Cali:
I only caught the first episode of Luck. I thought you may like it cause of the horse racing stuff so I mentioned it to you but I wasn't all that enthralled. I never watched it again.
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1082I have no doubt that the show's connections took every safeguard and protection in the filming. They can mount cameras on saddles, jockey legs, and jockey helmets and look for the best film to work in.seagull wrote: Got to admit the camera shots close ups while racing made me wonder how they got those shots and how dangerous it must have been for the horses.
That last horse that died had an accident that is unfortunately very common. It reared and lost it's balance and fell over and struck it's head.
I've seen that happen before, and remembered it well when on a horse on a trail ride just the other side of I-95 from Daytona International Speedway. I was courting my now wife and her two young California kids (now mine) and found a place just east of Daytona Beach that was great for trail riding. Typical Florida weather took place and a highly charged electrical thunderstorm came out of nowhere. It was the Florida scrub brush flatland we all know, and we were all sitting ducks being "high objects" on those horses.
I had us cantering back to the barn when a lightning bolt struck a tree maybe 100 feet from us. My horse reared and I had to quickly figure out what to do.
The answer came naturally. Hang on, and hope for the best. It worked out OK, in that case.
I really do not believe the show pushed any safety envelopes at all.
I just think it was bad "Luck."
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1083The first time I watched Midnight in Paris, my wife was out of town. I watched it about three times on that pay per view purchase.loufla wrote:I agree on Midnight in Paris as being one of Woody's finest.
Having spent some time in Paris I can attest that it is one of the best movies I have ever seen which captures the city just right.
My wife and I walked around Paris in the rain quite a bit. We called it Paris under the awnings.
Last night she brought home some great cheese from "The Cowgirl Creamery" .....the Mt. Tam....so I selected one of our nicest wines we have ever kept around for more than a month or two.
Being a right wing conservative girl born in San Francisco (perhaps a rare breed), she begrudgingly agreed to to let me "play it again, Sam." She's far from a Woody Allen fan.
As Midnight in Paris ended, she said, "you were right, that was a good movie."
I touted her on "Little Miss Sunshine" a few years back, and she begrudgingly watched that, and as it ended told me how much she loved it.
She can watch "Lelo and Stitch" over and over again. As well as any "Pirates of The Caribbean."
I can't.
I can watch baseball movies over and over again.
And, Midnight in Paris, it seems.
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1084At least in our little part of Califrickinfornia and The United States, the real estate market may be turning in a forward direction. We bought this place for a good price eleven years ago and played around with selling it for a nice price from last September until late January 2012.
We took it off the market, and I worked with the realtor on a new marketing campaign, and strategy.
We put it back on the market in the afternoon of last Friday, and have received three offers as of this Monday evening. The last offer was for more than the asking price. I've read about that stuff before, but have previously never personally experienced.
If we end up selling, I have a helluva lot of work to do. This place is stuffed with stuff.
Good problem, of course.
We took it off the market, and I worked with the realtor on a new marketing campaign, and strategy.
We put it back on the market in the afternoon of last Friday, and have received three offers as of this Monday evening. The last offer was for more than the asking price. I've read about that stuff before, but have previously never personally experienced.
If we end up selling, I have a helluva lot of work to do. This place is stuffed with stuff.
Good problem, of course.
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1089Thanks, SEAGULL and CALI. This was Braves Park at Disney. Very little shade, and it was a HOT day!
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1090JR!
Question?
What is the length requirements for one of these topic pages. It seems like the last page in the winterball folder is extraordinarily long ?!?!
Question?
What is the length requirements for one of these topic pages. It seems like the last page in the winterball folder is extraordinarily long ?!?!
“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.”
-- Bob Feller
-- Bob Feller
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1092OK! Thanks JR!
“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.”
-- Bob Feller
-- Bob Feller
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1093http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2012/mar ... er=popular
Mr. Coffee founder, 25-year Naples resident dies
By JAKE NORDBYE
Friday, March 23, 2012
NAPLES — They knew him as a notorious over-tipper.
They knew him as a boy who grew up in poverty in Cleveland and went on to become one of the most successful entrepreneurs in America.
Johnny Carson knew him. So did Joe DiMaggio. They knew him as a man who changed people’s lives.
Samuel Glazer, a Naples resident for 25 years and co-founder of the Mr. Coffee drip coffeemaker, has died at age 89.
“He was great, not for what he accomplished, but for who he was,” said Glazer’s wife, Jeanne. “He was generous, honest and extremely bright.”
“He grew up poor,” Jeanne Glazer said. “No, not poor, destitute.”
When Samuel Glazer was seven years old, his father died. So he started working as a newspaper delivery boy to help support his mother.
“He had the largest route in Cleveland,” Jeanne Glazer said. “He delivered papers until he was 18. Then, they offered him the district manager position.”
Glazer always had a knack for business. He and his childhood friend, Vincent Marotta Sr., went on to pursue and succeed at several business ventures.
“They were best friends and 50/50 business partners in everything for 60 years,” Jeanne Glazer said. “They started by going on the road to sell dog food. Soon, they were building garages, shopping centers and housing developments.”
In 1972, Glazer and Marotta launched their most successful business venture — the Mr. Coffee coffeemaker. It was the first automatic drip coffeemaker for use at home.
Mr. Coffee became the top selling brand in the country with sales of $120 million in 1986.
The company was helped along by Joe DiMaggio, the legendary ballplayer who became the spokesman for Mr. Coffee after Marotta convinced the slugger during a round of golf, recalled Jeanne Glazer.
“They revolutionized the coffee industry. The key was the television commercials. Having Joe DiMaggio as the pitchman was incredible. They were instructional commercials. Joe showed everyone how to make a cup of coffee. What no one ever knew is that it took Joe 30 takes to make one commercial,” Jeanne Glazer said.
Glazer and Marotta sold the company in 1987 for $182 million. But even with all his success, Samuel Glazer never forgot where he came from.
“We were at the funeral service in Cleveland, and a man I didn’t know walked up to me. He was one of the caterers at the service, and his name was Sam, too,” Jeanne Glazer said.
“My Sam used to go into a barbershop for a shoeshine. Forty years ago, it was only 50 cents and he would give the 11-year-old boy a five-dollar tip every time. He would say ‘Kid, you remind me of myself when I was your age.’ The caterer was that boy.”
The boy who shined Sam Glazer’s shoes is now in his fifties and is the manager of the catering company. He told Jeanne Glazer that the small gesture by her husband had a profound affect on his life.
He wasn’t the only one.
When Glazer lived in Naples at Pelican Bay, he would walk to the Ritz-Carlton for breakfast everyday. Thomas Joice, who now works at Pelican Marsh, was Glazer’s server for years.
“The first time Sam came in he ordered a cup of coffee and said ‘Fill it to the top, I know a little bit about coffee,’” Joice said. “I remember saying to myself, ‘what the hell does this guy know about coffee?’ Turns out he was Mr. Coffee.”
When Glazer tipped Joice $20 on a $20 tab, the accounting office at the hotel thought something was suspicious. Joice was asked if he wrote in the tip himself.
“That was Sam,” said Joice. “If anyone was for the underdog, the average man, it was him. I’ve never met anyone like him. I don’t think I ever will again.”
“He always over-tipped,” Jeanne Glazer said. “I could tell you about a lot of waiters in Naples that could say the same thing. I think he remembered himself being dependent on tips. He didn’t do it for recognition. He identified with that person.”
Glazer also liked giving friends coffeemakers. On several occasions, recalled Jeanne Glazer, her husband sent late-night host Johnny Carson coffee makers. Carson, who was staying in a hotel room finally had his fill, “Please, Sam, no more coffee machines.”
Glazer’s son, Robert and his wife are the only immediate survivors. Ms. Glazer said she’s been thinking a lot about when she first met her husband.
“Sam was in a convertible, immaculately dressed and suntanned,” she said. “It had California plates and we were in Ohio. I thought to myself ‘well, there’s a director from Hollywood scoping out a location for a movie.’ I didn’t think I would ever see him again.
“But nine months later we met, and I invited him for coffee.”
Mr. Coffee founder, 25-year Naples resident dies
By JAKE NORDBYE
Friday, March 23, 2012
NAPLES — They knew him as a notorious over-tipper.
They knew him as a boy who grew up in poverty in Cleveland and went on to become one of the most successful entrepreneurs in America.
Johnny Carson knew him. So did Joe DiMaggio. They knew him as a man who changed people’s lives.
Samuel Glazer, a Naples resident for 25 years and co-founder of the Mr. Coffee drip coffeemaker, has died at age 89.
“He was great, not for what he accomplished, but for who he was,” said Glazer’s wife, Jeanne. “He was generous, honest and extremely bright.”
“He grew up poor,” Jeanne Glazer said. “No, not poor, destitute.”
When Samuel Glazer was seven years old, his father died. So he started working as a newspaper delivery boy to help support his mother.
“He had the largest route in Cleveland,” Jeanne Glazer said. “He delivered papers until he was 18. Then, they offered him the district manager position.”
Glazer always had a knack for business. He and his childhood friend, Vincent Marotta Sr., went on to pursue and succeed at several business ventures.
“They were best friends and 50/50 business partners in everything for 60 years,” Jeanne Glazer said. “They started by going on the road to sell dog food. Soon, they were building garages, shopping centers and housing developments.”
In 1972, Glazer and Marotta launched their most successful business venture — the Mr. Coffee coffeemaker. It was the first automatic drip coffeemaker for use at home.
Mr. Coffee became the top selling brand in the country with sales of $120 million in 1986.
The company was helped along by Joe DiMaggio, the legendary ballplayer who became the spokesman for Mr. Coffee after Marotta convinced the slugger during a round of golf, recalled Jeanne Glazer.
“They revolutionized the coffee industry. The key was the television commercials. Having Joe DiMaggio as the pitchman was incredible. They were instructional commercials. Joe showed everyone how to make a cup of coffee. What no one ever knew is that it took Joe 30 takes to make one commercial,” Jeanne Glazer said.
Glazer and Marotta sold the company in 1987 for $182 million. But even with all his success, Samuel Glazer never forgot where he came from.
“We were at the funeral service in Cleveland, and a man I didn’t know walked up to me. He was one of the caterers at the service, and his name was Sam, too,” Jeanne Glazer said.
“My Sam used to go into a barbershop for a shoeshine. Forty years ago, it was only 50 cents and he would give the 11-year-old boy a five-dollar tip every time. He would say ‘Kid, you remind me of myself when I was your age.’ The caterer was that boy.”
The boy who shined Sam Glazer’s shoes is now in his fifties and is the manager of the catering company. He told Jeanne Glazer that the small gesture by her husband had a profound affect on his life.
He wasn’t the only one.
When Glazer lived in Naples at Pelican Bay, he would walk to the Ritz-Carlton for breakfast everyday. Thomas Joice, who now works at Pelican Marsh, was Glazer’s server for years.
“The first time Sam came in he ordered a cup of coffee and said ‘Fill it to the top, I know a little bit about coffee,’” Joice said. “I remember saying to myself, ‘what the hell does this guy know about coffee?’ Turns out he was Mr. Coffee.”
When Glazer tipped Joice $20 on a $20 tab, the accounting office at the hotel thought something was suspicious. Joice was asked if he wrote in the tip himself.
“That was Sam,” said Joice. “If anyone was for the underdog, the average man, it was him. I’ve never met anyone like him. I don’t think I ever will again.”
“He always over-tipped,” Jeanne Glazer said. “I could tell you about a lot of waiters in Naples that could say the same thing. I think he remembered himself being dependent on tips. He didn’t do it for recognition. He identified with that person.”
Glazer also liked giving friends coffeemakers. On several occasions, recalled Jeanne Glazer, her husband sent late-night host Johnny Carson coffee makers. Carson, who was staying in a hotel room finally had his fill, “Please, Sam, no more coffee machines.”
Glazer’s son, Robert and his wife are the only immediate survivors. Ms. Glazer said she’s been thinking a lot about when she first met her husband.
“Sam was in a convertible, immaculately dressed and suntanned,” she said. “It had California plates and we were in Ohio. I thought to myself ‘well, there’s a director from Hollywood scoping out a location for a movie.’ I didn’t think I would ever see him again.
“But nine months later we met, and I invited him for coffee.”
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1094I just read that Bert Sugar died too.
Where is Charlie? He knows they always go in 3's
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Sugar has died. I guess #3 will be Mr. Cream.
Sad to see Bert Sugar go. One of my all time favorite sports writers, and an absolute encyclopedia when it came to boxing.
Where is Charlie? He knows they always go in 3's
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Sugar has died. I guess #3 will be Mr. Cream.
Sad to see Bert Sugar go. One of my all time favorite sports writers, and an absolute encyclopedia when it came to boxing.
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1095Hillbilly wrote:I just read that Bert Sugar died too.
Where is Charlie? He knows they always go in 3's
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Sugar has died. I guess #3 will be Mr. Cream.
Sad to see Bert Sugar go. One of my all time favorite sports writers, and an absolute encyclopedia when it came to boxing.
Charlie, last time seen here, was working on the lasso of a Texas gal.
A successful lasso and takedown of a Texas gal takes full focus. I have that thought on good authority.
Here's to Cremora, whatever that stuff really is.