Auburn would have ranked 14 among countries in Olympics
3:10 PM, August 27, 2008
AUBURN - If Auburn University would have been its own country in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, its 18 medals would have tied for 14th place in the world with Spain and Canada.
The university sent 31 current and former Auburn athletes to China, which ranked sixth among U.S. universities according to an article by Forbes magazine. Tiger representatives hailed from 13 countries and competed in a total of 24 events.
Auburn athletes won three gold medals, 10 silver and five bronze in 13 events. The school finished with more medals, 13, in swimming than any other school in the country.
The 18 medals tripled the former Auburn school record of six medals at a single Olympics. Auburn now has 46 Olympic medals all-time from 27 different athletes. The total number of Auburn Olympians all-time now stands at 81 individuals.
To see a complete list of athletes and results, see http://ocm.auburn.edu/olympic_facts.html
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Business and golf
Yesterday was a great day for our community.
We hosted LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens as our inaugural speaker for a Business Breakfast series we just started.
Her remarks were nothing short of inspiring. She tailored her topic to focus on women in professional sports, but also highlighted a broader topic of women in business, and business overall (for men and women.)
Best of all, the main outline of her speech was based on three fundamental principles of golf: play the ball where it lies, always use proper etiquette, and avoid slow play.
In a brief summation:
The first point was bascially to give everyone a fair shot (by playing the ball where it lies.)
The second point illustrated the need to demonstrate, encourage and reward success (that is proper etiquette and being courteous.)
The final point was to seize opportunities by doing the right thing and the smart thing (thereby speeding up play.)
Great words to live by!
We hosted LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens as our inaugural speaker for a Business Breakfast series we just started.
Her remarks were nothing short of inspiring. She tailored her topic to focus on women in professional sports, but also highlighted a broader topic of women in business, and business overall (for men and women.)
Best of all, the main outline of her speech was based on three fundamental principles of golf: play the ball where it lies, always use proper etiquette, and avoid slow play.
In a brief summation:
The first point was bascially to give everyone a fair shot (by playing the ball where it lies.)
The second point illustrated the need to demonstrate, encourage and reward success (that is proper etiquette and being courteous.)
The final point was to seize opportunities by doing the right thing and the smart thing (thereby speeding up play.)
Great words to live by!
Omen for the football field
It's almost Auburn football time....
If you believe in omens, Auburn University Coach Tommy Tuberville picked one up just the other day. Literally.
He was walking, continuing his rehab after hernia surgery, when he spotted a worn playing card on the ground. It was the seven of diamonds. A red seven.
What's that Iron Bowl streak again? Six.
Tuberville swore this was true, and pulled the card out of his wallet to prove it. Other people, hearing the story, might simply swear.
The Birmingham News - Kevin Scarbinsky
If you believe in omens, Auburn University Coach Tommy Tuberville picked one up just the other day. Literally.
He was walking, continuing his rehab after hernia surgery, when he spotted a worn playing card on the ground. It was the seven of diamonds. A red seven.
What's that Iron Bowl streak again? Six.
Tuberville swore this was true, and pulled the card out of his wallet to prove it. Other people, hearing the story, might simply swear.
The Birmingham News - Kevin Scarbinsky
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Here's a new plan....
A. Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry men.
B. Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women.
C. Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies.
D. In three generations, there will be no Democrats.
I love it when a plan comes together. Don't you?
B. Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women.
C. Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies.
D. In three generations, there will be no Democrats.
I love it when a plan comes together. Don't you?
Friday, August 22, 2008
Thoughts to ponder....
Some thoughts to ponder....
1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just prettymuch leave me the heck alone.
2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt andleaky tire.
3. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal yourneighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
4. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't bepromoted.
5. Always remember that you're unique--just like everyone else.
6. Never test the depth of the water with both feet. (I think my friend Kathleen in Florida can attest to this, having just experience Faye.)
7. If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
8. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in theirshoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
9. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
10. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish,and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
11. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
12. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
13. Some days you're the bug; some days you're the windshield.
14. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.
15. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and putit back in your pocket. 16. A closed mouth gathers no foot ( but what's the fun in that?)
18. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
19. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
20. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
21. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
22. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxativeon the same night
1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just prettymuch leave me the heck alone.
2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt andleaky tire.
3. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal yourneighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
4. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't bepromoted.
5. Always remember that you're unique--just like everyone else.
6. Never test the depth of the water with both feet. (I think my friend Kathleen in Florida can attest to this, having just experience Faye.)
7. If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
8. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in theirshoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
9. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
10. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish,and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
11. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
12. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
13. Some days you're the bug; some days you're the windshield.
14. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.
15. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and putit back in your pocket. 16. A closed mouth gathers no foot ( but what's the fun in that?)
18. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
19. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
20. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
21. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
22. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxativeon the same night
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Things I have learned living in Alabama.....
Things I have learned living in Alabama...
1. A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road .
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes - and 4,998 of them live in Alabama.
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in Alabama, plus a couple more no one has ever seen before!
4. If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
5. "Onced" and "Twiced" are words. So is "Tumpt," as in it "tumpt over."
6. It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
7. "Jaw-P?" means "Did y'all go to the bathroom?"
8. People actually grow and eat okra.
9. "Fixinto" is one word.
10. There is no such thing as "lunch". There is only dinner and then there is supper.
11. Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar!
12. Backwards and forwards means "I know everything about you."
13. The word "Jeet" is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
14. You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.
15. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.
MORE THINGS TO LET YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM ALABAMA:
1. You measure distance in minutes and give directions by landmarks.
2. You've ever had to switch from heat to A/C in the same day.
3. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
4. You know what a "DAWG" is.
5. You carry jumper cables in your car…for your OWN car.
6. 90% of Alabama kitchens will have these five spices/condiments: Morton Salt, McCormick Black Pepper, Texas Pete, JFG/Duke's Mayonnaise and Heinz Ketchup.
7. The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and motorsports.
8. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
9. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a bit warm".
10. You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer and Christmas. 11. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Wal-Martin".
12. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chicken stew weather 13. Fried catfish is the "other white meat".
14. We don't need no dang driver's Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive, dag-nabbit.
15. You understand these jokes and forward them to your Alabama friends.
1. A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road .
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes - and 4,998 of them live in Alabama.
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in Alabama, plus a couple more no one has ever seen before!
4. If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
5. "Onced" and "Twiced" are words. So is "Tumpt," as in it "tumpt over."
6. It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
7. "Jaw-P?" means "Did y'all go to the bathroom?"
8. People actually grow and eat okra.
9. "Fixinto" is one word.
10. There is no such thing as "lunch". There is only dinner and then there is supper.
11. Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar!
12. Backwards and forwards means "I know everything about you."
13. The word "Jeet" is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
14. You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.
15. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.
MORE THINGS TO LET YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM ALABAMA:
1. You measure distance in minutes and give directions by landmarks.
2. You've ever had to switch from heat to A/C in the same day.
3. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
4. You know what a "DAWG" is.
5. You carry jumper cables in your car…for your OWN car.
6. 90% of Alabama kitchens will have these five spices/condiments: Morton Salt, McCormick Black Pepper, Texas Pete, JFG/Duke's Mayonnaise and Heinz Ketchup.
7. The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and motorsports.
8. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
9. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a bit warm".
10. You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer and Christmas. 11. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Wal-Martin".
12. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chicken stew weather 13. Fried catfish is the "other white meat".
14. We don't need no dang driver's Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive, dag-nabbit.
15. You understand these jokes and forward them to your Alabama friends.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Food, glorious food....
And the great saying from Oliver Twist is well said..."Food, Glorious Food!" One of the best things about some time on the coast....fresh seafood.
So for those traveling to the Alabama Gulf Coast, here are some recommendations from my personal experience on my latest trip......(I think I missed my calling as a food critic.)
1. LuLu's at HomePort - wonderfully casual food created by Lucy Buffett, sister of singer, songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Lucy has been featured internationally for her "Southern Caviar," "Cheeseburger in Paradise," and my personal favorite, the "Fish Tacos." With live music, outdoor dining and a little something for everyone.
2. The Tin Top Restaurant - fine dining with a casual flair. A little off the beaten path, my first visit will certainly lead to a repeat trip. Of course it came from the chamber folks as a great local recommendation. Located in Bon Secour, just about 15 min from the beach in Gulf Shores, this restaurant is now a favorite. The seafood stuffed grouper with lobster cream sauce, cheese grits and fried green tomatoes was first rate.
3. Sea 'n Suds - I just couldn't resist a trip to this hole in the wall overlooking the beach. When I was in high school, only the cool kids had Sea 'n Suds t-shirts. So, not to be outdone as a teenager, of course I had several. Yet, I guess my childhood immaturity has somehow endeared me to this place. The food is good (fried of course), and its on the beach.
Bon appetit!
So for those traveling to the Alabama Gulf Coast, here are some recommendations from my personal experience on my latest trip......(I think I missed my calling as a food critic.)
1. LuLu's at HomePort - wonderfully casual food created by Lucy Buffett, sister of singer, songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Lucy has been featured internationally for her "Southern Caviar," "Cheeseburger in Paradise," and my personal favorite, the "Fish Tacos." With live music, outdoor dining and a little something for everyone.
2. The Tin Top Restaurant - fine dining with a casual flair. A little off the beaten path, my first visit will certainly lead to a repeat trip. Of course it came from the chamber folks as a great local recommendation. Located in Bon Secour, just about 15 min from the beach in Gulf Shores, this restaurant is now a favorite. The seafood stuffed grouper with lobster cream sauce, cheese grits and fried green tomatoes was first rate.
3. Sea 'n Suds - I just couldn't resist a trip to this hole in the wall overlooking the beach. When I was in high school, only the cool kids had Sea 'n Suds t-shirts. So, not to be outdone as a teenager, of course I had several. Yet, I guess my childhood immaturity has somehow endeared me to this place. The food is good (fried of course), and its on the beach.
Bon appetit!
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