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Joelle's Classic Catering
Joelle has catered corporate holiday parties, countless weddings and other events. Socially aware, she sometimes hosts political fundraisers at her spacious Victorian home where her guests rave about her fabulous cooking skills.
Her "brides� are often showcased in the society pages of The New York Times. She has been featured in the New York Daily News, the New York Post and other publications.
I first met Joelle Bailey seemingly by chance in 2003. She was invited to host a workshop on "Etiquette" at my group's Rites of Passage program.
As I entered the meeting room I could hear the strains of an animated, excited and passionate voice. Within seconds I discovered that the voice belonged to an equally eager entrepreneur, speaker and teacher, none other than the incomparable Joelle Bailey. I listened to the presentation with rapt attention captivated by not only Ms. Bailey's presence but by the enthusiasm with which she made her delivery. I was even more fascinated by the undivided attention accorded her by more than 50 rambunctious teenagers who had volunteered to spend three hours listening to a topic that is hardly fashionable in their MTV/BET-inspired world.
The questions they asked until the very end of the session convinced me that Ms. Bailey had gained their trust and respect. She, in turn, responded in kind. She answered each young woman's question with patience and continued fervor. After a private conversation with her I learned that Joelle was overtaxed that day with the duties of her professional and personal lives and almost did not make the event. Although she had no personal investment in the Girls' Rites of Passage, she decided to press her way to deliver what she had promised.
Joelle's Classic Catering opened its doors for business in Jamaica Estates in 1994. It was founded by Ms. Bailey, a vibrant young woman whose watchwords are "etiquette and manners are still in style.� And they are, in Joelle's, world as she goes about teaching classes and giving workshops on the art of entertaining.
Ms. Bailey, a multifaceted entrepreneur has been in the business for more than 20 years. During that time she has amassed an impressive list of clients which includes, but is in no way limited to: singer Diana Ross, comedian Bill Cosby, the Rev. Hezekiah Walker, Columbia University, Russell Simmons, The New York Urban League and Essence magazine. Indeed it was at Essence that she first started planning corporate birthday parties and company events. Hired as a circulation representative, she mingled with clients and quickly learned what was required to meet their needs. As her job included extensive travel, she spent a considerable amount of time at international hotels and restaurants. She was appalled at what she deemed poor service at some of these establishments. "It was then,� she said, that she decided to "get into food service and entertaining.� But her beginnings go much further back. In fact, it can be said that it was her calling from birth.
Ms. Bailey was born in Haiti to parents who unknowingly provided the foundation for her current vocation. Her mother was a stickler for etiquette and decorum and made no bones about communicating her wishes. Her father made certain that the family sat down at the dinner table for every meal. On Sundays, relatives gathered at the Bailey house for Sunday dinner and shared many happy times which Joelle both enjoyed and remembers with fondness. No doubt the seeds of hospitality and entertaining were planted in those early days.
But Joelle's parents had other plans for their daughter. They advised her to pursue a college degree in a "respectable� field. Joelle obliged and graduated with a Liberal Arts degree from Pace University in New York City. But, she never abandoned her first love. Her parents eventually divorced and her stepmother encouraged her to follow her dream. Her pursuit led her to the Vista Hotel where she worked as a banquet coordinator booking hotel events. She used her time there to learn as much as she could from the hotel chefs and event planners. From there, she went on to Essence, then to LSG Sky Chefs, the airline food service providers. The rest, as they say, is history.
Ms. Bailey quickly ascended the ranks of the hospitality industry and finally decided to start her own business. She is passionate about serving her clients and goes the extra mile to ensure that all her events are a resounding success. This sentiment is echoed by one satisfied client after another. Joelle has catered corporate holiday parties, countless weddings and other events. Socially aware, she sometimes hosts political fundraisers at her spacious Victorian home where her guests rave about her fabulous cooking skills.
Her "brides� are often showcased in the society pages of The New York Times. She has been featured in the New York Daily News, the New York Post and other publications. She was recently nominated for an Influential Black Woman in Business Award.
She has written a regular column "Ask Joelle� which is featured in many newspapers across the tri-state area. Her column is dedicated to the basics of dining and entertaining and a few recipe suggestions are added to the menu for good measure. Joelle teaches courses in the art of etiquette, table manners and sophistication to young people in various schools in her community. As much as she loves cooking, Ms. Bailey confesses that nothing gives her more pleasure than making a difference in the lives of children.
For this reason, she has set up the Issiah W. Simms Foundation named for her four-year-old son. The vision of the Foundation is to "help children in the community make a path back home to the art of etiquette and manners.� Ms. Bailey, lamenting that today's younger generation is fed a constant diet of video games and computers, contends that "technology cannot replace manners�. Feeling that etiquette had become a thing of the past, she decided to take matters into her own hands and personally share her knowledge of this dying art with the members of her Foundation.
Ms. Bailey is currently working on a number of books. One of them will feature her award-winning recipes complete with her own line of cooking oils, sauces and spices. She is also developing a soon-to-be-released series of training courses that will be available on CD and DVD. These courses will focus on the how-to of catering. Never short on either ideas or energy, Ms. Bailey's long-range goal is to open a Finishing School that would be free to residents of new home community in Brooklyn's Highland Park. She is certainly a doer and if her past is any indication of the future, then Joelle Bailey will accomplish all that she has set out to do and Classic Catering will soon become a household name and a force to be reckoned with.
Classic Catering can be found on the Web at www.classic-catering.com.
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Pus on the gum is closely related to a condition called dental abscess and can be initiated by periodontal disease. An abscess cannot heal on its own, medical treatment is performed to dry out the abscess, disinfect it with antibiotics, make a canal to the root of the tooth, until it removes the infected tooth.
Pus is a thick liquid that contains dead tissue, cells, and bacteria. Pus is generally yellowish white, greenish, yellow or brownish yellow, and sometimes smells bad. The appearance of pus due to certain areas of inflammation during infection. This inflammatory reaction is the body's natural reaction to fight infection.
Causes of Gums in Gums
Pus on the gums usually comes from a tooth abscess. An abscess is generally caused by a bacterial infection and causes a throbbing pain. Poorly maintained oral hygiene and lack of care on the teeth, making teeth easily perforated and infected with bacteria. The growth of bacteria that is left will cause infection in the teeth. This infection will spread to the area around the gum and there is a collection of pus on the gum.
Bacterial infections can occur in the gums, tooth roots, and supporting bones of the teeth. Infection or inflammation of the tissue around the teeth that causes gum disease, can also be the cause of the appearance of pus on the gums. Gum disease often causes the gums to become slightly released from the teeth, forming a bag that can be filled with bacteria and develops into an abscess.
Periodontal abscesses can also develop as a complication of injury to the gums or tissue around the teeth, which causes injury. Injuries to the gums are susceptible to infection, because food or dirt that is involved and embedded in the gums can make germs thrive.
People with a weakened immune system, suffer from diabetes (link), or are undergoing chemotherapy treatment, are more prone to experience dental abscesses and pus on the gums.
Treating Pus in the Gums
If the pain is unbearable, you can take painkillers such as paracetamol which can be purchased freely. However, some people need a stronger pain reliever and can only be obtained by prescription. After the pus has dried, generally the symptoms complained of will soon disappear.
Pus on the gums can be treated by draining pus from the gum to dry by piercing the abscess or by making a small hole in the tooth so that pus can flow out. After that, you should also clean the bag of pus on the gum. This step must be done by a dentist. The dentist may also give oral antibiotics that must be taken for several days to overcome the overall infection. If pus has not disappeared and the abscess does not heal within a few days, it is recommended to immediately consult the dentist.
To prevent pus pockets from breaking, avoid eating hot or cold foods and drinks that can make pain worse. Eat soft food, and chew food using the side of the mouth that is not infected. Don't forget to use a soft toothbrush and avoid linking dental flossing to areas of teeth and gums that have infection or pus in the gums.
Meanwhile, if an abscess ruptures before he can go to the dentist, immediately rinse his mouth with warm water to clean the mouth while pushing pus out completely.
Possible Complications
Pus on the gums that do not get proper treatment can trigger a number of possible complications, such as the formation of a channel between the location of the infection with the skin or mouth that can expel pus continuously.
In addition, pus in the gums that are not treated properly can also trigger sinusitis, fluid-filled cavities in the teeth of dental cysts, as well as bone infections near the gums that are infected.
It is important to immediately see a dentist if there is pus on the gums or if you find an abscess in the mouth. In addition to treating, also to prevent complications.
Prevent Prevention
Pus on the gum due to abscess can be avoided by maintaining good oral hygiene. Get used to brushing your teeth regularly, and if necessary, do flossing using dental floss or dental floss.
Maintaining oral hygiene also includes cleaning the tongue and applying a healthy diet. Avoid consuming drinks or foods that contain high sugar and stop smoking, are some actions that can improve oral health.
If the teeth appear to be damaged or there is pus on the gums, immediately consult a dentist, so that appropriate treatment can be given to prevent the emergence of dangerous complications. Also do regular dental checks at least once a year.

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School Board meetings are typically held in Room 11 on the third Tuesday of the month (when not impacted by breaks).To accommodate parent schedules, meeting start times are either 3:15 p.m. or 6:00 p.m. Be sure to check the calendar for start times.
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In fiscal year 2015-16, Lake Elementary School District began utilizing Agenda Online, a service from CSBA (California School Boards Association). Agenda Online is an electronic board meeting agenda service that saves us time and money. The web-based application allows us to electronically develop and access board meeting information including agendas, background information, supporting documents and minutes. Agendas, minutes, and board packet materials for each monthly meeting will be found here.
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In Facebook advertising, it's important to understand the different types of funnels that will help you acquire more leads and, in turn, more sales. Hopefully, with the help of detailed examples, you'll be able to grasp a stronger comprehension of these types of funnels, regardless of having practical experience using them or not. Although we briefly discussed what a sales funnel was last week, I'd like you to visualize a real funnel. That's right ― imagine a typical funnel you would find in a kitchen cabinet used for pouring large volumes of liquids into a narrow opening. Now, replace that mental image of the liquid being poured through the funnel with a mass amount of customer leads. Voilà! The objective of any successful sales funnel is to attract a large amount of potential consumers and persuade and qualify them into becoming actual consumers.
Without any further adieu, let's just jump right into it. Here are the first 2 types of Facebook funnels that will get you more sales.
1. The Freebie Funnel
The first type of ad is one that offers people a free product. I mean, who doesn't love free stuff? Although this ad is quite basic and easy to create, it is also very effective because, again, free. It doesn't really matter what you are offering for free. It can be anything from a physical product, such as a phone case or a watch, all the way to an ebook or instructional video that you personally created. Just give the people what they want, already. The people who do want the free product will click onto the ad, and are then taken to a landing page.
On this landing page, you ask them to provide their name, email and, perhaps, their phone number. If they provide this information in exchange for your free offer, great! That means you've achieved a necessary level of trust with this person, and they are already more likely to become a paying customer in the future. In regards to whoever arrives on the landing page but decides not to enter their information for the free product, you will retarget them. Retargeting is something that we will definitely dive deep into in the upcoming weeks but, for now, know that it essentially means that you will target your ads towards them again by throwing them back into your sales funnel.
Now, you can leave this funnel as it is with the basic steps ― 1) Free product 2) Landing page 3) Retarget ― or, you can add an additional step where you attempt to upsell to your lead captures. If they opted-in their information on the landing page for a free haircut, you can take them to a page afterwards that offers them 50% off hair colour, for example. You can claim this to be a OTO (One Time Offer) which increases their likelihood of snagging the offer since it leaves them with a sense of scarcity. This upsell doesn't even necessarily have to sell anything, as it could also be an opportunity to schedule an appointment in exchange for another freebie. Obviously, increasing the chances that leads will actually walk into your store is what you're aiming towards. For instance, instead of pitching the sale on hair colour for 50% off, you can tell them to call to schedule an appointment to receive a free deep conditioning treatment in addition to the free haircut.
All in all, it can be a good idea to upsell to leads at this point in your funnel since they have already shown a degree of interest and trust in your offer. What's a relationship without trust, really? If they've already warmed up to you a bit, they may choose to warm-up to you even more. Again, for anyone that doesn't buy or opt-in on your upsell, you'll retarget them in prospective ads.
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2. The Consulting Funnel
This type of ad coaxes your leads through a funnel with the intention of landing a consultation call with them. Similarly to the Freebie Funnel, you'll start by offering people a free product. With this type of funnel, however, your ad must highlight the pain or problem that they have and indicate how the free product will solve that problem. Your offer needs to hit them in the feels. It's got to make them recall the gnawing annoyance associated with that pain, and envoke a desire to be joyfully relieved from that pain. Moreover, if you have cold, hard evidence to back up your claims, be sure to include it within the ad. It will definitely build a stronger sense of credibility between you and your potential leads, and you certainly want that. Once someone clicks onto the ad, they will be taken to a landing page where you'll collect their name, email, and phone number. If they don't fill out this information ― you guessed it ― they'll be retargeted, of course.
So, from here, the people who gave you their basic information will receive their free product either on a page they are brought to or through their email. At this point, you hit them with a CTA (Call To Action) to schedule a free consultation call with you that is related to product they just received. As an example, let's say you're a real estate agent who offered a free cheat sheet called "7 Amazing Apps for Real Estate Agents". Clearly, the people that snatch up for your cheat sheet are real estate agents who are looking for tools to aid them in becoming more productive and efficient. Now that they know you're trustworthy enough to take tips from, you can tell them to book a call with you through an online platform such as Calendly so you can help grow their business. Again, at this point, everything is free which is a pretty attractive deal. Won't you have way too many people expecting a call from you? Not necessarily.
Here's the catch. Realistically, there will probably be many people who don't book a call with you, and even from the ones that do, there will be some that just aren't well-suited for your services. That's okay. The way that you can weed through these people is by sending them to fill out a survey. There, you will ask them various questions about their business and you can, therefore, decide which leads are genuinely a good fit for you and your business. In doing so, you hold the leverage and can manage your time and effort more accordingly. No need to waste your time on potentially difficult or unprofitable leads. When you conclude which leads are worth following up with, you jump on the phone (or even Skype) with them and close your client. Bada bing, bada boom.
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Fear not, there are a couple more types of funnels that we will discuss next week. For now, I leave you with these two models so that you can try to implement them for the first time or, perhaps, make some tweaks to the current sales funnels you're running. Remember that all marketers, no matter how seasoned, are constantly split testing, adjusting, and seeking to improve their ads and sales funnels. It's a process. Don't fret if your first few sales funnels aren't instant success stories. It takes time, and so there is no better time to start than now.


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Madison High School students participated in the Shakesperience Festival hosted by the Shakespeare Theater of the New Jersey at Drew University. The festival is a unique opportunity for interested students to experience Shakespeare's plays by acting them. Each school that participates prepares a scene from Shakespeare and performs it for their peers the day of the festival. Sixteen schools from all over the state participated in this year's festival, and performed scenes from "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," "Taming of the Shrew," and many others.For the festival this year, Madison High School prepared the climatic wedding scene from "Much Ado About Nothing". Twelve Madison High School students rehearsed for six weeks to prepare their scene, and delivered an outstanding performance. Among the actors were Kaitlin McCulloch, Preston Tolbert, Nicky Vanech, Ben Hansen, Emily Bliss, Emma Conant Hiley, and Denny Harrington. Stage managers were Lainie Rowland assisted by Sam De Lara. At the festival, three of the actors took home awards: Grace Johnson-DeBaufre won for Outstanding Student Acting and Direction, Lisa Jenkins received an award for Distinguished Acting, and Julia Guiheen was cited for her Exceptional Vulnerability on stage. Congratulations to Madison's new Shakespearians!
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Michael Ian Black's recent New York Times column cemented my decision to never take a cruise. So Uncool, It's Cool. Not. He liked the mindless ordinariness. All I could focus on were the stairs, elevators, and confinement on crowded decks "surrounded by a thousand fleshy strangers in swimsuits", yuk! Everything I thought bad seems to be true.
However, he linked a 1997 essay by David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. Wallace's solo adventure on the megaliner Zenith, which he dubbed the Nadir. It was one of the funniest best written pieces I've ever read. A self-proclaimed semi-agoraphobe, he liked his cabin a lot. Since he eventually committed suicide, I won't say I could relate. But. It was hilarious. The footnotes were priceless. Will be exploring other of his works.


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Marketing to Millennials : Understanding the Changing Rules
The Power of Choice
Before the advent of the Internet, buyers were extremely limited in their options. Millennials have grown up surrounded by choices, however, with myriad brands and businesses competing for their attention. In the average millennial buyer, this has created an expectation of multiple price points and variations of the same products or services. Shifting social pressures and unstable economic environments have further altered the traditional marketing model, as millennials pursue different paths in adulthood. Whereas baby boomers were marrying and having children in their early twenties, many millennials take things more slowly. Some of these buyers still live at home with their parents, while others are singletons pursuing high-level careers without the added responsibilities of domestic life. Catering to the various segments within the millennial population is a challenging equation.
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Marketers have always worked to address the wants and desires of buyers, often creating a perceived need even when one does not exist. In a report compiled by global insight firm CEB, businesses were found to be more successful with millennials when they embraced three key marketing strategies: understanding the audience's values, realistically assessing the buyer's spending power and lifestyle, and "involving" these consumers, as opposed to simply selling a product. Real-world applications of these strategies are particularly evident in the hospitality industry, with restaurants working to cater to the millennial crowd. Millennials are more apt to spend time eating out with friends, as they're not limited by spouses and young children. Furthermore, these buyers are on the hunt for a multitude of choices, as evidenced by the popularity of services like Yelp, which highlight a number of businesses operating in any given area. To answer this need, many chefs work on creating new menus at varying price points, which can help keep young buyers engaged with the brand. Life will be changing rapidly for millennials in the years to come, as many of these young adults begin to settle down and establish families of their own. Marketing trends experts still believe millennials will be driven by a desire for plenty of options, however, and the core values of these buyers will likely remain constant. Because the nature of the millennial marketing game is evolving, it's important for small businesses to carefully monitor the situation and not feel hesitant about trying various techniques to see what works best.


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Dos Pueblos Softball Defense Roars
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Dos Pueblos Girls Softball beat Ventura High school 14-2 on April 25. It was an absolute all star game for the Chargers, as they played phenomenally against the Cougars.
The Chargers' star pitcher junior Allison Speshyock is incredibly proud of her team and has seen a lot of improvement as the season goes on.
"The team played absolutely great," Spechyock said. "We have been working hard this season and so far we have had ups and downs and have showed a lot of progression."
Speshyock has personally had a very impressive season as well.
"I have pitched fourteen total strike outs; and plan to continue that against our rivals Santa Barbara," Spechyock said.
The Chargers are 6-2 in league play and 14-7 overall. After beating the Cougars, they played the Dons, and it was not much of a nail biter, as they won 7-0. The Chargers continued their shutout streak by beating Warren High School and Chaminade High School 4-0.
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Theron F. "Bud" Bice Jr.
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Theron F. "Bud" Bice Jr., 59, Gouverneur, passed away at home on Friday, June 30, 2017.
There are no funeral services and burial will be private in Fullerville Cemetery. Arrangements are with the Green Funeral Home, Gouverneur.
Theron was born on September 22, 1957 in Gouverneur, the son of Theron "Sonny" and Fern "Sally" McIntosh Bice.
He graduated from Gouverneur High School and attended college before serving in the United States Army for 12 years and the Army Reserves for 8 years.
Theron married Vicki Peck on August 24, 1985.
He worked in construction and was employed at Fort Drum for 20 years.
Bud enjoyed hunting, gardening, making maple syrup and wood crafts. He was also a fan of NASCAR, cheering on Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Junior, enjoyed bowling, flea markets, and was a favorite of the kids around Easter time, hiding hundreds of eggs for them to find.
Bud is survived by his wife Vicki, his children Catherine and Erik Bice of Fowler, Maison Pankey of Gouverneur, grandchildren Zayden and Caylana Bice, brothers Russell Bice, Nelson and Nancy Bice, sister Michelle and John Walrath Sr., many nieces and nephews. He is predeceased by his parents, a brother Kelvin Bice Sr., a sister Evelyn Sanders, a nephew Benjamin Pankey, nieces Natalie Bice and Jasmine Pankey.
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Do you ever take some one for granted? They will do what you want – so no worries. You may feel okay about this but there may be signs of discontent from the other person – whether this is your spouse or child at home or colleague or subordinate at work. You suspect they may … Continue reading Manipulate – Do you unwittingly do this?
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Do I get my way too often?
Okay so you seldom shout at your teenage son to keep his bedroom tidy. In fact you don't voice explosive anger, never mind verbal abuse or a threat of violence to get your own way. But perhaps without even realising it, do you sometimes use less obvious methods of manipulation?
Do your attempts at influencing others amount to trying to make them think, act, or feel the way you do? How do you assess the way you manage other people in your life? Do you get your own way too often?


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MUHAMMAD Ali standing over Sonny Liston, claiming the 1964 world heavyweight title, has always epitomised boxing for me: the look of cold, bloodthirsty hunger on his face, as he stood tense over his opponent, who was laid out.
I never thought boxing was cool, but when Katie Taylor won gold for boxing in the Olympics, last year, I got confused.
Taylor was cool and the paradox of her soft mannerisms and gentle, smiling face confused my belief that boxing was an opportunity for barbarians to unleash their inner demons.
I discovered, in becoming a boxer, that passion, emotion, any feeling, is a hindrance in the ring. Remaining cool, calm and in control of your movements is the secret.
The way to a win is patience. You must wait; protect your face, keep moving and, when you see an opening, strike.
The first few sessions of my six-week training for a white-collar boxing tournament were entertaining, because they involved no boxing, just learning the basics, which was difficult.
Punching did not come naturally to me and my attempts were frail, flimsy arm jerks.
"Commit," I was told repeatedly by my trainers — Seanie, Gerry, Brian and Graham — "extend your arm and twist your elbow."
Other elements of boxing proved difficult. That prancing, dancing stance is not as easy as it looks.
For the first week or two, each training evening left me weak and in pain. The arm-strengthening exercises were the cruellest. We had to hold our arms out, level with our shoulders, and keep them tense.
At first, I was dismissive that this would be arduous; however, as the seconds ticked by, gravity pulled on my weak little arms and the battle to keep my stance brought me close to tears.
The burning sensation in my biceps would stay with me long after I had dropped my arms and cradled them in a self-hug.
Somewhere between the intense pain and peculiar procedures, the boxing basics became more instinctive.
My prance improved and my punch followed the formula.
Week three, we began to box in the ring. I hopped in, full of enthusiasm, and was swiftly suckered-punched, square on the nose. I cried, just a few leaky tears, but it was enough.
The following week, I found my survival instinct. I did a couple of rounds and I came out of it without a knock.
From there, I really started to find my feet.
Graham told me getting hit was the best thing that could have happened to me. I told him I could think of better things.
I never enjoyed the ring, but I knew it was just three minutes, and all I had to do was avoid the flying fists.
The week of the big fight, we were all getting our gear on for the final session, when we noticed a new girl among the ranks. The gossip mill swings into motion. The ladies are very curious.
"Who's she, now?"
"Jaysus, she's a bit late starting,"
"What's going on at all?"
As dictated by the lads, we took our turns in the ring. At this stage, we all had an idea of each other's movements and style. We knew what to watch for and when to strike.
I was paired with the new girl and I struggled. She was good, but she reacted excessively.
A fake punch sent her into overload, throwing all kinds of shapes. I faked one, dodged the reaction, spun and swiped her from the side.
I got lucky with some tight jabs, and finished with a stellar sucker-punch on the nose.
After the session, Gerry and Seanie cornered me as I packed my bag. "How did you get on there, now?
"Ah, shur, grand," I said, casually but cautiously.
The boys looked at each other, Gerry takes the lead. "That girl is from Seanie's boxing club, you will be fighting her on the night — I can't put you in the ring with the other girls."
They tell me she has been boxing for five years and also practises Taekwondo.
I wasn't looking forward to the fight and I definitely wasn't up for it now.
On the night, I am fight number 11 and the waiting is agony. Everyone comes back with stories. Win or lose, the consensus is it's fast, confusing and tiring.
"It will be over before you know it," the waiting are assured.
Gerry is in my corner. He tells me the ring is smaller than the training ring. He says forget the shadow games; hit her. But I decide to see how I get on.
I get on terribly. Gerry is right. The ring is tiny and there is no getting away from her. She is relentless.
Punch after punch after punch; it is the longest three minutes of my life.
I try to duck and dive, but there is nowhere to go. I am numb to the pain, but the constant impact has me dazed. The bell goes. I retreat to my corner in a hurry.
"I'm getting bate, Gerry," I say.
"Of course you are. I told you to hit her. Hit her, Roisin," he says.
The bell goes and round two starts; I hit her. Left and right, repeatedly, without pausing. I don't give her a second. I follow her around the ring as she tries to create space. She slips and falls. I walk away.
It reconvenes in the same thread; left right, left right. It is not pretty or clever boxing. It is just punching and I don't feel good about it. She leans on the ropes, I ease-off and fall back.
She takes the opportunity and springs forward. I am insulted by her retaliation, following my soft moment and I lean into my punches. The bell goes and I don't need to be told I won the round.
Round three starts ferociously. She wants to win back points, but I had given up all sentiments of courteous conduct. I punch her every opportunity I get. She spends the entire round on the ropes and I don't let up until the bell goes.
It is just three rounds of three minutes, but it is more tiring than a two-hour run. We go to the centre for the decision. The ref holds us both by the hand. He raises mine high into the air.
* Boxing Olympian Kenny Egan, light-heavyweight silver Olympic medallist, will be coming out of retirement tonight to take on UCC Students' Union president, Padraig Haughney, who is mounting the challenge of surviving a few rounds.
The match takes place in the Savoy, Cork at 7pm, and money raised will go to Breakthrough Cancer Research and the Children's Unit at Cork University Hospital.
Tickets are €10.
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I painted this guy up for the Hobby Commitment Challenge the Malifaux sub-reddit is running . The challenge is to paint 10 soulstones worth of models every month. I managed to finish this guy up in one evening of painting while I was trying to figure out what to do for the second round of the Iron Painter contest. I am really happy with how quickly I was able to paint a model to this level; I definitely feel like I am improving as a painter!
Last week I mentioned that since I have my Daydreams painted red, green, and blue and I have Teddys painted red and blue, I should paint a Teddy green so that I have a matching set. Due to working on my round one Iron painter entry I had only built and primed this guy and finished his base; as I hadn't decided on a paint scheme for this Teddy, the decision was quite obvious.
And here are all of my Teddys together with their DayDream buddies. I really love how vibrant these all look together.
I have already planned out what I will be painting as my May entry for the Malifaux sub-reddit Hobby Commitment Challenge, now I just need to take some before pictures and start painting!
I'm making solid progress on my Iron Painter entry for round two. If you haven't check it out yet, you can take a look at what I am doing here. As you can see, my Iron Painter entry will fit in great with the nightmares I have running around here; a familiar face from here may even make an appearance in my sculpting!
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AC Milan made it official on their website as they would like to obtain the services of the LA Galaxy star. What more incredible was the terms in which they would like to get him. The Spice Boy will be wearing the Rossoneri as of January on a four-month loan in which the Italians did not have to pay a penny.
"Beckham has chosen Milan. We are an ultra-competitive squad and David is an intriguing addition. We aren't trying to collect big-name figures. Milan are very proud to be the only side that the fans are flocking to see," said coach Carlo Ancelotti on the Milan website.
This is in an attempt for Beckham to keep his place in the English national team during these months in which he would be inactive as the MLS regular season in done. England coach Fabio Capello mentions that he would not call up any player that was inactive. Beckham has also lost relevance in the football world east of the Atlantic Ocean in his effort to make the sport big in a country where they "feared" it, as Ruud Gullit said. In the process of be soccer´s version of The One, he became stagnant and had to overcome injuries as well as coaching changes. The stagnation of the MLS´biggest star is an injustice to the ever-improving level of play of the league, but Beckham was always the different player with different needs and different intentions. If he wants to be more than a second-half "super sub", he will need to be closer to Fabio Capello´s radar. To be inactive when Capello needs him most, would not be earning him points.
There is also speculation as far the English international remaining in the fashion capital of the world- permanently. "He will stay here at Milan for several months and we are discussing things with his agent," Galliani explained. Many people mention that there is a possibility that his future might be with Milan and their his potential for a commercial resurrection as he plays alongside players like Ronaldinho and Kaká.
So January will be an interesting time of the year as it always is. More importantly, this soap opera will give everyone yet one more reason to focus on Serie A even more.


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Why It's Okay to Be A Bad Blogger
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This is so relatable right now, since I started my new job (a month ago now) I've been struggling to find the motivation to write. I have a couple of post ideas but it's hard to find the balance between working 9-5, having time to myself and writing and then being in bed by about 10. It's hard, but it's okay to be absent from your blog sometimes.ReplyDelete
-Em xo
I can't believe I'm responding to these comments two months after I first wrote this post. If that isn't the epitome of being a bad blogger, I don't know what is!Delete
Agreed! As you said, it's very tough finding the right balance! But, as you also said, it's okay, too!
Thanks, Em!
I hope your job is going wlel and that you're all settled in now!
This is so empathizing to myself as I feel I've been a bad blogger. Usually I post baking posts every week. However, I've been super lazy when it comes to blogging and missed out on quite a few weeks. For me, 2016 was definitely my year. I posted quite consistently and I was satisfied with my content. But recently, I've made a post,published and not pleased with the... recipe I'd chosen for example. Thanks for sharing this post! Really helped.😊ReplyDelete
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Glad you could relate, ST!Delete
It's okay not to post consistently. Maybe 2018 will be your year!
Have an amazing and inspired 2018!
I also felt like a bad blogger because I wasn't able to keep up with school, social life, extra-curriculars, sleep and blogging. It got so overwhelming and even though I wanted to blog SO BAD, I just couldn't. Thank you loads for the motivation S! It makes me feel a whole lot better xx NikitaReplyDelete
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I'm happy to help!
It's a lot to juggle- especially when you want to keep blogging as badly as you want to.
Thanks for supporting my blog over 2017, N!
This post is great because it's so honest! Sometimes it's more important to live in the moment...go for that walk at 2am even though it's puts you behind in your blogging schedule because at the end of the day you'll be a bit behind but you've got something fun to write about after!! ☺ReplyDeleteReplies
That means a lot, Megan!Delete
You're right! Haha, living in the moment is the best way to go!
Awesome post! (I found you through the Female Bloggers RT's Twitter). I can emphasize with this since I always lack the motivation to write when I'm not feeling well!ReplyDelete
Glad to see I'm not the only one :)Replies
You found me through Twitter! Welcome!Delete
You're definitely not alone!
Great post! I relate to this so much as I also need to be in the right frame of mind to write content :) I'm either really on the ball with taking lots of photos but have no writing for it or vice versa haha!ReplyDelete
Haha, I know what you mean! I commend bloggers who can do both photos and content consistently!Delete
Maybe 2018 will be our year... or we can only hope!
If it makes you feel any better, I took a full year away from writing any posts! Now that I have started it again, I love it, but I do feel that you have to be in the right mindset to do it. It's either all or nothing and I find it so time-consuming! Great post!ReplyDelete
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I've taken many posts since writing this post. I completely relate to needing to be in the right head space!Delete
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FORT WORTH -- Police are continuing to investigate the fatal shooting of a man outside his Fort Worth apartment Monday evening.
The victim, who has not been positively identified, is believed to be a 27-year-old man who had just recently moved into the apartment in the backyard of a residence in the 3400 block of Ave. E.
The suspect went to the front of the house looking for the victim, said Lt. Dan Draper, a police spokesman.
He said the homeowner directed the man to the back apartment where the victim lived.
"The witness said, 'He lives back there,'" Draper said. "The witness actually saw them talking back there, then he saw the guy draw the gun and shoot the victim."
Homicide Sgt. J.D. Thornton said the victim was shot multiple times in the torso.
He was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital where he was pronounced dead about four hours after the shooting.
"I understand the victim had only lived there maybe a week or two," Draper said. "Even the witness didn't know him real well."
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Episode 65
It's Been a Good Day (Last Week, F$#@*d Around And Got A Triple Double - Other Half x The Answer)
April 20th, 2018
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Just wakin' up in the morning gotta thank God, the Internet Beer Users are back with a new pod!
This week the boys drop an update on the Stone vs. MillerCoors drama, laugh at the most ironic Bloomberg article ever, and wonder what the 2019 Mac Pro will look like. The best part? They didn't even have to use their AK.
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On the after show, Nick and Jay catch up and talk about their kids.
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- Other Half X The Answer - Last Week, F$#@*d Around And Got A Triple Double | Untappd
- Breakdown of MillerCoors Response to Stone Lawsuit by @B_Palfreyman | Twitter
- Stone's Response to MillerCoors' Response
- In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information by Mark Gurman (lol) | Bloomberg
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There is much talk this morning of Kevin Sheekey, Mayor Bloomberg's deputy mayor for
presidential vice-presidential politics and his role in promoting Caroline Kennedy's senatorial ambitions.
This is all nothing but jealousy. I have the proof and here it is, the most beautiful campaign finance statement in American history:
Payee/Recipient: KEVIN SHEEKEY
Amt: $400,000
Expense Code: Wages
Date: 06-Jan-06
Disburser: BLOOMBERG FOR MAYOR 2005 Inc.
Filing: 2006 Jan. Periodic
Sched: F
Office: Mayor
Dist: N/A
County: New York
This of course represented only the bonus. Sheekey earned $140,000 for his hard work during the campaign.
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A Carnival Cruise ship suffered a casualty on October 14 when Qwentyn Hunter, a six year old Winter Garden boy who had been swimming with his ten year old brother, drowned in the pool.
Six year old Qwentyn could not be revived. He had been a client of Ariza Talent and Modeling Agency.
The cruise was returning from the Caribbean.
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Longtime rockers Aerosmith and Cheap Trick have teamed up for a tour of North America. While not much has been seen from Cheap Trick, Aerosmith have been in the limelight performing at ceremonies at the past two Super Bowl games. Aerosmith and Cheap Trick are planning to make six stops in Canada on the tour in April and May; but so far venues and ticket sales have only been announced for the show in Hamilton. The Copps Coliseum will be the sight for the rock invasion. Tickets will go on sale beginning at noon on February 21 at all Ticketmaster locations including the Coliseum. Ticket prices range from $49.50 to $89.50 plus any taxes and surcharges.
Cheap Trick released a new CD last summer "Special One" but will release a two disc Best of collection on March 2. Aerosmith's newest release "Honking on Bobo" will not be out until March 30. The new CD is more of a blues rock album with tunes from blues artists like Muddy Waters and Blind Willie McTell. The CD also contains some original material.
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Fun Fun Fun As Fish Fry Phils (5/4/2013)
The weekend of May 4-5 was going to be the first weekend of the MLB season during which we did not go to a game. But when we woke up on Saturday morning (May 4, 2013), a tweet was waking from us from Phillies Phan Harrison Tishler: "headed to Philly today?"
After reading Harrison's tweet, I asked my wife, "Should the boys and I go to the Phillies game today?" "Sure," she replied.
Game on!
I bought some tickets online and we headed down to Citizens Bank Park. I can't stand e-tickets so I selected the "will call" delivery option. The website said I could pick up our tickets at a ticket machine on either the 1B or 3B sides of the stadium. After checking in with the Tishler's at the LF gate, we headed off toward the 3B side of the stadium, did find any ticket machines…
…, so we circled around to the 1B side, picked up our tickets at the 1B will call box, and ended up running around the entire stadium.
Back at the LF gate, we prepared our backpacks for the security check:
That's Harrison, Tami and Seth Tishler right behind Tim. It was great seeing them for the first time of 2013. Harrison had recently celebrated his Bar Mitzvah and he brought us one of his personalized Phillies-themed "H" baseballs…
…, which is now on display on one of Tim's baseball shelves.
Thanks, Harrison!
When the ballpark opened, Tim, Kellan and I headed into the first row in the LF corner. Right when we arrived in the first row, Bernie the Usher called over to Tim and told him to come over and see him. When he did…
…, Bernie set a baseball in Tim's glove.
Thanks, Bernie!
This was our view during the beginning portion of BP:
During our first game at Citizens Bank Park of the season, Erik Kratz tossed us ball to Tim in the LF corner early in BP. This was our second Phillies game of the year, and it was like de ja vu all over again. The funny twist this time is that the ball tipped off of Tim's glove and landed in the flower bed:
Tim reached for it with his glove, but it was too far to reach. I reached down for it but Tim wanted to grab it on his own. Tim ended up hopping into the flower bed to grab the ball.
Thanks, Erik!
I like to keep the boys out of the direct sun as much as possible, so we decided to head to the back of the section that straddles the LF foul pole:
Sometimes when we're up front in this section, homeruns or long fouls get hit into the back of this section. So I figured we'd wait a bit and see if one would come out way.
No dice.
So we headed out to CF until about 5 minutes before the whole stadium opened:
Right before the rest of the stadium opened, the boys played the running-the-bases game:
Can you guess who won? Yep, Tim. That jump is his excited/victory pose. [Note: there was another kid around Tim's age to the far left on the yellow footprints. So Tim wasn't just celebrating because he beat Kellan.]
When the rest of the stadium opened, we headed down into the pizza wedge. When we got down there, there was a stray baseball at the back of the Phillies bullpen and two groundskeepers working on the mound. In all of my experience at Citizens Bank Park, I've seen the two guys who chalk the foul lines give away some stray balls, but all other groundskeepers have said they were not allowed to give away baseball. Knowing these guys almost certainly couldn't, I pointed out the stray baseball and asked the groundskeepers if they could toss it up.
They were not allowed to, one of them responded. And then they headed out into CF, walked the warning track toward the RF corner, and exited the field through the tunnel under the concourse.
A few minutes later, the same groundskeeper who had said he couldn't toss up the baseball appeared above the RF seats, walked down the stairs into the pizza wedge, and handed a totally different baseball to Kellan. He apologized for not being able to toss the baseball from the bullpen up to us. It was pretty funny.
Thanks, Groundskeeper!
While we were in LF, Alex Sanabia kept running back-and-forth across the outfield. Early in BP, we said "hi" to him ("Hi, Alex!") and we exchanged waves. . When we reached the Pizza wedge, Sanabia was hanging out in RCF. When he fielded a ball, Sanabia made a long throw to Tim…
…but it sailed high over Tim's head so I had to catch it for him.
Thanks, Alex!
Tim and Kellan posed with their baseballs from Sanabia and the groundskeeper:
Lately, we've stayed in the pizza wedge until BP ends. At this game, we decided to switch things up. We headed back over to LF…
…where Chad Qualls tossed us a baseball…
…and then the boys ate a bunch of snacks:
After the boys were full of snacks, we decided to head back to the pizza wedge. Kellan popped up onto my shoulders and we walked across the LF seats about 15 rows back from the field…
…when we made the bend toward CF a Marlins batter took a mighty hack and sent a fly ball in our direction. I stopped mid-row and watched the balls flight. It was right in line with us, but seemed like it wasn't quite going to make it to us. But it kept carrying. With Kellan still on my shoulders, I leaned forward over the row of seats in front of us and reached and made a back-handed catch on the fly.
It was the first time I'd ever caught a batted ball on the fly with one of the boys on my shoulders and it was pretty darn cool. [Note: I have caught a BP homer on the fly while holding Kellan with my right arm…so has my dad.].
When we made it back to the pizza wedge, Kellan crawled around like a dinosaur a bit:
And Tim caught a baseball tossed to him by A.J. Ramos:
Thanks, A.J.!
BP ended way early because it was Little League day and a whole bunch of Little Leaguers got to march around the ballpark on the warning track. As we watched, Tim said he wanted to go find Harrison, but I assured him that Harrison would turn up in the pizza wedge before too long. Meanwhile, former Mariner Miguel Olivo started stretching in CF.
I was right. Harrison and Tami soon showed up. We all camped out in the first row of the pizza wedge. Eventually, Phillies bullpen coach Rich Dubee walked out to the bullpen. He grabbed a bunch of baseballs and tossed one to Harrison and then a bunch to other fans to our right (higher in the pizza wedge seats). Dubee was all out of baseballs, but then he spotted that same baseball sitting on the hose (the one I'd asked the groundskeeper to toss up to us)…
…and Dubee tossed it to us.
Thanks, Rich!
Meanwhile, back in CF, Olivo wasn't getting much of a chance to warm up because he was giving high fives to Little Leaguers and posing for photos:
Soon, Phillies bullpen catcher Jesus Tiamo made his way to the bullpen. He too ended up grabbing a bunch of baseballs and tossing them into the crowd. He tossed one to Harrison, then another to me and Kellan, and then one to Tim.
That last one that Tim caught was extra special…
…because it was the 400 baseball that we've got at MLB games since Tim's first game back on 9/12/2006. Jesus ended up signing it for us too!
Double thanks, Jesus!
We watched Cole Hamels and Carlos "Chooch" Ruiz…
…warm up for a few minutes and then we parted ways with the Tishlers and headed off to find some dinner.
The plan was hot dogs for dinner. But at the last minute, Kellan rejected the hot dog concept and opted to get a giant pretzel.
We picked a nice random spot in the RF concourse to eat:
What was in that plastic bin sitting behind Kellan in that last picture, you ask? Well, a bunch of…
…rocks, water and sludge, of course!
Tim finished eating before Kellan so he did some dancing to pass the time:
Usually, we like to get a picture of the first pitch of the game. We missed it at this game, so the third pitch will have to do:
This game absolutely flew by. It was amazing. After watching the first batter of the game *live*, we headed to the kids' play area:
Cole Hamels blanked the Marlins in the first (despite hitting a batter). Freddy Galvis knocked a single in the Phils' half of the first, but was left stranded on base. After Galvis's first inning single, the Phillies would not collect another hit all night. And the Marlins only had four hits in them.
The first three innings blew by in a blink of an eye. Marlins right fielder Marcell Ozuna knocked a solo homer in the top of the second and Chris Valaika followed with a solo blast of his own in the top of the third.
That made it 2-0 Marlins and we finally left the kids' play area.
We were ready for some ice cream so we went to our go-to ice cream lady:
Check out this monster chocolate chip cookie sundae:
We took it up to our seats (or almost our seats) in section 306…
…to eat our sundae:
I've taken hundreds of stadium panoramas over the past several years and this one from section 306 row five might be among the very best looking panoramas:
After devouring our ice cream, the boys wanted to keep on moving. We headed back to the kids' play area. As the kids were playing, I was amazed to notice that it was only 8:30 and the game was already in the seventh inning!
We decided to switch things up, and head to spot where we had not spent much time. He headed up to the second deck in LF. Check out the view from the SRO area right behind section 243:
Over Kellan's objection, a nice usher took our picture with the field behind us…
…and another with the liberty bell:
And I took an extra shot of Tim with my cellphone that turned out pretty cute:
The boys stood on this little railing a bit…
…and watched the game. But then they decided they should play some fake baseball:
While the usher nearby cracked down on some fans standing in the wrong SRO spots. But, thankfully, he had no problem with Tim and Kellan playing fake baseball in the middle of the cross-aisle.
Heading into the ninth inning, the boys and I headed down to section 129 to make an attempt at an umpire baseball. We had a nice view of Steve Cishek…
…and he pitched to J-Roll…
…in the bottom of the ninth. But Kellan was tired and cranky and he didn't want to sit down. Actually, he did want to sit down, but he wanted to sit on my shoulders, which couldn't happen in the third row of the seats. So we took off.
We headed down the LF line and watched Chase Utley fly out…
…to end the game.
We headed to the gates, but our game experience wasn't over quite yet. We ended up trudging around in the Phillies parking lot for probably half-an-hour, but we finally found what we were looking for:
The Veterans Stadium home plate marker! That picture earned us some points in the MyGameBalls.com photo scavenger hunt.
On our way to the car, Tim got a final photo fake catching a baseball at the Veterans Stadium first base marker:
And there you go. Another great game at Citizens Bank Park.
2013 C&S Fan Stats
6 Games
10 Teams – Royals, Phillies, Red Sox, Rays, Orioles, Yankees, Dodgers, Reds, Nationals, Marlins
10 Ice Cream Helmet – Phillies (jumbo) 2, Red Sox 2, Yankees 2, Orioles 2, Nationals 2
28 Baseballs – Royals 4, Phillies 9, Rays 2, Orioles 1, Dodgers 1, Umpires 2, Reds 4, Nationals 1, Marlins 4
5 Stadiums – Citizens Bank Park 2, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, Camden Yards, Nationals Park
11 Player Pictures – Daniel Nava, Alex Wilson, Andrew Bailey, Pedro Ciriaco, Mike Carp, Koji Uehara, Will Middlebrooks, Joel Hanrahan, Jonny Gomes, Alfredo Aceves, Clayton Mortensen
2 Autographs – Ryan Hanigan, Jesus Tiamo
Cook Force 3 Invades D.C. (4/21/2012)
Saturday, April 21, 2012, was a personally historic day for us. Our little 2-man father-son team has officially grown by one.
Up until this day, Kellan had been to 10 games, but I had only brought Kellan along with us if Colleen was also joining us. But, at a few months shy of his second birthday, I have officially deemed Kellan to be old enough join me and Tim at the ballpark without additional assistance. So Colleen got the day off and treated herself to a fun solo Saturday (shopping, eating out, haircut, etc.).
Meanwhile, the Cook Boys jumped in the car at 8:00 a.m. and headed south to the nation's capital.
On the drive down south, Tim and I discussed the Marlins new logo, of which I am not a fan. Tim launched into a hilarious explanation of how the new Marlins logo is a Marlin jumping in the water at night with the various colors reflecting off of the water, etc., etc. Then he wrapped up with, "so, now you understand why you should like the new Marlins logo, right?"
Maybe you had to be there. But it was pretty hilarious how he explained his thoughts on the Marlins logo.
Watch out, there were some little Cook boys at the ballpark who were gloved and ready for some action!
Let's hit the stands!
Now, a ton of Saturday games across MLB are scheduled as day games this season (for the record, I'm not a fan of it), and this was one of them. I was pretty sure that would mean no BP before this game. And when we entered the ballpark at approximately 10:30 a.m., the field was empty with no signs of BP to come.
We hit the restroom and then milled around a bit in LF. Eventually, Mark Buehrle (did I mention we would be seeing the Miami Marlins vs. the Washington Nationals?) walked out to LF along with Marlins bullpen catcher Jeff Urgelles and bullpen coach Reid Cornelius. Buehrle and Urgelles played catch for a while in LF…
…and then all three headed into the bullpen so Buehrle could throw from the mound. We were right behind the bullpen. Cornelius and Buehrle headed over to the mound and Urgelles set up shop at home plate, just below us. As Buehrle and Cornelius were in the middle of a discussion, Urgelles was just standing around waiting. I could see several baseballs inside his open equipment bag right behind him. I figured, "What the heck?"
Todd – "Hey, Jeff!"
Urgelles – (looking up with a sort of surprised and happy look on his face) "Yeah!?"
Todd – "Anyway you could toss one of those baseballs up to my boy?"
Urgelles – (Enthusiastically) "Yeah, no problem."
(Urgelles goes over and grabs a baseball from his bag and looks back up at us.)
Urgelles – (to Tim) "But, you have to catch it! And you only gets one chance!"
Todd & Tim – "Okay"
He tossed the baseball up in such a way that it would fall back into the bullpen if Tim missed it:
Heck no! Tim gloved that sucker! And guess what —
It was a Marlins Park commemorative baseball!
Check out Kellan in that last picture, "Gimme that baseball!" (Actually, he just said, "Ball! Ball! Ball!"
We all went crazy! And we rained down the "Thank Yous!" on Urgelles, who seemed very happy for Tim. We chatted briefly, joking about Kellan wanting to throw the ball back down to Urgelles – which I have no doubt he would have done had I let him – and discussing our Mariners gear – Urgelles seemed to agree it was cool to show our team loyalty and at least we weren't wearing Nationals or another N.L. team's gear (no threat from the A.L.).
Urgelles's smile told the story: the dude is definitely a cool guy. Very nice. Very happy to have made Tim's day by challenging him and then watching him succeed. We talked about meeting up later during BP to get a picture with Urgelles, but it just didn't work out. But I'm definitely going to try to reconnect with him later this year to try to get a picture of him and Tim together.
Thanks, Jeff!
Oh, yeah, at some point Tim yelled down to Urgelles, "I like your new logo!" ha, ha…funny guy.
With our fancy new Marlins Park baseball in hand, we bounced up the stairs…
…and headed off to the play area.
There were ZERO other kids out there. Normally, you get three hacks at the whiffle ball air tee. Tim took about 15-20 hacks…
…before turning over the bat to his little brother. After 2-3 swings, Kellan turned around and tried to hit balls into the open concourse area. Luckily, no one was around.
You need proof? Here is proof that no one was around:
In the top left, that's the lady running the kids' play area climbing up the slide while holding Kellan like a sack of potatoes (not a good plan). Kellan flew down the slide and loved it. Then Tim and the lady running the play area did some crazy slides, including (as shown) head first belly sliding and backwards sliding.
This lady loved playing with Tim and Kellan and, if it was up to her, we would have just stayed there all day. We came back several times over the course of the day and she did more crazy sliding with Tim (despite there then being about 200 crazy kids running all around).
Unfortunately, Kellan is too young for most of the play area. You have to be 3-8 years old to go up in the play area *thingy*. So Kellan and I hung out in the little *net* room under the *thingy*.
Anyway, we headed back to the field after a sufficient amount of playing.
When we got back to LF, they were just finishing setting up the cage and screens for BP. That was a nice surprise. We headed down into section 106:
We chatted a little bit with a Phillies fan who decided to go "neutral" and wear an Oakland A's hat. He offered to take our picture:
We hung out in LF until they opened the rest of the stadium at 11:30. Then we headed into foul territory and hung out behind a big protective net (don't need my boys getting tagged by a batted ball).
Urgelles was over there for a bit, but we missed our chance to get a picture. As I said, we'll keep trying.
It was getting pretty warm in the sun. So we decided to walk all the way around home plate and out to RF, which was nice and shady. I guess it would have been a shorter walk to head up to the concourse and circle the outfield. But had we done that, Ozzie Guillen would not have had the chance to go grab this baseball…
…and then toss it to us.
Sure, Ozzie is a controversial figure, but I like him.
Muchas gracias, Ozzie!
We hung out in RF foul territory for a bit. I took the opportunity to take off Kellan's long sleeve undershirt. And then Steve Cishek tossed us a baseball:
Thanks, Steve!
RF was nice, but Kellan kept trying to climb down to the lower rows between the railing and the end-seat – despite Tim playing blocker.
I decided it would be easier for us out in RF homerun territory. You see, there is this funny little corner spot that would act as a natural *Kellan blocker*. We grabbed some seats by the corner spot…
…and the boys broke out our bag of snacks (or as Kellan says, "Nack! Nack! Nack!").
If you scanned the ground after we left this spot, you'd have to seriously question if more snacks were consumed or more were dropped on the ground. Kellan was dropping "nacks" like it was going out of style.
We hung out for a while in this spot — nothing all that special to say about this picture, I just thought it was funny:
Shortly after this picture, Kellan dropped this big bottle of water…
…down into the Nationalbullpen – probably 20 feet below. Luckily, as' bullpen attendant ran over and tossed it back up to us.
While chatting with a guy who works for Boeing in the Seattle area, Tim was excited to get a toss-up from a fellow number 55, all-star Marlins pitcher Josh Johnson:
We decided that we'd had our fill of BP and it was time to do some walking. We walked a TON during this game. In all, we circled the entire stadium 3+ times.
For some reason, we walked toward home plate (passing a group of Mariners fans!) and we kept walking and walking. I think we were on our way to get nachos in the LF corner. I thought the boys looked terribly cute walking through the concourse together:
We decided we needed to get some more play-time in before nachos. So we headed back to the kids' play area. Tim went up top and did some more crazy sliding. Kellan and I went in the little net room and threw our cloth baseball off of the walls:
Then, we finally grabbed some nachos. Actually, first, we walked all the way around the ballpark AGAIN. I figured there would be nachos in the concourse down the RF line…but no. So we kept walking and walking (actually, I carried Kellan much of the time), and made it all the way back to the nacho place in LF.
Success! Nachos!
Then we walked – with me holding Kellan and a whole bunch of nachos — to our seats in RF foul territory. Guess what? It was bring your dog to the ballpark day. As we passed by, I notied that the Nats had set up some grass in the CF concourse…
…so the dogs to relieve themselves during the game. Very thoughtful of you, Nats.
We reached our seats moments after the first pitch, and it was on! Yeah, the game was on too, but I mean "it" (nacho time!) was on:
It is official: The Cook Family Loves Nachos.
And rightly so. They are the world's perfect food. And the Nationals offer some great chili cheese nachos down the LF line.
Anyway, the game was "on" too. This was our view from Section 137:
Our actual seats were in Row EE, between the "Bohvechkin" guy with his arm in the air (above) and the guy standing and shouting in the other red shirt. But we were hanging back a few rows so we could stay in the very refreshing shade.
This sort of famous young pitcher was on the hill for the Nationals:
Stephen Strasburg, have you heard of him? On that pitch above, he induced a ground out by Emilio Bonafacio.
Hanley Ramirez struck out (but not on this pitch)…
…to end the first inning. It was the first of six K's Strasburg recorded on the day.
Sometimes a baseball game makes more sense when you watch it on TV instead of in person because there are no commentators in the ballpark. In the top of the second inning, Logan Morrison led off with a single to CF. And then *something* happened, but I have no clue *what* had happened. It looked like this:
First, it appeared that the ball got fouled off of the home plate umpire, or it just hit him on the live pitch. I'm not sure. Whatever happened, the umpire was somewhat hurt and needed attention from the training staff.
On the play, Logan Morrison took second. As you can see in the top left picture, the first base coach is standing on first, but Morrison is gone. The trainer talked to the umpire for a while. Strasburg threw some pitches to keep warm while this was happening.
Finally, the umpire was ready to go again. And then he called Morrison back to first. In the bottom left picture, you can see him standing on the bag (the middle head of the three pictured). That caused Ozzie Guillen and another Marlins coach to come out and argue with the umpires for a long time. In the end, LoMo was back of first.
On TV, I'm sure it all made complete sense what was going on. But in the ballpark, I had no clue…neither did Tim or Kellan, especially Kellan.
Speaking of Kellan, he copies just about everything he seeing me or Tim do. You might have noticed that I wear my glove on my head a lot during games. Well, at one point, Kellan put his glove on his head. So Tim followed suit and we got a picture (during which Kellan's glove started to fall off his head) of the three glove-heads:
This was Kellan's eleventh MLB game overall, and his second Marlins/Nationals game. Last season, we saw the *Florida* Marlins in DC and Kellan had a cool little exchange with Anibal Sanchez. At this game, Anibal was facing off against Strasburg:
And he was looking sharp, too.
Anibal retired the first four batters. The fifth batter was Jayson Werth…and Anibal retired him too:
Tim kept asking if we could go blow bubbles, which prompted Kellan to chime in "Bubbles! Bubbles! Bubbles!" I had no clue what Tim was talking about. But Tim led us right to the spot…
…and he blew a bunch of bubbles at an Autism Awareness booth in the LCF concourse behind the Red Porch. And then it was time to grab some ice cre…wait, Tim switched things up, it was time for Dipping Dots! So we walked almost all the way around the stadium looking for the dipping dots. During the walk, Tim climbed up into the Gecko's arms (above) and acted like he was being captured.
Tim went for banana split dipping dots…
…while I picked mint chocolate chip for me and Kellan to share.
We grabbed some ice cream seats in the handicapped seating down the first base line and watched Strasburg deal it…
…while Kellan and Tim chowed down on their dots to reviews of *two thumbs up*:
Tim figured out the dots fit perfectly into the drink holder and he could eat his dots with his feet up on the railing. Ah…the good life.
I kept trying to get a good action shot of Strasburg, and I was finally satisfied with this one:
In the top of the sixth inning, Jose Reyes came to the plate with one out. All of a sudden, I decided I should get a shot of Reyes, but he knocked a base hit down the RF line right as I pulled my camera out of my cargo pocket. But I got him rounding first and then sliding in safe at second:
Reyes was FLYING! That guy has some wheels.
Two batters later, Hanley Ramirez stepped to the plate again. And on this pitch, he chucked his bat 4-5 rows deep into the stands and nailed the guy in the blue shirt in the elbow:
As the boys kept munching their dots, I decided to get a shot of Reyes scoring from second – all I needed was Logan Morrison to get a 2-out hit. But as Reyes started to turn on his afterburners, Morrison grounded the ball up the middle (you can see the ball directly behind Reyes' left heal)…
…for an inning ending 6-3 ground out.
The score was still 0-0. Both pitchers were looking really strong. We decided to make one final trip to the kids' play area:
While we were in there, Ian Desmond hit a solo homerun to put the Nationals up 1-0.
Kellan met up with another little guy who must have been right around 1-year-old. He was walking, but he was teeny tiny. Kellan walked up and hugged him ("oh, look at the cute baby") and Kellan looked like Andre The Giant hugging this little guy. He then started crawling around after the little guy:
Before we left the play area, Jayson Werth hit another solo homerun for the Nationals. That made it 2-0 Nationals.
We left the play area and headed up to the second deck in CF. There is a standing room party-type area in CF – when you look at the seating map on the Nationals website, it doesn't even show this area. So there is no "section" number. But here is the view from that area:
And here is a look at the busy SRO area with the packed Red Porch in the background:
Ozzie Guillen made a major gaffe when he put the line-up together – he gave Giancarlo "Mike" Stanton the day off. It was unfortunate for the Marlins because Stanton hits a monster bomb or two almost every time we ever see the Marlins.
Well, Giancarlo pinch hit for Anibal Sanchez. On the first pitch, Giancarlo seemed to get a hit:
But Ian Desmond made a diving stop on the ball and was able to just barely throw out Chris Coghlan at second base. Had Coghlan not been on base, Stanton probably would have been safe at first.
Anyway, we walked around the back of the Red Porch, which looked like this…
…and then we headed over to the upper deck in LF foul territory.
Since it was our first game of just the three guys, I wanted a good picture of the three of us and I didn't think our first group shot was very good. Unfortunately, the pictures didn't get much better in the upper deck.
Well, this one from section 306 turned out pretty good:
And this picture turned out okay…
…but for some reason, the usher who took it managed not to get any of the field in the background.
After that guy failed to get the field behind us, I took a test self-portrait, and Kellan gave me a no games, super-serious look:
He smiles and laughs constantly when he is not being photographed, but for 85% of all pictures and videos he goes ultra-serious.
Another usher did a much better job framing the shot, but Tim wasn't looking in the picture:
Oh, well. We'll get a better group shot next time…or the time after that, or after that, or after that.
The ninth inning crept right up on us. The Nationals were still winning 2-0, and Strasburg (who pitched six innings) was in line for the win. We headed down to the field level with the idea of trying to get in place for an umpire ball attempt.
We grabbed some seats about 20 rows back, just above the home plate end of the dugout.
Brad Lidge came in to close it down for the Nationals.
Oops…sorry, Strasburg, but Lidge walked Hanley Ramirez to start the inning and then Logan Morrison crushed a homerun into the second deck above the Nationals bullpen:
No win for Strasburg and, eventually, we were heading into extra innings!
Kellan fell asleep hugging me tight:
And then someone hit a foul ball that literally landed within five feet of us! It landed right across the aisle and one row below us. But I couldn't even make an attempt on it because the little guy was sawing some serious logs. The ball came right to another dad and his son. Both had gloves ready on their hands. The ball smacked into the palm of the dad's glove and then bounced out, skipped off the steps and bounced into the gut of an older guy running up the stairs.
Chances are that will be our one chance to catch a game foul this year. Oh, well. It was great having the little guy take a nap on my chest while Tim and I watched the game.
Actually, Tim wasn't just watching the game, he was documenting it. After he took the picture of me and Kellan, he asked if he could take some pictures. I agreed and he started snapping away. As I watched him, it seemed like he was zoomed WAY in on everything and wasn't getting anything he wanted to get.
But as our family watched a slide show of our game pictures later that night (which we do as a family on our TV after each game), I discovered that Tim took amazingly awesome pictures! I was shocked and so very proud of my little baseball photographer in training.
Check out Tim's handiwork.
Donnie Murphy (pinch running for Greg Dobbs) leading off first base in the top of the ninth inning:
Joey Espada, who tossed us a baseball at Sun Life Stadium last season, coaching third base:
The Marlins relievers (Heath Bell and Edward Mujica) and Nationals reliever (Tom Gorzelanny, accompanied by Jim Lett) warming up in the bullpens:
Both teams' bat boys in action:
Omar Infante getting ready for the next pitch as Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos fires the baseball back to Brad Lidge:
Ozzie Guillen encouraging Infante to get hit (while accompanied by Greg Dobbs and Marlins batting coach Eduardo Perez):
Here's my favorite of Tim's photos: a dejected Chris Coghlan walking off the field after Infante failed to deliver the go-ahead RBI hit:
Great job, Timsky!
Tim snapped Donnie Murphy warming up his arm before the bottom of the ninth inning:
And Marlins relief pitcher Edward Mujica:
Oh…time out, I took this one of Jose Reyes and Hanley Ramirez…
…who appear to peacefully co-exist on the left side of the Marlins in field.
In the top of the tenth, Tim asked to get the camera back because he had not got a shot he wanted: a Marlin running. He did a great job getting this picture of Hanley Ramirez running out a deep fly out to RF (I actually thought it had a chance to fly out of the park):
After catching the baseball from Jeff Urgelles, Tim really wanted the Marlins to win. He was a bit upset when the Nationals regrouped in the bottom of the tenth and won the game 3-2 on a sacrifice fly to CF by Ian Desmond. By this point, Kellan was awake again. On the crack of the bat, I could tell it was a game winner, so Tim and I (Kellan in my arms) hustled down the stairs to the third or fourth row. We slid into the row and were in the perfect spot when home plate umpire Greg Gibson walked by and handed us our final baseball of the day.
Thanks, blue!
We tried to track down Jeff Urgelles on his walk in from the bullpen, but the crowd behind the dugout was tough to squeeze through and we got to 3B right as Urgelles passed by and entered the dugout. We'll track him down later this season!
So, we called it a day and walked to the car. Tim entertained himself in the car by taking more pictures…
…while Kellan ate some "nacks" and relaxed.
It was a big day for the little guy. He was fast asleep about half an hour before we got home…
…and Tim capped off the drive watching some "Octonauts" on youtube on my cellphone.
Hey, it was a good day. Let's do it again next weekend…
Okay, yeah, you got a deal. Let's do it! We'll see you soon, Camden Yards!
2012 C&S Fan Stats
|2/1 Games (Tim/Kellan)
|4/2 Teams – Tim – Phillies, Mets, Marlins, Nationals; Kellan – Marlins, Nationals
|1 Ice Cream Helmet(s) – Phillies 1
|12 Baseballs – Marlins 4, Mets 4, Nationals 1, Phillies 1, Umpires 2
|1 Commemorative Baseball(s) – Marlins Park
|2/1 Stadiums – Tim – Citizens Bank Park, Nationals Park; Kellan – Nationals Park
|1/0 Player Photos – Tim – Ricky Bones; Kellan – N/A


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