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History | Were Paterson FC the first stateside association football club?
Which was the first American association football team? The answer is difficult to pin down. Some evidence points to Oneida Football Club of Boston, honored with an obelisk in Boston Common as "the first organized football club in the United States."
While Oneida played one of the football codes—perhaps a soccer-rugby hybrid—beginning in 1862, photographic evidence offered by a descendant of a Paterson FC captain suggests that the New Jersey side, formed in 1880, staked claim early to playing by the Football Association rules established in London in 1863 (see also Mar 30).
Canada-based historian Colin Jose notes the Internet-aided trend toward soccer research. With people "digging things out of their closets," mostly material from the post–World War II era, the researcher's winnowing and fact-checking—typically on eye-straining, locally held microfilm collections—begins. "Who knows?" says Jose, asked if Paterson FC might have a claim as the first U.S.-based association football team. "Everyday something new comes out of the woodwork."
Paterson had representatives in American Football Association competitions, with sides known as Paterson Thistle, Paterson Rangers and Paterson True Blues. The latter won the American FA Cup, launched in 1885, three times. By 1887, according to a New York Times report, Paterson had two association teams. Whether UK resident Patricia Wright's photograph is of the "True Blues" or another side is unknown; the team's hooped kit is of uncertain color. One clearly sees, however, the extent of the administrative apparatus: 23 dapper gents, most with facial hair, well outnumbering the 11 players.
Paterson remains an important site in industrial history. As early as 1794 a cotton-spinning factory was drawing energy from the Great Falls' 77-foot Passaic River cascade. Silk production began in the late 1830s and quickly drew attention from abroad, especially from Macclesfield in England's northwest. In 1890 New Jersey had 17,500 workers in the silk-weaving and dyeing industries, most in the "Silk City" of Paterson. That association football became an important recreation should not surprise. In 1882, the New York Times reprinted a Times of London article that testified to the association game's popularity in the British capital:
Saturday is the great day of the week for foot-ball players, and a rough calculation would indicate that on every Saturday afternoon during the season from 30,000 to 40,000 men and boys are engaging in the game, of whom nearly one-fourth are players residing in and around London. … The final round of the association challenge cup ties … produces a wonderful exhibition of combined skill, in which the players seem to use their feet with as much natural precision as they would use their hands, reminding us of those painters who, by whim or compulsion of nature, have successfully wielded the brush with their toes instead of their fingers.
Given the availability of skilled UK workers, English-born silk-industry owners predominated in Paterson between 1850 and 1890. The Paterson Weekly Press in 1872 published a poem, "The Silk Weavers," in northern English dialect ("Aw'm a poor silk-weaver, it's plain / To be seen by my coat an' my hat; / For a ghost aw mat easy be ta'en / For aw'm very near equally fat."). Immigrants believed that Paterson offered more opportunity for entrepreneurial and class mobility, sometimes citing a 19th-century saying that "in England the chances for success are one out of ten unless born of rich parents; in America, nine out of ten."
Around this time, in 1883, the man who would become the poet laureate of New Jersey's industrial north, William Carlos Williams, was born in nearby Rutherford. He said he chose Paterson for the setting of his epic five-part poem, published in increments between 1946 and 1958, in order "to embody the whole knowable world about me." "A man is indeed a city," Williams writes earlier in his autobiography, "and for the poet there are no ideas but in things."I thought of other places upon the Passaic River, but, in the end, the city, Paterson, with its rich colonial history, upstream, where the water was less heavily polluted, won out. The falls, vocal, seasonally vociferous, associated with many of the ideas upon which our fiscal colonial policy shaped us through Alexander Hamilton, interested me profoundly—and what has resulted therefrom. Even today a fruitful locale for study. I knew of these things.
Patricia Wright says of her husband's great-grandfather, the one-time captain of Paterson FC, that he decided to return to England in the late 19th century. "He became very involved with football in the UK but we have no information," she writes.
Naturally, we would welcome more in-depth news of this nascent Paterson side. Williams, himself, does not write of the association game and its north Jersey traditions, although he does speak of the gridiron variant, in the negative, in In the American Grain:
Our life drives us apart and forces us upon science and invention—away from touch. Or if we do touch, our breed knows no better than the coarse fiber of football. … To me, it is because we fear to wake up that we play so well. Imagine stopping money making.
Richard D. Margrave, "Technology Diffusion and the Transfer of Skills: Nineteenth-Century English Silk Migration to Paterson," in Silk City: Studies on the Paterson Silk Industry, 1860–1940, ed. Philip B. Scranton (Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1985), 9–34; William Carlos Williams, The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (New York: New Directions, 1967); idem, In the American Grain (New York: New Directions, 1956).
- Peter Seddon, compiler of the British Library's authoritative Football Compendium, has uncovered the oldest known photograph of an England national association football team. The picture, taken before a match with Scotland, dates to 4 Mar 1876. FA historian David Barber said, "I have to say that it is an extraordinary find. I have never seen anything close to 1876."
- David Wangerin, author of Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game (When Saturday Comes, 2006; Temple University Press, forthcoming), writes that research on early American and Canadian association football traditions refers to a Paterson side, the Caledonian Thistles, that played organized fixtures in 1884. Wangerin references the self-published work by Melvin I. Smith, Early American and Canadian "Football": Beginnings through 1883/84 (1stBooks, 2003).
Smith dates the first report of an American association game in a non-scholastic context to 15 Nov 1879: a 6–6 draw between Brooklynites Foot Ball Club and Bostonians Foot Ball Club.
The full provenance of Wright's team, Paterson FC, is not known or whether it correlates to the team referred to as "Thistle" or the "True Blues."


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well, these are the invites, but they were too cute not to share! i downloaded them free off the web from a magazine website, but i cannot find the link anymore! grr. let me know if you know where they come from, please!
the favors: sugar cookies with royal icing. these were so fun to make! about 1.5 hours to ice, but worth it. love the polka dots on the boots. stephanie thought of doing that! she helped soo much today with taking care of sadie, etc. thanks, steph!
made some "clouds" from tissue paper, martha stewart style.
little baby boy garland…notice the raindrop paper. hehe.
i hung a few of these umbrellas from oriental trading, then cut out raindrop shapes from cardstock, sewed them together, and hung them from the edges. it looked so adorable!
totally used this lady's idea for the flags. rolled the edges in sugar crystals. sweet!
the food was amazing! fruit salad, amazing dip and veggies, and seven layer dip.
i had some wonderful ladies help me out with some of it, thanks aimee and robin!
i made my lemon cranberry scones
i set some cards out for people to write advice or a quality they admired of cassy's, and then slid them into a little photo album, wish i'd gotten a picture of the front, it was cute!
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Mark Your Calendars For One EPIC Weekend In 2013 At Attica |
Thursday, 29 November 2012 | |
Friday, August 30th & Saturday, August 31stAttica Raceway Park's 25th Anniversary Season will conclude with one of the biggest weekends in the history of the Northern Ohio speed plant in 2013. On Friday, August 30th the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series will make its inaugural visit to Attica Raceway Park and be paired with the UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions creating one of the must see events of 2013! Defending Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Champion Jimmy Owens will lead the likes of Don O'Neal, Scott Bloomquist, Earl Pearson Jr. & many more into Attica to battle it out for 50 laps with $10,000 on the line. The best of both worlds in dirt track racing will be on display at "Ohio's Finest Racing" venue as the UNOH All Stars compete against our tough local contingent in a $3,000 to win brawl. The UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions return on Saturday, August 31st for their traditional 40-lap battle on the 1/3-mile clay oval and battle it out for $5,000 to win. Local hot shoe Phil Gressman defended the home turf at last year's season finale against the likes of Dale Blaney, Tim Shaffer and Cap Henry. Also in action on Saturday will be the UMP Late Models and Dirt Trucks. Friday, August 30th Saturday, August 31st Stay tuned to www.atticaracewaypark.com for more information! |
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Shakh Tahir Qadri's Fatwa Against Suicide Bombing and Terrorism
April 8, 2010 by TMO
(Conclusion of series–part five)
Chapter 1: The Meanings of Islām
1. Islām is a Religion of Peace and Security
2. Three grades of Islām
i. Research on literal meanings of Islām
ii. Research on literal meanings of Īmān
iii. Research on literal meanings of Ihsān
Chapter 2: Forbiddance of the Muslims' Massacre
Section 1: Honour of the Muslims' Life and Property
1. The dignity of a believer is greater than Ka'ba's
2. Merely pointing a weapon towards a believer is prohibited
3. The forbiddance of the Muslims' mass killing and violence
4. Prohibition of killing someone accepting Islām while fighting
5. Becoming an accomplice to terrorists too is crime
6. Those attacking mosques are the greatest wrongdoers
Section 2: The Punishment of torturing and killing Muslims
1. Killing a Muslim is a greater sin than destroying the whole world
2. Killing a human is like disbelieving
3. The massacre of Muslims is a blasphemous act
4. Like polytheism, murder too is the greatest wrong
5. Bloodshed is the greatest of all crimes
6. Those burning the Muslims by explosions and other means belong to Hell
7. Those burning the Muslims are debarred from the fold of Islām
8. No act of worship by the murderer of a Muslim is acceptable
9. Those who torture the Muslims will face the torment of Hell
Section 3: Suicide is a Forbidden Act
1. Forbiddance and prohibition of suicide
2. Paradise is forbidden to a suicider
3. Gist of the discussion
Chapter 3: Forbiddance of the Non-Muslims' Massacre and Torturing
1. Killing the non-Muslim citizens is forbidden
2. Forbiddance of killing foreign delegates and religious leaders
3. Retribution of Muslims and non-Muslims is the same
4. Avenging a wrong done by a non-Muslim from others is forbidden
5. Forbiddance of looting non-Muslim citizens
6. Humiliating non-Muslim citizens is forbidden
7. Protection of non-Muslim citizens from internal and external aggression
Chapter 4: Forbiddance of Terrorism against the Non-Muslims even during War
1. Prohibition of the killing of non-Muslim women
2. Prohibition of the killing of children of non-Muslims
3. Prohibition of the killing of the aged non-Muslims
4. Prohibition of the killing of non-Muslim religious leaders
5. Prohibition of the killing of non-Muslim traders and the growers
6. Prohibition of the killing of non-Muslim service personnel
7. Prohibition of the killing of non-Muslim non-combatants
8. Night Offensive against non-Muslims prohibited
9. Burning of the inhabitants of non-Muslim war areas prohibited
10. Breaking into the enemy houses and looting forbidden
11. Damaging the enemy cattle, crops and properties forbidden
Chapter 5: Protection of the Non-Muslims' Lives, Properties and Worship Places
Section 1: Protection of non-Muslim citizens during the Prophetic period and the Rightly Guided Caliphs' Era
1. The non-Muslim citizens' protection in the days of the Holy Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him)
2. The legal status of the protection of non-Muslims in the days of Abū Bakr Siddiq
3. The legal status of the protection of non-Muslims in the days of 'Umar
4. The legal status of the protection of non-Muslims in the days of 'Uthmān
5. The legal status of the protection of non-Muslims in the days of 'Ali
6. The legal status of the protection of non-Muslims in the days of 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz
Section 2: Forbiddance of Enforcing One's Belief and Annihilating Worship Places
1. Complete freedom of holding fast to one's religion and its practice
2. Killing a non-Muslim and destroying his property due to religious differences is forbidden
3. Safeguard of non-Muslims' worship places is a practice of the Holy Prophet
4. Safeguard of non-Muslims' worship places is obligatory
5. Annihilation of the non-Muslims' worship places located in Muslim majority areas is prohibited
Section 3: Rules Concerning Basic Rights of the non-Muslim Citizens in an Islamic State
Chapter 6: Rebellion against the Muslim state, Administration and Governance Forbidden
Section 1: What is rebellion and who is a rebel? (terminology, definitions and signs)
1. Lexical definition of rebellion
2. Technical definition of rebellion
i. Rebellion according to Hanafi school of thought
ii. Rebellion according to Māliki jurists
iii. Shafi'i's definition of rebellion
iv. Rebellion in view of Hanbali school of thought
v. Ja'fariyya definition of rebellion
vi. The view of contemporary scholars about defining rebellion
3. Technical definition of fight and fighters
4. Signs of rebels
Section 2: Gravity of the crime of rebellion and its punishment
1. Why mutiny is a grave crime?
2. The Holy Prophet condemned development of armed grouping against the Muslim majority
3. Warning of the torment of Hell to the agitators of rebellion
4. Judgment against biased slogans of miscreants
5. Killing due to sectarian differences condemnable
Section 3: Legal status of killings against a corrupt government
1. Forbiddance of rebellion against a government not explicitly idolatrous
2. Raising arms against Muslims is an idolatrous act
3. The legal and constitutional way of changing a corrupt government
Section 4: Edicts by the four Imāms and other eminent authorities of Umma against terrorism and rebellion
1. Edict by Imām A'zam Abū Hanifa about fighting against the terrorists
2. Edict by Imām Mālik against the terrorists
3. Edict by Imām Shafi'i against the terrorist rebels
4. Action and edict by Imām Ahmad ibn Hanbal against mutiny
5. Edict by Imām Sufyān Thawri about rebellion
6. Imām Tahawi's edict against armed rebellion
7. Imām Māwardi's edict about rebellion
8. Imām Sarkhasi's edict: elimination of terrorists is essential
9. Imām Kasāi's edict: terrorists must be killed
10. Imām Murghaināni's edict: war should continue until the elimination of rebellion
11. Imām Ibn Qudāma's edict: the mutineers are disbelievers and apostates
12. Imām Nawawi's edict: consensus of Companions on killing the rebels
13. Tātārkhāniyya's edict: cooperate with the government against the terrorists
14. Edict by Imām Ibrāhim ibn Muflih Hanbali: war against rebels is mandatory for the government
15. Edict by 'Allāma Zain ad-Din ibn Nujaim
16. Edict by 'Allāma al-Jaziri
Section 5: Edicts by contemporary Salafi scholars against rebels
1. Terrorists are the Khawārij of our times: Nāir ad-Din al-Albāni
2. Declaring Muslims to be disbelievers is a sign of Khawārij: Shaykh 'Abdu'llāh ibn Bāz
3. Terrorists of today are a gang of the ignorant: Shaykh Sālih al-Fawzān
4. Terroristic activities are not Jihād: Mufti Nazir Husayn of Delhi
5. Gist of the discussion
Chapter 7: The Khawārij Strife and Contemporary Terrorists
Section 1: The advent of Khawārij strife and their beliefs and ideologies
1. Lexical and technical meanings
2. The Khawārij strife in the light of the Holy Qur'ān
3. The advent of the Khawārij disruption in the days of the Holy Prophet
4. The ideological formation of the Khawārij disruption in the period of 'Uthmān
5. Start of Khawārij as a movement in 'Alawi period
6. The beliefs and ideologies of the Khawārij
7. The psychology and mental state of the Khawārij
8. How Khawārij would rouse religious sentiments for mind making
9. The conspicuous innovations of Khawārij
10. Research work of Imām Abū Bakr al-Ājurri
Section 2: The sayings of the Messenger of Allah about the Khawārij terrorists
1. The terrorists would appear religious
2. The Khawārij slogan would seem true to common man
3. The Khawārij would use adolescents for terroristic activities after brainwashing
4. The Khawārij would appear from the east
5. The Khwarij would keep coming until the time of False Messiah
6. The Khawārij will be absolutely debarred from the fold of Islām
7. The Khawārij will be the dogs of Hell
8. The religious appearance of Khawārij must not be mistaken
9. The Khawārij are the worst of Creation
A noteworthy point
10. The saying of the Holy Prophet: The decree to eliminate Khawārij strife
i. Total elimination of Khawārij is mandatory
ii. Important expositions of hadith Imāms
iii. The underlying reason of resemblance with the people of 'Ad and Thamūd for the elimination of the Khawārij
iv. Great reward for killing the Khawārij
v. Signs of the Khawārij terrorists – collective picture
Section 3: The expositions of Imāms on mandatory killing of the Khawārij and declaring them disbelievers
Edicts of Imāms on two known statements about declaring Khawārij the disbelievers
The first statement: application of the decree of disbelief to Khawārij
1. Imām al-Bukhāri (256 AH)
2. Imām Ibn Jarir at-Tabari (310 AH)
3. Imām Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazāli (505 AH)
4. Qādi Abū Bakr ibn al-'Arabi (543 AH)
5. Qādi 'Iyād al-Māliki (544 AH)
6. Imām Abu'I-'Abbās al-Qurtubi (656 AH)
7. 'Allāma Ibn Taymiyya (728 AH)
8. Imām Taqi ad-Din as-Subki (756 AH)
9. Imām Shātibi al-Māliki (790 AH)
10. Imām Ibn al-Bazzāz al-Kurdari al-Hanafi (827 AH)
11. Imām Badr ad-Din al-'Aini al-Hanafi (855 AH)
12. Imām Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Qastalāni (923 AH)
13. Mullā 'Ali al-Qāri (1014 AH)
14. Shaykh 'Abd al-Haqq Muhaddith of Dehli (1052 AH)
15. Shāh 'Abd al-'Aziz Muhaddith of Dehli (1229 AH)
16. 'Allāma Ibn 'Abidin Shāmi (1306 AH)
17. 'Allāma 'Abd ar-Rahmān Mubārakpūrī (1353 AH)
The second statement: application of the decree of rebellion to Khawārij
1. Imām A'zam Abū Hanifa (150 AH)
2. Imām Shams ad-Din as-Sarkhasi (483 AH)
3. Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalāni (852 AH)
4. Imām Ahmad Radā Khān (1340 AH)
Reasons of hadith Imāms about consensus on killing the Khawārij
1. Qādi 'Iyād al-Māliki (544 AH)
2. 'Allāma Ibn Taymiyya (728 AH)
3. Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalāni (728 AH)
Great reward for the troops fighting against the Khawārij terrorists
4. Ibn Habirah
The standpoint of 'Allāma Anwar Shāh Kashmiri and 'Allāma Shabbir Ahmad 'Uthmāni about the Khawārij
Section 4: Today's terrorists are Khawārij
1. Condemnation of the supporters of Khawārij
2. Research work by Ibn Taymiyya about perpetuation of Khawārij
3. The terrorists are the Khawārij of our times
4. Important juristic issue: calling Khawārij as terrorists is based on the Qur'ān and Sunna, not independent reasoning
Chapter 8: Peaceful Way of Struggle in a Muslim State
1. The Qur'ānic command to bid good and forbid evil
Collective struggle for commanding good and forbidding evil
2. The command to bid good and forbid evil in Prophetic traditions
Three grades of preventing evil
The meaning of preventing evil physically
3. Political and democratic struggle against injustice and oppression
Chapter 9: Call for Reflection and Reformation


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Attica rained out for Friday; Still on for Saturday |
Thursday, 06 April 2006 | |
By Brian Liskai ATTICA, Ohio (Friday, April 7, 2006) - Very heavy rains Friday morning forced the cancellation of racing at Attica Raceway Park for Friday, April 7. Plans to have the 410 sprints, 305 sprints and limited late models in action Saturday, April 8 are still on."The entire fairgrounds are saturated from the parking areas to the pits to the track," said ARP Operations Manager Rex LeJeune. "There's just not enough time to get the facility ready by race time. They're also calling for more heavy rains later this afternoon." LeJeune said for now the raindate of Saturday, April 8 is still on, and should the weather change, a decision would be made early tomorrow to give race teams and fans time to make their plans. Gates will open Saturday at 4:30 p.m. with racing slated for 7:30 p.m. (note this is a half hour earlier than for Friday's shows). General admission tickets for adults are $14 each; $12 for senior citizens; $10 for teens 11-15; and children 10 and under are free. Visa and Mastercard are accepted. For more information call the track phone at 419-426-8911 or the track office at 419-680-5606. Or log onto www.atticaracewaypark.com |
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Alexandria, Virginia (CNN) — A former CIA officer who pleaded guilty to identifying a covert intelligence officer was sentenced on Friday to 30 months in prison.
John Kiriakou and prosecutors agreed on the term as part of the plea deal last October.
Kiriakou, 48, declined to make a statement at the Alexandria, Virginia, federal court prior to sentencing by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema.
"Alright, perhaps you've already said too much," Brinkema said.
She rejected defense attempts to characterize Kiriakou as a whistle-blower.
The judge was bound by the plea agreement, but said she would have handed down a tougher sentence had Kiriakou been convicted at trial.
"This case is not a case about a whistle-blower. It's about a person who betrayed a very solemn trust," Brinkema said.
Defense attorney Robert Trout said during the sentencing hearing that Kiriakou did not intend to harm anyone or his country.
Trout described Kiriakou as "really thoughtless and really naïve" in not realizing that he would lose control of the information once he divulged it.
"He was concerned about certain practices that were employed in the fight against terrorism," said Trout, referring to enhanced interrogation techniques such as water-boarding.
Kiriakou had initially defended those practices, but Trout said his views "had evolved."
The lawyer said his client spoke to reporters in an effort to keep the spotlight on the topic.
Federal prosecutor Mark Schneider had a different view.
"The defendant acted out of a sense of ego and narrow-minded self-interest to raise his media profile," Schneider told the court.
Kiriakou pleaded guilty in October only to intentionally identifying an undercover CIA officer.
He also admitted to other allegations, including illegally telling reporters the name of a different CIA employee involved in a 2002 operation to capture alleged al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah, and lying to a review board about a book he was writing. But those charges were dropped as part of his plea deal.
The charges arose out of communications Kiriakou had with two journalists between 2007 and 2009.
Schneider said Kiriakou also discussed the identities of other CIA employees, despite signing multiple non-disclosure agreements which he was bound to honor even after he left the CIA.
Kiriakou served as a CIA intelligence officer from 1990 to 2004.
Neil MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said Kiriakou had endangered the life of a covert officer and "exposed our nation's vital secrets."
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It's the first couple of days after the start of the New Year and Facebook and Twitter are flooded with countless posts describing New Year's resolutions to lose weight, eat healthier, or become more active in their daily routine.
Unfortunately, many people will find themselves losing the motivation to stick to their guns and maintain their newfound healthy lifestyles.
Doug Pinkerton, director of the Campus Recreation, Fitness & Wellness Center at Delta State University, said the main reason people tend to become unmotivated is because they begin by setting unrealistic goals.
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Cary Moore, a local dietician, also recommended that having someone to exercise with is the best way to stay on track.
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"I think we need to realize that we can and need to exercise but it's really about what we consume," explained Pinkerton. "We need to exercise but it's not good to exercise and eat ice cream all day. You have to find a balance and be smart. Moderation is key."
Moore said that at least 30 minutes of physical activity a day is ideal but recommended consulting with a doctor in order to ensure the right level of activity is being met.
According to recent studies by the NPD Group, a global market research firm, Americans are still not incorporating enough fruits and vegetables into their daily diet.
Moore agreed with the data, stressing that fruits and vegetable should be the main foods that people reach for in order to accomplish their healthy New Years resolutions.
"Studies show nationwide that people in general are lacking in fruits and vegetables," said Moore. "People need to incorporate more fruits and vegetables in their diets: for fruits generally it should be two to two and a half cups and for vegetables it should be about three cups a day."
Now, what about cheat days? Is it going to ruin your New Year's resolutions to have days set aside to indulge in fast food or your favorite ice cream? Both Pinkerton and Moore agreed that balance and moderation is key.
"I think you have to be careful with cheat days," said Pinkerton. "It could lead to failure down the road because you can really put in more than you realize, but I think you can enjoy what you eat … but in moderation."
"When I teach people about a healthy meal plan, I never say, 'Never have another Snickers,' because I know they'll go right out and get one," said Moore. "So plan to have days like that but be sure that the next day to get right back on track. If you don't allow yourself times to enjoy some of those things in life you'll be non-compliant the rest of the time."


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Pope Saint Dionysius
- 26 December
- formerly 30 December
Roman citizen. Nothing is known about his early life. Monk. Priest. Bishop in Rome during the papacy of Saint Stephen I. Involved in the controversy over orthodox and heretical forms of Baptism. Following an inter-regnum of a year caused by the persecutions of Valerian, Dionyius was chosen 25th Pope.
Issued a doctrinal letter to correct the writings of Patriarch Dionysius of Alexandria regarding the Trinity. The letter opposed Sabellianism, and insisted on the true doctrine of Three Persons in one Godhead. Sent large sums of money to the churches of Cappadocia for construction and the ransom of slaves; invading Goths had destroyed the buildings and enslaved the faithful. Brought order to the Church after a period of no leadership, and made peace with Emperor Gallienus who issued an edict of toleration. He condemned Paul of Samosata as a heretic. First pope to die not as a martyr.
- in Greece
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- 26 or 27 December 268 at Rome, Italy of natural causes
- buried in the papal crypt in the catacomb of Callistus
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Catholic Online
- Kirken i Norge
- La fête des prénoms
- Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints
- Roman Martyrology, 1914 edition
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She enjoyed traveling and loved music. She attended Prospect Church of God for several years.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Reeford Kaylor; parents, Jim and Velma Carson Geren and siblings, Tootsie Cartwright, Jimmie Lee Geren, Cephas Geren, Ted Geren, Fred Geren, and Ed Geren.
She is survived by her children: Darrell (Maria) Kaylor of Cleveland, Terry (Linda) Kaylor of Cleveland, Janice (Keith) Scoggins of Bay City, Texas, and Mickey (Polly) Kaylor of Cleveland; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; brother, Eugene "Punk" Geren of Cleveland; and sister, Barbara Tucker of Cleveland; and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013, in the chapel of Grissom Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Mark S. Grissom, funeral director, with the Rev. Timothy Gann officiating.
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Canadian Cancer Society http://www.cancer.ca
Public Health Agency of Canada http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca
PET/CT scan. Hartford Hospital website. Available at: http://www.harthosp.org/imaging/PETCTScan/default.aspx. Accessed May 22, 2013.
Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET/CT). Radiological Society of North America Radiology Info website. Available at: http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=pet. Updated March 28, 2013. Accessed May 22, 2013.
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I work here in LaLa Land and that's totally true--when a rumor refuses to die, when it goes on for years and years, there is a reason to it.
When there's smoke there's fire, 99 percent of the time. People have a hard time swallowing that, mainly because they don't want to, but it is what it is.
Ricky Martin, Rock Hudson, Sean Hayes, Liberace, Merv Griffin, were probably the most flagrant cases of this. And the last 3 are hardly heartthrobs, so it's not wishful thinking.
Like I said before, a lot of people aren't paying attention.
Exactly. I was invited to one of his parties and people begged me not to go. I regretted it because I figured I would at least get a decent hook up and a few dishy stories. HATERS!
My friend went and he said it's essentially a gay affair. Essentially.
Let's not even get into those 3. Chace likes to go to JC Chasez's parties--mainly because no one cares because no one cares about JC--even though he's a nice guy. Colton Haynes and people like that are found there. I think Colton dated Chace. But nevermind.
Where would you get that idea? Bryan Singer's parties are always in the gay press, but rarely make mainstream attention a la Perez Hilton. His handlers don't have THAT much control over him. Most closeted stars go to Bryan's parties, or wherever, there's usually an understanding in the press to not print that information, but in this case...it's all over the internet. Teenage girls are already suspicious anyway, so this was just another nail in the coffin.
He'll be fine, though. His career is not in danger, and this story will be forgotten about by next week.
And if his handlers want him to be seen as open-minded, you donate to the Trevor Project, you don't go to Bryan Singer's house to party with a bunch of queens.
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SCOUT'S TAKE ON THE CUBS: Matt Garza, others can offer good news
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Nobody outside the Cubs' clubhouse believes the Cubs are going to make much noise in the National League this year, and with their best pitcher, Matt Garza (latissimus dorsi), sidelined until at least May, even tepid optimism has been tempered.
But one veteran major-league scout, speaking on condition of anonymity, offered at least a few bright spots in breaking down the group the Cubs will take into Monday's opener in Pittsburgh.
''When Garza comes back, you've got a 1-2-3 which will be pretty good for the Cubs,'' the scout said. ''It's a shame. Because he's such a battler.''
The breakdown
Welington Castillo, C: ''I think he's going to be fine. He lost some of that butt and came to camp in shape. He can really throw. He's got some power. If he's ahead in the count, he's got some juice. If there's a knock against him, he has a tendency to reach and doesn't shift real well [behind the plate] sometimes, especially to his arm side. On a good ballclub, he'd probably be a No. 2, but I'd give him a chance. He's going to hit.''
Anthony Rizzo, 1B: ''I like Rizzo. He's a good ballplayer. Defensively, he's solid. He's got a great personality. He's not cocky. He loves the game, you can tell that, and he's worked hard. He's struggled a little bit [hitting this spring], but I think he's going to settle in when the season starts.''
Darwin Barney, 2B: ''Whew! What can you not say about Barney? Barney's great. He could play for any ballclub, in my book. He's a good clutch player, defensively and offensively. He's a guy that will hurt you in later innings with the bat. He's just really impressed me more than anybody.''
Luis Valbuena, 3B: ''He is what he is. He's a utility player having to play as a starter right now. He'll do a decent job. There's only a small percentage of what you'd call true third basemen anymore today, power guys. He'll play his heart out for you over there. But on a good ballclub, he'd be a utility guy off the bench.''
Starlin Castro, SS: ''I thought he played well this spring, didn't make any mistakes. I think he's been pressured by [Javy] Baez. I think he knows, even with the big contract, he's got to [step up]. He's maturing. . . . He made some silly mistakes [in recent years], but I think he's growing up now. This spring, I was impressed defensively. He made the plays, wasn't overthrowing the ball, showed good lateral [movement]. He and Barney are a great combo.''
Alfonso Soriano, LF: ''I like him. They need to leave him alone and just let him play. If they want production from their lineup, they'd better keep Soriano around. He puts up numbers for them. And defensively, my God, he's playing good defense. I thought he had a hell of a spring.''
David DeJesus, CF: ''Adequate. He's a hustle guy. He plays better in right field than center field — shows a better arm. He'll play his [butt] off for you. He's a good leadoff hitter, and that's his plus, and what's going to keep his job. He's got to play center field because you don't have a center fielder. Legitimately, he should be a corner. Average range. He's better [than last year's opening CF Marlon Byrd] by far.''
Nate Schierholtz, RF: ''Adequate. One game he'll look super, next game [not]. Fringy range for me. Doesn't make the plays on the line like DeJesus would. He's just OK. Basically, [Cubs] got two corner guys giving everything they've got. What makes Soriano good is experience and the bat. Schierholtz doesn't have the bat. But he's adequate. I'd take [Scott] Hairston over Schierholtz.''
Jeff SamarDzija, SP: ''Love him. As soon as he learns that he's a starter and not a reliever and his secondary stuff would work early in the games to where he shouldn't have to throw fastball, fastball, fastball, I think he'll [be consistent]. For some clubs, he's a solid No. 2 or 3. He's going to have to be a No. 1 with Garza [out]. He's athletic enough [that] he'll take his lumps and shake it off.''
Edwin Jackson, SP: ''A .500 man. Hard worker, and one of the nicest young men to be around. He's a 50-50 guy, though. He gets in situations where his secondary stuff's not working at times [and throw too many fastballs]. He's going to be good for the Cubs. He'll be .500 or better. I don't see him going the low end. He's durable. He's probably one of the few guys who'll go seven innings for you. Even eight if needed. And he's got a rubber arm. I don't remember him ever being hurt. . . . But if he's back with a good ballclub, he's the third, fourth guy.''
Scott Feldman, SP: ''Well, here we go. From here on, it's kind of 'what you see is what you got.' I think he's a hair better than [Chris] Volstad. He's not overpowering; he'll work the ball down in the zone. That's the only way he's going to have success.''
Travis Wood, SP: ''To me, Wood's a pen guy. He'll throw for you and work hard, but I just don't see him as a starter. He's like [former Cub Tom] Gorzelanny was. A guy that can give you innings, but he's so hot and cold. One game he'll throw good, but the next game he gets lit up. He's durable. He's a tough kid. But to me, he'd be a perfect long man out of the pen.''
Carlos Villanueva, SP: ''Again, he's a fifth guy, sixth guy for me. Not going to throw very hard. For a team that's struggling, he'll fit the bill till Garza comes back.''
Carlos Marmol, CLOSER: ''I think Chris Bosio's done a hell of a job with him. OK, yeah, he's going to walk 'em. But watching him throw, if you watch his landing, he's not falling off the mound anymore. I think he's throwing OK. Does he need a change of atmosphere? Probably. But I think Bosio's keeping him in check. The slider was in the zone better this [spring]. And who's going to be there? [Kyuji Fujikawa], maybe. That would probably take some pressure off Marmol. I'd even go with Shawn Camp. I think with the closer with the Cubs, it should be maybe a spot that alternates. If Marmol starts off struggling, I would probably just swing that role around. I think eventually they probably will put Fuji in there. I think that's why they got him.''


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Joe Berrios defends hiring members of family as something JFK did
By Dave McKinney and Dan Mihalopoulos Staff Reporters November 28, 2012 9:06PM
Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios. File photo | Tom Cruze~Sun-Times
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Updated: December 30, 2012 4:02PM
SPRINGFIELD — Do Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios and President John F. Kennedy have anything in common beyond party affiliation?
The powerful Cook County Democratic Party chairman thinks they do — when it comes to employing family members.
Berrios compared himself Wednesday to the slain presidential icon when speaking publicly for the first time since the Chicago Sun-Times detailed how 13 members of his family have landed on Cook County and state payrolls.
Those relatives — and two Berrios siblings who recently retired from government jobs — are paid more than $1.05 million a year in wages and pension payments, the Sun-Times reported Nov. 16.
"Look at a great president that we had, President Kennedy. Who'd he appoint attorney general? You know? Same thing," Berrios told the Sun-Times after testifying in a Senate committee in Springfield on Wednesday.
"You're saying Bobby Kennedy wasn't fit for the [U.S. attorney general's] job? He appointed his brother," Berrios continued, referring to JFK. "And in government, people help many people. This is part of the process."
Berrios has run afoul of the Cook County ethics board, which called for him to fire three family members who are on his staff and fined him $10,000 for violating the county's anti-nepotism ban by hiring two of them — his son and sister — as soon as he became assessor in 2010.
Sister Carmen Berrios saw her salary rise more than $20,000, to almost $108,000, when she followed her brother from the Board of Review to the assessor's office two years ago. Son Joseph "Joey" Berrios also made the switch, getting a 42 percent raise.
Joey is now paid $72,444 a year — the same as his sister Vanessa Berrios. She already was working in the assessor's office when her father took office and he immediately promoted her and gave her a $10,000 raise.
A Berrios brother-in-law and a sister-in-law remain at the Board of Review, where they were hired during Berrios' tenure as a commissioner there.
While walking in a Capitol hallway Wednesday, Berrios initially refused to say anything about the Sun-Times Watchdogs report.
"I'm not going to answer any more questions on that," he said. And when pressed on the educational backgrounds of the family members in his office, Berrios wouldn't respond beyond simply providing a shrug.
Berrios declined to answer questions about his relatives on public payrolls earlier this month, before the Sun-Times report was published.
At the time, his office issued a statement saying, "Family members working in government isn't new in Chicago or any other large city in the United States. You are picking on the Puerto Rican kid from Cabrini-Green who's sitting alone at the lunch table while all the Irish kids sit together, laughing and grateful he's there."
Berrios has ignored the ethics board ruling, and an outside lawyer has been appointed to represent him in the case at taxpayers' expsense. He argues that the ethics ordinance doesn't apply to him or to other elected county officials beside members of the Cook County Board.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has taken issue with him on that. Even though she endorsed Berrios when he ran for assessor, she sided with the ethics board in its legal dispute with him, and she has said she thinks it's wrong to hire family members and promised not to do so.
Asked Wednesday about Preckwinkle's position on his family hiring, Berrios seemed to chalk it up to a casual disagreement.
"She's got her position on it, and I have mine. Toni Preckwinkle and I don't have to agree on everything," he told the Sun-Times.
"The end result," he said, "we'll figure it all out."


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Description: In this description of how to configure S7 connections it is assumed that all the stations are in one S7 project.
Types of S7 connections: With S7 connections you differentiate between bilaterally configured and unilaterally configured S7 connections.
Bilaterally configured S7 connectionsYou recognize bilaterally configured connections by the fact that they receive a connection ID at both endpoints. The partner ID can be identical for both connection partners, but doesn't have to be. The remote endpoint of the S7 connection created is entered automatically in the connection table on the partner side. You can use the following communication blocks in the S7-300 or S7-400 station for data communication via bilaterally configured S7 connections:
Unilaterally configured S7 connectionsUnilaterally configured S7 connections are configured on the module that actively sets up the S7 connection. You can use the communication blocks FB/SFB14 "GET" and FB/SFB15 "PUT" in the S7-300 or S7-400 station for data communication via unilaterally configured S7 connections. You can use these for data communication via unilaterally and bilaterally configured S7 connections. You can only use the communication blocks FB/SFB12 "BSEND" and FB/SFB13 "BRCV" and FB/SFB8 "USEND" and FB/SFB9 "URCV" for data communication via bilaterally configured S7 connections.
More information on the properties and special features of the S7 protocol and on the properties of the different S7 protocol services is available in Entry ID: 26483647.
In NetPro there is a connection table with all the configured communication connections. Unilaterally configured S7 connections have no entry in the "Partner ID" column of the connection table. This field remains empty in the connection table. No S7 connection is configured on the server and no communication blocks are called. The server is managed independently by the CPU's operating system and has resource 0x03. No system data is created for this in the connection partner.
Fig. 1: Bilaterally and unilaterally configured S7 connection
All S7 connections that have a connection ID at both connection endpoints are bilaterally configured S7 connections.
S7 connections that have no partner ID are unilaterally configured S7 connections or have been created via "unspecified" S7 connections with resource 0x03.
Note: In the sample S7 connection configuration given above all the stations are in one S7 project. You can also set up an S7 connection to an unspecified partner and the endpoints of these connections can be in different projects. More information on this is available in the Online Help of STEP 7:
Keywords: Connection configuration, S7-300, S7-400, SIMATIC, Connections, Creating a connection, Client, Server, Connection setup, NetPro