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Geoff 's latest news in the run up to Your Horse Live

It was great to chat to Geoff Billington as he prepares to join us at Your Horse Live this weekend…

“A few weeks ago I took the horses to Aintree Premier League and had a good show with 7 year old Ussara coming 2nd and 1st in two Foxhunter classes and 4th in the B&C. I also stepped ELO up to the big classes and he was 3rd and had just one down in his first ever Grand Prix – so I was very pleased!”

“I have been doing a lot of teaching recently – last week I spent 9 hours solidly teaching in North Wales and then over the weekend I was in Ireland doing a demo. Then we have Your Horse Live this weekend, where I am teaming up with Oliver Townend to entertain the crowds! I will be bringing my best horse, Upper Cut, along to Stoneleigh so look out for him there!”


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Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk is reporting that the Patriots worked out former St. Louis Rams running back Daryl Richardson yesterday. With New England thin at running back after Dion Lewis suffered a season-ending ACL injury on Sunday, the Patriots may have been looking for some insurance.

Richardson was a seventh-round draft pick for St. Louis in 2012 and spent two years with the team. Afterward, he spent time on the Texans and Dolphins' practice squads. Richardson left New England without a contract.

Florio also reported the Patriots tried out offensive linemen Reid Fragel, Keavon Milton and Torrian Wilson. None were offered contracts.

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A Lantern in the Darkness - A day in Qurotunnada

Okay, I'm currently at Starbucks, and I think I've told you that the smell of coffee, vanilla and caramel seduce me to write every time. I am not even capable to explain that, they just do.
I've actually been wanting to write about this for a week or so, but due to sickness and some wifi and homework problem here and there, I just couldn't do any of my wishes justice.

-I'm sorry this i out of context, but the cutest kid just wen't behind me as I was trying to fix my hair on photo booth. He wants to be on the photo, okay? there he is..

I look like shit, but he's so adorable, we just need him here.

Let's go back.

A few weeks ago, my friends and I were frustrated. We were assigned a CSR project by our professor, Mrs. Amelia Naim. It's actually a sustainability project to teach us to 'give back'. The due date is in two days from now and honestly, we couldn't plan too much with the availability of each member and the short due date. Mrs. Naim then gave us a lovely option of going to see one of her mates in Bogor, a foundation called Qurotunnada. I contacted the man a couple of times and with my group's super desperate measure, Shidqi Dwi Prasetyo, William Vacher and I decided to go there.
Another three of my classmates, Tanya Tumbelaka, Cedric Adruin and Phil Djaelani tagged along as they were too, short of options.

The road to Bogor is not short. I stopped myself from expecting too much. Often, I set my hopes up just to have them shattered. I don't know if I was doing it only for the sake of the project, but I knew deep inside that I personally need it. I've been blowing papers way out of proportions, sometimes just for the sake of looking like I'm capable. I've realized that I don't, in fact, fucking care what other people think of me. I now know that whatever I do from now on, the only one I need to impress is myself. I don't have the courtesy to say this, but I feel like the lesson is needed also by my friends. Going to an International School that costs $5000/semester might get into you sometimes, we can afford most of things we don't even need, we don't think about how much we spend on lunch and going to Qurotunnada might've showed us why we should.

Qurotunnada is a foundation that holds schooling program that helps to manage kids from below the poverty line all over Bogor. The founder, Mr. Avi, is a geologist that divides his time between work, family and managing the foundation. The most amazing thing about the foundation is that, while holding the Islamic Values, it doesn't force the kids to follow all the stereotypes that most Islamic Schools and Foundations have, they manage the ambitions of each kids and help them pursue it. For example, when the kid is really into Soccer/Football, then they won't sent them to a normal school, instead, they would be sent to a Football School and English Courses. I find it so amazing how they do that.
Upon our arrival, I noticed how I have expected way less than what was presented. These kids were very civilized, they were clean and lovely. They welcomed us with open arms, they performed for us and asked us to sit with them while having lunch.

it's one of those sundays I woudn't have traded for anything. Usually my weekends consist of wasting money on things I don't look good after putting on the second time, and wandering around malls looking for things I regret buying afterwards. I'm glad my weekend money was given to make sure some talented kids will have, at least, the courage to go after what they dream of.

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Here is an excellent Halloween event for the brave out there.....

East Coast Paddle is holding their first ever Creatures of Mosquito Lagoon Halloween Paddle Tour.  At sunset paddleboarders will embark on a quest paddling through New Smyrna’s backwaters in search of local haunts. There will be plenty of tricks and treats as guides swap New Smyrna ghost stories and share candy. The best costume will win a discount on the next paddle tour. Costumes are welcome, but not required.

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Mike Tice: Trent Richardson's 'quickness came around'

While praising his offensive line's potential, Oakland Raiders assistant coach Mike Tice took the time to discuss the running backs who will be jaunting through the holes his group plans to create.

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The Raiders imported Trent Richardson, Roy Helu and rookie Michael Dyer to a backfield of Latavius Murray and George Atkinson.

"Each one has their own style," Tice told SiriusXM NFL Radio, via the team's official website. "I like the (Latavius) Murray kid. He really came on in that veteran minicamp. He got his legs under him and showed some quickness, some good finish. I thought the young man out of Alabama (Richardson) came on. He lost some weight, his quickness came around.

"And then the young man we picked up out of Washington (Helu), a local boy out of San Ramon, I think he had an outstanding offseason and he shows good quickness, good awareness."

Tice's comments on Richardson are notable. According to the running back, the Indianapolis Colts had an issue with his weight last season, which in part led to his struggles on the field.

Richardson's game film in 2014 was anemic. He rarely hit the hole with burst -- if he could find it -- and never displayed consistent power or speed.

The Raiders are the third team to take a chance on the former No. 3 overall pick. If the 24-year-old runner did in fact lose some weight and add quickness, he could find a niche behind Murray and Helu -- who should be the third-down and pass-catching back -- and keep his NFL career alive.

If not, his third chance will likely be his final one.

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    Marvellous Monkeys

    In 1997 the fifth generation of video games was well underway (even Europe and Oceania had the N64 by then), but the trusty Game Boy was still the place to go for portable gaming joy. Having successfully brought monkey platforming action to the handheld twice already, Rare produced a third game — the imaginatively titled Donkey...

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    Working for pennies

    Woah Dave is all about classic arcade action. Taking control of a blocky little guy named Dave Lonuts (who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Bert from Sesame Street), players will do their best to exterminate aliens and collect the change left behind in their wake. There are two modes to choose from, and once you’ve...

  • News Another Minecraft Clone, Cube Creator 3D Coming To 3DS eShop

    Big John Games enters the fray

    The race to create a compelling Minecraft clone for a Nintendo console is on and now Big John Games has revealed that it will be jumping on the blocky bandwagon with Cube Creator 3D for the 3DS eShop. The game is due to hit the eShop early next year, however Big John Games do hope to have a demo ready for December so...

  • News Sounds Like Super Smash Bros. Director Masahiro Sakurai Sure Could Use A Break

    Somebody give this man a medal

    Fans of Super Smash Bros. will already know just how much effort series head Masahiro Sakurai puts into developing Nintendo’s all-star franchise, but that hasn't stopped the passionate game maker from talking about how he balances his private life with the full-force development cycle of the Smash series. In his...

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    Three games available for absolutely killer prices

    If you live in North America and want to ramp up the scare factor this Halloween, then Capcom might have just the offer to get you in the mood. In a special Nintendo Halloween sale, Capcom will be offering three Resident Evil titles at significantly reduced prices across both the Wii U and 3DS...

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    Just short of legendary

    As both a developer and a publisher, CIRCLE Entertainment has been paramount to the rising indie games scene on Nintendo handhelds. Starting on the DSiWare digital service and eventually moving forward to 3DS eShop titles, CIRCLE has managed to have its hand in around 40 releases since 2010. With that many games in its...

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    A special treat for patient PAL regions

    While North American Nintendo fans have been enjoying Shovel Knight since June, Wii U and 3DS owners in Europe and Australia have been required to wait until next month for the local release of the medieval side-scroller. To reward these locations that have had to wait patiently whilst the eShop title was...

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    Haggard by time or as mighty as ever?

    Originally released for the NES in 1993, Mighty Final Fight is a home console spin-off of the original arcade classic, Final Fight. Interestingly, it came out a year after the technically superior home console port that appeared on the SNES and, furthermore, is quite a departure from the other games in the...

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    Stealth Inc 2, Shin Megami Tensei IV, Rare DK treats and much more

    With this coming weekend being the spookiest of the year, the latest Nintendo Download Update details for Europe show us that the big N's keen to keep us all entertained in the safety of our own homes, avoiding the ghouls outside. This week is packed with new titles on Wii U and 3DS,...

  • News Nintendo Outlines Generous eShop Publication Policies

    In theory opens the door to games like Binding of Isaac

    It's no secret to those that frequent these pages or that browse the 3DS and Wii U eShop stores on a regular basis, but Nintendo is now open and supportive of all kinds of developers. That's come about through a consistent loosening of its publication rules, making it easier for studios and...

  • News Proun+ is Coming Soon to a 3DS Near You

    SpeedX on speed

    Following the release of the original, the new and updated Proun+ is heading to 3DS for the first time. The game itself is very similar to another game called SpeedX 3D; the objective is to journey along a tubular path and rotate yourself around it so as to avoid the obstacles that are presented to you. The game's style focuses on...

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    Review Donkey Kong Land 2

    Diddy's 8-Bit Quest

    The success of Donkey Kong Country inevitably saw a sequel released. Likewise when Donkey Kong Land proved a similar platforming experience was possible on the Game Boy, it was a no-brainer that Rare would release a second handheld adventure. This time Donkey Kong has gone and gotten himself captured, and so it's up to Diddy and...

  • Nintendo Download 23rd October (North America)

    Double Bayonetta, Aria of Sorrow, Fantasy Life, Pokémon, Shantae and more

    It's Nintendo Download news time, North America, and this week has some seriously tempting options on both Wii U and 3DS to test your eShop funds to the limit. There's intense action on Wii U, retro Castlevania goodness, along with retail and download goodness on the 3DS...

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    Discounted price for those that own its predecessor

    EnjoyUp Games is a prolific download game developer on Nintendo hardware, and is revisiting one of its releases for an online update on 3DS — Football Up Online will arrive as a successor to Soccer Up 3D / Football Up 3D on the eShop. In terms of features, much seems to remain unchanged from the...

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    Kawaii katana

    Tom Create, known for its contributions to the DSiWare GO Series, as well as games dating back to the Super Famicom era, has created a little gem in Ninja Battle Heroes, an action brawler bursting with adorable personality and surprisingly deep gameplay. Despite a generic title that describes little about the experience other than that...

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    Review Shantae And The Pirate's Curse

    A pirate’s life for me

    It’s interesting to track the progression that WayForward's Shantae series has undergone over the past decade. Beginning in 2002, the original title was released on the Game Boy Color, an unfortunately timed release that was mostly overshadowed by the recent introduction of the Game Boy Advance. Despite an attempted sequel...

  • News Castle Conqueror EX Invades the North American 3DS eShop on 23rd October

    Are you ready to do battle against The Empire?

    CIRCLE Entertainment’s latest title, Castle Conquerors EX, for the 3DS eShop was teased in August as the sixth release in the real-time strategy series, with plenty of improvements promised over the DSiWare original. Now, the prolific digital developer has revealed Castle Conqueror EX is invading th

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    Lots of chances to catch a code

    The demand for the Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Special Demo Version has been truly extraordinary, with our own UK giveaway drawing numbers of applicants well into five figures. We produced a guide on how to grab a code in different countries, though

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The last SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy update was a new trailer highlighting the game’s story. According to the clip, the all-female cast of fighters had been kidnapped by a mysterious individual a few months after The King of Fighters tournament and had to fight their way to freedom.

SNK has now released a new video for the upcoming release announcing the inclusion of “fatal cutie” - Terry Bogard - who is the main character of the Fatal Fury series. To fit the theme, Terry has received a makeover, essentially transforming him into one of the girls. The move set of the character looks promising, with one attack, in particular, launching an old SNK arcade cabinet in the direction of the opponent fighter. There also appears to be a variety of outfits for Terry.

It's not clear how exactly this came to be, but the official website says Terry's appearance in this game is the result of a prank. There's also confusion surrounding why the company didn't opt with Alice Nakata instead (Terry's number one female fan), perhaps the game itself will reveal more. Terry is now officially the 14th character confirmed for SNK Heroines.

Take a look at the trailer, and tell us if you will be adding SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy to your Switch library this September.


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The always credible Music Week Awards took place in London on Wednesday night, where Leeds' Brudenell Social Club was crowned winner of the inaugural Grassroots Venue: Spirit Of The Scene award.

The now 103-year-old club was up against stiff competition - including both The Lexington in London and The Sugarmill in Stoke - but the 400 capacity venue proved a popular winner in the end.

For those of you who don't know, 'The Brudenell' is a social club in Leeds that has retained its community atmosphere of its origins as a working men's club, but that also houses semi-regular gigs in its back room.

The club was originally formed in 1913 by local businessmen, who built a wooden clubhouse on the site that same year. After falling into disrepair, however, this wooden structure was replaced by the  brick building that is still currently standing now, with initial shows being focused around the local DIY music scene.

In the early 2000's, however, the club began to play host to 'secret gigs' by big name artists such as the Kaiser Chief, Franz Ferdinand and The Cribs, who played three-consecutive nights there under the banner 'Cribsmas'. These shows saw the band performing material from each of the three albums they had released up to that point - The Cribs, The New Fellas and Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever - and Kate Nash also provided support.

We, ourselves, was there a little more recently in 2011. We were lucky enough to see the brilliant Noah & The Whale perform there, and even then it was apparent just how important 'The Brudenell' was to not just Leeds, Hyde Park, and Yorkshire, but also to the country, and the grassroots scene broadly.

Young bands cut their teeth in these grassroots venues. Playing in front of no one but a pissed, local fart and his best friend alcohol addiction helps musicians hone their craft long before dreams of record labels, publishing deals or stadiums ever enter the picture. The cultural significance of clubs such as 'The Brudenell' is indisputable, and the fact that these small, intimate and independent venues are beginning to get the recognition they deserve can only be a positive thing. Long may that continue.


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Arrow Season 5 Premiere Begins Production

While the members of Team Arrow -- except Oliver and Felicity -- went their separate ways at the end of Season Four of the hit CW superhero drama, a new tweet from executive producer Marc Guggenheim seemingly hints at a new team forming for Season Five.

The second episode of Arrow's fifth season is currently in production, operating under the title "The Recruits."

While it's not clear who "The Recruits" are, there are a few possibilities already on the table -- and of course a very real possibility that they aren't being recruited for Team Arrow at all.

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News today that one player Newcastle are after this summer is 22-year-old Dutchman Jeremain Lens.

Jeremain Lens – 5’10” AZ Alkmaar striker

The Amsterdam-born striker has played 40 times for AZ Alkmaar with 8 goals,  and was on loan last season to NEC where he played 31 times with 9 goals.

This is not the first time there has been news, this time in the Evening Chronicle, that Newcastle are interested in this player.

It turns out that AZ Alkmaar are not in a good financial situation right now,  and the Chronicle is reporting that the Dutch club are inviting bids for some of their better players, including Lens.

Newcastle chief scout Graham Carr has apparently watched Alkmaar’s recent 1-0 win over FC Twente, who are top of the Dutch Eredivisie, and this is not the first time Newcastle have watched the striker.

The player has been capped 3 times for Surinam at full international level and has scored 2 goals for the side.

He has played 8 times for the Dutch U-21 side with one goal.

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Comments welcome.

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  • coopertoon

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    Haven’t seen him play admittedly, and we need to be realistic and strike play isn’t always about goals and he is young….

    But in the dutch league the average player bangs them in like one a game so 8 in 40?

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Friday, November 30, 2012

1980 TCMA Appleton Foxes Baseball #5, Rick Naumann

Yeah, I could swear this photo is my brother at age 20. In fact, Rick might be everyone's brother at age 20.

While Rick stands 6'1" and has many fine qualities, TCMA's card isn't calling him a foxy fox. Appleton, Wisconsin benefits economically (and bucolically) from the adjacent Fox River, which in turn inspired this team name. Their best-known alum might not even be a player, as future HOFer Earl Weaver spent his 1960-61 seasons in their dugout, winning a Triple-I league title and promotion to bigger successes with the Orioles. Like geographic neighbor Green Bay and its Packers, a community-run organization owns their franchise, which today plays as the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers.

Naumann came to Appleton from western A-league teams, so maybe those stats proved too hard to locate. Rick played two seasons for the Foxes before hanging up his pro spikes at age 21 (career stats).

TCMA printed a hefty 30 cards for this set. Perhaps Appleton splurged on players with their money saved by using black-and-white.
  1. Luis Estrada
  2. Bob Fallon
  3. Diego Melendez
  4. William Mills
  5. Rick Naumann
  6. J.B. Brown
  7. Jeff Vuksan
  8. Vito Lucarelli
  9. Ron Kittle
  10. Larry Wright
  11. Dennis Vasquez
  12. Nelson Rodriguez
  13. Steve Pastrovich
  14. Dan Ortega
  15. Keith Brown
  16. Jim English
  17. A.J. Hill
  18. Mitch Olson
  19. Greg Stewart
  20. Greg Walker
  21. David White
  22. Tim Carroll
  23. Dave Daniels
  24. Dennis Keafting
  25. Bill Luzinski
  26. Larry Doby
  27. Larry Hall
  28. Mike Maitland
  29. Gordy Lund
  30. Ron Wollenhaupt

Value: This TCMA set runs more than usual, thanks to the presence of slugger Ron Kittle. My #5 cost $2 and team sets go for $30 and up.

Fakes / reprints: TCMA reprinted several of their 1980 teams for "collectors kits" in the late 1980s. Those cards have black ink backs. Originals are blue ink.

Monday, November 26, 2012

1972 Classic Cards Baseball #5, Frank Chance (two poses)

This set delivers just what we expect from a 1970s oddball set. Sepia-toned pre-WWI photo? Paper stock normally used for school diplomas? Non-standard dimensions? Nebulous checklist that maybe isn't a checklist at all? Yes! All of these are yours.

"Frank Chance the future HOF first baseman" became "France Chance the future HOF player-manager" in 1905 at age 28, still in the prime of his sharp-hitting, fast-running career. (As noted in an earlier Tinker-Evers-Chance post, he led the NL in steals twice as a first baseman, not a common accomplishment.)

Chicago already fielded a great roster in 1905--their record stood at 37-28 when he took over--but Chance upped team performance enough to capture 4 NL pennants and 3 World Series in the next five years, including their most recent championship in 1908. Hard to imagine a manager under 30 helming a team these days, let alone coming out on top.

Frank Chance puts me in a bind because Classic checklisted their 1st series from #1 to #30 on card backs without distinguishing his #5 from his #18. So which do I buy?

Thanks to a reasonable asking price, I solved this problem by buying both. There will probably never be a way to tell them apart, so delineating "which is the real #5" remains a philosophical question each collector must ask of themselves.

Classic Cards look about 20% larger than typical Topps, being 3/4" longer and 1/2" wider, and won't fit into 9-card pages. According to the Sports Collectors Digest, Classic itself changed size after Series 1, slimming by a quarter-inch for Series 2-4. They also dropped checklist-style numbering, marking them just 2nd Series, 3rd Series, or 4th Series. (All four series were 30 cards each, 120 in all.)

Value: Bought these for $5 each on eBay, about what I expect for little-known 70s oddballs. It was the first time I'd seen #5 available separately, but sets show up occasionally elsewhere.

Fakes / reprints: This set's already a reprint of sorts. I don't know of any others made by fans or fakers.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving!

Big thanks to everyone who follows my type collection. Y'all are better than pie!

Thanksgiving brings to mind a certain Joe Shlabotnik fan from Macy's annual parade.

Here's hoping 2013 brings our teams less of this...

...and more of this.

Happy Halladay/Holliday/holiday!

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Gabe White and The Mile High Club

Happy birthday to former Expos, Reds, Rockies, Yankees, and Cardinals pitcher Gabe White, who turns 41 today.

2001 Topps Gold #681, Gabe White

According to "exhaustive" research--I searched and checked HR logs--Gabe belongs to a metaphorical Mile High Club of Colorado pitchers who hit their only career homer at Coors Field. Here's that list of exclusive gentlemen and who they victimized.
  • May 7, 1995: Bill Swift vs. Hideo Nomo (LAD), COL lost 12-10
  • April 13, 1997: Darren Holmes vs. Carlos Perez (MON), COL lost 8-3
  • June 9, 1999: Curt Leskanic vs. Rafael Carmona (SEA), COL won 16-11
  • May 26, 2000: Masato Yoshii vs. Francisco Cordova (PIT), COL lost 2-1
  • June 10, 2000: Gabe White vs. Matt Perisho (TEX), COL won 12-6
  • May 18, 2002: Denny Stark vs. Kevin Millwood (ATL), COL won 7-3
  • July 10, 2003: Darren Oliver vs. Brian Powell (SFG), COL won 11-3

Swift and Leskanic both hit 3-run shots in shoot-out games, but Yoshii's added the most Win Probability (.145) because his homer tied a close game in the 6th inning. And hey, each one counts, even if it's 5280 feet up!

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Japanese Card Package from Ryan G!

Thanks to recent emigree-to-Japan Ryan G (whose This Card Is Cool blog just hit #700) for a package of local baseball collectibles, including cards, menko (traditional circular cards), and this 2012 Yokohama Baystars pocket schedule.

Baystars roster, including #5 Hichori Morimoto

Sports tradition being what it is, Japanese pro baseball imported Western team names like the Buffaloes, Lions, and Eagles. Their Dragons feel more Eastern, but my favorites are these guys, the Nippon-Ham Fighters.

Sure, they're supposed to be just the Fighters. My geeky brain will always throw Ham in there. FIGHTING THE HAM!

Ryan sent about 20 cards from Japan in a spread as new as 2012 and vintage as this 1976 highlight.

I kind of miss Pepsi's circle-within-a-flag design.

Thanks for the package, Ryan, and good luck overseas!

Friday, November 16, 2012

Remembering Hostess Brands and Baseball

To quote The Beatles, "I read the news today, oh boy." If plans continue as announced, Hostess Brands expects to close operations and 18000+ workers worldwide will seek new jobs. This upheaval in the snack food market also shutters a long cooperative history between MLB properties, the Players Association, and their products, first seen in boxed form during the mid-1970s.

1975 Hostess Twinkies box with 3-player panel

Licensing fees from cross-promotion by Hostess and similar brands proved extremely helpful to baseball's players union (MLBPA) as it moved from "toothless" in the mid-60s to "muscular and growing" in the era of free agency. In the collecting context, their hundred-plus card snack sets also presented licensed competition for Topps during their longest monopolistic era (1955-1980).

More personally, their sets also turned out some badass photos like 1976 #5.

Promotions spilled onto the pages of comics and other things kids spent their money on, further building a love of cards in the minds of young collectors.

Hostess comic and magazine promo

I hadn't thought about the artistry of that ad before, but those are nice hand-drawn renditions of 70s stars Rudi, Jenkins, and Sutton, three guys (and two HOFers) you wouldn't necessarily remember from that era.

If you mourn the passing of Hostess, also remember their significant connections to a time of change and growth for baseball players, its fans, and collecting. Requiescat in pace!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

1980 TCMA Columbus Astros Baseball #5, Del Leatherwood (Letherwood)

The Astros, parent club to Columbus-circa-1980 and newcomers to the American League, just redid their duds in a way that's nostalgic for Del Leatherwood's hat and 1960s Houston road uniforms. Gone are the silhouette star caps and back are capital letter serifs.

What I don't see for 2013: design elements inspired by Houston's infamous 70s-80s disco astronaut look. Why do people today hate disco astronauts?

Speaking of classic hats, Delrick Leatherwood (Del's given name) sounds like a Yukon Mountie to me.

I'm just saying he and Sgt. Preston might work well together.

Leatherwood wore these duds in 1981 for the Tucson Toros, whose designers narrowed their palette to just warm colors one year after their bullfighter-themed fashion adventure nearly claimed "worst uniform ever" honors.

Leatherwood won 15 games for AA Columbus in 1979 and seemed ready to move up. He started even better in 1980, but ultimately finished with half the innings (career stats). I assume an injury stole much of that year and perhaps his career prospects, as Del retired after 1982.

TCMA printed 22 Columbus players in 1980, including future Pirates and Angels speedster Johnny Ray.
  1. Greg Cypret
  2. Val Primmante
  3. Tim Tolman
  4. Stan Leland
  5. Del Letherwood
  6. Chick Valley
  7. Johnny Ray
  8. Bert Pena
  9. Doug Stokke
  10. Matt Galante, MGR
  11. Greg Dahl
  12. Rod Boxberger
  13. John Hessler
  14. Simone Rosario
  15. Reggie Waller
  16. Riccardo Aponte
  17. Scott Loucks
  18. Keith Bodie
  19. Ron Meridith
  20. Jim MacDonald
  21. Mark Miggins
  22. Rex Jones

For the record, leather is the 3rd anniversary and wood is the 5th.

Value: This #5 cost $2 at Ray became well-known enough to push team set prices higher than many other TCMA issues at $25-30.

Fakes / reprints: TCMA reprinted several 1980 team sets for "collectors kits" later in the 1980s. Those cards have black backs and the originals are blue.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

1980 TCMA Burlington Bees Baseball #5, Dave Grier

Not sure why it took 700+ posts to cover my girlfriend's hometown team, but here we are: the Burlington (Iowa) Bees! (Our family histories stretch back to Iowa and other Midwestern areas, but we actually met in Massachusetts.)

Like many lower-level squads, the Bees swapped affiliations over time. As pictured, they served Milwaukee, back when the Brewers were still in the AL. Today, they're linked with the Los Angeles of Anaheim Angels.

Excuse me, Mr. Grier, but are you any relation to Wally Moon?

No reason, just wondering.

Dave Grier pitched well in Burlington, going 16-8 with a 2.74 ERA in 1980 (minor league stats). Milwaukee bounced him around the farm system for three more years, hoping for similar success, but he dropped to about .500 in other cities and called it quits at age 25.

The Bees checklist includes 29 players, above average for TCMA team sets.
  1. Steve Gibson
  2. Kevin McCoy
  3. Mike Donovan
  4. Mark Lepson
  5. Dave Grier
  6. Greg Dehart
  7. Orlando Gonzalez
  8. Steve Manderfield
  9. Brian Thorson
  10. Duane Espy MGR
  11. Vince Pone
  12. Jesse Vasquez
  13. Al Walker
  14. Ty Coleman
  15. Steve Norwood
  16. Rich Bach
  17. Greg Cicotte
  18. Mike Anderson
  19. Kurt Kingsolver
  20. Walt Steele
  21. Jorge DeJesus
  22. Juan Castillo
  23. Mark Higgins
  24. Kirk Downs
  25. John Evans
  26. Curt Watanabe
  27. Stan Levi
  28. Karl McKay
  29. Bengie Biggus

Value: This #5 cost $2 at and team sets run $15-20 on eBay and elsewhere. (Infielder Juan Castillo's the only future major leaguer, so few people break the set for singles.)

Fakes / reprints: TCMA reprinted several 1980 teams for "collector kits" in later years. Those cards come with black backs and originals have blue.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

1973 Topps Baseball #334, Freddie "5-5" Patek and #42, Mike Andrews

Today's my first chance to honor Freddie Patek, Royals infielder and friend of the blog at 5'5", shortest active player for much of his career. This 1973 card from a recent post by Jeff Laws caught my eye, as it included not only The Flea himself but also Chicago's comparatively Brobdingnagian #5 baserunner. (We'll look more into who that is below.)

1973 Topps #334, Freddie Patek

Thanks to a 2008 post at Garvey Cey Russell Lopes for pairing these double-play shots. Field and sight lines match so closely, it's safe to say they're from the same White Sox-Royals game.

1973 Topps #42, Mike Andrews

Chris Stufflestreet (RIP) tried to sort out which game we're seeing in two 1973 Topps Photography posts: Double Play Starter? and Mystery Solved! The artificial turf and mix of uniform numbers led to general agreement on a spring training game at Terry Field, Kansas City's home from 1969-87. But when's the game from, 1973, 1972, or earlier?

There's a business reason so much 1973 Topps photography looks dodgy. MLB owners locked the players union out of team facilities for most of February, closing off a large window for spring training photo shoots. 1973's bargaining agreement (signed Feb 25) established tenets still in place today--salary arbitration, "5 and 10," contract tender deadlines--but the month-long delay left teams less than two weeks to prep players for games. The slim pickings for new photos likely pushed Topps into lower-quality archive shots and lots of player airbrushing.

Thanks to an eBay listing for Chicago's 1973 Spring Training schedule and Google news search, we can check these game situations for 1973, as KC hosted Chicago twice that spring in Ft. Myers.

How about 1972 spring training, when White Sox #5 was Tony Muser and KC #33 was Bob Oliver? I couldn't find a spring schedule on eBay this time, but located two Ft. Myers match-ups in the news archive.
  • March 12: Chicago beats KC 5-1 (news story and box score). Andrews plays 2B and homers, Patek plays SS, first basemen Muser and Oliver both reach base, and each team turns a double play.
  • March 16: White Sox win 9-5 (news story, back one page from link), but Andrews doesn't play.

Given available info, I conclude 1973 Topps #42 and #334 show double plays from Chicago's 5-1 win over KC on March 12, 1972, as Freddie Patek and Mike Andrews force runners Tony Muser and Bob Oliver at second. Batters were likely White Sox catcher Ed Herrmann and Royals 2B Cookie Rojas.

Mystery solved, again? Let me know if you can guess the umpire. :-)

UPDATE: Also read Bruce Markusen's dive into Mike Andrews' roller-coaster baseball story. Great stuff.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

1980 TCMA Charleston Charlies Baseball #5, Brian Allard

Not sure why I'm a fan of goofy blond curls on baseball players. Was it the post-disco zeitgeist? The Fidrych Effect? Anyway, add Brian Allard to that list of xanthic fashionistas.

Nice jersey! HARLIE-DAVIDSON WOOOOO! VROOM VROOOO....oh. "Charlies." As in, "the International League team from Charleston, West Virginia."

My 9 year-old self remembers Brian Allard for his 1981 stint in a Mariners uniform (game logs), which followed this big trade for Texas slugger Richie Zisk.
December 12, 1980: [Brian Allard] traded by the Texas Rangers with Steve Finch, Rick Auerbach, Ken Clay, Jerry Gleaton and Richie Zisk to the Seattle Mariners for Larry Cox, Rick Honeycutt, Willie Horton, Mario Mendoza and Leon Roberts.

Zisk stepped into the DH role vacated by 39 year-old Horton, who Texas ultimately released before the 1981 season. Rick Honeycutt nabbed an ERA crown as a starter in 1982, then evolved into a Tony LaRussa relief specialist for Oakland and St. Louis.

Speaking of roster moves, what else did Seattle's do with their side of the trade, other than Steve Finch (who never reached the bigs)?
October 23, 1981: The Seattle Mariners released Rick Auerbach.
March 29, 1982: The Seattle Mariners released Ken Clay.
June 27, 1984:  Jerry Gleaton traded by the Seattle Mariners with Gene Nelson to the Chicago White Sox for Salome Barojas.
January 16, 1985: Richie Zisk released by the Seattle Mariners.

At least Seattle got 3 solid (121 OPS+) seasons from Zisk, who retired following his 1985 release. A 1980 article about the trade noted a few other deals (both real and potential) I'd forgotten about. Fred Lynn almost swapped for Ron Guidry? Whitey Herzog acquiring future HOF relievers Bruce Sutter and Rollie Fingers and then flipping Fingers to MIL? That's a busy off-season.

Here's another look at that Seattle Mariners trading acumen.
November 18, 1980: The New York Yankees traded Brad Gulden and $150,000 to the Seattle Mariners for a player to be named later and Larry Milbourne. The Seattle Mariners sent Brad Gulden (May 18, 1981) to the New York Yankees to complete the trade.

Yup, trading a dude for himself. Mariners fever! Catch it!

TCMA printed 17 Charleston Charlies, below average for 1980 team sets.
  1. Tom Burgess
  2. Mark Scott
  3. Wayne Pinkerton
  4. Nelson Norman
  5. Brian Allard
  6. Greg Mahlberg
  7. Dave Moharter
  8. Mike Richardt
  9. Richard Lisi
  10. Mike Hart
  11. Mark Mercer
  12. Dan Duran
  13. John Butcher
  14. Fla Strawn
  15. Odie Davis
  16. Tucker Ashford
  17. Bob Babcock

Value: This #5 cost $2 from and team sets run $15-20 on eBay.

Fakes / reprints: TCMA reprinted several of their 1980 teams for "collectors kits" in the late 80s. The reprints have black ink backs instead of blue.

Monday, November 5, 2012

1980 TCMA Buffalo Bisons Baseball #5, Jim Buckner

Despite Jim's wide stance, this isn't the Buckner that infamously let a ball roll between his legs in 1986; that was bigger brother Bill. Three members of the family played pro ball, including oldest brother Robert. Bill's the only one to spend time in the majors, but they all knew how to grow manly-man mustaches and would make excellent Movember fundraisers.

Jim's "leadoff stance" is reserved on cards for speedsters--see also 1975 Topps Herb Washington or 1982 Topps Rickey Henderson--and Buckner ran often, topping out at 50 stolen bases for Lodi in 1973 (career stats). He also caught my eye as an alumni of Yavapai College in Prescott, AZ, a school where my dad taught for almost 20 years. It's yielded a number of minor leaguers over the years, and one World Champion, Curt Schilling.

Buckner couldn't drive AAA pitching at Toledo or Tidewater (1 HR, .564 OPS) in 1979, but rebounded in AA Buffalo (16 HR, .780 OPS) a year later.

Buffalo's original, 19th-century Bisons were an NL team for several seasons. All later incarnations played in the minors and this AA squad jumped to AAA in 1985 by switching affiliations with Wichita. TCMA printed just 16 cards for this team set, significantly fewer than others from 1980.
  1. Mike Barnes
  2. Ron Mitchell
  3. Rick Federici
  4. Dave Dravecky
  5. Jim Buckner
  6. Drew Macaluey
  7. Steve Farr
  8. Rick "Bubba" Evans
  9. Al Ortiz Jr. (no number on back)
  10. Paul Djakonow
  11. Mike Allen
  12. Bob Rock
  13. Al Torres
  14. Larry Nicholson
  15. Ed Vargas
  16. Steve Demeter

Value: This #5 cost $2 at and teams sets would be $20 or so.

Fakes / reprints: Haven't seen any in the marketplace. Dave Dravecky is its best-known major leaguer and probably not worth reprinting.

Friday, November 2, 2012

1937 Kellogg's Pep Sports Stamps #5, Gabby Hartnett

After seeing Wheaties succeed with a string of 1920s and 1930s pro endorsements (which birthed their enduring "Breakfast of Champions" slogan), Kellogg's built a competing stable of athletes and sports performers to push boxes of whole wheat cereal. Their shotgun approach is perhaps best represented by today's set, the multi-sport (and multi-species) Sports Stamps, packaged in boxes of Pep wheat cereal.

Kids could remove the yellow numbered banner, separate each stamp along perforations, and mount all 90 in a company-made album. Vintage fans might know Gabby Hartnett as a Hall of Fame catcher for the Cubs, who happened to post his last statistically great year in 1937 (career stats). So who are the other three?
  • George Lott's polo collar betrays that he played the more genteel sport of tennis. He won several doubles titles in the early 1930s and must've still been well-known in 1937.
  • Pompoon won five major races between 1936 and 1938 before succumbing to a kidney infection in 1939.
  • The college football Frank Thomas played for Notre Dame, roomed with The Gipper, and coached Alabama to significant success in the 30s and 40s. Frank was probably the best-known name on this panel in 1937.

This Pep promotion must've been popular, as I often see individual stamps at shows and on eBay. Full panels remain scarce, but succinctly describe the set itself. (Games that provide "endless pleasure?" Yes, please!)

Pep's panel-stamp dichotomy gives collectors multiple checklist options. offers a hybrid, alphabetizing the players but including their panel number.
  • BB1 Luke Appling 7
  • BB2 Mordecai Brown 22
  • BB3 Leo Durocher 3
  • BB4 Johnny Evers 17
  • BB5 Rick Ferrell 16
  • BB6 Lew Fonseca 15
  • BB7 Gabby Hartnett 5
  • BB8 Billy Herman 6
  • BB9 Walter Johnson 13
  • BB10 Ducky Medwick 1
  • BB11 Buddy Myer 19
  • BB12 George Selkirk 12
  • BB13 Tris Speaker 20/23
  • BB14 Bill Terry 11
  • BB15 Joe Tinker 21
  • BB16 Arky Vaughan 8
  • BB17 Paul Waner 9
  • BB18 Sam West 18

Vintage collectors might've seen this set's spiritual successor, the unnumbered 1948 Kellogg's Pep Celebrities, which includes five baseball players, gallery at OldCardboard. (See also the White Sox Cards profile of Orval Grove from 2011.)

UPDATE: eBay provided these Pep Sports album cover and baseball page scans!

No idea about those criss-cross lines across home plate. Anyone know if that's really how fields looked in the 1930s and what the lines in foul ground demarcated?

Inside, one page held all 18 baseballers.

Value: Low-grade complete panels cost $20-$50, depending on players. Individual panels come cheap and I'd pay a few dollars at most. It'd be fun to find a complete album, but they might only turn up in auctions.

Fakes / reprints: Haven't seen any in the marketplace.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

1976-77 Redpath Sugar Montreal Expos Baseball #5, Pete Mackanin, Jr.

In a hobby world that treats Post cereal and Hostess snack baseball sets as normal, is it odd that someone would cut out the "grain" middleman and attach players directly to sugar? They're hard to find today, but it did happen at least once, thanks to that bastion of maple syrup and Tim Horton's to the north.

Redpath Sugar, then based in Montreal, printed packets featuring les Expos for two years in the mid-70s. Each showed a color bust photo, bilingual bio text, and uniform number. The above scan (click for detail) shows several uncut and unfolded sheets, with four players each.

Price guides checklist the set by uniform number, so utility infielder Pete Mackanin (career stats) got #5 in both years of production.

I nipped this black-and-white scan from an SCD price guide because Pete's barely visible on the uncut sheets. The bio notes his 12 homers in 1975 trailed only Joe Morgan (17) among NL second basemen.

A closer look at a bit of Pete on those uncut sheets.

Redpath Sugar printed 36 players in 1976, including 3 guys with no uniform number (Wayne Garrett, Chuck Taylor, and Del Unser). They cut back to 30 for 1977, but everyone received a number. Online checklists list players alphabetically, so I searched the SCD for "Redpath" using Google Books to get these numbered lists.

1976 Redpath Sugar:

1977 Redpath Sugar:

Value: Single packets, if you can find them, cost a few dollars. HOFers Gary Carter, Larry Doby (Expos coach in 1976), and Andre Dawson run $10 and up.

Fakes / reprints: Haven't seen any in the marketplace. The set's so obscure, I doubt many people would jump at the chance to buy one, let alone generate enough demand to encourage fakes.


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What is zinc?

Zinc is a mineral that is an essential nutrient to human life and health.

The chemical symbol for zinc is Zn.

Zinc Functions

Some of the zinc functions in the human body [1]:

  • Protein and DNA synthesis
  • Development of organs and growth
  • Immunity
  • Wound healing
  • Proper sense of taste and smell

How much zinc do you need per day?

The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for zinc for adults is 8-11 mg/day [1].

Chart 1. Foods High in Zinc

Cereals ready-to-eat, prepared (1 cup, 237 mL) 0-15
Nuts, seeds (1 oz, 28 g) 1-2
Chickpeas, kidney beans, lentils, peas (1/2 cup, 120 mL) 1-2
Cornmeal (1 cup, 237 mL) 1.5
Rice, white/brown (1 cup, 237 mL) 1
Bread, whole-wheat (2 slices, 60 g) 1
Oysters (3 oz, 85 g) 30-77
Beef, bison, lamb, pork, veal (3 oz, 85 g) 2-10
Crabs (3 oz, 85 g) 2-6
Chicken, turkey (3 oz, 85 g) 2-4
Mollusks (3 oz, 85 g) 3
Cheese (2  oz, 57 g) 2
Milk (1 cup, 237 mL) 1

Chart 1 source: USDA.gov [2] All listed foods are ready to eat.

Human breast milk contains 1.7 mg of zinc per liter [2]. Breast milk provides sufficient zinc for the first 6 months of life [1]. An Adequate (AI) for zinc for 0-6 months old infants is 2 mg/day, and Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for 7-12 months old infants is 3 mg/day [1].

Zinc Absorption

Zinc from animal foods is absorbed better than from plant foods, which contain phytates that reduce zinc absorption in the small intestine. In long-term studies, phytate from foods did not significantly affect the bioavailability of zinc, though [35].

Zinc Deficiency: Causes, Symptoms

In the Western world, zinc deficiency is rare; it can be caused by [1]:

  • Poor zinc absorption due to:
    • Celiac disease, Crohn’s disease, short bowel syndrome (SBS) after surgical bowel removal, fructose malabsorption [33], gastric bypass (bariatric surgery for weight loss) [3,4]
    • Medications: tetracycline, penicillamin, high doses of iron supplements
    • Chronic excessive alcohol intake
    • Diabetes
    • Chronic diarrhea of any cause
    • Chronic liver disease or other chronic disease
    • A genetic disorder called acrodermatitis enteropathica
  • Excessive needs for zinc in:
    • Cancer
    • Sickle cell anemia
  • Excessive zinc loss due to:
    • Diuretics
    • Chronic kidney disease

In poor areas of Africa, common causes of zinc deficiency are [1]:

  • Starvation
  • Chronic diarrhea

Who else is at increased risk of zinc deficiency?

  • Strict vegetarians (vegans). Soaking beans until they sprout before cooking reduces phytate content and thus increases zinc absorption from beans. Baker’s yeast breaks down some phytate, so zinc from leavened breads is better absorbed than from unleavened ones.
  • Pregnant and breastfeeding women
  • Exclusively breastfed infants after 6 months of age
  • Reference: [1]

Symptoms of zinc deficiency include slow growth (adolescent nutritional dwarfism), delayed sexual development, impotence in men, increased susceptibility to infections, diarrhea, weight loss, slow wound healing, loss of the sense of taste and smell, hair loss, skin lesions and night blindness (since zinc hampers vitamin A release from the liver), depression [5,6].

Zinc Supplements

Supplements without prescription (over-the-counter):

  • Zinc acetate, zinc gluconate, zinc-histidine, zinc picolinate and zinc sulfate in the form of tablets, capsules, lozenges, ointments are available as dietary supplements.
  • Zinc may be also included in multivitamin/mineral supplements.

There are no confirmed differences in effectiveness of different zinc supplements [1]. In one study zinc-histidine supplements were absorbed better than other forms, though [34].

Zinc Benefits

Zinc supplements are EFFECTIVE in [7]:

  • Prevention and treatment of zinc deficiency
  • Treatment of acrodermatitis enteropathica [8]

Zinc supplements are POSSIBLY EFFECTIVE for [7]:

  • Reducing diarrhea in malnourished children or in children who have low zinc levels [22]
  • Increasing vitamin A levels in underfed children or in children with low zinc levels [32]
  • Promotion of growth and reducing death children in areas with common zinc deficiency [14]
  • Prevention and treatment of pneumonia in undernourished children in developing countries [13]
  • Treatment of Wilson’s disease [30]

Zinc supplements are POSSIBLY INEFFECTIVE in prevention or treatment of AIDS diarrhea-wasting syndrome, arthritis, cataracts, inflammatory bowel disease, malaria, ringing in the ears (tinnitus) and flu, or in increasing birth weight and gestation time in infants born to HIV-infected women, or in raising blood iron levels in pregnant women [7].

There is INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE about the effectiveness of oral zinc supplements in shortening  of duration and decreasing  severity of common cold (when used as a lozenge within 24 hours of the cold onset) [19,20]. Intranasal zinc ointments should be avoided, since they may permanently damage the sense of smell. Zinc does not seem to prevent common cold.

There is INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE about zinc effectiveness in prevention or treatment of acne [30], age-related macular degeneration (AMD) [15], Alzheimer’s disease, anorexia nervosa [28,29], asthma, attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) [26], bad breath [17,30], boils [30], cancer, canker sores [30], celiac disease [30], dandruff [30], diabetes mellitus type 2 [12], eczema [18], foot ulcers [30], growth [30], gum disease (gingivitis) [30], hair loss [30], hepatic encephalopathy [30], hepatitis [30], high cholesterol [30], HIV/AIDS [30], hypogeusia (abnormal sense of taste in dialysis patients) [30], hypothyroidism [30], infertility [30], inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis) [30], leg ulcers (venous or arterial) [10], leprosy [27], malaria [30], male sexual problems, measles [11], menstrual cramps [30], middle ear infections [21], mood disorders [30], mouth sores caused by radiation [30], muscle cramps [30], osteoporosis [25], parasites [30], prostatitis [30], psoriasis [30], rheumatoid arthritis, [30], sickle cell anemia [16], stomach ulcers [31], stress [30], thalassemia [23], ulcerative colitis [7] preterm births [9], respiratory tract infections [30], ringing in the ears (tinnitus) [30], vaginitis [30], warts [30], or improving exercise performance, immunity [30] or motor or mental development in children [24].

Zinc Safety: Side Effects, Toxicity

Upper Tolerable Intake Level (UL)–the amount that should not cause side effects–for zinc for adults is 40 mg of zinc/day [1].

Acute side effects of zinc supplements include vomiting, diarrhea and headache. A single dose 20-30 grams of zinc may be fatal [1].

Chronic excessive zinc intake may result in low blood copper levels, increased susceptibility for infections, low blood copper and HDL cholesterol levels. Certain over-the-counter (OTC) zinc nasal gels and sprays may cause a permanent loss of the sense of smell [1,7]. Zinc may shorten life of patients with HIV/AIDS [7]. Taking 100 mg or more zinc/day may increase the risk of prostate cancer [7].

Zinc Deficiency Diagnosis

Zinc deficiency can be diagnosed from low blood zinc levels.

Zinc Interactions With Drugs and Nutrients

Substances that may decrease zinc absorption [1,8]:

  • Phytates in legumes and whole grains
  • High calcium intake from milk, tortilla made with lime, or calcium supplements may decrease zinc absorption in women after menopause (but not in premenopausal women)
  • Iron supplements in doses greater than 25 mg
  • Penicillamine (a copper binder used in Wilson’s disease) and DTPA (an iron binder used in iron overdose)
  • Antibiotics, such as tetracycline or ciprofloxacin
  • Diuretics, such as chlorthalidone and hydrochlorothiazide, increase zinc excretion
  • Sodium valproate (anticonvulsant)

Zinc supplements in doses greater than 50 mg/day may reduce the absorption and effectiveness of copper supplements, penicillamine and antibiotics, such as ciprofloxacin and tetracycline [8].

Zinc deficiency can decrease the bioavailability of vitamin A [8].

  1. Zinc National Institute of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements
  2. List of foods high in zinc US Department of Agriculture
  3. Shankar P et al, 2010, Micronutrient deficiencies after bariatric surgery (PubMed)
  4. Belin LTC R et al, 2011, Benchmarking Best Practices in Weight Loss Surgery PubMed Central
  5. Roozbeh J et al, 2011, Association of zinc deficiency and depression in the patients with end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis PubMed
  6. Cope EC et al, 2010, Role of zinc in the development and treatment of mood disorders PubMed
  7. Zinc MedlinePlus
  8. Zinc Linus Pauling Institute
  9. Ota E et al, 2015, Zinc supplementation for improving pregnancy and infant outcome Cochrane
  10. Wilkinson EAJ, 2014, Oral zinc supplements for treating leg ulcers Cochrane
  11. Awotiwon AA, 2015, Zinc supplementation for the treatment of measles in children Cochrane
  12. El Dib R et al, 2015, Zinc supplementation for the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus Cochrane
  13. Lassi ZS et al, 2012, Zinc supplementation for the prevention of pneumonia in children aged two to 59 months Cochrane
  14. Mayo-Wilson E et al, 2014, Zinc supplementation for preventing death and disease, and for growth, in children aged six months to 12 years of age
  15. Evans JR et al, 2012, Antioxidant vitamins and mineral supplements to slow down the progression of age-related macular degeneration Cochrane
  16. Nagalla S et al, 2012, Drugs that aim to reduce the loss of water from red blood cells in people with sickle cell disease Cochrane
  17. Fedorowicz Z et al, 2008, Mouthrinses for the treatment of halitosis Cochrane
  18. Bath-Hextall FJ et al, 2012, Dietary supplements for established atopic eczema in adults and children Cochrane
  19. 2010, The Flu, the Common Cold, and Complementary Health Approaches National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
  20. Science M et al, 2012, Zinc for the treatment of the common cold: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials PubMed Central
  21. Gulani A et al, 2014, Zinc supplements for preventing middle ear infections Cochrane
  22. Lazzerini M et al, 2013, Oral zinc supplementation for treating diarrhoea in children Cochrane
  23. Swe K et al, 2013, Zinc supplements for thalassaemia and sickle cell disease Cochrane
  24. Gogia S et al, 2012, Zinc supplementation for mental and motor development in children Cochrane
  25. Lowe NM et al, 2002, Is there a potential therapeutic value of copper and zinc for osteoporosis? Cambridge Journals
  26. Ghanizadeh A et al, 2013, Zinc for treating of children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review of randomized controlled clinical trials PubMed
  27. Mathur NK et al, 1984, Oral zinc as an adjunct to dapsone in lepromatous leprosy PubMed
  28. 2004, Eating Disorders: Core Interventions in the Treatment and Management of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders National Center for Biotechnology Information
  29. Fitzpatrick KK et al, 2011, Anorexia nervosa PubMed Central
  30. Zinc Mayo Clinic
  31. Zinc University of Maryland, Medical Center
  32. Christian P et al, 1998, Interactions between zinc and vitamin A: an update The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  33. Ledochowski M et al, 2001, Decreased Serum Zinc in Fructose Malabsorbers ClinChem
  34. Schölmerich J et al, 1987, Bioavailability of zinc from zinc-histidine complexes. Comparison with zinc sulfate in healthy men American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  35. 2011, GRAS Notification for Phytic Acid (50% Solution) US Food and Drug Administration

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Ejaculatory Dysfunction

Premature ejaculation is the most common ejaculatory problem, found in 1/3 of American men. This can be very embarrassing and be devastating to relationships. The good news is that there are effective treatments. Other forms of ejaculatory dysfunction are anejaculation and/or the inability to climax.

Treatment options for premature ejaculation include behavioral techniques, medications and psychotherapy. For many men, a combination of these treatments works best. Anejaculation can be caused by some medications, aging, and sometimes low testosterone. Careful evaluation by your physician will be helpful to find out whether this problem will be able to be corrected.

Behavioral Techniques

In some cases, sexual therapy may involve simple steps, such as masturbating an hour or two before intercourse so that you're able to delay ejaculation during sex. Your doctor may also recommend desensitizing measures, such as the “squeeze technique” to help control premature ejaculation.

The squeeze technique

Your doctor may instruct you and your partner in the use of a method called the squeeze technique. This method works as follows:

  • Step 1. Begin sexual activity as usual, including stimulation of the penis, until you feel almost ready to ejaculate.
  • Step 2. Have your partner squeeze the end of your penis, at the point where the head (glans) joins the shaft, and maintain the squeeze for several seconds, until the urge to ejaculate passes.
  • Step 3. After the squeeze is released, wait for about 30 seconds, then go back to foreplay. You may notice that squeezing the penis causes it to become less erect, but when sexual stimulation is resumed, it soon regains full erection.
  • Step 4. If you again feel you're about to ejaculate, have your partner repeat the squeeze process.

By repeating this as many times as necessary, you can reach the point of entering your partner without ejaculating. After a few practice sessions, the feeling of knowing how to delay ejaculation may become a habit that no longer requires the squeeze technique.

Certain antidepressants (SSRI’s) and topical anesthetic creams are used to treat premature ejaculation. Although none of these drugs is specifically approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat premature ejaculation, some are used for this purpose. You may need to try different medications or doses before you and your doctor find a treatment that works for you.

Sex Therapy (Psychotherapy)

This approach, also known as counseling or talk therapy, involves talking with a mental health provider about your relationships and experiences. These talk sessions can help you reduce performance anxiety or find effective ways of coping with stress and solving problems. Counseling is most likely to help when it's used in combination with drug therapy.


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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Hormonies and the Flurry of Shame

Menfolk, feel free to skip this post. It's about to be way TMI up in here.

Also, if you work with me feel free to skip this.

With the pending nuptials coming up in just under 2 months (!!!), I've started taking birth control. I'll spare you the details, but suffice to say this is my first go-round with them. While the Bearded Wonder and I love children, we want to enjoy being married for a few years first. Do some traveling, get a dog, you know, the uze'.

So. The birth control regimen started on Monday night, and by Tuesday night I was a raging hot mess. Everyone says, "side effects may include mood changes, in/de-crease of appetite, etc.".

What they fail to mention is the seething rage that makes you want to rip the faces off of those you love. Not because they've done anything other than happen to be in your general vicinity. What they also don't mention is that you'll burst into tears at the drop of a hat, or at the site of your extremely cute desktop background which you forgot you changed yesterday.

Not that that happened to me the other day...
What they also fail to mention is how debilitating it feels to have absolutely no control over your emotional state. I wrote an e-mail to my sweet Bearded Wonder trying to again apologize and explain this is all the devilish Hormonies, and I finished it in tears. At my desk. At work.

The last few days have been a literal roller coaster of emotions, raging from boredom/depression to seething rage to weepy tears. As a female I'm prone to the "occasional" mood swing, but this is just ridiculous. This is a pandemic of epic proportions.

Tuesday night after church, I was so mad at everything/everyone, that I drove through the McDonald's drive-thru and ordered an Oreo McFlurry (henceforth known at the Flurry of Shame), and ate it angrily at red lights on my way home. Then I cried when it was done because it was a poor decision and I didn't want an upset stomach later. Then I cried yet again because I looked like a typical fat kid lamenting the loss of her ice cream.

It was a bad night.

I feel like I should be locked away, kept from the public's view and out of harm's way of others. I want to sit in my room, watching re-runs of How I Met Your Mother or Big Bang Theory, and gorge myself on a gallon of ice cream smothered in Magic Shell. I want to cry while clutching to a stuffed animal that Beardy gave me, lamenting the rage I feel at physical contact. I want to hug people and not feel like it's an obligation, or like I need to get away from them quickly.

My friend informed me that since I'm not used to hormones coursing through my body, there's a good chance this may take a few weeks to level out.

I. Can't. Wait.
I will admit I started this post on Wednesday night, and am happy (eek!) to report that things are looking up. Yesterday was the most normal I've felt all week... It was like a ray of sunshine into a sad and crappy pile of... sadness. Today I'm feeling marginally moody again but with a deluge of fatigue. But at least the stabby rage is subsiding.

Anywho. The Hormonies are hopefully leveling out, and the Flurry of Shame is behind me. Thank God. Punch me if I eat too much crap though; I'm an amazing emotional eater. ;-)

What do you guys do when upset? I eat. Obviously. =p

A Redhead

  1. Oh hon, I'm so sorry. I had to start taking BC a few years ago to regulate my periods (they would knock me out for days - do you remember me throwing up in the cafeteria at school?!). I remember it being a roller coaster ride when I started, too. BUT! The really good news is that it DEFINITELY gets better. I'm pretty convinced now that birth control is the best thing ever. Good luck! :)

  2. Glad you're feeling more like yourself!!


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Mitch Weiser: The Ex-Bayern Prospect Making Up for Lost Time at Hertha

German football has produced plenty of exciting young talents in recent years and the latest to make a big impression on the Bundesliga is Hertha Berlin midfielder Mitch Weiser.

Despite being only 21 years old, he is by no means a new name to fans of German football but his progress has been more staggered than what might have been expected since he made his Bundesliga debut as a 17 year old in the 2012-13 season.

The struggle to settle in a club

It has taken two changes of clubs for us to really see the best of Weiser. He started at Köln, becoming the club’s youngest Bundesliga player when he came off the bench against Bayer Leverkusen.

However those 15 minutes would turn out to be the only ones he would play for Köln as a summer move to Bayern Munich proved too good to turn down.

Unsurprisingly he struggled to get a look in during his first two seasons at the Allianz Arena, featuring mostly for their reserve side as well as on a brief loan spell in the Second tier at Kaiserslautern.

Last term though he did make something of a breakthrough and appeared to be over some of the injury problems that had plagued him earlier on in his career.

Weiser made eight starts for Bayern in the Bundesliga in the 2014/15 campaign, scoring his first goal in the 6-0 win at Paderborn in February.

Given the quality in the Bayern Munich squad, that was still some achievement although he was by no means a regular fixture in the side and as it turns out perhaps wisely Weiser exercised his right to leave on a free transfer in the summer and join fellow Bundesliga side Hertha Berlin.

Thriving with Hertha Berlin

The 21 year old has thrived with the added responsibility of being an important member of the team and has been a key reason why Hertha are doing so well. The side from the capital are currently third in the Bundesliga with Weiser featuring prominently in both a full-back role and in a more advanced wing position.

Regular first time football has helped him really make his mark but perhaps the realisation that he was in danger of letting his talent go to waste also played its role.

Weiser has a bit of a reputation for enjoying life off the pitch and once infamously turned down the chance to represent Bayern II in an important play-off match in favour of a holiday.

Renewed drive

However his move to Berlin seems to have given Weiser a real focus and the drive to not let his career slide away having not quite made the grade at the biggest club in Germany.

Perhaps a perceived bad attitude is one reason why Bayern didn’t try harder to convince him to stay in Bavaria but whatever his issues were, Mitch Weiser appears to have turned a corner and could one day come back to haunt his former employers.

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The Bouchon in Lyon, France and Chicago - via Oak Park

A centuries old tradition in Lyon; a twenty-year old Chicago restaurant

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By David Hammond

Last week, off the plane for only a few hours, my first stop in Lyon, France, was at a bouchon. These traditional and informal restaurants are characteristic of the region, and I was eager to see what the food was like.

The bouchon, though as casual as the bistro, is unlike a bistro in that it specializes in locally sourced food. There is also a marked tendency toward offal. Offal – including liver, kidney and other organ meats – is inexpensive. In Lyon, such less-favored cuts were regularly enjoyed – partly, one suspects, out of economic necessity – by the silk workers of this region who for centuries frequented these small restaurants.

We saw a lot of offal at our bouchon lunches, including chicken livers sprinkled over green salads, sausages made of pig intestine, and charcuterie, such as tender pates composed of small bits of meat that might otherwise not make it into a main course.

At Lyon's Daniel et Denise, Chef Joseph Viola won coveted "Meilleur Ouvrier de France" recognition for his pate, and of course, he serves an exceptional liver.

Back in Chicago, liver kicked off our meal at at Chicago's Le Bouchon. We enjoyed the small medallions of liver pate served with a raspberry swish and salad, dressed with a few crunchy grinds of sea salt.

Chicago's Le Bouchon celebrates 20 years in business this month, which is a remarkable accomplishment given that 70% of all restaurants in the U.S. close within ten years of opening. Le Bouchon has lasted twice that long, and a key to that longevity is due in part to the efforts of Jean Claude Poilevey, who opened Le Bouchon after a cooking in the French army and, later, at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club in Lake Geneva Wisconsin.

Like the bouchon of France, Poilevey's bouchon on Damen serves a good deal of charcuterie. Now, however, Poilevey says, that "the charcuterie plate is usually too much for one person, and at dinner people tend to get five to six small dishes to share."

I asked Poilevey who he admired most in the restaurant business, and without pausing he said, "Rich Melman [of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises]. Forty years ago, going out an Italian restaurant meant you had spaghetti and meatballs. Now, American taste is much more sophisticated, thanks to people like Melman. At his restaurant Scoozi, he made thin crust pizza that was wonderful, so delicious."

Similarly, Poilevey worked to bring French cooking to Chicago; he was part of the new wave of French chefs that included fellow Playboy Club chef Jean Bancet, who would go on to open Le Francais in Wheeling, a restaurant some feel put Chicago on the international culinary map.

Like Scoozi and other restaurants in the Lettuce Entertain You empire, Poilevey's bouchon is serving traditional food that is sophisticated and yet simple. The food of the bouchon is not the stereotypically heavily sauced  French cuisine. Rather, it's working man's food, meat-centered, with great bread and good though unpretentious wine.

Poilevey's tastes tend toward the simple, and when I asked him what Oak Park restaurant he liked most, he said, to my surprise, Winberie's. "They serve a very good hamburger, it's a good value and you know just want to expect."

At Le Bouchon, we asked our server to pick a wine for us, and she chose an excellent white Macon-Village, light enough to work well with fish yet with enough character to stand up to meat.

Last week, in the area around Macon and Lyon, I was touring Chateau de la Chaize. Owner and winemaker Caroline de Roussy de Sales was talking about the Chicago market, and she asked, "Do you know Claude Poilevey of Le Bouchon?" I was glad to say I did, and if you don't know Claude – and his son, Oliver, who is now assuming kitchen duties at Le Bouchon – you can stop by his restaurants or perhaps if you spot him walking along the boulevards of Oak Park.

Le Bouchon

1958 N Damen Ave  Chicago, IL 60647

(773) 862-6600

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