Rrun Rrun

EL RRUN RRUN
http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/


---------------------------------------------------------------
WE NEVER KNEW RRUN-RRUN WAS "EASY," OR CHEEZMEH IMPARTIAL
---------------------------------------------------------------
<div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 221); "></span></div><i style="font-weight: normal; ">"And we are sick and tired of hearing your song<br />Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong<br />'Cause if you really want to hear our views<br />"You haven't done nothing"!</i> <div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">From Stevie Wonder</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">By J<b>uan Montoya</b></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">Every once in a while someone tells us that we have been the object of derision or scorn in some dark corner of cyberspace.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">The fact that it was â€" once again â€" in a Cheezmeh posting on Facebook didn't surprise us much. We've grown weary of even clicking on to that page unless we want to know where we can find a stray dog, adopt a pussycat, avoid a police checkpoint or peek in on someone sniping at local people while munching on doughnuts perched on a Lazyboy chair in Austin.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-style: normal; ">That said, we â€" as have others active in cyberspace â€" have been witnessing the convoluted evolution of the Cheezmeh group since its inception as a so-called grassro</span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">ots organization to its current state as a...well, it's hard to tell what. What may have started as a spanking new forum for new ideas in the city has now deteriorated into a sort of </span><i style="font-size: 100%; ">segunda</i><span style="font-size: 100%; "> </span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">of shopworn gimmicks ruled over by a doughnut-munching head mistress who won't stand any guff from underlings, or from her betters for that matter.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">We speak of Erasmo Castro, of course.</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; ">Over time, that cuddly munchkin has evolved into a ruthless Gargantua devouring his enemies with missives sent out from his cave in Austin. When he does come down to review the troops, it's always a smaller cadre that he encounters. That's why when the group decided to do away with the thin veneer of political impartiality and begin to take sides in local political races, everyone knew it would be a matter of time before it would also fall victim to the rampant polarization of the area. </div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">Then, when fortune smiled on them and they were at the right place at the right time when the community soundly rejected Charlie Atkinson's rerun for city commissioner and voted in Jessica Tetreau-Kalifa and then the voters chose newcomer John Villarreal over former city commissioner Tony Zavaleta, Cheezmeh felt its oats. Suddenly, a community-wide rejection of these candidates had been their doing, and only their own.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">This grew to be a common trait of the group. When local blogger Bobby Wight<span style="font-size: 100%; ">man led the move to deny Fly Frontera â€" represented by his nemesis Carlos Quintanilla also from Dallas â€" incentives amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars, Cheezmeh was a latecomer to the issue, but made like it was leading the parade.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">Predictably, when the city denied the airline subsidies, Cheezmeh leaped at the chance to assert itself as the paladin of Browntown. It's easy to claim credit when someone else does the work.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">Well, this led to a falling out between Castro, former Cheezmeh adherents and Wightman. Those defections just kept on coming. The Bartons, the Groves, Helen Flores, the Brownsville Firemen Union, the Brownsville Unity Council, etc., all demurely separated themselves from the Head Cheez and his minions.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">Then the heroes of the black-playera-clad group â€" Tetreau and Villarreal â€" proved by their actions to be less than ideal role models of civility.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">Tetreau couldn't keep her domestic problems with her mate from ending in the city lockup or in the police and newspaper reports and Villarreal's rant at a public park over a voter abuse group left a bad taste in everyone's mouth.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">Then Castro's spat with Zeke Silva over his support of Luis Saenz for Cameron County District Attorney ostensibly over the Head Cheez's claim to veto power over the Ch<span style="font-size: 100%; ">eezmeh blog deteriorated to a point where the blog meisters pulled the plug blog on the blog saying it was constructed to be a community tool rather than a personal organ of power.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">"I don't have to explain myself to anyone...I reserve the right to remove anything..." Castro asserts.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">The support of the </span>Cheezmeh<span style="font-size: 100%; "> cadre has been an incidental one to personal friendships with the likes of Elia </span>Cornejo<span style="font-size: 100%; "> Lopez, Erin Hernandez Garcia, and </span>Rebecca<span style="font-size: 100%; "> </span>RuBane<span style="font-size: 100%; "> because Erin gave them free legal advice, and Elia and </span>Rebecca<span style="font-size: 100%; "> were "friends."</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "> "It was a given that we were going to ask our friends to support Erin," he says. "We had already declared we were not going to enter into the primaries, man."</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">Castro now counters in a recent posting that Silva forced Cheezmeh's hand in the DA's race and said: "We were thrown into that race by the stupid Saenz people, especially Zeke who is s piece of shit."</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Regardless of what Castro says, it was obvious since before early voting that he mired the group deep in the political muck with the obvious candidates, most notably in the Masso and Hernandez races.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">But alas, Erin did not fare very well in the Justice of the Peace race, and both she and Masso are in for tight runoff races.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">In the DA's race, </span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Masso's 8,072 votes were just 306 over Saenz's 7,766. However, included in that total are an astounding 192 mail-in votes for Masso. That may prove, as a local blogger states, "problematic."</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; ">In the JP <span style="font-size: 100%; ">2-2 race, Yolanda Teran Begum's 2,960 votes beat Erin's 2,507. Not only must Erin make up the difference, she must also get at least one more vote to overcome Begum's lead.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">The Cheezmeh association with a political pariahs like Ernie Hernandez and his family and with a candidate like Masso who has yet to<i> fully</i> answer for his role in the Port of Brownsville's $21 million Bridge to Nowhere fiasco will doubtless hasten the group's declining fortunes.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Castro, complaining to his adoring admirers in his remaining Facebook forum, sounded like a long-suffering and toiling mother who is working her fingers to the bone for </span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">ingr</span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivzPSR4FzbksbQq0guasK1ITLDLcR1M4_kPcDnBLzdNyHe0ZVYuRxVwgBcmFDlAXt327vYJVN506rRQvq8CH4u9Ul12pdDJhB2QuCfgOvAydoyGdeko0BBGeGho78ltHpXjCyWwWRWVvY/s320/chain.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5748841398003128306" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 209px; " /><div style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">ate children who simply don't understand the toils and travails of putting out snippets of wisdom on the Internet.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">"I do my best in attending to individual needs and requests, but if you think that running a page as big as this one is as easy as running the <i>Rrun-Rrun</i> or any other blog, you are sorely mistaken...Peace."</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Now, if Castro actually had to create posts instead of cutting and pasting from the Internet as he does, he might have a point. But he doesn't.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">And we thought we had our work cut out for us actually writing original pieces. We're in the wrong business.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6523639279173562906?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/05/we-never-knew-rrun-rrun-was-easy-or.html

---------------------------------------------------------------
NEW VFW ALCOHOL POLICY, QUARTERMASTER'S NO BYOB RULE SHAKES UP POST
---------------------------------------------------------------
<div><br /></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpTGj_XBSrMW7-FFekVIJ4iEX3RGKvIkl6WWZ6Vx3tA6aWceKPY5sABK8x_l0jcqyMoYZTpcLEys-VJ7i-65DdN_danvVzf1k1Pwwa9TNYlGsErArNWw-mREeR-P-Kn6mYRTmh14hboVY/s200/no-drinking-sign1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5748772415677637266" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px; " /><div><b style="font-size: 100%; ">By Juan Montoya</b></div><div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">For man<span style="font-size: 100%; ">y years, walking </span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">into the Brownsville</span><span style="font-size: 100%; "> </span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">VFW Post 2035 meant running into commander Luis Lucio, a combat Marine. With his ubiqui</span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">tous plastic bottle of whiskey and mineral water, he would hold court at the bar, or, on some weekends, at a large table dominating the hall. Many other vets would also shun beer sold </span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">at the post </span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">and opt for a Bring Your Own Booze (BYOB) policy.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">However, n</span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">ow when you visit the VFW, Louie or the rest vets who would bring in their booze from outside </span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">and stand at the bar buying mineral water for set ups as they whiled the evenings away chatting with the patrons are now noticeable for their abscence.</span></div><div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Upon entering the portals of the hall now, a handwritten sign warns pat</span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">rons that outside alcohol will no longer be allowed in the premises.</span>nowhere in sight. The VFW, which had sold liquor by the drink when they first set up on Veterans Road behind the Hygeia plant off Price Road stopped selling liquor some time back after they couldn't sell enough to make the cost of the license worth it.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Then, on the VFW website and on Facebook postings, the reason the VFW stopped allowing outside alcohol to be brought in is explained.</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">"Patrons:A note on the liquor liability. Most mainstream insurers would not insure the VFW Post 2035 due to our high risk BYOB (Bring Your Own Bottle/Liquor) policy," it stated. "The risk of liability from patrons dispensing their own... liquor is simply too high to cover and the direct contribution to sales has been small, with many hard liquor drinkers buying only one setup for $2.00 to last hours or even asking for tap water or using ice for their liquor, meanwhile using our electricity, VFW Post 2035 manpower, supplies, space and miscellaneous.</span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyOLQ0uYc7LMUbRk039LbPSkRKTRqyhXkicMqh0vWSW1-Blea6IImcibYbdYitQROyjQ7I1-qO_2O4rNilMpbAxK54l9i1-fIiIOmjotaV9X6l5nJF2ZUSZ2wvAVFUfaMVl6lcEHJcVlA/s320/ProhibitionLiquor.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5748774725951628722" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 316px; " /><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">"The BYOB policy has therefore been suspended so the VFW Post 2035 can at least get a basic insurance policy and satisfy bank requirements to have adequate insurance. It would cost thousands more to insure for BYOB nor is it even recommended to allow it."</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Nowadays, if you visit any establishment like the Palm Lounge or even the B</span>oss<span style="font-size: 100%; "> Club (the old VFW on Paredes and Los Ebanos), you will probably run into some of the old gang that used to frequent the VFW with their plastic liquor holders and set ups holding up the bar like they used to do at the VFW.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">"Things were getting out of hand," said a frequent VFW patron. "Sometimes the regulars would get real loud and a few had to be helped to the bathroom because they had gone past their cups. The membership took a vote and decided to implement the new policy."</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Will the new policy at the VFW affect the post's money-raising efforts to pay off the note on the sumptuous building, or will it mean decreased income for the post that would even mean closing itor even securing refinancing?</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">The new VFW directors have been discreet on their plans and are hoping the new rules will encourage those veterans who prefer a more clubby atmosphere to bring their mates to the post's karaoke night and rental hall functions.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">For the liquor drinkers, have bottle will travel.</div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-3793131404897277229?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-vfw-alcohol-policy-quartermaster.html

---------------------------------------------------------------
SUNDAY, A MEMORIUM TO PIONEER RADIO BROADCASTER JOSE CANTU: "ME ESTAS OYENDO, CHUCHA?"
---------------------------------------------------------------
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSEo3LNCZ2hVJjlpMHdlUifCvNTTK8ZnuZSFtJKkzMZB4zKkUEXzp4Lc15a5MKEdyaJ3LcdERAQjm7_vy1f_MqIVIo3C6UOZ0UTWJxuuiQboGFfhZo0CUgzm1fAZ4prhkN8edAgO_NBRU/s1600/cantu.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 508px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 338px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5748720700234201250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSEo3LNCZ2hVJjlpMHdlUifCvNTTK8ZnuZSFtJKkzMZB4zKkUEXzp4Lc15a5MKEdyaJ3LcdERAQjm7_vy1f_MqIVIo3C6UOZ0UTWJxuuiQboGFfhZo0CUgzm1fAZ4prhkN8edAgO_NBRU/s400/cantu.jpg" /></a><br /><em>(This Sunday the Brownsville Heritage museum and the Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame and Museum will feature a presentation on 1940s and 50s radio pioneer Jose Cantu. I learned about Cantu when I worked at the Brownsville Herald from old timers like by Oscar del Castillo who founded the Spanish-language Heraldo de Brownsville in 1934. Cantu's "Programa Popular" was featured on KBOR 1600 AM. He was an advocate for Hispanics' civil rights throughout the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Cantu's programming showcased local talent, news bulletins and provocative interviews. It lasted from 1946 to 1952. On June 7, 1952 Cantu lost his life in a car accident. We reprint our article in advance of the presentation by Conjunto Association president Lupe Saenz.)</em><br /><br />By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />Longtime Valley residents who were around the late 1940s and early 1950s still talk about Jose Rangel Cantu, a broadcaster who used radio to champion the rights of Hispanics through his “Programa Popular” which aired in the afternoons.<br />"He was the son of the people,” said Roberto Anduiza, who worked with Cantu for many years. "He was a man of struggle, who knew firsthand the necessities of the people. In his own particular way, he wanted to open the eyes of the people so they could discover the possibilities and their potential.”<br />Cantu was born Feb. 23, 1912, in Matamoros, and lived in Brownsville many years before he started working in radio. Researcher Carlos Larralde said his father abandoned the family when Cantu was very young. He was only two when his mother Refugia moved to Brownsville, desperate to earn a living.<br />He worked as a shoeshine boy and delivered groceries to help the family. Later, he became a house painter. Encouraged by his mother, he practiced articulating and speech before a mirror. He soon found he had a gift for making people laugh, and he included comedy into his sales pitches at the paint store. It was there that he met store clerk Maria de Jesus Solis, known as Jesusita, or Chucha.<br />Over time, when he had become a radio announcer, he would use his trademark phrase <em>“Me estas oyendo, Chucha</em>? (Are you listening, Chucha?).”<br />After he married Chucha in 1936, she encouraged him to try speaking commercials on the radio. Hearing about a job opening, he applied with KGBS radio station north of San Benito. The station was an affiliate of the Colombia Broadcast Service and under broadcaster Primitivo Mendez, Cantu began to learn about the broadcasting business. That introduction soon enabled him to land a job in Brownsville’s KBOR radio station.<br />His natural ability to make people laugh soon earned him a niche at the station, something not unnoticed by Minor Wilson, manager of KBOR. He decided to try him out for a Sunday afternoon variety show. The format would feature local talent and local news of interest to Hispanics. With Cantu’s natural charm and wit, the show “<em>Programa Popular</em>” soon became a favorite of listeners across the Lower Rio Grande Valley.<br />It was just after the Second World War, and the region was growing by leaps and bounds. Services like water, electricity, sanitary sewer, police protection, and street paving could not keep up with the growth.<br />invariably, the poorest barrios in the city were in the worst shape. Need was everywhere and Cantu, a man of conscience, was there to expose the neglect and abuse existing in the area. According to the late Frank Ferree, known as “The Angel of the Border” for his own work among the poor on both sides of the border, Cantu was “a man who fought for the needs of the people and who would respond without fear for the people of the border in their hour when they most desperately needed help.”<br />Wilson recognized<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-xRS_ndwEhavIqCZUztJtKYhqyPWA-ZOhdbtePpaj6ekLjB5ueCAE1yxdwXyqLHxUVhymkgC7p_z5RF215C5XuTFZi4V1HN6H8aBAp9jNTnRFKwiDaMn1KhjynZswo7u96iLC-l77rGiG/s1600-h/cantu1.gif"></a> Cantu’s radio charisma at once. “He was a natural,” Wilson said. “ He just went on the air and told it like it was. There were no nerves, no profanities and no mistakes when he spoke.”<br />His show soon attracted local performers eager for an audience to launch their careers. Singers like Lydia Mendoza, Chelo Silva, Delia Gutierrez Piñeda, Eugenio Gutierrez, and the young Ruben Vela performed to appreciative radio audiences. Mendoza, from Houston, sang <em>“Mal Hombre</em>,” and it became one of her biggest hits.<br />He encouraged her and her relatives to form a group, and they did. In time, he became the most famous broadcaster in the Valley, attracting fans in every barrio in the city.<br />His stand on behalf of the poor in the area made him immensely popular. Th<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWPdKm4yzj7hRpu4_vc-KGWl0GGGwFx4KPW5m67ECuTl2-yJZpiB37IQj7pmu0Mo0HnCchZr3AOsKzLOt9JDpN47SJzhv-Wr581hqY-ksCLGztENHOr2Xj1yyBidNsJV-wa3onAEndxDw/s1600/cantu1.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 284px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 293px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5748727905478034866" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWPdKm4yzj7hRpu4_vc-KGWl0GGGwFx4KPW5m67ECuTl2-yJZpiB37IQj7pmu0Mo0HnCchZr3AOsKzLOt9JDpN47SJzhv-Wr581hqY-ksCLGztENHOr2Xj1yyBidNsJV-wa3onAEndxDw/s320/cantu1.gif" /></a>e late Bernie Whitman, who had a pawn shop in Market Square, said his popularity with the lower economic classes he defended was legendary.<br />“He could go in the barrios and neighborhoods, everywhere, and you could recognize his distinctive voice,” Whitman said. “The trust people had in him was tremendous. Everyone had faith in his integrity and he didn’t give them cause to lose that trust.”<br />Cantu’s militancy in defending the poor knew little bounds.<br />He unmercifully lashed merchants who charged exorbitant prices for their products, farmers who paid meager wages to local workers, city officials who did not provide the same municipal services to the poor sections of town that were available to richer areas, and the plethora of injustices that prevailed at the turn of the 1950s.<br />One of his most popular themes was pleading with border officials to open the international bridges to Mexican farmworkers so they would not drown trying to cross the river. Perhaps one of his most controversial issues was the semi-slavery conditions of women in Matamoros’ red-light district.<br />No one, neither crooked businessmen, nor neglectful public officials, escaped his wrath. Still, Carnation Dairy Products, Royal Crown Hair Dressing, and other well-known companies sponsored the program, unmindful of the criticism from conservatives who considered him a radical.<br />Historian Bruce Aiken wrote that when Cantu’s died on June 7, 1952, after crashing into a tree outside Brownsville and was instantly killed, the people believed he had been killed for his criticism of powerful men, notably the Del Fierros, a notorious Matamoros clan.<br />It was rumored that his brakes had been sabotaged. There were tales that a woman from Matamoros who had been in the car suffered broken legs and was removed from the scene and whisked away.<br />Some said it was his stand against prostitution in Matamoros that had gotten him killed. As the time of his show approached that day, a multitude of people gathered around the station created a traffic jam. Many did not want to believe that their champion was dead.<br />When another announcer came on the air and confirmed the news, cries of anguish erupted from the crowd and even grown men were seen dabbing the tears from their eyes. Brownsville was overwhelmed by Cantu’s funeral, where honors were bestowed on “a friend of those in poverty.” It is estimated that 8,000 people tried to attend his funeral Mass at the Immaculate Conception Church.<br />“No one could control him,” Whitman recalled. “He didn’t sell himself. His greatest contribution was to disseminate information that the people needed, because no one else had the courage to do it.”<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-2503527739821401667?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/05/sunday-memorium-to-jose-cantu-me-estas.html





RSS URL: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

This email sponsored by:

1&1 Internet - 6 Months Free on new Hosting packages
http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=7538907

This email is a service of QuickThreads.com.
To manage your subscriptions, login here:
http://www.quickthreads.com/myaccount.php
--------------------------------------------------------------------------