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DENVER — Cubs manager Mike Quade said he appreciated Carlos Zambrano's apology after the pitcher left the mound before Quade got there during a pitching change Wednesday night in Houston, but he said it was unnecessary.
''I just didn't think it was that big a deal. I really didn't. I didn't need an apology to make this thing right,'' said Quade, responding differently than his predecessor, Lou Piniella, who made Zambrano return to the mound for the ball exchange after a similar incident in 2008.
''I don't think my ego's so big that . . . he's upset. Just don't drop the thing.''
Zambrano said he was so locked into his thoughts that he didn't know he left the mound early until teammate Kerry Wood told him afterward.
''If another teammate made him aware of that, 'Look, you left too soon,' good for him,'' Quade said. ''Those guys can police that kind of stuff more than I have to.''
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Wearing No. 42 on Jackie Robinson Day in baseball Friday had a more personal meaning for Quade than some.
Quade, who began his professional playing and managing career in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, once worked for Branch Rickey Jr., son of the Brooklyn Dodgers general manager who signed Robinson to become the first black major-leaguer since Fleet Walker in the 1880s.
''There was pretty good family pride with that,'' Quade said. ''[Robinson] breaks the color barrier, and it changes society. It changes the game, but not just baseball specifically.
''My understanding of the story is Branch Rickey deserves a ton of credit for doing a very difficult thing — the right thing, unfortunately at a time in this country where some people didn't think so. . . . It opened the door for the black player, the Latin players. We're probably more diversified [in baseball] than our country.
''It's an honor.''
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Casey Coleman has heard the horror stories pitchers tell about Coors Field, but he wonders if the legendary hitting conditions might not work in his favor when he pitches there for the first time tonight, if only as extra incentive to keep the ball down.
''People always talk about it,'' said Coleman, who made his season debut Sunday filling in for the injured Randy Wells. ''I don't really look into it as much because there are other fields that are hitter's ballparks, too. I felt like the ball in Milwaukee the other day was carrying well there, so that turned into a hitter's ballpark.
''Some days at Wrigley when the wind's blowing out — I mean, every ballpark has days when it's tough to pitch.''
Kosuke Fukudome, who strained his hamstring Sunday, might be ready to return tonight. ''He's real close, but when a guy tells me he's ready, I always like to give him one more day,'' Quade said.
◆ Quade said he expects to decide today how he'll fill the fifth starter slot next time around, on Tuesday. If it's filled in-house, he plans to use a Jeff Samardzija-James Russell tandem (one way or the other), but he reiterated he doesn't see either reliever as a long-term solution.
◆ First-base umpire Jerry Layne was forced to leave the game Friday in the second inning after being hit in the left foot by a Carlos Pena foul line drive.


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An Oz Liberal backbencher secured his place in Austrlian parliamentary history by suffering multiple, genetically-modified orgasms while addressing the house yesterday, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Victorian MP Jason Wood got into trouble while discussing "genetically modified organisms". He wowed the mercifully sparse …
ta daaaa
a cunning linguist and no mistake
Well, I've never had any trouble achieving them in the usual fashion, but I suppose there's probably a few blighters out there who could use some help.
Multiple orgasms from same Wood...
...I'll get my coat...
@ Multiple orgasms from same Wood
Women reading this must be thinking wow I want a piece of him for a night. And the men are thinking this is our new stamina target hahaa. Now, where's that web form I was filling in...
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Oh shucks. And there was I about to be in favour of GM for the first time ever :-( What a (multiple) let down.
> a cunning linguist and no mistake
Personally, I thought he was a Shining Wit.
Mine's the one with with the leather elbow patches...
The Trick is...
...getting them one right after another. Now that's a good trick.
Biology of the Orgasm
When I went of to university a long time ago, i remember my Mum asking why one of the courses i was studying was called Biology of the Orgasm
Orgasms are awesome
.... I couldn't survive without them.
@Biology of the Orgasm
I remember returning home from school during the first Iraq war to be given a news update by my mother, apparently one of pilots had got into trouble and had to ejaculate.
im sure its just a cunning stunt.
I clicked on a Lester Haines article :(
Which reminds me.
Speaking of pollies with unfortunate names, a few years ago here in Aus a couple of pollies sued for defamation an author that published some scandalous accusations regarding their wives.
The offended politicians surnames were Abbot and Costello and right royal pair of jokers they were not. Needless to say it was a sub-editors wet-dream come true.
"Genetically modified orgasms. Orgasms."
Come again?
@AC Re: Pilot ejaculated
These things happen when you come under enemy fire.
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That's what happens when your troops pull out too late.
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As I'm sure she enjoys them.
And that's why
y' never leave your office with your workstation logged on and your important document open & waiting for some wily cad from the Other Party to steal in and violate it's pristine language.
Where do I sign up for the "scientific investigation"
along with how many other volunteers.
Does Oz have a commercial source of these?
Where and how much for quantity procurements?
And is there a Meat angle ?
Paris, for obvious reasons........
Thanks, Lester.
Made my day. Seems they've gone on to genetically modify just about everything *chuckle*
Can we expect spam about genetic modifications for longer, more, multiple, whatever orgasms in the near future?
All right, all right, the one with the condom hanging out of the pocket please...
And the best bit...
is that it got multiple playback on the evening news. One after another
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A Study Of INCRAFT™ In Subjects With Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (INNOVATION)
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Cordis Corporation
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This study is a multi-center prospective, open label, non-randomized investigation of INCRAFT™ in subjects with abdominal aortic aneurysms.
The study will enroll up to 60 subjects in up to 7 sites in Germany and Italy.
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Device: Cordis AAA stent graft system "INCRAFT TM"
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Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
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- Rate of Technical Success Through the One Month Follow up. [ Time Frame: From procedure to one month follow up ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Technical success is defined as the successful deployment of the stent-graft to the desired location in the absence of Types I, III or IV endoleaks at the conclusion of the procedure and through the one month follow up.
- Rate of Primary Safety Endpoint Within 1 Month Post-procedure. [ Time Frame: One month follow-up ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Primary safety is defined by the absence of Types I, III or IV endoleaks and device and/or procedural related major adverse events within 1 month post-procedure. Major adverse events include death, MI, stroke and renal failure.
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- Subject is considered an appropriate candidate for open surgical repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
The INCRAFT Abdominal Stent Graft System is indicated in subjects diagnosed with an aneurysm in the abdominal aorta having vascular morphology suitable for endovascular repair, including:
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Obama washes hands of O'Dwyer piracy extradition case
President Obama has said he has nothing to do with the decision by US authorities to extradite British student Richard O'Dwyer on copyright charges for linking to pirated content. On Tuesday, Obama took part in a Google+ hangout and answered questions submitted and voted on by the public. The top-ranked question, given the …
He keeps saying...
I keep reading about how Obama and The White House want's to keep the internet an open place blah blah and it all seems to be PR talk. They'll agree not to bring in legislation that's going to rip the internet apart but then they'll just go ahead and rip the internet apart anyway.
/me is getting tired of 'no, no, I wont do it again' *slap* 'no, really, that was the last time' *slap*
He is as two faced as they come, he tries to appease everyone to the point he says one thing to one person and another thing to the other person.
He wants his cake alright but from everyone.
These are the actions of weak wishy washy character, want to be friends with everyone yet will never make a stand.
Is this how he won the Nobel Peace Prize!
What a wally.
Could be worse
He could be a republican.
It's never Bama's fault...
SOS, DD. It's always george W's fault, no matter how many FUBARS Bama makes.
Is there possibly an election approaching?
More likely a lynching...
It could happen any day.
Nothing doin'
Nothing to do with him? Well it damn well SHOULD be! This draconian action is nothing short of despicable. The mere linking to other sites is hardly on a par with terrorism, murderers, rapists and the like. Here's one Brit who thinks this one-sided extradition agreement should be ripped up. Come on President Obama, make it your business to stop this ludicrous situation!
Just wait until 'Global Jurisdiction' gets fully under way!
DC grow some balls
This offence is a CIVIL offence in the UK (assuming linking is even that!).
How can we justify extraditing a UK citizen for doing something in the UK that isn't a criminal offence? Should the Netherlands extradite marijuana users since that's illegal in the US?
Unlike Brits, we in the US don't live under a govt. where the PM can say what he wants and it happens. Obama has no power in the Constitution to affect an ongoing investigation. And that's all that this is. There's still a trial to come, where these issues can be hashed out. This is the same bashing that the Governor of Texas gets for not pardoning people on death row: in the Texas Constitution, he can't do that!
What planet are you from?
Actually, given what Obama said, he absolutely does have the power to affect the investigation. His statement was that this is under the auspices of the Dept. of Justice (DoJ), which is an executive agency (under the constitution). As Obama is the head of the Executive branch, he can indeed influence the investigation legally (although political fallout from doing so may be more than he wants to take on, were he to make a habit of it).
Oh, and one more thing: the Governor of Tejas does, under the constitution have the power to both commute a death sentence, as well as to pardon a convicted criminal (which makes any sentence moot).
"the Texas Governor cannot independently issue a pardon or sentence commutation. In death penalty cases, the Governor can issue one thirty-day reprieve. He or she can also make recommendations to the Board of Pardons and Paroles and can either approve or reject the board's recommendations on pardons or sentence reductions."
"Unlike Brits, we in the US don't live under a govt. where the PM can say what he wants and it happens."
Which part of the UK would that be?
You made me register - This "Brit" is really cross!
@Daedalus: I think you are missing the point. No one is attempting to trounce your precious constitution - just that we do not expect our extradition agreements, put in place to protect us from terrorism, to be exploited for trivial "suspected" piracy allegations. Neither do we take kindly to America's attempts to rule the world - you guys revolted in 1760 as I remember when we tried it ;-)
Naff all to do with your constitution and everything to do with your flawed political system that has undoubtedly allowed big business to lobby and misuse these laws for their own purposes - to resist change, control the internet and protect their flawed business models to make as much profit as possible. Seems to me it's about money - nothing else.
In the UK we have pretty strict laws on littering you know - I personally cannot wait for us to begin extradition proceedings against those responsible for littering our airwaves with all your $hite TV! (Anyone remember Joanie loves Chachi - that has to be extraditable! )
I stand corrected...thanks (as an expatriate New Messican, I never paid a whole lot of attention to the Tejas constitutiion anyway). Now, convince me that the Board of Pardons does anything other than what the Guv'ner of Tejas "recommends".
@Climbing Kid
"we do not expect our extradition agreements, put in place to protect us from terrorism, to be exploited for trivial "suspected" piracy allegations"
LOL - then you shouldn't have made treaties with America, where every law is sold on the basis of tackling some popular discontent and then widely abused by jailing grandmothers and drowning kittens.
It's a pity Tony Bliar allowed the treaty to be so one-sided, otherwise we could enjoy the spectacle of the UK extraditing random Americans and prosecuting them for possession of firearms. Or if such treaties existed elsewhere in the world, perhaps a country like Saudi Arabia would extradite Newt Gingrich and behead him for adultery.
Hello. Hello. This is planet earth. If you really believe the absence of a direct means of doing it (i.e. an order etc.) affects his ability to influence, you really are living on another planet. The president controls who gets a lot of the positions that affect this and therefore effectively owns the people. They mess him around, they might not be in employment for long.
The PM and president have the same sorts of powers, it's just whether one is direct or indirect. Strangely enough, in the UK, the PM also can't necessarily just order something and it happens. In some areas yes, in other areas no. However, he does appoint people to roles and therefore gets some control that way. It's called politics and is not really that different between the two countries.
"LOL - then you shouldn't have made treaties with America" -- LMAO, you seem to think we had a say in it!
"you seem to think we had a say in it!"
Oh yes, I apologize. I forgot we live in democratic countries.
@Someone Else: 1 thumbs up, 1 thumbs down.
0bama certainly does have the power to influence what the DOJ does which we saw quite clearly in the Philadelphia Black Panther case where the DOJ already HAD the conviction but dropped the case to get a favored constituency out of a bad spot.
But you are completely clueless on Texas.
You can get as cross as you want, his point still stands.
In the US, the President is intentionally more restricted than the PM, who is by definition the head of the majority party. The rest of your post is the continued mad rantings on things about which you know nothing, and apparently have even less interest in learning about than you have knowledge of the subject. Your prejudices may make you feel superior, but you aren't, and your particular brand of socialist warfare is one of the things that keeps crippling a once honorable nation.
Presidents and PMs have vastly different sets of powers
Those with PMs just flatter themselves by equating the two. PMs have a much greater ability to pass legislation and adjustments to legislation because of the simple fact that they ARE the HEADS of the MAJORITIES of the houses which elect them.
I'd like a side order of 'reality' with my outrage.
Doesn't Obama at least have to pretend that he's read the transcript of the trial before granting O'Dwyer a presidential pardon?
So nothing to do with Holywood
Threatening to stop writing checks this political year then?
Er, social media is not some magical filter that removes political spin and forces politicians to say what they're really thinking (and let's face it, their profession often requires them to put personal opinion aside).
The questions here might have been a bit different from your typical press conference or televised interview, but he's still going to answer them (or sidestep them) in the same manner.
For helping people steal?
And this legislation is normally used for terrorism offences? What about large-scale economic harm?
As for Obama's saying he wants to be all "consistent with internet freedom", like -
So O'Dwyer is like Jesus now, is he? FFS -you owe me a fucking keyboard.
Jesus was a pirate!
Yes Jesus Illegally copied five loaves of bread and two fish and distributed them amongst a reported five thousand people.
Piracy really is a crime of biblical proportians!
I wonder if the Pope has received an extradition request yet...
Phuck around go to prison
A person really has to be pretty dumb to operate a website with pirated content.
Maybe someone would have to be dumb to operate a website containing pirated content, but then you'd have to be pretty dumb not to read the article first and realise he didn't!! He posted links to pirated content. So, he's done nothing that google hasn't done. Get it now?
Epic fail.......just epic.
But not as dumb as someone who can't read.
Google don't read and edit their posts,
what-his-name did.
I'd still lean toward saying the application in this case is overreach, but not nearly as much as your statement.
That's just the point, his site had NO pirated/copyrighted/suspect material on it, it provided *links* to it, much the same as Newzbin/Google/Yahoo, et al.
Funny how the big business models seem to be exempt from court action though.
You mean Big American Business?
I hope someone doesn't tell the White House to do a search like "inurl:.torrent"
Or the SWAT team will get sent round to the Chocolate Factory.
Or possibly not.
Is history bunk?
I have just been to an exhibition about Charles Dickens and read some articles about him (anniversary of his birth or death or something): it seems he was wildly popular in the USA, mobbed on arrival and never left alone, his works selling there by the million. However, he was a bit put out: The USA earned him not one single cent as it did not respect copyright, merely pirated and distributed without let or hindrance, happily ignoring any authorial or other rights. This was justified in the name of freedom and the constitution I believe, otherwise known as greed.
Funny how times change.
It's true, CD did not do well out of the USA
What can you say? A young country with no copyright treaties at the time. Later G&S worked hard to make sure their work was published and performed in the US so they had copyright there as well as in the UK. There were similar issues in the early days of the movies.
Fortunately, Dickens made a fortune speaking in 'Merica.
Apparently he and the Mrs had the worst crossing on record in January 1842. Here's a little teaser from Dicken's "American Notes for General Circulation."
"It is the third morning. I am awakened out of my sleep by a dismal shriek from my wife, who demands to know whether there's any danger. I rouse myself, and look out of bed. The water-jug is plunging and leaping like a lively dolphin; all the smaller articles are afloat, except my shoes, which are stranded on a carpet-bag, high and dry, like a couple of coal-barges. Suddenly I see them spring into the air, and behold the looking-glass, which is nailed to the wall, sticking fast upon the ceiling. At the same time the door entirely disappears, and a new one is opened in the floor. Then I begin to comprehend that the state-room is standing on its head.Before it is possible to make any arrangement at all compatible with this novel state of things, the ship rights. Before one can say 'Thank Heaven', she wrongs again. Before one can cry she IS wrong, she seems to have started forward, and to be a creature actually running of its own accord, with broken knees and failing legs, through every variety of hole and pitfall, and stumbling constantly. Before one can so much as wonder, she takes a high leap into the air. Before she has well done that, she takes a deep dive into the water. Before she has gained the surface, she throws a summerset. The instant she is on her legs, she rushes backward. And so she goes on staggering, heaving, wrestling, leaping, diving, jumping, pitching, throbbing, rolling, and rocking: and going through all these movements, sometimes by turns, and sometimes altogether: until one feels disposed to roar for mercy.
A steward passes. 'Steward!' 'Sir?' 'What is the matter? what do you call this?' 'Rather a heavy sea on, sir, and a head-wind.'......A head-wind!"
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There's 2 reasons why you older techy people can't get jobs:
1 - You live miles away from the work and won't move. I had to move within the UK from North to South where there's more work, it's even more necessary in a big country like America.
2 - You failed to keep up with advances in technology in your given field because you are opposed to change and have become a fuddy duddy. This is a death sentence for any technical career.
Immigrants are quite happy to move and they are generally from countries where there has been lots of change recently. It is no wonder that companies employ them.
There's two principle reasons why your almost totally wrong.
1 - Your making a wild, sweeping generalisation about older people wanting to move less and not keeping up with technology. Plenty of older people do keep up with technology and will move, and I've known plenty of younger people who won't. There might be some degree of age determination of it, but it isn't as great as people think.
2 - This doesn't just apply in techy jobs and even applies in non-techy, where no particular skills are required. It is actually because of employers misconceptions about how age affects a person and how they work. It's the same reason that older people tend to be the first hit by compulsory redundancy. Younger people are considered more dynamic, more hungry for success etc. Crude generalisations like yours and these are what causes so much pair to older people. More intelligent managers and companies judge each candidate individually and also take into account factors such as older people are less likely to lie/ham up their CV.
Americans will take any amount of shit
I hope you guys enjoy being an international joke. Might motivate you to think a little harder next election.
How's that Dope and Chains working for ya?
Elect a charlatan and expect to get hosed.
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Nothing speaks more highly to me of this self-sacrifice than the witness of a mother, who daily gives of herself for her own. Often depriving herself, she offers to others; often preferring others, she offers herself.Motherhood is a call to stay firm in the face of uncertainty, despair, sickness, poverty, and even danger, where her children are concerned. One could almost say that as the father is the sword, she is the shield.
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Keywords: Motherhood, Mother's Day, women, Mary, fiat, sacrifice, love
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - Once upon a time there was a young woman who loved her Lord. There was nothing she withheld from Him. Her life was always "yes" to Him, the proverbial "fiat" - "let it be to me as you have said." She fell in love and, hearing the "Divine Yes," married the man whom she loved. They grew in Him as one in the sacramental mystery.
A child was born and she loved the child. The child brought something out of her that had always been a part of her yet never expressed. Like a hidden stream now discovered, rivers of love flowed out of the woman to her child. She knew she would do anything - yes anything - even give up her life for the precious one who lay in her arms. A special bond, which had begun nine months before, now burst forth with such fire and fervency that she knew nothing would ever be the same again.
The chance soon came to test this depth of love, not through her physical death, but through her dying to opportunities. Travel to exciting places, special events, intriguing people, all marched past the edges of her life while she maintained her watchfulness over the child. Her vigil would not succumb to the call of personal wants and affluence.
Soon more children were born into this woman's life. The hidden stream was not divided, however. More love flowed as though her reservoir could not be quenched. Enough love for each where none could want for more.
Yet again, more tests came. Unyielding in her vigil, the woman knew that, whatever the lure, her place as mother must remain unyielding. She gave up herself, as she died to potential memories of what could have been. She chose to live in anticipation of the memories of what would be, for her and her family. She never looked back. She is my wife.
In St. John's Gospel, Jesus said, "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."
Shepherds come in many shapes and sizes. They are men and women, and even children.
Some shepherds are mothers. They tend the little flock called the domestic church along with their husbands, who are also shepherds of this field. Mother-shepherds nurture their children out of the goodness, the loveliness, the gentleness, and the winsomeness of womanhood in God's image.
A mother lays down her life by taking it up on behalf of these precious ones entrusted to her care. She knows martyrdom in a way that no man may know it - giving up her life in childbirth and in childcare. No hireling can imitate or come close to matching a mother's love.
Motherhood is a call to stay firm in the face of uncertainty, despair, sickness, poverty, and even danger, where her children are concerned. One could almost say that as the father is the sword, she is the shield.
This I have learned as I have watched my wife all these years. This I have learned from my wife, not hearing her words only, but beholding her actions; not in seeing her live only, but in seeing her die to self.
Jesus also said, "I am the good shepherd; and I know my sheep, and am known by my own."
A mother can describe her children to the minutest detail. Borne out of years of a loving gaze, each line and shape of her child remain fixed and firm as a portrait carried in the heart. She knows them inside and out; where each blemish is located, where each "owie" was bandaged, and how each mood is triggered.
Often the child is surprised by this knowledge, in awe that nothing really escapes a mother's watchfulness. Everything is logged and categorized in a special place in the soul called "a mother's care."
St. Angela Merici was an orphan in the fifteenth century who devoted her life to children. "Mothers of children," she wrote, "even if they have a thousand, carry each and every one fixed in their hearts, and because of the strength of their love they do not forget any of them. In fact, it seems that the more children they have the more their love and care for each one is increased."
The mother is also known by her children. The sound of her voice can both soothe and sound the alarm. How often my children and I have heard people say to my wife, "You have such a wonderful and sweet voice on the phone. I couldn't imagine you ever shouting." My offspring would smile sweetly, for their mother's voice was sweet and soothing, yet knowing that there were times when the alarm would sound!
They will also forever remember the "snap" - the perfected art of snapping her fingers for attention. In any public place and particularly at church, the "snap" could be heard - as loud as a thunderclap - calling wandering wills to return to behavior best suited for God's house.
A mother's treasure is her memories and her wealth is found in those ones whom she has nurtured through the years. No wonder Scripture states that Mary the Mother of God - the Blessed Theotokos - "kept all the things about her Son and pondered them in her heart."
At the end of this section, our Lord also said, "Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again."
St. John was truly impacted by this awesome declaration and wrote in his first epistle, "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers."
Nothing speaks more highly to me of this self-sacrifice than the witness of a mother, who daily gives of herself for her own. Often depriving herself, she offers to others; often preferring others, she offers herself.
An account like this one about mothers must be shared with caution. For some, motherhood was an accident, and not always a welcome one; for some, biological motherhood isn't possible, and this day is a reminder of what may not be; for some, mothers weren't all that nice, and this day carries different memories; for most, motherhood, even under the very best of circumstances, is still less than a bed of roses and the primrose path.
Yet, apart from all personal experience, the calling of motherhood remains before the Lord as a noble state of being to be honored and embraced. As one person wrote, "for all its stumbling blocks, pitfalls and broken dreams, for all the soiled diapers, soiled wallpaper and spoiled plans, we're talking about a beautiful ideal, a natural part of God's creative plan to bring love and caring to light (to life)."
Randy Sly is the Associate Editor of Catholic Online and the CEO/Associate Publisher for the Northern Virginia Local Edition of Catholic Online (http://virginia.catholic.org). He is a former Archbishop of the Charismatic Episcopal Church who laid aside that ministry to enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church.
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The flight instructor was conducting a two-leg, cross-country familiarization flight at night with a private pilot. The flight instructor reported that, before departure, he used a flashlight to look in the airplane's fuel tanks and determined that they contained 25 gallons of usable fuel and that the two flight legs would require 23.3 gallons of fuel. He then entered 22 gallons in the airplane's multifunction display (MFD) fuel totalizer. The airplane reached its destination airport and departed on the return flight without incident; however, shortly after takeoff, the low fuel caution light illuminated. The airplane subsequently experienced a total loss of engine power. The flight instructor deployed the airplane's parachute system, and the airplane subsequently descended into trees about 3 miles northeast of the airport. Postaccident examination of the airplane did not reveal any mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation, and less than 1 gallon of fuel was drained from the fuel tanks. The president of the flight school stated that, 2 days before the accident, he had 42 gallons of fuel added to the fuel tanks. He then entered 40 gallons in the airplane's MFD fuel totalizer. He flew two more flights and estimated that the fuel totalizer should have indicated between 14 and 16 gallons before the first leg of the accident flight. Recorded MFD data showed that the total amount of fuel used since the last refueling was 42.4 gallons. The flight instructor likely overestimated the amount of fuel in the airplane before departure and entered the wrong amount into the MFD fuel totalizer, which led to an erroneous display of the actual amount of fuel remaining and his belief that the airplane had sufficient fuel for the flight.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:
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Judge to hear collusion arguments
Judge David Doty has agreed to hear arguments Sept. 6 regarding the NFL Players Association's claim that the league and its owners conspired in collusion to establish a "secret $123 million salary cap" in 2010, which under the previous labor agreement was designated as an uncapped year of spending.
The hearing will be held in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis under the supervision of Doty, who presided over the 1993 settlement of the Reggie White litigation case. That settlement led to an unprecedented stretch of labor peace that lasted through 2010, which was designated as an uncapped year in which teams would not be restricted in spending on player salaries.
The NFL has argued that the 2011 collective bargaining agreement settled and prohibited any further court claims.
The hearing is not necessarily an automatic victory for the union, but Doty could have declined to hear arguments or even passed the case off to another judge in his district.
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The NFL in March penalized the Redskins and Cowboys a combined $46 million in salary-cap spending over the next two years, a decision recently upheld by a Special Master ruling, citing the NFLPA's agreement to an arrangement that would redistribute the money to other teams for cap spending.
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Huge thanks to Taylor Taylor for their support in fundraising for us and for this great evening of music at their Commercial Street salon, featuring Nimmo & The Gauntletts and The Joker & The Thief.
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Huge thanks to Taylor Taylor for their support in fundraising for us and for this great evening of music at their Commercial Street salon, featuring Nimmo & The Gauntletts and The Joker & The Thief.
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The Station Sessions Festival is a six week long celebration of the UK's emerging musical talent for a takeover of Kings Cross Station, with bands playing for free to London's commuters.
In proud support of Prince's Trust Music, the festival will run from the 15th of June to the 29th of July and will feature some of the most talked about emerging artists spanning genres from pop, rock and blues to classical and soul.
On Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th of July, following a storming Glastonbury, Strummerville will take over the Station Sessions. Featuring Live performances from The Joker and The Thief, The Barker Band, The Riff Raff and the hotly tipped Bastille – here are the times
4th July:
6.00pm – The Joker and The Thief
6.30pm – Bastille
5th July:
6.00pm – The Barker Band
6.30pm – The Riff Raff
Full info here: http://www.stationsessions.com/festival
"If you've not been to Strummerville before, then you need to go. If you've not been to a Frank Turner show before, then you need to go. Having them both in one place results in a phenomenal event, but I can't help but feel that every Strummerville show has this kind of magical atmosphere; with an anything-goes attitude towards musical talent, this line-up would not be repeated anywhere else in England, such is the diversity of genres on display, and it results in a liberating atmosphere that just makes you feel free… This is how music should be enjoyed, with anyone and everyone welcome, and anyone and everyone going home happy."
Of the other bands too numerous to review thoroughly, a couple truly stand out – the electro-pop of Bastille, and the energetic not-quite-sure-what-but-there-was-an-awesome-saxophonist performance by The Joker And The Thief.
Read more: http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/
And… Strummerville bands The Barker Band, Benjamin Folke Thomas, The Great Whale, La Rabla Fam, Shooting Star Poets, The Vagabonds, Bastille, Dark Moon, The Joker And The Thief, theLights, Tom And The Tides, The Welcome Committee.
Advance tickets are now sold out but will be available on the door and for those of you who like to party till the early hours entry after 1am will be just £5 with DJ sets from The Maccabees and One Love soundsystem. CLICK HERE for more info
Its the night before Good Friday, one of the best nights of the year to throw a party and when Strummerville will present the charity's new crop of new talent sharing a stage with Frank Turner, who will celebrate his 1000th ever live show.
Our bi-annual showcases are always real highlights for us and its exciting presenting some of the broad spectrum of the talent we have been helping. Having Frank give us this support is really special for everyone involved, its artists like Frank that make us all keep believing.
Growing out of its West London base, the Strummerville Spring Sessions goes to East London to take-over Hearn Street's Carpark on Thursday April 21st (Easter Thursday) from 8pm until 6am.
"The 1000th show is going to be a big landmark, and to be honest I was at a loss as to how to mark it – but when my good friends at Strummerville got in touch, it made perfect sense – a massive party to mark the occasion and promote some great causes. What more do you want from a night out?" - Frank Turner
Five of our brilliant DIY bands – The Supernovas, The Joker and the Thief, The Riff Raff, Nimmo and the Gauntletts and Real Fur all played a series of exclusive in-store pop-up gigs at the Clarks Originals store at 101 Regents Street between February 15th-20th 2011.
Clash brought in five unique talents to the table – Pete and the Pirates, Summer Camp, Fyfe Dangerfield from the Guillemots, Cloud Control and The Pierces.
There was also an exclusive one off event featuring Guillemots, The Supernovas and The Pierces played a show on 17th of February at London's Bath House, Liverpool St.
And here's the reviews and photos…
The Supernovas
"They don't make them like The Supernovas any more. The four-piece cut a Holloway swagger right through the poshest precinct in town but arrived at the shop on time, pint of Gaymers, Sherman button-downs and Fred Perry."
The Joker and the Thief
View a photo gallery from The Joker And The Thief gig at Clarks Originals' Regent Street shop for their 'Original And Live' gig series.
Photos by Marc Sethi
Nimmo and the Gauntletts
Sometimes music moves you to look back in the past. Philip Larkin, groping his way to bed after a piss, comes across the moon through the curtains: "The hardness and the brightness and the plain / Far-reaching singleness of that wide stare..
The Riff Raff
View a photo gallery from The Riff Raff gig at Clarks Originals' Regent Street shop for their 'Original And Live' gig series. Photos by Marc Sethi.
Real Fur
Accustomed to the soothing odour of fabric softener and gently ruminating washing machines, Real Fur seem a little startled to be playing to the thoroughfare of rush hour Piccadilly.
Clarks role within the history of music comes alive once more with bands playing at their pop-up shop at 101 Regents Street, London.
Clash has teamed up with Strummerville to bring the following unique, live and originals sets at 1pm and 6pm across five days of the project.
The shop will sell limited edition collaborations for SS11, including collaborations from Millerain and Laura Ashley. There is also a limited edition Festival Boot collaboration that comes in the Desert Boot, Wallabee and Natalie styles. £2 from every pair sold will be donated to Strummerville.
Tuesday 15th Feb
1pm: Pete and the Pirates
6pm: Real Fur
Wednesday 16th Feb
1pm: Nimmo and the Gauntletts
6pm: Summer Camp
Thursday 17th Feb
1pm: Fyfe Dangerfield
6pm: The Riff Raff
Friday 18th Feb
1pm: The Supernovas
6pm The Pierces
Saturday: 19th Feb
3pm: The Joker and the Thief
6pm: Cloud Control


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Those of you aching for more blogs about politics, food, morons and piss-n-vinegar rants will have to wait, because my recuperation period has taken up most of my mindspace. Thank goodness someone else is writing the blog today, the estimable Dr. Caitlin Reed, who along with Drs. Morton, Sooferian, Goldman and Kuhn, helped me survive through the week.
I've known Caitlin for 22 years. All I have to say is this: you know that shy girl with glasses at the party in 1991? You better be a good guy, because she will grow up to save your life.
Here's her take on my illness, in bullet form, written as a doctor. I'm so glad to have this because, in some way, it might make sense of the madness:
Thursday May 30 - Saturday June 1. From Ian: "Tightness in chest that doesn't feel right. Three days of fever that is unaffected by medication. Early Sunday morning I know it's time for the emergency room."
Sunday, June 2. Voicemail from Tessa that Ian's getting admitted to the hospital overnight for pneumonia and a headache. Sounds like just a precaution. I'll check in tomorrow.
Monday, June 3. Talk with Tessa. Ian's had five days of fever, mild cough, bad headache. Had a tough night, fevers, someone down the hall in the hospital is screaming all night. An infectious disease doc is being called. Email from Ian: this is your wheelhouse, isn't it? Yes. I stop by that evening. To my surprise, Ian is on oxygen, just a small amount, but even this is unusual for pneumonia in an otherwise healthy person his age. He looks pale. He's warm. His fever spikes while I'm there, and he has shaking chills.
Doctors divide the world into two categories: sick and not sick. We spend years of residency learning this, developing a spidey sense so we can know at a glance which patients we should be worried about. Ian fails the eyeball test. He's sick.
Tuesday, June 4. Ian suddenly needs way more oxygen. Tessa calls. They are putting him on a face mask. Getting a blood gas. Doing a stat CT scan of his chest to rule out a blood clot in his lung. Moving him to a step down unit for closer monitoring. Good, that's what should happen.
This time I bring a stethoscope and take a listen. Wet crackles to halfway up the left lung. Not the whoosh of moving air that I should hear. This is not going the right direction. I check the antibiotics: they've been changed, appropriately. They are covering a host of possibilities I'm starting to sort through in my mind, in the habitual way that something deeply learned cannot be unlearned.
Banter with the nurses about their shift, my hospital. I want them to know that I'm keeping an eye on him. Ian's no longer amused. The hospital has stopped being sort of interesting, potential material for the future, a new and different experience. Now it's frustrating and scary: he is here, he is doing everything he is supposed to do, and he is getting worse.
He shows me a luminous self-portrait of Lucy. I'm glad it's there in his room. I want the hospital staff to know: he's a father. A husband. A writer. Beloved by an insanely wide circle of friends. Because they will treat everyone professionally, but if they care about him, they will do their damndest.
Wednesday, June 5. He needs more and more oxygen. A non-rebreather mask gives him 100% oxygen with every breath. This is the most he can get without assistance from a machine. The mask covers most of his face and has a vaguely Darth Vader quality. I am aware that often this is a brief stop on the way to the ICU and a ventilator.
His antibiotics have been changed again, they're throwing the kitchen sink at him now. On an X ray, air is black and fluid is white. Ian's X ray shows that his left lung is almost entirely white. His lung sounds underwater and now the base of his right lung sounds similar. He sounds like he is drowning from the inside.
Sitting on the edge of his bed, I promise two things. I'm going to make sure they take really good care of him. And he will not be alone. I don't promise that he's going to be OK, because I have learned through hard experience not to do this. I make sure there's a central line in place in case they need it later in the ICU. Anticipating.
Ian's breathing is tenuous. He can't talk. He looks terrified. He wants something for anxiety, for pain. But it isn't safe. He needs his respiratory drive and medications could interfere with it. I can see that this explanation isn't satisfying. He's glaring at me as if to say, "I'm not going to fucking forget to breathe, that's the only thing I am doing right now." I say that his doctors are more worried about his breathing than his pain.
He's conscious but seems far away, deep inside himself. We talk about meditating. He nods, he can do that. Has done that. Will do that. I feel faintly ridiculous because so much of meditation is about breathing and that is the central fact of his life right now.
Thursday, June 6. The ID (infectious disease) doc and I talk. It might be awkward- I'm just a friend, not officially taking care of Ian, but a colleague too, and I'd like to know what she's thinking and what the tests have shown. No problem. She briefly summarizes his case, and I'm impressed: she has ordered almost every test that I would have, considered the possibilities, remembers even the minor things, like the tomatoes Ian planted in his garden the week before this happened.
Labs are remarkable for a very low white blood cell count; could this be viral? Or early septic shock? We mull this over. ID doctors don't do procedures, but we pride ourselves on taking good histories and considering all the subtle clues. She marshals the evidence for and against various possibilities: could this be a fungal pneumonia like cocci, and that's why he isn't getting better on antibiotics? He did go to Santa Cruz, but he didn't drive through the Central Valley, the hotbed for this disease in California. What about Legionnaires' disease - he's traveled, there's a hot tub on the farm, though he doesn't smoke so it's less likely.
We've both seen very severe atypical pneumonia from legionella, but the test is negative. The respiratory viral panel is negative. The sputum culture is negative. The blood cultures are negative. Everything's negative. But he's very sick. It might be a viral infection run amok in his lungs, or a "walking pneumonia" that is unusually severe like mycoplasma, even though the blood test is negative, or maybe it's an aspiration pneumonia somehow related to a bout of acid reflux the week before.
"What about the zebras?" I cite the aphorism drummed into us during training: "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." Meaning that common things are common, and exotic diagnoses rare. But we've thought about all the horses, and still have no definitive diagnosis. And Ian's condition is deteriorating. Could we be missing a rare diagnosis, something unusual - Q fever? Unlikely, his farm is not the kind with birthing cows in the barn. Brucellosis? I doubt that he eats unpasteurized cheese from Mexico. Psittacosis? No bird exposures and the lack of hepatitis and or an enlarged spleen argue against this. Hantavirus? He did have exposure to mice when cleaning his garage, but his respiratory failure isn't fulminant enough, and the x ray findings would be unusual. Novel coronavirus? There have been a few cases in Italy, not just the Middle East, but the incubation period isn't right for his last exposure.
What about those weird insect-borne diseases, anaplasmosis or human monocytic ehrlichiosis from ticks in New York, or murine typhus here in LA? He doesn't have a rash, or some other findings we'd expect, but she'll add another antibiotic just in case. I hang up, reassured. She's good, she's thorough, she's compulsive, the word of choice to praise an ID doc.
Ian's about the same. As sick as a person can be without needing a ventilator. He can't keep going like this for much longer. He is lethargic. It could be because his carbon dioxide level is rising, a sign that he can't keep up. The only positive: most of the time, when things go south, they do so quickly. I'm cautiously encouraged that he is still breathing on his own and has not had a fever for two days. Somehow he is not yet in severe distress, not gasping, still calm. Maybe the antibiotics are working.
Tessa's phone is pinging every couple of seconds with texts, emails, voicemails. The scattered tribe wants to help, needs to know what's going on. She is coordinating care, anticipating a prolonged recovery, looking into rescheduling plans, figuring out how to be there for Lucy's year-end concerts and recitals, importing help from family, keeping up with different medical specialists, bringing in treats for the night shift, mastering the hospital hierarchy, staying on top of a million details. She is formidable. And scared.
Friday, June 7. X-ray a little better. Ian feels miserable and is complaining. We are thrilled. His head is pounding, he's sore all over, he's too weak to sit up. The flamboyant respiratory therapist that night tells him: you just think you need more oxygen, honey. You want to feel the air flow. And he's right. They get him down to a simple mask.
Ian is unhappy with the position of a small fan blowing on him. Tessa and I take turns relocating it. Head of bed. Side of bed. End of bed. Different angles. Nothing feels right. But at least he's talking a little. Voice weak. But talking. Privately, I think of talking as the Ian vital sign. He is not out of the woods. He still needs high amounts of oxygen. But I think he's starting to get a bit better.
We might never get a diagnosis. All the tests are still negative. Maybe we'll figure it out by measuring his antibody levels a month after he's recovered. In a way it doesn't matter: he's surviving a life-threatening illness. He's getting better. We're going to see him through.
Saturday, June 8 - Monday, June 10. Over the next few days: dramatic, steady improvement. His eyes look brighter. There's color in his face. Salem arrives, bearing cans of Ensure Plus, vetted for lactose intolerance. He charms the nurses, holds down the fort, runs out for soup, amuses and cajoles Ian into sitting up in a chair. Tessa and the physical therapist get him out of bed for a short, agonizing, but important walk.
I'm anticipating: can we wean down the oxygen some more, get him up into a chair for longer, get that PICC line out so it doesn't get infected? There are details to attend to. Ian is exhausted to the very marrow of his bones. But he is through the worst.
Tuesday, June 11 - Thursday, June 13. Unbelievably, he and Salem have hacked the hospital TV to stream Apple TV movies, and he's already planning an excellent hare-brained scheme for the Jartacular in three weeks.
I get a copy of the CT scan and take a look with a colleague I trust. We marvel at how fast Ian has recovered, faster than we'd expect. The CT contains thousands of 2D slices, millimeters apart, through his heart and lungs. Through vast powers of image crunching, the computer has made a 3D reconstruction of Ian's heart and great vessels: the aorta, the pulmonary arteries.
I can rotate his heart in virtual space with the click of a mouse, almost hold it in my hand. Through this whole illness, Ian's heart has pumped with the steady lub-dup of life, beat after beat, a vital metronome, reassuring and constant. We can see his heart from every angle, a miracle of science, but who can know the ineffable mysteries of love?
Friday, June 14. Ian leaves the hospital in time to see his daughter Lucy graduate from 2nd grade.
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Thank you for this, and for all you did to help The Williams Family. Bless you! <3
So now that you've told us to fear the mushrooms and the ticks and the country of Italy and parts of California, I am wondering what advice you (the doctor, not the Ian) have for we civilian mushroom-eating woods-walking Italianophiles: beyond religious hand washing, are we otherwise at the mercy of the elements when it comes to projecting ourselves from, well, everything?
Caitlin...will you be my doctor? Im in Texas, but just in case. :) That heart video is cool.
Thanks for the rundown, Caitlin!
Caitlin: Thank you, thank you, thank you...
That's terrific!
One thing I would say as a laywoman - seems like it DOES matter if there's a way to find out what caused it. If Ian is vulnerable to something - something on the farm, something when traveling, something he eats - maybe if there's a way to know what it does to him, or someone else in his situation, it'd be good to find out.
Beautifully written, and I was thrilled with the outcome. What a mystery, though. Ian still has to be worried about the cause and whether there will be a recurrence. Here's hoping and praying that whatever this was is now fully in the rearview mirror and won't be paying another visit again!
Caitlin Reed, you are awesome. As ever, I am in awe. Love you.
Wow. Thanks, Ian, for allowing the dramatic details to be made public, and to Dr Caitlin for relating them...not to mention looking after Ian. Scary!
I second Oliver's comment. Umm, and where was this little number picked up??
Caitlin! What a gift to Tessa and Ian. Constructing any confidence or vision of what might come next, was so much easier when the words came from you.
Thanks for all the kind words! Ian did the healing, his doctors took good care of him, and Tessa is a wonder. It was my privilege to help.
To answer a few questions above: Peter, no need to quit going for walks, stop eating mushrooms (and also, cocci aka Valley Fever is a fungal infection, but you don't get it from eating mushrooms -- it comes from inhaling spores found in dirt, at construction sites and other places), avoid all outdoor activities, and eschew trips to California and Italy.
I am a firm believer that exposing your immune system to various places is a good thing overall. It's more the inverse: when someone gets sick, and is getting worse, and we can't figure out what's wrong, then we cast a wider net. We start to closely examine all of their activities and exposures (work? pets? anyone sick at home? travel? insect bites? and more) to see if any of them give a clue about a more unusual cause of illness. Often we can't find one, but it's our job to look.
CM, agreed, it would be great to be able to name the cause. There are some blood tests that could be run a month or two after the illness that might help retrospectively make a diagnosis, by looking for an increase in antibody levels to various pathogens. There are also some other tests that could be helpful in excluding other diagnoses, and Ian and I have talked about these. Based on the CT scan findings, this was almost certainly an infection, not an exposure to a toxin or an allergic reaction to a food. It's also highly unlikely to be something found on the farm or in Ian's daily life, because this has never happened before.
Unfortunately, there is a great deal of uncertainty in medicine, and it's as common not to be able to make a diagnosis as it is to nail it down. But we'll keep trying!
My favorite line in this incredible post is this one:
"Unbelievably, he and Salem have hacked the hospital TV to stream Apple TV movies..."
Somehow, that sums up the Spirit of Ian Resurgent to me. Apple Movies, not humdrum cable TV! Creative hacking, not passive acceptance! Teamwork! Friends!
Bless all of you. Truly, bless you one and all.
Wow. I'm on the West Coast and just getting the news on all this. Caitlin, thank you for helping save my friend and our favorite writer. Thank you to Tessa and Lucy too, and all the other doctors. Ian I'm glad you're here!! *phew*
Awkward question: Has anyone considered the heroic volunteer work Ian and Tessa did after the Twin Towers came down? I heard the 9/11 dust has had a deleterious effect on some people's lungs, to put it mildly. Just wondering about a possible zebra amongst all the horses. At any rate, I'll be saying prayers of gratitude for the rest of the day.
Thank you Caitlin, and Liam, feel better. Much love from California. XOXOXO