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TFISC= Good luck with the horses.

I had a few issues with the University of South Carolina but they were only related to a specific Academic issues. Believe me if Carolina or Clemson are playing anyone but the Georgia Bulldogs, I am rooting for them.

Plus the last guy I hired was a PHD from USC and he is presently head of the Department.

I forgot to tell you the next week is my yearly Medical heart week. I have almost daily appointments and dietary restrictions while the tests are done. Nothing to worry about but it is a pain in the chest all week.

After that is out of the way we hopefully can get together again.

While dates are not set yet, I have a former student and his wife visiting sometime soon and I would like us to get together. We share a love for wine among other things and should open some decent bottles.

I guess I should break out the Ansel Adams view camera so that we can satisfy JR about a photo.

Loufla:

Did you hear about that guy a year or two ago that had bought some pics at a yard sale for cheap and ended up finding Ansel Adams photos that was worth tens of millions?

Did a quick search ...

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-07-27/ente ... PM:SHOWBIZ


Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million

July 27, 2010 | By Alan Duke, CNN

Rick Norsigian kept two boxes he bought at a garage sale under his pool table for four years before realizing they may be too valuable to store at home.

The Fresno, California, commercial painter learned this week that what was in those boxes he paid $45 dollars for a decade ago could be worth more than $200 million.

"When I heard that $200 million, I got a little weak," Norsigian said at a Beverly Hills art gallery Tuesday.

Art, forensic, handwriting and weather experts teamed up to conclude the 65 glass plates in the boxes were photographic negatives created more than 80 years ago by Ansel Adams, the iconic American photographer whose images of the West inspired the country.

Arnold Peter, the lawyer who led the effort to authenticate that the negatives were made by the man known as the father of American photography, said their approach was "to put these negatives on trial."

Experts, including a former FBI agent and a U.S. attorney, "came to the conclusion that, based on the evidence which was overwhelming, that no reasonable person would have any doubt that these, in fact, were the long-lost images of Ansel Adams," Arnold said.

The photographs were from the early career of the famed nature photographer, a period that is not well documented since a 1937 darkroom fire destroyed 5,000 of his plates, Arnold said.

"It truly is a missing link of Ansel Adams and history and his career," said Beverly Hills appraiser and art dealer David W. Streets.

The photographs were taken between 1919 and the early 1930s at locations familiar to Adams, mostly around Yosemite, California, Streets said.

"This is going to show the world the evolution of his eye, of his talent, of his skill, his gift, but also his legacy," Streets said.

"And it's a portion that we thought had been destroyed in the studio fire."

Norsigian, who scours garage sales for antiques, was looking for a barber chair when he spotted to two deteriorated boxes in the spring of 2000.

"When I pulled on of those glass negatives out, I seen Yosemite," he said. "As a young man, I worked at Yosemite quite a bit. So, right away I recognized it as Yosemite."

He bickered with the seller, finally negotiating down from $70 to $45 for the boxes. The owner said he bought them in the 1940s at a warehouse salvage in Los Angeles. He bickered the price down from $70 to $45.

HILLBILLY- Yes I saw that.

Years ago a friend gave me an Ansel Adams print as a gift. It was one of a waterfall in Yosemite. Gorgeous. The person had bought it many years before she gave it to me and had paid 400 dollars for it in the 60's.

Unfortunately a Hurricane came through our house, flooded the downstairs rooms and it got water damage. I still have it but I am afraid it is ruined. I have it in storage now.

No Triple Crown winner this year.

I'll Have Another....scratched.

Too bad. Always exciting to see a chance for the Triple Crown.

Tribe Fan in SC/Cali wrote:

eocmcdoc wrote:For those of you nearby Cleveland, next week 11-17 Jun, is Marine Week Cleveland. I was at St Louis for the last day. It was one of those omg moments. Right now I have penciled in going at least next Tuesday. More if possible. Semper Fi.

Baron should later this year be in a position to enjoy such festivities as his uniform will be retired, if plans go accordingly.

I've never served in our Armed Forces, but would have, if drafted and The ROTC possible thing worked it that way.

God Bless The Marines, and All the men and women who watch out for Our Nation.

I have enjoyed many of those from the other side wearing the Uniform....in Nashville we were able to participate in the CMA awards and other various Nashville doings....same when I lived in Miami. I think I will miss being on the "inside" of those events but will enjoy them immensly from the outside.

As my wife's parents live in Ft. Meyers I'm sure I will venture down there as often as we can to visit and be able to partake in a couple evenings of dining or Sundays at the Browns backers bar while there. I converted her to the Indians and the Browns. Can't get her away from the Gators though.......

Prefer the "blue collar" scene but can can dress up better than the best of them if necessary...looking foreward to the future.

Baron- Let us know when you come down maybe we can all meet at The Naughty Turtle- a Browns Backer bar.

I'll be in Sarasota from mid-October to mid-November.

loufla wrote:TFISC= Good luck with the horses.

I had a few issues with the University of South Carolina but they were only related to a specific Academic issues. Believe me if Carolina or Clemson are playing anyone but the Georgia Bulldogs, I am rooting for them.

Plus the last guy I hired was a PHD from USC and he is presently head of the Department.

I forgot to tell you the next week is my yearly Medical heart week. I have almost daily appointments and dietary restrictions while the tests are done. Nothing to worry about but it is a pain in the chest all week.

After that is out of the way we hopefully can get together again.

While dates are not set yet, I have a former student and his wife visiting sometime soon and I would like us to get together. We share a love for wine among other things and should open some decent bottles.

I guess I should break out the Ansel Adams view camera so that we can satisfy JR about a photo.

Have fun with the medical tests! Maybe we can compare our blood work and echo stress tests one day....

Lock and load on a date for when your former student is in town and we can likely make it work. My wife is presenting at a conference in Atlanta around the 21st for a couple days, and I know we're trying to get up to Disneyworld one weekend in the next few weeks to see our kid while he is working there on his internship. Other than that, for now we are free.

If you ever think you might want to join a gym, let me know. I've had workouts Thursday and Friday at the old Gold's Gym in Bonita and it is a comfortable bargain with no contract. A truly diverse clientele. Thursday I met a kid who plays football for a college I had never heard of in Nebraska (Chadron), and I also met a lady who retired five years ago from some computer services job with the State of Ohio. Today there were a couple of guys there touching the machines who I think might have been older than you and I combined. Also a sprinkling of appreciated younger female eye candy, and thus far a great staff who give some free basic instruction and coaching to get started on their machines.

Baron wrote:

Tribe Fan in SC/Cali wrote:

eocmcdoc wrote:For those of you nearby Cleveland, next week 11-17 Jun, is Marine Week Cleveland. I was at St Louis for the last day. It was one of those omg moments. Right now I have penciled in going at least next Tuesday. More if possible. Semper Fi.

Baron should later this year be in a position to enjoy such festivities as his uniform will be retired, if plans go accordingly.

I've never served in our Armed Forces, but would have, if drafted and The ROTC possible thing worked it that way.

God Bless The Marines, and All the men and women who watch out for Our Nation.

I have enjoyed many of those from the other side wearing the Uniform....in Nashville we were able to participate in the CMA awards and other various Nashville doings....same when I lived in Miami. I think I will miss being on the "inside" of those events but will enjoy them immensly from the outside.

As my wife's parents live in Ft. Meyers I'm sure I will venture down there as often as we can to visit and be able to partake in a couple evenings of dining or Sundays at the Browns backers bar while there. I converted her to the Indians and the Browns. Can't get her away from the Gators though.......

Prefer the "blue collar" scene but can can dress up better than the best of them if necessary...looking foreward to the future.

Super small world! Her parents live in Fort Myers?

Don't worry about the blue collar stuff. I'm solidly blue collar in my upbringing, and have learned an appreciation of champagne tastes as I feel like stepping in the waters. You may recall that my fave Browns bar in The Bay Area of San Francisco was just on the fringe of the infamous San Francisco "Tenderloin" neighborhood. As I raced to the Browns Bar from the train for the 10AM kickoffs, I leaped more drunks and drug addicts on the sidewalks than Peyton Hillis broke tackles last season.

Fair warning, my wife bought us "Gator" coasters yesterday.

At present, my martini is on a "Gamecock" coaster.

J.R. wrote:Too bad. Always exciting to see a chance for the Triple Crown.

I was bummed hearing about the scratch, but only for my personal wagering interests. I'll still make my announced wager, but the payout if it hits has shrunk by probably 90% if it hits with I'll Have Another out of the race. I really thought there was a good chance I'll Have Another would not have finished in the top three to make the trifecta.

I know Doug O'Neills rep well, including the investigations involving him in several states. When it was announced after The Preakness that Belmont Park would have a historically unprecedented barn for the Belmont Stakes horses to be watch closely for several days, I kind of said "uh oh." The conspiracy theorist in me thinks he might have known for several days that his horse would scratch, hence his happy go lucky media demeanor this week. In football there is a saying that "on any play, a ref could throw a flag for something illegal."

In horse racing, no horse ever runs with all agreeing it is in top shape.

If I'll Have Another was entered in a claiming race at Thistledown for Saturday, he likely would have gone to post and started.

Track vets will err on the conservative side if the trainer asks for an evaluation.

The breeding stake for I'll Have Another is locked high, now that he is "retired." His owner, Paul Reddam, will get more money for one mare "cover" by the new stud than he paid for him. I care little for Paul Reddam, and fully accept his rep for making his money as a predatory lender.

J.R. wrote:I'll be in Sarasota from mid-October to mid-November.

We'll see you, then!

I have the Kent State Golden Flashes versus John Coltrane's Oregon Ducks on in the college Super Regionals.

I just learned that Indians announcer Tom Hamilton has a kid who plays for Kent State.

Kent State is currently clinging to a one run lead with a RISP and two outs in the top of the 8th.



Edit, The Duck right fielder badly misplayed a ball with two on, and I swear I heard him say "AFLAC!"

7-4 Kent State has extended the lead in Eugene, Oregon with the bottom of the 8th now starting.

ESPNU has few....NO...commercials at 2AM EDT, or in the hours after midnight.

Kent State in a 9th inning nail biter.....