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The Sandman: Season of Mists (DC Comics, 1992)
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The Sandman: A Game of You (DC Comics, 1993)
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The Sandman: Brief Lives (DC Comics, 1994)

If you have read my previous Sandman review, of Preludes and Nocturnes and The Doll's House, you already know that The Sandman is a remarkable graphic novel series revolving around the anthropomorphic personification of dreaming and stories.

Well, here I go again, this time reviewing volumes four, five, and seven. (Don't worry, I'll be back with three and six; there is a reason.)

The first two volumes of The Sandman are horror stories, really. Nasty, awful, nightmarish things happened to a variety of people. Some of them deserved it, and some of them didn't. That's horror for you.

These three volumes are quest stories. Some of the scenes (Breschau's punishments, Charles Rowland's school holidays, any scene with George in it, the Corinthian and the Oran Oatan) are creepy in one way or another, yes. It's Neil Gaiman, you're not going to escape that. But it's not what these stories are about. Dream quests to make amends, and to rid himself of unwanted property. Barbie quests after the salvation of a land she has forgotten. Delirium quests to find her lost, beloved brother.

What do you you quest after, in Dream's Realm?

Season of Mists

"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devils his due." --Hob Gadling's toast

When his sister Death shames him with it, Dream finally admits that he was wrong to condemn Nada to Hell, ten thousand years ago, for refusing to be his queen. Having owned up, the only thing he can do is to go and release her and tell her that she is forgiven. There's only one problem: Lucifer has sworn to destroy Morpheus for embarrassing him before all the Hordes of Hell. Nonetheless, to Hell Morpheus will go.

But when he gets there, he find the Hell of Lucifer empty, and its resigning master locking the last gates. Rather than fight him, Lucifer gives Dream a gift, the Key to Hell. Dream doesn't want it... but everyone else does.

Gaiman began planning this story when he was writing issue 4, which depicted the Sandman going to Hell to retrieve his Helm, lost these many years and in the posession of a demon. On that fateful visit to Hell, Morpheus sees Nada, his old love, whom he still loves but has never forgiven. At the time, we got no further story on her. Five months later, we got her backstory, in "Tales in the Sand." Nada had been an African queen who had refused Dream because it was not given to mortals to love the Endless. Having watched her city destroyed, she died rather than bring more danger upon the people. Having died, she let Dream sentence her to Hell, until he should stand before her and tell her that she was forgiven, rather than be his Queen of Dreams.

And, a year after that, we finally found out what happened next.

This collection is a feast for lovers of mythology, even those who (like me) are sticklers for accuracy. Odin cannot think or remember without Huginn and Muninn, the ravens Thought and Memory. Thor is redheaded and bearded. Loki is handsome despite the scars around his mouth. Egyptian, Japanese, and Judeo-Christian figures are similarly well depicted. And the representatives of Queen Titania are simply charming.

Season of Mists also introduces us to two more members of Dream's family, and introduces us more thoroughly to the members of whom we are already aware. Destiny and Delirium are the oldest and youngest of the Endless; Destiny is a tall figure in a grey robe, chained to a book; his youngest sister (who used to be called Delight) is a childlike waif with mad-colored hair and odd-colored eyes. The brief essays describing each of the Endless are both lovely and enlightening.

But, we become aware, there is one of the Endless to whom we have not been introduced, and whose name has not yet been revealed. Nor is it here: he is known only as "the prodigal."

In previous stories, Dream has shown a very limited range of emotions. Now, we see that range expanded. He is shocked, touched, wistful, worried, and dumbstruck. It's a measure of how much he has changed, and is changing, that we see so much when he's under stress. He dons again his obdurate mask, as soon as he can, but we can see a little tenderness gleaming through the cracks in his armor.

Hell, in the world of The Sandman, is not a place where a vengeful deity sends those who have offended Him. Instead, it is a place where dead mortals choose to go (presumably without realizing that the choice is theirs) if they believe that they have sinned. It is, perhaps, also less of a place than a state of mind.

If Hell is not what we expect, then what is Lucifer? He is neither the Root of All Evil ("'The Devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never," he protests), nor soul-monger ("How can anyone own a soul?" he asks). Instead, he is disillusioned and world-weary, and ready to try something new. He is cruel enough to giggle at what he's putting Dream through, and kind enough to compliment the Daughter of Lilith who loves him. He is embittered at the realization that even his great rebellion is part of his Creator's plan, but not so much that he cannot appreciate a sunset as His work.

The artwork... I can only praise Mike Dringenberg and Malcolm Jones III so many times. Their styles and Gaiman's are well-suited. But this volume also features a number of other artists. Kelley Jones' gods and demons, and especially his Lucifer, are wonderful. Matt Wagner's returned dead are disgusting, charming, or horrifying, exactly when and how they ought to be. My only complaint on the artwork is that the shadows are sometimes too thick and black, losing some expression and character.

Episode four of this story follows Gaiman's tradition of inserting a seemingly separate story which serves to point up the central themes of the greater story. Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland, a dead boy and a dying boy, show us that we don't have to stay anywhere forever.

Harlan Ellison introduces this volume with a pointed essay on perfection and excellence.

A Game of You

Once upon a time, Barbie lived in Florida, with her husband Ken. Then, one night, her housemate Rose Walker discovered what it meant to be a Vortex of Dream, and Barbie lost some things. She lost her husband, her meaning, and her dreams. One she is well rid of, one she is searching for, and the last has come searching for her. Because, when she dreamt, Barbie became Princess Barbara, the Saviour of the Land, who protected it from the Cuckoo. Now Barbie finds her old dreams impinging on her new life, and the only way out is to complete the quest she started when it was "only a dream."

Once Barbie was one of the weird housemates of Rose. Now she has a cast of weird housemates herself, including the lesbian couple upstairs (one of whom is haunted by what was, and the other by what may be), the several-thousand-year-old witch, the preoperative male-to-female transsexual, and the minion of her dream-adversary.

The Sandman intentionally alternated between masculine stories and feminine stories, and between stories comfortable for comics readers and ones that made them uncomfortable. A Game of You is generally considered to be the most uncomfortable story in the Sandman library, and certainly it explores the concepts of femininity and femaleness in a way no other Sandman story does. But the reason it's so uncomfortable for so many fans is probably that it explores the concept of identity.

"Identity blurs on the Moon's Road... In the pale light of the Moon, I play the Game of You. Whoever I am. Whoever you are. All sense of where I am, who I am, and where I'm going, has been swallowed by the dark. And I walk through the stars and sky... a trinity of dreams beneath the moon."

Names are important here: names that are the same, names that are different, names that are not. Can you change your identity by changing your name, by playing the game of you?

Nobody who hasn't played that game will find it comfortable; neither will some who have played it. Comfortable, no. Fascinating, yes.

A Game of You alternates between levels of reality, and uses repeating motifs to make the real world seem more surreal and the dream world more prosaic. The points where the two worlds meet seem almost normal.

The best and most fascinating parts of this volume are in the details, really. Puns, reflections, references, and subtleties are the order of the day. All of The Sandman rewards a deep, close reading, but perhaps A Game of You more so than any of the other volumes.

Shawn McManus is good at drawing horror. So are lots of people. Shawn McManus is good at drawing fantasy. So are lots of people. What McManus can do that makes him invaluable to this story is draw them both, side by side, and have them mesh perfectly. Colleen Doran adds a woman's touch to the illustration of the single issue most concerned with gender, giving an edginess to the transformation of the other women's worlds.

A Game of You introduces two of my favorite Sandman characters, Thessaly and Wanda. Thessaly shows us why the Greeks feared witches, and yet she herself is an amazingly down-to-earth and together woman. She seems, as Hazel puts it, "so vanilla." Wanda is exactly the opposite of vanilla, brash and proud and very sure that's she's woman (however frightened she might be of that surgery). She keeps her humor in the face of things that scare her shitless, and all she wants is to protect her friend. She's the only one acting unselfishly.

I feel I ought, briefly, to touch on the controversy surrounding Wanda. A lot of readers have assumed that Gaiman shares the opinion of the Moon Goddess and Thessaly, or that he feels that Wanda is not certain of her own identity. Much to the contrary, Gaiman has stated that he sides with Wanda.

Samuel R. Delaney provides this volume with an opening commentary on the language and art of A Game of You. It's worth reading, but only after you've finished the story. It won't do you much good before.

Brief Lives

Three hundred years ago, Destruction, the middle sibling of the seven Endless, abandoned his realm.

Now Delirium tries to convince her brothers and sisters to go with her, to search for their missing, and missed, brother. Working her way up from her next-eldest siblings, she gets to Dream before finding someone who will help her.

Dream is suffering from a broken heart, or thinks he is. For weeks now, he has stood in the rain, mourning the loss of an unnamed lover. He agrees to accompany Delirium, not to look for Destruction, but to look for her.

As they search, looking first for those friends of Destruction who will not be dead, people begin to have terrible mishaps and begin to die.

In the end, Delirium and Dream find their brother, but not without cost. Rare indeed is the individual who can seek Destruction and return unscathed. Dream is not such a one.

The prevalent themes in Brief Lives are immortality (or the illusion thereof) and change (which is to say, death). Impermanence, ephemerality, and transience are inherent in the title, the themes, and the little chocolate people filled with raspberry cream.

That last may seem out of place, but it's not. This story is full of scenes stolen by Delirium. She is whimsical and wise, kind and cruel, confused and crystal clear. She thinks that viridian and twinkle are nice words, and she proves the truth of her earlier statement that she knows things that none of the other Endless do. She makes the whole story work.

Destruction, living on a Greek island with his dog Barnabas, tries the other side of his coin. He paints, writes poetry, sculpts, cooks (and does all of it badly, except possibly the cooking). And he tries not to know.

Bernie Capax shows us that all lives are brief. The Alderman turns into a bear, and bites off his own shadow, leaving us with a welter of images. Etain tells us that the things we get from dreams are free. And Ishtar reveals the sacred in what has now been debased.

We discover from Pharamond that Dream can give the advice that he cannot take: that one can stop being anything.

Most importantly of all, Dream becomes more vulnerable. He is changing so much that it is commented upon by nearly everyone he sees. His own doorkeepers almost do not recognize him. And he does the one thing that Desire has been trying to get him to do for many years now: he sheds family blood. This act of kindness, which he had sworn not to perform, is what marks Brief Lives as the turning point of the series. We have entered the third act. It's all down hill from here.

Jill Thompson gives humanity, tenderness, and color to the artwork, aided by Vince Locke. Aside from the Zulli issues, Brief Lives contains my favorite artwork in the series, I think. Although this is one of Gaiman's masculine stories, it's the women who stand out visually, becoming more real than most of the other females who appear in The Sandman. Delirium, Despair, and Death, of course, but also Marie on reception, the widowed Mrs. Capax, Ruby the chauffeur, and the dancing goddess Ishtar.

Delirium has the most amazing quotes in this volume:

"You don't want my name. Trust me. You really don't. I don't want my name, and I'm sort of used to it by now. It would really mess you up."

"You know, if this car had great big runny legs like a centipede it could run very fast and we'd get there quicker."

"Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telephone ice cream?"

Mervyn and Barnabas have lines nearly as good, if not so peculiar.

Having, perhaps, learned something from the too in-depth introduction in A Game of You, Peter Straub's superb and insightful introduction is at the back of the book. Read it when you get there.

Over all, these three volumes are the center of the story of The Sandman. The first two are the foundations, setting the stage, filling things in a bit. The short stories are ornaments and embellishments (although some of them are integral to the overall structure). And the final two volumes are the capstone, the coda. If for no better reason (and there are better reasons) than this, treasure these three stories because they are the heart of something special.

[Rebecca Scott]

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Don’t look now, but your sushi may not be what it claims. The stuff being sold to you as “white tuna,” for instance, might be a type of mackerel that causes dysentery. High-mercury tilefish could be masquerading as snapper. The minced fish in your Spicy Whatever Roll could be god knows what. If only we could institute some kind of Orwellian fish dystopia, where all fish would be required to sport an ID displaying its vital statistics.

That’s where executive sushi chef Rob Ruiz comes in. Ruiz, who works at Harney Sushi in San Diego, has devised an edible rice-paper QR code that can be perched atop a piece of sushi, where it will show data about your fish’s sustainability and provenance (including video of the fishermen who caught it!) right until the time you pop it in your mouth. A little Portlandia? Sure. But given the state of fish fraud — especially in California — you actually need to know your sushi’s background to be sure it’s safe.

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What if they held a prostitution sting and nobody in the media reported it?

In the process of tracking Travis County's new immigration detainer policy, Jamie Spencer happened to notice at the Travis County jail the results from a recent Austin prostitution sting that received no local publicity. He makes a good point and asks a legitimate question:

It used to be that I’d see these things publicized in the local paper – not the names of the arrestees, but the fact that the police department had run a sting, and how proud they were that they had arrested so many people, etc. But I’ve searched Google News and the Austin American Statesman, and I can’t find a press release or anything.

Hey, if you guys aren’t going to brag about this, is that some sort of indication that you think public support for these stings is waning? And if so, any chance you could use our money on something more useful?

Doc Berman is a fan of "shaming" penalties (to some extent), though he's also recognized in the past that prostitutes may also be "victims" as well as offenders. I'm curious whether he or others think that prosecution of men for soliciting prostitutes is a less effective tactic when it's not publicized?

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kids watering 1st base.jpgJust outside of Tainan City, Taiwan there is a special little field maintained by some very special little people.  I would have to say this might be the youngest groundcrew I have ever seen.  Each with a job and task to prepare the field for the game.  What a sight to see kids doing the work of adults and having fun doing it.
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This type of culture being implemented into children’s minds at such an early age  is remarkable.  My hat is off to Li Chang who shared this amazing story and photos of what they are doing at this little league field. Hopefully the tips we have shown him will help make this a better program. They have developed a maintenance program for the kids to follow.  I would have to say this would infield watered.jpgprobably never be seen in the USA,
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If you make things fun,  kids will do it and To these guys it’s a fun task.   I like how they water the dirt and the “shape” of the field is actually made with water.  Very creative! !   This is truly Inspirational for all of us in the sportsturf industry. What if we could get all of our neighborhoods to do this!

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I would like to express my gratitude that the article posted on your official website introduces the story of the baseball team under my coach. I hope that the photos I provided will help the readers realize the unique environment in which baseball develops in a creative way. It is my wish that I can learn more from you should we meet again. Meanwhile, I would like to point out a minor error in your article, namely my full name should rather be spelled as CHANG?SHENG-EN. Thanks a lot.

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Isaac Hammerstein is the step-father of Lazlow, and the owner of Isaac Hammerstein and Daughters Funeral Services. Lazlow shows much dislike for his step-father, although he often pretends he doesn't, only because Isaac Hammerstein and Daughters Funeral Services sponser Lazlow's new show Integrity 2.0. Isaac is mentioned throughout his radio broadcast. Also thoughout the broadcast Lazlow will quietly slip in a few insults at his step-father before finally ranting about how much he hates him, complaining to his mother that she shouldn't have left his dad for Isaac just because he drank a little.

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Shoreside Vale

A view of Shoreside Vale from the hills above Cedar Grove.

Shoreside Vale is the third borough in Liberty City (GTA III Era). Shoreside Vale is primarily residential, but also features the Francis International Airport to the south, a light commercial and industrial estate (Pike Creek) on the western edge, and the Cochrane Dam in the northwestern corner. Shoreside Vale is the only part of the city situated on the mainland and is considerably hillier than the other two boroughs, with a mountain range along the northern edge of the borough.

With steep elevation changes, a river dividing the main residential area from the industrial estate and the airport, and roads, bridges and tunnels criss-crossing each other at different elevations, Shoreside Vale is notoriously tricky to navigate. For this reason, Shoreside Vale is a very poor choice for the vehicle missions.

Neighborhoods, districts and areas

Cedar Grove

Cedar Grove is an upper-class residential neighborhood which takes its name directly from a New Jersey suburb. It is controlled by the Colombian Cartel, and is home to some of the more wealthy residents of Liberty City. It consists of lavish mansions with swimming pools and fast sports cars on the drive-ways. Donald Love's mansion (later taken over by Catalina and the Colombian Cartel) and one of Toni Cipriani's safehouses in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories also lie within this area.

Francis International Airport

Francis International Airport is Liberty City's airport is situated on the southern half of Shoreside Vale, just off the main road coming into the area. Other features in this district include a long-term parking lot, a fire station, a subway station and a police car parked. There's a lot of airplanes and helicopters around the airport, however, no one of them is accessible to drive, with exception of the Dodo.

Pike Creek

Pike Creek is a light commercial and industrial district located in the western section of Shoreside Vale. It is home to the offices of several businesses, including Punk Noodles, Turtle Head Fishing Co., AMCo. Petroleum Company, and Liberty Pharmaceuticals. Services include the local police station, the hospital, Pay 'n' Spray and 8-Ball's bomb shop. Pike Creek is Yakuza turf in 1998, but is occupied by no gang in 2001, the setting Grand Theft Auto III (although it does have Yakuza presence during one mission).

Wichita Gardens

Wichita Gardens is a low-wealth residential neighborhood, mainly composed of housing projects, like common neighborhoods in The Bronx, inwhich it is mostly based on. It was formerly controlled by the Forelli Family, but it is now controlled by the Southside Hoods, thanks to Toni Cipriani's help. It is also home to one of Claude's safehouses .

These following people are residing or have resided the Shoreside Vale.

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Other Locations

  • The tunnel that leads from one side of Cedar Grove to the other seems to have another road that leads to another part of Liberty City. The tunnel is unavailable to the player in GTA III, but in GTA Liberty City Stories the player is allowed to use it to get to points around Cedar Grove. There seems to be another road that leads to a northern part of Shoreside Vale, but is blocked off and cannot be driven on. The sign above the road reads "upstate". Rockstar stated there was never meant to be anything on the other side of the tunnel, but was used to give the player a feeling that Liberty City was larger than just the areas the player could explore.[1] In GTA III the player can fly a Dodo around the "upstate" part of Liberty City and will only find more hills. It could possibly be outside Liberty City since the maps of Shoreside Vale show it is part of the mainland.
  • In Bully, another game made by Rockstar Games, there is an area called Old Bullworth Vale, which resembles the Cedar Grove area of Shoreside, both being high society areas where the rich citizens of both cities live.
  • In Liberty City Stories, the player can get a (very) limited preview of Shoreside Vale before unlocking it by taking the subway and getting off at the Francis airport station (the player can walk about the station, but the staircase outside is blocked). Using the cheat that allows vehicles to drive on water, it's possible to explore Shoreside Vale before it's unlocked. Similarly, at the cost of failing the mission, it's possible to enter Shoreside Vale during the "Shoot the Messenger" mission using the boat supplied for the mission (although this is only possible for a brief time before the mission fails on its own).
  • In GTA Liberty City Stories, the map of Shoreside Vale isn't the same as in GTA III; a big portion of a mountain layer in the right part is missing and replaced by an empty space. Oddly, in gameplay, the mountains still exists in the same portion where the mountain layer is missing from the map.

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By Alex Gilman on Thursday, April 19, 2012

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Going to Coachella is a lot like being a professional athlete in at least one way– you don't really get to take any plays off. Even the afternoon parties aren't really designed for your rest or relaxation; they're more like daylight booze-fests to fuel you through 24 more hours of music and madness. So that's why it was so refreshing that NYLON & Hugo Boss designed their Saturday afternoon "Escape House" party to be just as epic as anything else, but still feel like a relaxing escape from Coachella weekend.

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Representation Without Taxation

America's foundation was partly based on no longer accepting "Taxation without representation" from the King of England.   Is it any less logical for Mitt Romney to question "Representation without Taxation?"  I'm stealing from Ian Cowie at The Telegraph in using his phrase.  It's so good!

You know America might be reaching a tipping point when about 50% of the household in the US have at least one member receiving government payments.  Assuming benefits continue indefinitely (some benefits do and some don't), which would be Obama's apparent dream,  then people who receive benefits naturally would have an interest in maintaining or voting for candidates that are "soft" on government redistribution---on and on until the system collapses.   This is the relevant correlation with the European countries, who are well beyond the "tipping point."

Yes, a lot of those households receiving benefits are on Social Security and Medicare. Some receive Medicare.  It's actually a complicated situation. And yes, 47% of workers pay no income tax. See the Wall Street Journal Article here.     I know Mitt Romney went overboard and erred in his assessment of a complicated state of affairs, but I think I understand his alarm and despair at the current state of affairs.

Ok, I've oversimplified too much and beat up unfairly on the bottom 47%.   I apologize for myself and Mitt but........

A Flat Tax Rate Is Truly Fair To All

That's why there should be a flat tax of 18 or 20% on all income above the poverty level.  In that way, everyone pays their fair share.   If you're single and make $40,000, then you pay 20% of the difference between $40,000 and the poverty level of $11,170.  This equates to 20% of $28,830 or $5766 in Income Taxes.   If you make $1,040,000, then you $208,000 in Income Taxes.

Oh, and no deductions.   That's really fair right??   Right!  I'm glad that you agree.    This way, everyone has "skin in the game" and all can squawk with truly equal vigor about how well their tax dollars are spent.

You want to know why this is so difficult?   It's because the bottom 47% aren't paying income tax now.  If you have a truly flat rate, then most of the bottom 50% have to pay something!  Also, since the top 1% are already paying 24% on average, then the 20% flat rate actually lowers their marginal rate (the top 1% revenue would go up because no deductions).

Sorry, but you already agreed that the flat rate is fair!   What we have now is unfair and amounts to "representation without taxation" for about half of the people in the USA.

Oh, an average tax collection rate of say 18% is four percentage points above the post-war average tax take of 14% and would substantially solve the budget deficit problem if there were some real budget cuts to match!

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It's been awhile since we've seen the doctors! S'good to see them again even if they got problems with the man's stupid references.

There was a write-up recently about webcomic folk in the Boston Globe! I am mentioned in it, only briefly, but I also got to be in the main picture for the article. It was a neat experience. Thank you Jialu for the write up! I am in the pic supporting a MBMBAM shirt.

Speaking of... SUPER LINK: My Brother, My Brother and Me. I don't listen to a lot of podcasts and only follow a few really closely. MBMBAM is the one I check with every week and even re-listen to old ones. The McElroy brothers are HILARIOUS and I love the show a bunch! It is an advice show for the modern era. Check out this sampler they made of some of their best bits and then get on that show (my personal favorite episode is #55: Spaghettageddon).


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Free BBS training in Wales

In stark contrast to the usual trickle of inconsequential drivel found herein, and in a spirit of public service broadcasting, there follows an advertisement from the lovely people at the British Trust for Ornithology:

BTO offers free BBS training in Wales

Would you like to participate in the BTO/JNCC/RSPB Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) in Wales but just need that extra boost to your confidence or skills? If so the BTO can help!

Following the success of last year’s initiative, coverage of BBS squares was increased substantially. Thanks to the generous support of the Countryside Council for Wales the BTO are again employing a small team of professional ornithologists to provide courses and one-to-one training of potential BBS volunteers on unallocated BBS squares around Wales.

There are a number of courses planned for March, which can be followed up by BTO trainers visiting a BBS square with you and walking you through your first visit, explaining how to record habitat data, how to record birds in different distance bands, recording mammals and how to enter your data online. These sessions are completely free and are available to BTO members and non-members alike.

Courses are currently planned for:

9th March at the Welsh Wildlife Centre, Cilgerran, Cardigan; and
16th March at Plas Dolerw, Newtown, Powys.

If you've got good identification skills for common birds and would like further details of the BBS or want to express an interest in these training sessions contact BTO Cymru on 01248 383285 or visit www.bto.org/bbs-training

Whilst I'm sure any additional surveyors in Gwent would be warmly welcomed, the BTO would be particularly interested to hear from anyone, perhaps residing up-county, that would fancy hopping over the border to Breconshire where they have a number of uncovered squares. Background information on the BBS can be found at http://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/bbs

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The sum total of desperation

A statement was recently released by the WRU purporting to outline its philosophy and success with debt. I’m no accountant but I do have an MBA which makes me very good at spotting a bullshitter.

Here is their statement in full:-

WRU Bulletin to clubs – bank debt

The Welsh Rugby Union, in response to questions from its member clubs, has decided to address recent comment about its debt management policies since 2006, suggesting they are hindering re-investment into the game. This is not the case as this note clearly outlines.

Through negotiation with the bank since 2006 the WRU has:

– reduced its interest rates by 58% from 6.5% to 4.1%

– kept its cash repayments at exactly the same levels
– achieved a course to become debt free by 2021
– boosted reinvestment into rugby by 86% from £11.8m to £22m a year

The negotiated drop in interest rates has, between 2006 and 2013, reduced the interest costs by £1.8m which is now available to plough back into Welsh rugby year on year.

By sound financial management and ensuring compliance with the banking terms, the WRU wishes to avoid the conditions of repayment of the original £10m loan being met.

Since 2006 the WRU has carried out two successful renegotiations with Barclays Bank plc which have allowed the governing body to make its banking arrangement far more flexible and to reduce its interest costs. The overall bank debt stood at just below £19.5m in 2013 down from its 2006 level of £39.1m.

It is important to note that the fundamental priority of the WRU is not to become debt free but to manage its loans in an efficient and flexible manner to drive down its interest costs to promote further re-investment in the game.

If the WRU were to seek to renegotiate its current debt structure the interest rate of 4.1% would probably rise meaning that money currently invested in the game would be paid in interest instead each year and the term of the arrangement would reduce.

In simple terms the current debt repayment structure is a valuable business asset in that it helps us invest more money into the game year on year.

The successful bank negotiations mean that the vastly improved loan terms have been achieved without a penny increase in the annual cash repayments since 2006.

One core reason why the banks now have renewed confidence in the WRU is that since 2006 our turnover has gone up by 32% from £46.1m to £61m.

The increased turnover and revised banking arrangements have helped the reinvestment into the game since 2006 rise 102% into the Regional game, 50% into the Premiership Division and 48% into the community game. The revised banking arrangements have very much aided the re-investment and not hindered it.

In figures those increases are:

– from £8.3m to £16.8m for the Regions
– from £0.8m to £1.2m for the Premiership
– and from £2.7m to £4.0m for the community game

The WRU wants to put on record its gratitude to Barclays Bank for the confidence it shows in the governing body and continued support.

So, do they want to be debt free or not? They think they are some kind of financial wizard ‘negotiating’ with Barclays Bank but have only managed to do this twice in 8 years!

The genius of the maths is the reduction in interest rates. The WRU think moving interest from 6.5% to 4.1% is a 58% reduction. I may have an MBA but my 12 year old will put them right on this, it’s actually 37%.

This begs the question, are they competent enough to manage a business turning over £61 million? Or are they being smart, thinking they can kid every one with their bluster?

So the WRU don’t know if they want to be debt free or not, don’t know how to calculate simple percentages and can only manage bank negotiations every four years. And why do they still think they are “investing” £16.8 million in the regional game when > more than 10 million is just broadcasting money which is passed straight through to the regions.

Either, the WRU are fools OR they think we are. Unfortunately I think it’s both.

5 thoughts on “The sum total of desperation”

  1. Base rate in 2006: 5%
    Base rate in 2014: 0.5%

    The Wru has managed to negotiate a loan at 1.5% over base *up* to 3.6% over base.

  2. In 2006 base rates were on average 4.75% so the WRU were paying 1.75% over base with their 6.5% interest rate.

    After “two successful negotiations” they reduced their interest rate to 4.1% which for nearly the last four years has been 3.6% over base rates.

    In effect, they have more than doubled their borrowing costs (and Barclays’ profit) relative to base rates in that period. Up 106% from 1.75% to 3.6% over base rates. The actual interest rate they pay has fallen 37% yet base rates have fallen by 89%.

    Top negotiating, Roger!

  3. As I have been saying for some time, Roger Lewis and David Pickering are past their sell by date and need to go, today RL is in the Western Mail talking about the new Cardiff City region in his position of chairperson the amidst the rugby troubles, his priorities are certainly questionable.

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Bonham Towers ("Western Barracks"), 88 Bonham Road [????- ]

An anonymous reader asks:

Looking at Google maps, where 88 Bonham Road is now (Bonham Towers), Google has the marked as 'Western Barracks'.   Does anyone know anything of these purported former barracks ?

Previous place(s) at this location:

Photos that show this place

As far as I know, they are still barracks.

If you look down as you walk along Bonham Road, you'll see several 'D.L.' stones embedded in the pavement. They mark the boundary of a Defence Lot, a piece of land used by the armed forces.

In the 1990s there was a small NAAFI shop on the right as you looked in to the carpark. I'm not sure which branch of the British armed forces used it.

Since the handover, it should be quarters for the PLA.

These were "Bonham Towers," Royal Navy high rise living quarters in the  1980s-1990s, I don't know what preceded them.

I've attached photos of the markers in the pavement.

Friend of China 6.10.42 edition

Letter to the Editor

It is now possible to ride a good horse along the beach from Western barracks to Sookunpo, a distance of about 4 miles. You could never do that in Canton. Not only that but one of the highest peaks is being levelled and a house erected on its summit. New sites are popping up everywhere and the whole island rings to the sounds of saws and hammers.

I served in HMS TAMAR from 78 - 80- and lived in this building in Flat B13. There was parking on the ground floor together with a NAAFOI shop, the next level we built a families social club which replaced the tiny bar on the floor above where the kiddies playground was. The rest of the building was Navy married quarters with wrens quarters in the Penthouse until they moved down to Tamar when the Prince of Wales building opened.

Hi annelisec, thanks for the excerpt.  However, I believe the location of the Bonham Towers was never called "Western Barracks" before 1997, so the 1842 Western Barracks must be a different place, likely located much closer to the shoreline.

Well done, C!  It would have been helpful if someone had early looked for the answers to the following:

1. Who holds the lease for the land now, and if there was a previous lessee who was he?

2. Who developed the lot and paid for the construction?

3. Who lives there now?

The answers to these questions will confirm that  this was a private development on private land.  It is a high rise residential building built sometime in the early 1970s. It is not and never was a "barracks".

I think the building was rented by the Navy to replace the Naval quarters given up in Wong Nei Chong Road facing the Football Stadium.

I don't know what DL stands for, but those stones situated as they are obviously are not boundary markers. They are too close together. Perhaps they were found elsewhere on the site and somebody had the bright idea of imbedding them in the pavement here. More likely to be something like "drainage line".

And Annelisec might have given further thought to the matter before rushing to the archives to produce that excerpt. We don't know where it comes from or who wrote it, but the reference was most likely to the western camp or cantonment - i.e Sai Ying Pun. Certainly nothing to do with Bonham Road.

The culprit is Google. Wonder where they got "Western Barracks" from? Wherever it came from, it should not be written so firmly into the public domain to mislead everyone. Red faces all round, I suggest.

The archived excerpt can be found here: halfway down column one of page three, although the version pasted above seems to be paraphrased somewhat. I'm also not sure what it has to do with Bonham Road. Interesting letter though.

Hi. Bonham Towers were military quarters included among sites handed over by the British government to the PLA after the Handover, according to the transfer agreement on the UN website:

According to that document there were five sites to be handed over on HK Island. Stanley (Chek Chue) barracks, Prince of Wales (Central) Barracks, Headquarter House on Barker Road, Queens Lines (Ching Yi To) in Admiralty, and Bonham Towers.

According to the following Legco document from 2000 listing five closed military sites on HK island, four are as above. The fifth, Western Barracks, we can deduce corresponds to Bonham Towers .

In the Chinese language, Sai (西) means "west" and Ying Pun (營盤) means "camp", especially military camp. It was where early British military stayed.

Thank you, 80sKid. I stand corrected. But are we sure that what was handed over was not the unexpired part of a rental agreement?  Who built Bonham Towers and when?  But whatever the modern day situation, I remain sure that what occupied this lot before Bonham Towers was built was not a military barracks.

Hi Anon. My understanding is military sites were owned by the UK, then Chinese governments via their respective armed forces, and weren't subject to any particular leasehold provided they were used for purposes of defence. I don't know what preceded Bonham Towers but DL certainly stands for defence lot. DL 1 is Central Barracks by Tamar. Incidentally, the government's Geoinfo map also gives Western Barracks as alternative name; I don't know the current status of the buildings now.

2. The military sites handed over to the Garrison shall be used exclusively for defence purposes. The right to use the military sites shall not be transferred and the sites shall not be made available to others for purposes other than defence. If a site used by the Garrison is no longer needed for defence purposes, it shall be handed over, without compensation, to the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for disposal.

Most grateful to you 80sKid. I retire hurt, but not out.

Interesting to know how Bonham Towers came to be built.  Most unusual if the colonial HKG built this multi-storey building to accomodate service personel. Perhaps they bought it over from a private developer.  I would guess also that the classification Defence Lot came into use in connection with the negotiations over the hand-over.

Tuesday 14/10/1969

This draft was supposed to be married accompanied. In fact our wives couldn't join us until after the first six months, as our married quarters hadn't been completed yet. Getting nearer completion date my oppo Grumpy and I went to view the flats. My flat was numbered A23 and right up at the top of the skyscraper called Bonham Towers, only the Wren's penthouse was higher. On the day of the visit the lifts weren't working yet. You've probably guessed it, we walked all the way up those stairs, even though the flats at the bottom would look exactly the same as ours!

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a battery of three guns was located slightly to the west of a stream (running along the alignment of the current Water Street) at West Point. As well barracks were constructed up the hillside all the way to what is currently Bonham Road.

A sense of history: studies in the social and urban history of Hong Kong by Carl T. Smith 1995

Unfortunately, Annelisec, Carl Smith does not appear to have given his source.  It is possible that he had before him Pottinger's map of 1842. "Battery 3 guns" is marked thereon, and south of that is marked "Volunteer barracks". But if Pottinger's map was his sole source, then I would question the validity of his statement that "barracks were constructed up the hillside all the way to what is currently Bonham Road".  It is difficult to locate the battery of three guns from Pottinger's map, and even more difficult to place the Volunteer barracks. But the likelihood is that the battery was on what became Belcher's Fort, which is more than "slightly" to the west of Water Street.

In any case, I don't see what this has to do with the site of Bonham Towers. Even if the site of Bonham Towers was, over a hundred years ago, the site of military barracks, this is not the reason why Bonham Towers became guarters for service personel.

I have conceded that DL stands for Defence Lot, but I think this designation came into being with the Sino-British negotiations. If this had been military land it would surely have been WDBS. I do not think it is a coincidence that this site is DL5 while  Prince of Wales Barracks is DL1. That is how they are shown in the appendix to the agreement on military sites.

I tend to agree with Anon that Bonham Towers has no direct bearing with the barracks or camp at Sai Ying Pun.

As far as I understand, the camp at Sai Ying Pun was shortlived.

At "Westpoint Barracks" (above Pokfulam Road), where the Indian troops had lost nearly half their number in 1842, sickness was so universal in 1843, that the European troops stationed there were hastily removed (July 20, 1843) on
board ships in the harbour.

Europe in China, Eitel

eBook - read the original -

Yes; well to the west of to-day's Bonham Towers.

Hi there,

I also tend to believe the mentioned battery with three guns was very likely the Belcher's.  Assuming it was really a barrack before the Bonham Towers were built, if you look up the GeoInfor Map and select the Detailed Map option, you should be able to see quite a few streams still exist today.  One of them run just besides the towers.  This streem seemed to go sub-terrean at Bonham Road and go down Hing Hon Road, then along Water Street and to to the harbour.

A bigger stream runs through the HKU Campus and then go sub-terrean across Pokfulam Road, then down Hill Road.  I believe the Stream before the battery means Hill Road.

By comparing the scan ruler the Belcher's is slightly more than 0.5 Km away from Bonham Towers.  So at the Bonham Road/Pokfulam Road level it is within walking distance.

My 2 cents,

We can add "1 & 2 Prospect Place" to "previous places"

Prospect Place

Western Barracks / Bonham Towers are where these two lots were

IL 1714
IL 1878

Google still shows Prospect Place, but it appears that the PLA have taken over the road completely.  The red line is where the Lands Department currently shows "Prospect Place" and also show

1-2 光景臺
Bonham Towers

These Inland lots numbers are still in existance to help place the lot in context.

IL 1096 - Swire Hall (Student Residence)
IL 1880 - St. Clare's Primary School
IL 1924 - Chinese Rhenish (Lutheran)Church

See the 1924 map snippet:

IL 1714 & IL 1878  in 1924 (now Western Barracks aka Bonham Towers)

Bonham Towers was not built to replace the quarters on Wong Nai Chon Gap Road, across from the Race track, not football stadium, (these were called Harcourt) I lived here from 1991 - 1994, and both sets of quarters were used for junior rates of the RN. Bonham towers also housed the "overspill" from Stanley Barracks of Army personnel. 1rst off the Royal Regiment of Wales, then latterly the Black Watch. I am not certain, but I am sure the PLA live there now


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DIY Segway recycles broken electric scooters

[Petter] built himself a DIY Segway out of a couple of cheap electric scooters. We’ve seen a couple of very nice Segway builds in the past like the all analog Segway, or the creepy walking version, [Petter]’s Segway build seems like it would be a useful human transport device.

The motors, chains, gears, and wheels are scavenged from a pair of electric scooters. Steering left and right is accomplished by tilting the handlebars left and right. The handlebars themselves are attached to the joint at a base that allows them to be taken on and off. We’re thinking this would be great for throwing a [Petter]’s Segway in the trunk of a car – a design feature the original Segway doesn’t have.

The electronics of the project are based around an ATMega168 that reads data from an accelerometer and gyroscope. The motors are controlled by two H-bridges and are powered by two 12 V lead batteries wired in series. We’re not sure how long the batteries will last in a real-world situation, but [Petter]’s build seems to go fast enough.

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21 thoughts on “DIY Segway recycles broken electric scooters

  1. Nice build. Because of all they hype the proceeded the introduction of the Segway, I can’t get to excited of the Segway, and Segway knock offs. They aren’t suitable for either operation on busy roadways,or busy pedestrian paths, not they don’t have their niche, but the hype promised a revolution in the way we travel.

  2. next he should build in a rc or robot mode where you take off the handlebars and just have it zip arround by its self idk why I just think that would be cool. Its funny how the segway was susposed to be the next big thing and everything and this guy just built one in his basement out of some scooter parts, a microcontroler, and a handfull of electronic components.

  3. Wow. I like it. I see Segways all the time here in Atlanta; there is a tour company that does Segway tours of downtown/midtown areas.

    I think this one looks much better than the commercial product. Of course, I am more partial to the aluminum color than the all matte black of the Segway.

  4. As several have observed, this raises a lot of questions about the original Segway.

    2-wheeled balancing robots have been around a long time, (2-wheeled) scooters even longer. There are a number of examples of one-off devices like [petter] has built, mostly performing well although less sophisticated cosmetically, yet Segways cost 000’s of dollars and no one else is allowed to build similar devices commercially.

    Is this just more nonsense from the US patent office? Or am I missing something?

    It kind of reminds me of Dyson vacuum cleaners, which cost a packet and only seemed to offer the actual advantages of being able to see the dirt, and not having a filter. Except they did have a filter once it emerged that the early ones made some allergies worse because of the biological nasties that got through the cyclonic filters. In the UK you still see perfectly working Dysons in skips with blocked biological filters that the owners didn’t realise were there, therefore dumped them.

    I think it’s very important that innovators get the chance to cash in on their inventions if they choose to, it’s just that some inventions don’t seem all that inventive…

  5. I agree with bacchus about the US patent office. Take the Dyson machines, “cyclonic” filtering has been going on for over 100 years, just go look at any old furniture factory.
    Other patents I have looked at are not even correct. An idea I was looking at had been patented, except it listed IR as being transmitted over wires.
    I think this is where “open source” could come in handy, put together a “base” kit for a segway knock off. Some assy required.

  6. hi, i want to build such a segway for my project, can u please give the circuit design & other mechanical design requirements for the will be really grateful for u to do such a favour. thank you.

  7. I was wondering what you use to control the steering? Some sort of pot I suppose. Do you have a link or model that I could have to use for my DIY segway clone? Thanks!

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Ahn's Taekwon-do
3282 Vineville Ave.
Macon, GA 31204
(478) 474-3500

Grandmaster E.C. AHN

Lifetime Achievement Award
Grandmaster E. C. Ahn

Grandmaster Eung Choon Ahn is one of the original pioneers and founding fathers of modern Tae Kwon Do. Born in Pyoungbook, North Korea in 1941, Grandmaster Ahn escaped with his family to Seoul, South Korea 10 years later. In 1953, marking the cease fire of the Korean War, Grandmaster Ahn began training in tae kwon do at the age of 12. In 1955, he earned his 1st degree black belt.

He has received countless awards and distinctions for his accomplishments throughout his fifty years of training. In 1960 Grandmaster Ahn became the first person to demonstrate tae kwon do on television. He entered the R.O.K. Army in 1962 and was responsible for initiating tae kwon do training to the branch known as the military police. He served in the Vietnam War from 1966-1969. The following year, Grandmaster Ahn began instructing tae kwon do to the Korean Intelligence Agency and Special Forces. He was the R.O.K. Army Lightweight Division Champion and the winner of the International Open Karate Championships held in Tokyo, Japan. He traveled throughout the Orient demonstrating martial arts as a member of the Asian Tae Kwon Do Demonstration Team. He received the esteemed Presidential Award from General Choi Hong Hi. As coach of the Korean Green Beret Team, his squad won the national championship known as the Presidential Flag Competition.

Grandmaster Ahn was allowed to emigrate to the United States of America in 1974 based on his credentials as a tae kwon do expert. He had been hand picked by General Choi Hong Hi, the founder of modern tae kwon do, to spread the art in America. He opened the first ever marital arts school in Macon, Georgia in 1974 and has been operating continually for 30 years. His accomplishments continued as he coached the Men’s, Women’s and Junior’s Southeastern Champions in 1977. The same year he was selected as the Executive-Vice President of the American Tae Kwon Do Association, the largest martial arts group in the United States. For his work teaching local law enforcement, he was awarded Honorary Deputy Sheriff of Bibb County. He was appointed President of the North American Contingent of the World United Martial Arts Federation. Acknowledged for his dedication by fellow masters of differing martial arts, he was inducted into the Karate Hall of Fame in Ohio in 1988.

Remaining true to General Choi’s personal charge to him, Grandmaster Ahn left the A.T.A. and established the Hae San Martial Arts Association in 1985, making Middle Georgia the national headquarters. In 1993, after 40 years of training and teaching, Grandmaster Ahn achieved the pinnacle of martial arts, the 9th degree black belt, the highest rank attainable. He has reached what millions strive for but only few achieve and gained the admiration and respect of many thousands of students who have been privileged enough to be trained by someone of his character, expertise, drive and knowledge. Perhaps his greatest achievement will not be his own personal success, but the legacy he will leave behind by those he has taught.

The Telegraph

The Macon Telegraph
Posted on Sun, Aug. 10, 2003
By Sharon E. Crawford
Telegraph Staff Writer

Ahn has the stamina of a man half his age. At age 61, Ahn still jogs five miles a day and teaches several classes of tae kwon do at his fitness center each week. He estimates that he’s run more than 37,000 miles and trained more than 50,000 students. And he has no plans to retire anytime soon. “I love what I do,” Ahn said Friday. “It is still very exciting.”

A native of North Korea, Ahn moved to Macon in 1973 to teach tae kwon do. He opened Ahn Fitness Center, now located on Vineville Avenue. “I like the people of Middle Georgia,” Ahn said. “They have been good to me.” Over the years, Ahn has worked with law enforcement officials and school-aged children, teaching them to defend themselves against predators. He said any martial arts training is a combination of mental and physical discipline. “When they come in with a bad attitude, I have to teach them a lot,” Ahn said. “But they usually leave here thinking very differently.”

Saturday, members of Ahn’s fitness center and some of his former students gathered to honor Ahn for his 50 years of teaching. They gave him a plaque and a trophy. Some of his students have gone on to open their own schools, and others teach at his center. “A lot of people have moved on, but I stayed in one place,” Ahn said. “It’s a free country, and I can do what I wish.” Ahn started training in the martial arts at age 12 and was by the modern founder of tae kwon do, Gen. Choi Hong Hi, to spread the once-lost art in the United States. After 40 years of training, he earned a ninth-degree black belt, the highest level. “I started training to defend myself,” Ahn said. “We learned it outside on the ground, not inside a building. … There was a lot of discipline to learn also.”

Janet Battcher, the principal at Springdale Elementary School in Macon, is one of Ahn’s students. She has worked with Ahn for four years and is now a first-degree black belt. “I was looking for some type of exercise, and a neighbor suggested we try tae kwon do,” Battcher said. She described him as a “great mentor.” “You just feel privileged to be learning from him,” Battcher said. Ahn, who can take down a person with one finger, keeps up with his pupils throughout the year in classes and training sessions. He has lived in Macon longer than he has lived anywhere and now considers it home. In 1985, he founded the Hae San Martial Arts Association, which currently has 50 members who teach his style of tae kwon do. He said the best part of his legacy is that others will carry his work on. “I want other to learn and continue training,” Ahn said. “That people will learn more developed techniques and carry those into the future.”

  • Born August 17th, 1941 IN Pyoungbook, Korea.
  • Began training in Tae Kwon Do at the age of 12.
  • Achieved his 1st degree black belt at the age of 14.
  • Graduated Valedictorian of his high school out of a class of 2,000 students.
  • Attended the Korean Air Force Academy.
  • Performed the first televised Tae Kwon demonstration on K.B.S. TV.
  • Won the R.O.K. Army Light Weight Division Championships.
  • Instituted the original system of Tae Kwon Do for the Military Police.
  • Served in the Vietnam War from 1966 to1969.
  • Instructed the R.O.K. Army and Green Berets during the Vietnam War.
  • Coached the Korean Green Beret team to victory in the Presidential Flag
    Competition – Team National Championships..
  • Dispatched to the United States to spread Tae Kwon Do in 1973.
  • Received the Presidential Award from the founder of modern Tae Kwon Do from General Choi Hong Hi.
  • Awarded the International Chief Instructor by the Korean Tae Kwon Do Association in 1973
  • Opened the first Tae Kwon Do school in Macon – March 4th, 1974.
  • Received his United States citizenship in 1979.
  • Appointed Executive Vice President of the American Tae Kwon Do Association.
  • Coached the men’s, women’s and junior’s southeaster tournament champions in 1977.
  • Awarded Honorary Deputy Sheriff of Bibb county, from Sheriff Ray Wilkes.
  • Founded the Hae San Martial Arts Association in 1985.
  • Elected President of the North American Contingent of the World United Martial Arts Federation.
  • Inducted into the Karate Hall of Fame, located in Ohio..
  • Commissioned to train the United States Marine Corps in 1993.
  • Attained the rank of 9th degree black belt in 1994.
  • Honored by the mayor of Macon with the official Tae Kwon Day declaration.
  • Reached the milestone of running 25,000 miles (the circumference of the earth).
  • Received the rank of 8th degree black belt in Hapkido.
  • Has trained members of the Green Berets, Special Forces, Army, Marines, C.I.A., F.B.I., and local law enforcement.
  • Hosted the Korean Olympic Judo team during the 1996 olympics.
  • Elected President of the Korean Association of Middle Georgia.
  • Celebrated his 50th year of continuous training in Tae Kwon Do on August 17th, 2003.
  • Awarded Honorary Deputy Sheriff of Bibb County, from Sheriff Jerry Modena on Feb. 2004.
  • Celebrated the 30th anniversary of the opening of Ahn’s Tae Kwon Do in Macon on March 4th, 2004.


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‘HHA came to help make the vision of a well-respected Haitian paediatrician a reality; a Haitian hospital that offered quality, affordable, and compassionate care to the poor.  I was immediately impressed by their interest in working closely and respectfully with both the community and the Haitian health authorities to “do it right”, with maximum local direction and ownership.’
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The Injustice:

Every day across the globe, around 1,000 women and girls die needlessly in pregnancy and childbirth, most in the developing world.  Haiti has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the Western Hemisphere, with around 74% of births taking place at home without any form of medical support, placing both mother and child at great risk.  Women subsequently face a 1 in 37 chance of dying during labour.

These risks which often needlessly lead to death or life long disability, can easily be avoided when women have better access to education, transportation to receive care, and appropriate medical support at facilities.

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Our Maternity Unit provides specialist care to women across North Haiti.  Though our community outreach work and mobile clinics, we identify the most high-risk women, and ensure they receive the support they deserve.

Our Maternity facility is open 24/7 and has 22 inpatient beds, 2 delivery rooms, a surgical department for C-sections and other emergency surgical needs, and provides pre and post natal consultations, including ultra sound screening.  We also offer vaccinations, HIV screening and support, family planning, education, vitamin distribution and much more.

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Carlos Zambrano apologizes, just not to his teammates

Jul 26, 2010, 8:04 PM EDT

During an interview with ESPN’s Pedro Gomez on Monday, Carlos Zambrano apologized to Cubs fans for the June 29 tantrum that landed him on the restricted list.

“It was a moment of frustration,” Zambrano said Monday in an interview
with ESPN. “I was trying to fire up the team. Lee told me to shut up,
and I got more excited. I apologize from the bottom of my heart. The
last person I would be mad at is D. Lee; he’s a Gold Glover. I was just
mad at myself.”

And that’s all well and good, aside from the fact that just last week, Cubs manager Lou Piniella said he wanted Zambrano to apologize to his teammates before speaking to the media. Here’s a flashback:

“I think it’s more important for him to clear that hurdle first,”
Piniella said of the apology. “And once he does that, then talk to the
media. I think that’s the right approach from him…We’re just going to
let him talk to the team, whatever he wants to say. Whenever he gets
here, we’ll have a little meeting and let Carlos say what he needs to

Zambrano has already apologized to Derrek Lee personally, but according to Gomez’s report, he won’t do so with the rest of his teammates until he re-joins the team in Colorado on Friday.

For what it’s worth, Piniella had little to say about the ESPN interview when asked by Phil Rogers of the Chicago Tribune on Monday:

“I don’t have any comment about that,” Piniella said about the
television interview, in which Zambrano appeared contrite. “I do know
what is needed — that’s for him to talk to his teammates when he gets
here over the weekend, assuming he gets here over the weekend. He needs
to get that handled and he’ll be accepted back by his manager and his

I’m not a Cubs fan or anything, but even if Big Z’s remorse is legitimate, his priorities appear to be in the wrong place.

  1. Calir - Jul 26, 2010 at 9:03 PM

    This guy has to apologize more than Vick.

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Roger Clemens has his own book coming out? Oh lovely.

Feb 19, 2013, 11:33 AM EDT

Somewhere, a publishing house is laying off all of its fact-checkers because it can’t afford a totally idle workforce:

I guarantee there will be a chapter about the time he broke up the smuggling ring, complete with “pew pew pew!” and “Blamblamblam!!!” sound effects, spelled out just like that. And in the end he rescues a princess or something.

  1. Chris Fiorentino - Feb 19, 2013 at 11:43 AM

    “And in the end he rescues a princess or something.”

    • Old Gator - Feb 19, 2013 at 12:09 PM

      A fifteen year old princes, who rewards him whether she likes it or not.

    • nbjays - Feb 20, 2013 at 7:56 AM

      I don’t think that word means what you think it means…

  2. JustMeMike - Feb 19, 2013 at 11:45 AM

    subtitle: Spiraling Toward Oblivion

    Buy it
    Breeze through it.
    Burn it.

    Reduce the book to ashes – just like Roger’s legacy.

  3. dcfan4life - Feb 19, 2013 at 11:47 AM

    Similar to OJs book it would be titled “If I was Juicing…”

  4. gatordontplay - Feb 19, 2013 at 11:49 AM

    as an astro fan im embarrassed our new owner hangs out and plays golf with obama and allows this joke into spring training to mentor the young players

    • stlouis1baseball - Feb 19, 2013 at 12:06 PM

      You should know that you are NEVER (under any circumstances) allowed to disagree with anything our Fearless Leader does. At least not on HBT.
      Now Roger Clemens…it’s trendy to bash him.
      So feel free to bash away.
      Just leave Barry out of it. The sun rises and sets in his ass. You simply have to accept that.
      It’s what all the cool kids are doing!

      • Old Gator - Feb 19, 2013 at 12:11 PM

        Given all the hormones he ingested, Barry’s ass became large enough so that the sun needs twelve hours to come up on one side of it and set on the other.

      • historiophiliac - Feb 19, 2013 at 1:18 PM

      • Old Gator - Feb 19, 2013 at 1:41 PM

        Cover your mouth with a hankie when you do that.

  5. elmo - Feb 19, 2013 at 12:12 PM

    He’s going to have to get pretty imaginative to refute all the dirt in Jeff Pearlman’s Rocket That Fell to Earth and the NY Daily News team’s American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids.

    • dirtyharry1971 - Feb 19, 2013 at 10:24 PM

      Are you kidding me? Jeff Pearlman?? Have you seen the crap this guy writes? Id sooner believe in the tooth fairy then to believe 1 WORD Pearlman writes. Anyone who reads his stuff might as well read children’s fairy tales!!

  6. professormaddog31 - Feb 19, 2013 at 12:17 PM

    I don’t know if I’d want to pay good hard earned money to read Roger throw all his former teammates under the bus.

    I’d wait until it came out super cheap at the used book store.

    • Old Gator - Feb 19, 2013 at 1:03 PM

      Or, you could knock down a little old lady and use the money you took from her purse. There’s be no sense of having wasted good labor appended to that.

    • manchestermiracle - Feb 20, 2013 at 1:31 PM

      Bet you won’t have to wait very long….

  7. albertmn - Feb 19, 2013 at 12:49 PM

    Unless he finally comes clean and tells the truth, I can’t imagine why anyone would read this. It is likely to be more fairy tale than reality.

  8. historiophiliac - Feb 19, 2013 at 1:19 PM

    In a knife fight: Clemens or Pierzynski?

    • Old Gator - Feb 19, 2013 at 1:57 PM

      Just like a Beanbag to bring a knife to a gunfight.

  9. tfbuckfutter - Feb 19, 2013 at 1:22 PM

    Who’s going to read it to him?

    /Ms. Bliss

  10. stlouis1baseball - Feb 19, 2013 at 1:27 PM

    LOL! Were you clearing your throat or did you intend to post “amen.” As in…praise Jesus?

    On a separate note:
    There is no such thing as “worlds greatest meatloaf.”
    I consider it to be an oxymoron.
    Much like a jumbo shrimp or unnecessary roughness in football.

    • Old Gator - Feb 19, 2013 at 1:42 PM

      Or “Irish cuisine.”

    • historiophiliac - Feb 19, 2013 at 2:30 PM

      I was reminding you of who you were insulting.

      You are in timeout.

      • stlouis1baseball - Feb 19, 2013 at 3:44 PM

        LOL! Understood Philiac. But please know I was just trying to help the guy out.
        He’s new around here. I wouldn’t want him to think he can formulate his own opinions and get away with such a travesty!

      • historiophiliac - Feb 19, 2013 at 3:46 PM

        No talking!

  11. ytownjoe - Feb 19, 2013 at 3:05 PM

    A medical directory for professional athletes?

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Watch the rebuild of the West Michigan Whitecaps’ ballpark in 30 seconds

Apr 7, 2014, 3:30 PM EDT

On January 3, Fifth Third Field, the home of the Class-A West Michigan Whitecaps, caught fire. Almost all of the first base side was destroyed as smoke and flames shot high into the sky that day, with all of the carnage captured on video. And it wasn’t pretty at all:

Today, a much more uplifting sight. The ballpark being rebuilt in 30 seconds via time-elapse video:

Ready in time for their hope opener tomorrow night against Wisconsin.

Play ball.

  1. rbj1 - Apr 7, 2014 at 3:35 PM

    Even more remarkable given how brutal winter was in these parts.

    • historiophiliac - Apr 7, 2014 at 3:59 PM

      I forget how many inches my uncle said they got, but it was ridiculous. I swear, in the future, we will all have to become semi-nomadic.

      • paperlions - Apr 7, 2014 at 8:00 PM

        Well, yeah, but that will be because overpopulation combined with irresponsible stewardship leads to catastrophic societal infrastructure collapse, not because of a little extra snow.

      • historiophiliac - Apr 7, 2014 at 10:08 PM

        If the summers stay so hot, I’m gonna have to get on that marry a Canadian website so I can have someplace cool to go.

    • weaselpuppy - Apr 7, 2014 at 7:05 PM

      120 inches for the season in Grand Rapids where the park is…man….it sucked big time….I was driving north on US-131 as the park was burning, taking pictures, and I was thinking no way they are ready for opening day because of the conditions….

      Lew Chamberlain and crew are awesome….can’t wait to hear Bob Wells’ voice on the mic doing the on field stuff again…

  2. Caught Looking - Apr 7, 2014 at 3:56 PM

    After the fire in January, it was called Three Fifths Ballpark.

  3. jwbiii - Apr 7, 2014 at 4:00 PM

    It’s even more fun if you play this while watching.

    • weaselpuppy - Apr 7, 2014 at 7:07 PM

      I thought they were using the background guitar from Boston’s ‘Smokin”…sounds lie it but not quite….would have been a nice touch.

      The local billboard advertising form the team has a slightly singed home plate being dusted off with the caption “Never In Doubt”

  4. Minoring In Baseball - Apr 8, 2014 at 9:21 PM

    The Whitecaps organization worked hard, and Opening Night is success in West Michigan. I’ve been covering the story from the beginning.

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  1. And That Happened: Tuesday’s scores and highlights

    Jul 1, 2015, 7:31 AM EDT

    Mike Montgomery

    Shutouts are rare in baseball these days. M’s rookie Mike Montgomery has two in a row.

  2. Padres recall Jedd Gyorko from AAA El Paso

    Jun 30, 2015, 7:41 PM EDT

    Jedd Gyorko

    Gyorko was optioned to the minors on June 10 after batting .210/.282/.311 over his first 131 plate appearances …

  3. Wil Myers two weeks ahead of schedule, could resume baseball activities in 4-6 weeks

    Jun 27, 2015, 10:50 PM EDT

    Wil Myers

    Wil Myers could return to the Padres sooner than anticipated.

  4. Padres try struggling Matt Kemp in the leadoff spot

    Jun 25, 2015, 10:47 AM EDT

    Matt Kemp

    Kemp went 0-for-4 with a strikeout.

  5. And That Happened: Tuesday’s scores and highlights

    Jun 24, 2015, 7:20 AM EDT

    Maikel Franco

    The kid does it again: Maikel Franco with five RBI against the Yankees.

  6. Braves call up pitching prospect Matt Wisler for MLB debut

    Jun 19, 2015, 10:15 AM EDT

    Matt Wisler Braves

    Acquired from the Padres in the Craig Kimbrel trade.

  7. And That Happened: Thursday’s scores and highlights

    Jun 19, 2015, 7:18 AM EDT

    Walkoff Balk

    A walkoff balk is just the latest weird occurrence in a weird week of baseball.

  8. And That Happened: Wednesday’s scores and highlights

    Jun 18, 2015, 7:24 AM EDT

    Todd Frazier

    More blowouts. More position players pitching. A couple of heroic performances. We had a little of everything last night.

  9. Wil Myers to undergo left wrist surgery on Thursday, will be sidelined for at least eight weeks

    Jun 17, 2015, 10:43 PM EDT

    wil myers getty

    Myers has been limited to 35 games this season due to ongoing wrist issues and this procedure is going to keep him out of action until at least mid-August.

  10. And That Happened: Tuesday’s scores and highlights

    Jun 17, 2015, 7:10 AM EDT

    Manny Machado

    Three position players pitched last night. Maybe it was that or maybe it was something else, but I feel the need this morning to grapple with our place in a harsh and uncaring universe.

  11. Wil Myers headed back to DL due to continued discomfort in wrist

    Jun 15, 2015, 7:48 PM EDT

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 06:  Wil Myers #4 of the San Diego Padres looks on from the dugout prior to the start of the game against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park on May 6, 2015 in San Francisco, California.  (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

    As if today wasn’t eventful enough already for the Padres, outfielder Wil Myers is headed back to the disabled list due to continued discomfort in his left wrist.

  12. Bud Black fired by the Padres

    Jun 15, 2015, 3:23 PM EDT

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    Black is out after nine seasons at the helm in San Diego.

  13. Umpire tackles Matt Kemp to stop potential brawl

    Jun 11, 2015, 1:59 PM EDT

    Matt Kemp

    Jordan Baker’s ground game is pretty strong.

  14. Wil Myers expected to rejoin Padres on Thursday after missing a month with left wrist injury

    Jun 10, 2015, 11:23 PM EDT

    wil myers getty

    Myers has been on the shelf since May 10 with tendinitis in his left wrist. The 24-year-old outfielder will return Thursday afternoon to a cool .291/.340/.493 slash line.

  15. Padres demote Jedd Gyorko and his $35 million contract to Triple-A

    Jun 10, 2015, 3:26 PM EDT

    Jedd Gyorko AP

    Gyorko signed a six-year, $35 million contract with the Padres last April.

  16. Brandon Morrow shut down at least two more weeks with lingering right shoulder discomfort

    Jun 10, 2015, 12:27 AM EDT

    brandon morrow getty

    An MRI taken Monday night on Brandon Morrow’s throwing shoulder revealed no major structural damage, but the Padres are going to play it safe with the oft-injured starting pitcher …

  17. Brandon Morrow sent for MRI after suffering setback with shoulder

    Jun 8, 2015, 11:10 PM EDT

    morrow getty

    The Padres were hoping to bring right-hander Brandon Morrow back from the disabled list this Friday, but there has been a hiccup in those plans.

  18. Melvin Upton, Jr. will make his Padres debut on Monday… against the Braves

    Jun 7, 2015, 9:30 PM EDT

    Melvin Upton Jr.

    Melvin Upton, Jr. will make his long-awaited Padres debut on Monday against his former team.

  19. Matt Kemp homered for the first time since April 18

    Jun 6, 2015, 9:25 PM EDT

    Matt Kemp

    Matt Kemp doubled his home run total for the season on Saturday, going from 1 to 2.

  20. Stephen Strasburg tests trapezius strain with 30-pitch bullpen session

    Jun 6, 2015, 11:42 AM EDT

    CINCINNATI, OH - MAY 29:  Stephen Strasburg #37 of the Washington Nationals throws a pitch during the game against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park on May 29, 2015 in Cincinnati, Ohio.  (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

    Strasburg landed on the disabled list last weekend due to a left trapezius strain, but he’s already back on the mound.

  21. Padres activate Yonder Alonso from the disabled list

    Jun 2, 2015, 7:18 PM EDT

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    Alonso is starting at first base and batting fifth for the Friars on Tuesday night against the visiting Mets. It will be his first major league game since May 7.

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