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When it comes to one particular critic of his work, Tyler Perry gets downright Madea-val:
"Spike Lee needs to shut the hell up!"
Perry, the uber-successful writer/producer/director (his homegrown films have grossed over $400 million), admits that he's at the end of his patience with fellow filmmaker Lee, who's made a habit of sharply criticizing Perry's depiction of the African-American community and his use of broad-comedy characters including Perry's signature tough-talking matriarch Madea (played by Perry himself in drag).
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"I'm so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee," says Perry, whose latest film "Madea's Big Happy Family" opens April 22. "Spike can go right to hell and all ya'll can print that. I am sick of him talking about me. I'm sick of him saying, 'This is a coon and buffoon.' I'm sick of talking about him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he said: 'You vote by what you see' – as if black people don't know what they want to see. I am sick of him. He talked about Whoopi [Goldberg]. He talked about Oprah [Winfrey]. He talked about me. He talked about Clint Eastwood."
"I'm not tired – I'm done. I'm done," Perry tells PopcornBiz of the long-simmering feud that's played out entirely in the media. "What's unfortunate about that is what I wish he had done: if he had an issue with what I was doing, call me. Man to man – let's have a conversation. Don't go public, talking to people so that every time I'm asked a question I'm asked 'Spike Lee said…' Every time anyone asks me something about what I do it's 'Spike Lee said…' It's really annoying to me, but no, I haven't had a conversation with him. I only called him once to congratulate him once on 'Inside Man' when it opened to tell him what a huge fan I am of his."
Perry says he's no longer interested in hashing things out face-to-face with Lee. "There's no need to settle it," he says. "There's nothing to settle. Why would I put any energy into it? I'm saying what's on my mind, and I'm done with it. I'm done with it. I'm not the guy that he wants to get in the ring with. I'm not that guy."
The filmmaker also addressed an email he sent out recently to his fans, expressing his appreciation for their support during what he characterized as pointed attacks on his works by several factions. "I was writing about how hard people work to discourage people from seeing my work," Perry says. "I don't even understand it. There are so many people who walk around saying 'It's stereotypical,' and this is where the whole Spike Lee thing comes from, the negativity, that this is Stepin' Fetchit, this is coonery, this is buffoonery, and they try to get people to get on this bandwagon with them, to get this mob mentality to come against what I'm doing."
"But what they don't understand is this – and this is what I want to make perfectly clear to everybody, especially black people: I've never seen Jewish people attack 'Seinfeld' and say that this is a stereotype. I've never seen Italian people attack 'The Sopranos.' I've never seen Jewish people complaining about 'Mrs. Doubtfire' or Dustin Hoffman and what they were doing in 'Tootsie.' Never saw it. It's always black people, and this is something that I cannot undo. Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Dubois went through the exact same thing. Langston Hughes said that Zora Neale Hurston – the woman who wrote Their Eyes Are Watching God – was a new version of 'the darkie' because she spoke in a Southern dialect and a Southern tone. And I'm sick of it from us. I am sick of it. It comes from us. We don't have to worry about anyone else trying to destroy us or take shots, because we do it to ourselves."
"Then they go on and say that people of other ethnic groups or white people don't see my movies," he continues. "That's all a lie. I've said it on stage, looking at thousands of people, thousands of faces, every race represented. I'm tired of it! I'm tired of just laying down. I'm tired of just being nice, letting them say whatever they want to say and however they want to say without people knowing what the attempt really is."
While Madea's name appears in many of the titles of his films, Perry's previously doled the character out in small, strategic doses. Not so in "Big Happy Family." "I think you can put all the movies together and this is more Madea than any of them combined, because I just wanted to have some fun," he says. "After 'For Colored Girls' and 'Why Did I Get Married Too' I just wanted to have some fun and really enjoy myself."
"Telling you the truth, this is born out of me needing a place to release after my mother died," he says. "I needed somewhere to go and grieve. So I wrote this [as a play] and went on the road with it. Then making it a movie was really easy because a lot of the things that were in the movie some of my family was going through."
"I needed a place to deal with it, so I shut everything down," he continues. "I was supposed to do a movie or something – 'Colored Girls,' as a matter of fact. I pushed it and went out on tour, and we did crazy performances and I worked and worked and worked. Nobody prepared me for turning 40 and nobody prepared me for that kind of grief, and the two of them together was a lot to deal with. So I needed this."
Perry's about to begin helming and starring his self-penned "Good Deeds" with Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad and Rebecca Romjin, then tackles a rare acting-only job playing the prolific mystery novelist James Patterson's heroic detective-psychologist in the reboot-minded adaptation of "I, Alex Cross" (Morgan Freeman previously portrayed the character in two films).
"I'm not trying to be Morgan Freeman," he says. "I know that, because I can't be Morgan Freeman. Morgan is brilliant. I can just do the best Tyler Perry that I can. I'm taking fighting classes. I just bought a Harley. I've dropped 20 pounds. I'm going to drop another 20 pounds and I'm going to do that in preparation for what's going on. It's going to be good!"


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A London clergyman has brought a medieval ceremony of the Church of England into the 21st century by blessing his flock's smartphones, laptops, and iPods.
The Revd Canon David Parrott of The City's 17th-century St Lawrence Jewry church told The Times that he wanted to update the ancient tradition of Plough Monday, when farmers would bring their plows to church to be blessed on the first Monday after after Twelfth Night.
"When I arrived a few months ago I looked at this service and thought, 'Why do we have a Plough Monday?'," Canon Parrott reasonably asked, noting that it was the rare St Lawrence Jewry parishoner, indeed, who made his or her living behind a plough.
Today's laborers, Canon Parrott reasoned, were more likely to toil over laptops and to share their workaday woes with fellow cyber-cottiers by means of BlackBerries, iPhones, and the occasional Android phone.
And so Canon Parrott arrayed the altar of St Lawrence Jewry with, according to The Times, four smart phones and two laptops. In the inclusive tradition of the Anglican canon, one laptop ran Mac OS X and the other Windows.
Asking his congregation to hold their smartphones above their heads, Canon Parrott intoned to the Ultimate Sysadmin: "By your blessing, may these phones and computers, symbols of all the technology and communication in our daily lives, be a reminder to us that you are a God who communicates with us and who speaks by your Word."
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Koren Shadmi's The Abaddon is gorgeous and eerie from the start. Ter enters a strange apartment thinking he's answered an ad for an open house. But everything is a bit off. Ter can barely remember his name (in fact, no one in the apartment can recall theirs beyond a single syllable). His hostess, Bet, alludes to the fact that she never changes her clothes. And Ter himself has a suspicious bandage covering his head. But it isn't until he agrees to move in that Ter begins to understand the supernatural nature of his new home.
The apartment, it turns out, is a place where physical acts have no consequence. Flicking the light switch, for example, does nothing to turn out the lights. Acts of creation and violence are temporary (although they can leave a lasting emotional mark). And of course, no one can actually leave the place.
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I've written about a lot of crazy neuroscience stuff on this blog over the last 20 months:
- rectal ballons
- psychic powers
- penis burning
- sperm injections
- phantom orgasms
- and, of course, zombies
But this... is the weirdest, most shocking research I've read, bar none. Literally, the litany of crazy shit in this paper is so long that by the end my reading, my notes in the margin devolved to this:
A while back, someone pointed me to a paper from 1972 by Dr. Robert G. Heath titled "Pleasure and brain activity in man: Deep and surface electroencephalograms during orgasm".
"How fun," I thought to myself, so very, very naively. "This will be a nice complement to my post about EEG and orgasms." (I'm quite proud to say these are the flavor of thoughts that I have.)
Instead, I got this unethical marvel.
The first thing I noticed was that 15 out of the 18 works cited in this manuscript are self-citations. That is, 83% of the previous research that this paper was built upon was written by the author himself.
"That's odd," I mused, "probably not the best sign."
To give a little background, this paper was written by Robert G. Heath. I didn't really know anything about this guy, but he was notable enough to have received an obituary in the New York Times. According to that (short) article:
In 1957, Dr. Heath found a protein antibody called taraxein in the blood of schizophrenics that was capable of inducing schizophrenic-like symptoms in monkeys and healthy human volunteers.
The finding was controversial because it was early evidence that schizophrenia is of biochemical origin and not, as was widely believed at the time, related to childhood or other emotional traumas.
Ok, fine. That's nice. But what's weird--and what the New York Times obit doesn't say--is that the taraxein theory of "schizogenesis" appears to be total crap, despite the fact that Heath held fast to his claims. Furthermore, the ethics of this research are questionable, at best. As Professor Alan Baumeister wrote in his historical analysis "The Search for an Endogenous Schizogen: The Strange Case of Taraxein":
On May 3, 1956... Heath announced that he and colleagues "had induced full symptoms of schizophrenia" in two nonpsychotic prisoner-volunteers... by injecting them with an extract from blood of schizophrenic patients.(All emphases in this post's quotations are mine.)
If you've ever done research, or have any sense of ethics, the thought of using prisoners in an experiment to see if you can induce psychosis should set off your humanity-alarms.
What's more, according to Wikipedia (the arbiter of all Truth, I know):
Heath founded the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane University, New Orleans, in 1949 and remained its Chairman until 1980. He performed many experiments there... [and] was partially financed by the CIA and the US military. One of his collaborators... later reminisced that they had used African Americans as subjects "because they were everywhere and cheap experimental animals".
You stay classy, history of psychiatry.
You'll note that all these things I've talked about so far? Nothing to do with the paper I intend to discuss. All this stuff? This is just flavor text to set the stage for the really unethical stuff.
Needless to say, Heath and his research will likely be the topic of several posts here.
So, back to orgasms and prostitutes. I'm not even going to bother trying to explain the scientific aspects of this paper. The hypothesis, methods, results... none of it matter because they're just completely overshadowed by every crazy part about this research.
I'm just going to quote huge swaths of this paper and let you all say, "WHAT THE HELL!!?"
In patient B-19, a man, EEG's were obtained on two occasions when this arousal culminated in orgasm: once, as a consequence of masturbation and once through heterosexual intercourse.
Okay, that's kind of weird on its own, but hey, the research could be very interesting. I mean, the patient had electrodes implanted under his skull. This is usually done to determine where exactly in the brain the source of seizure activity is. This method is still used, and working with these patients is a major component of my research.
And sex research is fascinating! So if you've got someone in this situation, and they agree without any kind of coercion, then why not?
Wait, what's that Dr. Heath? This patient is homosexual? Oh...
Well please, tell us more about the patient and your experiments.
This man... had a 5-year history of overt homosexuality and a 3-year history of drug abuse. He was considered a chronic suicidal risk... and had made several abortive suicidal attempts... One month of military service... was terminated by medical discharge because of "homosexual tendencies"... The patient's experimentation with drugs began... with ingestion of vanilla extract. He became habituated to amphetamines, and he had used a variety of other sedative and hallucinogenic chemicals (marijuana regularly, nutmeg frequently, d-LSD sporadically, as well as inhalants, such as glues, paints, and thinners, and sedatives).
This is to set the stage. This patient has severe epilepsy, is a drug addict, and is extremely depressed.
So what does Heath do next?
...the patient was equipped with a three-button self-stimulating transistorized device... The three buttons... were attached to electrodes in the various deep [brain] sites, and the patient was free to stimulate any of these three sites as he chose... He was permitted to wear the device for 3 hours at a time: on one occasion he stimulated his septal region 1,200 times, on another occasion 1,500 times, and on a third occasion 900 times. He protested each time the unit was taken from him, pleading to self-stimulate just a few more times... the patient reported feelings of pleasure, alertness, and warmth (goodwill); he had feelings of sexual arousal and described a compulsion to masturbate.
For those of you who don't know, this type of behavior was seen in rats in the original brain stimulation and reward experiments by Olds and Milner. Rats self-stimulated sometimes to the point of death.
Seems like a perfect situation for a heavy drug addict, right? Just let him stimulate the "reward" and "pleasure" parts of his brain for hours on end!
But wait! There's more!
One aspect of the total treatment program for this patient was to explore the possibility of altering his sexual orientation through electrical stimulation of pleasure sites of the brain. As indicated in the history, his interests, contacts, and fantasies were exclusively homosexual; heterosexual activities were repugnant to him.
He's gay. Very clearly gay. And his brain is getting forcibly stimulated such that he's experience strong sensations of sexual pleasure.
A twenty-one-year-old female prostitute agreed, after being told the circumstances, to spend time with the patient in a specially prepared laboratory.
A "specially prepared laboratory"? Nice. Did the doc light some candles?
And where did they get the prostitute? How did that conversation go?
Scene: 1970s, late night; car rolls up to young woman standing under a streetlight; window rolls down as car approaches
"Excuse me, miss? My name is Dr. Heath. I've got a young, gay man hooked up to a brain stimulator back in the hospital. He's been stimulating himself stupid horny these last few days. If I give you $40 would you mind coming back with me and see if you can't screw him straight-wise? Be sure to mind the wires because they're hooked right into his brain.
Can you imagine writing this into your IRB proposal? I mean. What?
And I love the matter-of-factness about describing how this all played out:
The laboratory was modified to permit complete privacy, and an extension cord was inserted between the plugs in the patient's hand and the jack box to the recording room to give him adequate mobility.
He goes on:
Later, the patient began active participation and achieved successful penetration, which culminated in a highly satisfactory orgiastic response, despite the milieu and the encumbrances of the lead wires to the electrodes.
To recap: this study involved taking a severely depressed, drug addicted, gay man into the hospital, letting him stimulate his own brain, and then tracking down a prostitute to have sex with him.
This is the most boggling, unethical, and offensive piece of "research" I've ever come across. I can't imagine what the rest of the papers by this guy are like.
If anyone has seen anything in the peer-review literature that's worse, I'd like to hear about it.
Heath RG (1972). Pleasure and brain activity in man. Deep and surface electroencephalograms during orgasm. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 154 (1), 3-18 PMID: 5007439
Baumeister A (2011). The search for an endogenous schizogen: the strange case of taraxein. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 20 (2), 106-22 PMID: 21480035


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PLANTATION, Fla. – When Marcella Scott rented a home in Plantation she'd already pictured her holidays there.
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GMC has elevated the Yukon Denali lineup with a number of styling and mechanical enhancements for 2018. The Denali trim accounts for well more than half of all Yukon sales. Offered in Yukon and Yukon XL models, the XL features a 14-inch-longer wheelbase (20 inches longer overall), for increased third-row legroom and more than double the cargo room behind the third-row seat.
GMC designers evolved the iconic Denali grille with a multidimensional, sculpted interpretation that, like other contemporary GMC elements, was designed in a layered manner. In addition to a more sophisticated appearance, the new grille offers greater airflow to the radiator. Active aero shutters behind the grille close in certain conditions on the highway to reduce aerodynamic drag and enhance efficiency.
Upgrades and enhancements for 2018 includes a new sculpted chrome grille; Mastique Ash Interior wood décor; new Satin Steel Metallic exterior color; and the tire pressure monitor now includes tire fill alert.
In addition, a new Denali Ultimate Package includes the Open Road Package, nine additional months of SiriusXM Radio and NavTraffic service, power sunroof, Enhanced Security Package, power-retractable assist steps, adaptive cruise control with Automatic Collision Preparation, and 22-inch aluminum ultra-bright wheels with Midnight Silver premium paint accents.
Power for the Yukon Denali models is generated by the standard 6.2L V-8 engine. Torque is communicated to the pavement through an all-new Hydra-Matic ten-speed transmission. A wider, 7.39 overall gear ratio spread, compared to the previous eight-speed automatic, enables a lower numerical top gear ratio and contributes to greater efficiency. The new transmission's optimized gearing and proprietary controls allow the Denali V-8 engine to deliver a winning combination smooth operation and aggressive response. Four-wheel drive is an available option.
Inside the passenger cabin, real wood trim adds depth and richness to the interior. The eight-inch diagonal GMC Infotainment system with Navigation includes Apple CarPlay and Android Auto capability. The interior also features multiple USB ports and accessory power outlets including a 110-volt three-prong outlet to support electronic devices. The automaker's OnStar Basic Plan is standard for five years and includes access to an in-vehicle 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot and select features via the myGMC mobile app.
Dimensions & specifications
Yukon Denali
Wheelbase: 116.0; overall length: 203.9; width: 80.5; height: 74.4
Yukon XL Denali
Wheelbase: 130.0; overall length: 224.3; width: 80.5; height: 74.4
All vehicle measurements are in inches.
Engine: 6.2L V8 – 420 hp at 5600 rpm and 460 lb-ft of torque at 4100 rpm
Transmission: ten-speed automatic
EPA Fuel Economy: Yukon Denali – 14 city/23 hwy. (2WD), 14 city/22 hwy. (4WD); Yukon XL Denali – 14 city/23 hwy. (2WD), 14 city/21 hwy. (4WD).
Cargo capacity: 94.7 cu. ft. (Yukon Denali); 121.7 (Yukon XL Denali)
Safety features
Dual front airbags, front seat-mounted side-impact airbags, front center airbag, dual head curtain side-impact airbags, four-wheel disc brakes with anti-lock, brake assist, StabiliTrak stability control system, traction control, heavy duty trailering equipment, hill-start assist, powertrain grade braking, heavy-duty rear locking differential, Teen Driver mode, power programmable door locks, head-up display, remote vehicle start, push-button engine start, extended range remote keyless entry, OnStar communications system, rear vision camera, theft-deterrent system, daytime running lamps, fog lamps, high intensity discharge headlamps, front/rear parking assist, full-size spare tire, forward collision alert, safety alert driver seat, IntelliBeam headlamps with automatic high-beam control, lane keep assist, low speed forward automatic braking, rear cross-traffic alert, universal home remote, side blind zone alert with lane change alert, tire changing tools, and tire pressure monitoring system.
Optional safety features include: enhanced security package, adaptive cruise control, and forward automatic braking.
Basic: 3-year/36,000 mile
Powertrain: 5-year/100,000 mile
Corrosion: 6-year/100,000 mile
Roadside Assistance: 5-year/100,000 mile 24-hour
The base Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for the 2018 GMC Yukon Denali starts from $67,495 for the Yukon Denali 2WD upto $71,900 for the Yukon XL Denali 4WD. Destination charges add $1,295.
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The Kodachrome processing room at Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas.
Taken December 30, 2010, the last day to submit Kodachrome film for processing at Dwayne's Photo, the last place on earth capable of developing Kodachrome film.
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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I thought that I would post my latest project here to see if there is any interest.
Si Harris published a rough drawing on 7/8th site at ( http://www.7-8ths.info/index.php?topic=1183.0 ) of a freelance
Edwardian Battery Loco. I have been building small projects in 2 inch scale and thought this would work out well.
There are a vast amount of items in this 1/6 scale on Ebay and by choosing small prototypes the models are smaller than
some standard gauge locomotives in O gauge or 1/20. I had partly built this locomotive in 1/16 scale several years ago.
Most of the plastic has been acquired from the scrap bins of a local plastic. If there is interest I will photograph and post
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With the startling news coming out of Vatican City today that Pope Benedict XVI would be stepping down in two short weeks, surprising even his closest advisors, the speculation has begun: Is he sick? Are there more Nazi allegations forthcoming? Did he get a new, better gig as the latest judge on American Idol?
If you're having trouble processing the impact of all this, do it the way we always do here – let's go to the movies!
Here are some of cinema's finest (or infamous) depictions of papal progressions or pandemonium:


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• geophagy •
jee-ah-fê-jee • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun, mass (no plural)
Meaning: The eating of earth, especially clay, or other non-food substances.
Notes: Animals and humans sometimes eat the planet they live on, especially the clays on it. Geophagy may also be an inexpensive way to acquire additional minerals, as in the case of African and African-American women who sometimes eat white clay during pregnancy (click here for more). Soil is also sometimes eaten by animals and humans to alleviate digestive disorders. Someone who practices geophagy is a geophagist.
In Play: Geophagy sounds like a dirty word but it is the least expensive multivitamin known to man: "Geophagy as practiced in the southeastern US is considered to have originated in Africa." Sure, you can play with this word; watch your friends run for the dictionary: "Lenny comes home from football practice looking like he has been engaged in geophagy." (I guess, figuratively, he has been.)
Word History: Today's dirty little Good Word comes from Greek ge "earth" + phag-ein "to eat". We see ge in many words referring to the earth: geology, geography, and geometry. Even the name, George, comes from a Greek word meaning "farmer", someone who tills the earth. The verb phagein is related to a recent Good Word, baksheesh, which originally meant "a gift", suggesting the original meaning of the root must have been roughly "provide something desirable". (Today we thank John Hall for suggesting today's very down-to-earth Good Word.)
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A mix I made for the campers…
This second session has been wonderful, but a little more draining… It inspired me to finish up the mix I was making for campers this summer with some themes on friendship, loving yourself, and being solid with each other.
This is one long mp3 file, because I love actually mixing songs. The campers in the band I was helping as band manager were all 8 or 9. I tried to have a variety of songs and appeal to their tastes on the themes I was wanting to share.. <3


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Mars7411 wrote:Did you know windows 8 is going to have a backdoor so the US government has a right to take anything off your computer they want?
And each OS is going to be installed with 8 gigs of CP, so they can put you in jail, right away.
Mars7411 wrote:CP = Control panal?
MNP_Hikaru wrote:Mars7411 wrote:CP = Control panal?
Oh, the innocence...
Mars7411 wrote:What the hell??? Maybe I am just not getting something today.
CP = Child pornography
Internet slang 101.
Mars7411 wrote:CP = Child pornography
Internet slang 101.
Ah, ok. So you don't beleve me that windows 8 has a backdoor and the US government can access your computer and do anything they want with it? Well I read the license agreement for windows 8 and it does say the government has a right to do that.
tremor77 wrote:What's even funnier is that you don't know that they can already do this.
Government packet sniffing and data mining are very loosely regulated by congressional ruling and the courts. Not to mention the amount of pure blackhat crap the NSA and CIA do without ever getting warrants. The only reason your safe is because they aren't really after you... that, and, they lack the sufficient manpower to filter, analyze and followup on all the data they are collection...
Not being a paranoid conspiracy theorist, but a backdoor in Windows 8 is the least of your problems.
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Over the next three weeks, MLSsoccer.com will take a look back at the 2012 season that was for all 19 clubs in Major League Soccer, starting with Toronto FC and ending with the Supporters' Shield-winning San Jose Earthquakes. You can find the schedule and comprehensive reviews for each team here.
2012 record: 11-19-4 (37 points); 44 GF / 50 GA (-6 GD)
2012 Colorado Rapids statistics
2012 in Review: Colorado Rapids
Q&A with Rapids head coach Oscar Pareja
Opta Spotlight: Why Rivero is the key to the 4-3-3
There is zero question about it: Converting from a 4-4-2 or even a 4-5-1 to a 4-3-3 takes time. And it's often a process as painful as it is long.
Year One of that process went into the books for the Colorado Rapids in 2012. And by the end of the season, it looked like there might not be a Year Two.
Yes, Oscar Pareja is coming back, and yes, there are a number of pieces in place to make the 4-3-3 seem feasible, at the very least, going forward. But the Rapids struggled so mightily throughout much of the season that, by the time autumn rolled around, Pareja had his team in the old "empty bucket" as often as not.
It doesn't help that the Rapids were not a particularly good possession team, and that Jeff Larentowicz fell well short of expectations in his first year as a true solo d-mid. He's always had Shalrie Joseph or Pablo Mastroeni with him in the past, so when Mastroeni went down early with a concussion, Larentowicz suddenly had a lot more ground to cover. His lack of wheels made that a bridge too far.
That's been pretty well addressed now with the late-season addition of Hendry Thomas, who freed up Larentowicz for his half-gangster, half-playmaker role. With Thomas in the lineup, Colorado went 3-2-2 down the stretch – so yeah, there were bumps, but there were a bunch of wins to smooth them out.
While that part of the pitch is spoken for, and goalkeeper isn't a concern with Matt Pickens still around, the rest of it is up in the air. Marvel Wynne and Drew Moor barely got to play together in central defense, and when they did, they were light years from the form they showed for the 2010 MLS Cup-winning squad. At this point, it's not even clear if Wynne will be back, and it's safe to say that the defense is "under construction."
In the attack, it's hazy. Martín Rivero drifted between a true enganche and the left wing, and was mostly productive and hard working. He's not wildly dynamic or anything, and likely won't ever score enough to play in the middle of a 4-2-3-1, but in a three-man midfield with Larentowicz and Thomas he makes a lot of sense.
WATCH: Cascio hits the post... of course
Then there's rookie winger Tony Cascio, who probably led the league in "oh man, that was almost an amazing play!" moments (seriously, watch that video at right ... he had like a dozen of those). He would routinely torch one defender then shoot into the side-netting, or leave a pass just short, or put it on a platter only to see his teammate's shot wind up in row Z.
The remarkable thing, though, is that it all came in the natural flow of the attack. He didn't force anything, and has all the gifts (and smarts) to bet on a breakout second season. The left wing should be his regardless of what formation Pareja picks.
The right wing seems to call for a combination of Jaime Castrillón – who quietly led the team with eight goals and added four assists – and veteran Brian Mullan, who still runs himself into the ground every night out.
But every 4-3-3 (except Spain and Barcelona) needs a pure center forward to do the dirty work both on and off the ball, and that remains the attack's biggest concern. Conor Casey's gone, Omar Cummings was miscast in that role, and if there's no big offseason acquisition on the way, it looks like he'll have to play it again. Unless Andre Akpan can beat him out, which isn't out of the question.
So there's a lot of reason to predict more pain in Year Two of the Pareja era. This time, though, there should be a bit more progress to go with it.


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Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition-oriented fellowship based on the model pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous.
The only qualification for SLAA membership is a desire to stop living out a pattern of sex and love addiction.
SLAA is supported entirely through the contributions of its membership, and is free to all who need it.
To counter the destructive consequences of sex and love addiction we draw on five major resources:
- Sobriety. Our willingness to stop acting out in our own personal bottom-line addictive behavior on a daily basis.
- Sponsorship/Meetings. Our capacity to reach out for the supportive fellowship within S.L.A.A.
- Steps. Our practice of the Twelve Step program of recovery to achieve sexual and emotional sobriety.
- Service. Our giving back to the SLAA community what we continue to freely receive.
- Spirituality. Our developing a relationship with a Power greater than ourselves which can guide and sustain us in recovery.
As a fellowship SLAA has no opinion on outside issues and seeks no controversy. SLAA is not affiliated with any other organizations, movements or causes, either religious or secular.
We are, however, united in a common focus: dealing with our addictive sexual and emotional behavior. We find a common denominator in our obsessive/compulsive patterns which transcends any personal differences of sexual orientation or gender identity.
We need protect with special care the anonymity of every SLAA member. Additionally, we try to avoid drawing undue attention to SLAA as a whole from the public media.
The S.L.A.A. Preamble
©1985, 2003, 2012 The Augustine Fellowship, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, Fellowship-Wide Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The San Francisco/East Bay Region Intergroup does not speak for any other regional intergroup, or for SLAA as a whole. For information about SLAA as a whole, see the Fellowship-Wide Services website. You can contact the San Francisco/East Bay Intergroup via email at: email@example.com or at (415) 979-4715. Leave your name and a phone number where you can be reached on the voice mail and someone will return your call within 24 hours.


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German 1: Private Schnutz, I have bad news for you.
German 2: Private? I am a general!
German 1: That is the bad news.
4 RCN officers did an exchange with the NS in 2016
Any accounts available from the INS's regarding their own tour in the RCN?
Not sure if it is a 2 way thing
There was an article by an NS officer who did the RCN CD Cse in An Cosaintoir a while back, think I remember hearing about some other Cse as well
The article refers to it being an officer exchange programme.
From the Canadian side:
http://www.navy-marine.forces.gc.ca/...ogram/hwriv1ryA few years back, we perceived that a period of training and experiential shortfall might develop as the Halifax Class entered a six-year modernization program. The modernization followed close on the heels of recruiting success that was injecting hundreds of junior personnel into the navy's schoolhouses and fleet. The last thing desired was to deliver modernized frigates but lacking the deeply experienced crews necessary to operate the technology to full effect. Initiatives had to be undertaken to provide sailors access to a healthy learning environment despite the reduction of available hulls aboard which to train them.
One of the methods implemented to address the challenge is called the Regulus Program.
They get time at sea in an operational environment and in return the NS gets access to Canada's training facilities etc:
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Does the very sight of the current mosh pit that is the iTunes Store and App Store fill your heart with disgust? Apple is said to be working on a much simpler design that'll not only make it easier to find new digital content, but also make the two digital stores faster.
The last time the iTunes Store was redesigned was in 2009 as 9to5Mac points out.
On the iTunes Store redesign:
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The new design is said to be even simpler and more user-friendly than the current design. Apple is working on ways to enhance the speed and efficiency of finding new content, such as songs, videos, and applications. The cornerstone element of Apple's new iTunes Store is interactivity. As Apple vaguely explained to a number of music labels and entertainment partners, Apple is looking to make the iTunes Store a much more engaging experience.
On the App Store redesign:
While the iTunes App Store is an incredibly and unprecedentedly popular service, many users have complained about how difficult it sometimes is to find new and exciting software for their iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches. Apple is likely working on a more interactive way of locating iOS device software to solve these concerns. The interactivity that Apple wants within the digital store is something Apple could only likely pull off by housing the store within a full-fledged application, not a pure web browser experience.
I couldn't agree more that the iTunes Store and App Store need overhauls. They've become bloated messes as Apple's added more content — most recently iBookstore textbooks. It's not even an exaggeration to say that iTunes is responsible for over 75 percent of my OS X crashes.
The redesigns are expected to drop later this year. Do you like the iTunes Store and App Store experience or has it been frustrating for finding what you want? Sound off in the comments below.
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When teammates call, they come running
Utter the words golf tournament and some former Major Leaguers will show up with their clubs. Mention the phrase "kids with cancer" and teammates come running in bunches. On Monday, Ken, seen here with Paul Blair and Jim Palmer, hosted the Ken Singleton Celebrity Golf Classic in which he had invited former teammates and others to play for this Cool Kids Campaign fundraiser, of which Ken serves on its board.
This young but amazingly strong organization here in Baltimore assists kids and their families with cancer as they muddle through horrifically challenging months — sometimes years — of treatments, surgeries, hospitals, financial setbacks and watching their "babies" become bald, feel ill and endure this crappy disease.
The impressive celebrity list featured Hall of Famers Palmer, Eddie Murray, Gary Carter and a Brooks Robinson stop-by. Other former Orioles — Ken's friends — committed their time as well: Tippy Martinez, Blair, Boog Powell (pictured with Mrs. Singy), Rick Dempsey, Bobby Floyd, Bobby Grich, Steve Rogers, Dick Hall and Joe Orsulak, among other retired players, TV hosts and entertainers.
Other celebs on the links included Dancing With The Stars' Tony Dovolani; NBA's Jack Marin; and NFL's Victor Green, Lydell Mitchell and Bruce Laird. Tom Matte also stopped by afterwards.
When Ken's friends call him to participate in one of their causes, he doesn't bat an eye — he goes. This time when Ken did the inviting, they came.
"When we were playing," said Ken, "we all had each other's backs … it's nice to know we still do."
These guys played in an era when Major Leaguers stayed in one town, performed for one team and bonded with each other in dugouts around the country. Lifelong friendships were formed.
After this tournament, Ken's teammates went home with more than a tote bag silk-screened with "Ken Singleton Celebrity Golf Classic." They took with them an image of one pre-teen girl riding around in 90-plus degree weather to greet the golfers in a festively decorated golf cart. Her face is swollen from medication; her disposition sweet. MacKenzie Stuck is rounding third base with a brain tumor (as in three times it has returned) with nothing more that docs can do for her.
Her mother was barely audible through tears as she spoke to the golfers at a pre-tournament dinner the evening before.
So yes, mention the words golf tournament and a group of jocks will show up. Yet it's for a better reason than chasing a miniature white ball around 18 holes. They call on each other and they come running … in friendship … and in support of a cause.
This time it was for the kids.
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Clothed in baseball
Since I write solo in my Baltimore home office without an editor, I often ask a fellow freelance writer, Nancy, to review my stories before I submit them to YESNetwork.com.
So when Nancy read a story I had written titled "Clothed in baseball," she admitted she didn't like it – the story was weak.
Nancy knows.
The idea had evolved during a week when one Mrs. Singy was a tad "dry" for a topic. So instead I tackled the laundry. (Thrilling. Proof of a real case of writer's block). After padding barefooted around the house putting away clean clothes predominantly stamped with the "NY" logo, I wrote about how us Singletons could open a New York Yankees store with all the baseballs on our clothes.
It went something like this:
… hats, socks, sweatshirts, knit caps, windbreakers, workout clothes, basketball shorts, winter coats, robes and T-shirts – oh so many T-shirts! Long-sleeved, short-sleeved, no sleeves. There's even a pair of "NY" underwear at the bottom of the laundry basket (whom they belong to, I'll never tell). The kitchen drawer holds a neatly folded NY Yankees pinstriped apron (which Ken should wear when he grills to avoid barbeque sauce splattering on his favorite YES T-shirt).
Our shirts are screened with "Property of YES NETWORK" … "Why New York is better than New York: We never traded Nolan Ryan" … "My Yankees Baseball" … "YES HD" … and various players' names and numbers white-on-navy across the backs.
I continued the tale about how these New York-based clothes have long since replaced logos of other baseball jobs Ken has held; shirts and jackets boasting MSG Network, FOX, Montreal Expos and The Sports Network in Canada. Way before that we wore a plethora of orange and black Baltimore Orioles garments.
When Nancy had suggested to spice up the subject by maybe tying the T-shirts to memories, still I had nothing more to add. After all, Ken constantly brings home baseball stuff, so there is not much nostalgia there since we have lived and breathed the sport for a few decades. ("Baseball Is Life" is the most significant T-shirt in the pile.)
Nope, there wasn't even much to reminisce about that pair of NY underwear other than that they were purchased in a Cooperstown gift shop during a pleasant family trip to Induction Weekend. (Okay they're mine – happy now?)
Enough about baseball clothes; Nancy warned you it was weak.
Then I read a comment on the Mrs. Singy column from a Yankee fan who knew how to attach true feeling to a New York Yankees garment (see May 2010 – Life needs Diversions), putting my dim words to shame had I decided to post that feeble story.
This fan's anecdote was about how Yankees baseball pulled him through cancer. "It was like being in a safe environment for a few hours," he wrote. "One that made me forget, even for the shortest of times, that I was sick or in pain."
When this fan lost his hair during three rounds of chemo, he purchased a new NY cap that he will "never get rid of. It's worn heavily, but I can't discard a cap that did so much for me."
And he said he feels the same way about the entire Yankees franchise – a team that helped him greatly through a tough time, providing a distraction from ill health. Luckily, remission has been his friend since December 2007.
Now my collection of colorful NYY caps has meaning. As I donned the canary-yellow one to wear while walking the dog today, I recalled this fan's bittersweet story – how a simple item like a baseball cap can evolve into such sweet significance for an ordinary baseball fan.
Yankee Frankie: A 101-year-old fan
My neighbor Annie emailed me about a "most delightful" scene she witnessed while shopping at a Publix grocery store in Hilton Head, S.C., where she has a vacation property. An announcement sounded over the store's P.A. system about a customer's birthday: Frank Ventre is 101 years old.
Annie said the Publix staff had thoughtfully prepared and presented a few small birthday gifts representing Frank's interests, including orange cupcakes for Syracuse, N.Y., and a few blue and white goodies to delight him in his passion for the New York Yankees.
"Where else in the modern world on a busy Saturday afternoon would a food store go to such lengths for a regular customer?" said Annie.
While Frank was being presented with the Yankees gifts (one an autograph signed "To Frank") the gentleman spoke in great lengths about the team's 27 championships, what city they were playing in that day, and where they would be playing in upcoming away games. Frank knew his facts.
When he nostalgically mentioned how he wished he could again attend a game some day, but that "the tickets are too expensive," Annie approached him. Without mentioning who her neighbor is, she said she might be able to help him grant his wish. That's when she emailed me to ask Ken if it was possible to obtain tickets.
Frank is now making plans to attend the game against the Tampa Bay Rays July 17 in New York. Ken laughed just now glancing at the schedule while he double-checked the date for me. "Huh! How about that? It's Old-Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium."
No pun intended, Frankie.
When Ken had relayed this story to the Yankees PR office, they sent Frank a letter inviting him onto the field before the game. His 68-year-old son will accompany him to the Big Apple and his daughter (who he lives with) is treating them to the airfare.
A little old-timer recognition can go a long way.
"Oh my, I can't believe it!" Frank relayed to Annie who told me, "He is so very excited!" (If you knew Annie, you'd know how she gets big kicks out of helping people – strangers and friends. It's just the way she's wired … Angel Annie … one of the last of the good Samaritans.)
Healthy still at 101, Frank goes to the gym regularly. He uses the treadmill, stationary bike and free weights. He's 100 percent Italian – a sweet, entertaining man, reports Annie about her new friend. And believe me, they will be Hilton Head Island friends for sure.
"Hats off to the Publix staff that took time and effort merely to be nice," said Annie, "and to make an amazing old man feel very special."
This, she said, was truly a great example of "publix" affection.
Life needs diversions
You know that reflective, somber mood that overtakes us after attending a funeral? I'm in that today.
I don't much prefer to attend funerals – who does? Yet I do like to write when my mind is swirling in such a pensive frame of mind. This afternoon's office plan was to return from the internment Mass of my former coworker – "Marvelous Melba" I called her – and write a Mrs. Singy column about baseball clothing.
But the topic of baseball in any shape or form on a gloomy cloudy funeral day seemed totally inconsequential. Who cares about a Yankees anything when we feel sad? Can't take that to heaven.
In many conversations with Ken, he explains that sports is a release … a diversion … pure entertainment. Maybe that's why we need activities like watching baseball – so we don't walk around like post-funeral zombies 24/7, contemplating the woes of the world.
Maybe without those championship lacrosse games to focus on, Sharon and Lexie Love – the family of the University of Virginia lacrosse player, Yeardley Love, who was murdered by a former boyfriend – wouldn't have been able to get out of bed any morning after May 3 when the horrific and incomprehensible news was delivered to them.
Maybe without the release of the cheering and the cohesiveness of UVA fans surrounding them in the stands, they would be instead lying on the floor at home kicking and screaming, totally inconsolable and heartbroken. Maybe without the thrill of watching Yeardley's teammates "win it all for Love" … those first few emotionally raw weeks would have been absolutely and completely unbearable -not that they weren't.
But Sharon and Lexie somehow got dressed and put one foot in front of the other to go watch a sport they heartily supported. In the stands at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va. at the start of the NCAA Tournament, they watched Yeardley's lacrosse team win that day. They stood up and clapped, cheered, hollered, smiled and yes – sobbed – their way through the game because the sport had held great significance for their athletic daughter and sister.
Maybe for some of you, Yankees baseball has helped to get you through … a divorce, a job loss, God forbid a family tragedy, even just a bad day. Maybe watching a game or talking baseball helps you to take your mind off of a dilemma.
Yes, life needs diversions like sports. We need petty day-to-day activities to balance the heavy. We need distractions so we are able to slip out of somber moods and once again think happy thoughts.
Short commute
It's 3 p.m. and the kiss on my cheek fades as Ken leaves for work, a seemingly simple gesture performed by countless spouses on an ordinary day.
The Yankees have come to us this time; a three-game stint in Baltimore during a few chilly spring days after their April 26 visit to the White House less than an hour south of Camden Yards.
We pretend for three days, Ken and I, that he has nothing more than a 30-minute commute into the city, leaving in the afternoon and returning after the household is snoring, once again planting a soft kiss on my cheek as I doze close to midnight.
"Did they win?" I mumble as I turn on my side, feeling disappointment that the Orioles managed to find a burst of energy to beat the Yankees in spite of Baltimore's atrocious start to the season.
But we don't get used to it – this ritual of the 3 p.m. kiss and commute. It's just a tease and we know it. And not that Ken wishes to work for another team – he does not – what could possibly compare to the New York Yankees experience?
So just for three days we pretend that he doesn't have to pack a bag, go on the road, hop a plane, hail a cab, commute by train, and exist as a dad and a husband through cell phones, texts and emails.
Yes, just for three glorious days, the Yankees come to him.
Dusting off a perfect game
It's not essential that I actually watch a Yankee game when Ken is home on an off-day since he treats me to a play-by-play from his favorite perch in the TV room. As he's "doing his homework" (how's that for an explanation why a husband needs to watch so much baseball?) Ken calls out sporadically, "3-nothing Yankees!" … or … "CC Sabathia has a no-hitter going!" … or whatever pinstripe action is unfolding on the screen. (He gets stirred up when he's watching his guys.)
"What inning?" I called out about that particular game, knowing no player can count their baseball chicks before they hatch.
Now, call me oblivious, but I don't always listen 100% to the baseball lingo floating around our house (being that it's a daily occurrence), so I'm thinking Ken meant CC was pitching a perfect game.
Later, when Ken's final game report echoed from the TV room that Sabathia gave up a hit in the eighth inning, I commented something about a perfect game.
That's when Ken quizzed me. "Beauty," (he calls me Beauty), "Do you know the difference between a no-hitter and a perfect game?"
Although I could describe a perfect game as when batters are up 1-2-3 and out 1-2-3, I failed the quiz by improperly describing a no-hitter (and how long have I been a baseball wife?). Well, I knew what I meant.
And although I didn't describe it correctly, at least I know what a perfect game most definitely looks like, since I've been dusting a framed scorecard autographed by Dennis Martinez that has been on display in Ken's office for 19 years. It's a keeper.
Okay, that's a white lie. I haven't been dusting the scorecard for 19 years because, well, I don't actually dust.
Martinez's perfect game July 28, 1991 is one of two that Ken has had the privilege of calling as an announcer — one in the National League and one in the American. That's some kind of baseball statistic right there, folks, since only 18 pitchers total have tossed perfect games in MLB history. The earliest two were recorded in 1880 and not another happened until 1964!
That perfect game between Montreal (2) and Los Angeles (0) was made sweeter for my husband to witness — and call — since Dennis is a former Orioles teammate and was a Montreal Expo starting pitcher during Ken's run at The Sports Network in Canada.
Before the YES Network evolved and Ken was a Yankees announcer on the Madison Square Garden Network, David Wells was the second pitcher to decorate Ken's office with a perfect scorecard May 17, 1998 (New York 4, Minnesota 0).
Super! Another dust collector … uh, I mean … keeper.
Stadium noise is par for the course
On an off day in Spring Training, Ken took time to enjoy one of his favorite pleasures – to watch professional golf at a PGA Tournament in Palm Harbor, Fla., about 30 minutes from Steinbrenner Field.
If you have ever attended a pro golf tournament, you're familiar with how quiet is the atmosphere – a courtesy extended by fans so golfers can focus and eventually sink miniature white balls into tiny cups in as few strokes as possible.
What amazes Ken is the difference between the hushed atmosphere of a golf tournament versus the deafening one of a baseball stadium.
"Quiet applause is accepted after a shot," said Ken. "Very few fans shout comments, and if they do, it's mostly encouraging. In baseball stadiums, some things that fans yell are not so encouraging and can include disparaging comments about your family members."
In Minnesota on Mother's Day some years back, Oriole Ken was in the on-deck circle warming up when a Twins fan shouted, "It's Mother's Day and even your mother doesn't love you!" Ken went up to bat, hit a home run, and on his way back to the dugout, addressed the guy, "Now even your mother loves me." That elicited a hearty laugh from the fan's friends.
What people do not realize, Ken said, is that players use the discourteous comments as incentive to play well against the opposing team. "When you're on the road and fans say bad things, you really want to do something to shut them up. Then they might learn to leave you alone."
Ticket takers at pro golf tournaments take more than your entrance fee at the gate – they confiscate all cell phones, too. This is so phones do not ring during play and so people aren't tempted to chat and make business calls.
So when it was time for Ken to receive a scheduled phone interview from a Montreal radio station, he was forced to step outside the gates where he could talk Yankees in a comfortable tone of voice without disturbing the quiet on the links (first having to retrieve his cell phone from the front gate staff).
Could you imagine if a Yankee Stadium PA announcer whispered, "Shhh, all quiet please … Derek Jeter's up to bat." Or if a vendor at a golf tournament screamed, "Get your beer here!"
The hype and rowdiness of attending a baseball game is half the fun – no – make that all the fun. And who cares if anyone's yakking on a cell phone? We can't hear them anyway over the roar of Yankees fans.
Two different sports, two different atmospheres. The notion supposedly, is that golfers would not be able to concentrate if fans were able to scream at will.
If a pro makes a good putt to take the lead in a tournament, then people get excited. But only after the fact. While a putter is in pendulum motion, no one's clapping and shouting "C'mon! Sink the putt!"
I asked Ken what's the difference with baseball and why doesn't the noise bother Major Leaguers?
"You just have to concentrate and put all the sounds behind you," he said. "You can hear the crowd but it's almost like a buzz in the background because you're so focused. Even years later, I can remember specific pitches, sequences, what it felt like to hit a baseball and how I swung … all because my concentration was so keen. Not to mention that if you don't concentrate, you can get hurt while batting or playing the field."
While comments from fans and the overall racket were challenging to a player, Ken said the noise and excitement is part of the game. "It's easy to get pumped up in front of 50,000 excited fans."
Quiet please. Ken is going to go hit golf balls now.
Denmark fan sends reindeer meat
Move over Joyce's Coconut Macaroons, the Singletons have received a new contender for the most unique item included in Ken's fan mail — three cans of reindeer and elk meat from Horsholm, Denmark.
Former New Yorker Larry Landman included a neatly-typed letter pointing out that during the playoffs last season, Ken had thanked fans on the East Coast for staying up late to watch the Yanks play on the West Coast, but had inadvertently omitted the fans outside of Copenhagen who were watching the next day via the Internet.
"We did not stay up late, that's true," wrote Larry, "but we were rooting for the Yankees as strongly as anyone. We thank you and your fellow broadcasters on TV and radio for giving us a little taste of home while we live abroad. Given the beauty — the absolute beauty — of condensed [Internet] games, we have seen more Yankees games the last few years than while growing up and living in New York."
Ken was awed as he studied the letter and three cans sitting on the kitchen island. "I didn't know people in Europe were watching!"
We were all too curious to see what reindeer meat looked like, so our 17-year-old son bee-lined for the can opener. But who would be brave enough to taste it?
Six-foot-three teenage boys eat anything, so no surprise that Dante volunteered. And since I had tasted reindeer sausage once on a cruise through Alaska — and lived to tell about it — I fished two forks out of the utensil drawer.
"Is it cooked?" I asked, staring at the blob of raw-looking red meat peeking from under the jagged lid. "Read the label."
The majority was written in Danish except for the ingredients — and we had already used our imagination for that. We each stabbed a tiny forkful.
"It tastes like um … um … um," said Dante.
"Chicken?" I joked.
"No, I can't put my finger on it," he said, "but I'm not crazy about the aftertaste."
Ken put no fingers or taste on any of the reindeer meat. "I'll give you 24 hours," he laughed. "If nothing happens to you, I'll taste it."
As a group of friends were scheduled to come to our home that Friday evening, Ken had a bit more fun with the topic. "Make an hors d'oeuvre out of it," he suggested. "Think our friends would know?"
Oh dear Larry Landman, we apologize for the jokes, but please understand that reindeer meat is a new concept for the Singletons. We eat seafood in Maryland!
All joshing aside, we were touched by Larry's gift and laminated letter, especially the last sentence, a request that Ken enjoy the delicacy during Spring Training with fellow broadcasters: "Open a bottle of red wine and say a toast in memory of Bobby Murcer, and particularly Phil Rizzuto, whose admonition that one should not try to hit a home run, just a single, applies far, far beyond baseball."
A Maryland crab feast in California
On the night before Eddie Murray's wedding
Picking Maryland steamed crabs is a messy endeavor. You either know how to do it or you don't. So only veteran crab eaters would think it odd wearing surgical gloves while eating crabs. In California no less. Yet this is what a small group of friends did on the night before Janice & Eddie Murray's wedding at the condo of Brady Anderson and Rene Gonzales, both former Orioles.
I had flown out to California with my friend Diane Hock to attend the Murray wedding, and she had promised steamed crabs to Brady, Rene and friends. After carting them to the airport in a big box packed with dry ice, Diane successfully delivered the seafood securely to the dining room table in Huntington Beach where the Californians gobbled garishly with nary a spec of Old Bay on anyone's fingers. When folks began to snap on white surgical gloves to operate on the crustaceans, I almost spit out a mouthful of Coors Light. Indeed, a funny sight to behold.
Yet not as funny as the little trick played on me the next day at the wedding. Some guy convinced me to ask a sturdy man at the next table for an autograph, claiming it was Barry Bonds. So I did.
"I'm not Barry Bonds," the guy answered.
Oh. Oops.
"Very sorry to have bothered you," I said red-faced with a squint in the trickster's direction. "Excuse me, I need to go visit someone who gave me the wrong information."
I've never repeated that mistake. At least I knew what Eddie looked like.
The Murray wedding was a splendid event. I remember lots of balloons decorating the hall and lots of Eddie's siblings (he has 11). Somewhere on a VHS tape in the Murray house is a long silly rhyming verse, which a small group of us had concocted as our congratulatory message for the new bride and groom. High on wine and the ambiance of marital bliss, we giggled hysterically during its' performance. Seventeen years later, I am confident in saying that it was probably rather dumb. Well, we had amused ourselves in the creative process at least.
"I absolutely remember the video you guys made," said Janice, "and I thought it was great … a window into Eddie's friends I would come to inherit."
Post reception, we had been invited back to the Murrays for a party in Santa Clarita. This stands as the single most gigantic house I have ever stepped into and probably ever will – a Swiss Chalet style house that could have been featured in a celebrity homes' magazine: a ridiculous amount of bathrooms (11 – did he build one for each sibling?) and bedrooms (9), a wine cellar, a bridal suite, nine-car garage, an elevator, a cave room, an adorable girl's room with a ladder leading up to a loft, a to-die-for kitchen that went on forever, and a long rec room with Eddie's collection of baseball hats and a billiards table.
Even the glass and wood design of the front door was beautiful! The square footage went on for miles, but sadly my memory does not, or I could describe it in greater detail. In a 35′ deep lake out front – stocked with large fish – a beautiful swan paddled around softly (or did I dream it?) and peacocks wandered the grounds.
Ken and I had visited the Murrays' home one other time, after a Dodgers-Expos game. We followed them home for a visit, and upon leaving, shook our heads in awe all the way back to Baltimore. The Murrays have since moved from that gorgeous home, yet still reside in California. We wish we could see them more than we do, which is not often.
Ken and Eddie have bumped into each other over the years at various stadiums, and sometimes the Murrays will fly back east periodically to attend an Orioles-related functions – and yes, to eat Maryland steamed crabs.
Please, no more chocolate cake!
Here's an oft-asked question: "What does Ken do in the offseason?" My common silly answer: "He bakes cakes."
Someone tell me how I'm supposed to shed these extra holiday pounds with all this cake around the house?
Daughter brings home straight A's? Ken bakes a celebratory cake. Son receives an acceptance letter from college of his choice? Cake. TGIF? Cake
And what do you know … there's actually a National Chocolate Cake Day and it's celebrated annually on January 27th in the U.S. – a day for those who love chocolate cake and other chocolately items. A perfect reason for Ken to pull out the mixer and spatula.
Ken always finds a reason to celebrate with cake – frosting them with two cans of icing, mind you, so it's double-chocolately and double- thick. The man is one cake-eating machine.
I am forced to hold my nose to escape the tempting aroma of a cake baking in the oven for 45 minutes and I don't want to smell the sweet icing during his careful application, lest I repeatedly dip an index finger into the gooey, yummy mess. Because doesn't everyone think the icing on the cake is the best part? (Actually, Ken leaves most of his icing on the plate. Therefore, his double-frosting act perplexes me.)
Hurry up and get here, baseball season, so Ken can return to announcing and the oven is turned off. Not only because he needs to earn more to stock the pantry with Pillsbury cake mixes, but also because he will be immersed in his favorite sport – the one he's forced to live without through the cold Maryland winter as the oven warms our kitchen.
Then he can have his cake and eat it, too.