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A Message from Our Chair | Program History | Mission Statement | Rotations and Participating Institutions
It is my pleasure, as the Program Director of the Sinai Hospital Program in General Surgery, to welcome your interest in our surgical training program and to provide a brief overview of the program, our vision and goals.
First and foremost, our goal is to train broad-based, highly qualified surgical specialists who can provide excellence in the care of patients with a wide range of surgical diseases. To this end, we have designed a training program that emphasizes education over service, training in all major surgical subspecialties, and strong academic affiliations. A well-chosen blend of hospitals, rotations and faculty exposes our residents to all facets of modern-day surgery to facilitate realistic and well-informed career choices in both academic and non-academic settings.
Knowledge is the most powerful tool we possess as surgeons. The Sinai Surgery Residency, with all of its members, strives to foster an environment of learning and research (basic and clinical), which enables our graduates to critically appraise surgical literature and keep abreast of surgical advances years after graduating from the program.
Surgeons today need to acquire knowledge and skills that reach beyond the classic teaching models of surgical education, and cover such variety of topics as leadership, business and systems management, health care finance and politics, and so forth. At the same time, the landscape of surgery is constantly changing. Core "general surgery" training in the future may be reduced to three to four years, and an increasing number of surgery graduates choose subspecialty training and careers. To train surgeons who will meet the demands and challenges of tomorrow, we have incorporated a unique value-added year of training into our residency design. During that year the resident may choose to complete a one-year executive MBA program, an MPH program, a year of research, or a Trauma/Critical Care fellowship, thereby leaving our program with substantial added qualification. Other qualified options for this year may be explored on an individual basis.
Below, you will find brief descriptions of the history of the program, our vision and mission, an outline of the value-added year, the educational exposure and basic design of the program, as well as an overview of the rotations and participating institutions in our program. Please feel free to browse the remainder of the residency Web site for additional information.
In closing, let me wish you the best of luck as you embark on your surgical career.
Thomas Genuit, M.D., MBA, FACS
Chief of Trauma Surgery
Program Director General Surgery
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, a member of the LifeBridge Health System, has a long tradition in surgical education, dating back to the early 1900s. Since that time, over 100 outstanding Sinai surgical residents have pursued careers in general surgery and various subspecialties at both academic and non-academic institutions throughout the country. The program has been closely academically affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 1957, when Dr. Alfred Blalock recruited Dr. Arnold Seligman, a well-known surgeon-scientist at Harvard, to be the first full-time academic chief of surgery at Sinai Hospital. In 1989, under the leadership of Dr. Gershon Efron (from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine) and Dr. John Cameron, the Sinai Surgery Program integrated with the renowned surgery program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. This merger was pursued, following the belief that an integrated training program would strategically enhance the education of surgical residents across both hospitals. In its integrated capacity, the Department of Surgery at Sinai fundamentally contributed to the education of residents in general surgery and various subspecialties (plastic, cardiac, orthopedic and urologic surgery and neuro-surgery). From 1990 to 2005, nine to 12 residents, two to four medical students, and one to four students of allied health professions rotated at Sinai Hospital in the Department of Surgery at any given time, on two surgical and one SICU rotation. The residents were exposed to a broad spectrum of patient care, over 5,000 cases per year (inpatient and outpatient) in all major surgical specialties, and a broad array of educational activities. Emphasizing academic education, several residents participated in the research opportunities offered at Sinai Hospital, which resulted in numerous presentations, publications and prestigious fellowships in such surgical organizations as the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) and Surgical Infection Society (SIS).
In 2005, due to the strict implementation of the 80-hour resident work-week and other major changes by the ACGME, ABS and other organizations, in the paradigms for surgical education, as well as structural changes at Sinai and the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the integration of the two surgical programs was resolved. Sinai Hospital successfully restarted its independent fully accredited program in 2006. In 2009 the program was fully reaccredited without any significant citations, and in 2010 the ACGME approved a program expansion from 2 to 3 residents per year.
Since Inception, we have successfully graduated four chief residents: Three of those residents went on to pursue the fellowships of their choice in Minimally Invasive Surgery [Case Western], Cardio-Thoracic Surgery [LIJ Northshore Health Systems] and Surgical Oncology [Roger Williams Cancer center]. One of our graduates entered practice with us at Sinai Hospital; he had previously completed a fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery and Endoscopy at Vanderbilt University. Two of our residents have successfully completed their in-residency Trauma/Critical Care fellowships [Johns Hopkins Hospital, and RA Cowley Shock Trauma Center] and two are currently enrolled in their research year at Massachusetts General Hospital [Vascular Research Lab, Dr. Cambria] and the Johns Hopkins Hospital [Breast Cancer Research Lab, Dr. Ramman].
Currently 14 residents (PGY I - V) are enrolled in the program, and the program will be completely filled with 18 clinical residents by 2014.
It is the vision of the department chair, faculty, hospital and organization to create and maintain the most outstanding community-based, academically affiliated surgical residency program available to date.
This program will put high-level, broad-based education first and offer a flexible, innovative and value-added approach to training surgeons who will be prepared to meet the demands and challenges of tomorrow.
This residency program will:
To achieve the set goals, the residency will be structured into five clinical years plus one year of value-added post-graduate training. Throughout this time, the residents will:
To address several important non-clinical and clinical issues in an ever-changing health care environment, the residents will be offered a one-year program of value-added post-graduate training, to be completed after the third clinical year. Residents will be informed about their choices during their first two years of residency*. A decision on the path of training will be expected one year prior to the start of the value-added year (end of PGY 2 year).
* Prior to making any choices regarding the value-added year, residents will be given: 1) comprehensive written information on each option for the value-added year; 2) the opportunity to discuss with residents who have already undergone the value-added year their experiences and recommendations; 3) the opportunity to visit the Institution (for MBA, MPH, Critical Care Fellowship) and interview with key faculty; 4) the opportunity to discuss the options with the program director, associate program director and their faculty mentor and/or faculty of their choice at Sinai Hospital before making a choice on whether or not to opt out and/or which option to pursue.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital is one of the premier teaching institutions in this country. Sinai Hospital has a long-standing history of academic affiliation with Hopkins: The internal medicine residency at Sinai is fully integrated with Hopkins, medical students and fellows in various specialties rotate at Sinai throughout the year, and until the academic year 2005 up to 10 surgical residents from the Johns Hopkins general surgery residency program rotated full time at Sinai Hospital as one of the integrated training sites. The core general surgery faculty as well as faculty in various other specialties at Sinai all hold faculty appointments at Hopkins and are involved in collaborative research efforts.
As part of the Sinai Surgery program, residents will attend grand rounds, and the animal operatory lab at Hopkins on a monthly basis.
Two strategic rotations at Hopkins have been designed to complement the training of Sinai Surgery residents: As PGY III, the resident will join the solid organ transplant team, under the direction of Dr. Robert Montgomery. This rotation will expose the Sinai resident to the science and clinical practice of pancreas, kidney and liver transplantation at a high-volume academic center. The Sinai resident is an integrated member of the transplant team and will participate in a variety of basic science and clinical educational conferences and lectures. As PGY IV the Sinai surgical resident will spend six weeks on the plastic/head and neck surgery service at Hopkins. The chief, Dr. Paul Manson, is one of the fathers of plastic surgery and has created one of the busiest and most comprehensive divisions in the country. Services span the fields of trauma and oncologic reconstructive surgery, pediatric (including craniofacial deformities), burn and cosmetic plastic surgery. The Sinai resident, will be an integrated member of the team and interact with Hopkins residents and fellows in plastic surgery. The comprehensive array of core curriculum and other educational activities provides for a great experience. The chair at Hopkins, Dr. Julie Freischlag, and the division chiefs and faculty are fully committed to provide an outstanding educational experience for our residents.
Integrated into the Hopkins system, but functioning as freestanding hospital in East Baltimore, Bayview houses the state's burn center. The chief of the division, Dr. Stephen Millner, has an outstanding reputation in research and teaching. This rotation will provide the opportunity to learn cutting-edge, high-volume and high-severity burn care (including ICU) and reconstruction. Residents will be encouraged to participate in the division's active research effort and will be offered the opportunity to participate in a publication.
The RA Cowley Shock Trauma Center is one of the country's premier trauma centers. The Sinai Surgery resident (PGY III) will complement the trauma training received at Sinai at this high-volume (> 7,500 patients per year), high-ISS (mean > 15) center during a six-week rotation. During that time, the residents will have the opportunity to work and exchange ideas with surgery and emergency medicine residents, and trauma, anesthesia and critical care fellows from all over the country. The faculty is highly diverse, academic and focused on teaching. Educational activities include weekly M&M, resident core curriculum anatomy and other sessions, as well as certification in ATLS (PGYI), FAST (PGY II) and ATOM (PGYIII). Outside of the trauma and critical care experience, Shock Trauma houses one of the largest Hyperbaric Oxygen Centers in the country. The Sinai Surgery resident spends four weeks on the soft tissue service, where he or she will learn, in one-on-one training with the attending and highly experienced mid-level providers, the care of complicated soft tissue injury and infection.
In addition to this rich experience, as outlined in the section for the value-added year, our residents may choose to pursue a career in trauma surgery and critical care, by completing a one-year fellowship at the Shock Trauma Center after their PGY III year.
Also located at the University of Maryland Medical Center is the Maryland Advanced Simulation, Training, Research and Innovation (MASTRI) center where Sinai Surgery residents practice FLS skills and advanced laparoscopy simulation on a monthly basis.
Sinai Hospital has an active Pediatric Surgery service, but to enhance certain aspects of this experience (complex neonatal surgery, pediatric trauma, pediatric organ transplantation, adolescent bariatric surgery), the residents (PGY III) will rotate at the Alfred I duPont Children's Hospital as an integral member of the Pediatric Surgery team.
The duPont Hospital is the only children's hospital in the state of Delaware and also serves the populations of the Eastern Shore (Maryland) and New Jersey. The Pediatric Surgery Service cares for neonates, infants, children and adolescents with a variety of problems including congenital, neoplastic, infections and trauma, and organ failure. The Division of Pediatric Surgery performs over 1,400 operative cases per year, which include minimally invasive and adolescent bariatric surgery and pediatric organ transplantation.
The rotation will provide additional educational experience to the Sinai residents in the form of Pediatric Surgery specific M&M conferences, resident teaching conferences, pediatric tumor board, pathology and gastroenterology conferences and a monthly pediatric trauma conference. Dr. Kirk Reichard, the clinical director, before joining duPont Hospital, was a long-standing faculty member at Sinai and received numerous citations for his excellence in resident teaching. The division has an established track record of resident education (Jefferson University System) and the residents will participate in a comprehensive syllabus.
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Vermont's unemployment rate continues downward trendBy Bruce Edwards
STAFF writer | April 20,2013Vermonts unemployment fell 0.3 of a percentage point in March to 4.1 percent, continuing an eight-month trend, the state Labor Department reported Friday.
March was the eighth consecutive month without an increase in the state jobless rate. The state remains tied for the third-lowest rate in the country.
The national unemployment rate was 7.6 percent, down 0.1 of a percentage point from February.
Gov. Peter Shumlin said the latest drop in the unemployment rate is further proof that the states economy continues to rebound from the worst recession in our memory.
He added, Vermont now has the third-lowest unemployment rate in the country and the strongest job market in the region, reflecting what Im hearing from business owners as I travel the state.
While the unemployment rate fluctuates over time, the governor said in a statement, the consistent downward trend in recent months shows that employers are hiring and need skilled workers.
As the ski season winds down, the construction and hospitality industries are gearing up for the summer season and are in a hiring mode.
The state is also seeing job growth in education, health care and social assistance as well as manufacturing, said Mathew Barewicz, the Labor Departments chief of economic labor market information.
Manufacturing has been steady, on the climb, not big gains but sustainable small gains over the last couple of months, Barewicz said.
He said health care jobs range from nurses to lower-paying support staff.
In her own statement accompanying the unemployment report, Labor Commissioner Annie Noonan added a note of caution. She said the state is concerned about possible job reductions in the defense-related industries in Vermont resulting from the federal sequestration
While the state jobless rate dipped again last month, it doesnt reflect the 1,650 Vermonters who dropped out of the workforce in March and were not counted in the unemployment numbers.
When those workers are counted, as well as Vermonters who are working part time but want full-time work, Barewicz said the states real unemployment rate, known as U-6, averaged 11 percent last year. The commonly used unemployment rate, or U-3, averaged 5.1 percent in 2012.
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The Roanoke College Chemistry Department employs student assistants in several different roles. There are two main categories of positions. The first type includes laboratory assistants working one afternoon laboratory section, assisting the instructor. Assistants answer questions, help with apparatus, maintain supplies of reagents, etc. The second category includes assistants who work with instructors preparing for various laboratories. These positions include collecting and assembling needed apparatus, making solutions, etc.
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The Roanoke College Chemistry Department encourages students to pursue educational experiences off campus, working in various area industries. Past internships have included work in a hospital clinical laboratory, an environmental analysis laboratory, a crime lab, a cosmetics quality control laboratory, to name a few. Arrangements vary with each individual internship. In most cases, a student expresses an interest, and the Roanoke College Chemistry faculty work with the student and local contacts to arrange an appropriate internship experience.
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Classroom based learning is an important part of an undergraduate education. However, experiencing the full flavor of scientific work requires the addition of a different type of opportunity. Independent study research experiences are designed to complement regular courses by offering in-depth projects concentrating on one topic. Typically students work a full semester or a full summer on one particular project. Working closely with a faculty member, the student defines a research project, carries out experiments, and analyzes the results. The project culminates in a written report and oral presentation. Most students also present their projects at external scientific meetings, such as regional meetings of the American Chemical Society and similar groups. The department also offers smaller scale opportunities to explore research, through the Chem 205 course.
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Summer is an ideal time for immersing oneself in an independent study project. Many Roanoke graduates report their summer research experiences to be among the most memorable experiences of their undergraduate careers. To support the Chemistry Department's summer research program, a number of donors (including many past participants) have given money to the Bondurant Fund, which is used solely for the purpose of providing stipends to summer research students in the Chemistry Department. This support allows several students each summer to concentrate full time effort on their independent study projects.
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Roanoke College has recently added a college wide program that also supports student researchers in the summer. A stipend and housing are provided for over a dozen students each summer, with projects drawn from all academic disciplines on campus. In addition to their disciplinary research, participants have regular meetings to share current research reports, and to explore other common interests such as learning the oral and written presentation skills they will use at the conclusion of their projects.
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Fears for Barrow landmark as flood clean-up begins
Last updated at 19:10, Sunday, 25 November 2012
AS Barrow mops up after yet another thorough drenching, concerns have been raised over the impact of repeated flooding of the town's most prized possession.
Furness Abbey resembled a lake on Thursday afternoon as torrential rain soaked the ground on which the Cistercian monastery has stood for nine centuries.
This week's incident is at least the third time in the last 12 months that the abbey has been significantly flooded.
Stuart Priss, of Barnard Street, Barrow visited the abbey after the worst of the rain had subsided on Thursday and said he was shocked at the sight that greeted him.
"I went down there and I don't think anybody's ever seen it that bad," he said.
"If this weather carries on without anything to safeguard it and protect it, then the abbey might not be there for the next generation.
"And I think it would be such a shame if, in our lifetime, we were the ones responsible for the abbey crumbling."
In 2009, English Heritage began emergency conservation work on the abbey amid fears structural weaknesses could see its collapse.
The £330,000 project is concentrated on stabilising the cracked wall of the abbey's presbytery church, which was added during a 15th century extension.
Mr Priss, 46, who has lived in Barrow all his life, said he hoped the community, as well as English Heritage, recognised the urgency of the situation.
"It can't carry on taking that amount of flooding," he said. "Something needs to be done to divert that water."
Meanwhile, residents were keep busy in Barrow yesterday cleaning up after a downfall that delivered 41.8mm of rain, according to the Met Office's Walney Island station.
Staff at the Tesco supermarket in Roose Road faced a mammoth clean-up operation after Red River overflowed and flooded the car park.
Water reached right up to the front entrance bollards, preventing customers from entering, and left a thick coating of mud across the car park when it finally receded.By Ross Tyson
In Askam residents are demanding action after a burst beck and defective drain left their houses with flood damage.
Homeowners in Waterside and Dale Street are furious local authorities have not moved to fix the long-standing problems that threaten their properties.
During Thursday's dramatic deluge, a blocked stormwater drain near the service station on Ireleth Road caused torrents of water to cascade down into their street.
The area's residents – as well as the garage's owner – are at loggerheads with Barrow Borough Council, Cumbria Highways and United Utilities over with whom responsibility lies.
A 79-year-old Dale Street resident, who was fitted with a pacemaker just two weeks ago, was forced to brave the extreme weather and clear drains on the A595 to try and alleviate the flooding.
He said residents in his street were living in fear that every time the heavens opened the inadequate drainage would leave their properties under water.
Ireleth Road residents John Pritchard, 82, and his wife Irene, 83 – who together owned the garage near the drain for many years – said the road resembled a "raging river".
"There's a blockage in the stormwater drain that the councils and the water board know all about, but they've been fighting each other since June," he said.
"They're trying to pass the problem on to the individual householders. They've been here umpteen times – they've done surveys and put dye through the system.
"But they haven't fixed it and they're all wriggling out of it. In the meantime, people in this village are having to fight to even leave their homes."
70-year-old Waterside resident Alan, who declined to give his surname, was fighting flooding on multiple fronts on Thursday.
As well as helping neighbours sandbag and directing traffic on the A595 – after a call to 999 was not responded to – as a result of the drainage issue, he had to protect his own home when Blea Beck burst its banks.
He said he had been battling the Environment Agency in vain for more than four years to have the beck's banks behind his back garden elevated.
"It was like biblical proportions," he said of the rushing water, which spilled over his homemade defences and into his garage.
"We're really annoyed because we've been complaining and no one seems to be listening."
Environment Agency operations team leader Andy Knipe said the "sheer volume of rain" that fell on Thursday meant it was impossible to completely safeguard from flooding.
"No amount of money could entirely remove the risk of flooding, so it's really important that people understand the risks in their neighbourhood and prepare an action plan so they know what to do if flooding occurs," he said.
"We are continuing to investigate the exact cause of the flooding in Dale Street, but it appears the sheer volume of rain that fell in the area was unable to drain away quickly and, in addition, Blea Beck overtopped it's bank contributing to the problem.
"We will now investigate whether anything can be done to reduce flood risk in the area."
The flooding, which some locals described as the worst since the big floods of 2009, saw the tight-knit Askam community band together fight back against the rising water.
The Duddon Inshore Rescue (DIR) team was assisted by volunteers, including Kevin Tippett, Kevin Askew and the vice chairwoman of Askam and Ireleth Parish Council, Liz Gaskell.
"There was definitely more water about this time than there was a few weeks ago," DIR station officer Ian Standing said.
"It was a community thing and everybody mucked in."
First published at 13:16, Sunday, 25 November 2012
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk
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Well you are ridiculous. Barrow is separated from Dalton by about 2 miles, or a 10 minute bike ride, or a half hour walk. I was not aware that such fundamentally different cultures could be separated by such a small distances. To be fair, I'm sure it was only with the advent of the internal combustion engine that the residents of the diverse communities of Barrow and Dalton saw each other for the first time.As for an Englishman's home being his castle: we pay money to the council to build and maintain the level of infrastructure we would expect of a developed country. I would like to think that this country's engineering base has not declined so much that it is difficult for the council to implement adequate drainage around residential areas.
I.S. we have clearly defined boundaries and there is an ancient marker stone on the Cistercian Way indicating that the Abbey is well within the boundary of Barrow and probably has been for at least a century. I suppose you still live in Lancashire too?
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Her whole collection of photos is being scanned and will be placed on this drive. The people doing this use a MAC and she uses Windows.
I have found several drives which I searched on Google but all if not most are formatted for the MAC file system. That is OK though because one which is a Seagate is formatted for MAC but has a driver that lets windows see and access the contents of the disc.
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The Governments of the Republic of Liberia and the People's Republic of China have signed an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement whereby the latter will provide Liberia approximately US$15 million. Liberia's Foreign Minister, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan and China's Ambassador to Liberia, Zhao Jianhua signed on behalf of their respective countries during the brief ceremony held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Capitol Hill.
The US$15 million, according to Chinese Ambassador Zhao, is meant to finance projects both the Liberian and Chinese governments have agreed upon, primarily the Ministerial Complex, the Monrovia Vocational Training Center (MVTC) expansion project and possibly the National Legislature Annexes, among others. Foreign Minister Ngafuan, on behalf of President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf, thanked the Chinese Government for the assistance.
"Through these initiatives, we are delivering on the expectations of our people," the Foreign Minister noted. Earlier, Chinese Ambassador Zhao, who expressed delight over the agreement, remarked that Liberia, under the leadership of President Johnson- Sirleaf, has made significant and comprehensive achievements on its way to recovery and reconstruction as the country enters its phase of transformation.
Ambassador Zhao stated: "It is yet another demonstration of China's support to the Liberian government and peoples to move it forward in the areas of economic and social development. It also demonstrates our confidence in Liberia's future." The Chinese diplomat remarked that by signing the document and providing such assistance, it is China's way of expressing its appreciation of Liberia's friendly cooperation with China.
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Here we are, it's a cool October night and I'm amped up. Why am I amped up? Well, simply because we have a TON to look forward to within the next six months of WWE Television. That's why. We're into the Fall months already and it feels like the year has still just begun. We've been through a lot within the confines of this organization alone let alone what the real World has gone through. But, I'm
Mark Henry has Been on a tear, Beating the unbeatable Orton and basicly squashing him 2 times in a row..... Henry was built up well, But lets face it, Henry is limited and where he goes from here is all down hill. So What The WWE needs to do is Push someone using Henrys momentum.... So what I think should happen? I will Tell you.
I would Have Mark Henry be untouchable. Let him Destroy
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Hey guys Knox here. Honestly, I've been running out of blogging ideas. That's why I've been doing the countdown lists lately. I hate doing these but I love the debates that occur in the comments so I'm all for it. Trust me guys my brain won't be on pause for too long. I'll get back to the usual real blog topics, so this will be one of my last countdown blogs lol.
So yeah, the heels.
As you might see such as I there are several things wrong with the writing development right now lets see what's wrong.
1. Consent changes at the last minute - As the Miz would say REALLY? Vince has been extremely undecided as of late and has been making last minute decisions. This clearly shows me he has no faith in his script writers. A perfect example of this consent changing would
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First of all,I'm Corwo and I just joined EWN and this is my first blog. This blog is mainly what I personally think WWE needs to do to their roster and for the shows.
What They NEED
Bring back the Cruiserweight or Lightweight Title,this gave the smaller guys something to fight for instead of being at the bottom of the mid-card and put on some great matches such as Tajiri vs
This Blog is to see who really was the best wrestler of the 90's. This is how it will be done, It will be done by star ratings, I will get the best Wrestlers of the decade and get their 10 highest rated matches, tally up their star ratings and who ever has the highest score wins.... This Is for American wrestling only and is limited to WWF/WCW/ECW... Remember this is who had the Best matches and nothing
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Hey guys, Knox here. Today I'll be blogging on some of the great possible feuds we never got an opportunity to see. I might miss out on alot of great feuds but bear with me guys.
Also, this blog is covering feuds that never happen. If two guys wrestled each other a couple times, that doesn't mean that's considered a feud...anyway lets's go.
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Hello folks, thought I'd give a little write up about some things I have always expected to see in big ppv's. Pretty much matches, some of which I have thought would have been perfect for an already legendary rivalry that would just be an extra thing to spoil us. Match types that I am surprised haven't been taken advantage of that I always thought that would have been epic.
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NBC's Big Fat Gay Mistake
There is no longer even the illusion of a free press in Russia—not after yesterday, when the Kremlin posted a decree on its website announcing the liquidation of RIA Novosti, the leading state news agency. "The move," the news service wrote in its own account of the story, "is the latest in a series of shifts in Russia's news landscape, which appear to point toward a tightening of state control in the already heavily regulated media sector."
That "tightening," which intensified when Russian President Vladimir Putin returned to power last year and immediately set about silencing any form of opposition to his notoriously crooked government, has reached a fever pitch in the months leading up to Russia's hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi this February. The country and the games have come under increasing international scrutiny and criticism: First, in the wake of the Kremlin's passage, this past June, of a trifecta of draconian anti-LGBT laws disguised as measures for child protection, and then by the failure of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to enforce its own charter—which, as this helpful image from Boycott Sochi 2014 reminds us, states that "any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic movement."
All of which places new pressure on NBC Universal, the primary American broadcaster of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, to decide whether it's going to go down in history as an organ of the free press or as a collaborator in the Kremlin's and the IOC's conspiracies of silence.
So far, option two has been well ahead. NBC's decision earlier this fall to hire Thomas Roberts and Johnny Weir, two bright white upper-class gay men with matching husbands, to serve as
apologists commentators during Sochi was just the latest in a long string of feints by the network to appear gay-friendly while accommodating a homophobic regime. NBC paid $4 billion dollars for the rights to cover the Olympics from 2014 through 2020, and it'll be damned if it's going to do anything that might hurt its bottom line.
Like mentioning to the more than 200 million Olympic viewers expected in America alone that the backdrop to all of Sochi's bobsledding and figure skating, thanks to the country's anti-LGBT laws, is a political landscape reminiscent of Nuremberg-era Germany. One in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people are being reduced to a status eerily reminiscent of Jews in the days before the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Corruptors of children. Polluters of Russia's pure bloodline. Threats to the state.
NBC has been dodging attempts from activists to hold them accountable since the laws were enacted. A letter from the gay lobbying group Human Rights Campaign's president asking NBC to include news of Russia's human-rights violations alongside their standard Olympics coverage elicited a mealy-mouthed response from the network, which said it would "provide coverage of Russia's anti-gay laws if the controversial measures surface as an issue during the upcoming Winter Olympics." As though the fact that Neo-Nazis keep luring gay men to hotel rooms by baiting them online, then kidnapping and torturing them and posting their videos online isn't an issue at all so long as no queers are actually forced to drink their own urine in front of NBC's cameras during the snowboarding finals.
Still, it was harder and harder in the months that followed to pretend that nothing was happening in Russia. What with the gay torture videos and Putin's declaration of martial law: He's banned all protests, marches, and public gatherings in Sochi for the duration of the Olympics.
Plus the IOC issuing, every few weeks, yet another statement saying that it had been reassured by the Kremlin that everyone was welcome at the games. NBC's LGBT employees were clearly freaked out to the point the network felt compelled to send out a memo promising that it would do all it could to protect folks working in Sochi.
So NBC, in a moment of unparalleled cynicism, decided to hire Roberts and Weir to be their Gays. Because there's nothing like the sight of two privileged gay white men being paid to run around Russia with camera crews following them everywhere to reassure the average American viewer that no atrocities are being committed against local LGBT citizens. "NBC's strategy," as Duncan Osborne, a member of Queer Nation, notes, "is to cast doubt that things are as bad in Russia as we say they are."
Witness last month's visit to Moscow by Roberts of MSNBC, the scab who cheerfully hosted Donald Trump's Miss Universe contest after Bravo's Andy Cohen bravely declined, declaring that Russia's "discriminatory policies make it unsafe for the gays who live there and gays coming to work or visit." What a Debbie Downer!
Roberts, by contrast, clearly believes, per the op-ed he posted prior his trip, that making a lot of money to appear at carefully pre-screened locations in Russia with a security detail is the same thing as being "courageous" or "carrying a message of hope" to the country's oppressed LGBT community. Once in Moscow, he duly reported that he, personally, hadn't "run into any discrimination." Kind of like during the Beijing Olympics, where, strangely, no non-Chinese press reported being the targets of political repression. Go figure.
NBC's "pink-washing" strategy seemed to be working.
But then came Johnny Weir's breakout performance last week at a Barnard College forum on the moral responsibilities of athletes at the 2014 Sochi games. The former team USA Olympic figure skater, a talented crowd favorite whose enthusiasm for all things Russian extends to speaking the language and marrying first-generation Russian-American Victor Voronov, is also notorious for shooting his mouth off. In less time than it takes to say "Pokerface," he laid waste to NBC's careful, Nice Non-Controversial Gays strategy and set the gay blogs buzzing. He also insulted members of Queer Nation, the LGBT activist group that's been most effective in pressuring individual and corporate supporters of the Kremlin's anti-LGBT witch-hunt. Not good.
In addition to disparaging the millions of activists who oppose Russia's anti-LGBT laws the world over as "idiots like the ones outside tonight, dumping vodka in the street," Weir referred to the most notorious of the new laws, the so-called "propaganda" law that forbids virtually all public mention of homosexuality as a threat to children, as "no anal sex in front of libraries." It's a flippant reference to the widely broadcast footage of the late Alexei Davydov being hauled off, as the first person arrested under the law, for standing in front of the Moscow Children's Library with a sign that read, "Gay is normal."
It's hard to say what's worse. The fact that Weir also referred to his experiences in Russia without any evident understanding of the difference between his position and that of the average Russian queer, saying: "I've never had a bad experience in Russia, not gotten called a fag or beat up." Or his lack of concern regarding his own willed ignorance: "I only see the rosy, golden side. I choose to see Russia in an arrogant, selfish way."
Within hours of Weir's outburst and gay journalist Andy Humm's write up in Gay City News, Weir had a piece in Virginia's Fall River News where he apologized for his inflammatory remarks. Followed by a statement from NBC saying it supported his apology. Followed hours later by Weir telling a fan, on videotape, that he wanted to be the first person to perform oral sex in space. No comment from NBC at this time.
The misadventures and misconceptions of Roberts, Weir, and NBC would be farcical if the lives of real flesh and blood people weren't at stake. Also if Putin wasn't putting a hit on Russia's closest thing to an independent media outlet and replacing it with Soviet style pseudo news. But he is.
Effective immediately, the Kremlin's decree transfers all of RIA Novosti's property to a new conglomerate called Russia Today, which will be headed by Dmitry Kiselyov, a Putin propagandist best known in the west for the video of his appearance in front of a live audience last year, where he stated, in the run-up to the enactment of the anti-LGBT laws:
I believe it is not enough to impose fines on gays for engaging in the propaganda of homosexuality among adolescents. We need to ban them from donating blood and sperm, and if they die in car accidents, we need to bury their hearts in the ground or burn them as they are unsuitable for the aiding of anyone's life.
As a Russophile pal commented, "This is like CNN being folded into FOX, and Rush Limbaugh being made head of the new network."
So the tendency of Roberts, Weir, and NBC to downplay what's happening in Russia, which currently ranks 148th in the Reporters Without Borders Freedom Index, behind Libya, Angola, and Afghanistan, and to fool themselves that their presence alone somehow changes the increasingly dangerous on-the-ground reality of Russian queers, hews towards the sinister. In addition to making them complicit with both the IOC's and the Kremlin's silencing of the truth, it aligns them the Kremlin's media spin on the law, which has always been that those outside of the country don't understand it and are "overreacting."
Russia's ambassador to Canada was very eager to spread that message just the other day, and to glom on to the IOC's spin: First, that somehow holding the Olympics in Russia, and failing to uphold the part of the IOC charter that compels the IOC to "fight against" and "take action against" what the charter calls "discrimination of any kind" isn't a political statement, but protesting either of those actions is. (Just yesterday, new IOC Chair Thomas Bach of Germany, reminded athletes that they can be stripped of their medals for any signs of political protest). And second, that Russia's anti-LGBT laws, and all that matters about them, can be judged by whether visiting LGBT athletes, spectators, and press are harassed in Sochi over the course of two weeks and in front of the world's cameras.
The IOC, of all entities, should know better, having been through this before. In 1935, Chancellor Hitler graciously acquiesced to then-IOC Chair Count Henri Baillet-Latour's request that all anti-Semitic signage be taken down for the duration of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Bach, of all people, should have a keen memory for what happened after those games were over and the international community left. And be eager to avoid a repeat.
Tue, 2013-12-10 13:01
Johnny Weir issued his apology hours before Andy Humm or anyone else wrote up his talk at Barnard.… https://twitter.com/fcnp/status/407753496398921728
I see no mention in your article of Thomas Roberts' interview with Anton Kravosky, the television journalist who was immediately fired for, and hasn't worked since, outing himself on Russian TV. Roberts did a bit more in Moscow than pose on the red carpet with his husband.
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We know Human Rights Campaign is toothless too, since they wrote a demand letter to all top ten sponsors on Aug 28. All ten sponsors ignored it completely.
Who do you imagine actually does have the teeth to get Procter & Gamble, Coke, et al to abandon their multi-million sponsorship?
Confirm my suspicions that you really don't have any proactive ideas about how to help Russian gays, you're just taking pot-shots at people who actually are doing something other than attending circuit parties, or whatever you waste your life on.
Thu, 2013-12-12 09:07
"Who do you imagine actually does have the teeth to get Procter & Gamble, Coke, et al to abandon their multi-million sponsorship? "
That's a good question. I commented because the author said that Queer Nation is THE activist group, etc, etc...but all they've done is interrupt an opera, interrupt an investment meeting, and call a figure skater nasty names. Not very effective are they?
Heck, I'm not claiming to have all the answers. It's a rotten situation, and I don't think eating your own is going to help.
You seem angry.
P.S. I don't go to circuit parties. Wrong gender.
Wed, 2013-12-11 08:55
There are a few things missing from this piece, which rightly goes after NBC but attacks Weir and Roberts in the process, thereby losing its focus. (1) Weir immediately took back the anal sex in libraries comment...meaning, right after someone called him on it, seconds later. He said he "misspoke." A flippant comment, wrong, to be sure, but immediately recognized as such. (2) Weir apologized for his outburst hours after making it, before the press criticized him, in a column he wrote in the Falls Church News Press. Activists have been calling him every name in the book. He said it was an emotional response and it was a mistake. (3) In my opinion NBC did not necessarily bring on Roberts or Weir to "appear gay-friendly." Roberts is an employee of NBC already. Weir is an articulate recently retired figure skater with a good deal of charisma and is an obvious choice for commentator. He has been commentating for the entire skating season, around the world. He was hired at the same time as Tara Lipinski and Tanith Belbin, two other retired figure skaters. Scott Hamilton, a well-known homophobe, will also be manning the NBC desk, for what it's worth. (4) Weir's quotes in this piece have been taken out of content. He said he had never been beaten up but that he is "one of the lucky ones." The idea that his marriage to a Russian American is a valid argument for him being somehow complicit with the Kremlin is akin to pointing out Obama's father is from Kenya or somehow implying he's a Muslim. (5) If Weir and Roberts hold responsibility, then so do the hundreds of athletes and other broadcasters who are involved. It is not only the responsibility of the two out gay men. (5) The IOC should have moved the Olympics long ago. It is they who are responsible for this mess, just as they foolishly chose China in 2008, with its horrendous human right record.
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I think as many others have pointed out, this article has so many problems with the facts. Roberts has been with NBC for several years and has his own daily mid-afternoon show on MSNBC. Yes, he comes from a bit of an elite position and judging beauty pageants is not exactly a progressive role for a gay man, but he was trying to raise visibility by going. Was he terribly successful? Probably not, but he is doing something. Also, Russia Today is not a new company, it has been around for many years and has in the past (perhaps no longer) been a content provider for CNN. It is in English and is one of the primary vehicles for Russian propaganda to get out, although it does report real news, better perhaps than our American cable networks. Also, the points about the Stolichnaya boycott are valid: it is not a Russian-owned company and has been very active in supporting LGBT rights both within Russia and elsewhere. The boycott is just as juvenile as when Ahmadinejad had Danish pastries renamed after the Mohammed Cartoons or when we served Freedom Fries because France wouldn't invade Iraq. No doubt the smug liberals (and this article reeks of poorly thought out and reactionary smug liberalism) who are behind all of this are the same ones that think an Israeli academic boycott is helpful to the Palestinians. It isn't, it's just a self-serving way for the increasingly collaborationist "liberal class" to puff out their chests and look like they are being brave.
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Church PA system reported stolenBy SANDI SWITZER
Correspondent | November 22,2012DANBY Sound equipment missing from a Danby Four Corners church means Sunday sermons will be a little quieter.
The Vermont State Police are investigating the theft of a public address system from the Mountain View Baptist Church.
The equipment was taken sometime between Nov. 11 and Nov. 18, according to deacon David Aubrey.
We used it the Sunday before last, so it was taken sometime after that, he said.
Aubrey described it as a black Radio Shack 100-watt system purchased 10 years ago. Aubrey said his brother-in-law, Robert Green who is also a church deacon, discovered the equipment was missing.
Nothing else was taken, theres not much else in the church anybody would want, Aubrey explained.
The deacon noted someone stole a DVD player a month ago, but church officials decided not to report the incident because it had little value.
But we use the PA system every Sunday morning, so its critical, Aubrey said. We have a smaller portable system weve been using.
Mountain View Baptist Church has maintained an open door policy to make it convenient for parishioners to worship at any time of the day or night.
Aubrey further noted passersby often use the church facilities since there are no stores or gas stations in the Four Corners area. We are considering whether we may have to lock the doors, he said.
Aubrey noted the church had a small congregation with an estimated 40 to 50 people attending Sunday morning services.
Anyone with information should contact Vermont State Police at 773-9101.
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10. Arlen Specter went from the Republican Party, to the Democratic Party, to his retirement party.
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Add a stylish touch to your home décor with limited edition silk screen prints featuring Barbie® doll's fashion illustrations. This set of four includes Red Dress, White Jacket, Black Dress, White Dress.
Unframed. Each print measures 12"W x14"H. Limited edition, with no more than 300 printed. Each one is numbered and includes a certificate of authenticity.


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Crochet maxi dress with short cap sleeves. Front of upper bodice and sleeves are crochet. Stretchy waist.
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Bust (all around): 32"
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Armhole Drop: 7 1/2"
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Rated 4 out of 5Â by roshini_dav A little big but pretty! I bought the blue in XS. It fits ok, could be better. A bit too long, I have to hold it up when walking (I'm 5'4). Also, the chest and armholes are too big on me, but I'm very petite (32A). So, while I do wish that they had petite sizes (I usually do get Petite in most stores), I'm still keeping it because its soo pretty! I wear a fitted black cardigan on top so it doesn't look as big. 6.6.2013
Rated 4 out of 5Â by Elma It's see through I got it in white and it's VERY thin! I personally need something under. I was disappointed, because now I have to find an under skirt. I wear either XS or S and got it in Size 1, and it fits great. Again, the fabric is very thin and looks a bit cheap. Definitely shouldn't cost that much! 1.29.2013
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1. 1. Hold on to your collar
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57. 12. Whatever you do, don't become a "Granny Glamour Shot"
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|Care Instructions:
|One year against manufacturing defects
|Packaged Length:
|8.00 in. / 20.32 cm
|Packaged Width:
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|Packaged Height:
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Apr 1, 2009
More of Jim's Random Musings
As a parent of a two year old boy, the book really grabbed my attention; if you're a parent of a child (or possibly considering having a child), this book will amaze you. I probably can't do the overall theme justice, but I'll try - the book basically asserts that much of our success (or failures) in life are not necessarily linked to just IQ but in our overall environment and the roadblocks or opportunities that life throws at us.
It's a huge concept to get your arms around. As I read the book, I remembered back to my freshman year of high school - I was one of 12 kids in a class size of 320+ that had a home computer - my dad purchased the brand new Apple Mac - yes, the VERY first model - and I was hooked. It's not that having the computer influenced my studies or what subjects I chose to study later in life, but just having that computer was a major positive influence in ways I probably can't even number.
Let's jump to today's world and talk about the NXT kit for a moment. This is cutting edge stuff. For under $300US, a child, a family, and even a class (or school) can have some of the very latest in robotics technology readily available. Whether a child "gets it" is not the question here - it's the access. Does your child have access to this technology?
We take for granted, I'm sure, that every child has access to a computer, but that's completely untrue. Some schools may have 2 or 3 computers for the entire school - how much actual hands-on time do we truly expect children at that school to get at the keyboard? Probably not much. And I'm fairly certain that not every kid in the USA (let alone other countries) has access to the NXT kit. I'm continually amazed at the parents and kids who tell me they just learned about MINDSTORMS - and this is a kit that's been around since 1998! Over 10 years and many parents and teachers are still unaware that this level of technology can be purchased at the local toy store and even at Amazon.com.
"Outliers" was an eye-opener for me - it made me realize how many opportunities I had in my early years that influenced my education, my hobbies, my skills, and my career. And it made me realize just how easy it is to stifle a child's success in school and life. I'm not speaking lightly here, either - after reading the book, I found myself very upset and down as I thought about all the kids out there in school who may hold the cure to cancer in their heads or the next breakthroughs in energy technology but, for lack of opportunity, may find themselves discouraged or even completely cut-off from reaching their true potential.
The book has some adult language, here and there, but nothing super offensive - it's mainly found in some interviews with key individuals who have found success or failure in life and can explain how they got where they are. Entertaining stories of the succcesses of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others are better understood once you get a background of their childhood and see what opportunities they had - not much was denied these guys, as you'll read about if you pick up a copy of the book.
Now, not everyone agrees with all the assertions made in the book, and I'm doing some of my own digging to verify some things covered by the author, but it's definitely worth a look if you've got the time. For those of us adults (teachers, parents, and AFOLs) who look at the NXT as a hobby and a fun experience, this book may very well open your eyes to a new idea: Just as there were certain periods in time of explosive growth in the economy and technology areas, there were also those who encountered just the right mix of chance and luck and opportunitites and were able to do some incredible things. The NXT, a toy it may be, is opening the eyes of kids everywhere to learn and try new things. It's encouraging math and science but it's also encouraging non-measurable things such as self-confidence, an acceptance that it's okay to fail sometimes when a lesson is learned, and discovering that there's almost always a solution if you look hard enough, study, dig deep, and experiment.
I realize this post is a bit "out there" but unless you've read "Outliers" it's a bit hard to explain just how much of an impact that book may have on a parent or teacher who has the ability to influence one or more children. Teachers are probably already aware of many of the concepts in this book, but not all of us are teachers. Some of us are just coming around to understanding that when we limit the opportunities given to our kids, we're limiting the opportunities they'll have later in life.
There's no real answer and I'm not asking for one - do we put an NXT in every classroom? That's not feasible and even so, it's not the best solution. Programs such as the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) are just starting to scratch the surface of changes that need to be made, here and abroad. I wonder what kind of impact ONPC (One NXT Per Child) might have if it were even remotely possible...
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- jmenomeno said...
Very thought-provoking points. I haven't read Outliers, but I read Gladwell's previous book, Blink.
I live in an area that is a regional tech center, but the public schools are profoundly lacking in providing the opportunities to access that technology. The second grade gifted class has a laptop for every student, but they are at least five years old, as the units are donated and are 'retired' from service. As a result, the systems are slow and are ill-equipped to use the software that the school board recommends.
Loaning out teh NXT sets to this class is a way to give them access and from time to time I come in to show what the system can do. It's important that the access to better opportunities, whether it be to technology or art or whatever, be made relatable to the students. A wonderful machine can be very impressive to a child, but it presented wrong, his or her first comment could be, "I can't do that."
A very important component to learning that is pretty much ignored in schools these days, thanks to some policies designed for accountability and not learning, is the ability to inspire. Teachers need to facilitate access and inspire students to move forward. FLL is a good example of this.
The irony is that as you point out, that many of the things gained are non-measurable. But those capacities are MUCH more important in life than what is taught and held accountable for schools.
If ONPC came true, over half of them would probably be left alone, a quarter of them would be used and regarded as a toy...but the last quarter would create the next generation of engineers and leaders. That's only because there would be a lot more needed than just an NXT to take advantage of the opportunity it provides.
Good thoughts, Jim!
- Apr 1, 2009, 3:26:00 AM
- Larry Langellier said...
Interesting post! I'm am going to order my own copy of Outliers - sounds like a book I'll love.
Thanks Jim!
- Apr 2, 2009, 2:21:00 PM
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- Apr 3, 2009, 7:45:00 AM
- BlueToothKiwi said...
Just like you, I am also a father and have a 2 year old toddler. So I read your post (as well as JMeno's comments above) with interest.
I will check this book out - but in the mean time the only point I like to add is that the environment is not just what technology and world experience you can expose to a child - but the quality time a parent is prepared to sacrifice sharing what they are exposed to and improving their life skills so they not just end up a 'nerd' but a more rounded individual. To me that is a better measure of 'success' in life.
By the way - I am not as lucky as you - I had to contend with a Sinclair ZX81 as my first computer - as opposed to an Apple ! However, your points is very valid.
My two year old is a whiz with her Dulpo kit and her Fisher price computer with the mouse & key board.
She is also surrounded by three older children who are totally into technology, gadgets and NXT robotics. I am sure that many of her motor skills and problem solving skills are severely enhanced by what she is exposed to in her 'environment'.
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I don't use ECS boards, but check this:
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On Thursday 28 March 2002 08:05, Stephen M. Helms wrote:
> Since everyone is mentioning performance with Athlon's this brings up a
> question I had. This past weekend I purchased two Athlon XP 1700 an ECS
> K75SA motherboard (with 256MB DDR2100 Kingston memory), and an ECS K7SEM
> motherboard (with 256MB + 128 MB PC133 SDRAM).
> I put the motherboards into existing cases as replacement motherboards.
> When the system boots (both systems) the BIOS defaults to recognizing
> the cpu as an Athlon 1100MHZ. I changed the BIOS setting for the bus
> from 100MHZ/100MHZ (memory bus/processor bus) to 133MHZ/133MHZ. The
> BIOS then shows correctly on boot as an Athlon XP 1700 (running at
> The problem is when it is set to 1100MHZ everything boots up fine. When
> I boot to what should be the correct setting of 1467MHZ the system does
> not run properly with programs crashing and blue screens. OK so right
> now both system are running Windows 98 (One is for my father in-law and
> one is for my wife).
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Stephen
> P.S. The K75SA system is using a 8.4 GB hard drive and the K7SEM is
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