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Coronavirus Southern California update: Health officials confirm 11 additional deaths, 521 new cases in LA County
As cases continue to rise, California's testing lags other states
Here are the current numbers of novel coronavirus cases across the Southland:
Los Angeles County: 4,587 confirmed cases, 91 deaths
Orange County: 711 cases, 13 deaths
Riverside County: 638 confirmed cases, 15 deaths
San Bernardino County: 353 cases, 13 deaths
Ventura County: 189 cases, 6 deaths
San Diego County: 1,112 cases, 17 deaths
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Los Angeles County officials on Friday confirmed an additional 11 deaths and 521 cases, bringing the county's death toll to 89 and case total to 4,566.
County public health director Dr. Barbara Ferrer said seven of the individuals who died were over the age of 65, all of which had underlying health conditions. Three people were between 41 and 65 years old, and one person between the ages of 18 and 40, highlighting the fact that virus does not discriminate based on age.
The county is investigating coronavirus outbreaks at more than 67 institutional settings, including nursing homes, assisted-living centers, shelters, treatment centers, supported-living facilities, jails and prisons.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the latest coronavirus numbers for California, with 10,710 cases, 2,188 hospitalized and 901 people in ICU -- a 10.4% increase from the previous day. Cases in California are expected to peak in the beginning to middle of May, according to Newsom.
Following the state's pledge of $150 million in homeless aid, Newsom said 7,000 hotel rooms have been secured to house the homeless in California, with the goal of 15,000 rooms.
Chef Jose Andres and World Central Kitchen will provide meals for homeless individuals amid the coronavirus pandemic, Newsom said.
He added that Californians who looking to volunteer, including to donate blood, can go do so by signing up here.
Additionally, Newsom said 38 million N95 masks have been distributed in the state so far.
Los Angeles County opened three more drive-up coronavirus testing sites Friday, while planning continues for at least three more.
The new sites are at the Pomona Fairplex, the South Bay Galleria and the Antelope Valley Mall. Testing is by appointment only. Walk-up appointments are not available.
Additional sites in Northridge, Long Beach, Lancaster and Pasadena are in the planning stages, and sites in Lancaster and Glendale are already operating.
The county's COVID-19 testing is limited to the most vulnerable residents -- those who are age 65 and older and/or have underlying health conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, chronic lung disease, or moderate to severe asthma.
Testing is also limited to those who are immunocompromised, including as a result of cancer treatment, and/or have been subject to a mandatory 14-day quarantine period because they have been exposed to an individual with a confirmed case of coronavirus and have more than seven days of the two-week quarantine period remaining.
Anyone interested in getting tested must first register on the screening website, coronavirus.lacity.org/testing.
Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore says officers are going to start wearing surgical masks or non-medical face coverings in public. "This is for our safety, and for your safety," Moore tweeted. Mayor Eric Garcetti has already recommended that all Angelenos wear a face covering when in public.
Officials in Los Angeles County on Thursday confirmed an additional 13 deaths and 534 cases, bringing the county's death toll to 78 and case total to 4,045.
Twelve of the individuals who died were over the age of 65, 11 of which had underlying health conditions, according to county public health director Dr. Barbara Ferrer. One person was between 41 and 65 years old, prompting her to reiterate that the virus does not discriminate based on age.
"All people who get infected with COVID-19 at any age can have very serious illness, and that could mean that they're required to have a hospitalization," she said.
Two-thirds of those hospitalized have no underlying health conditions and span all aged. Five individuals in intensive care are under the age of 35, some of which also don't have preexisting health conditions.
More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a report from the Labor Department showed. The figure for last week is much higher than the previous record of 3.3 million reported for the previous week.
The U.S. government has ramped up security for Dr. Anthony Fauci, as the nation's top medical expert on the coronavirus pandemic faces threats to his personal safety. Upon recommendation of the U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Department of Justice in recent days approved a special deputization request from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for more than half a dozen special agents to provide protective services to Fauci, a Justice Department official told ABC News
Ventura County, a region that has not been as hard hit by the virus as its neighboring counties, is taking steps to protect farm workers who are considered essential during the statewide order to stay home.
Officials on Wednesday announced that each farm worker will receive an card to identify them as such. Farm workers have also been practicing physical distancing, working the fields on every other row, and have also been given longer lunch breaks.
As of Wednesday evening, the county has confirmed 160 total COVID-19 cases, most in Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Camarillo and Oxnard. The region has seen a total of 5 coronavirus-related deaths.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is recommending that Angelenos wear non-medical face coverings or masks while in public for essential reasons.
During a Wednesday afternoon press conference, Garcetti said physical distancing guidelines will remain in place, even if you wear a mask or cover your face.
"This is not an excuse to get closer," he said.
Medical-grade masks, such as N95 masks, should be reserved for medical professions on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis in order to avoid any shortage.
Additionally, Garcetti announced that he is instructing the L.A. Department of Water and Power to shut off service to any non-essential businesses that have violated the "Safer at Home" order. He said eight city businesses have been referred to the city attorney for misdemeanor charges.
Health officials reported 11 additional coronavirus-related deaths and 513 new cases in Los Angeles County, bringing the region's death toll to 65 and case total to 3,518.
County public health director Dr. Barbara Ferrer also announced that five of the new cases are individuals experiencing homelessness who tested positive for COVID-19.
Nine of the deaths were in people over the age of 65, seven of which had underlying health conditions. The other two were under the age of 65 but also had underlying health conditions, Ferrer said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday confirmed that schools in California won't reopen after state Superintendent Tony Thurmond said students may not be able to return to campus for the remainder of the school year - but classes would remain in session, he said.
Even though a school's campus is closed, that does not mean school is closed for the rest of the year. There is still distance learning going on from home, according to Thurmond.
Limited access to home internet for countless of students has cropped up as a major concern among parents and education officials under the statewide closure of schools.
Newsom announced a partnership with Google to provide 100,000 access points to internet across the state, as well as thousands of Chromebooks to "substantially" mitigate that digital divide.
He said the tech company committed to provide a minimum of three months access to broadband connectivity. Still, more will need to be done, Newsom added.
"We still have a little more coverage that we're going to need in remote parts of the state," he added.
A worker at the Union Rescue Mission tested positive for COVID-19.
The employee is being treated at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center and was placed on a ventilator but is improving, officials say.
The mission's executive director said 95 residents and several employees are being quarantined on the 3rd floor. The worker's recent contacts are also being tracked down.
The rent or mortgage is due for most people on April 1, and many whose jobs have been impacted by the coronavirus crisis are concerned about payments. However, several protections have been put in place to ensure residents don't face immediate eviction or foreclosure.
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an order allowing local governments to limit evictions and foreclosures through May 31 for people who can't make their payments.
Both Los Angeles city and county leaders have implemented temporary moratoriums. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti signed an ordinance putting a moratorium on evictions in the city for the remainder of the coronavirus crisis.
It also allows renters up to 12 months to repay back rent and businesses up to three months.
In addition, he announced landlords would not be able to increase rents for thousands of apartments in the city while the coronavirus pandemic continues.
The order applies to residential units covered under the city's Rent Stabilization Ordinance, which includes approximately 624,000 units, according to a statement.
The moratoriums do not mean tenants and home owners will not need to eventually make payments as all rent and mortgages will need to be paid back in full.
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The Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) today announced Anthony (Tony) Jimenez Chief Executive Officer of MicroTechnologies, LLC will receive the Tech Award at the 29th Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards on September 22, 2016, at the historic Warner Theatre in Washington, DC.
The Awards recognize the contributions and accomplishments of Latino leaders in various fields while celebrating cultural pride and the great promise to America. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Actress/Singer Angelica Maria, Author Junot Díaz, Businessman George Herrera and Singer J Balvin have already been announced as honorees. Other Honorees will be announced in the coming weeks.
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Zimbabwe Opposition Seeks Z$1 Trillion Judgement Against Officials
The faction of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change headed by Morgan Tsvangirai said it will file a record $1 trillion (US$7.3 million) lawsuit Wednesday against Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi, Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri and other senior police officials for wrongful arrest.
The suit is being filed in connection with the extended detention between March and July of some 33 opposition officials and activists who were accused of involvement in firebombings of police posts and other targets early this year.
The opposition faction sued Mohadi, Chihuri and three other top police officers last week for $504 billion, charging that they defied a Harare high court order in February when they broke up a political rally in the Highfield section of the capital.
Attorney Alec Muchadehama, representing the activists, said his clients seek damages alleging wrongful arrest and detention by the officials, torture and assault at the hands of police, their deprivation of liberty and special damages including hospital bills.
Treatment costs for just one activist, Morgan Komichi, still under police guard at the West End Clinic in Harare, were said to have exceeded Z$500 million dollars. The 33 MDC activists include Paul Madzore, member of parliament for Glenview.
He and others were accused not only of planning or carrying out the firebombings but of conspiring or training to carry out other acts of terrorism or violence.
They have denied all charges and High Court Judge Lawrence Kamocha reproached police recently for fabricating evidence in the case, ordering the release all but two of the accused. He said police had created two fictional witnesses to link the activists to an alleged South African terror training camp that was also nonexistent.
Attorney Otto Saki of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights told reporter Blessing Zulu of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that the suit is important for the record.

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Straight from the factory with Clint Black's guitar compadre Hayden Nicholas
Clint Black, the Beatles, Willie Nelson, "Killin' Time," tender tear-jerker "The Last Day," and more dominate an all-encompassing interview with Fender Telecaster axeman and country songwriter Hayden Nicholas. In the accompanying still the husband of "Knots Landing" actress Lisa Hartman and father of Lily Pearl Black prefers a traditional black Stetson and navy blue ensemble as he promotes 2015's "On Purpose" record. That's a Tom Anderson Stratocaster electric guitar Black is assuredly grasping. Image Credit: Black Top Records
"Without being too blunt about it, the consensus is that once you're over 50, forget it, country radio is just not going to put you on their current playlist." In an exclusive interview, Hayden Nicholas, Clint Black's right hand man on record and on stage, judiciously rationalizes the harsh decree from modern programmers.
It is especially unfair considering that according to Billboard, Black tore up the charts with 32 Top 20 singles between 1989 and 2003. Nicholas co-wrote an astounding 21, and nine of those vaulted to number one status.
The ubiquitous "Summer's Comin'" singer melded '70s rock influences like the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac with traditional country stalwarts such as Merle Haggard and Charley Pride. Black discovered a winning formula that shocked naysayers by yielding innumerable awards and paving the way for country's universal appeal in the 21st century.
Coincidentally, Black dropped debut single "A Better Man" one month prior to Garth Brooks' introductory blast, "Much Too Young [To Feel This Damn Old]." While Black had the biggest hit record, Brooks ultimately claimed the lion's share of credit among critics for the country pop crossover phenomenon.
The multiple Academy of Country Music Award recipient's most prolific songwriting partner by a considerable margin, Nicholas has coauthored somewhere in the neighborhood of 77 released compositions between 1989's Killin' Time and 2020's under-the-radar Out of Sane. It's unclear exactly how many more have been recorded and relegated to the vaults since Black dumped RCA Victor in 2002 and founded the short-lived Equity Music Group.
The Fender Stratocaster maestro was ready, willin', and able to journey through his back pages. Nicholas divulges the serendipitous encounter with the future Celebrity Apprentice contestant at a nondescript Sugar Land, Texas country music dive bar, which iconic British Invasion band influenced his decision to take up guitar when he was only seven years old, triple platinum debut album Killin' Time, an admiration for Willie Nelson's recording technique, why he prefers having an outside producer in the studio, the impetus behind Black recording an album of sublime love ballads for Cracker Barrel, and On Purpose's closing cut "The Last Day," a tender tear-jerker written after the unexpected passing of Black's father.
Songwriter-guitarist Hayden Nicholas finds the perfect red and black brick background in Mitchell, South Dakota, on April 15, 2013, the day after conquering the Corn Palace with country music artist Clint Black. Photography by Jake Willemain
The Hayden Nicholas Interview, Part Three
Did the Beatles influence you in any aspect?
The Beatles are the reason I started playing guitar in '64, like most of my generation. As albums became more available my interests grew into other rock acts. By the time the Beatles broke up, I was already into groups like Led Zeppelin and Cream etc., but Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road were huge influences on me…mainly in songwriting whereas Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and others were more of an influence on my guitar playing. Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed were guitar influences, too. The Beatles influenced everyone alive in the sixties and beyond…to this very day.
How did you meet Clint Black?
I met Clint at the very beginning of 1987 during an inconsequential string of dates with a country band I was playing guitar with at the moment. I'd only been with the band for maybe a week or two. The band had a date booked at a club in Sugar Land, Texas, and they decided to split the bill with this coffee house singer.
The club owner wanted a full band to support the singer so the audience could dance. We were going to do half of our songs and half of his. We got together with this guy and did a rehearsal to see what we were going to do. Long story short…the singer was Clint.
During one of the intermissions, we kinda hit it off instantaneously. Clint talked about songwriting, and I told him I had a little studio in my garage where I'd been writing songs. He played me a song he had written a few years earlier called "Nobody's Home." I remember hearing it and thinking, 'Wow, that's a good country song' [laughs].
I invited Clint over to my house. I played him some of the songs I'd been writing and recording, and he played me some of his, including "Nothing's News." I had a musical idea and he had a lyrical idea, and we sat down and wrote a Western Swing song in about 30 minutes. It actually ended up being the first cut on the Killin' Time album — "Straight from the Factory."
We wrote constantly together. Within a four or five month period of time we had composed about a dozen songs that we then recorded at my home studio on an eight-track half inch tape machine. We would mix the songs down to a quarter inch tape before making final cassette copies.
Basic tracks were cut first on acoustic guitars and a drum machine. Later I would overdub lead guitar and bass. We found Jeff Peterson when we decided we needed a steel guitar player. We'd buy him a six pack of beer for him to come over and play on the songs [laughs].
That stockpile became our demo tape — basically the Killin' Time album. The actual song "Killin' Time" was a last minute addition. I have those master cassette tapes somewhere in my belongings. We've always joked that one day people will probably find them [laughs].
Our music evolved naturally. For awhile we functioned as a duo performing at coffee houses but we always wanted to play our songs with a band. As we booked shows on a somewhat larger scale in the Houston area, we completed our original band lineup with Jake Willemain on bass, John Permenter on fiddle, and my longtime friend and drummer, Dick Gay.
Within two years we had both a management deal and a record deal. When Killin' Time came out [May 2, 1989], all five singles released from the record became incredibly successful — "A Better Man," "Nobody's Home," "Walkin' Away," "Nothing's News," and the title cut. It was like a roller coaster [laughs].
The stark album cover of Clint Black's triple platinum debut album, "Killin' Time," dropped on May 2, 1989, by RCA Victor. The LP soared to No. 1 C&W while hitting an impressive No. 31 POP. Image Credit: Sony Music Entertainment / Pandora Radio
Is Clint going to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Killin' Time?
I think so. The album earned its spot in history and oughta be celebrated [Author's Note: Killin' Time spent an astonishing 195 weeks on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart, easily earning its triple platinum status with 31 of those weeks perched at No. 1. Four singles from the LP climbed to No. 1, while a fifth stalled at a still-impressive No. 3].
Would it be a crazy idea if you performed the Killin' Time album in its entirety at one or more shows?
That's a great idea and that's something that we've thought about. We'll see if that happens in the near future.
Who composes what?
Our songwriting is a true collaboration. I'll have various musical ideas for songs — maybe a line or two of the verse or chorus. Eventually Clint and I get together, and we start putting the music and words together. Over the course of several days we'll either have a few finished songs or ones close to finished. There might be a few things we need to change over the next week. That's generally how it works with us.
Holding a trusty Taylor 912 acoustic guitar, songwriter Hayden Nicholas sports a winning black vest and white shirt combo while plugging his first novel, "Ezekiel's Choice," on WCYB News 5 in Bristol, Tennessee, on May 17, 2013. Image Credit: The Hayden Nicholas Collection
Have you composed a song in the recording studio?
No. I know a lot of bands do it that way, but that never happened with us. We never booked time in a studio and jammed, hoping a song would develop. But plenty of times there will be some riff or something that will come up. I'll hang on to that idea, since it might find its way into something later.
When you and Clint have a song written and ready to record, do you present it to the band in the studio or do you demo it first?
Back in the old days we actually demoed them in my little home studio that I had in my garage. The studio was never really a working business — just mainly for me. Anyway, we then gathered our demos and listened to them with a producer.
We would pick a song to start with and write out a chart for it before starting the recording. There was always room for experimentation. It's a process of figuring out what works and what doesn't work. Nowadays, we record at Clint's studio.
Can you write while you're on tour?
Clint and I never really write on the road. We usually take off for three or four days and go someplace quiet. We have written somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 unreleased songs since Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic appeared in 2005.
Nevertheless, I spend much of my traveling downtime writing. A great deal of my first novel, Ezekiel's Choice [February 2013, Westbow Press], was written on the road. I just like to keep busy, and it's the perfect opportunity to get some things like that done.
Still crazy like a fox, Clint Black picks a National Steel Dobro used by songwriting-guitar compadre Hayden Nicholas. The candid was featured in August 2013 articles plugging Black's Cracker Barrel-distributed album, "When I Said I Do," which contains 11 of Black's fan favorites and three exclusive tracks. Photography by Russ Harrington
How would you characterize Clint's personality?
Clint is a real jokester. He's a ball of energy — especially when I first met him. He's very ambitious and focused. He possessed a really clear vision of what he wanted to become in the music business.
When I met him, I saw something different. He was roughly 25 years old, and he'd been playing bars and coffee houses for a good seven or eight years by then, so he had a lot of experience. Not only was he good at what he did, he had that constant drive.
Memorizing lyrics has never been an issue with Clint. He's almost got a photographic memory. He can hear a song once on the radio, and then he can sing it [laughs]. He had a notebook when I first met him containing two or three hundred pop, rock, and country songs. I mean everything. He was a James Taylor fan, Bob Seger, the Eagles…
Clint was doing an acoustic solo show which ultimately evolved into an acoustic duo when I joined. We were doing acoustic renditions of everything. He knew hundreds of songs, and the set list varied every night based on whatever he felt like doing.
Clint grew disillusioned with the major record labels in the early 2000s and decided to release music on his own label. Why did Equity Music Group ultimately fail?
There was a lot of tension that had been building up with the then-head of RCA. It got kind of nasty. It was really disheartening to witness all the infighting. I had to make a conscious decision to not let it be discouraging.
Our debut on Equity was Spend My Time [March 2, 2004]. RCA strategically released a compilation of our past hits to piggyback on our new studio album. They did that twice in a row.
The first act signed to Equity was Little Big Town, who did quite well. It wasn't enough to keep the label afloat because there was mismanagement going on. There's still litigation. I don't know a lot of the details. I try not to. I just want to keep my focus on the music. The business side of things can destroy you if you let it.
Dropped on March 2, 2004, is the classic black and white cover of "Spend My Time," Clint Black's ninth studio album. As of this writing, the piano-driven title cut remains Black's final Top 20 C&W single at No. 16. Image Credit: Clint Black Enterprises
Is there much unreleased music from Clint's classic RCA period [1989–2001]?
I'd say I could probably count our unreleased RCA material on one hand. There were always a few songs recorded for each album that didn't make the cut. It wasn't because that particular song didn't hold up — it was usually just due to the fact that we had a similar-sounding song already slated for the record. So they were left by the wayside.
The cover art for Clint Black's back-to-the-roots 11th studio album, "Drinkin' Songs & Other Logic," a No. 36 C&W Billboard-charting album distributed on October 4, 2005, via the singer's short-lived Equity Music Group record label. Photography by Firooz Zahedi or Robert Knight / Pandora Radio
There was a 10-year dearth of original studio material between Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic and 2015's On Purpose. The former record was pretty much lost in the shuffle.
You know what? You're right. Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic was an album featuring a couple of songs that we'd written a long time ago plus some newer ones. We returned to our roots and explored that avenue a little more. It was pretty much like us going in there and doing what we did in the old days — playing live. I like a lot of the songs on it.
Would you prefer that a producer work with the band, or would you rather personally oversee an album?
I would rather have a producer simply because you have a whole other set of ears there. It's hard to be objective after you've worked with a song for so long. You've spent months writing, rehearsing, and recording it.
You need the objectivity. You need somebody to look over the song[s] and admit, 'Yeah, it's great' or 'Maybe this isn't so great.' I think everyone needs that. It's kind of like directing and starring in a movie simultaneously. It's a lot to have on your plate.
I prefer to be produced when I'm in the studio recording — regardless of whomever I'm playing with. I like to ask, 'Hey, do you like this?' or 'What do you want me to do?' rather than me having to decide how to play it. I think a lot of musicians would have it that way.
We had most of our arrangements worked out on the early albums. The main thing we changed when we went to a professional studio was to add higher quality technology and sounds, courtesy of James Stroud. James was great. I can't tell you how much we all learned from him. [Author's Note: James Stroud was Black's producer on all seven albums released between 1989 and 1997].
James called me after Killin' Time won Album of the Year at the ACMs and remarked, "You should have received an award for that because all I really did was take what you guys had done and redid it" [laughs].
How long does it take you guys to record a song now? Is a lot of overdubbing involved?
It's not really any different than it's ever been. There isn't much overdubbing involved. Let me tell you a quick story. A good friend of mine, Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel, owns Bismeaux Studio, located in Austin, the city where I live.
Willie Nelson always cuts his albums there. He and his band spend two or three days cutting a record, then they hit the road and promote it. Willie lets everybody else prepare the album for release. That older generation is used to doing that [laughs].
We'll spend a little more time at it if something's not working. Or we might invite a special guest to contribute. By the time you mix the album you're looking at a project that really takes months.
With the 10-year gap between albums of original material that finally ended with On Purpose, we ended up with a stockpile of material.
The cover art for Clint Black's 13th studio album, "When I Said I Do," an exclusive project for Cracker Barrel released on August 5, 2013, that became the country singer's best chart placement [No. 30 C&W] since "Spend My Time" nine years earlier. Photography by Russ Harrington / Cracker Barrel
Did you and Clint co-write any of the three new songs featured on the Cracker Barrel exclusive, When I Said I Do?
No — this was the deal. The Cracker Barrel people came to Clint and suggested an album exploring his greatest hits, anchored by a strong love theme. We re-recorded 11 songs — "Like the Rain," "One Emotion," "Easy for Me to Say," and "Half the Man" were co-written by me — while Clint brought three exclusive songs to the project written with other songwriters.
When I Said I Do was a one-time deal with Cracker Barrel [released on August 5, 2013]. The restaurant chain's label has been very successful for many artists including Clint, and the album remains a solid seller.
Circa February 20, 2014, a sunny afternoon at the beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, is spent reading "Ezekiel's Choice" [2013], the first novel by Clint Black's songwriting partner Hayden Nicholas exploring the story of a man's spiritual redemption in the wake of a national tragedy with a dose of the supernatural thrown in for good measure. Photography by Johanna Johnson West
Have you been tempted to put out a solo album in order to showcase your stockpile of unreleased compositions?
I have no interest in pursuing a solo album. The first 10 years with Clint was akin to a whirlwind. I gradually pursued different forms of writing — dabbling in screenplays [i.e. a comedy based on a mutual friend co-written with Clint], fiction manuscripts [i.e. Hand's Treasure] and writing my first novel, Ezekiel's Choice, a story of a man's spiritual redemption in the wake of a national tragedy with a touch of the supernatural thrown in.
My second novel, Rock Bottom [2017], deals with a band and an old house where they live, with hints at the paranormal and the main character redeeming hope. He was a guitarist until he lost his arm in a motorcycle wreck and is now the band's sound engineer. What it all boils down to is that I have a special place in my heart for telling stories.
Distributed on August 22, 2017, is "Rock Bottom," the second fiction novel by Hayden Nicholas, best known as country music artist Clint Black's songwriting partner and lead guitarist. According to the Amazon product listing, "Bash Nadir was a promising young guitarist in Austin, Texas who dreamt of having a successful career in the music business. His dreams were shattered when he lost his arm in a motorcycle accident. Working as the sound engineer for a rock band, the Zeniths, Bash and the band move into an old house in the country where no one expects the strange and dark events awaiting them, events that will lead Bash to revelation, redemption, and the love of his life." Image Credit: Dog Ear Publishing
"The Last Day" serves as the 14th and ultimate track from 2015's On Purpose. What's the story behind it?
"The Last Day" is a ballad basically saying, "I'm gonna live this day and everyday like it was the last day of my life." I know it has a special place in Clint's heart. About a week or two after we wrote "The Last Day," his father passed away unexpectedly [December 2, 2012]. It was a very tough time for Clint, and we didn't touch the song for awhile.
When we went in and started finishing up some of the songs slated for the Cracker Barrel record — When I Said I Do [2013] — we recorded "The Last Day" properly. It's real strong and full of emotion and something that everybody can relate to. Folks dealing with grief have told me how much "The Last Day" has touched them.
Does radio still support new Clint Black singles?
Without being too blunt about it, the consensus is that once you're over 50, forget it, radio is just not going to put you on their current playlist. Programmers tell us, 'You have a strong showing on the country classics chart, and you ought to be happy with that' [laughs]. That's the way radio is these days.
It reminds me when we were starting in the late '80s and heard the same type of thing about people like George Jones, Johnny Cash, and Merle Haggard having trouble getting played on the radio.
Of course, you also had many great younger country acts including Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam, and Alabama. Chasing the demographic of youth has always been the thing since the record business has been established. Young girls are the largest audience.
There was something like over 4,000 country radio stations in the country, and ninety percent of those were individually owned — mom and pop stations. By the mid to late '90s, companies like Clear Channel went around buying all these radio and television stations. That's when everything changed.
You no longer had the rapport with anybody. It was all corporate. It's happened in everything having to do with the industry — promoters, record companies, bus companies, you name it. And it's an epidemic that's affected most every business in America. Walmart monopolized business instead of having the little individual mom and pop hardware stores.
This is all old news now, I have to say. I feel really blessed that we were in the mainstream when we were. Should radio never play us again, we're still out there. Clint has a great fan draw all around the country and in Canada, so we're able to play at all these places.
Songwriter, backing vocalist, and Tom Anderson-designed Fender Stratocaster axeman Hayden Nicholas is seen in November 2012 onstage at a Clint Black country music show. Image Credit: The Hayden Nicholas Collection
Pop culture is definitely undergoing saturation overload.
You didn't have 300 channels and there was no Internet when we started. If you appeared on Johnny Carson or the early years of Jay Leno's Tonight Show, it seemed like everybody had seen your appearance by the following day.
Nowadays you can do the gamut of New York TV shows such as Good Morning America or Live! with Kelly and even some of your close friends are unaware you were on there. There's a ton of distractions.
It's hard for young acts to come up. They have to approach it totally different now than in our day. At that time it was about getting a demo tape together and then nabbing a record deal. Once you had a record deal, you had to cut a hit single [laughs]. You hoped for all those things to happen. Nowadays it's really not that way.
How do you reach fans without country radio support?
The advent of social media has created various new ways of doing things. Once you start thinking outside the box with the way the industry is now compared to what it used to be, there's many ways to reach people.
It's really about building and nurturing an audience, and keeping them in your corner. We've been really blessed to get to do what we want to do. I know I feel that way. Just to have a job that you enjoy doing. How valuable is that? I hear there's a recent poll stating that approximately 70 percent of people in the United States hate their job. I think about how blessed I've been.
[Author's Note: Don't hesitate to visit Black's official website for complete tour dates. Nicholas' official Facebook is also accessible in case you wish to interact directly with the Houston songwriter, keep track of his latest activities, or watch vintage home movies and performance clips].
On June 18, 2010, Hayden Nicholas plays his trademark black and white Fender Stratocaster while country frontman Clint Black opts for the drums on a cover of Steely Dan's "Josie" in Las Vegas. Nicholas is exhibiting "a Tom Anderson Stratocaster that I had made in 1992 that I still use on stage. Dan Huff [a respected Nashville songwriter and producer] turned me on to them. My Tom Anderson guitars are the reason Clint began buying them…" Image Credit: The Hayden Nicholas Collection
On December 9, 2010, Hayden Nicholas sports a chocolate brown shirt, cross necklace, and Tom Anderson-designed black and white Stratocaster electric guitar at a Clint Black concert. Nicholas has coauthored somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 released compositions between 1989's "Killin' Time" and 2015's under-the-radar "On Purpose." Image Credit: The Hayden Nicholas Collection
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Watch Clint Black deliver Western Swing homage "Straight from the Factory" on the old Nashville Network's "On Stage" television program in August 1989. The song was Black's debut songwriting collaboration with lead guitarist Hayden Nicholas. Video Credit: Ryman Hospitality Properties
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PETERSBURG - It was back to school for students, round two. On Thursday morning, students in Petersburg headed back to school two days later than normal due to damage by Hurricane Irene.
Petersburg City Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Alvera Parrish said that the opening went smoothly and was quite possibly one of the best opening days the school system has ever had.
"We had the parents come in the day before for orientation and I think that got the parents and the students acclimated," Parrish said. "That was helpful."
Parrish said the opening of the schools had been delayed primarily due to technology issues caused by Hurricane Irene.
"In the aftermath of Irene, our technology system was compromised and we needed to get that back up and running so we could create the schedules," Parrish said. On top of the technology issues, two schools - Vernon Johns Junior High School and Petersburg High School - were without power until Sept. 1. Parrish said that this would have only left teachers one day to make necessary preparations before the school year's originally scheduled start of Tuesday. In fact, there were also many in the city without power through part of Labor Day weekend.
Parrish credited parents, students and the transportation department of the school system for the smooth opening. She said that the bus drivers were able to pick up all the students safely and deliver them on time to the schools exactly as scheduled.
Dinwiddie students also went back to class Thursday.
Dinwiddie County Public Schools Superintendent David Clark said that the opening went well.
"There were some spots where we had water on the roads this morning, but the buses were able to pass through no problem," Clark said, adding that the situation in Dinwiddie wasn't as bad as in some other localities.
"We've done a lot to open in this short of a turnaround," Clark said of the two-day delay. He added that in fact two schools only had power restored Wednesday. The delay in opening also meant teachers had less time to prepare their classrooms, and orientations were held just before schools opened.
"Overall though, my impression in talking to the principals is that the kids were ready to come back," Clark said Thursday afternoon. "Now we just need to get them all home safely."


Elburton Primary School became part of the Horizon Multi Academy Trust on 1 September 2016.
The Horizon Multi Academy Trust Board is accountable in law for all decisions about its academies. However, the Trust Board have agreed within their Scheme of Delegation that many decisions can and should be delegated to the local governing bodies.
Monitoring whether the school is working within agreed policies and is meeting the agreed targets.
The current Local Governing Body is detailed below.
The governing body meets 6 times a year. The Personnel committee meets in the autumn term and when required.
The Headteacher's performance management is carried out by Dr C Adams, Mrs F Court and an external advisor.


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TMP Recommends: Five Films on TCM, February 25 – March 3
Welcome to this week's installment of TMP Recommends! Here are five films you should keep an eye out for over the next seven days on TCM. Times are listed in EST and come from the US version of the TCM schedule. Happy viewing!
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Mister Roberts (1955)
Airing on TCM February 25, 5:45 pm
Mister Roberts was not a film I expected to love when I watched it for the "Through the library, alphabetically" series that I did in 2012. I ended up scoring it 4/5, and have even re-watched it a couple of times since. The film follows the crew of a navy cargo ship, which includes some of old Hollywood's greatest stars: James Cagney, Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, and William Powell. The cast certainly makes the film worth watching, but beyond all of that star power, it's just plain well-made. The story is interesting, and comic relief is mixed in to offset the drama between the men working on the ship.
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Wait Until Dark (1967)
Airing on TCM February 28, 10:45 am
Audrey Hepburn stars in this thriller as Susy Hendrix, the blind wife of artist Sam Hendrix. Susy is terrorized when three criminals involved in drug trafficking and a murder plot invade her home, looking for a doll that was given to Sam by one of his models. This film is full of suspense and features stellar performances by Hepburn and Alan Arkin.
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
There are very few Hitchcock films that I don't love, but when pressed to choose just one favorite, it would have to be Strangers on a Train. To Catch a Thief is my most-watched Hitch picture, and is certainly a favorite of mine, but Strangers on a Train sets the bar by which I judge all other thrillers that I watch. The story! The script! The cinematography! The performances! Robert Walker, starring as Bruno, gives one of my all-time favorite performances by a male actor… from any genre, and any era. I can't rave about this film enough. It's a must-watch if you haven't seen it, and a must-re-watch if you have!
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On the Town (1949)
Airing on TCM March 1, 12:15 pm
If Strangers on a Train sets the bar by which I judge all other thrillers, On the Town is the musical equivalent. I wouldn't hesitate to name this one my all-time favorite musical. It's got two of my favorite midcentury men, Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, sharing the screen. The songs are catchy as hell, and the romances are sweet to watch. Betty Garrett and Ann Miller both give captivating and fun performances. You can't go wrong with this talented ensemble cast.
Now, Voyager (1942)
Airing on TCM March 3, 2:45 pm
Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains — three TMP favorites — all give wonderful performances in this tale of Charlotte Vale, a woman who breaks free from an oppressive life with her overbearing mother, finding herself and finding love in the process. Though this film is considered a classic romance, I would recommend it even to those who aren't fans of the romance genre, for the heart of the film is Charlotte's personal transformation. Bette Davis made too many great films to count, so it's hard to determine which ones were her best… but I think most people would agree that Now, Voyager falls near the top of the ranking.
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St. John's is a unique place. In Metro Detroit there is no other church, Episcopal or otherwise, that is like St. John's. There are certainly parishes in other major cities much like St. John's, with similar attributes. But in our area there is no other place with this complete "package" of attributes!
Individuals are generally drawn to one or more aspect of this package, but all play a part in defining and strengthening the brand. To diminish or change a portion of what we do here is the endanger damaging the brand, and its attraction to the whole. For example, when Coca-Cola changed the recipe for its successful product, they damaged its brand for several years. This is not to say that we can't be looking to make improvements. All must be done with an eye to the greater whole of who we are and what we do.
What are some of the portions of our brand that make up the package here at St. John's?
1) Traditional Anglican Faith – No deviations theologically to the faith as the Anglican Communion has received it from the witness of Scripture, and the traditions and ministry received from the Apostles.
2) Traditional Worship/Liturgy – Based on that traditional faith as codified in the Book of Common Prayer from 1549 to 1928. The form for ceremonial was restored in the Anglican Communion by those involved in the Oxford Movement of the mid-19th century, of which St. John's was an early proponent.
3) World Class Music – St. Augustine said that "He who sings prays twice". Music has been a vital aspect of the worship in the Anglican Communion, and especially so here at St. John's. Our English choral tradition lifts the heart, promotes right belief, complements our Prayer Book worship, and edifies the faithful in ways that are deeper than words can express.
4) Biblically sound and inspiring preaching and teaching – The clergy strive to make the Word of God relevant and challenging so that the faithful can be both comforted in His Holy Word, and challenged to grow in greater holiness.
5) Remarkable Building – For over 150 years these grand buildings have stood on this corner of Woodward Ave as a witness to the strength of the Gospel, and its architecture inspires one to worship God Almighty in the beauty of holiness. In addition to aiding in worship, our facilities are used for education, social gatherings, and they host a variety of parish ministries and community groups.
7) Warm, welcoming, and encouraging fellowship – Many people have said that as much as they like a combination of the first 6 items listed, it is this seventh one that brings it all together and keeps them coming back to St. John's. At Coffee Hour or Potluck luncheon after worship on Sunday, at various Social Fellowship Outings, or in one another's homes, we come to know one another and care for each other. This strengthens our bonds to each other, and to the parish, through the common denominator of our faith in Jesus Christ.
What are the things you like best about St. John's? Two, three or four of the items may jump out at you as your favorites. Another one or two you may find you don't take advantage of, or perhaps you are not too interested in. And there may even be an item or two that doesn't strike your fancy at all. If you put together even a small group of parishioners I am sure you will find all parts of the package covered in a "favorites" column.


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Home Local News Board considers making Haw Creek a regulated drain
Board considers making Haw Creek a regulated drain
A new drainage board representing Bartholomew and Shelby counties will determine whether Haw Creek becomes a regulated drain.
The new Bartholomew-Shelby Joint Drainage Board will meet for the first time at 7 p.m. Monday in the County Council Chambers at the County Governmental Offices Building.
In addition to electing officers and appointing an attorney, the board will review a proposal from the Citizens for Haw Creek to put the creek under regulation.
In August, the citizens group announced a petition drive seeking a public hearing on regulating the creek's watershed. The section of the watershed is about six miles long starting near East County Road 400N and running southwest until the creek reaches the East Fork White River.
The change would mean the drainage board could limit development and regulate bridges and dams in populated areas in the Haw Creek watershed. The group contends the 2008 Columbus flood, which caused nearly $500 million in damages, added sediment, trees and debris to the creek, causing it to flood more frequently. The citizens group contends the bridges over the creek are undersized and inadequate.
Bartholomew County Commissioner Carl Lienhoop will be on the new board along with Jeff Schroer representing Bartholomew County. The board also will have Kevin Nigh and Donald Parker from Shelby County, both of whom are Shelby County commissioners and drainage board members. A fifth representative from Jackson County will be named to the board at the joint meeting.
Lienhoop said he wasn't sure if any discussion will take place about the petition at the meeting.
Before the creek can be put under a drainage board's jurisdiction, the group needs about $10,000 to pay for postage of mailed notifications for a public hearing, said John Boldt, who is part of the Citizens for Haw Creek group. He said the group still has to raise nearly $7,000.
"We don't have any money at this point in time other than a few hundred dollars," he said. "The petition is still active. They'll be waiting for us to raise the money."
The first meeting for the new board may be just organizational and discussing what the group is thinking about doing, Lienhoop said.
"I was kind of under the impression that we weren't going to meet until the petition was a go and they have raised enough money," he added.
Lienhoop said he anticipates that once the petitioners have raised enough money to mail out the public hearing notifications, a meeting will be held at a venue larger than the county is familiar with using to handle the public turnout.
"I'm not sure if Memorial Gym would be big enough," he joked.
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WHAT: Bartholomew-Shelby County Joint Drainage Board meeting
WHERE: Bartholomew County Government Office Building Council Chambers, 440 Third St., Columbus
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Q: hashing and salt not comparing correctly I have successfully gotten the salted hash saved into the database.  Now the problem i'm facing is exactly how to set it up to compare between them to login in.  Do i have to make the hash again?  and if i do make it again won't it be different? Right now the check says it works but i cannot sign with the password before it was hashed.
 the code below is what ive tried so far:
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A: Your login will always fail because this query...
"select  user_name,user_pass from user_info where
user_pass ='$user_pass' and user_name = '$user_name'"

... compares the user's entered password to the hashed stored password.
The better approach is:

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*Login successful.

You're making your life really difficult by trying to implement your own hashing when PHP provides this natively.  To hash password at account registration (suppose user chose $clear_pwd):
$hash_pwd = password_hash($clear_pwd, PASSWORD_DEFAULT);

This generates a cryptographically secure salt and hash for you. $hash_pwd gets stored in the DB.  Now at login, on step 3 above (password verification), do:
if (password_verify($clear_pwd, $hash_pwd)){
    // $clear_pwd is correct
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Simple!

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Posts Tagged 'Houston Buff Biographies'
Buff Biographies: Harry Elliott
Harry Elliott
Sadly this morning, I've only now learned that one of my favorite former Houston Buffs from the 1953 club died this past summer. At the age of 89, Harry Elliott passed away on August 9, 2013 in his home town of Little River, Kansas.
Outfielder Harry Elliott (BR/TR) (5'9″, 175 lb.) was a slashing line drive power hitter who posted a career minor league batting average of .326 over 7 seasons (1951-54, 1956-58) that also included 205 HR. His greatest season in the minors came early when he hit .391 in 139 games for the 1951 Alexandria Aces of the Evangeline League. By 1954, Elliott banged out a .350 average for San Diego of the AAA Pacific Coast League in 168 games.
Harry had a short dip into the MLB coffee grind while he was in the Cardinal system, batting a career .256 with only 2 HR as a pinch hitter/left fielder with St. Louis of the National League during the seasons of 1953 and 1955. Back then, playing left field behind another guy named Stan Musial was no speed lane to the big time. Elliott spent the entire season of 1955 with St Louis in 1955, but he was sent down to Houston in 1953 after only 28 games of play off the Cardinal bench. Harry's arrival in Houston was one of the few bright spots in an otherwise dull and gray hum-drum 6th place Buffs Texas League season. Elliott batted .328 with 8 HR in 115 games during his only Buffs 1953 season.
Harry Lewis Elliott was born December 30, 1923 in San Francisco, but he graduated from Watertown High School in Minnesota before attending the University of Minnesota prior to the start of his baseball career. When he broke into the big leagues on August 1, 1953, his start occurred exactly 60 years and 8 days prior to his passing from this life.
Harry Elliott was an animated and spirited figure, moving productively in the foreground of the otherwise mostly gray and hapless 1953 Buffs. The Pecan Park Eagle is certain that his family must have experienced much of that energy too in their own relationships with him and that he is very missed by whomever he left behind.
Rest in Peace for now, Harry Elliott. – With a little faith, hope, and heart, – and some good old fashioned baseball luck – the herd will ride again,
Tags:Harry Elliott, Houston Buff Biographies
Buff Biographies: Rip Repulski
Former Houston Buffs outfielder Eldon John "Rip" Repulski (6'0″, 195 lb.) (BR/TR) was born October 4, 1928 in Saux Rapids, Minnesota. Straight out of high school at the age of 18, Rip began his 7 season minor league (1947-52, 1961) and 9 year big league (1953-61) careers with Class D West Frankfort, Illinois in 1947, although he did continue his higher education at St. Cloud State University near his home town during the off-season.
Rip Repulski had a career minor league batting average of .290 with 101 HR and a career MLB mark of .269 with 106 HR – not bad for a guy with good speed and an adequate arm as a center fielder.
Rip's two seasons as a Buff were both limited by the parent Cardinals desire to push him up through the system at a speedy basis. He arrived in Houston late in the 1950 season, coming up from Class A Columbus, Georgia in time to play 37 games and hit .256 with 2 HR for the '50 AA Buffs. The following year, Repulski played center field for the '51 Buffs only long enough to hit a measly .217 with no HR before the Cards moved him up to AAA Columbus, Ohio by a need or design that had little to do with his actual performance on the field.
Rip Repulski played 4 MLB seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals (1953-56), 2 years with the Philadelphia Phillies (1957-58), 2 seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1959-60), and 2 years with the Boston Red Sox. That Dodger hitch allowed Rip to pick up a World Series ring with the 1959 Los Angeles club, but I would assess his best season as having been 1954 when he hit .283 on the back of 19 HR and 79 RBI for the Cards.. He also hit 23 HR for the 1955 St. Louis club, but his numbers were down in other areas.
As a kid, I recall that we Buff fans got a pretty breezy volume of writer's ink on the coming of Rip Repulski and what he could mean to the team's Texas League chances. He simply wasn't here long enough to do very much and, while he was here, he didn't do anything he could write home about.
Such was the often experienced life span of minor league fan hope back in the day.
Rip Repulski passed away in Waite Park, Minnesota on February 10, 1993 at age of 64.
R.I.P., Rip.
Tags:Houston Buff Biographies, Rip Repulski
Buff Biographies: Bob Mabe
Bob Mabe (5'11", 165 lb,) (BR/TR) will always hold the distinction of having been the last 20-game winner for the Houston Buffs. He attained that 20-win plateau when he led the 1956 Texas League and Dixie Series Champions to glory with a personal pitching record of 21 wins, 10 losses, an ERA of 2.83 and 195 strikeouts in 264 innings pitched. Many great and lesser known men found 20 wins on the Houston Buff staff over the years, but after Mabe in '56, none found that magic again in the five remaining seasons (1957-61) of the club's existence. 1956 was also the only 20-win year in the 10-season minor league history (1950-51, 1953-1960) of Bob Mabe. His minors career mark concluded with a total of 93 wins, 70 losses, and an ERA of 3.31.
Bob Mabe voluntarily retired from baseball in 1952, but he came back in 1953.
As a member of the 4th place Houston Buffs in 1955, his first of two total seasons in Houston, Bob Mabe put up his 2nd best record in history by going 16-10 with an ERA of 3.31.
As a 3-season big leaguer (St. Louis Cardinals, 1958; Cincinnati Reds, 1959; and Baltimore Orioles, 2 innings in 1960), Bob Mabe posted a light duty MLB tote board of 7 wins with 11 losses and a 4.82 ERA. Nevertheless, Bob Mabe did it in the twilight of those 16-team MLB days in which it was far less probable that any young aspiring pitcher would get there and see action at all. In that light, 142 total innings worked as an MLB pitcher is a pretty shiny accomplishment along the way.
Thank you, Bob Mabe, for being the last 20-game winner in the history of the Houston Buffs!
We don't have much on the personal side of Bob Mabe's life here at The Pecan Park Eagle beyond the monumental dates story, nor do we know if he had anything to do with organized baseball beyond his active career retirement at the end of the 1960 season. We do know that we was born in Danville, Virginia on October 8, 1929 – and that he also passed away in the city of his birth on January 9, 2005 at the age of 75.
Bob Mabe is buried at Highland Burial Park in Danville, Virginia.
God rest his soul in peace.
Tags:Bob Mabe, Houston Buff Biographies
Buff Biographies: Al Lary
Al Lary fell far short of being the greatest pitcher in Houston Buff history, but he still left his mark with that 4th place last Buffs club of 1961. The Buffs finished with a 73-77, .487 mark in their last minor league season in the American Association and Al Lary was their last double-digit wins leader for the year. His 15-9, 3.58 ERA mark paced the 1961 club.
In 1960, Lary's first year with the Buffs, he went 12-8 with a 3.53 ERA – making it 27-17 for his two seasons in Houston. His 12 wins in 1960 also paced all Buffs pitchers in another mediocre year.
At 6'3″, 185 lb., the BR/TR Lary had come to professional baseball from the University of Alabama. He lasted for 12 minor league seasons (1951-52, 1955-64), compiling a career mark of 103-100, 3.76 ERA. He also had a two-cups-stop background with the Chicago Cubs as a major league pitcher for an 0-1, 6.53 ERA mark over 16 games in 1954 (1) and 1962 (15).
At 15-9, Al Lary was the last big winner for the Houston Buffs in their final season of 1961.
Lary was out of baseball in 1953. Although we are lacking confirmation this morning, our first guess is that his absence had to do with military service, rather than injury. The Korean Was was just ending in 1953 and Lary was age 24 in that last year of the war. We will attempt to get confirmation of military service or injury for 1953 and plug it in here as it arrives.
My memories of Lary are of a guy who had pretty good form, a pitcher who did well when he could get the batters to hit the ball on the ground to his fielders. He overpowered very few batters, depending greatly upon batters hitting playable and catchable balls. When the balls were hit hard, the hits fell, and Lary lost, but, for the last 1961 Buffs, he mainly won.
The next season, 1962, Houston's first in the big leagues, Al Lary was in the other dugout on Opening Day as a reliever for the Chicago Cubs for his second and last season in the big leagues.
Al Lary was born in Northport, Alabama on September 28, 1928. He passed away in the same place on July 9, 2001 at the age of 72.
Tags:Al Lary, Houston Buff Biographies
Buff Biographies: Fred Martin
Fred Martin, Pitcher
1951 Houston Buffs
Fred Martin (6'1″, 185 lb) (BR/TR) was a tough, talented, and wily pitcher who spent 3 years in the majors with the St. Louis Cardinals (1946, 1949-50) , putting up a 12-3, 3.78 mark for his time in service at the highest level. Over the longer run of 25 years (1935-60), Martin also posted a 17-season minor league mark of 169-135, 3.38 for mostly Cardinal clubs, including 4 whole and partial seasons (1941, 1951, 1953, 1959) with the Houston Buffs.
Martin had his greatest statistical year when he went 23-6 with a 1.88 ERA for the great 1941 Buffs and then returned in a decade to contribute heavily (15-11, 2.54) to the success of the 1951 Texas League champion Buffs.
Over time, Fred Martin earned a lot of respect as a teacher of pitching mechanics, particularly as the game pertains to a pitch that many experts give him credit for either inventing – or redefining from its use in earlier eras by turn of the century greats Christy Mathewson and Rube Foster of the early Negro League. The pitch we speak of here, of course,, is the one we now know as the "split-finger fastball".
Martin is also given credit for being the mentor who taught the pitching-life-changing weapon to Hall of Fame reliever Bruce Sutter and to Roger Craig who then taught the split-finger to the great Mike Scott, among others.
Stories of mentorship are common and often hard to verify, but if they begin to happen in bunches about the same teacher bearing the same lesson, you begin to listen and consider giving them credibility.
Fred Martin
Fred Martin was one of those guys. And he was a guy who even looked as though he was born to play baseball. Born on June 27, 1915 in Williams, Oklahoma, the 20-year old "Okie" pitched his first game, just barely out of the Dust Bowl in 1935 for Class D Siloam Springs, Arkansas – and he didn't hang 'em up until he was 45 and pitching his last two games in relief for Class C St. Cloud, Minnesota. By then, the clock had rolled all the way to the year 1960.
Fred Turner Martin left this world on June 11, 1979 in Chicago. He was just 63 when he passed, looking near his end like a guy who could still bring it, had he been called upon to do so.
Keep your seat, Fred. You did enough. More than enough.
Tags:Fred Martin, Houston Buff Biographies
Buff Biographies: Ben Steiner
Ben Steiner
Second baseman Ben Steiner (5'11", 165 lb) (BL/TR) was born in Alexandria, Virginia on July 28, 1921.. He broke into minor league baseball at the age of 19 in 1941 with Class C Canton, batting .295 with 0 HR in 49 games before up to Class B Greensboro that same year and hitting .206 with no HR in 8 games.
Over the course of his 11 season minor league career (1941-51), Ben Steiner hit a respectable .272 with 19 home runs. The Buffs were his last professional game stop in 1951 and he batted .262 with a single homer in 130 games at second base for the Texas League champion Buffs that season. Steiner also had played for another champion at AAA Columbus with other former Buffs like Larry Miggins and Solly Hemus. The 1950 Columbus Red Birds were winners of the Little World Series that season.
Steiner also played three earlier seasons in the big league with the Boston Red Sox (1945-46) and the Detroit Tigers (1947). His play was limited to 82 games with 78 of those coming at Boston in 1945. He only picked up 4 at bats in 3 games with the 1946 AL champion Red Sox playing behind future Hall of Famer Bobby Doerr and 1 game for the 145 Tigers. Ben Steiner's MLB career totals included a .256 batting average and 3 home runs.
For whatever reason, Ben Steiner was through with professional baseball at the end of his 1951 Houston Buffs season. At age 30, he retired to pack his dreams away into the regular 9 to 5 work crowd.
Ben Steiner, Utility
Ben still valued his time in baseball. As the assistant county clerk of Middlesex County, New Jersey during the 1970's, Steiner wore his championship ring from the 1950 Little Word Series team from Columbus, Ohio.
We don't much about Steiner's personal life beyond his baseball career, but we do know that he died at a relatively young age. Ben Steiner passed away in Venice, Florida on October 27, 1988 at the age of 67.
As a kid, I always liked Ben Steiner. When his early season average hovered above .300 well into June, my 12-year old mind wanted to give the bespectacled second sacker credit for out-thinking the Texas League pitchers who were trying their best to keep him off the bases. In fact, in my own little world of private baseball ideas, I always thought of Ben Steiner by the phrase that most of baseball already had assigned to Dom DiMaggio. To me, Ben was "The Real Little Professor".
I remember being disappointed that Steiner did not return to the Buffs for the 1952 season, but I wish I knew more today about his reasons for quitting at age 30. Maybe it was injury. Maybe it was the fact that he realized he had gone about as far as he could go in the game by that time.. Maybe some other opportunity away from baseball looked more attractive to him.
Who knows? I will now post "whatever happened to Ben Steiner after 1951?" as another question I'd like to know more about. If you have any data on that subject, please post it below as a comment.
Meanwhile. "R.I.P., Ben Steiner! – My Buff memories of you are golden!"
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Buff Biographies: Eddie Kazak
Eddie Kazak, 3B
Eddie Kazak (6'0″, 175 lb.) (BR/TR) was a wiry-muscular third baseman who played for the Houston Buffs in both 1942 (.257, 5 HR) and 1951 (.304, 13 HR).
EdwardT. Tkaczuk (Eddie Kazak) was born in Steubenville, Ohio on July 18, 1920, three years after a fellow named Dino Paul Crocetti also was born in the same Ohio steel mill town. Crocetti would grow to fame as singer/actor. It's unlikely that Dean Martin and Eddie Kazak ever met (by any names) as kids. Eddie's family moved early on to the small coal-mining town of Muse, Pennsylvania where he grew up.
Eddie Kazak enjoyed a 16-season career in the minors (1940-42, 1946-48, 1951-60), coming out of same with a career minor league batting average of .307 with 153 career home runs.
As a paratrooper in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, Kazak suffered a bayonet wound to his left arm and shrapnel damage to his right elbow in a landing that followed the invasion of Normandy in 1944. Kazak spent the next 18 months in a hospitals, enduring numerous surgeries, including one to replace the missing bone in his left elbow with a plastic patch. His doctors told Kazak to forget about baseball upon his release from the army and medical care, but Eddie couldn't do it. In spite of shooting pains in his right arm every time he threw a ball, Kazak attempted a comeback in 1946.
When Eddie couldn't break into a spot with the AAA Rochester Red WIns in 1946, he moved down to A Columbus Cardinals of the South Atlantic League for an absolutely amazing first game at second base. In a 10-3 win over Savannah on April 23, 1946, Eddie Kazak signaled his come back with 2 home runs, a double, and a single in five times and bat, throwing a steal of home for good measure. Nobody AKWS bout Eddie's ability or will to play the game after that night. – With results like that, the guy could play with pain, even if his superman production couldn't happen most of the time.
In human terms, Kazak's best minor league season was 1954, when he hit .344 with 1992 hits and 19 HR for Beaumont of the Texas League. That same year, hot third base prospect Ken Boyer of Houston had comparable totals that included a .319 BA, 202 total hits, and 21 total HR.
In his best major league season, Eddie batted .304 with 6 HR in 92 games for the 1949 St. Louis Cardinals. In his 5 MLB seasons (1948-52), Kazak played in only 208 games, never reach 100 games in any single season. All years but 1952 were spent with the Cardinals, but that last season was split between the Cards and the Cincinnati Reds. Eddie was just one of those who ate up AA pitching, but struggled some against the MLB arms. His MLB career marks included a respectable .273 BA and 11 career homers.
Seeing one your favorite former Buffs on a real MLB baseball card always felt so good back in the day.
Eddie Kazak was a slashing line-drive hitter with pretty good base-path speed and athletic ability as a defensive third baseman. He was also an Allen Russell kind of guy. Russell was the Buffs President during Kazak's 1951 second tour with the club and he was also a major owner at Beaumont in 1954. Kazak finished his professional career with 3 games at Austin in 1960, and that was another club touched by Russell late in the 1950s. Russell liked players with strong working class ethics and that definitely took in the Planet Earth space occupied by Eddie Kazak.
Kazak settled in the Austin area following the conclusion of his baseball playing career. He died in Austin on December 15, 1999 at the age of 79.
Former 1951 teammate Jerry Witte and Eddie Kazak hit it off as buddies due to their shared Polish ethnic background. (Witte was half-German and Half-Polish, but he hardly recognized the former in preference for the other.)
"You know how two Polish ball players stay out of trouble when they have time on their hands in Houston?" Witte used to ask. "Me and Kazak would get a line and a pole and go fishing down on the banks of the (Sims) bayou near where we lived. We'd also take a .22 rifle and shoot at turtles when we got the chance. They could be pretty tasty too."
I still can't believe that they cooked and ate any turtle that came out of any bayou in Houston, but sometimes it's just better to listen rather than over-think the camaraderie stories of ball players from the Post-World War Two era.
Eddie Kazak in Line Drive Form!
R.I.P., Eddie Kazak! ~ R.I.P, Jerry Witte! ~ Hope you guys are having fun on the banks of those heavenly golden shore bayous these days!
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Buff Biographies: Tommy Glaviano
Over the years, a lot of shortstops have managed to spin double-digit year MLB careers as "good field/no hit" players due to the importance of speed, range, and athleticism at the critical middle infield spot. Not so third basemen. Strong arms and a good reflexive reaction capacity are important to third base defense, but the guy's got to hit, preferably for average and power – and he needs to be a killer batter with men on base.
The legion of those who couldn't cut it offensively in the majors at good old "3B" is large in numbers and, sadly so, it includes Tommy Glaviano, the third baseman for the 1947 Dixie Series champion Houston Buffs.
Born October 26, 1923 in Sacramento, California, Tommy Glaviano (5'9″, 175 ib.) (BR/TR) signed with the Cardinals out of high school at the age of 17 and played a couple of seasons (1941-42) at Class C level before serving in the Coast Guard during World War II (1943-45). Early Warning: At two city team stops at Fresno and Springfield in his first two seasons, .253 was Glaviano's best mark.
Things seemed to change after the war. In 1946, Glaviano returned to Fresno and batted .338 with 22 HR in 126 games. It looked like a bright new beginning. It turned out to be his career-best year – and the only time Tommy would hit over .300 and only twice more come anywhere near that magical good-hitter mark in his professional career.
In his 1947 AA Houston Buff season, Tommy batted .245 with 13 HR in 125 games at 3B. In 1948, he pumped it up to .287 with 18 HR for AAA Columbus, Ohio. Things were looking good.
Glaviano began his five season MLB career (Cardinals 1949-52; Phillies 1953) the next spring. 1950 would prove his best MLB season when he hit .285 with 11 HR. For all five seasons in the Bigs, Glaviano played 389 games, batting .257 with 24 HR.
After 1953, Glaviano played two more seasons (1954-55) with AAA Sacramento and 12 games with 1957 AA San Antonio before retiring from active play at age 33. Over the long haul of his 8-season minor league career, played variously from 1941 to 1957, Tommy Glaviano posted a career minor league mark of .257 with 69 HR.
Tommy Glaviano passed away in Sacramento, California on January 19, 2004 at the age of 80.
R.I.P., Mr. Glaviano! You were the first third baseman of my Buffs fan years – and you played your spot right there at 3B with my other Houston Buff infield heroes: Solly Hemus at 2B, Billy Costa at SS, Johnny Hernandez at 1B, and Gerry Burmeister at C. – And let's not forget outfielders Eddie Knoblauch in Left, Hal Epps in Center, and Vaughn Hazen in Right, – and, oh yeah, 1947 Buff pitchers Clarence Beers (25-8) and Al Papai (21-10), – and a certain manager named Johnny Keane.
Long live Tommy Glaviano and the memory of all the 1947 Houston Buffs!
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Buff Biographies: Ruben (Mora) Amaro
Infielder Ruben (Mora) Amaro was a two-season former Houston Buff (1956-57); outfielder Ruben Amaro, Jr. was not.
Ruben (Mora) Amaro (5'11", 170) was born January 6, 1936 in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; Ruben Amaro, Jr. (5'10", 170) was born February 12, 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ruben the Father (BR/TR) batted .257 with 35 HR in 9 seasons (1954-71) as a minor leaguer; Ruben Jr. (BB/TR) batted .304 with 44 HR in 10 seasons (1987-96) as a minor leaguer.
Ruben (Mora) Amaro played shortstop for the last two Houston Buff Dixie Series championship clubs of 1956 and 1957. In each year, the Buffs defeated the Atlanta Crackers in six-game sets. Daddy Amaro batted .266 in 152 games for Houston in 1956 and .222 for the Buffs in 142 games in 1957. He was more than happy to collect his glory when it came to him, playing good defense both seasons, even if his offensive production fell hard in 1957. The Buffs both needed and benefited from the game he brought to the park as an infield spark plug and defensive leader.
Ruben Amaro, Jr. (He's almost a dead ringer for his father in the featured 1965 baseball card shown above.)
Ruben the Father batted .234 with 8 HR in 11 seasons as a major leaguer with the Cardinals (1958), Phillies (1960-65), Yankees (1966-68), and Angels (1969); Ruben the Son batted .235 with 16 HR in 8 seasons as a major leaguer with the Angels (1991), the Phillies (1992-93), the Indians (1994-95), and the Phillies again (1996-98),
Ruben Amaro, Jr. stopped playing 1998, but he had earned a reputation as a good judge of talent and a leader. by this time. After joining the Phillies as a coach, he quickly ascended to the title of Assistant General Manager under burgeoning HOF executive GM Pat Gillick, and then taking over the GM job in 2008 upon the retirement of his boss and mentor. Recent decay in the 2013 Phillies plan and some of the big contracts that Amaro has written for players who aren't performing at their megabuck-expectation levels have left this son of a former Buff on shaky grounds in Philadelphia.
The only cure is winning. It's the baseball way.
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Buff Biographies: Walt Alston
Walt Alston
Bill Johnson's biosketch for the SABR biography project at Baseball Reference (d0t) Com is the best, most comprehensive you are likely to find. Check it out for a fact-packed good page of information you may not already completely have about the legendary Dodger manager and Miami (O) University graduate. Were you aware, for example, that Brooklyn players Jackie Robinson and Billy Loes weren't exactly happy with Alston as the two-straight-years NL champion Dodgers (1952-53) lost the 1954 pennant to the New York Giants in Walt's first year at the helm of his 23-season career as manager of the boys in royal blue? Check it out:
http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/cfc65169
Walter Alston was also once a Houston Buff, if ever so briefly, and it came on the heels of his even most brief career as a three-pitch strikeout victim for the St. Louis Cardinals in his only MLB time at bat on September 27, 1936. Alston was on the big league club roster as an end-of-season call-up player, but he only got into the game as a replacement for first baseman Johnny Mize after the latter was ejected. Alston then followed this opportunity by committing an error on one of his two chances in the field and then striking out on three pitches in his only time at bat. The next spring, Walt Alston started the 1937 season as a first baseman fo the Houston Buffs.
In 65 games for the 1937 Houston Buffs, Walt Alston hit only .212 with no home runs in 208 times at bat. Somehow he was promoted from Houston to Rochester that same season where he hit .246 with 6 HR in 66 games and 203 times at bat. Go figure.
Over his 13-season minor league career (1935-47), first baseman Walt Alston batted a very respectable .295 with 176 home runs. He also built a reputation as a quiet, mild-mannered, unassuming personality who was slow to anger on the outside, but a guy who was totally committed to doing what he felt was right. Sometimes that mild exterior was misunderstood by those who count on explosions of rage as their first choice for managerial reactions to disputes that come up in many games.
As he would prove over time as the 23-season manager of the Dodgers (1954-76), Walt Alston was neither slow nor weak. He was simply the "real deal" as the strong silent type.
In his time at the Brooklyn/LA Dodger helm, as you probably know, Alston was the first and only manager of a Brooklyn Dodger World Series winner in 1955, but he also led the Brooklyns to another pennant in 1956. That second time, the Dodgers lost to the Yankees that they had defeated in 1955. The Dodgers lost out to the Braves in 1957 and then moved to Los Angeles in 1958. They returned to the World Series again in 1959, defeating the Chicago White Sox for their first World Series win as the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Under Alston, the Dodgers played in seven World Series. They won in four tries (1955, 1959, 1963, & 1965) and they lost in three (1956, 1966, & 1974).
Walt Alston was a three-time MLB manager of the year and a six-time NL manager of the year. He won 2,040 games as a major league manager and was selected for the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veteran's Committee in 1983.
When Walt Alston yielded the managerial reins to Tommy Lasorda late in 1976, he tuned things over to a guy who would also stay on the job for a Hall of Fame managerial career (1976-1996). Think about that. – For 43 seasons (1954-1996), the Dodgers had only two managers – and they together won over 4,000 games and places for each of them in the Hall of Fame. How great does great have to be before we find another word for it?
Walt Alston's life began and ended in places far away from the big spotlight of the country's media spotlight. The (6'2″, 195 lb.) (BR/TR) former first baseman was born December 1, 1911 in Venice, Ohio. He died October 1, 1984 in Oxford, Ohio at the age of 72.
The man was Dodger Blue all the way, but it's still nice to remember that his path to managerial greatness includes the time he passed through our town in 1936 as a member of the Houston Buffs.
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Houston, Baseball, & Other Musings.


We the peoples of the United Nations determined – Nick.
In the current state of the world, it reads like an overly optimistic but well-intentioned new years resolution. That said, I find it difficult to read without feeling the sincere will behind it; this strengthens my resolve to stand by my own convictions.
While I have no doubt it was a well intentioned concept, it simply does not fit modern times. France is the 20th most populous nation and holds a permanent seat on the security council. India is the 2nd most populous nation, yet holds no such position. This is a very undemcratic design which makes absolutely no sense in modern terms.
It also makes no sense to allow dictators to sit side by side with legitimate democracies, pretending to represent their citizens. The man behind the 'CHINA' nameplate simply does not represent the Chinese people, period.
Until it does, situations like Darfur will never end, nuclear proliferation will continue to worsen, and the 'peace dividend' will continue to elude us.
Firstly, I haven't made any comment on the UN itself; just the preamble to the UN Charter.
As the preamble suggests, the UN was formed in response to war and injustice; not as a vehicle for the expansion and assertion of democracy.
I don't think that the lack of democracy in various member nations is the primary reason that the UN fails in what it set out to achieve. Lack of resources, commitment, and resolve from member nations is probably a bigger issue (that wouldn't be intrinsically solved by enforcing democracy).
With resources, commitment, and resolve to observe and enforce such assertions as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, atrocities (like those in Dafur) and wars (like that in Iraq), would not be permitted.
While a very worthwhile goal, I don't think that democracy itself offers a solution.
Would the UDN strive for greater democracy within itself (compared to the UN)? That is, would there be one vote per nation or would nations have weighted votes that reflect the size of their population?
It seems odd that a small pacific island nation would have the same representation as a large nation (like China… assuming they become democratic). In the UN, don't larger nations often "buy out" smaller nations' votes?
If the goal of the UN is to further the cause of human rights, then you cannot ignore the relationship between democracy and human rights. People in North Korea don't vote. They starve under a dictator. People in China don't protest without being run over by tanks. There really is a connection. So striving to spread democracy very much furthers the goals of the preamble.
And just to be clear, no one should confuse the spread of democracy with the misguided attempts the US in Iraq. You actually can spread democracy without blowing people up.
> I don't think that the lack of democracy in various member nations is the primary reason that the UN fails in what it set out to achieve.
Really? You don't think that dictatorships making policy on human rights for example is the fox guarding the henhouse? And do you think lack of resources is really the reason Darfur has continued? Or is it a lack of will by key players in the Security Council?
To answer your other questions, the UN should always strive for greater democracy within itself. Eventually population should be a factor, although that may not come at first since we certainly don't want to reward countries for overpopulation. But I fully agree with you…a small pacific island nation having equal weight as, say, India (China is a bad example being a dictatorship) would seem out of balance. But the wealth a country could bring to bear in solving problems would somewhat counter that situation. The reality is that the system is already out of balance in even worse ways. Giving France a seat on the SC, but not India is an even worse unbalance. In your example at least all small pacific island nations would be equal.
Large nations will still be able to buy out smaller nations. That problem exists in either scenario. Democracy is not an easy journey.
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