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Hal Newhouser
Harold Newhouser
Born: 5 / 20 / 1921 at Detroit, MI (USA)
Died: 11 / 10 / 1998 at Southfield, MI (USA)
This article was written by Mark Stewart
"Prince Hal" Newhouser had the unique distinction of being baseball's best pitcher during the 1940s — as well as its most unpopular player. An uncompromising perfectionist who was as hard on himself as his teammates, he was famous for his hot left arm and mercurial temperament. Whether Newhouser was mowing down enemy hitters or smashing a case of Coke bottles against the clubhouse wall, he was given a wide berth by opponents and teammates alike. Hal began his baseball career as a gangly, wide-eyed teenager and finished as one of the smartest scouts in the game. In between he made a few friends and plenty of enemies, left a lifetime of memories for baseball fans in Detroit, and was part of the Indians' lights-out bullpen during their historic 1954 campaign.
Harold Newhouser was born on May 20, 1921, in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were first-generation immigrants. His father, Theodore, was a draftsman in the automotive industry. He had been a gymnast in his native Czechoslovakia. His mother was Austrian. Newhouser got his athleticism from his father and his serious (some would say sour) disposition from his mother.
The Newhousers had moved to Detroit from Pittsburgh before Hal was born. Although there was good, steady work during the Great Depression, the family still struggled to make ends meet. Despite the fact that Hal and his four-years-older brother, Dick, were exceptional athletes, the Newhousers showed little interest in sports other than gymnastics. Even after Dick was signed to a contract by the Tigers and played a couple of seasons of minor-league ball, his parents didn't know much about baseball and didn't care. Dick left the game in his second year after he was beaned and suffered a fractured skull.
The scout who signed Dick was Wish Egan, a man who sought to corner the local market on baseball talent. Through Dick, Egan got the inside track on Hal, a skinny left-hander who could whip a baseball with tremendous force, and who already seemed to have the grim, competitive makeup of a pro pitcher as he entered his teen years. Hal was deadly serious at all times. Teammates and sportswriters later noted that he had no sense of humor.
Hal Newhouser was a true survivor. He took every manner of odd job, including selling papers, setting pins in a bowling alley, and collecting empty bottles for the penny deposits. During the winter he would wander over to the coalyard and collect discarded flakes in a gunnysack to take home. When the mercury plummeted, every little bit helped – especially if it was free.
As a boy Newhouser also survived several serious injuries. He punctured his stomach when he fell off a woodpile onto a metal spike. He received a nasty head injury when another boy hit him with a brick. During a basketball game he got a bad floor burn and then obsessively picked at the scab until he got blood poisoning. He got several deep gashes playing football, too. A deep scar under his right eye became more noticeable as he grew older. By the time he was in the majors, he could look downright scary.
When Newhouser was 14, he listened to the radio as Goose Goslin drove Mickey Cochrane home with the winning run in the 1935 World Series. He decided that day that he wanted to pitch for the hometown Tigers. Newhouser was already playing softball in a fast-pitch league, pitching and playing first base. Bob Ladie, who coached a top sandlot team in Detroit, suggested that he try throwing a baseball. Young Hal took the mound for the first time at 15. Over the next three seasons he won 42 games and lost only three times.
Newhouser developed an explosive but hard-to-control fastball and good overhand curve. He also gained a reputation as a perfectionist with an explosive temper. He expected the best from himself as well as his teammates. When his fielders booted a ball, when his hitters failed to give him the runs he needed, he took it very personally. He was a difficult teammate to say the least; later, during his heyday with Detroit, he was characterized as the most unpopular man in the locker room.
But ballplayers will put up with a lot if you win, and win he did. At Egan's suggestion, he quit the baseball team at Wilbur Wright Trade School and pitched American Legion ball instead. His fellow students at Wright signed a petition asking him to reconsider but he had his sights set on a bigger prize. Against this higher grade of competition, Newhouser was simply fantastic. During one stretch he won 19 games in a row and pitched 65 scoreless innings, striking out 20 or more hitters five times. Also at Egan's insistence, he quit the school basketball team – after being captain for two seasons – so he could focus on baseball.
The Tigers decided to sign 17-year-old Hal in the summer of 1938, right after he returned from the American Legion tournament. But by then the secret was out and other teams – most notably the Indians – were hovering. Wish Egan had the inside track and he used it to close the deal on the evening of August 6. Egan got the boy's signature on a contract and paid him a $500 bonus in $100 bills. Hal gave $400 to mom and dad, and socked away $100 for himself in case he didn't make it as a pro. Plan B was to go to an industrial school to study tool and die work.
A little while after Newhouser signed the contract, he was walking down the street when the Indians' head scout, Cy Slapnicka, pulled up in a shiny new car. He offered Newhouser a $15,000 bonus and the car. Hal was crushed. Slapnicka had been late because he was picking up the car!
At virtually the same time, the Tigers were engineering the departure of manager Mickey Cochrane, replacing him with Del Baker. When Egan – who had known Iron Mike since he arrived Detroit – heard the news he was unmoved. "A couple of years from now the Tigers will win pennants no matter who manages them," he told his secretary. "Today I've just signed the greatest left-handed pitcher I ever saw."1
Newhouser reported for duty the following spring to the Tigers' minor-league club in Alexandria, Louisiana. He dominated batters at two minor-league stops that summer, first in the Evangeline League with Alexandria and then with Beaumont of the Texas League. He logged a total of 230 innings on his teenage arm. Later Newhouser felt that had he been brought along more slowly, he would not have experienced the arm and shoulder problems that began plaguing him in his late 20s.
Newhouser won his first game as a pro, striking out 18 batters, and then seven more before earning a promotion to Beaumont. He won his first four games with his new team before Texas League batters figured they could wait him out and force him to groove his pitches when he was behind in the count. Newhouser lost 13 in a row at one point and the Tigers were getting alarming reports about the 18-year-old's temper. Egan stepped in at this point and suggested that he join Detroit, mostly so they could keep an eye on him.
Newhouser joined a team led by pitchers Schoolboy Rowe, Tommy Bridges, and Bobo Newsom. He was part of a youth movement that included Dizzy Trout and fellow teenager Fred Hutchinson. It was manager Del Baker's plan to work the youngsters into the rotation and phase out Roxie Lawson, Vern Kennedy, and George Gill – all whom had been traded away by the time Newhouser reached the majors.
Newhouser appeared in one game in 1939. On September 29 he started, giving up three hits and four walks in five innings in the second game of a doubleheader against the Indians. The game was called on account of darkness, and Newhouser took the loss. It was one of 73 suffered by the Tigers that year against 81 victories. Detroit obviously had superb pitching, but the Bengals' offense was in flux. Hank Greenberg and Rudy York supplied ample power, while veteran Charlie Gehringer was a perennial .300 hitter. The rest of the lineup was good but not great, peppered with the likes of Birdie Tebbetts, Barney McCosky, Pinky Higgins, and Pete Fox.
Which made what happened in 1940 all the more remarkable. Baker needed York's bat in the lineup every day. A catcher by trade, York did not offer the receiving skills of Tebbetts and thus had functioned primarily as a backup player and pinch-hitter. Baker moved Greenberg to left field and stationed York at first base. York exploded with a 33-homer, 134-RBI season, while Greenberg held his own in left and came within a dozen points of winning the Triple Crown.
The veterans on the Tigers pitching staff took full advantage of this firepower, with Newsom, Bridges, and Rowe combining for a 49-17 record. Newhouser was in the rotation most of the year, making 20 starts and going 9-9 with a 4.86 earned-run average. Every outing was an adventure. When he threw the fastball for strikes and located his curve, he was tough to beat. When his control was off, it was painful to watch him. These swings were not always game to game. Sometimes they were inning to inning.
As a 19-year-old in thick of a pennant race, "Prince Hal" was not always in control of his emotions. In his wilder moments, he would pace around the mound, trying to regain his composure, worried what the veterans were thinking. Often he would peer into the stands, searching for the large hat worn by his mother, who sat along the right-field line when she attended games at Briggs Stadium. His father never saw him pitch at Tiger Stadium – he was working during the afternoons and the Tigers were a noted holdout where night baseball was concerned. Later, Newhouser bought his folks a house in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where they opened a small pattern-making business.
After being pulled from a game by Baker, Newhouser was like a hurricane (his alternate nickname was Hurricane Hal). He would throw tantrums in the clubhouse that reminded baseball people of another volatile southpaw, Lefty Grove. Once he destroyed an entire case of Coke, smashing each bottle against the locker-room wall. Over the years Newhouser would become so irate that he demanded that the Tigers trade him. After cooling off, he would always come to his senses.
Even in calmer times, Newhouser could be tough to take. As tradition dictated, the Tigers had Newhouser room with Rowe, the veteran who had grown up in the Detroit system. All Newhouser wanted to talk about was the minutiae of pitching. He drove Rowe crazy.
Every one of those nine wins in 1940 turned out to be precious. The Tigers and Indians battled all summer, while the juggernaut Yankees – a last-place team in May – came around and made a spirited dash for first place in September. The smart money was on the Indians until a player revolt against manager Ossie Vitt destabilized the clubhouse. In the end Detroit survived to win the pennant by a game over Cleveland and two over New York.
The World Series against the Reds was a tight affair that went the full seven games. Newhouser did not see the light of day, and watched from the dugout as Cincinnati took the final two games by scores of 4-0 and 2-1.
The law of gravity caught up with the Tigers and Indians in 1941, as both teams tumbled into a fourth-place tie with sub-.500 records. Missing from the lineup was Greenberg, one of the first ballplayers drafted in advance of the Second World War. That left York as the club's sole power source and not surprisingly his numbers declined.
Once again Newhouser was part of the Detroit rotation, this time going 9-11 with a 4.79 ERA. It was essentially a repeat of the previous season. He ran hot and cold, fanning hitters when he got ahead in the count, and getting knocked all over the park when he fell behind. On the upside, Hal, 20, married his girl, Beryl, in 1941. They had met at a party a couple of years earlier.
On December 5 Detroit fans got good news when the military announced that it was discharging all men over the age of 28. They had exactly two days to rejoice about the return of Hammering Hank before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor plunged America into war.
Newhouser's wartime plans involved being sworn into the Army Air Force on the mound at Briggs Stadium. However, he failed his physical after doctors heard the swoosh of a mitrovalve prolapse. He was classified 4-F, unfit for duty. Newhouser tried on other occasions to slip through the medical screening as Greenberg had (originally, he too was 4-F due to bad feet) but the stethoscope told doctors all they needed to know, and Hal was excused from service.
Newhouser made the best of his situation, pitching well enough against the league's dwindling offensive talent in 1942 to make his first All-Star Game. No one suspected it at the time, but this would be the first of six straight All-Star selections. Newhouser was not easy to score on, as witnessed by his 2.45 ERA. But the Tigers lineup had been decimated by the draft and struggled mightily to generate runs. The result was an 8-14 record for Newhouser. He completed 11 games and also functioned as the team's closer at times, racking up five saves. The Tigers finished below .500 again, in fifth place.
Newhouser's control was the big issue. More often than not it was horrible. In 1943 former catcher Steve O'Neill replaced Baker as manager and brought in Paul Richards to handle the young staff. Richards, who was already establishing himself as a baseball guru, would be charged with squeezing the long-awaited potential out of Newhouser and his teammates.
The new manager and catcher were exasperated by the number of walks Newhouser issued in 1943 – a league-high 111 in just over 195 innings. He worked his way in and out of trouble constantly, running up big pitch counts and getting pulled for pinch-hitters in the middle innings, which drove him crazy. His moodiness and frustration grew even worse. At season's end Newhouser's record was a dismal 8-17. Had the war not been taking a heavy toll on major-league rosters, Newhouser probably would have been farmed out, released, or traded.
As Newhouser headed into the 1944 season, he had to make an important career decision. He was 34-52 at this point, and a source of great frustration to his teammates and Tigers management. His father had secured an offseason job for him as an apprentice draftsman at Chrysler headquarters and he showed enough promise to be offered a full-time job with a very attractive salary. He agreed that it was a good opportunity, but informed his parents that he would give baseball one more shot.
Newhouser sensed that O'Neill and Richards had much to teach him. Trout and Virgil Trucks, another product of the Tigers' farm system, had made the transition to effective major-league starters. Detroit, whose pitching was getting thinner and thinner, really needed Hal to "grow up" and join them atop the rotation.
When Newhouser arrived at the wartime spring-training camp in Indiana, Richards told him that he was a thrower. "I'm going to make you a pitcher," he said.2 By this time Newhouser was a three-pitch pitcher, with a fastball, curveball, and changeup. Richards taught him how to throw a slider. Back then the pitch was known somewhat derogatorily as a nickel curve, but in Newhouser's hand it was a sharp-breaking pitch that looked enough like his fastball that batters couldn't handle it.
Another part of the transformation involved teaching Newhouser to harness his emotions. Whatever Richards said and did worked miracles. Newhouser became a completely different pitcher, on the mound and in the clubhouse. Meanwhile, Richards managed to turn Trout into a top pitcher, too.
Newhouser led the Tigers into battle during one of the weirdest seasons in AL history. Two second-division clubs, the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns, joined the Tigers and Yankees in a wild four-team race that lasted well into September. Boston faded after losing key players to the Army, but the Browns and Yankees kept pace. The only reason New York didn't run away with the race was Newhouser. He beat them six times that season.
The Browns shocked the Yankees in a late-season series to put them out of the running, and with two days left Detroit and St. Louis sported identical 87-65 records. Newhouser won his start – victory number 29, which led the majors – but the Browns won, too. Trout, whose season was every bit as good as Newhouser's, took the mound on the final day and lost to the Senators. In St. Louis the Browns scored a comeback win over the Yankees to nail down the pennant.
After the season, the MVP vote was a toss-up between Newhouser and Trout. Dizzy had 27 victories to Newhouser's 29, but had made 40 starts, logged 352⅓ innings and had an ERA of 2.12. Trout actually received more first-place votes than Newhouser, but Hal won the overall voting by four points to cop the trophy by a narrow margin. Newhouser had led the majors with 187 strikeouts, and had an ERA of 2.22. He twirled six shutouts to Trout's seven, and also saved two wins for Detroit, thus he had a hand in a total of 31 victories.
While Trout was never as good again, Newhouser continued his assault on American League batters. In 1945 he led the AL with 313 innings pitched, 29 complete games, 212 strikeouts, eight shutouts, and a 1.81 ERA. He won 25 times and lost nine, with a couple of saves on top. Rarely has a pitcher gone through a season with the total command Newhouser enjoyed. His strikeout total seems tame by modern standards, but at the time the second-place finisher, Nels Potter of the Browns, had 83 fewer.
The Tigers welcomed Hank Greenberg back at midseason and also reacquired outfielder Roy Cullenbine in a trade with the Indians early in the year. Cullenbine established himself as the team's table-setter, while Greenberg got into 78 games and regained his swing in time for another thrilling four-way pennant race.
Hal may have alienated his teammates at times, but they knew he was a gamer. Toward the end of 1945, his back began spasming and the team decided that he should stay in Detroit while the Tigers made their final Eastern trip. When they arrived in New York, general manager Jack Zeller revisited this decision and phoned Newhouser to ask him to fly to New York. The Tigers pitchers were exhausted and the thinking was that Newhouser might be able to fool the Yankees for a couple of innings before they realized he wasn't himself. Newhouser threw a curve to Charlie Keller and practically passed out from the pain, so he stuck with a fastball and changeup. Newhouser ended up blanking the Yankees on four hits that afternoon.
The Tigers rolled into Washington in late September with a half-game lead on the surprising Senators and plenty of bumps and bruises. Eddie Mayo had a sore shoulder. Greenberg was limping on a sprained ankle. And Newhouser's back was killing him. He lasted only one inning before leaving the first game of a crucial twin bill. The Tigers rallied to win 7-4 and took the nightcap 7-3 behind Trout, who won his fifth game in two weeks. They split the next day's doubleheader.
The Senators finished their schedule the following week with 87 wins, a game behind the Tigers. Detroit, however, was unable to clinch because of four consecutive rainouts. The weather finally cleared with the Tigers needing one win to clinch and avoid a playoff with the Senators. Virgil Trucks, who missed the entire year in the Navy, was released in time to start the final game for Detroit. He allowed one run over five-plus innings, but got into trouble in the sixth. Newhouser came in from the bullpen and wriggled out of a one-out, bases-loaded jam to preserve a 2-1 lead. The pesky Browns scored single runs off Newhouser in the seventh and eighth to take a 3-2 lead. In the ninth inning the Tigers loaded the bases and Greenberg hit his most famous home run, a shot into the left-field stands that won the game for Newhouser and the pennant for Detroit. Newhouser ended up leading the majors in wins, strikeouts, and ERA, pitching's version of the Triple Crown. This time Newhouser was a central character in the World Series. The Tigers opened the Series against the Chicago Cubs in Detroit with Hal on the mound. He got absolutely clobbered in a 9-0 rout, giving up seven runs before being yanked in the third inning. The Tigers had played terrible defense behind Newhouser, but he blamed himself for this one. He had not made good pitches when he needed to.
The series seesawed back and forth and was tied at two games apiece when Newhouser redeemed himself in Game Five with an 8-4 complete-game victory. Hal was called upon three days later to start Game Seven. The Tigers staked him to five runs in the top of the first inning – highlighted by a bases-clearing double by his catcher, Paul Richards – and Newhouser kept Chicago under control for nine innings, scattering ten hits and striking out ten for an easy 9-3 victory. With the exception of the Game One debacle, Newhouser just blew the Cubs away in the series. In 20⅔ innings he fanned 22 batters and walked only four.
After the Series, Newhouser was named the league MVP again. In doing so he became the first – and still the only – hurler to win back-to-back Most Valuable Player awards. Newhouser later admitted that he tried hard to win the second award. He knew how tough it was for a pitcher to win it, and was determined to win it twice.
The winter of 1945-46 brought some interesting developments in the baseball world. Jorge Pasquel decided to take advantage of all the returning baseball talent and transform his Mexican League into a major league. The key was luring a few big names south of the border. There was no bigger name in baseball than Prince Hal Newhouser. Pasquel offered him $200,000 to pitch for three seasons, with a $300,000 signing bonus.
For a player who had missed a big payday once, this seemed too good to pass up. Newhouser felt a lot of loyalty to the Tigers, and informed owner Walter Briggs that he was being wooed by Pasquel. The Tigers gave him a $10,000 bonus to stay with the club, with a promise of much more after the season, when his new contract came due. Worried that he might be banned from baseball if the Mexican League imploded, Newhouser took the Detroit offer and never looked back. The Tigers did give him a big raise, to more than $60,000 a year.
The 1946 season belonged to the Red Sox, who celebrated the return from military duty of Ted Williams by winning 104 games and running away from the league. The Tigers finished second, 12 games out. Newhouser was again the top pitcher in the AL, winning a league-best 26 games and taking the ERA crown again with a 1.94 mark. Any doubts that the returning stars would expose him as an inferior pitcher were erased by his stellar season. Although Williams won the MVP award, Newhouser finished close on his heels in second place.
The Tigers had a wonderful starting staff in 1946. Trout, Trucks, and Fred Hutchinson combined to go 45-33 and rarely gave up more than three runs a game. Meanwhile, Greenberg was the top power hitter in the league, and the team had just acquired George Kell, a future batting champion, at the suggestion of Hal's old mentor, Wish Egan. They also had Dick Wakefield, one of the brightest young stars in baseball. Detroit fans had plenty to look forward to.
After the 1946 season the Tigers chatted to the Yankees about pitching. New York had failed to win a pennant for a fourth straight year and the Tigers were loaded. Hal's name came up in conversation and so did Joe DiMaggio's. Was a trade of these two stars specifically discussed? Rumors that it did have circulated ever since.
The 1947 Tigers finished in second place, 12 games out, for the second year in a row. This time they were looking up at the Yankees. The missing piece to their puzzle was Greenberg, who had gotten into a fight with management over his salary and abruptly retired. The Tigers sold his contract to the Pirates, where he played one final season. Meanwhile, the Detroit offense became a black hole. No Tiger hit 25 homers or knocked in or scored 100 runs. Kell was the only regular over .300.
With little offensive support, Newhouser's record dropped to 17-17. He still had a tremendous season, completing 24 of his 36 starts, fanning 176 batters and turning in an ERA of 2.87. Though he had been a big leaguer for nearly a decade, he still had moments of teen-like frustration. During a game at Briggs Stadium in August, O'Neill attempted to remove Newhouser in the third inning after he gave up five runs to the Red Sox. Hal insisted he had his good stuff and simply refused to leave the mound. O'Neill later fined him $250 for his obstinacy – the first fine he had doled out as Tigers manager. It was also the first time Newhouser had actually ever been fined, despite having done untold damage to clubhouses around the league.
If anyone was qualified to judge his own stuff, it was Newhouser. Long before teams used videotape and analyzed pitching motions, Hal had film shot of his games through an expensive lens. He would run the movies at home between starts looking for flaws in his motion and also in his grip. Toward the end of his frustrating 1947 campaign, he purchased a second projector and ran films side by side on two screens. One film showed him during his big years of the mid-1940s. The other had his most recent starts. After hours of study he noticed a slight difference in his follow-through. He corrected the flaw and won three of his final four decisions. He later discovered that he had been playing with a broken right foot.
The Tigers faded from the first division in 1948, finishing a respectable 78-76 but in fifth place. The offense was the problem again. This time they were without Kell for a long stretch of the summer, and rising stars Hoot Evers and Vic Wertz weren't ready to carry the club. For his part, Newhouser had another stellar season. He led the AL with 21 wins and, with 143 strikeouts, was top man on a Detroit staff that finished first in K's. A decade's worth of innings had taken the edge off Newhouser's fastball, but he still got it to the plate in the 90s and had become quite adept at locating his big curve.
On June 15 the Tigers became the last American League team to install lights. Owner Briggs was a staunch proponent of day baseball and even after the first night game he told reporters he did not envision the club playing too many of them. Newhouser was on the mound to deliver the first pitch against the Philadelphia A's at 9:30 P.M. He allowed two hits in a 4-1 victory, later ranking this night among his top baseball thrills. More than 50,000 people were in the stands, and the team received a long, loud ovation after the final out. It was one of the few bright spots in a season that saw Detroit finish 18½ games out of first place.
Newhouser did figure in the 1948 pennant race. On the season's final day, he faced Bob Feller. These were always exciting matchups, and although Feller typically got the best of the Tigers when they faced each other, Newhouser did have one of his most memorable moments on this particular occasion. Newhouser's shoulder was aching and he was throwing on one day's rest, but he pitched one of the best games of his life, winning 7-1 in front of a deflated crowd at Municipal Stadium. The victory prevented the Tribe from clinching the pennant, and forced them into a one-game playoff with the Red Sox, which they won. Newhouser's 21st victory put him one ahead of both Bob Lemon and Gene Bearden, Rapid Robert's teammates.
The 1948 season was Newhouser's last as a 20-game winner. The shoulder pain he felt that day never really went away. Over the years doctors and trainers tried everything they could to diagnose and relieve the pain. By Newhouser's own estimate he was x-rayed more than 100 times during his career. He had shots in his neck, a tooth pulled, and every type of chiropractic maneuver in the book.
Newhouser labored through the 1949 campaign, winning 18 times often on sheer guile. Red Rolfe, the old Yankee star, was now the manager. He squeezed decent years out of fellow veterans Trucks and Hutchinson, and got 25 wins from young starters Art Houtteman and Ted Gray. The Tigers got big years out of Wertz and Kell to finish 20 games over .500, in fourth place.
Detroit continued its winning ways in 1950. The Tigers battled the Yankees, Red Sox, and Indians all year, but finished in second place three games behind the pennant-winning New Yorkers. Newhouser went 15-13 but could no longer count on his fastball to get him out of trouble. His ERA soared to 4.34.
From their fine showing in 1950 the Tigers tumbled into the second division the following year. Newhouser spent half the season unable to pitch because of shoulder woes, going 6-6 in 14 starts. The smooth, rhythmic movement that had characterized his delivery was gone. For a player so concerned with form, it was sheer torture. Newhouser didn't win a game after the All-Star break and was unable to make any starts after mid-July. During the year he was offered a job with a Detroit company for $30,000 a year but turned it down without revealing the firm's name. He wanted to keep pitching.
Newhouser also wanted to keep working with kids. He was a fountain of information on his craft and actually wrote a book entitled Pitching to Win. He also had established a kids club in Detroit and a few other cities called Hal's Pals. He met with members on offdays and before games when he wasn't pitching. He also collected used equipment and sent it to the different clubs after the season. Through these interactions he developed a taste for scouting, no doubt spurred by the memory of Wish Egan. Hal had been a pallbearer at Egan's funeral in April of 1951.
The Tigers cut Newhouser's salary by the maximum 25 percent for 1952, but he refused to sign the contract GM Charlie Gehringer sent him until he was sure he could pitch without pain. He went to Lakeland, Florida, at his own expense a month early and began working out. While some ballplayers would have cringed at the thought of extra work in the spring, Newhouser was a great believer in intense training. Forty laps around the park were just a warm-up for him.
When Newhouser was confident he could make it through the season he made a fascinating proposal to the team. He was due $31,000 for 1952. Instead he asked for a five-year deal for $100,000. If for some reason he could not pitch, the salary would cover him as a minor-league pitching instructor or major-league coach. The Tigers had a longstanding rule against multiyear contracts. After careful consideration they turned him down.
Newhouser managed to make 19 starts in 1952 but was only marginally effective. He went 9-9 with a 3.74 ERA, and toward the end of the year lost his starting spot to young Billy Hoeft. Newhouser's final victory of the season was also his 200th. It turned out to be his last as a Tiger. The following season he made it into only seven games. He was 0–1 with a 7.06 ERA for Detroit.
Newhouser was released by the Tigers before the 1954 season and decided it might be time to retire. His old teammate Hank Greenberg was GM and part owner of the Indians. Greenberg offered him a chance to unretire and make the club as a reliever. Newhouser took it. The move to the bullpen could not have been an easy one for Hal. He was nothing if not pragmatic, but he also was famous for not wanting to leave the mound. At times the ball had to be pried from his hand while he pleaded his case.
The signing turned out to be brilliant. Everything went right for Cleveland during the regular season. Newhouser pitched primarily in long relief, winning seven games and saving seven others against just two losses. His ERA was a neat 2.51. Newhouser was part of a lights-out bullpen that featured a pair of 25-year-old call-ups, Don Mossi and Ray Narleski. Between this threesome they accounted for 16 wins and saved 27 of the Tribe's record 111 victories that season. (Saves were not an official statistic at that time, and the 27 were compiled in later years.) The Giants shocked the Indians in the World Series, scoring a four-game sweep. Newhouser saw action in Game Four. He relieved Lemon in the fifth inning but failed to retire the two batters he faced.
With his final seven victories, Newhouser moved ahead of two Rubes – Marquard and Waddell – into eighth place all-time on the list of victories by left-handers. Hal made just two appearances in 1955 before he was released. His final numbers were 207 wins and 150 losses with a career ERA of 3.06. Newhouser led the American League in wins four times in five seasons and in strikeouts, complete games, and ERA twice. He also was the top man in shutouts one season.
Hal Newhouser stayed in baseball, scouting for many years in Michigan – not a job for the faint-hearted, given the state's April temperatures. He worked for the Orioles, Indians, Tigers, and Astros in the four decades after his retirement as a player. His first discovery was Milt Pappas in 1957. He spotted the righthander at Cooley High in Detroit and connected him with the Orioles. Pappas would make the big club after just a handful of minor-league starts and star as one of the Baby Birds for Newhouser's old catcher, Paul Richards. A couple of years later, Newhouser signed Dean Chance for the O's. Chance later won a Cy Young Award with the Angels.
Newhouser's last employer was the Houston Astros. He quit after the Astros overrode his suggestion to make Derek Jeter the first pick in the 1992 draft. Houston took Phil Nevin instead. Newhouser had watched Jeter play many times and got to know his family – the kid was a lock, he told his wife, Beryl, even at the $1 million bonus many thought it would take to lure the shortstop away from the University of Michigan. "No one is worth a million dollars," Hal told his boss, Dan O'Brien, "but if one kid is worth that, it's this kid."3
Over the years Newhouser suffered the indignity of being passed over by Hall of Fame voters not for his lack of talent, but for the talent drain in baseball during the years in which he excelled. He was what baseball people disdainfully referred to as a Wartime Pitcher. They conveniently ignored the fact that in the postwar years 1946 to 1950, he averaged just under 20 wins a season. In his last year of eligibility he received 155 votes, his best showing by far but still far short of what he needed.
As the years passed Newhouser became more philosophical about this slight. He half-understood what the voters were going through – even those on the Veterans Committee who had tried to hit against him. For several years he listened to the radio on the day the Hall of Fame enshrinees were announced, but after too many years of not hearing his name, Hal stopped listening.
After more than three decades of eligibility, Newhouser finally got the call from Cooperstown in 1992. He cried when he heard the news – not because he had made it, but because his mother, 92, was still alive to see her son receive his just rewards.
Newhouser was the first Detroit-born Tiger to reach Cooperstown. He went into the Hall of Fame with pitchers Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers and Bill McGowan, the late umpire. Among those passed over by the Veterans Committee that year were Phil Rizzuto, Nellie Fox, Earl Weaver, Joe Gordon, Leo Durocher, and Vic Willis – all of whom would later make it – and Gil Hodges, who as of 2019 was still waiting.
A few years later Newhouser began suffering from emphysema and heart problems, but lived to see his number 16 retired by the Tigers. He died on November 10, 1998, at Providence Hospital in Southfield, near his home in Bloomfield Hills. He was survived by Beryl and his daughters, Charlene and Cherrill, as well as his brother, Richard.
The story around baseball during Newhouser's MVP years was that he learned to control his temper the day he learned to control his fastball. Sometimes it was the other way around. Soon it became baseball lore. Hal was nothing if not honest, and always made a point of refuting this theory.
"That's nonsense," he liked to say. "I'll be hot-headed all my life. That's just the kind of guy I am." I didn't win because I controlled my temper," he was quick to add. "I controlled my temper because I began to win. ... There's no use getting mad when you're winning!"4
This biography is included in the bookPitching to the Pennant: The 1954 Cleveland Indians(University of Nebraska Press, 2014), edited by Joseph Wancho. For more information, or to purchase the book from University of Nebraska Press,click here.
Richard Goldstein, Spartan Seasons (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1980)
Bill James, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (New York: Free Press, 2001)
David Jordan, A Tiger in His Time (Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1990)
Tom Meany, Baseball's Greatest Pitchers (New York: A.S. Barnes, 1951)
David Neft, Richard Goldstein, and Michael Neft, The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball (New York: St. Martin's, 2007)
Hal Newhouser, Pitching to Win (Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1948)
Mike Shatzkin and Jim Charlton, The Ballplayers (New York: Arbor House, 1990)
Baseball Research Journal (Larry Amman)
The Sporting News Baseball Guide
The Sporting News Baseball Register
Larry Amman, "Newhouser and Trout in 1944: 56 Wins and a Near Miss," SABR's Baseball Research Journal, Volume 12, 1983
1. Quote attributed to Wish Egan, source unknown.
2. "Transformation to Pitcher," New York Times, June 11, 1989.
3. Buster Olney, "The Pride of Kalamazoo," New York Times, April 4, 1999.
4. Milton Gross, "The Truth About Newhouser," Sport, August 1948.


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## For Android test
- Install `ADB` (Android Debug Bridge)

	If already installed, just skip the part. recommend version `1.0.36`

	* Download address 1: <https://github.com/codeskyblue/AutomatorX/releases/download/1.0.12/adb-1.0.36.zip>
	* Download address 2: <https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html> just download android-sdk
	* Download address 3: <http://adbshell.com> (this site update not too fast)

	After download, add `adb.exe` to PATH

## For iOS test
- iTunes(或iTools)
- [iMobileDevice](http://quamotion.mobi/iMobileDevice/Download)

两款软件下载安装到电脑上(如果安装了iTools可以不用安装iTunes)
另外iMobileDevice安装完之后,需要将其添加到PATH变量中.

安装完之后,iPhone手机需要开启开发者模式才能正常的截图,用iTools可以很方便的完成这个工作

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ACCESS and its partner Pyunic (the Armenian association for the disabled) have designed a project to improve the protection of social rights of persons with disabilities in Armenia. This will be achieved by diversifying the skills and tools of civil society through both a top-down approach of the monitoring procedures of the CoE and bottom-up grassroots advocacy. The action sets different layers of activities to raise awareness on the standards and mechanisms available to promote social rights and the rights of persons with disabilities through the CoE; increase the capacity of civil society to use such mechanisms, with a focus on the European Committee of Social Rights; develop lobbying strategies for the promotion of the ratification of additional relevant provisions and instruments; and highlight issues of multiple discrimination.
ACCESS' team has researched and compiled the standards of the Council of Europe on the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and contributed to CoE publications on this topic. ACCESS has thereafter been invited in the framework of the CoE project on strengthening the protection of IDPs' rights in Ukraine to train lawyers during training on trainers (ToT) seminars in Kyiv; as well as by the OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine, to train judges in Kramatorsk (Donetsk Oblast).
With its main partner organisations in FYROM, Greece and Turkey, ACCESS is setting up a transnational project to promote the protection of the social rights of refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants on the so-called "migrants route". We aim to raise-awareness and train civil society organisations on the Council of Europe standards and reinforce their capacity to engage with the Council of Europe mechanisms, in particular the European Committee of Social Rights. The project further seeks to improve information sharing and communication cross-border through informal networks of volunteers, service providers and members of the civil society, while also facilitating the dialogue with local authorities and national human rights institutions domestically. The action includes a thematic and intersectional approach highlighting the particular needs of groups with heightened vulnerability amongst the refugees – women and girls, unaccompanied minors, victims of trafficking in human beings, victims of torture, persons with disabilities, LGBTI persons, etc.
ACCESS is engaging thematically on women's human rights and violence against women. The organisation has been raising awareness through different fora (INGO Conference meetings; expert round tables; youth organisations seminars) highlighting the critical role of NGOs in the monitoring process of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention). On May 4, 2015, the monitoring body of the Convention, the GREVIO, and the first questionnaire has been made public, launching the first monitoring cycle. ACCESS will work with national NGO partners to prepare NGO alternative reports to contribute to the monitoring of the implementation of states' obligations under this first legally-binding instrument in Europe on violence against women.
Through its activities, ACCESS is prioritising working with national NGO partners to strengthen the dialogue between local authorities and civil society in order to find political and practical solutions to institutional discrimination and foster the inclusion of minorities and vulnerable groups. Through training seminars and expert roundtables, such exchanges aim to adopt an intersectional approach and offer a forum to discuss multiple discrimination based on socio-economic status, migration status, sexual orientation, genders, age, (dis)ability, and racial and ethnic identity, aiming to promote the building of European communities that fully embrace and protect diversity.


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Chissey-sur-Loue är en kommun i departementet Jura i regionen Bourgogne-Franche-Comté i östra Frankrike. Kommunen ligger i kantonen Montbarrey som tillhör arrondissementet Dole. År  hade Chissey-sur-Loue  invånare.

Befolkningsutveckling
Antalet invånare i kommunen Chissey-sur-Loue

Referens:INSEE

Se även
 Lista över kommuner i departementet Jura

Källor

Externa länkar

Kommuner i Jura

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Interdimensional Nostalgia: A strong desire not to go back to a certain place or time, but to a sense of connection.
A longing to enter the worlds of everything, to travel through reality dimensions.
A secret hope to find a mysterious stranger who has been traveling through the same reality dimensions as i have been.


We're coming up on the last few days of January, which means it's time to reflect on what I've learned in the past month. I have to admit, I'm a little nervous about sharing this list, and here's why: there are some months when I'm super excited to share what I've been learning—lots of deep and heavy insights, fun trivia, crazy aha! moments. But this January hasn't proven to be one of those months. That's not to say this list isn't interesting or that you shouldn't read it (I hope you will!) but it's not where I expected my mind to be at the start of this new year.
I've been doing a lot of deep thinking lately—more than usual for a January, as autumn seems to be my most contemplative season, and winter is usually more laid back—but despite all this brooding reflection, I haven't arrived at any conclusions: most of my current learning is still in process . . . and that's okay! I can't dictate the amount of time it takes me to learn a lesson any more than I can pick which truths God is teaching me at any given moment. But a side effect of this slower pace is that much of what I'm learning right now is still too raw to share, so this list is sightly above the surface of what's been going on inside of me lately.
And . . . with that less-than-stellar (but totally honest) introduction, here's a snapshot of a few things I learned this January.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks (in fact, they made up two-thirds of the books I "read" last year) so I was very interested in this article which claims that "as far as the mental processes are concerned, there really isn't much difference between reading and listening to a book. One is not more work than the other." I personally have found that I enjoy, appreciate, and remember more of the books I read over those I've listened to. However, the convenience of audiobooks keeps me listening, so it was nice to have my auditory reading habit validated.
2. Audiobook narrators make a lot of reading mistakes.
I usually read a book or I listen to it, rarely both at the same time. But as I shared on Wednesday, I finally made it through Little Women by listening to the audiobook while following along on my Kindle, and it was an enlightening experience. I was surprised by how many reading errors were made by the narrator: word reversals, ommited or rearranged sentences, and even some word replacements. I'm curious if this is common, or if it was a quirk of the particular book/edition I listened to. It almost has me wanting to do more joint reading/listening just to find out!
3. The average "binge time" for the first season of a television show is less than a week.
I consider the way Luke and I watch TV as binge watching, since we watch one show at a time and watch it from start to finish; but we only make it through one or maybe two episodes each night, so it takes us far longer to get through a season than what is considered a true television binge. This interesting post includes a roundup of the average time people take to watch different types of shows on Netflix. Not surprisingly, subsequent seasons are consumed even faster than earlier ones.
4. Charleston is becoming a girl's name!
A few weeks ago, a friend commented on how much she liked the name Charleston—for a girl! I (shockingly!) hadn't looked up the most recent statistics on the name, and was amazed to find that in 2015 (Charlie's birth year), Charleston was given to 87 boys and 253 girls! This was a sharp spike from the previous year (71 boys and 40 girls) so I think—hope!—it's just a fluke. We specifically chose Charleston because we wanted a strong, masculine name . . . .
5. Eggs do not need to be refrigerated in Europe.
The reason, according to this article, is that many European countries vaccinate against Salmonella Enteritidis, which can infect a chicken's ovaries and contaminate the yolk. In the United States, eggshells are washed and disinfected, which kills any bacteria that might be on the outside, but not the bacteria inside the yolk. I've always kept my eggs in the fridge and had never considered doing differently.
6. Sleep deprivation can be used to fight depression.
This seems totally counter intuitive (doesn't exhaustion contribute to depression?) but the explanation makes sense: people with severe depression often have irregular circadian rhythms, and these can be realigned through periods of prolonged wakefulness.
7. Studies have shown that Major League baseball players have exceptionally good eyesight.
I read this intriguing statistic in a James Clear article dispelling the myth that greatness is purely the result of deliberate practice. Genes play a huge part (as seen in the ocular advantage of successful ball players). However, Clear is sure to point out that "genes provide opportunity. They do not determine our destiny." I love this!
8. I REALLY hate being cold.
Those of you who know me in real life are probably laughing at me for including this on my list, because my loathing of cold weather is nothing new. However, I always forget just how much I hate the cold. When I'm basking in the heat of long August days, I am able to convince myself that the cold isn't so bad and I just might be open to Luke's desire to relocate to a chillier climate. And then the temperatures dip below 70 degrees (or the 20s like we've had this month!) and all of my bravodo vanishes faster than you can say frozen chicken!
9. I hate wearing layers even more than I hate being cold.
I finally realized that this is the main reason I don't like being cold. To stay warm in the winter I wear two pairs of fleece-lined tights under jeans, with wool socks and tall boots; I won't even get started on how many layers I wear on my top half, not to mention scarves and hats and gloves. It's nearly impossible for me to move in all those layers—no wonder I hate winter so much! I'm starting to think I might be better off with slightly fewer layers; I may feel cold but at least I will be able to bend my arms and knees!
10. Charlie's birthday (January 16) is also Hot and Spicy Food Day.
This might explain his very high tolerance for spicy foods. And here I thought it was all the hot sauce I ate when I was pregnant!
11. Birthdays make me sad.
Well, not every birthday, mostly just Charlie's, because it forces me to accept how quickly he is growing and my inability to slow down time. I felt this way when he turned one and again this year on his second birthday. Once the day itself passed I started feeling much better, and I'm now just focusing on enjoying TWO!
12. Anxiety and insecurity pop up at the strangest times.
13. Martin Luther King, Jr., was only 39 years old when he was assassinated.
I'd always imagined Dr. King as a much older man and was shocked to learn this fact. It's inspiring to think of how much can be done with such a short life, and also a little disheartening as I think of how little I've done in my own 32 years (cue those pesky insecurity triggers from #12; ay ay ay!).
And there you have it: my incomplete, but still relevant and meaningful, list of what I learned in January. What does your list include?
← 2017 Reading Challenge: A book written before 1900.


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Michael Idovolo Madoya  (born 2 Feb 1989) is a midfielder with Kenyan Premier League side Nairobi City Stars.

Career
Madoya started his Kenyan Premier League journey at Kericho-based Zoo FC where he was named the league's Most Valuable Player at the end of the 2017 Kenyan Premier League season.

He then moved to Tusker F.C. on a three-year-deal from 2018 with whom he won the 2020-21 title in his final season.

After his contract lapsed, he moved to Nairobi City Stars for the 2020-21 Kenyan Premier League season. He was handed his City Stars debut by head coach Nicholas Muyoti on 24 Oct 2021 in Thika Stadium after coming on as a second-half substitute in a matchday six tie against Bidco United.

Honours

Club
Tusker F.C.
Kenyan Premier League
 Champion (1): 2020/21

Individual
National Super League
 Top scorer (1): 2016 (Zoo FC)
Kenyan Premier League
 Player of the Month (1): June/July 2017 (Zoo FC)
 Fair Play player of the Year (2): 2017, 2018 (Zoo FC)
 Midfielder of the Year (1): 2017 (Zoo FC)
 New Player of the Year (1): 2017 (Zoo FC)
 Player of the Year (1): 2017 (Zoo FC)
 Midfielder of the Year - 2nd runnersup (1): 2018 (Zoo FC)

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Kenyan footballers
Kenyan Premier League players
Tusker F.C. players
Nairobi City Stars players
Association football midfielders


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Air Force Reservist Charged with Raping, Impregnating Girl
Crime scene boundary tape. Getty Images
The Associated Press | By Randall Chase
DOVER, Del. -- An Air Force reservist stationed at Dover Air Force Base has been charged with raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl, the fourth airman to face child sex abuse charges in the past year.
Staff. Sgt. Byron P. White was taken into custody at the military base Tuesday following an investigation that began Dec. 19 after authorities received a complaint on a Division of Family Services hotline, according to Delaware State Police.
White, a reserve loadmaster assigned to Dover's reserve unit, the 512th Airlift Wing, is charged with nine counts of third-degree rape and continuous sexual abuse of a child.
White, 34, was being held with bond set at $200,000. It was not immediately clear whether he has a lawyer.
White's arrest comes just one week after another airman at Dover, Zepplin Taylor-McGinness, 21, was charged by Dover police with raping a runaway 14-year-old girl. Taylor-McGinness is being held with secured bond set at $100,500.
Dover police were contacted in November by the girl's guardian, who learned that she was staying at a local apartment complex, where investigators found her and Taylor-McGinness. Dover police and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations launched a joint investigation, in which they learned that Taylor-McGinness had allegedly engaged in sexual acts with the girl on several occasions. He is charged with four counts of second-degree rape and child endangerment.
Preliminary hearings for both men are scheduled for Feb. 23.
Master Cpl. Melissa Jaffe, a state police spokeswoman, said the two cases involve different victims.
Meanwhile, another airman, Dalian Washington, is scheduled to appear in federal court for sentencing on Feb. 21. Washington faces at least 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to child sex trafficking.
Washington and another airman, Akeem Beazer, were arrested last April after a young teen, who officials say had a troubled home life and often lived on the street, told a social worker that she had stayed on the military base and had sex with service members.
Beazer was sentenced last month to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a minor.
"One assault is one too many. Sexual assault is a crime and it violates our Air Force core values and is not conducive to the Air Force way of life," Lt. Katherine Sanner, a base spokeswoman, said in an email.
"Although leaders talk to their airmen daily, base leadership is putting special emphasis and importance on initiating specific discussions this week due to recent incidents," she added.
State police said authorities confirmed that White's alleged 14-year-old victim was pregnant and said she told investigators that he was the father of the child.
Detectives further discovered that the girl had been in a sexual relationship with White since May 2017. Authorities said the pair engaged in sexual encounters at White's home, about 8 miles (13 kilometers) southwest of the base.
Base officials said White has been in both active and non-active status throughout the time period of allegations.
This article was written by Randall Chase from The Associated Press and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network. Please direct all licensing questions to legal@newscred.com.
Military Headlines Air Force Topics Air Force Reserve Crime
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The Pentagon says it will cost $500 million to $600 million to find new suppliers for F-35 parts produced by Turkey.
Latest Benefits Info
VA Accepting Applications For New STEM GI Bill Soon
Specially Adapted Housing Program Must Expand to Meet Disabled Vets' Needs
Senate Passes Blue Water Navy Bill, Cementing Victory for Ill Vietnam Veterans
Inspector General Finds VA Overcharged Disabled Vets on Home Loans
Female Veterans Are Fastest Growing Segment of Homeless Veteran Population
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Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country has no choice but to manufacture missiles for defense purposes.
Military Benefits Updates
The GI Bill Transfer Rules Are Changing Soon
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Obesity Is Not a Service-Connected Disability: VA
The 8 Most Useless Pieces of Gear Ever Issued
The Taste of Space: Buzz Says, 'Tang Sucks'
Here's What Music Apollo 11 Astronauts Enjoyed for Their Walk on the Moon

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Eyeing a training dummy is good practice for your dog, but enticing him to use his nose with our Training Scents from National Scent Company will also increase his ability to find downed birds come hunting season. Simply add a few drops of Training Scent to any training dummy and watch your dog's reaction when they get into the scent cone.
Add realism to your training dummy exercises by adding Training Scent to the situation. Reinforce your dog's natural instinct to use his nose and seek a specific game bird scent.
Very potent so only add a drop or two to a Dokken Dead Fowl Trainer, Avery Hexabumper, Knobby Dummy or any of our canvas dummies.


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Following the path of 'user-friendly' law
By Debra Rubin	December 31, 2012, 12:00 am Edit
Halacha — Jewish law — "is a comprehensive way of life that tells us what to do when we wake up in the morning, what you can and can't wear, what you can eat, and whom you can and can't marry," said Rabbi David Bassous.
He said Halacha literally means "path," and it presents a route of holiness traveled by Jews for centuries. Bassous, religious leader of Congregation Etz Ahaim in Highland Park, spoke before about 100 people Dec. 22 at Congregation Ohav Emeth in Highland Park for the Orthodox Forum of Edison and Highland Park.
"The significance of why we do these things is we are constantly in contact with the divine," said Bassous, who is also the author of Jewish Law Meets Modern Challenges.
However, even Torah law, given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, has gaps, which, he explained, are filled in by oral law, codified in the Talmud, the rabbinical commentary.
"It's impossible to understand the commandments without some sort of commentary," said Bassous. Even Moses spent 40 days learning not only the law, but also the minhag, the body of customs that would become so powerful they would become part of the law.
"The oral law is interesting stories and parables that give the ethics, not just the legalistic document for the lawyers and rabbis," said Bassous.
The rabbi said the best-known minhag is probably that of celebrating Jewish holidays for two days outside of Israel, instead of one. The exception is Rosh Hashana, which is also observed for two days in Israel.
"In those days they didn't have calendars so the rabbis made a rabbinical law that the holiday should be observed two days in case people were unsure of the day," said Bassous. "Even though we now have calendars, the rabbis said, 'Let's keep it two days because it is a very powerful minhag.'"
That power to create new law was given to the rabbis by God "to strengthen Judaism and the mitzvot."
For instance, Bassous said, while Jews are commanded to observe Shabbat, it was the rabbis who decreed lighting candles to increase its spirituality. He likened breaking Shabbat to "falling off a spiritual cliff" and said the talmudic rabbis regarded their enacting of the laws as a way to "build a fence around the Torah" to protect its intentions.
"It is forbidden to build on Shabbat so the rabbis said you can't play with a hammer," said Bassous. "If you find a hammer you might find a nail and start building. What the rabbis are doing is protecting us and keeping us from falling off that spiritual cliff. They are intended to add to Torah, not subtract from Torah."
Yet Torah law always trumps rabbinical law. Bassous noted that because Jews are supposed to celebrate Shabbat with joy, all fast days falling on it are moved a day — with one exception.
"Yom Kippur is the only fast day that can take place on Shabbat because it is Torah law that it always fall on the evening of the ninth of Tishrei," said Bassous; other fast days are fixed by rabbinical law.
Even in the modern age, where science and technology have presented rabbis with new challenges, religious leaders have found solutions without breaking down the fence.
For example, doctors in Israeli hospitals working on Shabbat often use iPads — not pen and paper — to acceptably get around the rabbinical — but not the Torah — prohibition of writing on the holiday.
That quality, said Bassous, makes Torah eternally engaging.
"The beauty of Torah is that all put together, it is stories and laws that captivate a person," said Bassous. "Even a little kid can study Torah and understand it on his level while a rabbi can study it for 50 years and still get something out of it.
"It is user-friendly."
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 Gefangenenchor (Fidelio), Chorwerk aus dem ersten Akt der Oper Fidelio von Ludwig van Beethoven
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In light of the OIG and GAO findings regarding the HIMP pilot for market hogs, will FSIS revoke all equivalency determinations for foreign inspection systems that were made based on that program?
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When will the most recent audit report for Australia be posted on the FSIS website?


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This has been a week for the record books. It has been jam packed. I feel like I haven't had a moment to catch my breath. The good thing about that is I am eagerly awaiting Sunday which is the only day this weekend I'll have to relax.
With that lets look at 5 things from the week.
So my cat that got out on Sunday waltzed back into the house last night. She came in like she had never been gone. I'm so happy. Abbey is too, but she is kinda bummed she can't talk me into this cutie now. A friend of mine is fostering it from the animal shelter.
I took the girls to see Hotel Transylvania and it was sooo cute. We went to early show and it great because we had the theater to ourselves. The girls literally danced and sang in the aisles.
I saw the trailer for CREED and as a massive Rocky fan I have to see it. Thanksgiving dinner may be late so we can watch it.
Life is really busy right now. Both work and outside of work, I am always in need of a back massage. I guess that isn't something to high five, but it is something that's happening.
I haven't had a key to my front door the entire time I've lived here. When I bought the house they told me the keys were the same. They were wrong. I just lived with it until this this week. I finally decided I was going to give changing the door knob a try. Turns out it is way easier than I thought it would be. I'm hoping I am saying the same thing after I try replacing the ceiling fans and the faucets.
And a bonus positive thing. Abbey auditioned for All State Choir this week. Emmy is auditioning also but her audition is a few weeks away. Our house has literally been a musical the last few weeks. They sing EVERYTHING. Its funny.


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Bird flu activity cited in China, Indonesia, Azerbaijan
Feb 10, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – China and Indonesia reported fatal human cases of H5N1 avian influenza today, while Azerbaijan joined the list of countries with outbreaks in wild birds.In addition, there were reports that the virus was spreading to more farms in Nigeria, which was revealed this week as the first African country hit by the pathogen.In Indonesia, a 23-year-old woman from Bekasi, east of Jakarta, died of what local tests showed was avian flu, according to an Associated Press (AP) report published today. Ilham Patu, an official at Sulianti Saroso Hostial in Jakarta, said she had been sick for 5 days.The case was the second one reported in Indonesia in the past 2 days. Yesterday Patu said a 27-year-old woman from Cikarang, another town east of Jakarta, had tested positive for avian flu, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP). She too was being treated at Sulianti Saroso Hospital.Samples from both women were being sent to a World Health Organization (WHO) reference laboratory in Hong Kong for confirmatory testing, according to the reports.In China, a 20-year-old female farmer from the southern province of Hunan died of avian flu, according to an AP report based on information from the Chinese Health Ministry.The ministry said the woman, surnamed Long, had become ill Jan 27 and died Feb 4. The report said she had handled poultry and that lab tests had confirmed she had the H5N1 virus.The WHO currently lists a total of 166 human cases, including 88 deaths. It does not yet include the Indonesian and Chinese cases mentioned here.In Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic on the west side of the Caspian Sea, north of Iran, officials said tests in Britain had confirmed H5N1 in wild birds. The birds were found dead on the Absheron peninsula, which juts into the Caspian and includes the capital, Baku, according to an AP report.No human cases or outbreaks in domestic poultry had been reported, according to an AFP story. A veterinary official said the Abserhon region would be quarantined.Azerbaijan is at high risk for avian flu because it is a stopover and wintering site for thousands of migratory birds, the AFP story said.In Nigeria, an official from the northern state of Kano, speaking anonymously, said 16 farms in his area were thought to be affected by avian flu and that 100,000 chickens had died, according to another AFP report today.Also, Auwalu Haruna, head of the Kano Poultry Farmers Association, told AFP he knew of 30 affected farms.But Agriculture Minister Adamu Bello said the number of farms confirmed as affected remained at four, according to the story.Meanwhile, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said tests had confirmed that the H5N1 strain in Nigeria matches a strain found in humans in Turkey and China, AFP reported."It has come from these countries and it is very, very unlikely that it has come through trade, and very likely that it has been through migratory birds," Alex Thermann, special advisor to the head of the OIE, was quoted as saying.The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the OIE called on Nigeria today to immediately close all poultry markets in Kaduna and Kano states and neighboring regions to contain the disease.In Bulgaria, officials said an H5 virus found in a dead swan is not the same type that has killed people, according to still another AFP report. The Bulgarian veterinary service said a British lab had determined that the virus was "a lethal virus for birds but not for people."However, the report didn't specify the neuraminidase (N) number of the virus. The dead bird was found in the Danube River Jan 30.See also:FAO/OIE statement on the situation in Nigeriahttp://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000230/index.html read more
Mato Franković, Mayor of Dubrovnik: The current situation with cruisers is unsustainable
Recognizing the fact that the existing contracts with cruising companies expire only in 2019, Mayor Franković wrote a letter expressing the need to ensure the most appropriate allocation of ship arrivals in the 2018 season through joint efforts and coordination of state and local levels of government, in order to achieve the highest quality overall tourist offer, which only in the past year brought Dubrovnik several prestigious titles of the best destination on the Adriatic. "The current situation is unsustainable in the true sense of the word, and the pressure on the historic core during peak traffic loads, especially at the end of the week, when over 7.000 people enter the city during the few hours in the morning, does not bring anything good in terms of preservation of monumental heritage. and by no means in the quality of the visitor experience. The long-term goal of the City of Dubrovnik is to ensure that at one time there are no more than 4.000 guests from cruise ships inside the walls. We believe that this is the optimal number that ensures a quality life for the citizens of Dubrovnik, and our guests the best possible experience of traveling and enjoying the beauty and all the offer of Dubrovnik. I am convinced that this goal can be achieved by better planning and dispersion of ship arrival dates, which requires joint action.. "Franković points out.Source: Dubrovnik Port AuthorityAccording to the Central Bureau of Statistics, in the period from January to May 2017, 150 cruises of foreign ships were made in Croatian seaports. There were 177.709 passengers on these ships, who stayed in Croatia for a total of 347 days, which is an average of 2 days. Most foreign ships recorded their first entry in Dubrovnik-Neretva (66,0%), as foreign ships for cruises in the first five months of 2017 had the port of Dubrovnik (113 visits)."The city of Dubrovnik does not divide guests on any grounds, including the manner of arrival at the destination. However, we are firmly committed to ensuring a pleasant stay for all our guests regardless of the way they arrive. At the same time, the management of tourism in the destination aims at a comfortable life of our citizens, reducing traffic jams and, in particular, the pressure on the historic core of Dubrovnik, which has been under UNESCO protection since 1979.", Concluded Mayor Franković.Related news: GAME OF THE THRONE IN DUBROVNIK INCREASES TOURIST SPENDING BY 126 MILLION EUROS IN FOUR YEARS The Mayor of the City of Dubrovnik Mato Franković sent an official letter to the Director of the Dubrovnik Port Authority Blaž Pez on the arrival of cruise ships in the 2018 and 2019 seasons, as well as the Minister of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure of the Republic of Croatia Oleg Butković and the Minister of Tourism Gari Cappelli. read more
Online reservations are increasingly replacing traditional ways of booking travel and accommodation
Travel is not organized or paid for as it used to be because intermediaries are no longer physical agencies, which actually offer what they think is best. They have been replaced in recent years by competitors in the Internet world, and the revenues they generate are pushing the boundaries from year to year, writes the portal ICT Business.This is because e-travel does not only mean tourism, but travel of all kinds. That is why the list published by Statista is divided into online reservations and mobile services. While reservations include hotels, tourist packages and everything you already need to stay somewhere, mobile services are related to the purchase of tickets for various means of transport.In 2016, online bookings earned a total of $ 187,8 billion worldwide, and mobile services as much as $ 388,3 billion. This year, it is projected to be at 212,7 billion and 443 billion, and in 2022, bookings will reach 323,5 billion and mobile services 701,5 billion.The future as well as the present is clear. Travel agencies have long had to adapt to this, as have all those involved in transportation services.Source: ICT BusinessRelated news:Croatian travel agencies urgently need technological progress read more
The legend of the dancers – a new Istra Inspirit experience and tourist story
Istra Inspirit, one of the best tourist stories in Croatia, is entering its seventh season this year, and this year it will be richer for another tourist story and a new experience – the Legend of the Trnoplesars that takes visitors back to Pićan from late antiquity.Istra Inspirit will on Sunday, June 3.06.2018, 6. as part of the event Petivina and the Day of the People of Pićan in Pićan, revive a unique legend from the time of late antiquity through an interactive experience called 'The Legend of the Trnoplesars'. Thus, the Municipality of Pićan goes back to the XNUMXth century when the Diocese of Pićan was founded under the leadership of St. Nicephorus, and the revival of the old town will show the rich intangible cultural heritage of that time – customs, clothing, food that was characteristic of that historical period.The central event, as part of which Istra Inspirit will stage a legend about thorns dancers and the miraculous journey of St. Nicephorus to Rome, will begin at 20.30 pm at the entrance to the old town of Pićan. From 19 pm, visitors will be able to enjoy a unique gastronomic program and will be able to taste the traditional food of this area – peony rafioli and late antique dish, while the youngest visitors will enjoy a fun themed corner.And the locals are becoming part of the story The majority of the inhabitants of the Municipality of Pićan, the Association of Pićans 'Trnoplesari', O.Š. are involved in creating an experience inspired by the legend of the Trnoplesars and Saint Nicephorus. 'Vladimir Nazor' – Podpićan and local craftsmen and family farms.In addition to numerous Istra Inspirit performers (Denis Brižić, Luka Barešić, Šandor Slacki, Ivona Bulešić, Dejan Gotal, Sedina Cerovac, Zoja Poropat, Jasna Petković) who will stage the legend under the direction of Petra B. Blašković, the program will include 50 extras, representatives of the local community who participated in creating the concept of this event from the very beginning and gave their selfless contribution to the revival of this legend. Also, in cooperation with a local manufacturer of olive wood items, a local souvenir was designed, thematically related to the legend of the thorn dancers.Photo: Istra Inspirit / Mateo GoboThe legend of the thorns In this story, St. Nicephorus appears in the role of an elderly bishop, who lived in poverty with his nieces, with whom he shared a bed on cold days. His opponents slandered him before the Pope for living in sin with his nieces, and invited him to Rome to justify himself before the supreme head of the church. On his way, he cursed his opponents with the words: "Let them dance barefoot on the thorns until they repent", from which the expression trnoplesari. In any case, St. Nicephorus set out on a journey with his donkey, which was slaughtered by a wolf after the kilometers traveled, which Nicephorus forced to carry instead of the slaughtered animal. In several places where the kings were arid, the saint struck the ground with a stick and living springs of water were created, and when he reached Koper, he put his coat on the surface of the sea, and thus came to the western side of the Adriatic. When he stood before the Pope in Rome, he hung his wet coat in the sun to dry, and the coat remained hanging in the air. Seeing this, the pope removed all curses and restored all honors to Nicephorus. "To dance barefoot on thorns!" Is a sentence uttered by St. Nicephorus before his miraculous trip to Rome, and what exactly it means for the history of Pićanci and why the nickname 'trnoplesari' is still used today, will be found out by all who trips to Pićan and together with Istra Inspirit and Pićanci will be part of an interactive theatrical walk through the narrow streets of the old town as part of which they will have the opportunity to learn about the old crafts of this area and try the 'Nicephorus snack'. The message that can be drawn from the creation of the whole project is that the strong influence of the legend from the 6th century has lasted until today and the desire of the locals to revive the unique story and Pićan intangible cultural heritage resulted in a new Istra Inspirit experience. The actors will perform in the Istrian dialect with a touch of the Pico dialect.Istra Inspirit is a multi-award winning experience tourism project that enriches the cultural and tourist offer of the peninsula by reviving historical events in authentic locations, through staged Istrian legends and myths. Istra Inspirit has been telling its stories since 2012, and today they tell their stories all over Istria through 13 experiences. Definitely storytelling in the right sense. read more
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Update on the latest sports
Among the other games on the major league schedule:— Michael Pineda comes off the restricted list to make his season debut for the Twins tonight. The 6-foot-7, 280-pound righty is scheduled to start against the Chicago White Sox after completing his 60-game suspension for testing positive for a weight-loss drug on baseball's banned substances list. The White Sox are in sole possession of the AL Central lead for the first time since April 2, 2018. The last time Chicago entered September alone in first place was 2012, the last winning season on the south side. — The Tampa Bay Rays are 4½ games up in the American League East over the New York Yankees after winning Monday night at Yankee Stadium. The Rays plan to run a bullpen game against Masahiro Tanaka tonight.— After going deep twice Monday night, Juan Soto has 11 homers in just 24 games played for the Washington Nationals, while teammate Trea Turner is the first player in franchise history to have at least three hits in four straight games. Meanwhile, Rhys Hoskins is the first Phillies player since 1900 to have three consecutive games with multiple extra-base hits and a home run. The two teams meet again tonight, with Washington lefty Patrick Corbin and Philadelphia ace Aaron Nola trying to cool off the hot bats. SEATTLE (AP) — The third and final game Thursday of Oakland's series at Seattle has been postponed to allow for additional testing and contact tracing after a member of the Athletics' organization tested positive for the coronavirus. The first two games in the series scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday had previously been put off. Major League Baseball says the games will be made up with a doubleheader in Seattle on Sept. 14 and another in Oakland on Sept. 26. MLB-SCHEDULEAstros resume playHOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros will return to play as scheduled tonight against the Texas Rangers after their game Sunday against the Oakland Athletics was postponed because a member of the A's organization tested positive for the coronavirus. The status of Houston's series against the Rangers had been uncertain as the Astros awaited results of coronavirus tests they took on Sunday. Trump has framed the debate over player and fan safety as a political one.HORSE RACING-KENTUCKY DERBYDerby favorite draws post position 17LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tiz the Law is the 3-5 morning-line favorite for the 146th Kentucky Derby and will attempt to become the first winner from the No. 17 post position. The posts were drawn Tuesday for Saturday's marquee race for 3-year-olds. All the race favorites will break from the outside at Churchill Downs. Second choice Honor A. P. — at 5-1 odds — drew the No. 16 post. Authentic is the 8-1 third choice from the far No. 18 slot. That's the post position that last year earned 65-1 long shot Country House the glory — the colt crossed the finish line second before being awarded the victory with Maximum Security's disqualification for interference. In other action on and off the court:— Two seeded men at the U.S. Open — No. 2 Dominic Thiem and No. 32 Adrian Mannarino — have been fined because someone in their entourage violated the tournament's COVID-19 protocols. Mannarino has acknowledged he is part of a group of players who were in contact with Benoit Paire, the only U.S. Open entrant to test positive for the coronavirus so far. That group was placed under additional restrictions in case they might have been exposed to the virus by Paire. The U.S. Tennis Association specified that Thiem's entourage violated the rule requiring universal masking. — Former top-10 player Carla Suarez Navarro has announced that she will need six months of chemotherapy to treat Hodgkin lymphoma. Suarez Navarro pulled out of the U.S. Open last month.NBA-PLAYOFFSNuggets and Jazz meet in Game 7 Update on the latest sports LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The Denver Nuggets and the Utah Jazz meet for Game 7 of their NBA playoff series — the first time a series has gone to seven games in the "bubble." The winner will advance to face the Los Angeles Clippers. The Nuggets are trying to become the first team since 2016 to rally from a 3-1 deficit and win a playoff series. The Boston Celtics hope to take a two-games-to-none lead over the Toronto Raptors today in their NBA Eastern Conference semifinal series. The Celtics are already 4-and-1 against the Raptors so far this season. No other team has beaten the reigning NBA champs more than twice. NHL PLAYOFFS VIRUS OUTBREAK-BIG TENTrump calls on Big Ten to restore football seasonUNDATED (AP) — The Big Ten Conference, already in court and under pressure from players and parents over its decision to cancel fall football, is now hearing from President Donald Trump. Trump tweeted he has spoken with Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren about reinstating the fall season. The Big Ten had no immediate comment. The league announced Aug. 11 it would move its football season to the spring semester because of health risks associated with the pandemic. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Kings have signed forward Austin Wagner to a three-year, $3.4 million contract extension. The 23-year-old Wagner has spent most of the past two seasons with the Kings, who drafted the physical wing in the fourth round in 2015. He had 12 goals and nine assists as a rookie in the 2018-19 season, and he added six goals and five assists this season while also leading Los Angeles with 145 hits. Wagner was due to be a restricted free agent in the offseason.MLB-ATHLETICS-MARINERSFinal game of Oakland-Seattle series postponed Islanders hope to advanceTORONTO (AP) — With a win tonight over the Philadelphia Flyers, the New York Islanders would advance to the NHL's Eastern Conference finals. The Islanders have a three-games-to-one lead in the best-of-seven second-round series. The Vegas Golden Knights have a 3-1 lead in their second-round series against Vancouver heading into tonight's Game 5 in Edmonton. With a win, the Knights would eliminate the last Canadian team remaining in this NHL post-season. NHL-KINGS-WAGNERKings sign Wager to extension Associated Press September 1, 2020 Share This StoryFacebookTwitteremailPrintLinkedinRedditTENNIS-US OPENSecond day under way at US OpenNEW YORK (AP) — Sam Querrey has been knocked out of the first round of the U.S. Open by a player who missed more than two years because of a hip injury. Andrey Kuznetsov beat Querrey 6-4, 7-5 (6), 6-2 to complete the long comeback, getting his first tour-level win since 2017. The Russian returned to play last month at a Prague Challenger event and lost his only match after a two-year, seven-month layoff because of the hip. Tiz the Law is unbeaten in four starts this year and has six wins and a third in seven career races. The victories include one in the Belmont Stakes, which this year started the Triple Crown series because of the scheduling shakeup caused by the coronavirus. The Preakness in Baltimore will take place next month. The Derby is being run without any fans in attendance.NFL-RAMS-HOWARDTravin Howard out for the season THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Rams linebacker Travin Howard will miss the upcoming season after tearing the meniscus in his knee. His injury deprives the Rams of a probable starter at inside linebacker for the second straight season. 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Reggae Girlz in France ready to take on Brazil
LYON, France, CMC – Head coach of the Reggae Girlz Hugh Menzies is anxiously looking forward to next Sunday's (June 9) opening round encounter of the FIFA Women's World Cup against Brazil.The Jamaican women, who will be making their debut at the tournament, are in Group C and will play Brazil on June 9, Italy on June 14 and then Australia on June 18 in their final group game.Menzies said the Reggae Girlz were itching to kick start their campaign after suffering a 3-2 defeat to Scotland in Scotland on Tuesday May 28."Everybody is upbeat, and they are ready to get back on to the training ground. They have not had training sessions in the last couple of days, so they are itching to get back on to the pitch.While he said the team was upbeat, he stressed that the Girlz would have to maintain its discipline against Brazil to ensure a positive result."We have had films already being sorted out so we can see where we can exploit and just study their style."It does give us hope that they haven't won a game in a long time, but we have to go in there and maintain our discipline and play the way we know how to play. Then we shouldn't have a problem," Menzies said."I think that we just have do a better job of keeping the ball and making sure that we just focus on individual assignments throughout the match in order to make sure that we come away with something from the game." read more
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I've been on a progressive march towards joining a band. I've been absorbing everything bass. Memorizing the neck, patterns and covers. I have learned how to write and read music notation, learning staffs. i subscribe to 'Garage band',"Tab Pro" and other "Apps" to help the study process short.
Rush, Tom Petty, U2, Rolling Stones, Ozzy, DIO, KISS, RATT, most of the 80's and 90's, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, ELO, Supertramp, the Grimm Reaper, there's a long list.
Fender Squire and a B.C. Rich Warlock 4-string. Practice Amp, a Vamp virtual amplifier and room to practice.