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38 years ago tonight, Martin Luther King gave the last speech of his life, and it was a great one. Reading it tonight, after my second viewing of V for Vendetta, it rang even more true. What's becoming clear to me is that the great hope of mankind is collective action. King understood that, more than most people. The 500,000 Latino immigrants marching on City Hall in Los Angeles understood that. The writers of V for Vendetta understand that. The French understand that.

But most Americans don't march. We're all busy pulling in different directions, trying to feed our families, trying to get ahead in our careers, trying to just survive without going insane in a world that makes less and less sense.

But reading Martin Luther King's words again tonight, I was inspired. The lesson is clear. We must either stand together or fall separately. King said it far more eloquently:
if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of general and panoramic view of the whole human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" — I would take my mental flight by Egypt through, or rather across the Red Sea, through the wilderness on toward the promised land. And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn't stop there. I would move on by Greece, and take my mind to Mount Olympus. And I would see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon as they discussed the great and eternal issues of reality.

But I wouldn't stop there. I would go on, even to the great heyday of the Roman Empire. And I would see developments around there, through various emperors and leaders. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even come up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and esthetic life of man. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even go by the way that the man for whom I'm named had his habitat. And I would watch Martin Luther as he tacked his ninety-five theses on the door at the church in Wittenberg.

But I wouldn't stop there. I would come on up even to 1863, and watch a vacillating president by the name of Abraham Lincoln finally come to the conclusion that he had to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even come up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation. And come with an eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but fear itself.

But I wouldn't stop there. Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the twentieth century, I will be happy." Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a away that men, in some strange way, are responding — something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee — the cry is always the same — "We want to be free."

And another reason that I'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we're going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demand didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence.

That is where we are today. And also in the human rights revolution, if something isn't done, and in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed. Now, I'm just happy that God has allowed me to live in this period, to see what is unfolding. And I'm happy that He's allowed me to be in Memphis.

...Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity.
This was King's famous "I've been to the mountaintop" speech, in which he talked of rumors of plots against him. One of those plots would succeed in taking his life the next day, on April 4, 1968. And reading the speech again, it's as if he knew. But he didn't stay home. He didn't live in fear. He didn't stick his head in the sand and say hey, not my problem. He talked about the need to stop asking "what will happen to me" and start asking "what will happen to others if I don't do what needs to be done."

King is dead, but not his ideas. Not his dream. He had a dream he shared with all of us, a dream for a better world, where people treated each other with the respect and dignity that every being deserves. He dreamt of a world at peace, in prosperity, where children did not have to sniff glue to sleep through their hunger. He had a dream that should never die. He had a dream that should no longer be a dream, but a reality. We have the power, but not yet the will.

King had the grace to see that even in the darkest times, there was something positive. You could see the stars.

When Pandora opened her box and let the evils out into the world, she closed it in time to save the last thing in the box: Hope. King harnessed the power of hope and changed years of oppression nearly overnight. We can too. If all of us who felt the war in Iraq was wrong took to the streets together, we could end this madness.

Love. Peace. Hope. In all the world, these are the only things worth having, the only things that ever really matter. Take those into the darkness with you tonight. Watch them glitter.

Blogger Real History Lisa said...

P.S. Don't miss this excellent article, based on a quote from a speech Martin Luther King made a year to the day before he was killed. "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

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Blogger AliWehrlie said...

God bless you for posting Dr. King's last message.
I was a senior in high school and working several hours a week for RFK's CA's June primary. Being a white girl in a very white town, I hadn't heard alot about Dr. King. When he was martyred, I worked all the harder for Bobby because I knew they were friends and commrades, and from what I knew of Dr. King, his dream was also Bobby's dream.
Where have all the flowers gone?

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Blogger Real History Lisa said...

Thank you for that. And I'd love to talk to you about Bobby's campaign - seriously. I am working on a book about Bobby and would love to ask you some questions. Please email me at lpease at

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't discount the fact that the Mexican media was non stop calling for action. Radio, TV, and print. The 2003 Million man antiwar match had the same numbers yet there was NO coverage. Once again, follow the money. Who funded all this promotion? Who funded all the 600+ billboards all over L.A. that called Los Angeles Mexico last year? I believe we are being manipulated. Listen to the Gary Bell radio show from last Saturday. He explains it well. Race wars and religious wars. It's the ultimate red herring. I too have lived in L.A. most of my whole life and love everything Mexican. In fact I am still obssessed and secretly want to marry a mexican or chicano woman. I just think that there is a multi faceted effort to dumb down and pacify the anglo public. Anglo organizations and NGO's don't work because it has been standard procedure to infiltrate with cointel. Look at ANSWER for example. Just my .02. They will never let another MLK rise and organize unless he's a gatekeeper a la Chomsky.

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  1. Preheat oven to 475°F.
  2. In a large stockpot, bring water to a boil then add onions.
  3. Stir for 30 seconds then remove with a slotted spoon.
  4. Peel onions then arrange on a jellyroll pan.
  5. Sprinkle onions evenly with rosemary.
  6. In a medium sized bowl, whisk together wine, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, oil and honey then drizzle over onions.
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Expect Thursday's deadline for Iran to stop enriching uranium to pass with more of a whimper than a bang. As the United States experiences what one observer calls "confrontation fatigue," and as international unity against a nuclear-armed Iran threatens to splinter under pressure, quick action against Iran is not likely - even though the Iranian leadership continues to taunt the West with rhetorical jabs.

It's been a week since Iran essentially said "no" to international offers of economic incentives in exchange for curtailing its nuclear program. Since then, two scenarios have emerged - one predicting the United Nations will move swiftly toward sanctions against Iran, and the other foreseeing a slow diplomatic response.

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"Slow motion is likely to prevail," says George Perkovich, a proliferation expert with particular expertise in Iran at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.

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The key reason that a quick move to economic sanctions - something the US has hoped for - seems less likely now is that Russia and China have cooled to such a step, which they ostensibly supported just weeks ago.

In the meantime, the brief war between Israel and Hizbullah has diverted Western attention, put the wind in Iran's sails, and helped elevate the question of Iran's nuclear program to a topic of debate in the Muslim world. And it's not a debate that international powers are anxious to enter and lose in the eyes of Muslim populations - thus the likelihood of a reasoned and methodical approach.

"The argument for not taking a confrontational approach is looking right to more people, even to some hard-liners in the [Bush] administration," says Daniel Brumberg, an Iran expert at Georgetown University in Washington. "In the first place, this is an administration suffering from confrontation exhaustion or fatigue, but also this has become an image battle in some respects, and no one wants to lose that."

The Iranian leadership continues to put the nuclear question in terms of a grand Muslim-world-versus-the-West battle, insisting that Iran has a right to develop technology that traditional Western powers like the US and Britain would deny it. Iran insists its nuclear program is solely for peaceful energy development, but the US, European leaders, and many nuclear experts say its years of clandestine research and insistence on uranium enrichment suggest otherwise.

Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scoffed at the looming UN Security Council deadline, calling the US and Britain the "origin of all disturbances in the world" since World War II. Although not repeating his past call for Israel to be "wiped off" the map, he did call Israel's creation a "tale" that has denied Palestinians "a single day of peace."

Mr. Ahmadinejad also said that Iran's Aug. 22 response to the offer of incentives was an "exceptional opportunity" to end the dispute with dialogue. In Iran's response, it did offer an eventual suspension of enrichment once talks were under way, but Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, said this week that Iran's program for fully mastering the fuel cycle is "irreversible."

But Mr. Perkovich says that Iran is clearly in violation of its obligations as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and should have been "hauled before the Security Council" years ago.

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This is not, however, the approach that Perkovich, with long experience watching nuclear developments, would like to see. "We ought to fast-forward," he says, by skipping the months of additional debate and moving to a vote on sanctions in the Security Council. "We should dare the Russians and Chinese to veto" a sanctions regime against Tehran, he says.

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June 21, 2012

With gold and silver getting smashed, along with stocks and commodities, today King World News interviewed James Turk out of Europe. Turk told KWN, “while the Lehman Brothers (event) was bad, it was just a warmup for a much worse financial catastrophe … We’re just getting started in terms of a fear event.” Here is what Turk had to say about what is taking place: “Everything is getting smashed today, Eric, but this is what you can expect when you are going into a ‘Fear Event.’ Doesn’t this (type of action) feel a lot like what happened when we went into the Lehman collapse?”

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“The T-Bonds are up, the T-Notes are up, the dollar is stronger and the Dow and gold are getting hit. I think you are going to see gold and the Dow start separating here, particularly given the fact that the Federal Reserve really didn’t come in with QE yesterday.

Had they done a QE program, that would have juiced the stock market. But they didn’t come in with that, the stock guys are disappointed and therefore they are selling off the stock market today….

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Here Comes The Pro-surge Democrats.

The Washington Post has this:

"Democratic leaders in Congress had planned to use August recess to raise the heat on Republicans to break with President Bush on the Iraq war. Instead, Democrats have been forced to recalibrate their own message in the face of recent positive signs on the security front, increasingly focusing their criticisms on what those military gains have not achieved: reconciliation among Iraq's diverse political factions."

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From Obama:

"My assessment is that if we put an additional 30,000 of our troops into Baghdad, that's going to quell some of the violence in the short term," Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) echoed in a conference call with reporters Tuesday. "I don't think there's any doubt that as long as U.S. troops are present that they are going to be doing outstanding work."

Here's Hillary:

"We've begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Anbar province, it's working," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Monday.

Both of these candidates really do understand, to an extent, how important it is to look strong militarily. But they are tied to the nutroots, who clearly don't care how well the war is going. They don't want to fight. Ever.

Expect Hillary to become more pro-surge. She feels she has this nomination wrapped up and she wants to be seen as a strong military leader to the general public.

Bush is on TV right now speaking VFW convention. Saying the speech he should have said before and repeated many times. I'll have more to say when he is done.

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Scranton gets no-hit* in Game 1
All Star Game to return to New York in 2013...

A lot of Yankee fans are looking at 2008 and taking solace in its similarities to 2007. After all, last year at the All Star break, the Yanks were 43-43, 9.5 games in back of Boston and eight out of the Wild Card. This year, they’re six out and 5.5 behind the Wild Card leaders.

If only baseball were that simple. First, we have the problem of the run differential. Last year at this time, the Yankees had been one of the unluckiest teams in baseball. Having scored 464 while allowing only 393 in 86 games last year, the Yankees should have been 49-37, a six-game swing above their actual record.

This year, the Yanks have scored 436 runs and have allowed 412 in 95 games. So while they’re pitching has been better this year than last, the Yanks are playing right where their run differential would have them — at 50-45 and in third place in the AL East.

This run differential is but a minor problem compared to the overarching issue. Last year, in the second half, the Yanks ran over a weak slate of teams en route to their 13th straight postseason appearance. This year, they aren’t so lucky. Pete Caldera gives us the bad news:

In these final 67 games, beginning Friday night against Oakland at the Stadium, the Yankees will face teams that currently own a combined .536 winning percentage. Only the Blue Jays have a tougher second-half schedule.

That is not good news. Between now and the trade deadline, the Yankees face the A’s, Twins, Red Sox (in Boston) and the Orioles. They play in New York against the Angels to open August and then hit the road for 10 games in Texas, Anaheim and Minnesota before things get any easier.

So right now, starting this evening, it’s make-or-break time for the Yankees. They need a strong start to the second half to push forward toward the playoffs, and if they sag against the A’s and Twins this week as they did against the Pirates and Blue Jays last week, it’s going to be a tough climb against tough competition.

Robinson Cano, Bobby Abreu and Melky Cabrera are going to have to hit; Jeter will have to pick it up; and Mike Mussina will have to hope that this Fountain of Youth he’s discovered doesn’t run dry as the season drags on. While Baseball Prospectus’ Playoff Odds reports puts the Yankees’ playoff chances at eight percent and Cool Standings puts it at 15 percent, this won’t be easy. Here we go.

Scranton gets no-hit* in Game 1
All Star Game to return to New York in 2013...
  • TurnTwo

    if they are gonna get back in this, realistically, id have to think they need to win 3 out of the next 4 series coming up to end the month… so 2 out of 3 against the Athletics, Twins, Saux in Fenway and/or Baltimore.

    if they do that, id reevalutate at the deadline, and buy.

    if they dont do that, then it depends on what the Saux, Rays, Twins, Athletics, etc, do in the same time frame.

    the good thing about this stretch is that they are basically playing against the teams they are competing against for the WC and Division. we’ll get to see head-to-head how they stack up.

    • B

      I think they need to try to acquire a quality starter to even attempt to win 3 out 4 of those series.

      I do like the fact that Gardner works the count somewhat but I believe that he needs to be trying to disrupt the game more by trying to get bunt singles! Then the ablity to steal second, I think we help the Yankees as well.

    • B

      According to MLBTRS, the Yankees are looking for a #3 or #4 type starting pitcher. Here are some pitchers taht could be available:

      • http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CRsmithT1.jpg tommiesmithjohncarlos

        In the “spaghetti at the wall” mindset, I’d like us to inquire about the following back-of-the-rotation options:

        Odalis Perez, Randy Wolf, Jarrod Washburn, Miguel Batista, Kevin Millwood, Paul Byrd, Bronson Arroyo, and Josh Fogg.

        Virtually all of these pitchers are signed to contracts that aren’t massive, per se, but are big enough that the non-contending teams they play on would be interested in cutting bait with them without taking back a prospect of substance. Again, the goal is not to have one of these guys win the World Series for us, just to give us a better chance to win than Ponson and Rasner have been giving us until we get Wang/Pavano back in late August/early September. I think all 8 of the above pitchers have better stuff and have been good pitchers more consistently than Raz and the Fatman.

        Internally, the only other options I see are Karstens, Aceves, McCutchen Horne, Jason Jones, and IPK who could realistically contribute this year (assuming Hughes gets shut down).

  • ChrisS

    Robinson Cano, Bobby Abreu, Brett Gardner and Melky Cabrera are going to have to hit

    • whozat

      Brett Gardner OR Melky Cabrera needs to hit.

      • Chris

        Until Damon is back, they’re both playing, and who knows when he’ll be back. They say next week, but a setback is certainly possible, if not likely.

    • kunaldo

      it would be nice if gardner hit, but the reason the others have to hit is because they’re expected to

      • ChrisS

        regardless, he’s in the starting line-up and this site in particular has been adamant in their support for his call-up and insertion to the starting 9. To exclude him from the guys that need to hit is ignoring his struggles.

        But hey, the last three games before the break he did alright and didn’t look lost at the plate, so maybe he will hit. I fully support Brett Gardner, and I want him to succeed. Because that will make the Yankees better. But if he finishes the season with a better OPS than Melky, I’ll eat an entire white onion raw. And I hate raw onions.

        • http://www.riveraveblues.com Ben K.

          You’re getting me in a bad mood so pardon my rudeness.

          Here’s why I didn’t mention Brett Gardner:

          1. He’s had a whopping 44 plate appearances at the big league level. We don’t know how he’s going to hit. It’s a sample size issue.

          2. You’re being dense if you think the Yanks’ playoff hopes rest on Brett Gardner’s bat. He’s not even supposed to be in the lineup but we have a center fielder who couldn’t hit a nail with a hammer and an injured left fielder.

          3. When Johnny Damon returns, I’m expected Gardner to see a marked decrease in playing time.

          4. Robinson Cano, Bobby Abreu and, to a lesser extent, Melky Cabrera were expected to be major pieces in the puzzle. Cano’s been better of late, but his season totals are awful. Bobby Abreu is hitting .240/.321/.367 since June 1, and Melky just flat-out sucks with his .218/.273/.273 line spanning over 240 plate appearances since May 6. They’re expected to hit. Brett Gardner? Who cares about him in the long-term?

          • ChrisS

            oh lighten up, Francis.

            • http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CRsmithT1.jpg tommiesmithjohncarlos

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  • Brad K

    Cano will hit better. Abreu will probably improve slightly but not enough to have impact. Melky most likely will not improve much and certainly not enough to turn this around. Historically speaking the more games Melky plays the worse his numbers get. Admittedly he only has 2 1/2 seasons worth of numbers to look at, but the trend seems to be downward as the playing time increases. Gardner, I wouldn’t hold breath.

    I think the real question is what does next year look like? What have we learned from this year and how does it compare to what was expected?

  • Chris

    One thing to consider with the tougher schedule is that the Yankees are going to be be playing the teams that they are chasing. They can make up (or lose) ground very quickly when they’re playing the Twins, A’s and Red Sox.

  • Adrian-Retire21

    Unlike last year Pettitte was better and won 6 games in August.We had Wang also.

    The problem is Cashman won’t fix the pitching until it does bad.But I fear the pitching because they have no expirence pitching good in a whole year(i.e Ponson,Joba,Rasner) and Hughes and Kennedy as back up is dangerous.

    Lets hope Cash has a plan because he’s plan to start the season has been a bust.

    • steve (different one)

      Lets hope Cash has a plan because he’s plan to start the season has been a bust.

      actually, it wasn’t. or at least it wasn’t until Wang got hurt running the bases in an interleague game.

      Joba was transitioned perfectly, giving them 4 solid starters.

      Hughes and Kennedy haven’t succeeded, but if Wang were healthy, the rotation would be just fine without either of them.

      you know how it REALLY would have been a bust? if Cashman listened to everyone here and dumped Mussina over 3 terrible starts last year instead of looking at a 15 year track record.

      the Yankees have prevented runs at a perfectly acceptable rate. the pitching has not been the problem. it’s about league average. which is what everyone expected.

      the problem is that the “plan” was to pair league average pitching with a 900 run offense. but instead, they have a 750 run offense.

      the offense is what has been “a bust”.

      • Ed

        Mussina had been crap for about 3 years. He’d start off the season good not great, then after the all star break would just flat out suck and usually miss time with an injury.

        If you judge a player by his entire career rather than the recent years, we should’ve kept Randy Johnson and brought back Clemens again.

        • steve (different one)

          wow, so being a top 10 pitcher in the league is now “crap”.

          let’s see, 4th in ERA, 3rd in WHIP, 3rd in Hits/9 IP, 3rd in BB/9…

          • Ed

            Mussina happened to be a great pitcher in the first half of ’06. He was below average in the second half. He was also a below average pitcher in ’04, ’05, and ’07.

            Perhaps crap was an overstatement. Would it make you happier if I simply said he’s been bad?

      • B

        Who are the 4 solid starters that you are talking about?

        • steve (different one)

          Joba, Wang, Moose, and Pettitte.

          is this controversial?

          • B

            No, but Wang is injured and Pettitte is being kinda inconsitant in his last 3 starts but agree with you on him notheless.
            I was just asking.

      • Brad K

        What are you smoking? Yes the Yankees pitching is around league average which means that half of the teams in the MLB have better output from their rotations. These teams include, Red Sox, White Sox, Rays, Angels, Cubs, Philly, Mets, Brewers, Diamond Backs, A’s. What do all of these teams have in common? They are either 1st or 2nd in their division or they are leading in the WC. This includes the 2 teams ahead of us in the AL East and 2 of the 3 teams ahead of us in the WC. Was this Cashman’s plan? Was the plan to be just average, middle of the pack?

        As far as the offense goes that clearly has been a bust but why is that surprising to you? Posada had a career year last year, A-Rod had an MVP season last year. The rest of the team is just another year older so was it really reasonable to expect them to score 900 runs without infusing the lineup with some new blood? As teams get older don’t the numbers tend to trend downward (Jeter)?

        • mike

          I agree with you, but the offset in the offense was to be abated with an improving Cano and Melky, FA push by Abreu, healthy Giambi, and a stronger offensive bench with Ensberg and Bettemit, as well as Molina upgrade over any other backup to spell Posada.

          That, with an improved staff (saving runs) was going to be the plan

          • Brad K

            Cano is already a lifetime .301 hitter so how much improvement were we going to see. Abreu is Abreu. FA aside I didn’t see him exceeding his career avg. Now I would be happy to get to his career avg. counting on Giambi would be a mistake regardless of the outcome this year. He has been way to inconsistent with injuries over the years to be helpful.

            As far as guy’s like Ensberg and Bettemit…come on. What was the chance that these guy’s were really going to contribute? Again was this Cahman’s plan?

            • whozat

              “As far as guy’s like Ensberg and Bettemit…come on. What was the chance that these guy’s were really going to contribute?”

              As bench players? Over Miguel Cairo? Pretty good, actually.

              • http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CRsmithT1.jpg tommiesmithjohncarlos

                Look, damnit, you’re just not getting it. All 13 of our pitchers are not in Cy Young contention with sub 2.00 ERA’s and all 12 of our position players are not in MVP contention, each with 25 HR’s and a .360 average, so Cashman’s plan obviously failed.

                Why can’t you see what’s so damn cut and dry? He SUCKS!

        • whozat

          “What are you smoking? Yes the Yankees pitching is around league average”

          It’s been about average while being ravaged by injury. With Wang still in and even ONE of Hughes or Kennedy being league average, it’d be better.

          The real surprises are the horrendous decline of Cano — who isn’t old and shouldn’t be so bad — and Abreu’s sudden inability to get on base. Walking is an old-player-skill that he shouldn’t have lost.

          And of course, there’s the jeter issue.

        • steve (different one)

          The rest of the team is just another year older so was it really reasonable to expect them to score 900 runs without infusing the lineup with some new blood?

          this would be true if they ONLY scored 900 runs last year. they didn’t. they scored 968 runs last year.

          even if you docked them 100 runs for all of the reasons you mentioned, if the Yankees were on pace to score 868 runs, they would be in first place right now.

          would i be surprised to see a 968 offense turn into an 868 run offense for those reasons you listed? no.

          am i surprised to see a 968 run offense on pace to score 750 runs? hell yes.

          and you should be too.

          • steve (different one)

            crap. screwed up the tags.

            • http://www.riveraveblues.com Ben K.

              Fixed it for ya.

          • ceciguante

            if your point is “the offensive falloff is bigger than anyone should have expected,” i hear that to an extent. but this lineup is old, and injuries to damon, posada and matsui should not have shocked anyone. with an old lineup, your bench needs some talent. but our bench is horrible. instead of dion james, tim raines, straw or canseco, we’ve had betemit, gonzalez, duncan, gardner and ensberg. crap.

            melky is a 4th OFer and is playing like one. cano is admittedly a surprise. but almost everyone else is getting up there, and i don’t think you can just start with an assumption of “ok, i’ll knock off 100 runs, that’s at least where we should be.” this team overachieved on offense last year, and now injuries AND ineffectiveness have caught them. sure, the hitting should improve somewhat, but the team as constructed was lacking depth on offense and pitching, and was flawed. ~868 run offense and league average pitching is simply not a very scary team.

            • whozat

              “this team overachieved on offense last year, and now injuries AND ineffectiveness have caught them.”

              They didn’t really overachieve. Posada’s the only one who did. Alex a little. Health from Giambi, regression to his norms from Posada, a full year of Robbie’s expected performance, Jeter’s expected performance, Abreu in line with his norms, Matsui DHing full-time and so likely to be more healthy…This anemic performance is certainly a surprise.

              • ChrisS

                I don’t think that mid-30s hitters, with some down years previously, not reaching their career norms is a surprise. The fact is that the plan, apparently, going into this season was to try and wring one or two last good years out of Matsui/Abreu/Damon and then retool. Outside of Damon, it didn’t happen and it isn’t surprising.

                See: Bashe, PhillipDog Days: The New York Yankees’ Fall From Grace and Return to Glory, 1964-1976 Part 1: A Lot of Guys Got Old at Once or the Epilogue: A Lot of Guys Got Old at Once (Again)

            • steve (different one)

              all i ask is one thing:

              find me one person who posted before the season that the offense was going to be a problem.

              find me someone who thought the Yankees really needed to add bats in the off-season.

              no, it was all about the rotation and the bullpen.

              you are making it sound like Cashman ignored what was going to be an obvious problem.

              also, as far as the offense overachieving, remember, they got NOTHING from Damon, Abreu, and Cano for the first 2 months of the season and NOTHING from Giambi all year. there was improvement that could be expected to offset the inevitable declines from A-Rod and Posada.

              it was perfectly reasonable to expect this team to score 850-900 runs this year and i will guarantee you that every single projection system agrees with me.

              shit happens sometimes. i simply can’t make the honest argument that Cashman needed to address the offense in the off-season.

              you could argue that he could tinker with the bench, but on the other hand, most people here thought Ensberg was a nice pickup. they also thought Shelley Duncan might contribute SOMETHING.

              • http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CRsmithT1.jpg tommiesmithjohncarlos

                I thought the Yankees needed to add bats back in the offseason and I was confident that they wouldn’t have enough offense to compete in the rough and tumble AL East, where the Rays are improving and the Red Sox live with a bon vivant passion for life and success, embodying a sense of fraternity and cameraderie and teamwork that the ancient, sweaty, greasy, and possibly-gay Spartan warrior-poets would be jealous of.

                I also thought that Jon Lester is The Greatest American ever, and he’s welcome to have sex with any of my daughters, my wife, or my mom whenever he wants to, and I thought that this catcher’s mask, chest protector, and kneepads combo is so damn sexy and patriotic,, I wouldn’t want to take it off to fight either.

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  • daneptizl

    Is there a chance Sexson can net us a supplemental pick after this year?

    • steve (different one)

      i really, really doubt it.

  • http://www.riveraveblues.com Mike A.

    You know what? I’m glad they have a tough schedule. I’d rather they earned their way in rather than pounded shitty teams. They might get a shred of respect then.

    • ChrisS

      Would that allow them to start series with a 1-0 lead?

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=594331910 Jamal G.

      I’d rather ram recognition down the throats of all the haters and naysayers than earn their respect.

      • http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CRsmithT1.jpg tommiesmithjohncarlos

        Hell yeah.

        I’d also rather do all that WITH Reggie Stocker.

  • raymagnetic ®™

    “While Baseball Prospectus’ Playoff Odds reports puts the Yankees’ playoff chances at eight percent”

    I find the ELO version of the odds on Baseball Reference’s site to be more accurate. The ELO version has them at 15 percent same as Cool Standings.

    • steve (different one)

      either way, it ain’t good.

      • raymagnetic ®™

        I didn’t say if it was good or bad. I was just making an observation.

  • E-ROC

    Nobody said it was going to be easy. I think the Yanks will still make the playoffs. Just a gut feeling.

  • mike

    Honestly, if Jeter, Abreu, Posada and Cano hit up to and beyond their expectations, they could have Melky and Gardiner get 600 at-bats each and it wouldn’t matter.

    The keys to the 900+ offense were not Melky or Gardiner – who are fringe major leaguers at this point – its the heart of our batting order. The great pitching numbers have been a blessing ( i dont think they are a mirage either ) but without those four key guys having an All-Star second-half.

    If those 4 guys hit a combined 20 homers in the second half as they did the first, it will be an early fall at the Stadium.

  • Dave M

    Late August/early September schedule is BRUTAL –

    3 vs. BOS
    3 vs. TOR
    1 @ DET (make-up game)
    3 @ TB
    3 @ SEA
    3 @ LAA

    So, we have a 10 game road trip to start September, 7 of them vs. teams over .500. We also fly from Tampa to Seattle with no off-day, the furthest possible geographical distance bewteen MLB cities.

  • usty

    I know this is off topic, so feel free to delete, mods. I have 2 tickets for sale to sunday’s game, Tier Reserved MVP 18, Row P, seats 23&24. These are my season tickets (c-plan) I’m asking 50 bucks for the pair (OBO). Drop me a line at DavidUst@gmail.com if you’re interested. Can do the whole paypal/forward tickets from the yankees thing. Thanks.

  • Setty

    What do you guys think it will take to get Adam Dunn? Before wanting to chop my head off, let me preface this by saying I’m NOT a big Dunn fan. I know he strikes out a ton, but, that being said, if we can get him on the cheap (in relation to the Pirates OF and Holliday), I would not mind him to replace Matsui as a rental and bat 7th with his power (with the short porch especially) and his high OBP. Am i crazy?

    • whozat

      Why spend on a rental? This isn’t a series-winning team with Adam Dunn. If they’re going to spend, spend for a guy who can play RF for the next several years and/or a righty who can play solid 1B for a couple seasons.

  • nick blasioli

    cash needs to trade for a good outfielder to replace hideki…now

  • serious1jujar

    8 % chance, my left nut. The Rays will falter. We get the Wild Card.

  • nick blasioli

    i sure would like to see marte and nady in a yankee uniform real soon..sexton can work out ok…well see..

  • http://PaulZuvella Paul Zuvella

    It seems like Cashman may have held on to some of these prospects for too long. IPK, Vasquez, Horne, Tabata, Melky,etc are all falling apart. It seems like he should have strengthened at least one position over the last few years that these guys have been developing. Instead the same holes need to be filled. Starters, relievers and the age and productivity of the outfield.

    I am afraid that they will have to do it at once and be stuck with the has beens on the free agent market over the winter.

    • http://yankeesetc.blogspot.com/ Travis G.

      we actually have a very solid pen. bruney will be back soon making it even better. have you not watched Edwar, Robertson, Veras pitch exceedingly well?

      the starters are an issue, but we lost 60% of our opening day rotation. aint many teams that could survive that.

      • http://PaulZuvella Paul Zuvella

        Edwar is awfully inconsistent, Robertson has ver y few innings under his belt and Veras has been on a roll lately. Don’t forget Bruney circa 2007. He was better for that first month but can hardly be considered a guy to be counted on. Other than Mariano and Joba for his brief stint, I can’t think of another bullpen member has been decent for more than a small sample over the last two seasons. I would hardly feel confident in this corps if the season were over now and I was getting the roster ready for 2009.

  • http://yankeesetc.blogspot.com/ Travis G.

    dont know if y’all saw the ODP stats on BTTF, but it lists Abreu as the worst regular RFer in the AL. that seems to be the weak link on offense. you just cant have your #3 hitter be that bad.

    the loss of Damon really hurt, as he’s the best LFer in the AL. surprisingly, Melky is not the worst CFer, and Cano aint the worst 2b either.

    really, this season is about the offense. with our 2008 average pitching, our 2007 offense would have us in first. Wang’s injury didnt help either.

    thinking about 2009, why not go after CC AND Sheets? we’d lose a 1st rounder anyway on one, so why not go for both bc you cant lose any more picks. that would make a sweet rotation of Sabathia, Sheets, Wang, Joba, Pettitte, with Hughes, Kennedy, etc. waiting in AAA for an injury.

    but perhaps more importantly, who’s going to be wrecking pitching along with Arod. i doubt Abreu will be brought back. a great 3-4 duo can carry an offense. the only FAs who could possibly fill that role are Dunn, Manny and Tex. while Manny is the best hitter, his D is atrocious, he’s a RHB, and he’s 36. Dunn and Tex are lefties, but not as good hitters. i guess Tex makes the most sense, as he’s the youngest, plays the best D, and switch-hits. but there’s the Boras factor, the aging Posada factor, and still the RF question.

  • nick blasioli

    a good starting pitcher would set off this season and help out for next season…


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Am I Two Hundred Years Old ?

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Am I A Hundred Years Old?

Songs from the upcoming Britney Spears album have, predictably, leaked onto the interweb (1, 2), and folks are agog at how bad they are. So I hooked up my gramophone and took a listen. And while I agree that they're very bad, they sound very bad in a way that's indistinguishable from any song Fergie has ever recorded. Also, they're too loud, and my prostate hurts.

I don't even know who "Fergie" is !
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Tarlac City – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Tarlac Field Office and the Provincial Government of Tarlac have recently conducted a “Career Guidance Counselor’s Consultation Conference” at the Session Hall, Tarlac Provincial Government Bldg., San Vicente, this city.

It was attended by some 53 participants, mostly guidance counselors, coming from different public and private high schools in the Province of Tarlac, as well as representatives of from the LGUs and PESO Managers.

Ms. Arlene N. Tolentino, Tarlac Field Office Head, said during her welcome remarks that the seminar/workshop aims to orient high school guidance counselors on current labor statistics; programs and thrusts of DOLE and other agencies on labor and employment and career counseling; establish a career guidance counselors network; and come up with an initial action plan of the network. It was also regarded as the proper venue where specific issues and concerns were ventilated and addressed. She also said that there will be a regional consultation to be conducted upon the conduct of all the provincial consultations in the region.

Series of presentations of the thrust and programs of the different agencies followed the opening ceremonies. Mr. Ferdinand C. Capati, a representative from the DOLE Tarlac Field Office, presented the current labor situation in terms of the workforce supply and demand as well as the problems and issues confronting the workforce and the possible course of action. He then discussed the DOLE programs and projects focusing on the agency’s strategic goals and its special programs.

Meanwhile, Ms. Nida A. Duco, Tarlac Provincial PESO Manager, discussed the employment facilitation programs and services devolved by DOLE to the local government comprising of the conduct of jobs fairs, recruitment assistance, Phil-Jobnet, Trabaho Mo.. itext Mo!, GMA Job Centers/Employment Kiosks, Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) among others.

Mr. Nicolas Sacramento of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Tarlac, was next to present the TESDA’s mandates which include, training, scholarship and assessment and certification. TESDA training programs are either center-based (automotive, basic electrical course, welding and ref and aircon mechanic), community-based, school-based or enterprise-based or industry-based.

And lastly, Ms. Josefina Rigor of the Department of Education presented the DepEd services for the public elementary and secondary levels. Basically, the agency’s guidance services consists of: Individual inventory – record profile of students in a school; information – refers to the facts/statistics regarding the school for advocacy purposes; counseling – comprises the career orientation and planning for students; research – entails the examination of the various problems/issues to help improve the school curriculum; and placement – involves skills orientation and training for future employment. Ms. Rigor likewise disclosed an overview of the students’ potentials/inclinations and occupational interests as covered by the National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE).

Following the programs and thrusts, Mr. Capati of DOLE presented and discussed the DOLE Career Guidance Module wherein he stressed salient pointers in choosing a career. He then discussed the following concepts on career map, self-assessment in terms of skills, interests, accomplishments and work values through interest profiler, work importance profiler and the ability profiler.

To cap his discussion, he presented the results of the regional consultation on the Project Jobs Fit: The DOLE 2020 Vision as part of the career options available today. The identified Key Employment Generators (KEGS) for the Region until 2020 are identified as agribusiness/SMEs; cyberservices; hotel, restaurants and tourism; health, wellness and medical tourism; logistics; construction; manufacturing; and mining. Moreover, the results also classified the priority skills requirements, and the issues and concerns for each of the generators.

The afternoon session started with the election of the Career Guidance Counselors’ Network (CGN) Officers (2010-2011) and results provided below:

Susan P. Domingo (Birbira High School)

Dana C. De Vera (Bilad High School, Camiling)

Romeo A. Juan, Jr. (Pitombayog High School)

 Jean Marie Flor Sapasap (Cristo Rey Higfh School)

Zenaida O. Samson (Eduardo Cojuangco National High School, Paniqui)

First District: Cristina I. Lagrimas (Bamban High School, San Clemente)

Second District: Salvador R. Agustin (Alvindia-Aguso High School, Tarlac City)

First District: Dhalia Merl Cenas (Sto. Niño Academy, Bamban)

Following the election of the CGN Officers was the presentation by Mr. Capati on the Employment Road Map which shows the modes of connecting jobseekers to employment opportunities, the connection process agenda, strategic activities and current challenges and where the career guidance counselors network may pitch in. The participants were then grouped according to their districts and had a simple workshop on Action planning regarding the various programs/projects/activities. The groups were asked to submit their plans to the representatives from DOLE.

Ms. Domingo, the newly-elected CGN President, was called to give her reaction to the day’s activity. Excited and overwhelmed, she said that it was he first time to be an officer of such group with having a very significant role in the society. She parted by saying that every plan will be accomplished easily if they as a group will all work together hand in hand.

Ms. Duco in her closing remarks emphasized on only one thing – that the efforts being done by the PESOs together with the DOLE is for the improvement of the quality of Tarlac’s manpower compliment, both locally and abroad, and most importantly to address the mismatch that caused unemployment and underemployment. (Ferdinand C. Capati)

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Tyler Hamilton's book The Secret Race is out and the dominos are starting to fall Ben Ross Photography

The dominos are starting to fall

The Secret Race is out and it has people talking.

The truth. Everyone has a version of their own. Tyler Hamilton has his version. Lance Armstrong has his. Even Alberto Contador has his own. There’s the old saying about truth – your side, their side, and the truth.

Last week “The Secret Race” by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle hit the bookshelves. To say it caused a stir is an understatement. Within hours people were asking, “Have you read it yet?”

I sat down and plowed through the book. I’m not naïve to how doping is organized in professional cycling, but even I was taken aback by the descriptions of how doping was organized. Hamilton didn’t hold back and named names such as Bjarne Riis who admitted to doping. However, Hamilton goes a step further and says Riis, his former director at CSC, actually introduced him to the infamous Dr. Fuentes. Riis is admittedly denying Hamilton’s claim. And that’s just some of the blow back The Secret Race is causing.

Johnny Weltz, current director of Garmin-Sharp and past assistant director of the U.S. Postal Team, is named as someone who supplied doping products. Weltz denies Hamilton’s claim that he brought George Hincapie doping products when they were all living in the same Girona, Spain apartment building. However, it looks like Jonathan Vaughters took issue with his director’s assertion that he had nothing to do with doping.

“Jeezus… Now it seems I need to have a talk with Johnny Weltz about just letting this crap end and to stop BSing people.. #thedaygetslonger,” is what Vaughters tweeted. That was followed up by, “As long as Johnny decides to be honest, tomorrow, I will support him.”

Speculating it seems that JV is having, or maybe at this point already has had a serious heart to heart conversation with Weltz regarding past doping experiences. I was waiting for either a retraction from Weltz stating his doping past or dismissal from the Slipstream organization. For a moment let’s imagine if Mr. Weltz admits that what was written about him in The Secret Race is true.

According to the Tyler Hamilton book, Weltz hand-delivered doping products to George Hincapie at the Gerona apartment. Hincapie hasn’t said anything one way or another regarding allegations of doping. In the recent past his only statement was that the Armstrong investigation was ongoing and he couldn’t comment.

The day after Armstrong announced he was no longer fighting USADA’s charges I asked Hincapie for a comment. As he stood outside the BMC bus before stage 5 of the USA Pro Challenge he told me that he’d issue a statement soon. I’m not sure what that statement will be: innocent of the accusations or guilty with a story similar to that of Hamilton and Landis. As long as it’s the truth I think George has a great book ready to be written about his experiences as a 17 time Tour de France participant. It’s time for that type of story.

As the dominos continued to fall Vaughters “accidentally” outed three of his current riders. Now the UCI wants to investigate these claims by Vaughters and determine if any rules were broken. If so there could be sanctions.

The fact that an increasing number of experienced riders are admitting to doping has also reached the younger generation of riders.

Andrew Talansky of Garmin-Sharp finished the Vuelta a Espana in seventh place, showing he has the chops to be a grand tour contender. In an interview with Velonews’ Andrew Hood he makes a curious statement.

“A second part of that is I also believe that fans and journalists owe it to us to believe in us, because we have never given them a reason not to.”

I’m not going to immediately declare that every winner of a European race has doped, however the sport’s history is littered with examples of why fans and journalists are skeptical of certain athletic performances. This is why fans and journalists don’t always believe - so you have to excuse us for being a bit gun shy. When Vaughters formally admitted to doping that blew some people’s minds.

I know Talansky is young - just 23 years old - but that type of statement combined with a tweet he sent out, “Don’t care what you think of @lancearmstrong, USADA really shouldn’t repeatedly accuse someone of something with ZERO hard evidence,” appear to indicate he doesn’t understand the long history of doping in the sport. Later he deleted that tweet.

To be clear, I think Talansky meant well, but he doesn’t fully understand the context about which he is replying to. The majority of his Velonews interview and his points I agree with. But the climate professional cycling finds itself in now is hypersensitive to these type of off the cuff remarks. By deleting his tweet regarding USADA showed he realized “hard evidence” comes in many different forms.

People want a smoking gun of evidence like in a television show - a photo or video showing someone shooting EPO into their veins or laying on the floor of the team bus as they transfuse blood. That isn’t going to happen. The hard evidence is going to be confession after confession in the form of riders and directors telling their eye witness accounts of what happened. In the criminal court system, eyewitness accounts are good enough for a conviction as long as that person is creditable. While people may not think too highly of Floyd Landis or Tyler Hamilton, when you start reading accounts from Jonathan Vaughters a person needs to start thinking there is some truth in all these stories.

Will this satisfy everyone - heck no! There are going to be believers and haters on both sides of this very polarizing affair. The Livestrong organization has helped people and they feel a debt of gratitude, which is then transferred to Lance Armstrong by association. Others hold onto the Armstrong myth purely for financial reasons or they have supported the now disgraced rider publicly and have backed themselves into a corner - they can’t get out without looking like fools.

In a couple of weeks USADA is going to disclose all their evidence and we’ll get to see that “hard evidence.” Will it be enough to satisfy everyone? I’m not sure. But one thing you can be sure of: There will be more dominos falling.

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Friday, September 08, 2006

Robo Basho - robot arcade

Soon you will be able to battle it out with cute little robots for pocket change.

Robo Basho, invented by two former automotive engineers and their start-up Robotic Amusements is an arcade version of robot Sumo.

The game works like this: you have 4 ladybug-like robots safely inside a 4-foot plastic box arena. The human contestants put in their coins to control the robots from the outside.
When the robots are positioned in the fighting ring it raises up a few inches. Then the 'athletes' go after it - trying to push each other out of the ring. Sorry, no flames, sparks or flying metal pieces. I think they should add shooting sparks and smoke, or at least some loud crunching sounds.

It's not quite the scale of Robogeddon, but it could be fun.
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‘This is an example of Rockford students giving outside of their community’

From one to two, now 21 students are participating in a Rockford school club to raise donations for underprivileged students and the Grand Rapids Boys and Girls Club. Pictured are some of the club members.

“What did you do on your summer vacation?” This ageless question can be answered unexpectedly by two Rockford students and a host of their classmates. They knocked on over 5,000 doors asking for a small donation for underprivileged kids and ended up with more than $10,000 worth of school supplies.

It started as the vision of one Rockford High School senior, John Malley, now attending Notre Dame University. He envisioned donating school supplies to the attendees of the Grand Rapids Boys and Girls Club, a school which works with the Grand Rapids Police Department to help underprivileged or at-risk students.

When Malley graduated and left the area, his sister Megan Malley thought the project so worthy that she took up the cause, joined by friend Alison Lang. Today, because of their efforts, there is a new school-sanctioned club in the Rockford district with 21 students working on the cause and with a whopping donation of over 16,000 individual school supplies donated to the Boys and Girls Club.

Rockford students asked for donations of a dollar to purchase supplies to donate to the Boys and Girls Club in Grand Rapids. They are pictured here with this year’s donation. Their goal was 10,000 supplies; they were able to donate over 16,000.

Advisor Marcy Mayle, a teacher at the Rockford Freshman Center, is the overseeing adult of the club, but admits she doesn’t have much to do. “Basically I am just opening my door to these kids. They are doing all the work.”

The club, Rockford RH, for Rockford Honors, meets at the center where students are already making plans for next summer’s collection efforts as well as a winter donation drive for hats, gloves and socks.

The girls had a unique and smart plan for their collection efforts. With a hot-pink flier in hand they went door to door, starting in the Bella Vista area where John Malley had begun with his project, and asked residents to donate a dollar to buy school supplies or to leave school supplies on their porch for a future pick-up date.

“We asked them to staple the flier to the bags so we would know they were for us,” explained Megan.

The response was overwhelming and overwhelmingly positive. Four people gave the girls $50 checks, one person gave them a check for $50 and a popsicle each. “We took the popsicles—it was hot,” admitted Alison.

“It was pretty amazing,” Megan said. “I was really shocked at the response we got going door to door. You’d think most people ask for cans, but we asked for a dollar and they gave us five dollars, ten dollars or more. They didn’t know us from anyone. People were

so generous.”

With Alison, a 16-year-old junior driving since Megan is only 15 and a sophomore, the two made their initial visits and then returned for the follow-up. What they found were often backpacks filled with supplies as well as bags of school items.

“A lot of time people had two backpacks—one for a boy and one for a girl—often filled with more necessary school items.”

“We bought when the stores had back-to-school sales, so we were able to buy a lot with the money,” the girls explained.

They had a sample bundle to show prospective donors, which let them know exactly what just one dollar can buy: 24-pack of crayons, one highlighter, a pack of pencils, one folder, and a notebook. They also raised enough money to buy backpacks and even two graphing calculators that the school resource room didn’t have and desperately needed.

Today the girls are planning on organizing members of Rockford RH going to the Boys and Girls Club to tutor and mentor the students there. These students meet weekly to focus on helping in any way they can to improve the quality of life for the members of the Boys and Girls Clubs, with a goal of becoming more involved in the various programs offered by the Boys and Girls Clubs, volunteering in the Learning Center, the art studio, or helping with special events.

After a presentation before classmates, the pair were excited to have a total of 21 students participate, allowing the door-to-door campaign to expand. They have also earned the admiration of school officials and teachers, such as Mrs. Decker at the high school who gave them encouragement and donations.

Superintendent Dr. Michael Shibler called the efforts “another example of Rockford students helping others is demonstrated through a student-led initiative called ‘Supplies for Students Fundraiser.’ The inaugural group in 2011 consisted of eight student volunteers with a mission to provide school supplies for members of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids, an organization dedicated to ensuring that every child, regardless of risk or need, may be provided with opportunities that allow him or her to compete and excel in all areas of life.”

Mrs. Mayle couldn’t praise the efforts of the young people more. “No one told them to do this. No one asked them to do it. It shows their true character. They are the brilliance in this plan and I’m honored to have been asked to be their advisor.”

Alison said she enjoyed the summer work, although at the end with time running out, the students were putting in as much as six hours a day trying to get to all their pick-ups. A few donations never did get retrieved as school starting deadline ran out. Still, they are game to continue their efforts and plenty of people they encountered told them they were proud of their undertaking.

“Awesome,” Alison responded when asked how she felt about the compliments. “It was good to hear positive validation of what we were doing.”

Ultimately, Alison and Megan hope the club continues after they leave it in the hands of younger classmates. This year’s freshman class, at over 700, is the largest in the district’s history, and they have no doubt plenty of other young people will want to carry on the good works.

Said Megan, “I think other kids were excited because everyone wants a chance to help, but they don’t always know what they can do.”

Those who want to donate to the winter hats, gloves and underwear drive or drop off supplies or donations for next year can take items either to the high school or the freshman center and note they are for the Rockford RH club.

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