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Chatting with Mark Lazarus – 27th June 2012
John "Gramps" Clifford is the author of "Queen's Park Rangers: The Old Days (1939-1970)" which can be purchased at qprtheolddays.com or via Amazon.com
Rodney Marsh v Stan Bowles
Rodney played the game like a lot of the people they are talking about now but Rodney used to score a lot of goals and he also scored a lot of goals off his own back. He would get the ball down in the middle of a crowded defence and he would wiggle his way through and score a goal. Players today can't do that – Stan Bowles could never do that. Let's face it, Stan Bowles was a bloody good player but as a pure footballer you'd have Rodney in your side every day in preference to Stan Bowles. Rodney could win a game on his own but Stan was a player who, on his day, would bring the ball down and set other people up but with Rodney, well he didn't need anybody else. In my opinion Rodney was far away ahead of Stan. I agree that people may have other opinions but, after all, what is football – it's all about opinions at the end of the day.
I would have struggled in today's game because I didn't work enough backwards. A lot of the players in my day would struggle today because they were not athletic enough; today you've got to be an athlete because it is a much faster game. Today the players can tackle but they can't hold the ball as we could. I wouldn't mind betting that today twenty out of every hundred passes go forwards and eighty go backwards. There's more backward play today than there has ever been in the game. People get the ball up front, they seldom go past anybody and if they do go down the line they stop and pass it backwards and it finishes up with the right back or centre half. We are attacking in their penalty area and the ball finishes up with our goalkeeper without the opposition touching the ball.
Football today is very good 'touch football' – excellent – but in our day we had more players with great individual skills. They would get the ball and people like Jimmy Greaves, Johnny Haynes – well, Rooney couldn't lace their boots up. Stanley Matthews and Tom Finney were brilliant but not players who tackled a man. You just gave them the ball and let them get on with it and it was the same with Rodney; you could give me the ball and let me get on with it! I was never looking to pass the ball back to my full back. There was that spot in the opposition area that was eight yards wide and eight feet high and had a net on it; my aim was to get the ball in there or at least somewhere near there; I certainly didn't want our goalkeeper to end up getting it. I wanted to get the ball and go forward.
My opinion of Rooney is that he is an average to good player. He is definitely not world class and despite what some may think he is not the greatest footballer we have ever turned out.
We were given a lesson in football in 1953 and 1954 by Hungary. We thought we were the best in the world, we introduced the game to the world, then Hungary came over and played the sort of football we had never seen before. I took the day off school to watch that game. In my opinion we didn't learn from it. We haven't got the individual players now: Finney, Shackleton, Lawton, Matthews, Mortensen. We don't have them today but we have different types of players – athletes – but I can't call them great. The goalkeeper might be the best goalkeeper around but he couldn't compare with the goalies we had in the past. We were the best in the world for goalkeepers – Banks, Swift, Parkes, Seaman, Shilton, Rangers' own Reg Allen, Ted Ditchburn, Sam Bartram, Ron and Peter Springett – in my view Ron Springett was one of the best goalkeepers I ever played with and against. I will always remember Gil Merrick who played for England. His sense of positioning was brilliant and I have seen him go out at the beginning of a game in clean kit and come off the pitch just as clean. His positioning and keeping was so good that he seldom had to dive for the ball. He took every shot cleanly.
If you had to pick a world team I can't see that any England players would get in – we just don't have the skills that other countries have. I feel that our true world class players over the years have been Gordon Banks, Bobby Moore, Jimmy Greaves but I can't think of too many more, even in the World Cup winning side. George Best and Denis Law might have got in there.
Questions from QPR Report members:
1 What made Mark choose football over boxing and what was your weekly wage at QPR in the 66-67 season?
Mark: Well, I didn't choose football – football chose me rather than boxing. I was doing the two things at the same time. When I signed pro forms for Leyton Orient in 1957 they stopped me boxing as an amateur and I was not allowed to sign as a pro in the two sports. So, as I have said, football chose me. Had Orient not signed me then I would most probably have carried on boxing as I wasn't that keen on football. I was a mad footballer as a kid and I got a lot of recognition as a schoolboy but boxing was my real love.
As far as the second part of the question goes, it is difficult to remember but I'll try to get my facts right. As I recall, we were all on £30 - £35 a week. You have to remember that we were a Third Division side at that time and I knew players at Fulham who were on less wages than that. In those days this was quite a good deal. Remember that in those days we didn't have agents so players had to negotiate their own contracts. When I signed for Rangers from Brentford I negotiated £35 a week plus bonuses so with a good result I could get £60 in a week which was really good money in those days. When I moved on to Crystal Palace I negotiated £60 a week basic plus bonuses and a signing on fee. Generally, though, players' pay was about £35 a week.
At this point I asked Mark if he knew that he held an all time football record as the only player to be signed three times by the same club. He admitted that he didn't know this but then pointed out that he held another record in that he is the only player to have played for three teams (1967 to 1970) who were promoted in four successive seasons. 1966/7, promotion with QPR; 1967/8, promotion again with QPR; 1968/9, promotion with Crystal Palace; 1969/70, promotion with Leyton Orient. He said the word was going round that if you wanted to get promotion then you signed Mark Lazarus.
2 Apart from those he has played with, which other players, past or present, would he have liked to play with?
Mark: That is a very hard question to answer. I once played a friendly match with George Eastham and of all the players I have played with over the years George gave me the ball more than anybody else. In the formations of the old days, if you were a winger or inside forward on the same side of the field you had to know and understand each other very well. George "had my number" and seemed to instinctively know where I was at any one time. I have never played with him since but I guess, based on that one game, he would be the one with whom I would be happy to strike up a long-term partnership.
I played with Jimmy Greaves as a schoolboy and he is a good friend but we never played together professionally and I don't know how we would have got on together. I also enjoyed playing with Jimmy Bloomfield. I have played with some great inside forwards but it is always difficult to answer a question like this if you have not actually been on the field with a player. In saying this, I think that Paul Scholes is somebody I would have enjoyed playing with; he is a bit more 'old school' in his style of play. Now I think about it, Johnny Haynes would also have been a good player to work with.
3 How does it feel to still be a Rangers legend after over 40 years?
Mark (slightly embarrassed laughter): Well, it really is an honour . I wouldn't know how many legends there are at QPR but I don't want to appear too immodest when I say that I think Rodney and myself are two who can claim that sort of title. What you have to remember is that Rodney and I did a lot of the hard work to get QPR out of the Third Division. When I first joined the club in 1960 we often played in front of crowds of only three or four thousand and by the time I finally left, our successes had dramatically increased this.
When I was sold to Wolves for £27,500 this was a record fee. I didn't want to go and Alec Stock didn't want to sell me but the club was in financial difficulty and I was mainly sold to help keep their head above water. This was something that Alec Stock was good at and he kept clubs afloat by his financial dealing. I believe that by going to Wolves I saved QPR at that time.
Rangers have had some really class players in people like Les Ferdinand, Terry Venables, John Hollins. It is difficult, in my view, to classify these players as 'legends' because in effect they jumped on the successful bandwagon. Of course the club had to strengthen their squad to cope with a higher division but these players had done nothing to create that bandwagon in the first place and it is easy to forget those who were with the club in the thin times. This is exactly what the club has to do, and is doing, this year to strengthen their squad which will also herald the departure of one or two who have worked loyally and been through the hard graft of getting them into the Premier League.
Probably others who could claim legendary status would be Mike Keen, Tony Ingham, Dave Clement, Ian Gillard. I am not decrying the club and supporters when they talk of legends, and don't deny that there were great players along with many others, but sometimes the title is given too easily. Gerry Francis is a true legend. He started with the club as an apprentice, gave loyal service for more than ten years, was a first class player and captained England. What could get better than that? There are others from before my time who could probably also claim that title: Reg Allen, George Goddard and others but very few supporters from those days are around now so they tend to be forgotten. A legend has to be an old player. I don't believe you can be a legend while you are still playing the game. I know and have a lot of respect for Les Ferdinand. A good player who has helped his clubs by scoring a lot of goals but I would have difficulty in classifying him as legendary on that basis alone.
At this point I would like to say how much I loved QPR. I never once wanted to leave them. I was forced to leave for the club's financial reasons but they were always the only club for me. The fans there were absolutely brilliant and I loved every one of them – they were my non-playing mates.
4 How do you rate the managers from your time to the managers of today?
Mark: I really don't think I can answer that question. I haven't played football for over 40 years. A few of today's managers I have played against and played with but it is very difficult to generalise about people you have not played for. I think you have to judge managers today on their ability to buy and sell players. Years ago you based your managers more on success for the club. I have played under Alec Stock, Malcolm McDonald, Tommy Kavanagh, Jimmy Bloomfield, Bert Head, Stan Cullis, George Petchey. Undoubtedly the top of that list was Alec Stock and next would be Bert Head. Very similar but, in stature, Alec would leave Bert behind. Bert was a real, quiet spoken west country man – a great motivator; a very, very nice man who always knew what was going on in his club. Alec Stock, on the other hand was a diplomat, very smartly dressed. You couldn't mistake Alec for what he was – he was the Guv'nor, whereas Bert was a bit scruffy and very laid back.
Alec was a disciplinarian. Many a time when he was not happy with me he literally cuffed me round the face or gave me a kick up the arse. He wouldn't stand for any nonsense but the very next day he would come up and put his arm round you. Not only was Alec a leader and motivator of men, he was also a problem solver. He would recognise signs if anybody appeared to be worried and ask a player if everything was alright at home. He was a very caring man and if any of his players had a problem he would go out of his way to help them in any way he could. Alec had a lovely family. I was devastated when he died . I admit without shame that I wept at his funeral and kissed his coffin. I had great respect for him.
Another man I had great respect for was "Gentleman Jim" Langley and I was deeply saddened by his death. A nice guy, really solid, tough, full back even though he was only about five feet eight. He was similar to Tony Ingham. They were both players who were real gentlemen and would not kick an opponent except by accident. There are gentlemen in football or, at least, there were gentlemen in the game in those days but not so much now. There were also a lot of ****holes!
Back to the managers, however. It seems that the only measure of a good manager today is the buying and selling of players and success. The latter comes from the skill of doing the former. It's a lot to do with the coaching side of it. Years ago you didn't see a manager on the football pitch. It was all about the coaches and most clubs had two or three coaches who were all experienced footballers. Alec Stock could not discuss tactics to save his life, even though he was a former footballer. He just came nowhere near the pitch during training sessions. He was, like others of that time, strictly an administrator.
5 Did you ever consider becoming a manager or coach?
Mark: No. Definitely not. I was offered a post as coach at Colchester by Dick Graham when I retired from active playing but I was not interested. Not my thing. I had seventeen years of football and I had a business. When I stopped playing I had really had enough. When I was playing the game I was not the best one for training and I don't feel it would have been right for me or I would have been suited to strutting around telling others about the importance of training. I had a fair idea of how to coach but I just wasn't interested.
6 What is your recollection of the game when you lost your shorts but carried on playing?
Mark (Laughter): There are a few games that stand out in your memory bank and there was lot that was spoken about and written about that incident. It was against Carlisle in the fifth round of the League Cup and I split my shorts. My shirt was covering my embarrassment and I had to take my torn shorts off by the dugout. I threw my shorts to Alec Farmer (trainer) and he threw me a new pair. Before I could put them on the ball came my way. It was instinct. I was on the field of play and was not about to let the ball go to put on a pair of shorts so I just ran down the line with no pants on. I had a good game that day and laid on both goals for Rodney. I was tearing Carlisle apart at the time and, as was the case in those days I got a cheer every time I got hold of the ball but on this occasion there was a cheer and roars of laughter. That's the be all and end all of it.
7 In all your career who do you feel gave you the hardest time and contained you during a game?
Mark: There's plenty of games where I haven't been at my best but never a game where I have been fearful of the defence against me and I truly don't think any player of that era can say they managed to truly contain me. When I played against Don Megson at Hillsborough when he played for Sheffield Wednesday I had a tough game or two but always "murdered him" at Loftus Road. I don't think anybody ever gave me a hard time at Loftus Road. The confidence and sheer "fan-power" at that time meant so much. I did play one game at Loftus Road for Crystal Palace against the Rangers and I was up against Dave Clement who really gave me a tough time. Probably Dave was the toughest back I have ever faced. The away factor is something that is always a problem. You could play on a pitch similar to our own yet struggle. Again, this was so much down to the fans and familiarity of your surroundings; they give you such a lift and you feel a real buzz and want to do the business for them. It was much the same with Clive Clark, Rodney Marsh and Les Allen besides myself. When any of us got the ball fans were convinced something was going to happen.
8 About those transfers………….
I just so loved my time at QPR. When I was on Brentford's transfer list I wanted to get away, more so when I knew it was Rangers and Alec Stock who wanted me. If it had been any other club I am not sure that I would have left.
Later, Alec Stock called me into the office and asked how I would feel about going to Crystal Palace. I told him I didn't want to go. He suggested that in any event I should go and have a chat with Bert Head. I later realised that Alec was in a difficult position. He wanted to bring on the Morgans and I think he was under some pressure from Ian who was more or less a permanent sub and wanted to develop his career. I felt they wanted to get Ian into the side as a young player but were in a difficult situation and perhaps didn't want to lose me. I was no youngster at the time and Bert came up with a super offer so I thought that perhaps QPR were trying to save me a bit of dignity. Alec Stock, diplomat that he was, was very good at that sort of man management. Crystal Palace were a good side at the time so I accepted the deal. I felt I would rather play for Palace than be a substitute at QPR. As I said before, I never wanted to leave QPR and I wish now that I hadn't but I was obviously always trying to further my career.
Wolverhampton Wanderers was a disaster really. Stan Cullis and I never hit it off and what I saw as a chance to play in the big time simply did not work out. Coincidentally, Cullis told me that if he had not signed me he would have signed Mike Summerbee who went to Manchester City. I often think that if I had refused to go to Wolves then that may have opened the door to Manchester City and who knows where I could have gone from there? Maybe even a regular for England. This was one of those years where I couldn't do anything wrong. If I fell over my own feet the chances were that the ball would hit my head and go in the net.
9 If Joey Barton was your team mate, would you have punched him on the nose?
Mark (huge laughter): I have no feelings about this really but I think he is a bit of a prat, not only for what he did at QPR but also his former clubs – a real head case. I just think I would not like the man and could not get on with him as a person. Yes, I know I was fiery but I would never have allowed myself to get into a state like he did. I had my ups and downs on and off the pitch but would never have done anything like that. It was professionally shameful and brought discredit on himself and the club.
In the old days it was the clubs who ran things and dictated terms it now seems that the pendulum has swung the other way and it is the players and their agents who run things. I don't think Barton is that good a player and with the latest development you might as well have an injured player on your hands. The club needs to make life hard for him. His team mates can't possibly have any respect for him as a captain. He totally lost it in that game and if I had been on the pitch I would have stepped in but not sure that I could have stopped him.
110 Do you stay in touch with former players?
Mark: I don't stay in touch as such but I do see them at various functions from time to time. I'm not one for ringing people up and going out for a meal or any such thing. I see Tony Hazell from time to time. He doesn't miss any opportunity to see old friends. He goes to any QPR events that he can. I spoke with Ron Hunt about a year ago and he is not very well. He lives in the Bournemouth area and had a tragedy which he has never come to terms with when his son hung himself. I tend to see Frank Sibley from time to time but not that often. Nobody knows where Keith Sanderson is. The last we heard, he was in South Africa but nobody knows exactly where. I keep in touch with Les Allen who has been very ill. I am also in touch with Rodney Marsh – I love the guy although I am never quite sure what is going on with him. I have seen Roger and Ian Morgan from time to time in recent years. The last time was at a signing session in Brentwood.
111 Best wishes from Bill Power and wants to know your recollection of that winning goal.
Mark: Thanks for the good wishes. That goal! It was quite an easy goal and an easy recollection. Probably one of the easiest goals I have ever scored. It came to me from the goalkeeper, I chipped it in with my left foot then went for a chat with the crowd while they sorted the goalkeeper out – not unusual for me! The prima donnas who are playing today have so much money and consider themselves so very much better than the supporters that in general they don't want to know. Where would they be without those supporters though?
112 Mark, where did you get your beautiful singing voice from?
Mark (biggest laugh of the afternoon): Can't answer that! But I've still got the record somewhere.
113 What would he wish the club to do about its relationships with former players?
What are other clubs doing vis-à-vis other players that Mark knows?
Mark: I can't really give you a view on what other clubs are doing although I can say that Crystal Palace run regular functions (reunions) for past players, usually with a meal and a match. As a former Palace player I was invited to a home match against QPR a couple of years or so ago. I made a point of walking across the pitch to acknowledge the QPR fans as well as the Palace supporters and I received a really great round of applause for that which was very rewarding. Palace are brilliant and do a lot for us.
I know Rangers don't do anything and I was a bit upset when none of us got invited to the West Brom game last season in view of our history with them (1967). One recollection is of a game where QPR were playing West Ham at Loftus Road. My son is a Hammers supporter and asked if we could go together so I rang the club and asked if I could buy two tickets and they said that this could be arranged. I told them who I was. When I got there I couldn't get a decent seat. We were in the top corner of the South Africa Road stand with a dreadful view and I just didn't want to be there.
On another occasion I was invited to a QPR dinner at a big hotel. I took a good friend with me. I was seated at a front table along with Ron Springett and Stan Bowles. The compere for this was Tom Watts (formerly of Eastenders) a self professed Rangers fan. He said that he would like to introduce some old favourites from Loftus Road. He introduced Ron Springett and Stan Bowles to applause then went on to a totally different subject. I was completely ignored and found this to be insulting. It took some time for me to calm down and get over my embarrassment. I said to myself that I would not go to any more QPR functions in future.
14 Why are you not a fan of the modern game? Is it the money, speed, cheating,
refs, ball, fans, foreigners, chairmen of just lack of technical ability of the English
Well, I guess it is a bit of most of them. The questioner seems to be reading my mind. I don't think money should come into it. However much you are paid you can only do what you can do. Lack of ability certainly comes into it.
Cheating is a big issue and something must be done about it. I blame the referees because they are being conned and, what's more they know they are being conned, they are allowing themselves to be conned and they let the players get away with it. Players are screaming as soon as anybody goes near them and throwing themselves on the ground and other players are being booked – often for nothing. The referees are useless! Absolutely useless! I don't know what sort of football, if any, they have ever played but they are definitely being conned. If they keep on letting players get away with diving and cheating the game will be totally ruined. The players are the biggest cheats of the lot. If they think they can get away with things then they will carry on doing it. I see players getting the smallest connection on a leg going down holding their head because they know play will be stopped for an apparent head injury. Most of the things that they go to ground for are the sort of things that in my day we would have ignored. If we did go down we would get up and carry straight on – and we never screamed or had agonised looks on our faces unless it was totally genuine and serious. The aim seems to be to do whatever you can to get a player sent off. If a player ever fouled me, I would get up and carry on with the game. If I fouled a player, he would do the same. There is no way I would ever say "Sorry". It was all part of the game. Jimmy Langley was different. If he made a poor tackle, he would immediately grab his opponent's hand, help him to his feet and apologise but that was not for me. I don't want somebody to say sorry to me when they have just tried to break my leg.
If the ref gave us a penalty we would never argue against it even if we knew it was not a penalty but we would always argue if there was one against us. That goes with the territory. You give anybody an inch in football then the players will want to take a yard.
We have all seen incidents, particularly in the Euros, where the shirt tugging goes on. In one incident John Terry was held back by his shirt and it was ignored by the ref and his assistants. If it happens down by the half way line the a free kick is awarded. By the same token that sort of holding should be given as a penalty in the box. This sort of behaviour should be stamped out by referees. I know that referees had me down as a marked man before a game because they knew I was a tough player. Referees today must have a similar view on players who are cheaters and divers like Ashley Young but they choose to ignore the facts and let it go. I also feel that the foreign players have a lot to do with the cheating aspects of the game.
I don't like football today. It's boring, referees are killing it, players are killing it and silly little plastic footballs are ruining it. Some of today's players like Ronaldo would never be able to cope with the heavy, soaking wet leather football and soggy mud-bath pitches that we had in our day. One final point is that in my opinion goal-line technology is an essential as referees are just not up to the job.
QPR Report would like to thank John "Gramps" Clifford for conducting this interview; and for granting permission to post it on the QPR Report Blog. His Book "Queen's Park Rangers: The Old Days (1939-1970) can be purchased at qprtheolddays.com or via Amazon.com
VIDEO of a couple of Mark Lazarus' final games for QPR - shortly before his (final) transfer from QPR to Crystal Palace Norwich Away ----- Norwich Home
Posted on: Thu 28 Jun 2012
Spark, the R's Club Mascot, is flying back from his summer holiday to make his debut for QPR in this year's London Mascot Derby - to be run at the Kia Oval on Friday 6th July during Surrey's FLt20 match against the Middlesex Panthers.
Aside from the Mascot Derby, the game itself should make for a memorable evening out.
Surrey will be boasting superstar batsman Kevin Pietersen and Ashes-winning fast bowler Chris Tremlett, as well as future stars Jade Dernbach, Stuart Meaker and
Their North London opposition are unlikely to be intimidated though, potentially boasting a side including the England trio of skipper Andrew Strauss, inventive Irishman Eoin Morgan and young speed king Steven Finn.
And Hoops fans can come along to enjoy the game and support Spark at a discounted rate thanks to our friends at Surrey.
All you need to do to get a ticket at a reduced rate - £15 instead of £20 - is to enter the code MASCOT when buying at www.kiaoval.com
Other competitors are likely to include Stamford the Lion; Billy the Badger from Fulham; Zampa the Millwall Lion; Harley or Charley Bear from Aviva Premiership winners Harlequins; Sarrie the Camel from their bitter rivals Saracens - and a host of other mascot titans from the capital's crowded sporting scene!
The game is due to start at 6.30pm, with the Mascot Derby revving up at around 7.45pm! QPR
- See QPR and Past Mascot Derbies!
From the Belfast Telegraph - Some 30 Photos in all at
Roy McDonald, brother of Alan is hugged by former Northern Ireland player Iain Dowie.
- See Other Michael Wale Interviews and Profiles with QPR Players in the Bushman Photo Archives
- Who Hates Whom! (Bump)
- Six Year Flashback: Waddock Optimism about the New Season....Five Year Flashback: Nardiello Joins QPR as Warren Neil Agrees to Stay on:
- BBC Documentary on REAL 1942 Football "Death Match" vs Nazis (that inspired "Escape to Victory"
- Who Hates Whom! (Bump)
- Six Year Flashback: Waddock Optimism about the New Season....Five Year Flashback: Nardiello Joins QPR as Warren Neil Agrees to Stay on:
QPR Report would like to thank John "Gramps" Clifford for conducting this interview; and for granting permission to post it on the QPR Report Blog. His Book "Queen's Park Rangers: The Old Days (1939-1970) can be purchased at qprtheolddays.com or via Amazon.com
VIDEO of a couple of Mark Lazarus' final games for QPR - shortly before his (final) transfer from QPR to Crystal Palace Norwich Away ----- Norwich Home
Posted on: Thu 28 Jun 2012
Spark, the R's Club Mascot, is flying back from his summer holiday to make his debut for QPR in this year's London Mascot Derby - to be run at the Kia Oval on Friday 6th July during Surrey's FLt20 match against the Middlesex Panthers.
Aside from the Mascot Derby, the game itself should make for a memorable evening out.
Surrey will be boasting superstar batsman Kevin Pietersen and Ashes-winning fast bowler Chris Tremlett, as well as future stars Jade Dernbach, Stuart Meaker and
Their North London opposition are unlikely to be intimidated though, potentially boasting a side including the England trio of skipper Andrew Strauss, inventive Irishman Eoin Morgan and young speed king Steven Finn.
And Hoops fans can come along to enjoy the game and support Spark at a discounted rate thanks to our friends at Surrey.
All you need to do to get a ticket at a reduced rate - £15 instead of £20 - is to enter the code MASCOT when buying at www.kiaoval.com
Other competitors are likely to include Stamford the Lion; Billy the Badger from Fulham; Zampa the Millwall Lion; Harley or Charley Bear from Aviva Premiership winners Harlequins; Sarrie the Camel from their bitter rivals Saracens - and a host of other mascot titans from the capital's crowded sporting scene!
The game is due to start at 6.30pm, with the Mascot Derby revving up at around 7.45pm! QPR
- See QPR and Past Mascot Derbies!
From the Belfast Telegraph - Some 30 Photos in all at
Roy McDonald, brother of Alan is hugged by former Northern Ireland player Iain Dowie.
- See Other Michael Wale Interviews and Profiles with QPR Players in the Bushman Photo Archives
- Who Hates Whom! (Bump)
- Six Year Flashback: Waddock Optimism about the New Season....Five Year Flashback: Nardiello Joins QPR as Warren Neil Agrees to Stay on:
- BBC Documentary on REAL 1942 Football "Death Match" vs Nazis (that inspired "Escape to Victory"
- Who Hates Whom! (Bump)
- Six Year Flashback: Waddock Optimism about the New Season....Five Year Flashback: Nardiello Joins QPR as Warren Neil Agrees to Stay on:


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Josh Kelley Reveals Plans for Next Album, Expanding His Family
Josh Kelley's household is constantly in a whirlwind between his music career, the booming success of his wife Katherine Heigl's career, and raising their 3-year-old daughter, Naleigh. But the two find plenty of balance in it all, even as Kelley prepares to head back into the studio this spring.
"I'm supposed to start making another record in March or April," Kelley reveals to Taste of Country. "I've definitely been writing for the next album as much as I can. When that thing's done, I'm back on the road. My whole summer's booked. This has been a nice little break [here lately]. It has been about two and a half years, solid, on the road … my family is definitely excited that daddy's home a lot!"
Kelley's latest single from his debut album is 'Naleigh Moon,' which he obviously penned about his little girl. The video for the song was directed by Heigl and features a rare glimpse into their life at home as a normal family.
"We did that video because we wanted to have something really pretty to go with that song," explains Kelley. "When we turned it in, everybody was like 'Oh my God! This has to be out in the world.' It's kind of cool, too, because we get to control the content. Sometimes when the paparazzi are following us, they get shots of me like with my 'mean face' and Naleigh picking her nose. At least we get to control some of this content [laughs]."
In recent weeks, Heigl has faced several interviews in promotion for her latest film, 'One for the Money.' Among topics she has discussed is expanding her family with more children. "We want to do that and we will eventually," confirms Kelley. "Right now we're just kind of actively on top of it."
Kelley and Heigl wed in December of 2007, and just in the past few years, the singer has seen many changes in his lifestyle -- including the not so pleasant ways he lived prior to becoming a husband and father. "[Marriage and fatherhood has shown me] how selfish I used to be," Kelley says with a laugh. "And also how messy I used to be … selfish and messy!"

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I wonder - do you know of any example where the Woodbury formula (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbury_matrix_identity) was crucially used to prove anything?
It might be a useful computational procedure but I've tried many times to use it in proofs and always ended up exasperated - it just replaces a nasty-looking matrix expression with an even nastier-looking expression.
But I've not given up hope on it and therefore am asking for examples of successful theoretical usage.
P.S. The special rank one case (aka the Sherman-Morrison formula) is of course mighty useful. I am asking specifically about the general case.


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What an interesting week. Instead of volatility, we got containment and flatlines. Something tells me next week won't be the same.
Ponder this for a moment, QE∞ is announced as official Fed policy last Thursday. That day gold, the only alternative currency to steadily-debasing fiat, responds with a $38 move. Frankly, I would have expected more but, given the Cartel propensity for containing daily moves at either the +1% or +2% levels, $38 seemed about right. However, over the next five days, would you have expected this?
- Friday, 9/14: net change +$0.60
- Monday, 9/17: -$2.10
- Tuesday, 9/18: +$0.60
- Wednesday 9/19: +$0.50
- Thursday 9/20: -$1.50
So, cumulatively over the next five days trading in gold, immediately following the long-awaited announcement of QE∞, the total change was down $1.90. Huh?? And, again, it's not like we saw the +$20, -$22, +$31 kind of volatility you would have expected. Very strange and, once again, subtle evidence of the outright blatant and ongoing manipulation and "managed ascent" of the paper price by The Gold Bullion Banking Cartel.
To no one's surprise, this week's CoT continued the trend of Cartel naked short issuance to contain price. Again, I'm not really sure who wrote the mandate that JPM, DB et al have to act as market makers in the metals but, for some reason, that is the role they allege to play. Spec money comes into the pit and the banks issue the highly-leveraged paper. Not content to see price bid up as the spec bids search for willing sellers of existing contracts, The Cartel, instead, simply issues brand new contracts to satisfy demand.
In doing so, The Gold Cartel added another 18,196 short contracts this week and brought their net short ratio back up to an astonishingly dangerous (to them) 2.68:1. Why is this so dangerous, you ask? Because they are continuing to play this game as if none of the fundamentals have changed. This is no longer 2002 or 2008. It's not even 2011. We are near The End Game for fiat currency and the "creditor nations" around the globe recognize this. The are readily exchanging their rapidly-devaluing fiat for hard assets, gold in particular. This insatiable physical demand underpins the paper market and makes precipitous, short-covering drops, like we've seen The Cartel execute in the past, all but impossible. Oh sure, there will still be selloffs and beatdowns...Heck, we saw one yesterday...but incessant physical demand forces The Cartel to quickly turn tail and buy in order to cover and secure the metal required to meet the allocations sought at every London fix.
So, again, look to buy the dips. Not every $5 dip, mind you, but any substantial dip the pushes price back to obvious support points. Right now, the obvious area is around $1755-1760. IF a dip develops early next week, I'll be all over it. Gold looks certain to soon blast through $1780 and then $1800. From there, I expect a rapid move toward the old all-time highs of $1920. At that point, gold could, once again, get disorderly to the upside, similar to what we saw in August of 2011. It will likely break out and UP through the long-term channel again and head toward and through $2000.
And here is a long-term chart of gold priced in euros. Recall that we've been discussing for weeks how euro/gold was getting well ahead of dollar/gold and that dollar gold would eventually catch up. A month ago, euro/gold was showing that $1800 gold was coming. Now, euro gold makes it look like $1920 gold is only about a month away. (Chart courtesy Trader Dan: https://www.traderdannorcini.blogspot.com/2012/09/euro-gold-on-track-for-all-time-high.html)
And JPM and their pals continue to play games with silver, blissfully unaware that their dynasty has ended. Just last week, they added another 2,880 short contracts in a vain attempt to pin price below $35 and protect the vulnerable buy-stops near $35.50 that, if tripped, would send silver quickly toward $37.50. Oh well, screw 'em. So they "won" this week. Whatever. They're just going to lose eventually so what's another week of waiting. Now at a total gross short position of 82,358 contracts and a net short ratio of 2.58:1, The Silver Cartel is sitting on a powderkeg of their making. Boy is it ever going to be fun to watch it explode right under them.
As The Doc pointed out yesterday, The Forces of Darkness expended a lot of ammunition yesterday in a desperate attempt to start a cascade and keep price under $35. ( https://www.silverdoctors.com/cartel-dumped-2x-annual-us-silver-production-on-market-in-15-min-to-smash-silver-under-35/) They now find themselves in a bit of a jam as we head into Tuesday. They'll need to cover quite a few contracts before the 1:25 EDT close that day or they risk showing their footprints on next week's CoT. What will they do? Cover, of course! Now the question is, will they gamble by raiding first and hoping for a steep enough selloff that they can cover the raid "material" and more on the way back up? Maybe but I doubt it. Physical demand will easily blunt the dip again just as it did yesterday. Their only logical choice, after being thwarted yesterday, is to begin to cover yesterday's new shorts as early as Monday, otherwise they risk a significantly "Happy Tuesday" that blows out those $35.50-area buy stops and send price toward $37+. What to do, what to do. A whole lot of choices, all of them bad. HAHAHAHAHA! You did this to yourselves, you arrogant bastards, and now you're stuck. You'll get no sympathy around here.
And in case the action in crude this week left you feeling that global peace and harmony were right around the corner, I give you this to ponder: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-22/head-irans-revolutionary-guards-war-israel-will-occur
In that same vein, I was contacted this week by a nice guy who asked me to link a few of his prepping articles. I certainly hope you are using this time to full consider these topics: https://destinysurvival.com/2012/09/03/food-storage-how-to-calculate-for-your-needs/ & https://www.emergencyfoodstorage101.com/2012/08/07/being-prepared-for-power-outages/. Of course (shameless plug coming), you can find many of these items by visiting the Turdmart, a link to which is conveniently placed at the top of each page but copied below for your convenience.
I hope that everyone has a safe, fun and relaxing weekend. Come back on Monday and be prepared for a week that is considerably more volatile and interesting than this past one was.
11:00 pm (23:00) EDT Sunday UPDATE:
So, what the hell happened at 20:58? Anyone have a guess? I do but, first, let's look at the charts:
At exactly the same time, the POSX began an uptrend that carried it 20 ticks higher over the next hour.
So, what we likely have here is another HFT algo (WOPR) run amok. True Cartel hit jobs rarely impact so many markets across the board. On a light volume Sunday night, a brainless computer "saw" the uptick in The Pig and began program selling.
Regardless of instigator or intention, it is going to be very difficult to break down paper price much further. Difficult but not impossible. That said, I will be very surprised to see the metals considerably lower in the morning as there is no reason to expect a buyers strike in London on Monday. As mentioned Friday, gold should have considerable support near $1750. Silver will continue to find bids, just as it did two hours ago, near $33.50.
Hang in there and try not to panic. If protracted selling does come in, consider it a blessing. Please consider any and all bouts of price weakness as opportunities to add to your stack.


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I have a few cards to share with you today! I did all of them with the Olympics of Stamping at the Moxie Fab blog in my mind. First up is my card for Sketch 156 at CPS this week, and fits the "Hello/Thinking of You" theme for the OOS.
Instructions: Fold white cardstock in half to make card base, and round the bottom corners. Emboss the front using a Cuttlebug and Argyle embossing folder. Tie pink ribbon around the bottom. Stamp the label, shoe and sentiment to white cardstock and cut out. Adhere over top of the ribbon using dimensional adhesive. Accent with colored pearls.
For these next few cards, I played with the PTI spring color challenge that Nichole came up with. This first one uses Dawn's color combo of aqua mist, hibiscus burst, spring moss and fresh snow. It also fits the "Thank You" section of OOS.
Cardstock: Bazzill Basics
Any thoughts on American Idol this week? I think the right people went home...I totally agree with you America. Although the majority of them did SO much better this week...those 4 were still pretty bad. And I was SO excited to see Danny Gokey sing last night! That isn't my favorite song of his, but I do love the lyrics, and he seems so excited about it. I am happy that things are turning out for him...I adore him and his outlook on life!


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I installed Wubi on my Windows 7 64bit machine yesterday, and since then, the windows partition is ridiculously slow. As in, takes an hour to boot. Once it boots, it takes ten minutes to log in. Rebooting takes an hour or so to shut down.
The C: drive is an SSD, but it didn't have enough space for Wubi, so I put Wubi on the other 500gb regular spinning-disk secondary partition. I don't know if that matters.
I did see this: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-373876.html
but I'm not sure that's a relevant link.
What can I do to fix this problem? If the best solution is to install Ubuntu in a second partition (and by 'best' I mean "able to work again as quickly as possible with a minimum of debugging time, this has cut my productivity to nothing"), then how can I undo this?
EDIT: I believe I'm experiencing issues similar to what's described here:
I tried to reinstall Windows this evening, and it just failed miserably on the drive. So badly, in fact, that it got to 29% of files copied, and then just crapped out. That means that something on the drive is dead, especially since the same copy of Windows is now installing without any apparent issues on the spinning disk. Looks like the timing of this failure just happened to coincide with the Wubi installation.


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Pit bull mauls newborn to death in Detroit
DETROIT A three-week-old girl was mauled to death by a pit bull as she sat in her car seat.
Sgt. Eren Stephens told CBS Detroit that a 24-year-old mother placed her infant, still strapped in her car seat, on the floor of her home on Thursday afternoon. She walked away, not knowing the dog was loose in the house.
When she returned, she saw the pit bull attacking the baby.
The girl was rushed to Sinai-Grace Hospital, but died from her injuries.
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Jody Under Construction
For Larson, the frustration emanating from her chef was palpable. "She didn't want any more voices in the mix," Larson explains. After 16 years, the pair decided it was time to split. Adams took full custody of Rialto, while Larson and Haskell moved on to other ventures.
Adams shut Rialto down for five weeks, then reopened in February 2007, ushering in a new era. The redesign was a truer reflection of its sole owner: lighter, softer, more approachable. And Adams was the decision-maker.
"It wasn't just about the food or the customers," says Adams. "It was about the budget, about, 'Do the chairs fit around the table? Do the uniforms work?' Every piece of that restaurant came from my head." The menu was overhauled, too. Instead of an overarching Mediterranean influence, Adams became hyperfocused on regional Italian cuisine, with a menu that covered a new area of the country every month. And instead of spending all of her time concentrating on what came out of the kitchen, she had to build a staff that could execute her vision, beginning with her rising chef de cuisine, Carolyn Johnson.
"It was nerve-racking," says Johnson. "We were going for a four-course menu with a pasta course in the middle, which no one in Boston was doing then. We had no idea how diners would respond." For Adams, the reinvention transformed her as much as it did the restaurant. "I was terrified that people would discover that I didn't know what I was doing," she admits. "I didn't have enough confidence. But once I opened these new doors to Rialto and people came in, it was like something had been peeled off of me."
Jody Adams isn't exactly basking in free time. On a recent Monday, she's zipping around a farm party hosted by the local food publication Edible Boston. Tuesday, she's up early for a bike ride (she's training for the 192-mile Pan-Mass Challenge), then sits in a two-hour meeting before hitting the kitchen with her cooks to prep a dish for that night's Taste of Cambridge fundraising event. Wednesday there's another bike ride, another round of meetings, and then she's glad-handing local press and posing for photos during a reception celebrating the summer opening of the Rialto terrace. ("But I'm not wearing any makeup!" she protests.) On Thursday's agenda: a Guerrilla Grilling expedition—a name she's given to the regular farm and purveyor visits she makes with her entire kitchen staff. On these trips, the crew loads up a car with pantry items, visits an organic farm, a poultry processor, or a chocolate maker, and, after a tour or a hands-on lesson, whips up a feast for the host's staff. On a rare Friday morning at home, Adams speedily chops garlic while working on a recipe for the food blog that she and Rivard launched in June. The Garum Factory, named for an ancient fermented condiment, is an online repository of recipes, stories, and food photography. By noon, she's out the door to visit the new Trade space, and finally it's back to Rialto for a 10-hour shift.
Given her already-packed schedule, it's understandable that Adams would be reluctant to open a new business. Adding to the trepidation is the fact that any chef with more than one venture—Ken Oringer (Clio, Uni, Toro, Coppa), Michael Schlow (Radius, Via Matta, Tico)—will have his or her critics. The kind ones will question how you can devote your time to multiple ventures and still maintain the quality; the cruel ones fling the s-word (sellout). But if any chef in town has a proven ability to multitask, it's Adams. So why, when it comes to building her own brand, has she remained more tortoise than hare?
"I'm approached [about starting new restaurants] all the time," she says. "I've looked at tons of properties around Boston in the last four years on my own."
Interestingly, the one idea that finally took was pitched to her by two men nearly 20 years her junior: Sean Griffing, most recently the general manager of Rialto, and Eric Papachristos, a former analyst with an MBA and the offspring of restaurateurs. "Eric and I were always talking about the next restaurant we were going to open," says Griffing. Given that he was already working at Rialto, he says, it was a natural progression to join forces with Adams.
It didn't take long for Adams to sign on. "Sean and I had talked for years, on and off, about the possibility of working together," she says. "When we looked at what we all brought to the table, it was all so different, but it really makes a whole. They have new, fresh energy and perspective."
Once the trio decided to partner up, they scouted spaces as a team."We were all over the place—Kendall, Central, Seaport, downtown," Griffing recalls. They eventually settled on the Russia Wharf building because of its architecture and locale. "The visibility is just spectacular," says Adams.
Over and over, Adams maintains that her intention is not to run the show, nor to take full credit for it. "Restaurants don't exist just because of the chef," she says. "They're not successful just because of a chef. There's a whole lot of people [and] pieces of the puzzle that are extremely important, and to assume that you're the be-all, end-all is, you know, not me."
But there's no question what the public will take away: This is a Jody Adams project. When news broke that there were restaurants going into the building, which is now called Atlantic Wharf, the developers announced that a "celebrity chef" would be involved. And like the redo of Rialto, Trade's design reflects that chef: light, airy, and energetic. The chef de cuisine, Andrew Hebert, worked at Rialto for almost seven years, so he understands Adams's cooking style and can translate her menu precisely. She, of course, insists the menu will be as much his as hers, but its focus on healthful, approachable dishes is signature Adams.
And just as she's launched the careers of so many at Rialto, she plans to use Trade as a proving ground for the next generation of chefs. Two prep-cook positions will be reserved for high school students enrolled in Future Chefs, the school-to-career program founded by Toni Elka, so that Adams can, as always, be a mentor.
The entire space, in other words, will be an extension of Jody Adams.
Floating through the Rialto dining room on a recent summer night, Adams approaches a table of strangers. One guest tries to order dessert from her. "Your server will come over and take that," Adams replies.
The woman stammers, then a flash of recognition. "Wait—are you her? Are you … Jody Adams?" she squeals, eyes wide.
Adams responds by pointing to the name on her jacket. "That's what they tell me," the chef says, smiling. She takes another minute to ask about the meal before ducking back into the kitchen and calling it a night. There is a cooking class the next day—a biking trip to the market followed by lunch at the restaurant for 20 students. After that, she'll have a rare day off before returning Monday morning to jump in again at 100 miles per hour.
Back at the table, the women are beaming. "That was Jody Adams!" one chirps. A real live celebrity chef.


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Chokecherries, sand cherries, plums, grapes, and more
Over fifty years ago (can it be?), when I was very young, we lived south of Johnstown, Nebraska. Sand cherries grew along the side of the road-trail that led from Highway 20 through the hills to our place and south to the McDaniel Ranch, Moon Lake, and beyond.
We picked so many sand cherries along the road one year that my mother set up an old window screen on blocks to help process them. She spread sand cherries across the screen and washed them with the garden hose. I don't know if she decided this technique was successful or not. I just remember several big buckets of sand cherries and the interesting things Mama was doing with them.
Grandma Nora came to visit and she talked to my mother about how some of the cherries were as big as her thumb. I deduce that they were not often that large. Many years later, I asked my mother about all of this, and she was surprised that I remembered it so well.
Those wild sandcherries would probably have been the western sandcherry, Prunus pumila L. var. besseyi. Native Americans had used sandcherries for millenia as fresh and dried fruit, but the great pioneer botanist of Nebraska, Charles Edwin Bessey (1845-1915) gave the little silvery bush a Latin name and put it in its proper spot in botany's great structural diagram of earth's plant life.
My dad, a child of the Sandhills, loved sandcherry pie and my mother baked it for him whenever she had the fruit. Daddy's sandcherry pies were few and far between after we moved to Rose because we didn't have sandcherries there, but he developed a fondness for chokecherry pies. (More about chokecherries later.) I guess we may have been a little east of the natural range of sandcherries or maybe Duff Valley just wasn't a sandy enough spot.
We had windbreaks of trees (called "tree-pens" because they were fenced) around our ranch buildings. In one of the tree-pens, a big thicket of plum bushes grew. Their fruits were yellow and intensely bitter, and after her first harvest of them Mama didn't bother again. Still, in the spring they bloomed gloriously.
I remember a spring afternoon when we took the shortcut home from school, across the meadow and through the tree-pen. We could smell the sweet fragrance of the plum blossoms even before we saw them. We took a big armful of the blossoms to Mama. When we broke off the branches with their blooms, we were eliminating the fruit as well as mutilating the bushes, but the plums were always so sour that no one cared.
Wild Sandhill orchard
After we had lived at Rose for a few years, my dad bought some pasture land in Loup County, about 15 or 20 miles from our home place. The land was south of the Calamus River and much of it consisted of long ridges of big hills, actually grassed-over sand dunes, that ran mostly east and west. Thickets of wild plums were sprinkled across the south sides of many of those sandy ridges. These Loup County plums had a sweet, red fruit. The skins were sour, but the meat of the plums was delicious when ripe. The best way to eat them was to place the entire fruit in your mouth, bite into it, suck out the sweet juice and pulp, and then spit out the sour skin and the seed.
In one area of our most remote Loup County pasture, a long, wide sweep of prairie grasses lay between two high sandy ridges. Northwest of the windmill in that big valley, a very large plum thicket grew on the hillside. Small chokecherry trees grew within the tangle of plum bushes and wild grapes grew over the top of everything, so we called it "the orchard". In good years when spring weather was mild and no late frosts nipped the blossoms, all three fruits produced bounteously.
My mother often rode the Loup County pastures in the summer when all the men were busy making hay. Checking on the cattle, giving them salt and mineral, "doping" the backrubber with fly control, and making sure the windmill was working was called "riding the pastures" even though we rode in a pickup truck, not on horseback.
My sister and I went on these excursions to give my mother company and moral support as she bravely drove over treacherously sandy trails. We also opened the gates for her. Actually, I usually opened the gates because Charlotte was 5 years younger and shorter. (In all fairness, Charlotte may have had her turn at gate-opening later on after I started working in the hayfield.)
Riding the pastures always took an entire, long, hot summer afternoon, so I was never happy when my mom wanted to stop and pick fruit at the orchard. If I had picked faster, we might have left sooner, but I remember that Mama filled her buckets much quicker than I filled mine. Then when we were finally done picking, we had to stop at the windmill, so Mama could wash with lye soap to get the poison ivy off herself. It grew in the orchard, too, and she was very allergic.
My parents speculated that Indians had planted that hillside orchard. Wild plums were common throughout our several sections of hills, but chokecherries and wild grapes grew only in that one big plum thicket. It was probably a couple of acres in size, on a wide, sunny hillside at the edge of a large valley. Their talk of Indians intrigued me, so I was greatly interested years later when I read these paragraphs in Stephen R. Jones' book, The Last Prairie: A Sandhills Journal:
Plains Indians coveted chokecherries. They mashed them up and mixed them with bison fat to make pemmican, a winter staple, or crushed them to make a special drink. Many peoples refered to the August moon as the "black cherry moon" or "the moon of black cherries ripening." The Lakota drank chokecherry juice at ceremonies honoring a girl reaching puberty. The red juice represented both the sacred blood of the young woman and the fruits of the earth.
Plains Indian tribes would camp for days along streams where chokecherries grew. The women used stone pestles to pound the cherries to a pulp, pits and all. It's possible that people deliberately carried chokecherry seeds from one campsite to another, contributing to the spread of this moisture-loving shrub into arid regions.
My experiments with wild fruits
My childhood "fruiting" experiences instilled an interest in growing wild fruit. I bought some sand cherry bushes from a catalog and planted them here in Kentucky. They didn't do well, but during the few years that they lived, they produced a handful of cherries, and I picked and ate them right off the bush. I had forgotten their unique, dusky flavor.
Soon after we moved here, Keely became friendly with a little girl named Tiffany who had wild plums behind her house. I acquired a few plums from Tiffany's mother and started some bushes from the seeds. I planted them on a south facing slope that we don't enjoy mowing. I was hoping they would take over the slope, but they haven't yet. These plums produce a sour yellow fruit that I don't recommend eating straight from the bush, even when fully ripe.
Several years ago, I visited my brother's place in Kansas when their wild plums were ripe. Those plums are yellow and fairly sweet. The plum bushes are surprisingly small and scrubby, but I think they're stunted by the dry conditions that usually prevail in SW Kansas.
I brought home some Kansas plum seeds and planted them in a little bed, then transplanted them to the slope. Now, the Kansas Sweets are intermingled with the Kentucky Sours, and I can't tell them apart by looking. (Their fruit should identify them -- "By their fruits ye shall know them.") I posted their photo yesterday. If we don't get any more hard frost, I'll have a few plums to play with this summer.
Lewis and Clark's descriptions of the wild fruits of the Great Plains are summarized by the Mouth of the Platte Study Group in their webpage titled, "Fruits." An interesting report from 1912 for the Smithsonian Institute about "Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region" can be downloaded (126 page PDF).
More wild foods
My father was knowledgeable about many plants of the Sandhills. One day in the hayfield, when I was just a little girl, he showed me the low-growing ground cherries in the stubble and how to open their little husks to find the seedy little fruits.
Daddy also showed us a wild purple flower that he called "Indian turnip". I have tried to identify it in a book of Nebraska wildflowers, and I can only say that it might have been liatris squarrosa (scaly blazing star). It had a small edible bulb with a woody texture and a sharp bitter flavor. They didn't taste very good, but it was fun to think that I knew something from Indian lore.
Our family ate and greatly enjoyed a certain type of wild mushroom that came up after a rain in areas where the cattle had been hayed during the winter. I have studied mushroom books, and I think it was the meadow mushroom.
If you have read all the way to the bottom of this long, long ramble, I congratulate you.


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July 26, 1918 was my fathers birthday. He grew up during the Great Depression. When he was about four years ago his father died, he, his brother and his mother had to fend for themselves.
He looks serious even in this picture. I figure he looks to be about 3 or 4 months old. He is propped up in the picture, so that means he is unable to sit up by himself.
I do not think he remembered anything about his father. What he did say is the only thing he did right in his eyes was insist that Gertrude O'Rourke Dowd named him Thomas after his father and grandfather. Gertrude wanted to name him Malcolm. I like Thomas better myself.
His father died when he had fallen down a flight of steps, and I believe alcohol was involved in the death. My father did not drink and refused to have it in our house.
My father always would fight with his brother Richard.
Thomas Dowd
After his fathers death Gertrude moved the family back to her parents home and had to go to work. She worked in the Westinghouse Electric Plant in East Pittsburgh PA. She had said her job was a "winder", so I am surmising that she was winding the coils for the motors that they made.
My grandmother was only in her late twenties and I suppose she wanted to go out and her father Patrick O'Rourke was strict and told her to stay at home with her children. Gertrude told a story of how one evening she wanted to go to a dance. So, she climbed out on the porch roof and threw down her coat, which landed on her fathers head. She said she got beaten for this escapade and did not go to the dance.
Both my father and grandmother said Patrick was "mean." This is a picture of Thomas in the yard of his grandparents.
Gertrude held back my father from going to school so he and his brother Richard could start together. That would put my dad at about the age of 7 or 8 when he started to school. They would walk uphill to St Williams Catholic School in East Pittsburgh PA.
She made Thomas responsible to Richard and they would fight because my dad was punctual and Richard would lollygag. One dad he did not wait and went on while Richard was dallying as usual. Dad made it to school and a while later Richard arrived and went to the back of the classroom and hit
my dad on his head. The Sister told Gertrude that "Thomas has the patience of a saint."
It is hard to believe today that Thomas or any child of that age would have the responsibility of someone two years younger. They would have CYS investigating and call it child neglect and child abuse.
To be continued.
My dad and grandfather.


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by KELLY McLAUGHLIN
Anne Frank once speculated that nature was the source of all goodness in the world; nature was for her, and still remains for many people, a constant reminder of a higher power. Within her diary she often questioned how something as horrific as World War II could co-exist with the awesome magnificence of nature. Today, individuals ponder this same question, or questions of their own, while reclining in an easy chair on the sun porch, or walking amongst beautiful flowers and plants.
Perhaps individuals seeking the sanctuary of Mother Nature temporarily forget their own problems when surrounded by the beauty of the outdoors. This is what happens at the PA Horticultural Society Garden, nurtured by the "Hands-on Gardeners," a group of blind and visually impaired adults whose interests include the love of watching flowers grow, not with their eyes, but with their hands. It is located in Fairmount Park, just off from Belmont Avenue. The members of the group are all clients, staff or volunteers for the Associated Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ASB).
Upon observation of the Hands-on Gardeners' garden, individuals such as myself are astounded by the cornucopia of fragrances that dance through the air. The shrubbery that lines the paved walkways provides a much-needed oasis to the backdrop of city living and to the enigma that is life. It is not uncommon to see several college students on a sunny day preparing for classes while enjoying a spectacular view of the garden.
Other individuals such as myself stroll through the garden observing the parade of colors as well as pleasurable aromas. The cannas (tall shrubs) take center stage providing an elegant backdrop for the abundant plants and flowers such as Lambs Ear, a type of plant that feels like fleece, to Vinca flowers nodding gently in the breeze.
Peggy Garrett, a Chestnut Hill resident who is blind, recalls one time when a young man stopped her and commented that the garden gave him hope, for now that he saw the garden, he wanted to live. Garrett is the Garden Program Coordinator and an ASB staff member.
The garden is also used as a tool for higher learning, applicable to both visually impaired and sighted admirers. The sighted want to know how their garden at home can look like the Hands-on Gardeners' garden, while the visually impaired who grow it, can bask in earned approval. This approval has been formally recognized through the PA Horticultural Society's annual contest which judges all urban gardens. Hands-on Gardeners' garden has come in first for many a year.
Mrs. Garrett established this Sensory Garden in 1995, hoping that it would serve as a tool for increased learning. When Garrett founded the garden, it was dilapidated except for the raised beds that would enable handicapped individuals to more effectively tend to the greenery. At the time Garrett was a rehab teacher forASB, an agency in Philadelphia which enables the blind and severely visually impaired population to function independently by providing resources such as Braille and audio books, as well as classes on self-help skills.
When she was a rehab teacher, the dilapidated garden in Fairmount Park was brought to her attention. "I decided that restoring this garden would be an excellent project for my rehab class," she said. "In order for this to become a reality, however, it needed a grant from ASB, which I later received."
In the years to follow, this garden proved to be the final segue to independent living, for even if our blind neighbors' challenges did not allow them to live totally independently, to some degree individuals knew that if they could master gardening and tend to the flowers, they could be independent to the best of their abilities. Today eight individuals, all visually impaired, work with Garrett tending to the garden as well as tending to themselves, each with a different story to tell of hope and self-worth that the garden restored back into their lives.
Today this garden in Fairmount Park is affectionately called the Hands-on Garden because for the blind community a tactile sense displays vivid pictures of the world. Although the garden did bring recreation to the blind, the Sensory Garden drives home a more fervent point; that no matter the degree of disability, an individual should be viewed not as handicapped, but handicapable, with different talents and gifts to share that perhaps go unnoticed until someone else unlocks them.
In my opinion, being inquisitive is not a bad trait, for if people are encouraged to ask questions, they become less ignorant on a given subject. Some individuals who browse through the Sensory Garden inquire about Garrett's disability as well as the garden, for when individuals learn about the plants and flowers in this garden, it provides a common ground for everyone. Perhaps others are amazed that such a group of blind individuals exist.
Every year students from Overbrook School for the Blind get a chance to visit the garden and to experience for themselves the fact that anything is possible despite having a disability. Mrs. Garrett fondly remembers that one afternoon when the garden was especially nice, she and her sibling took their mother, Mildred Fisher, to the Sensory Garden, and while there, their mother fell asleep. Upon awakening amidst the numerous flowers, she opened her eyes and exclaimed, "Now I know what Heaven feels like."
Kelly McLaughlin is a resident of Flourtown who is blind. For more information about Hands-on Gardeners, email firstname.lastname@example.com


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This is a guide for two groups of people, and you may fit into both groups.
- Players from Oceanic, or high latency servers, and
- Players that find themselves twitch deficient.
There are plenty of great guides out there on the blogs, much better than this one, but if you are struggling, then maybe this will help.
I will get to the strategy, but first some background rambling.
I have been playing WoW for a fair while, from before the Oceanic servers came into existence.
I play on PvE servers for a very good reason:
Err I mean latency.
Old Skool Latency
Back when I first started, on an US server, PvP and dueling went a little like this.
Can't even see a target.
You have Aggro!
You target is out of range
You are facing the wrong way
You target is out of range
You are facing the wrong way
You target is out of range
You are facing the wrong way
You can't do that while stunned
You target is out of range
You are facing the wrong way
Time to release 2 min: Release Spirit
Now admittedly PvE isn't much better, imagine if you will (and can remember) Shade of Aran
You have died
you take xxxx damage
Time to release 2 min: Release Spirit
Back to the Tournament
Which brings me back to Argent Tournament Jousting against anyone, but particularly NPCs.
The 1st two strategies are the popularly accepted strategies, the last one is my justifiable haxxor.
Assuming you actually won the last fight (yeah right, without cheating?)
Press:5 Refresh Mount – quickest path to disillusionment is to forget this step.
Press: 4 3 times to build 3 Defend shields
Talk to opponent/squire then target opponent
Things are slightly different depending on whether you are doing the daily, or challenging a champion… I will mention difference below this strategy.
When they get to charge range,Press: 2 Shield Breaker
Then Press: 3 Charge.
You are now in melee range so Press: 1 to hit them, then
Press: 4 to refresh your shield then spam 1 when (if ever) it is off cooldown.
When the opponent turns repeat 2, 3, 1, 4, 1, 1 etc
Rinse and repeat.
Note: 4 shares a cooldown with 2 and 3, so only refresh your shield while in melee, as 4 doesn't share a cooldown with 1 (apart from GCD)
Difference between opponents:
Daily: They will charge to range immediately, as they run off 2 shield breaker
Champion: The champion will exchange a few hits before getting range, so engage in melee until they run off.
Medium latency
Similar to the correct stray above, but don't charge.
After you do 2 stick on your opponents butt like the glue your mount will become if you fail!
Chase that bugger down! You don't want him getting the opportunity to charge.
If you get your 2, 4 & 1's in you will stay just ahead of your opponent on damage and win.
Slow but effective.
Same as medium latency, but bring a mate, or two.
Get your mate to do normal damage to the opponent, yes, they can do damage.
You will win, maybe feel a little dirty, but you will win!
Now I know, this is kinda cheating, but I figure the NPCs are cheating anyway with thier latency advantage.
Difference between US servers and Oceanic Servers
Let me explain the difference between US and Oceanic servers, this may get a little technical, so try to keep up.
The difference is:
A label
Yep, that's it, just a label on a US west coast server. Allegedly Oz Internet providers offered to host Blizzard servers (something promised before game release) but allegedly Blizzard didn't want to pay the cost.
So after much bitching and moaning (and trolling by people that either didn't care, didn't understand or had something to loose (ie: duels and pvp)) Blizzard finally labeled half a dozen servers as Oceanic, ohhh and to be fair, changed the server time to AEST.
So what does this mean in latency terms.
300+ is average these days, 3,000+ not unusual, and 150+ something to party about for the 5-10 seconds you have it (as you disconnect).
Of course Blizzard was concerned that we would never fill the servers, so they also made them the default destination for trial accounts, so we got 3,000 latency and 3,000 queues.
Things are better now, we now have a pile of full servers and an optimal latency that would cause the average US based gamer to quit in despair.
If you are bad PvPer on US servers, come to Oz
So if you are a bad US based PvPer and want a 0.5, 1,0 or even 1.5 second advantage over your opponent, reroll or transfer to an Oceanic server.
Think of it this way, in the time you are waiting on your GCD, we don't even know we are in combat and you are casting your 3rd spell!
Alleviating some of the guilt
OK, so that's my justification for accepting unsolicited help from random strangers, and my justification for suggesting you bring some friendly fire.
If you feel guilty about helping out a mate, think of it this way. The big problem with practice dummies is that they don't reflect real, fast paced mobile combat so if you really want to perfect your spell rotations under high movement scenarios, go kill a couple of Argent Champions!
Note, I think I did all but 4 or maybe 5 of my jousts solo, but I did appreciate the assistance of that random hunter the other day that was taking pot shots at everyone's opponents, and the shaman last night dancing with blades, that brought me one step closer to this…
Gnomer and Out!
Note: I am referring to Oceanic servers, which don't just house Aussies.. I know this so please insert your non-US home country every time you see Australia or Oz. I just wasn't going to list you all out…
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CLEWISTON, FL. -- South Florida's Lake Okeechobee region offers some outstanding wildlife-viewing opportunities, judging by the fact the Big "O" Birding Festival is celebrating its 13th year. The counties southwest of Florida's largest freshwater lake are known for their remarkable bird diversity and charismatic species like the snail kite and roseate spoonbill.
The festival agenda offers birders and other wildlife watchers rare opportunities to join tours on private ranches, as well as on Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) wildlife management areas and other public lands and attractions. There are dozens of different tours available during the four-day event.
"Because this festival is small and each bus tour is limited to 20 people, the small groups ensure outstanding wildlife viewing," said the FWC's Mark Kiser.
The Big "O" Birding Festival, March 9-13 in LaBelle and surrounding areas, is hosted by the Hendry County Tourism Development Council. Headlining the event is legendary birder Greg Miller. Because space is limited for bus tours, it is advisable to register now. To see what tours are available and to register, go to the festival's website: BigOBirdingFestival.com. The registration form lists all of the available tours.
Once again, the festival has invited FWC staff to inform participants and lead tours. Presenter/field trip leader Kiser is a biological scientist with the FWC's Public Access and Wildlife Viewing Services office; he is the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail (GFBWT) coordinator.
While the Big "O" Festival highlights Hendry and Glades counties, participants in the area can check out other GFBWT locations in the area during their stay.
"It's not every day you can see lots of amazing birds breeding in one place at the same time," Kiser said, citing one tour he co-leads for the festival. "We'll observe Florida burrowing owls sharing a pasture with a herd of Brangus cattle, and besides these pint-sized predators, we'll also see nesting crested caracaras, Florida sandhill cranes, swallow-tailed kites and bald eagles – a testimony to the host ranchers' superb stewardship efforts."
"The Big "O" region certainly does not disappoint, as more than 300 bird species have been recorded in the area," Kiser said. "The FWC has many wildlife management areas there, and our Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail program offers nine locations in Hendry and Glades counties alone."
To learn more about the Big "O" Birding Festival and other area opportunities, including lodging, go toBigOBirdingFestival.com.


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