Soxy

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jun 13, 2005 -> 12:05 PM) Just wanna throw two sets of stats out there, see if you can guess who the two players are. .294 AVG/.347 OBP/.443 SLG/.790 OPS .295 AVG/.342 OBP/.406 SLG/.747 OPS Gooch and Ichiro?

On a side note, I never realized how fang like Hugh's two front teeth are.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 13, 2005 -> 11:22 AM) Is that the online equivalent of a tremble? Or a hold on while I throw up. Cliches are soooooo not erotic.

QUOTE(TheDybber @ Jun 13, 2005 -> 10:59 AM) I can't believe no one has said Barry White? Barry White people!!! C'mon, what woman's knees don't tremble at the first sound of that voice. ...

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Jun 13, 2005 -> 10:45 AM) I can't even believe this woman would say this...personally, there are several types of dogs I would never own...pitbulls, dobermans, g. sheperds and rottweilers...not for me. I think a lot of it is how you treat a dog too. Raise a dog and be mean and that won't be a nice dog--even if it looks like Lassie. My grandparents always owned german shephards--and they were always so sweet around me and my cousins. And protective of my grandfather after his stroke. Didn't Ontario outlaw pitbulls or some breed like that recently?

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jun 13, 2005 -> 10:39 AM) Isn't a 12 year old kinda big to have all of that happen to him?? I don't think so. I'm 5'8" and have been knocked over by our 50 lb border collie (she was just playing). Our husky-german shephard mix (who's close to 100lbs) has knocked over my 6' stocky uncle while playing. Dogs are more powerful than they look, especially "sturdy" dogs like pit bulls. And when they're mad I bet the can do a lot of damage. Once you're on the floor with a dog I think your human advantage is significantly reduced.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 13, 2005 -> 10:36 AM) I can't keep from wondering why she didn't take him with her... Sounds to me like her "real" kids were the dogs and her number one priority.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 13, 2005 -> 10:31 AM) But then the dogs would have to have pulled him upstairs.. they haven't said much about the scene. Interesting thought though. The article claims he had a severe wound to the head.. like he hit it against something.. or was hit with something Maybe the dog knocked him down and he hit his head. I've fallen down from our border collie jumping--and she's not even that big.

Trib's story Going public with story of family's private pain An Evanston woman helps relatives end denial over the 1916 lynching of her great-great grandfather in South Carolina By Lisa Black Tribune staff reporter Published June 9, 2005 When she entered kindergarten, Doria Johnson was well aware of the 1916 lynching of her great-great grandfather in South Carolina--a story so painful that relatives rarely discussed it, let alone share it publicly. Johnson, 44, of Evanston, broke that silence after learning details of Anthony Crawford's death. A wealthy black cotton farmer, Crawford was beaten, hanged and shot more than 200 times by white villagers in Abbeville after a dispute with a white merchant. Having spent 15 years tracking down relatives, researching public records and lecturing on his slaying, Johnson feels appreciative as she travels to Washington this weekend to watch history take a different course. On Monday, the U.S. Senate is expected to approve a resolution apologizing for its refusal to pass anti-lynching legislation after the end of slavery. Johnson will sit with descendants of other lynching victims, including a cousin of Emmett Till, 14, of Chicago, who was slain in 1955, allegedly for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. "Although it's late, yes, and although it's symbolic, it's necessary," Johnson said. "We've been here the whole time. Now we're getting attention." After visiting the scene of the lynching in 1990, Johnson was moved to tell Crawford's story for history's sake and to record the damage done to her ancestors, most of whom fled South Carolina out of fear. Few relatives have been willing to return to Abbeville, in the northwest part of the state near Georgia, where Crawford owned a large plantation and raised 13 children. Johnson--who is working with New York director Carol Devoe on a documentary about her family--understands their reluctance. Johnson's drive into Abbeville on a 105-degree day was through about 30 miles of rural countryside, where she saw a smattering of old farmhouses and slave cemeteries indicated by wooden markers. It was so peaceful, she said, she had to remind herself that the area had been home to 20,000 slaves. "It was almost like a movie," she said. "It was surreal. I could just see slaves, men, women and children, working in that heat. "I started feeling terrorized, literally. I was sweating and looking out the back window wondering if they were going to come get me, to finish the job." She can't believe that with all the news coverage, no one has tried to contact her family, let alone offer an apology. Abbeville Mayor Harold McNeill, 73, who has been in office for five years, said he is sorry about the incident but said that no one has asked for an apology. "It might be something to think about," he said. The Abbeville City Council agreed to allow a Johnson cousin to install a monument to Crawford in front of the opera house, he said. The city--which has four African-Americans on its council--is waiting for the family to come up with $91,000 to complete the project, McNeill said. Johnson's grandfather told her about her great-great grandfather as soon as she began befriending white children in kindergarten at the former Foster School in Evanston. Some documents Johnson used to corroborate the story are on display in the "Without Sanctuary" exhibition at the Chicago Historical Society. "My grandfather hated white people. He just never forgot what he saw while growing up in Augusta, Ga.," said Johnson, who blames the U.S. government for fostering a culture of white supremacy at the time. What she learned about Crawford, born in 1865 to a former slave, was that at the time of his death, he owned 427 acres of the "best cotton land in the county." Known as "Andy," he considered himself a law-abiding citizen but was resented by some whites because he was black and wealthy, according to an NAACP report issued after his death. On the day he was killed, he had quarreled with store owner W.D. Barksdale over the price of cotton seed. Crawford said he had received a better offer for his seed, and Barksdale called him a liar, according to Johnson's research. Crawford cursed Barksdale and was arrested. After he was released from jail, a mob cornered him, and Crawford defended himself by clubbing the ringleader with an ax handle. Crawford was returned to jail for his own protection but was dragged from his cell, according to an article by Johnson posted on the Internet. "Two hundred white men kicked him, beat him, tied him to the back of a buggy, dragged him through the black neighborhoods then finally strung him to a tree and unloaded 200 rounds into what was left of his body," Johnson wrote. Threats from mob leaders drove the Crawfords from Abbeville. The governor had been out of state at the time of the killing but reportedly was furious and ordered an investigation, according to the NAACP report. A grand jury decided there was not enough evidence to indict anyone, and the Crawfords never recovered any land, according to records. Johnson said the property has changed hands four times and is largely used for timber by a paper company. Pressured by national civil rights leaders and disturbed by the imagery in a book about lynchings, "Without Sanctuary," the Senate is poised to approve an apology for not doing more, officials said. "Righting a past wrong is something the senator believes in," said Sally Richardson, spokeswoman for Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the resolution's sponsors. "When she read `Without Sanctuary,' she did not realize that [the U.S. House] had passed this type of legislation but the Senate had not." The resolution expresses remorse for not outlawing lynching, which claimed the lives of more than 4,700 people, predominantly African-Americans, from the 1880s to the 1960s. Johnson's father, a psychologist in Riverside, Calif., said he is proud of his daughter's work, as it may help heal the family and enlighten a nation. "Doria brought it out to the forefront," Charles Johnson said. "We all knew it was there but we were all in denial."

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 13, 2005 -> 10:03 AM) Hard to ignore the quotes straight from her mouth.. Poor her.. only $500K left from nearly $5 million. :headshake Oh, yeah, this lady sucks. But the money was given to her, unfortunately she's ridiculous. And unless there was some kind of stipulation saying how she needed to spend the money the government gave her she's not doing anything wrong. Except numbing her grief with worthless possessions. And it's not like it made her very happy at all. Actually, it's kind of like a Shakespearean tragedy (or it will be when the money runs out)...

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 13, 2005 -> 10:02 AM) "It's Nicky's time to go," she said in the interview. "When you're born you're destined to go and this was his time." Uh, no, he was mauled to death in a preventable accident. Preventable is not a synonym for destiny....

New York Post. Yellow journalism at its best.

I never noticed it before, but their logos are almost exactly the same as an East Coast chain of grocery stores.

Linky More babies, young kids going hungry in US Sun Jun 12, 6:32 PM ET BALTIMORE, United States (AFP) - Increasing numbers of young American children are showing signs of serious malnourishment, fueled by a greater prevalence of hunger in the United States, while, paradoxically, two-thirds of the US population is either overweight or obese. In 2003, 11.2 percent of families in the United States experienced hunger, compared with 10.1 percent in 1999, according to most recent official figures, released on National Hunger Awareness Day held this year on Tuesday, June 7. Some pediatricians worry that cuts in welfare aid proposed in President George W. Bush's 2006 budget will only exacerbate the situation. By contrast Bush plans to keep tax cuts for more affluent sectors of the population, they note. In the working class port city of Baltimore, Maryland, Dr. Maureen Black, a pediatrician, sees numbers of underweight babies in her clinic specialized in infant malnutrition located in one of the poorer areas. "In the first year of life, children triple their birth weight," said Black, "and if children do not have enough to eat during those very early very times, you first see that their weight will falter and then their height will falter." "If their height falters enough and they experience stunting under age two, they are then at risk for academic and behaviour problems" at school, said Black. Dr. Deborah Frank, a professor of pediatrics at Boston University's School of Medicine, who also runs a specialised clinic for malnourished babies, has similar concerns. "We are seeing more and more very young babies under a year of age which is a particular concern because they are most likely to die of under nutrition, and also their brains are growing very very rapidly," said Frank, in a telephone interview. "A baby's brain increases 2.5 times in size in the first year of life," she says, adding that if the baby fails to get the nutritional building blocks he or she needs for the brain to develop, a child can have lifelong difficulties in behaviour and learning. But infant-child protection centers do not exist in the United States, unlike it other countries, such as France, which makes children below the age of three or four years old somewhat invisible to authorities, laments Frank. "They don't come to my clinic until they are already quite underweight. "Recently I have been alarmed because we are getting more children who are so ill that they go to hospital rather than they come to the clinic first" a situation which, in 20 years of practising medicine, Frank had seen reverse. Some children in the United States occasionally look like the malnourished children we see in some parts of Africa, however, welfare programs targeting society's poorest ensures that problem is generally avoided, the pediatricians say. Paradoxically, malnutrition is not always due to lack of food -- rather to the quality of the food being consumed. "People often ask me how many children go to bed hungry. The answer is the parents work very hard so they don't go to bed feeling hungry. The parents try to fill the baby up with french fries and soda pop," said Frank. In some areas, green vegetables and fruit are impossible to buy -- even in a can, because there may be no supermarket. Moreover, such items are costly. "What happens in America is -- what seems bizarre -- that some of the recommendations that we give to families to prevent underweight of children are the same as we give to prevent overweight," said Black. "We recommend families not to give their children junk food." In some families, eating junk food will mean one child is obese while the other is underweight, said Black. "The first will eat junk food and nothing else, the second will eat junk food and everything else."

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Jun 12, 2005 -> 09:17 PM) I think it is OCD...hoarding. That's as much as I remember from my classes, but maybe ChiSoxy knows the better term... Not my specialty, but after sitting through countless presentations by labs whose specialty is OCD, I'll say a something small. Hoarding can often by seen as a sign/symptom of OCD, but it might also be a different type of disorder. The heart of OCD is that the patient KNOWS what they are doing is irrational (checking doors, stoves, cars, washing hands, whatever)--so with OCD they know that what they are doing doesn't make sense. But they feel compelled to do the checking (the compulsion) to reduce the anxiety caused by the obsession. It sounds like the hoarding for this lady is different because she argues that they all have "value" (that it sounds like she tells her kid frequently) also that she doesn't open them makes me think not OCD but a beast of a different color. Definitely an anxiety disorder, but no idea of the actual label. Alas, my psych degree/grad school entails almost no clinical courses (although I view that as a positive thing...).

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 11, 2005 -> 08:12 PM) Until tragedy strikes some personally they have no idea... ... And until you know about all of our lives, I advise you to avoid editorializing about them.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 02:01 PM) Very good book. ^^^^ One of my all time faves. I recntly saw the Stephen Fry biopic of Wilde. Really interesting.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 12:10 PM) LOL I had to slow down and re-read that. I thought Steff had a *great* afternoon planned. Well, it does take two to lay, so......

When I was little I wanted to call Crime Stoppers because my mom wouldn't wear hers. I like this idea.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 10:01 AM) Cruise looked like a rat on cocaine on Oprah. It was a complete joke and rather disturbing to watch. Huh, you know I've actually seen rats on cocaine and other amphetamines, and you're actually spot on....

I do really feel for the Holloway family and for Natalee herself. What they suffered/are suffering is completely unimaginable to me. And, obviously, they're in my thoughts and prayers. But I do think that the news coverage could be better spent: genocide in Africa, the AIDS crisis in developing nations, corruption in pretty much every facet of our government, the sex trade that occurs even in this country; there is so much more newsworthy stuff than one pretty eighteen year old that goes missing, or one rich bride pulls a runner, or friggin' Michael Jackson. The news industry is a joke, and their priority of the worst tragedy of the day pales in comparisons to the horrible, s***ty and painful things that go on everyday behind closed doors (or hell, in whole countries).

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 09:31 AM) I was laughing at that also.. I mean she could have added a little time on there couldn't she have..? For the sake of.. well.. not looking so silly..? And the marriage question.. oye ve.. Even if I had talked to Jim about marriage after 6 weeks I would NEVER admit it.. Yeah, after six weeks, I'd maybe, maybe be thinking about mentioning the fact that I'm in a relationship to my parents. Maybe.

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 09:17 AM) actually........i might have. seriously, i don't go near that stuff. great america sucks too. I dread being dragged there. ^^^^ My favorite ride is the ferris wheel (also the only carnival ride I can go on without being seriously ill). I do love wooden rollercoasters though, and the giant drop at Great America. As long as it doesnt' go in circles or upside down I'll love it.

Yeah, I actually watched it--and I was just amazed. I've never liked Tom Cruise, but I always thought she was tolerable. Last night I changed my mind. Although, my favorite part of the interview was when Dave said something like, How long have you two known each other. And she goes 6 weeks. Wow, or in Katie's words: Like, wow! That's like so, you know, fast! I guess love and self-respect don't really go together in hollywood....

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 9, 2005 -> 09:02 PM) We were planning a vacation out east to see that same series in Baltimore... then something popped up and plans changed a little. Instead of seeing Baltimore, DC, and some civil war sites, we are getting ultrasounds and looking for houses... You'll have have to hold down the fort for us Soxy Lol, can do. I just hope Ross will be back by then.