty-handed as striker Jose Salomon Rondon scored the only goal for the hosts.
Ecuador made it six wins out of six home matches in their Atahualpa stronghold nearly 3,000m above sea level in the Andes mountains, with two goals from striker Jefferson Montero.
Musical chairs for the top three places has Argentina at home to Colombia on June 7 and visiting Ecuador in Quito four days later, after Ecuador's trip to Peru. Colombia host Peru on their return from Argentina.
Uruguay have a bye on June 7 and will watch the middle positions in the table closely as Venezuela visit Bolivia and Chile travel to Paraguay.
"We have potential, [but] we need to know why that potential isn't surfacing," said a worried Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez, whose team have taken only two points from their past six matches. "The outlook is much more complicated ... Our objective now is not fourth place, but fifth, which gave us our ticket to the last World Cup."
Fifth place, currently occupied by Venezuela, is valid for a playoff with a qualifier from Asia. In 2009, it was against a team from the CONCACAF region — North and Central America, and the Caribbean — with Uruguay beating Costa Rica.
Chile's Argentine coach Jorge Sampaoli said: "We improved in recovering the ball and didn't let a dangerous team like Uruguay, with lots of great players, have a leading role in the match."
Venezuela, who have improved in leaps and bounds over the past decade with a first Copa America semi-final in Argentina in 2011 the highlight, can dare to dream of playing in their first World Cup.
They edged into fifth place on 15 points, equal with Chile, if behind them on goals scored, leaving Uruguay sixth with 13.


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Don't have time to drive to a class? Why don't you study at home? Just 5 minutes of study a day would be enough.
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We give back a portion of your money to charities to help children and poor families. You pass the citizenship test and help them at the same time!


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Get free and paid apps on AppCenter, the open, pay-what-you-want app store for indie developers. Each has been reviewed and curated by elementary to ensure a native, privacy-respecting, and secure experience.
Stop waiting around for your computer to load. elementary OS starts fast and stays fast. Apps are lightning quick to open and remember where you left off. Even better, elementary OS doesn't slow down with updates.
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elementary OS comes with a carefully considered set of apps that cater to everyday needs so you can spend more time using your computer and less time cleaning up bloatware.
Organize and listen to your music. Browse by album, use lightning-fast search, and build playlists of your favorites.
Surf the web with a fast & lightweight web browser. Epiphany lets you use modern websites and web apps while being lighter on battery life.
Manage multiple accounts quickly and effortlessly with conversation-based email, fast-as-you-type search, new email notifications, and more.
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Smart and simple video viewing with a library, thumbnail previews on the seekbar, playlists, subtitle support, smart fullscreen, and the ability to resume what was last playing.
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Switchable color schemes designed to prevent eye strain, browser-class tabs with history and smart naming, task-completion notifications, natural copy & paste, backlog search, paste protection, and more. Who says you can't teach an old app new tricks?
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Launch apps, open settings panes, run commands, and more from the lightning fast search view.
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Choose just which apps are safe for your child to access. Plus, optionally allow access with your password.
elementary OS is designed to be easy to understand and pick up as a new user. But that doesn't mean it's dumbed down; powerful, customizable keyboard shortcuts ensure you'll stay productive whether it's your first day or your thousandth.
elementary OS helps you keep tabs on what apps are up to. When an app is using your microphone, we display an indicator to let you know. When an app is using a lot of energy, we tell you in your power indicator.
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simple_ssh 0.0.2
simple_ssh is a simple wrapper around the net-ssh gem. * You want to execute a list of commands on a list of hosts using ssh? * You want to analyze the results within a script? If your answers for these questions are yes then simple_ssh is for you.


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Scholars, Frauds, the Media and the Public
This section will focus on sensationalism, pseudo-science and the distortion of archaeology and biblical studies in the media.
- The CNN Shroud of Turin
By Antonio Lombatti
- A Jerusalem tomb, 'blind leading the blind' or just another Day in Paradise?
By Joe Zias
- The Relics of Jesus: The Case of the Titulus Crucis
By Antonio Lombatti
- The Tale of the Lead Codices from Jordan: A Brief History
By Jim West
- Restless Bones, Where Was Peter Buried?
By Antonio Lombatti
- Selective Skepticism
By James F. McGrath
- Who Owns the Biblical Past? We all Can
By Morag M. Kersel
- Relics and Their Supernatural Powers
By Antonio Lombatti
- On the Misuse of Archaeology for Evangelistic Purposes
By Robert R. Cargill
- Why Do Some Christians Need Material Evidence?
By Antonio Lombatti
- Forget About Noah's Ark; There Was No Worldwide Flood
By Robert R. Cargill
- Relics Still Potent: The Shroud of Turin
By Antonio Lombatti
- The Distortion of Archaeology and What We Can Do About It: A Brief Note on Progress Made and Yet To Be Made
By Eric H. Cline
- Stalemate: Archaeological Research, The Public, and Our Responsibility
By Jim West
- Pseudo-Science and Sensationalist Archaeology: An Exposé of Jimmy Barfield and the Copper Scroll Project
By Robert R. Cargill
- On the Insignificance and the Abuse of the Copper Scroll
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- Seeking the Sacred Past
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- How Should Archaeology Reach its Public?
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On Saturday, July 12 listen to CBC Radio 2 from 10am to noon (EST) to hear Shannon's episode of This is My Music. Find out what kind of music Shannon likes to listen to along with stories and anecdotes about her life and career.
Listen Live on CBC's website
At the 2014 JUNO Award press conference held today, February
4th, Shannon's recording with Toronto's group of twenty-seven
(g27) chamber orchestra and conductor Eric Paetkau in a
program for Centaur Records featuring Berlioz's Les Nuits
d'été and Norbert Palej's The Poet and the War was nominated
in the category of Classical Album Of The Year Vocal/Choral.
The awards will be handed out at ceremonies on March 29
& 30 in Winnipeg. Check back for updates!
Find out more about the
nominations and the awards show by visiting the JUNO website
CD contains songs composed by Montreal composer, arranger,
oud player Seán Dagher set to poems he discovered
that were written by 12th- and 13th-century female troubadours
in the south of France, the trobairitz. It is a return to
the highly successful partnership between Shannon and Seán
that resulted in the acclaimed CD Wales: Land of Song.
Robert Rowat talks to Shannon about the project on CBC
Music's First Play
is the soprano soloist on a new recording with Toronto's
group of twenty-seven (g27) chamber orchestra and conductor
Eric Paetkau in a program for Centaur Records featuring
Berlioz's Les Nuits d'été and Norbert Palej's two works,
The Poet and the War, and Rorate Coeli. Hear what the critics
are saying:
"This is a fantastic debut album
by one of Toronto classical treasures, soprano Shannon
Mercer, teaming up with one of the city's greatest secrets,
the Group of 27 chamber orchestra. Made up of some of
our best players, this group can only get together when
everyone is free at the same time, which isn't often.
Their conductor, Eric Paetkau, leads a warm and luminous
reading of Hector Berlioz's six-song cycle Les Nuits d'été
(Summer Nights), orchestrated in 1856. Mercer shapes long,
arching melodies with the unforced ease of someone sipping
their second Long Island iced tea. This is a pool of song
one wants to swim around in for hours." (Toronto Star,
25 February 2013)
"I was immediately captivated by
Mercer's singing and could not stop listening or write
a single word of comment until the entire cycle was finished.
Yes, she's that good... Mercer does so much in the way
of shading and dynamics that you wait with bated breath
to hear how she will sing the next phrase, and the next,
and the one after that. Despite having a small lyric voice
and a very pure tone, Mercer constantly shades and colors
her timbre like a master painter. I have not heard singing
on this high a level of subtlety in expression since the
days of Rita Streich... Every phrase is caressed so lovingly,
the music emerging from her throat with a pearl-like shimmer
and the dynamics changes so tastefully and subtly applied,
that she makes of each song a special event. Sometimes
her sound is strong and ringing, but more often it is
fragile or wistful, and in this consistent metamorphosis
of vocal timbre and color lies an entire universe of sound.
You keep waiting for the spell to break, but it never
does. This is the work of a master artist." (Fanfare,
February 2013)
"This is a fantastic debut album
by one of Toronto classical treasures, soprano Shannon
Mercer, teaming up with one of the city's greatest secrets,
the Group of 27 chamber orchestra. Made up of some of
our best players, this group can only get together when
everyone is free at the same time, which isn't often.
Their conductor, Eric Paetkau, leads a warm and luminous
reading of Hector Berlioz's six-song cycle Les Nuits d'été
(Summer Nights), orchestrated in 1856. Mercer shapes long,
arching melodies with the unforced ease of someone sipping
their second Long Island iced tea. This is a pool of song
one wants to swim around in for hours." (Toronto Star,
25 February 2013)
"I was immediately captivated by
Mercer's singing and could not stop listening or write
a single word of comment until the entire cycle was finished.
Yes, she's that good... Mercer does so much in the way
of shading and dynamics that you wait with bated breath
to hear how she will sing the next phrase, and the next,
and the one after that. Despite having a small lyric voice
and a very pure tone, Mercer constantly shades and colors
her timbre like a master painter. I have not heard singing
on this high a level of subtlety in expression since the
days of Rita Streich... Every phrase is caressed so lovingly,
the music emerging from her throat with a pearl-like shimmer
and the dynamics changes so tastefully and subtly applied,
that she makes of each song a special event. Sometimes
her sound is strong and ringing, but more often it is
fragile or wistful, and in this consistent metamorphosis
of vocal timbre and color lies an entire universe of sound.
You keep waiting for the spell to break, but it never
does. This is the work of a master artist." (Fanfare,
February 2013)
"Bernard Labadie assembled a quartet of soloists,
both well-balanced and extremely luminescent. Shannon Mercer's
voice proved as floating as ever." (Le Soleil, 8 February
Warm up your Christmas with a new CD featuring famed tenor
John McDermott and sopranos Virginia Hatfield and Shannon
Mercer as they sing holiday favourites to beautiful new
The album is available already as an MP3 download on Amazon
and will be released in CD format shortly!
"The initial aria of the no-nonsense Cantata BWV 151
as sung by soprano Shannon Mercer was ravishing." (Vancouver
Sun, 24 December 2012)
"Mercer's soprano solos were beautifully focused and
expressive, and her performance of "Rejoice greatly" also
demonstrated a breathtaking agility and speed." (Seattle
Times, 15 December 2012)
"Shannon Mercer was magical both in her early pastoral
episode and in her big last aria, 'I know that my Redeemer
liveth'." (Seen and Heard, 19 December 2012)
"Soprano Shannon Mercer...was particularly effective
in her singing of I Know That My Redeemer Liveth and the
preceding But Thou Didst Not Leave." (Calgary Herald,
8 December 2012)
"Mercer's crystal voice was haunting in Shi's The
Mountain Spirit (2012) as she sang beautifully about love
and longing." (Musical Toronto, 12 October 2012)
Two of Shannon's recent recordings are up for 2012 ADISQ
Awards (aka Félix): Vivaldi: Return of the Angels
with Ensemble Caprice (Analekta) and Bach St John Passion
with Les Violons du Roy (ATMA) are nominated in the category
of Album of the Year: Classical Vocal. The awards will be
handed out at a gala ceremony in Montreal on October 22nd
at the Théātre St-Denis de Montréal. Check back for news!
"Toronto soprano Shannon Mercer brought a compelling
luminosity to a prolonged solo in "The sun goeth down,"
at the close of the fourth of The Kingdom's five parts,
or movements." (Musical Toronto, 6 May 2012)
"The young soloists were all first-rate, but soprano
Shannon Mercer stood out with the lyric beauty and surprising
power of her voice." (Salt Lake Tribune, 27 April 2012)
Shannon joins Les Voix Baroques and Arion Baroque Orchestra
to combine their outstanding talents for this new ATMA recording
of the St. John Passion by Bach, under the direction of
organist and conductor Alexander Weimann. This recording
was produced at the Chapel of the Grand Séminaire in Montreal,
following performances during the 2010 Bach Festival in
Montreal. The St. John Passion follows the rules of an oratorio:
The story, - essentially the last days of Christ's life
- is drawn from the Gospel according to John, and features
commentary throughout in the form of choruses sung by the
choir. In this work, Bach reaches an incomparable profundity
of expressiveness not by rote association of musical motif
with image, but by the beauty of his melodies, the feeling
associated with various keys, and the richness of his harmonies.
"...soprano Shannon Mercer...shines in the aria "Ich
folge dir gleichfalls mit freudigen Schritten." " (Wholenote,
1 April, 2012)
"It moves rapidly, with a great deal of contrast,
and one of the strengths of this imposing performance -
along with the remarkable clarity and focused sound of the
ensemble singing - is the way it maintains dramatic momentum,
often balancing different levels of activity and meaning
within the same aria or chorus. 1/2"
(Globe and Mail, 17 February, 2012)
a copy of it on Amazon today!
"Both Mercer and Williams provided a
well-balanced performance, reveling in the rich timbres
of both their voices, particularly in the lower registers,
as in Strozzi's Donna no są che dice, no dice che są. ...Mercer
showed remarkable control and flexibility in her glittering
upper range, particularly in solo cantatas such as No se
emenderį jamįs, the only one of Handel's Spanish cantatas,
or in duet with Wheeler in Agostino Steffani's Tengo per
infallibile. As a duet, both Mercer and Williams fully portrayed
the rich operatic drama of the works, be it in the tender
moments of at the close of Tengo per infallibile, or the
(again) arch Italian drama of Handel's prayer to Cupid,
Tacete, ohimč, tacete." (The Boston Musical Intelligencer,
31 January 2012)
Laura Condlln, Shannon Mercer and
Sofia Tomic in Come and Go.
Photo by John Lauener.
"Mercer's a fine singing actor, creating a sensual
character sketch in each of the songs and stepping seamlessly
into Come And Go as one of its trio." (Now,
Feb 23-March 1, 2012)
"...performing with panache and verve, ably abetted by
trumpeter Michael Fedyshyn. Mercer also gets to act a little
(and rather well)... The musical highlight proved to be
the ornate, Gaelic folksong "Eleanor a Run," exquisitely
sung by Mercer." (Toronto Star, 20
February 2012)
Join Shannon on Saturday, February 25th 10:00 a.m. (11:00
AT, 11:30 NT) as she hosts CBC Radio 2's celebrated show
This is My Music. Find out what kind of music Shannon likes
to listen to along with stories and anecdotes about her
life and career.
Listen Live on
CBC's website
First you can catch her at 10:30am
on CBC Radio One in performance at the CBC/McGill
Concert Series' annual Youth Choir Gala. The program will
also air on CBC Radio Two at 2:30pm.
You can see a video
clip on YouTube and listen to the concert on
Montreal's website.
You can also catch Shannon's holiday concert with Thirteen
String Chamber Orchestra on CBC Radio
2 on December 25th at 8pm. It will also be broadcast
on In Concert with Bill Richardson on Sunday, December 11
between 11am and 3pm and excerpts of the concert can also
be heard on Tempo with Julie Nesrallah throughout the month
of December.
Shannon performs one of JS Bach's most famous and loved
masterpieces with the Portland Baroque Orchestra and soloists
Charles Daniels, tenor, Evangelist; Matthew White, alto;
Jacques-Olivier Chartier, tenor; Tyler Duncan, bass; Joshua
Hopkins, bass; and the singers of Cappella Romana. The double-CD
package includes full texts and translations.
The CD will be available worldwide on January 10, 2012.
In the meantime, copies can be purchased through the PBO
Shannon once again joins Ensemble Caprice and Matthias
Maute for "Vivaldi - The Return of the Angels",
the follow-up to their JUNO Award winning "Gloria! Vivaldi's
it on Amazon.ca today!
Shannon's recording with her 2009 JUNO winning partners,
Ensemble Caprice and Matthias Maute is up for another award,
this time for a 2011 ADISQ Award in the category of CLASSICAL
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLOIST AND SMALL ENSEMBLE. The ADISQ
Awards will be handed out at ceremonies in Montréal
October 24. Check back for news!
Shannon joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and conductor
Alain Trudel on its Northern Residency tour to Sudbury and
Sault Ste Marie. A blast was had by all with multiple standing
ovations at each performance!
Catch Shannon talk about it here on YOUTUBE.
Sean Howard
Shannon has been invited to adjudicate Toronto's first
Handel Singing Competition, a new part of the Classical
Music Consort's popular Springtime Handel Festival. On May
8th, six young Canadian singers under 30 will have the opportunity
to perform alongside the CMC, competing for a $2,000 cash
prize in front of a discerning panel and audience. Other
jury members include: Dr. Darryl Edwards (Head of Vocal
Studies, University of Toronto), Stephen Ralls (Artistic
Director, Aldeburgh Connection), Wayne Strongman (Managing
Artistic Director, Tapestry New Opera), Ivars Taurins (Director,
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir).
From the creative team who brought us Burnt Toast
comes the joyously irreverent Mulroney: The Opera.
A political satire with an original operatic score by Alexina
Louie, the opera is written by Dan Redican, and directed
by Larry Weinstein. With on-screen stars such Rick Miller
as Brian Mulroney, Colin Mochrie as Jean Chretien, the behind-scenes
voices are provided by some of Canada's greatest opera singers,
including Shannon Mercer as Minister Blais Grenier, Daniel
Okulitch as Brian Mulroney, Lawrence Wiliford as Trudeau
etc. For more info. www.mulroneytheopera.ca
Check out the official trailer for Mulroney: The Opera
- Shannon is the voice of Minister Blais Grenier who twirls
around Mr. Mulroney at the end!
Watch a video of the program!
"Ich folge dir gelichfalls was another vocal/instrumental
duet, this time between Huggett and soprano Shannon Mercer.
It was joyous and spritely, requiring fantastically tricky
entrances from both performers. Mercer's diction was glorious
and pure and the great power of her voice was unforced,
tinged with delicate grace, ringing through the hall and
yet feeling somehow as though one were hearing it from inside
one's own head." (Oregon Music News, 14 March 2011)
"Soprano Shannon Mercer and alto Matthew White (in
an exquisite duet with Joanna Blendulf on gamba) made their
final desolate arias heartbreaking high points." (The
Oregonian, 13 March 2011)
In SHANNON MERCER: A TRADEMARK VOICE,
a recent interview with La Scena Musicale editor Wah Keung
Chan, Shannon speaks about her unique sound and her versatility
as a singer equally comfortable in a range of music - early
music, opera, contemporary and folk music.
You can read the full article by clicking on the cover
Shannon's most recent collaboration with her 2009 JUNO
winning partners, Ensemble Caprice and Matthias Maute on
the Analekta label, is up for a 2011 JUNO Award in the category
of CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: VOCAL OR CHORAL PERFORMANCE.
The JUNO Awards will be handed out at ceremonies in Toronto
March 26 & 27.
Shannon is nominated in two categories for the Prix Opus
2009-2010. Her recording O Viva Rosa of music Francesca
Caccini is nominated in the category DISQUE DE L'ANNÉE -
MUSIQUES MÉDIÉVALES, DE LA RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE. Two concerts
in which Shannon performed are nominated in the category
BAROQUE: Messe en si mineur de J.-S. Bach, Ensemble Caprice,
3 décembre 2009 and Salsa baroque, Ensemble Caprice, 20
mars 2010. The awards will be handed out at a Gala in Montréal
on January 31, 2011. Check back for news!
"She was able to enchant the audience at Christ Church....Mercer
was at her melting best here, especially in the wonderful
Schlummert ein, an aria to melt the heart every time it
is sung." (Calgary Herald, 16 November 2010)
"Shannon Mercer [has] a gorgeous, warm, flexible and
vibrato-free voice that she manipulates with a master's
confidence and musical acumen. In Fra queste ombrose piante,
(Under Those Shady Trees), a solo cantata by Conti, Mercer
rendered every emotional nuance with conviction. She was
also expressive and luminous in a suite from Handel's Il
pastor fido (The Faithful Shepherd) that alternated instrumental
dances with solo arias." (Toronto Star, 23 September
Shannon will be in the Classical 96.3fm studio to chat
with Bill Anderson about her recordings and her upcoming
concerts with Tafelmusik. She will also perform a few pieces
BBC Radio 3's program The Early Music Show featured 4 tracks
from Shannon's most recent CD, O Viva Rosa: Francesca
Caccini, in a program about the Caccini family. The
BBC 3 site retains the audio for a week so you can listen
(ends Sunday, August 22nd).
"Soprano Shannon Mercer - singing better than I'd yet heard
her - was the bright, supportive angel… a brilliant Filia
ranging with skill and passion from the exuberant vivacity
of Filia's first glad daughterly greeting to the tragic
lamentation of her inevitable doom." (Globe and Mail, 5
July 2010)
Missed your chance to see Shannon in Not the Messiah
on the big screen across Europe in March? You can now catch
her acclaimed performance as Judith on DVD. Filmed at London's
famed Royal Albert Hall on October 2009, NTM is Monty Python
genius Eric Idol's latest adventure.
now on amazon!
"The soloists perform with much gusto, effectively mugging
through some of the more outlandish pieces." (Just Press
Play, 13 June 2010)
"The soloists - William Ferguson, Shannon Mercer, Rosalind
Plowright, Christopher Purves - are also good comic actors
who hold their own with Idle, who serves as our guide and
narrator (and even sings in a voice described as "tenorish")."
(Kansas City Star, June 2010)
"Imparting a lovely, faux-classical vibe to the proceedings
are four trained vocalists who share the fore with Idle,
and they're up to the challenge of reinterpreting Python...
William Ferguson (Brian) and Shannon Mercer (Brian's oblivious
girlfriend, Judith) truly made me howl, especially in their
horny duet, "Amourdeus" -- which sits wonderfully well in
the cockeyed Python canon." (Huffington Post, 10 June 2010)
"The musical numbers are what really make this show work.
All are executed well, with vocal talent from strong soloists:
soprano Shannon Mercer, mezzo Rosalind Plowright, tenor
William Ferguson and bass Christopher Purves." (DVDtown,
3 June 2010
"The performance was well done. The opera singers were
fantastic and while singing these hilarious songs, they
acted the part showing great facial expressions and most
of all, Eric Idle definitely did a wonderful job as the
Baritonish and John Du Prez doing a wonderful job in conducting
the orchestra." (J!, 16 May 2010)
One of Canada's hottest young sopranos,
Shannon Mercer makes her Netherlands debut in Ana Sokolovic's
Love Songs, a one-woman virtuosic tour-de-force at the world-renowned
Holland Festival on June 15 and 17.
The presentation of Love Songs by one of Canada's premier
contemporary opera companies, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre,
marks the first time a Canadian opera company has staged
a work at the prestigious and trend-setting performing arts
Love Songs
takes the audience on a whirlwind tour of love from sublime
tenderness to the final profound, wild and cathartic Balkan
keening. Love is explored in all its states and in many
different languages -- love for one's mother, love between
children, love for a daughter, love shattered by grief and
most harrowingly, love for a lost brother.
For more information check out www.hollandfestival.nl
6th recording for Analekta - O
Viva Rosa - features the music of baroque
Italian composer Francesca Caccini. Joining Shannon on the
disc are Luc Beausejour (harpsichord), Sylvain Bergeron
(lute, theorbo) and Amanda Keesmaat (cello).
The first reviews are in!
"Mercer sings 17 of the airs, canzonettas, madrigals
and hymns with impeccable craft, brilliant voice, affecting
emotion and tasteful ornamentation." (Toronto Star,
16 March 2010)
"[Caccini's] haunting slow air becomes piercingly
immediate in this gorgeous performance by Ottawa-born soprano
Shannon Mercer." (Globe and Mail, 22 March 2010)
Catalogue number:
Analekta FL 2 9966
On March 25th, audiences across the UK and Ireland have
the chance to catch Monty Python funnyman Eric Idle's Not
the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) in movie theatres.
Inspired by Monty Python's The Life of Brian and
based on Handel's infamous work, Not the Messiah
was filmed in October 2009 at Royal Albert Hall. North American
audiences hope it makes it across the pond!
here to read John's list of musicians "who particularly
warmed my heart with their talent, giving nature, humility
and all-'round great contributions to Toronto's performing
arts scene over the past year." (Toronto Star, 31 December
Hear Shannon on CBC Radio 2's SATO
in Baby Kintyre, a radio opera by composer Dean Burry
to be broadcast in serial over five Saturdays starting November
7th. The opera takes its inspiration from a real
1920s Toronto household where a baby was wrapped in newsprint
and buried between the floorboards of an attic on Kintyre
Avenue, only to be discovered more than 80 years later.
The cast also includes Krisztina Szabo, Giles Tomkins, and
11-year-old Eileen Nash from the Canadian Children's Opera
Company, and an six-piece chamber ensemble under the direction
of John Hess.
Once each episode has run, CBC will make it available on
its website. Check back here for links!
Wales ~The Land of Song
and Gloria! Vivaldi and his Angels
are up both for the ADISQ Award in the category of Album
of the Year, Classical Vocal. The awards will be announced
at a gala evening on October 26, 2009. Check back for news!
"Toronto singer Shannon Mercer has a rare combination of
a pure, lyric soprano voice coupled with enough power to
fill a large hall. On top of that, she deftly shaped the
dramatic arc of this profession of undying love." (Toronto
Star, 4 January 2010)
"The standout was soprano Shannon
Mercer, who not only has a luminous lyric voice, but who
sings every word as if she truly means it. She made us want
to rejoice greatly, and we were convinced that her redeemer
really is alive. The size and acoustics of Roy Thomson Hall
are not kind to the smaller, more lithe voices that are
best at singing 18th century music, but Mercer fully overcame
these obstacles." (Toronto Star,
17 December 2009)
"Feathery-voiced soprano Shannon Mercer and honey, warm
mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó were their usual excellent
selves." (Classical96.3, 20 December
"The two Americans from the original cast, Shannon
Mercer as Judith and William Ferguson as Brian bringing
the house down in their Amourdeus duet and bringing lyrical
beauty to their duet in The Final Song." (View
London, 26 October 2009)
"An operatic sex scene makes
the form fit the content, is brilliantly performed by Shannon
Mercer and William Ferguson (as Brian), and gets the ovation
it deserves." (Times, October
24 2009)
Check out this YOUTUBE
clip from the performance
"Ottawa soprano Shannon Mercer sang Pamina, Tamino's beloved.
Along with her beautiful singing, she brought an interpretation
to the role that suggested that she would be an ideal spouse
for Tamino. The two of them, along with flutist Joanna G'froerer,
created a sense of high seriousness, almost sacredness,
in the fire and water scene. In this production, the scene
was the emotional climax of the opera." (Ottawa
Citizen, 14 September 2009)
"Soprano Shannon Mercer beautifully expressed the shifting
emotions of Pamina, a damsel in some distress..." (Monday
Magazine, 23-29 April)
"Shannon Mercer's Pamina is tender, guileless and,
in her moments of anguish, deeply moving." (Victoria
Times Colonist, 18 April 2009)
"The lead singers and the music itself were the saving
of the evening. Soprano Shannon Mercer and tenor Colin Ainsworth
were handsome and vocally appealing as the Princess Pamina
and the Prince Tamino, the lovers elevated to a nominal
wisdom by their fidelity and courage." (Globe
and Mail, 1 November 2008)
"Indeed, there was much to smile about in Opera Hamilton's
production. First and foremost, the singing. How Toronto
soprano Shannon Mercer has blossomed since she last sang
here five years ago. Beautiful tone, pure and steady, she
was a delight in Pamina's plangent aria, Ach, ich fuhl's."
(Hamilton Spectator, 1 November 2008)
Read about Shannon in the Hamilton Spectator


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NEW YORK—There was something anachronistic about Dr. Norbert Sander as he stood by the Armory track in Washington Heights. His soft eyes gazed into the distance at the young runners—a charge of adrenaline imminently approaching.
Sander, 71 and debonair, wore a classic tan blazer with sepia-colored pants. He spoke in a cordial tone, greeting the youths who walked past him as ladies and gentlemen. Hip-hop beats boomed in the background as runners zoomed by him.
His coeval friends are spending the twilight of their lives in Florida, Hawaii, or Arizona, where the sun shines daily and real estate prices remain low.
But the Armory in Washington Heights is the perfect place for Sander to be on this numbing January afternoon. The Armory, more than anything, is a place for new beginnings.
The Armory is where indoor runners go to break records; Olympians such as Will Claye once ran and leaped on its premium six-lane track. The building displays a panoply of runners who made history through the official National Track and Field Hall of Fame.
Sander himself ran at the Armory during his youth, and he went on to win the New York Marathon in 1974. To this day, he is the only New Yorker to have ever done so.
Sander is currently the president and executive director of the Armory Foundation, and a physician who still makes old-fashioned house calls on City Island.
His walking pace has slowed significantly these days, but he still runs 30 miles a week.
Twice a week at 8 in the morning, Sander can be seen making his rounds at the Armory track. He's not ready to give up running, or the Armory, just yet. After all, he had won a long, hard battle to reclaim this place more than two decades ago.
The Fort Washington Avenue Armory was once a military storage built in 1909. It held its first track meet in 1914. But by the mid 1980s, the place became a homeless shelter.
This is the story of how one simple man from Yonkers reclaimed the track by insisting that money should never stop anyone from doing something worthwhile.
Running in the Dark
Sanders recalls peering out his window, agape, to see his father's plane fly past their humble apartment next to the Sacred Heart Church.
He grew up in North Yonkers, where the people around him also grew up and stayed in Yonkers. But his father was different. He was a pilot.
"We lived in an area where everyone is very insular," Sander said. "But my father gave me a sense of adventure, a sense that the world is a big place."
His father used to fly to places such as Morocco, Greenland, and Iceland.
"He taught me to never not do something because of the money," Sander said. "If it's worth the money, then go do it."
But Sander didn't need money to run.
As a child, what he enjoyed most were the evening track meets for the Sacred Heart Grammar School. There was something mesmerizing about the nightlights and the cheering crowd.
"Running is a part of my life's fabric in a sense, it is a part of my being," he said.
Whenever he came across an open space, he would sporadically run as fast as he could.
Running got him through medical school; running even saved his life once.
Sander used to take three months out of the year to do heavy construction to pay for his studies at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He installed pipes throughout Manhattan, from the east and west side of 42nd street to Upper Manhattan.
When his shift ended at 4 a.m., he would make his nightly 10-mile run to Yonkers through a sublimely quiet New York City.
During his residency at the Lincoln Medical Center in downtown Bronx in 1973, Sander continued to go for runs in the middle of the night.
All he had to do was "outrun the bad guys," he said with a shrug.
He had to do precisely just that on some occasions, like the time when a group of men said they were going to throw him into the river.
He recalled slowing down purposely, and just as one was about to grab him, he sped up full speed to lose them. And that was how he avoided some possibly lurid endings.
First Meet, 1956
Sander has run almost everywhere, but there is one running place that will always have a fond place in his heart. The Armory.
He had his first meet there with the Fordham Preparatory School when he was a freshman.
Sander can still remember walking into the Armory on that first Saturday of December in 1956. There were no girls racing at the time. The boys changed in the lobby.
The floor was made of wood, and in the middle was a wooden ring they raced around.
"It kept getting dislodged," he said. "If someone hit the rim it'd go flying."
He points to the spot where he once ran a 300-meter handicap, but slipped on the wooden floor, and slid against the wall as he turned. It left a long raw burn on his side.
He recalled seeing glimpses of an American flag on the other side of the track. But most of it was hidden by smoke. Races were filled with cigar and cigarette smokers in 1956.
When he went home that evening after the race, he felt as if he had "swallowed a can of needles."
"Your lungs were so tight," he said.
That was the Armory in 1956. Although it didn't have the best conditions, he felt that it brought the community together, that it was a crucial place for children to learn discipline at a deciding age. It was that discipline that later got him through medical school.
"It's one of the few things in life that you can start and finish in the same day," he said. "It exhibits a sense of completion, and that's good for young people."
The conditions of the track, however, continued to worsen. Tuberculosis broke out at the track at one point. By the mid 1980s, the derelict track became a homeless shelter.
Getting the Key
In 1990, Sander's old track coach at Fordham Prep, Joe Fox, passed away.
The death of the coach meant the death of an era—unless, someone did something to revive the Armory, he thought.
And so Sander began writing op-eds for the New York Times and the Daily News, to see if anyone else remembered that feeling of disciplined youth, if anyone else felt that it was being lost.
People did. Sander rallied support, but no money.
He spent some time lobbying, writing letters to politicians, and just when it seemed like it was a lost cause, the stars aligned: the court ruled a new law that limited the number of homeless people one shelter could hold.
The Armory building was sheltering 2,000 men at the time, a number well above the legal capacity. A part of the building opened up.
The day when Mayor Dinkins found out he had lost his re-election, was the day when Sander got the key to the Armory.
As his campaign crew was leaving office, a member of his office told Sander to stop by and pick up the key.
"Goodbye and good luck," he was told.
As Sander walked away with the key and into the rain, he thought of his father.
"If it's worth the money, then go do it," he told himself.
A New Armory
His friends, such as an owner of a chain of running stores, got in touch with a shoe company to get funding.
They reopened in 1993 with $70,000 from the company—although a new track cost $250,000.
They started charging fees for usage and getting more investments from companies. Sander said the money will come, if you keep moving forward; and it did.
From 1993 to today, some $50 million of public and private money had been spent on the Armory.
The old Armory track was renovated into the New Balance Track and Field Center, which is a 60,000-square-foot arena that holds 100 track meets each year.
It is also a new home to the Millrose Games, one of track and field's most prestigious annual events.
After a century of having the games at Madison Square Garden, Sander brought the Millrose Games to the Armory in 2012. More than 200 athletes share the distinction of being both Millrose and Olympic champions.
Millrose Games are happening this year on Feb. 15.
College Prep
The Armory still exists alongside a homeless shelter, but within its doors, struggling children decide to go to college.
Sander noticed how many of the public school children did not apply their discipline skills to anything more after high school. Some got pregnant, others ended up on the streets.
For the past 10 years, the Armory has been holding college prep courses in addition to its after school athletic programs. According to Sanders, 95 percent of the children in that program go to college. One was even accepted into the renowned Posse Foundation this year.
"I tell you, watching young people come and run here is a very positive experience," he said. "It gives me energy."
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