August 2021 Archives
Descriptions and videos of training drills for warm-up, batting, bowling, and fielding, and descriptions of modified cricket games that can be played with a limited number of players or a limited space.
(See also MegaCricket, a kids' version played six-a-side with a 6" tennis ball.)
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Eliminating a couple of very annoying Acrobat behaviors.
Ash Salisbury -- My Aussie Journal
A US-based Australian citizen, Ash Salisbury was unable to return home for over a year to see her parents and her boyfriend because of the two-week hotel quarantine period imposed by Australia. A window of opportunity opened in June, and she spent two weeks isolated in a hotel in Sydney in order to get four days with friends and family in Melbourne, which she logged in a daily journal. The willingness of her fellow Aussies to sacrifice a lot of freedom for the illusion of safety was shocking to her. From her "Afterword."
"Australia got it wrong!
"They found themselves in an elimination strategy and that strategy has no exit. The only way out now is to allow a degree of the virus to be in the community. The fear that has been dished out to Australians means that it's political suicide and no politician is going to overturn the plan but will continue to toe the line. With this, their bureaucrats are now in positions where they have so much power over other people's lives and are starting to enjoy it. It's a real-life Milgram Shock and Zimbardo Experiment that is happening in Australia.
"Even the hotel manager when I checked in on Day One of my quarantine showed little emotion over concerns but clearly enjoyed his power over arrivals. The police reading us the riot act as if we were criminals for simply wanting to return to Australia is all evidenced by a new form of Australia that is massively concerning."
CITY OF DUST: Whiskey and the Devil: Taiban, New Mexico
A great "long-tail" blog post that begins with the story of the photogenic abandoned church belonging to this ghost town on US 60 between Clovis and Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and has grown over time to include photos, postcards, and more stories about this short-lived town associated with Billy the Kid and saloons.
Burrus Mill & Elevator Co. v. Wills, 85 S.W.2d 851 (1935) | Caselaw Access Project
Burrus Mill and Elevator Company, which produced the Light Crust Doughboys radio show to advertise the mill's Light Crust Flour, asked a court to enjoin Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys from advertising their previous employment as Light Crust Doughboys on posters and ads for their dances. Trial court denied the injunction. Court of Civil Appeals of Texas at Waco upheld the trial court. Appellees were listed as Jim Rob Wills, Thomas Elmer Duncan, and Kermit Whalen. By the time the appeals court issued its decision, Wills was well established in Tulsa, having left Waco when W. Lee "Pass the Biscuits, Pappy" O'Daniel" pressured station WACO into dropping the Playboys.
"Appellant, in January, 1931, decided to advertise its said flour by a daily entertainment by-radio. Appellees are proficient in singing popular songs and playing stringed instruments. Appellee Wills, with his associates at the time, had theretofore, under the name of "Wills' Fiddle Band" and "Fort Worth Doughboys," furnished music for special occasions and had broadcast programs by radio from several stations in North Texas. Negotiations resulted in the employment by appellant of appellee Wills and his associates to sing and play for the entertainment of the public at its regular daily broadcasts. Shortly thereafter, at the suggestion of appellee Wills and his associates, they were advertised in such broadcasts as "Light Crust Doughboys." Subsequently some of appellee Wills' associates withdrew from the organization and appellees Duncan and Whalen took their places. Appellees severed their connection with appellant voluntarily in September, 1933. During approximately the whole time from January, 1931, until September, 1933, appellees, as entertainers at appellant's advertising broadcasts, were known and announced as the "Light Crust Dough-boys." Appellant, after appellees retired from its service, employed other performers and continued to broadcast programs under the same name, and it still does so. Appellees, after their retirement from appellant's employment, continued their association in the role of public entertainers. They first called their organization "Bob Wills' Fiddle Band," and later, "Bob Wills and his Playboys." In circulars, placards, and other advertisements of their public performances they added as further identification, "formerly Light Crust Dough-boys." | Under that name appellees have broadcast musical programs, made stage appearances, and played for public dances."
