How we get from here to there, day or night, 24/7....
22 February 2010
Dr. Sapna Parikh of Fox5 is the True Fox!
Oh I say ~ yes indeed!
yes...O yes, this gorgeous beauty (I have to ask her when i see her which of the lovely Southeast Asian countries she is from? she looks more southern/eastern Indian, which makes me think Bangladesh is her origin, but I'll ask her when I see her LOL) just graces the TV screen every morning and some evenings with her medical words of wisdom, keeping a teeming population like New York in good health.In the meantime, may we enjoy this luscious lemon chocolate mint cupcake that we are blessed to have HDTV to see. Absolutely one of the best additions to an otherwise ho-hum ideology network as Fox. Hello Sapna ~ CALL ME!
19 February 2010
Time To Add Some Melanin To Our Skin with Julie Chang of Fox 5
Julie Chang is looking great! A fantastic addition to the Fox5 news team, she reports on entertainment and Hollywood, Broadway and the hip hop scene. Whether it's interviewing Keke Palmer or Anna Kournikova like in the pics here, we love her reporting, and we really love her sexy looks, perky charm, and just fantabulous being! Hey Julie, call me! She is SIZZLING HOTT!!
17 February 2010
Cat une Haute!!
Cat Deeley - one hot model! Currently the host of "So You Think You Can Dance?" and more recently I noticed also the host of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", this British hotstitch is popping up on my screen more and more. And we're happy to have more of her here at CNsaw.So that's how it's done!
12 February 2010
In Honoring Coach, Museum Confronts Segregation
(FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES - A STORY FOR THE AGES)
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
Published: February 12, 2010
BATON ROUGE, La. — When Eddie Robinson was growing up here in Louisiana’s capital city about 80 years ago, he discovered the only way a black person infatuated with football could attend a game at the state university: He showed up at 5 a.m. on Saturdays to clean the stadium.
In 55 years of coaching the Grambling Tigers, Eddie Robinson sent more than 200 players to the pros. Some of Grambling State University’s greatest players will be honored in the new museum.
To take his first job as a football coach, in 1941, Mr. Robinson had to travel several hundred miles north, to a segregated teachers’ college in an unincorporated hamlet called Grambling. Mail arrived by train, and students helped harvest peaches and sweet potatoes from the college farm.
As for the white world, it was if anything more hostile than Baton Rouge’s. Just three years before Mr. Robinson’s arrival, a black man had been raped with a hot poker, then lynched in the neighboring town of Ruston.
Yet Mr. Robinson worked and lived nowhere else for the rest of his life. In 55 years of coaching the Grambling Tigers, he amassed 408 victories and an .844 winning percentage and sent more than 200 players to the pros. He also personally oversaw their regular attendance at class and church.
And now, three years since Mr. Robinson died at age 88, the state that once subjugated him has put its money and imprimatur on a museum devoted to his life and legacy. Some 900 coaches, admirers, and former players, including the head coaches of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Notre Dame, are streaming into Grambling on for the official opening of the Eddie G. Robinson Museum on Saturday.
Should anyone get lost, billboards along Interstate 20 direct drivers toward the museum on the campus of Grambling State University. A sign being hoisted into place this week at the Grambling exit promotes the museum as part of the state’s African-American Heritage Trail.
“This would be the answer to his prayers,” Doris Robinson, the coach’s widow, said in an interview this week. “He was doing things that were lasting and he wanted the world to know.”
The impact of the museum, though, far surpasses the familial. “There has been a real effort on the part of the state to expand the history, to be more inclusive, to finally catch up,” said Petra Munro Hendry, a professor of educational history at Louisiana State University and the author of a history of black Baton Rouge (“Old South Baton Rouge: The Roots of Hope”).
While that effort ultimately involved a number of elected officials from both parties and both races, it began with one of Eddie Robinson’s coaching comrades, Wilbert Ellis. In the late 1990s, toward the end of his 43-year career leading the Grambling baseball team, Mr. Ellis paid a visit to the museum in Alabama honoring its legendary football coach, Paul W. (Bear) Bryant.
“I looked at it,” Mr. Ellis recalled the other day, “and I said to myself, ‘This is the way Eddie should be honored.’ ”
The inspiration was both appropriate and paradoxical. On the one hand, Mr. Robinson and Mr. Bryant had maintained a personal friendship and a professional respect for decades. On the other, while Mr. Robinson was confined to a black college by Jim Crow, Mr. Bryant willingly obliged segregation to field all-white football teams whose triumphs were upheld by bigots as proof of racial superiority.
The Bryant museum, which opened in 1981, also had benefited from the financial support of the state’s university system. Mr. Ellis, in contrast, started fund-raising with about a dozen longtime friends of Mr. Robinson’s. Over several years, they managed to collect $300,000 — a substantial sum for amateurs but far short of the amount needed to build, stock and staff even a modest museum.
Two state legislators from the northern Louisiana area helped by pushing through a bill to formally designate the nascent museum as a state project. They could not, however, loosen purse-strings. And meanwhile, Mr. Robinson’s Alzheimer’s disease worsened during several years before his death.
His papers and memorabilia, the future collection, landed everywhere from a storage locker outside Atlanta to the state archives in Baton Rouge. One former player rescued a batch of game films that were being tossed into the trash outside the Grambling football office.
The coach’s death did succeed in infusing the museum’s cause with a sense of urgency. The State Legislature appropriated $3.3 million for it in June 2008, and early in 2009 construction began in the original women’s gym on the Grambling campus, which by this time was being used mostly for dances and intramural activities.
“Eddie Robinson always said he only had two things,” Mr. Ellis recalled. “He had one wife and he had one job. So where else but Grambling would you want to have the museum?”
As final work proceeded at a frenetic pace before this weekend’s opening, exhibits took their places within the 18,000-square-foot building. Over the entrance to a small theater that will show a brief documentary about Mr. Robinson hung a replica of the Temple theater’s marquee.
At that black landmark in Baton Rouge, a young Mr. Robinson played basketball, boxed and watched Tom Mix westerns.
Two facing walls display photos of every Grambling player who went pro, from Glenn Alexander to Coleman Zeno. A scale model of the Cotton Bowl scoreboard captures the final score of Grambling’s victory over Alcorn State in 1985 that give Mr. Robinson his 324th victory, putting him ahead of Mr. Bryant on the career list.
Less visibly, but perhaps more important, the museum will also hold the primary-source materials of interest to scholars: oral histories, playbooks and game plans, handwritten letters from teenagers pleading for the chance to play at Grambling.
“We’re not going to see anybody else like Eddie Robinson again,” said Michael Hurd, the author “Black College Football, 1892-1992,” an authoritative history. “Not so much because of the number of wins but for where he started and for what he went through. He never made racism an issue, but it was a hurdle he had to clear. So for him to recognized is a recognition of black college football.”
(FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES - A STORY FOR THE AGES)
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
Published: February 12, 2010
BATON ROUGE, La. — When Eddie Robinson was growing up here in Louisiana’s capital city about 80 years ago, he discovered the only way a black person infatuated with football could attend a game at the state university: He showed up at 5 a.m. on Saturdays to clean the stadium.
In 55 years of coaching the Grambling Tigers, Eddie Robinson sent more than 200 players to the pros. Some of Grambling State University’s greatest players will be honored in the new museum.
To take his first job as a football coach, in 1941, Mr. Robinson had to travel several hundred miles north, to a segregated teachers’ college in an unincorporated hamlet called Grambling. Mail arrived by train, and students helped harvest peaches and sweet potatoes from the college farm.
As for the white world, it was if anything more hostile than Baton Rouge’s. Just three years before Mr. Robinson’s arrival, a black man had been raped with a hot poker, then lynched in the neighboring town of Ruston.
Yet Mr. Robinson worked and lived nowhere else for the rest of his life. In 55 years of coaching the Grambling Tigers, he amassed 408 victories and an .844 winning percentage and sent more than 200 players to the pros. He also personally oversaw their regular attendance at class and church.
And now, three years since Mr. Robinson died at age 88, the state that once subjugated him has put its money and imprimatur on a museum devoted to his life and legacy. Some 900 coaches, admirers, and former players, including the head coaches of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Notre Dame, are streaming into Grambling on for the official opening of the Eddie G. Robinson Museum on Saturday.
Should anyone get lost, billboards along Interstate 20 direct drivers toward the museum on the campus of Grambling State University. A sign being hoisted into place this week at the Grambling exit promotes the museum as part of the state’s African-American Heritage Trail.
“This would be the answer to his prayers,” Doris Robinson, the coach’s widow, said in an interview this week. “He was doing things that were lasting and he wanted the world to know.”
The impact of the museum, though, far surpasses the familial. “There has been a real effort on the part of the state to expand the history, to be more inclusive, to finally catch up,” said Petra Munro Hendry, a professor of educational history at Louisiana State University and the author of a history of black Baton Rouge (“Old South Baton Rouge: The Roots of Hope”).
While that effort ultimately involved a number of elected officials from both parties and both races, it began with one of Eddie Robinson’s coaching comrades, Wilbert Ellis. In the late 1990s, toward the end of his 43-year career leading the Grambling baseball team, Mr. Ellis paid a visit to the museum in Alabama honoring its legendary football coach, Paul W. (Bear) Bryant.
“I looked at it,” Mr. Ellis recalled the other day, “and I said to myself, ‘This is the way Eddie should be honored.’ ”
The inspiration was both appropriate and paradoxical. On the one hand, Mr. Robinson and Mr. Bryant had maintained a personal friendship and a professional respect for decades. On the other, while Mr. Robinson was confined to a black college by Jim Crow, Mr. Bryant willingly obliged segregation to field all-white football teams whose triumphs were upheld by bigots as proof of racial superiority.
The Bryant museum, which opened in 1981, also had benefited from the financial support of the state’s university system. Mr. Ellis, in contrast, started fund-raising with about a dozen longtime friends of Mr. Robinson’s. Over several years, they managed to collect $300,000 — a substantial sum for amateurs but far short of the amount needed to build, stock and staff even a modest museum.
Two state legislators from the northern Louisiana area helped by pushing through a bill to formally designate the nascent museum as a state project. They could not, however, loosen purse-strings. And meanwhile, Mr. Robinson’s Alzheimer’s disease worsened during several years before his death.
His papers and memorabilia, the future collection, landed everywhere from a storage locker outside Atlanta to the state archives in Baton Rouge. One former player rescued a batch of game films that were being tossed into the trash outside the Grambling football office.
The coach’s death did succeed in infusing the museum’s cause with a sense of urgency. The State Legislature appropriated $3.3 million for it in June 2008, and early in 2009 construction began in the original women’s gym on the Grambling campus, which by this time was being used mostly for dances and intramural activities.
“Eddie Robinson always said he only had two things,” Mr. Ellis recalled. “He had one wife and he had one job. So where else but Grambling would you want to have the museum?”
As final work proceeded at a frenetic pace before this weekend’s opening, exhibits took their places within the 18,000-square-foot building. Over the entrance to a small theater that will show a brief documentary about Mr. Robinson hung a replica of the Temple theater’s marquee.
At that black landmark in Baton Rouge, a young Mr. Robinson played basketball, boxed and watched Tom Mix westerns.
Two facing walls display photos of every Grambling player who went pro, from Glenn Alexander to Coleman Zeno. A scale model of the Cotton Bowl scoreboard captures the final score of Grambling’s victory over Alcorn State in 1985 that give Mr. Robinson his 324th victory, putting him ahead of Mr. Bryant on the career list.
Less visibly, but perhaps more important, the museum will also hold the primary-source materials of interest to scholars: oral histories, playbooks and game plans, handwritten letters from teenagers pleading for the chance to play at Grambling.
“We’re not going to see anybody else like Eddie Robinson again,” said Michael Hurd, the author “Black College Football, 1892-1992,” an authoritative history. “Not so much because of the number of wins but for where he started and for what he went through. He never made racism an issue, but it was a hurdle he had to clear. So for him to recognized is a recognition of black college football.”
10 February 2010
The Everlasting Blizzzard of 2010
Since late January, and actually since Christmas Eve, there have been brutal nor'easters hitting the mid-Atlantic and Southern Atlantic states and mid-section parts of the nation much harder than in past years. Chicago winter-like weather has become the norm this season for places like Atlanta, Charlotte, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and somewhat sparing New York at times and even missing Boston completely!
Yes, things have been worse, like in the 1880s or something like that they all say. But overall the U.S. and Canada have received inordinate amounts of arctic weather already this season, and that's only the past 1 1/2 months! Maybe it's bad karma.....
08 February 2010
FreedomWorks If We Try It This Year
I saw an interesting article about Dr. Jamie Walker, a prominent and exciting author/professor/actor/poet and master of the spoken word and progressive thought, as she chronicled an article about a decade ago about another writing and visionary like herself.
By the way, Jamie has been in several plays and movies, working mostly in California, with a bevy of awards for her stage performances in plays by August Wilson.
An HBO movie made in the early 2000s featured Walker performing one of many other documentaries she performed of historic "visionary" elders over the age of 70. Walker’s chosen "visionary" elder in this production was Esther Cooper Jackson," co-founder of Freedomways magazine in 1961 with W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois.
Freedomways magazine chronicled the Civil Rights-Black Arts Movement and featured several well-known Black writers, poets, and artists, including Elizabeth Catlett, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis, Mari Evans, Ntozake Shangé, and as seen on the above magazine cover, the lovely Lorraine Hansberry. Oh yeah, that literary icon herself, that lovely raisin in the sun.
It was ahead of its time. It opened our time. It opened our eyes to how the world could be defined by those who made that world and created a world out of great adversity and against great power. Will people be called upon to make that choice again soon? Many ask that question in 2010. It just may define the New Year.FreedomWays is out of print thus no website unfortunately. But, you can buy back copies and artful mag covers (like the ones shown here) at Amazon.com, and you can visit Jamie and learn and see more about her at her site www.jamiewalker.org/author.html.
A Quick Snipet of News
Obama hasn't passed health care bill - yet.
Palin is rallying up the Tea Party troops.
Congress lost its 60th Democratic Senator for a Republican 41st. A filibuster in the making!
Patterson shores up his still-weak poll numbers and gets fundraising on for his run, but it looks like Cuomo is brewing dirty tricks up for fodder in the Gov's way.
The World is in The Great Recession, which is actually the banks holding the world literally hostage, and if we don't do what they say or what they do, they will starve all of us. Imagine the United States in 2011, a wasteland of 300 million starving people calling for a revolution. Timothy Geitner trying to find a faraway Pacific or Indian Ocean island to escape to before they come after him. Run Timmy, run...
Larry Summers and Dick Cheney reveal their gay marriage plans for this spring. I guess Cheney's divorcing Lynn - nah, Larry's moving in. It's a three-way.
The Dow just dipped below 10,000 1st time since last year, and Michael Jackson's doctor is charged wif manslaughter. Yes that story is still going on (you knew it would).
The rest of the mess? Still going on, business as usual. Thanx 4 asking :-)
Palin is rallying up the Tea Party troops.
Congress lost its 60th Democratic Senator for a Republican 41st. A filibuster in the making!
Patterson shores up his still-weak poll numbers and gets fundraising on for his run, but it looks like Cuomo is brewing dirty tricks up for fodder in the Gov's way.
The World is in The Great Recession, which is actually the banks holding the world literally hostage, and if we don't do what they say or what they do, they will starve all of us. Imagine the United States in 2011, a wasteland of 300 million starving people calling for a revolution. Timothy Geitner trying to find a faraway Pacific or Indian Ocean island to escape to before they come after him. Run Timmy, run...
Larry Summers and Dick Cheney reveal their gay marriage plans for this spring. I guess Cheney's divorcing Lynn - nah, Larry's moving in. It's a three-way.
The Dow just dipped below 10,000 1st time since last year, and Michael Jackson's doctor is charged wif manslaughter. Yes that story is still going on (you knew it would).
The rest of the mess? Still going on, business as usual. Thanx 4 asking :-)
07 February 2010
welcome to 2010 - albeit a little late...
well i figured it was better to say somethn that nothn . . . happy and to the best u can a somewhat survivable & sustainable (make that maintainable) 2010 to you all . . . .
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