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New Graduates
Please join us in congratulating our new
CRI graduates!
We have
lots of news to share!
March 2015
"Better Paws for Brutus: CSU Partners to Help Quadruple-Amputee Dog," Source, Colorado State University
March 26, 2015—A team of veterinary rehabilitation professionals, including CRI faculty members Dr. Felix Duerr and Sasha Foster, MS PT, CCRT, of Colorado State University and Martin Kaufmann, ABC, BSBA, c-PED, of OrthoPets, recently partnered to help Brutus, a quadruple amputee dog.
Their story, "Better Paws for Brutus: CSU Partners to Help Quadruple-Amputee Dog," by Ashley Manweiler, was recently featured in Source, the CSU news website.
"When Brutus was just a puppy, his breeder left the young Rottweiler outside in freezing temperatures," the article states. "The pup suffered frostbite in all four paws. The breeder tried to salvage the puppy's paws with an at-home amputation, but Brutus was maimed and couldn't walk without pain."
"Now 2 years old, Brutus is living with a dedicated foster owner in Loveland and has become the second dog ever known to receive four prosthetic limbs. He is learning to walk again with help from OrthoPets, an animal prosthetics developer in Denver, and pet orthopedics experts at Colorado State University's James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital."
"I believe prosthetics will play a big role in the future of veterinary orthopedics," said Dr. Felix Duerr, an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences who practices small animal orthopedics and sports medicine at the university's Veterinary Teaching Hospital. "Brutus shows how we can explore new technologies to find solutions, and how our partnerships with companies like OrthoPets really help."
Read the full article ...
Congratulations to CRI Graduate Dr. Bess Pierce
March 26, 2015—CRI graduate Dr. Bess Pierce, DVM, MZS, DABVP, DACVIM, DACVSMR, CCRT, received the 2015 Bustad Companion Animal Veterinarian of the Year Award on January 9 during the AVMA Veterinary Leadership Conference in Chicago.
According to the JAVMA report on this award, the award is co-sponsored by the AVMA, the American Veterinary Medical Foundation, and Pet Partners. It is named in honor of Dr. Leo Bustad, a pioneer in the field of human-animal interactions, and recognizes the outstanding work of veterinarians in preserving and protecting human-animal relationships.
Dr. Pierce serves as the director for the VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine's Center of Animal Human Relationships. She has served more than 20 years on active and reserve duty in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps and is currently a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, assigned to the Public Health Command Region-Europe. She also serves as associate secretary/treasurer of the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation.
All of us at CRI congratulate Dr. Pierce on this well-deserved award!
December 2014
CRI Forms Partners
in Veterinary Therapeutics with Other Veterinary Rehabilitation
19, 2014—The Canine Rehabilitation Institute
has joined with other companies to form Partners
in Veterinary Therapeutics, a group of five companies
providing products and services to professionals
practicing veterinary sports medicine and rehabilitation.
Though officially established in 2014, this group
has collaborated since 2010 in supporting veterinary
sports medicine and rehabilitation around the globe.
The partner companies are: Canine Rehabilitation
Institute, GameReady, OrthoPets, PulseVet Technologies,
and Respond Systems
Visit the Partners
in Veterinary Therapeutics website for more details and links to
each company's website.
CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital Offers Small Animal Sports Medicine Research Internship
19, 2014— The James L. Voss Colorado State
University Veterinary Teaching Hospital is offering
a one-year research internship for veterinarians
with a strong interest in small animal sports medicine,
orthopedics and rehabilitation. The program is designed
for applicants with an interest in pursuing ACVS
or ACVSMR specialty training following the CSU internship
year. The goal of the position is to provide the
successful applicant with a fundamental research
background in the area of small animal sports medicine,
primarily with participation in ongoing clinical
studies. Anticipated clinical duties will approximate
one week per month in the areas of small animal surgery
(soft tissue and orthopedics), sports medicine and
Interested applicants are encouraged to submit a
cover letter and a curriculum vitae or resume to
firstname.lastname@example.com even if they are currently
applying for a residency position through VIRMP.
All applications will be reviewed immediately upon
receipt; the position will be filled on or shortly
after February 9th (VIRMP match results date).
To learn more, read
the complete announcement.
October 2014
October 1, 2014—The Boston
Globe recently featured CRI faculty member Stephanie
Kube, DVM, DACVIM (Neurology), CVPP, CCRT, and
her new practice Veterinary
Neurology and Pain Management Center of New England, located in Walpole, Massachusetts.
"I had this cat with really bad
arthritis who was limping on all four legs," Dr.
Kube stated in the article. "We started
doing laser and [physical therapy], and within two
weeks the owner called me back, crying. The cat had
jumped up on the counter and was playing with a toy.
It's so rewarding to make a difference in an animal's
life — and touch the whole family."
the full article …
September 2014
Takes a Village," VCA Veterinary Referral Associates newsletter
3, 2014—CRI faculty
member Steve
Steinberg, VMD, Dip. ACVIM, Neurology, CCRT,
recently shared this great article from the newsletter
of VCA
Veterinary Referral Associates in Gaithersburg,
"It Takes a Village"
When Hillary
Rodham Clinton wrote "It
Takes A Village" more than a decade ago, she was
describing the efforts needed to help our planet's
children. The concept of a multifaceted program to
treat our animal friends has become especially relevant
for the veterinary community in the face of our fast
paced technology.
At VCA VRA we have always stayed
ahead of the curve technologically and when this
is enhanced with vast amounts of experience, winning
treatment approaches occur every single day.
Let us examine a case in point.
Logan is an eight year old, neutered male Cane Corso.
Logan presented to us for the first-time with generalized
seizures. Although Idiopathic Epilepsy (seizures
of no known cause) was possible, other more serious
abnormalities were discussed. An MRI was performed
the same day and a large right-sided brain tumor
was discovered. Figures 1 looking down on the brain
and 2 looking straight down the nose. In both views
the tumor has a ring of contrast surrounding it.
From the MRI, a Glioma was suspected.
Gliomas are one of the more aggressive brain tumors
that we recognize.
Let's look at OUR village. Dr.
Steve Steinberg, our neurologist, has probably taken
out more brain tumors than anyone, having taken out
the first one in 1984. Dr. Steinberg has lectured
all over the world on this topic and has been flown
by owners to Germany and Hawaii to remove brain tumors
from their animals. As an instructor at the famed
Canine Rehabilitation Institute in Wellington, Florida,
he has recently added what we know about rehabilitation
after brain surgery to his lecture series. Dr. Steinberg
just presented these lectures in Bologna, Italy and
Seattle, Washington at International conferences.
Although most surgeons would
consider Logan's tumor
inoperable, Dr. Steinberg and his team have vast
experience so that counseling owners about what to
expect and about the potential complications is based
on lots of first-hand knowledge. Many of these dogs
can have a very stormy recovery but we have been
testing the waters for several years with post-operative
rehabilitation and are making important strides at
shortening the recovery time.
Logan's owners had plenty to think
about and while they were considering brain tumor
treatments, Logan unfortunately presented to our
emergency service with an acutely ruptured right
cranial cruciate ligament. This occurred just days
after his MRI. This tear makes the stifle (knee)
unstable. We have extensive experience at VCA VRA
in the surgical (led by our wonderful surgeon Dr.
Eileen Snakard) and non-surgical management of cranial
cruciate ligament tears. Since the brain surgery
was more likely to have complications and we have
rehabilitated even heavier dogs (Logan was about
100 lbs) non-surgically, we decided to order Logan
a custom made brace from Canada and proceed with
the surgical removal of the brain tumor. Our fantastic
rehabilitation team led by Ms. Renee Mills, CCRP,
was involved in every part of the decision making
process and Dr. Snakard helped determine the best
course considering the ligament rupture.
surgery of this kind is very different than what
is experienced under the same circumstances in man.
Dr. Steinberg's goal is to make a wide excision
and leave no tumor behind. Having hundreds of brain
surgeries behind him, Dr. Steinberg knows where the
pitfalls are and what compromises can be made. Having
rotated with a Sacramento Human Neurosurgical Group
in California and recently spending time with the
Northwest Neurosurgical Group in Chicago, he has
experienced first-hand the variations in choices
that face the veterinary neurosurgeon vs the human
Logan's surgery was uneventful
for VCA VRA. Figure 3. Although he was weak on the
left side of his body and his head turned towards
the right constantly, our experience told us these
changes would go away. We also believe that getting
our rehabilitation team involved immediately hastens
the recovery and may make the recovery more complete.
What does that all mean … Logan goes in the pool.
the same time we were working with Logan's brain
tumor recovery, we started rehabilitation for his
ruptured right cruciate ligament. Here is a picture
of his custom-made knee brace. Figure 4. With continued
rehab, his right hindlimb is working better, his
strength is improved and he is getting used to having
the brace on for longer periods of time.
Logan's brain surgery was July 15th of 2014. The
owners believe he is back to completely normal and
we had time to experience this first-hand as Logan
stayed at VRA for several days.
Logan's biopsy came back as an
Oligodendroglioma, a generally "nasty" neoplasm.
We have followed a large number of these dogs and
have seen many of them go for years without recurrence.
There are no guarantees and we are discussing additional
treatment options as well as future MRIs to follow
Logan's progress.
At VCA VRA we have the teamwork
and compassion and experience that will determine
the best treatment options for your precious pet.
We have the village!
August 2014
August 30, 2014—Philly.com
recently profiled WAG: Whole Animal Gym, owned by CRI graduate Christina
Fuoco, VMD, CVA, CCRT, and her husband Chad Carnahan, who is director
of operations.
The facilty, which opened in 2010, is Philadelphia's
first veterinary rehabilitation facility offering hydrotherapy, acupuncture,
LASER and ultrasound treatments, as well as a full dog gym.
In addition, WAG was named best dog gym in Philadelphia Magazine's Best of Philly
the full article and view a photo gallery …
Congratulations to CRI
Faculty Member Dr. Laurie McCauley and New Diplomates!
30, 2014—Big congratulations
to CRI faculty member
Laurie McCauley,
DVM, CVA, CVC, CCRT, who became a Diplomate
of the American
College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation after
passing the 2014 board-certification examination.
McCauley joins an elite group of veterinarians who
have demonstrated their mastery of veterinary sports
medicine and rehabilitation. She also is one of the
first Diplomates located in Illinois, Indiana and
addition, our heartiest congratulations goes out
to CRI graduates Drs. Jennifer Au, Ken Bruecker,
Pilar LaFuente, Cindy Otto, and Mich Powers, who
passed the 2014 board-certification examination and
joined the newest class of Diplomates.
CRI faculty members Drs.
Janet Van Dyke, Kristin
Kirkby Shaw and Christine
Zink are also Diplomates of the American College
of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation.
August 5, 2014—Wicked
Local Walpole recently featured Veterinary
Neurology and Pain Management Center of New England, a new practice opened in mid-July by CRI faculty
member Stephanie
Kube, DVM, DACVIM (Neurology), CVPP, CCRT.
The veterinary practice, located in Walpole, Massachusetts,
is the only hospital of its kind in the region, Kube said.
"People feel like when there's a problem
with their pet's neurological system, that's it. That's the end of
their life," Kube said. "Those are things we can fix. It's
an amazing thing to help these people with things they never thought
they could fix."
the full article …
June 2014
In Memoriam: Carol Helfer, DVM, CCRT
19, 2014—The staff at
CRI was saddened to learn that Carol Helfer,
DVM, CCRT, of Portland, Oregon, passed away in January.
Carol earned her CCRT from CRI in 2005 and brought
her beloved dog Spam to several CRI courses. She
was passionate about sports medicine
and rehabilitation and founded Canine Peak
Performance to offer those services to her clients.
Carol served as president
of the Portland Veterinary Association in 1990-91
and president of the Oregon Veterinary Medical Association
in 2002. She also was an avid agility
and flyball competitor.
For more information,
please read Carol's
obituary. Donations in her memory
may be made to the Morris
Animal Foundation or your
local humane society.
May 2014
In Memoriam: Lois Sargent, DVM, CCRT
May 31, 2014—Our sympathies
go out to the family and friends of CRI graduate
Dr. Lois Sargent, who passed away in January. Lois
was a professor at Miami Dade College in Florida
and program coordinator of the Veterinary Technology
program there. She also practiced part-time at two
animal hospitals and owned a mobile, holistic practice.
She earned her CCRT from CRI in 2012 and was a friend
to many on the CRI staff.
Lois was known for her compassionate attitude toward
people and animals. "I hope that her positivity
and free-spirited approach to keeping everyone confident
and happy throughout the program continues," said
veterinary technology student Alyssa Alvarez in an
article in the Miami Dade college newspaper. Read "Heart
of the Vet-Tech Program Passes Away" to learn
more about Lois and her influence on students.
We encourage anyone who attended classes with Lois
to join with CRI in making a donation to the Lois
Sargent Veterinary Technology Scholarship through
the Miami Dade College Foundation. Visit
the Miami Dade alumni website to donate online.
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April 2015
Katherine Book, MPT, CCRT
Denise Crumbaker, DVM, CVA, CCRT
Lisa George, PT, CCRT
Bettina Gottfried, DVM, CVA, CCRT
Jane Elizabeth MacGregor, PT, CCRT
Francisco Maia, PT, DPT, CCRT
Ashley Manoogian, PT, DPT, CCRT
Jane Catherine McNae, BVSc, MACVSc (surg), PGCert (Med Ed), MRCVS, CCRT
Kelsey Moon, PT, CCRT
Susan M. Muench, DVM, CCRT
Denise O'Hagan, MSPT, ATC, CCRT
Lorene D. Rockwell, DVM, CCRT
Catherine (Cass) Rogers, DVM, DACVECC, CCRT
Kelly Rohn, DVM, cVMA, CCRT
Michele J. Sabattini, PT, DPT, MPT, CCI, CCRT
Sarah Shull, DVM, CCRT
March 2015
Maggie Acker Buck, DVM, CCRT
Jennifer DiMascio, DVM, CCRT
Michele D. Eckermann, DVM, CCRT
Beth Ellen McNamara, DVM, CCRT
Alice Baker Meuten, DVM, CVC, CAC, CCRT
Rebecca L. Pocock, BVetMEd, CCRT
Bonnie Wesley, DVM, BSc, CCRT
February 2015
Nicholas Albano, DVM, CVA, CCRT
George Carleton, RVT, CCRA
Jennifer Conrad, DVM, CVA, CCRT
Tracie Grubb, DVM, CCRT
Chanita Lohakamolchai, DVM, CCRT
Leanne S. Richardson, LVT, CCRA
Haleh Siahpolo, DVM, CVA, CCRT
Dianne E. Skorup, VMD, CCRT
Brad Twigg, DMV, CCRT
January 2015
Alexa Allen, MS, DVM, CVA, CCRT
Rafael Estrada-Gonzalez, DVM, CCRT
Lynn Locatelli, DVM, CVA, CCRT
Dusty A. Page Miller, CVT, CCRA
Miss Patcharin Priyavoravong, DVM, CCRT
Amy Reichert, RVT, CCRA
David R. Wohlstadter-Rocha, DVM, CCRT
Danyel Wynn, DVM, CVMA, CCRT
December 2014
Laura Campbell, LVT, CCRA
Naomi Horita, VT, CCRA
Andrea Jones, DPT, PT, CCRT
Adrienne Kaster, PT, CCRT
Tanya Tkaczyk Lowrey, MSc, DVM, CCRT
Cynthia M. Otto, DVM, PhD, DACVECC, DACVSMR, CCRT
Jennifer L. Palmer, DVM, CCRT
April Williams, VT, CCRA
Heidi Woog, DVM, CCRT
November 2014
Kimberly A. Agnello, DVM, MS, DACVS, CCRT
Danielle Varan Becton, DVM, CVA, CCRT
Elizabeth L. Brown, DVM, CVA, CCRT
Amber Callaway, DVM, CCRT
Kevin Coleman, DVM, DACVS-SA, CCRT
Christian Finn, DVM, CVA, VSMT, CCRT
Jayme K.K. Michishima, CVT, CCRA
April Marie Milchak, VT, CCRA
Hal J. Mooney, DVM, CCRT
Ember Moreno, DVM, CCRT
Marty Parks, LPTA, CCRA
Caroline Louise Queen, BVSc, BSc, MRCVS, CCRT
Valerie Starr, CCRA
Alissa Wales, VT, CCRA
David Wohlstadter-Rocha, DVM, CCRT
Tomoko Yabuno, VT, CCRP, CCRA
October 2014
Cara A. Blake, DVM, DACVS-SA, CCRT
Ronald E. Carsten, DVM, PhD, CVA, CCRT
Emily J. Harkness, LVT, CCRA
Oliver Harms, Dr.med.vet., CCRT
Javier Gil Martinez-Darve, DVM, MRCVS, CCRT
Carmen Evelyne Miller, DVM, CCRT
Tammy Noren, PT, CCRT
Rachel Rowen, DVM, CCRT
Suzanne Shanahan, CVT, CCRA
Alison M. Trotta, DVM, CVA, CCRT
Jessica Venable, DVM, CVA, CCRT
Jane A. Wittstock, DVM, CCRT
Lesli A. Wyant, DVM, CCRT
September 2014
Danielle V. Adams, MPT, CCRT
Elizabeth F. Baird, DVM, CVPP, CCRT
Michael C. Bassett, DVM, CCRT
Candace L. Burris, VT, CCRA
Catherine Hedden, DVM, CCRT
Lyn Johnson, DVM, CCRT
Mary Kelly, DVM, CCRT
Stephanie Badge Kindred, DVM, CCRT
Dennis Leon, DVM, CCRT
Kathleen Neforos-Dunbar, CVT, CCRA
Katherine Orcutt, PT, MA
Rebecca Lin Smaka, DVM, DACVS, CCRT
Abigail Smith, DVM, CCRT
Pete van Dongen, Drs (Utrecht), CertVR, MRCVS, CCRT
August 2014
Susanna Alwen, MA, VetMB, MRCVS, CCRT
Nicolette Bertolone, DVM, CVA, CCRT
Nancy Bureau, DVM, CCRT
Tracy Curran, RVT, CCRA
Andra Kowalczyk DeTora, DVM, CCRT
Pamela Graves, DVM, CVSMT, CVA, CCRT
Amber L. Kenny, MPT, MTC, CCRT
Amy Louise Watson, MA, VetMB, MRCVS, CCRT
July 2014
Ines Allin, BSc. (Agr), DVM, CCRT
Stephanie Bartlett, BS, CVT, CCRA
Justin M.A. Bassett, PTA, CCRA
Pilar Lafuente, DVM, PhD, DACVS, DECVS, CCRT
Emma Elisabeth Poore, BSc, VetMB, MA, MRCVS, CCRT
Krista Porter, DVM, MBA, CVSMT, CCRT
Tiffany Quilter, PT, DPT, CCRT
Erin Smith, DVM, CCRT
Peggy Taylor-Mason, DVM, CCRT
Jane Frances White, BVetMed MRCVS, CCRT
June 2014
Joy Alleman, DVM, CCRT
Jonathan S. Block, DVM, CCRT
Cynthia Ann Burdick, CCRA
Molly M. Esper, LVT, CCRA
Aimee Katherine Green, DVM, CCRT
Anna Rosalind Hollis, BVetMed, MRCVS, CCRT
Ann S. Hutchison, BVMS, MRCVS, MBAcC, CCRT
Marian Meyers, PT, CCRT
DJ "Pin" Needham, BVSc, DDA, CCRT
Bradley Pietila, DVM, CCRT
Robin Ryan, PT, CCRT
Susanne Teufel, DVM, CCRT
Philipp Winkels, DVM, Dipl. ECVS, Fachtierarzt Fur Kleintiere, CCRT
Polly S. Yamamoto, VMD, CCRT
May 2014
Jennifer Andreae, MS, PT, DPT
Michelle Arnold, DVM, CCRT
Shir-Raz Har-Nir Ben-Amotz, DVM, CCRT
Judith B. Hall, PT, DPT, CCRT
Rebecca L. Hubert, DVM, CCRT
Stephanie G. Monk, DVM, CCRT
Elizabeth Nonnemacher, DVM, CCRT
Suzanne Sutton, DVM, CCRT
Alison Traylor, DVM, CCRT
Katherine Vagliano, DVM, CCRT
Dr. med. Vet Gereon Viefhues, CCRT
Julie Wentzel, DVM, CVA, CCRT


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How simple, how true…..and profound!
"19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, 21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." Galatians 5:19-24
Guy wrote this in 2001 according to the copyright.
You'd think he could avoid a (highly probable) typographical error in his own poem.
Counting the title panel as panel 1, panel 3 should read "Intolerance tries to sneak on through, should it not?.
It appears that way in this book.
"Thinking for a Change" by John C Maxwell:
Depends…. On who one has to deal with. I usually am a peaceful person…until the Devil shows up in front of me … then I turn into a demon of silence and a stare. Silence works better than harsh words. I can never have regrets from being not returning what I receive from Devils.
I believe whatever I send out in the Universe comes back to me. So I only want to send out the best to receive the best. Someone ask me for money, I give and I receive back. I help people, and the help comes back to me. I don't do it to have it come back, it just does.
I also believe in a smile and kind words to strangers, strangers are only friends youn have just met.
Being polite, caring about one another, kind words, helping one another. It costs nothing, or if there is a cost of time or money if needed, it was provided to you and you should give it.
Fill your heart with love and joy, it makes you feel so good. Keeps you happy and healthy. And when you do, it is a magnet for other well meaning people to enter your life.
And finally, be kind to animals. They could have been one of your family members in another form.
Re: Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 7 hours ago — Galatians 5:19-24
Could also be – Galatians 5:14 —
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. — Galatians 5:14 – King James Version.
For the whole Law – concerning human relationships – is complied with in the one precept – You shall love your neighbor as you do yourself. Galatians 5:14 – Amplified
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. — Romans 13:8-10, King James Version
Keep out of debt and owe no man anything, except to love one another. For he who loves his neighbor – who practices loving others – has fulfilled the Law – relating to one's fellowmen, meeting all its requirements. — The commandments, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet – have an evil desire – , and any other commandment, are summed up in the single command, You shall love your neighbor as you do yourself. Love does no wrong to one's neighbor – it never hurts anybody. – Therefore love meets all the requirements and is the fulfilling of the Law. – Romans 13:8-10, Amplified
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord. — Leviticus 19:18, King James Version
You shall not take revenge or bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. — Leviticus 19:18, Amplified
what a beautiful message for all. thanks once again GUY. your the best
And from the far-right side of the aisle comes intolerance on the wings of fear and pride. They have tried to keep America in a constant state of fear since 9/11, and have used a vast amount of flag-waving in a sinful display of pride. Meanwhile, they have done whatever they could to subjugate minorities in America, and intolerance to anyone who is not straight, white, male or conservative.
Thanks, Guy! This was wonderful!
You're a friggin' horrible TROLL!!!!
Very, very nice. Wish the Biblical literalists would take their disagreements to another forum.
I thank you for spotting my spelling error. It is very rare one gets "through". We have at least six sets of eyes on a strip before it reaches you! But, it does happen. Thanks for seeing "through" the error to the message.
Wake up dude and stop drinking the Kool-ade.
Troll or not, he does have a point. At least he's not a deluded whiner like Omnius.
He does have a point. At least he's not a pedantic crybaby like Bhinkle.
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Haha, some ppl are so passionate about their equipment preferences. To me it doesn't really matter what I use or what my opponent uses, its about winning, results, and enjoying the game. Who really cares what Fed, Djoker, Nadal, Murray, etc., are using, its about their results.
The guy who said arm orgasms matter more that where the ball ends up sounds pretty weird, lol. The part about racket feel being better than sex is just plain over-the-top crazy talk. But I guess we should just let ppl enjoy the game however they want to - It doesn't matter if he just bageled himself hitting the ball into the net, he just got some!
These kind of threads pop up there pretty often and the topic seems to be mostly about tweeners vs classic frames. When I see ppl singling out Babs and saying only Babs suck, it seems like it has more to do with Fed fans being anti-Nadal.
For me, its all about results. I also don't care what racquet someone uses. Games at the rec level, from 3.0 all the way up to 5.0 are won by keeping the ball in play. If you can't hit the ball in, then you can't win games -- simple as that. Therefore, you should choose the equipment that best allows you to keep the ball in.
Frankly, I don't understand why everyone thinks a "powerful racquet" is a big deal. IMO, you generate power through appropriate form and technique. I can hit the ball just as deep with a Babolat or a low-powered Head Prestige, just by adjusting the technique. In fact, my entire setup is low powered: Head Radical MP with low-powered syn gut strung @ 62 lbs. I have no difficulties hitting it deep when its necessary to do so.
Therefore, I think its wrong to choose a racquet solely on power alone, since you can get just as much power from any racquet. Your first order of business should be "can I keep the ball in?". If you can't, then you need to look at a lot of factors (in this order): 1. technique 2. string tension 3. racquet
Just my .02.
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Retiree uses time and love of the outdoors to create a private garden in East Knoxville
Behind Angela Bridges' East Knoxville home is a secret garden.
During the past three years, Bridges has turned an overgrown, rundown backyard into an English garden-inspired landscape with raised flower beds, stone walkways and water features.
"Before I moved here, you couldn't see anything," Bridges said. There was a pond in the backyard that she initially thought was a grave after finding a small cross inside.
Today, that "grave" is a restored pond with a babbling stone waterfall, shaded by a red Japanese maple tree and surrounded by hostas.
Bridges' home was built in 1920 by James E. Thompson, an architect and founder of Thompson Photo. The two-story Colonial Revival brick home was slated to be torn down before Bridges bought the house in 1992.
She worked hard to restore the inside immediately. But the idea for a garden only came after Bridges retired as a driver for United Parcel Service in 2007.
"I kept looking in magazines. I loved the outdoors, since I've worked outside for so long," she said. "There was so much yard back here, so I just thought I'll go for a garden."
Bridges created a colorful, sunken English garden in the corner of her yard. Three stone steps lead down to a collection of raised beds filled with flowers and vegetables, each separated by a pathway that meanders through the garden.
Bridges' son, Walter, made the pathway with broken pieces of asphalt he collected and assembled over a six-week period.
Vibrant red salvia fills the first bed, its dark green foliage providing contrast against the 8-inch circular flower clusters.
In the remaining three flower beds, Bridges planted an assortment of flowers, including many annuals. Petunias are the most plentiful bloom in the yard, displayed in a mix of pink, white and purple varieties.
In the back portion of the garden are five beds filled with basil, lettuce, chive, cabbage, tomatoes, squash and collards.
A wooden privacy fence on one side of the yard is decorated with hanging ferns and metal wall art of butterflies, frogs and sunbursts, all poised above a series of red geraniums in a collection of old pots.
"I love my old pots," Bridges said of four, wide-mouthed iron kettles she found at rummage sales and believes are from the 1920s.
"I was trying to keep something old in the garden to make the outside of the house be like the inside. I finally found old pots to go there."
The opposite fence is landscaped with a hedge of azalea bushes, pink peonies, pink and white Lenten roses and red and fuchsia gerber daises, with carefully stacked stones and a line of hostas providing a perimeter for the garden.
Bridges guesses she has thousands of plants in her yard, acquired from friends, nurseries and rummage sales. She admits to gardening "all the time.
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"It's hard work, but work doesn't kill you," Bridges said. "You can do anything you want to if you put your mind to it. So I'm getting there."
She enjoys the stress relief her garden provides.
"You come to the garden, and you forget about everything else. It's just you and your plants."
The Metropolitan Planning Commission recognized Bridges' for her work on her home restoration with an award in 1999. And Bridges garden was featured in early May on an open gardens tour run by the Knoxville Botanical Gardens.
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The intended market for the Apple iPad, and just how consumers and business will make use of Apple's latest invention.
Multi-touch magic
The iPad is the latest and most striking example of Apple's use of multi-touch technology.
True multi-touch capability was more concept than reality before the iPhone's debut in 2007.
In less than three years, Apple has taken that technology and baked it into every one of its product lines.
After the iPhone came multi-touch trackpads on Apple's laptops. Then, last fall, came the new magic mouse. And now it's being used in a full tablet. With each advance, Apple rolls out new ways to interact with devices.
I don't know if Apple will eventually build a true touch-screen Mac, but the iPad certainly shows that it could and that it would be more than just another touchscreen computer. And along the way, Apple is leading the mobile device and computing market down a multi-touch path.
The iPad's arrival also demonstrates Apple's continued ability to push the envelope in other technologies, including battery life.
Over the past year or so, Apple has pioneered the concept that innovative battery design can lead to better battery life and better design.
Not everyone is happy about the trend toward built-in, non-replaceable batteries, but Apple at least makes the concept seem feasible, and even desirable.
Finally, the iPad is proof positive that Apple has the financial resources to develop completely new products from the ground up.
The fact that Apple designed and manufactured its own processor specifically for the iPad speaks volumes about the company's vitality, even in an uncertain economy. And it bodes well for Apple's ability to innovate in the years ahead.
Beyond just a symbol of things to come.
All that said, I have no doubt that even if the immediate market for the iPad isn't obvious, Apple wouldn't have developed the device without believing it could be a vital product.
(There was no talk of the iPad as a 'hobby', as there is around the Apple TV.) So, what sweet spot is Apple aiming for?
My first thought is that Apple is gunning for entertainment convergence, the ability to couch-surf, play games and do basic internet tasks almost anywhere and in the coolest way possible.
Yes, you can do these already with a laptop or netbook but if you want to be able to do them in the coolest way possible, the iPad will have obvious appeal. (Never underestimate the power of cool when it comes to bringing technology to the public.)
There's the lure of ebooks and the potential to use the iPad as an e-reader. And, perhaps most important, there's the price.
If you have a limited budget, the iPad is going to appeal to you. With a starting price of $499 (£319) in the US (UK prices still haven't been revealed), Apple is under the magic $500 mark that analysts have long touted as an important psychological barrier for tech consumers.
It doesn't matter that you aren't buying a full-fledged computer; chances are, you already have a another computer to sync it with that can do all the real computing tasks the iPad can't handle.
And at that price, what better way to get Apple's OS (whether iPhone-derived or Mac OS X) in front of more people than with the iPad?
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Many lifelong Winnebago County farmers sell their produce at this farmer's market in Rockford.
Held Friday mornings from late May through late October, Rockford's Colonial Village Farmer's Market features many lifelong Winnebago County farmers. You'll find a great selection of local produce, honey, apple cider and baked goods.


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III. Extortion and the State: Nuri's Story
Consensual homosexual conduct between adults is not a crime under Iraqi law. The 1969 Criminal Code, still in force, expressly mentions homosexual conduct only in paragraph 393, titled "Rape, Homosexual Acts (Liwat) and Assault on Women's Honor (Hatk el 'Ard)." Despite the heading, however, the article is an attempt at a gender-neutral rape law. Its substance reads:
Any person who has sexual relations with a woman against her consent or has homosexual relations with a man or a woman without his or her consent is punishable by life imprisonment or temporary imprisonment.[60]
Some sweeping and unspecific provisions in the criminal code give police and prosecutors broad scope to punish people whose looks, speech, or conduct they simply dislike.
- Paragraph 401 punishes "Any person who commits an immodest act" [fi'lan moukhillan bil haya] in public with up to six months in prison.
- Paragraph 402 punishes "any person who makes indecent advances to another man or woman" [man talab oumouran moukhalifa lil aadab] with up to three months in prison.
- Paragraph 501 punishes "any person who washes themselves in a city, town or village in an indecent manner or appears in a public place in an indecent state of undress" by up to 10 days' detention or a fine.
- Paragraph 502 imposes the same punishment on "any person who loiters in a public place or observes such a place with indecent intent or for an indecent purpose."
Other provisions could be enlisted to restrict freedoms of expression, association, and assembly, or to penalize human rights defenders who take up unpopular issues.
- Paragraph 200 (2) punishes with up to seven years' imprisonment anyone who promotes any "movement" that seeks to "change the fundamental principles of the constitution or the basic laws of society."
- Paragraph 210 prohibits disseminating any information or idea that, among other things, "disturbs the public peace."
- Paragraphs 403 and 404 permit prison terms (up to two years under the first paragraph, up to one year under the second) for "obscene or indecent" publication or speech. [61]
Kurdish Regional Government prosecutors have used paragraph 403 against publicly raising issues of homosexuality. On November 24, 2008 an Erbil court sentenced Adel Hussein, a doctor as well as freelance journalist, to six months' imprisonment for indecent expression, because two years earlier he had published an article in the independent weekly Hawlati about health issues for men who have sex with other men.[62]
Where the rule of law has neither respect nor reach, however, the letter of legal provisions is largely irrelevant. Many police may be ignorant of exactly what the law permits or proscribes. In April 2009, the New York Times quoted an officer at a Karada police station in Baghdad as saying "Homosexuality is against the law. And it's disgusting." He claimed that, for four months, the police had waged a "campaign to clean up the streets and get the beggars and homosexuals off them."[63]
Meanwhile, prejudice and corruption drive police repression even in the absence of legal justification. Several people told Human Rights Watch they had witnessed police harassing or beating "effeminate" men. "About four months ago in the Bab Sharqi neighborhood [of Baghdad]," one journalist said, "on the way to work I personally saw the police rounding up four 'she-males' and being very physically abusive to them-pulling their hair, kicking them, and throwing them into the back of a police van."[64]
Iraqis we interviewed accuse the police of turning a blind eye to, or colluding with, militia violence. Mashal, kidnapped by militias in April 2009, says, "There was a police patrol right next to my store when they kidnapped me; they saw everything that was happening, but they didn't intervene. Everyone believes the police [in the area] are under the control of the Mahdi Army."[65]
Most importantly, as one man remarked to us, "Police look at gay people and they see money."[66] A military officer told Human Rights Watch that "Through my contacts in both the military and the Ministry of Interior, I have seen incredible examples of administrative corruption. They will do anything, destroy anybody, to get their hands on some money-through threats, extortion, torture. And gay men are especially easy for them to blackmail."[67]
One young man told us a story in which official corruption and brutality intertwine. In early 2009, as the broader militia campaign was getting underway, Ministry of Interior officers kidnapped and tortured him in a murderous shakedown, to extort money because they knew he worked with an LGBT organization abroad. He paid and escaped. He says he saw the bodies of five men killed because they could not pay.
Nuri, 21 and born in Baghdad, had gotten in touch with the London organization Iraqi LGBT when he was 17. In the succeeding years, on their behalf, he rented and ran two homes in Baghdad; these served as "safe houses" for mostly-young men who had been thrown out by their families or faced violence on the streets because they were "effeminate," or suspected of sex with other men. The London group periodically sent him small sums to maintain the houses, and that inevitably drew the authorities' attention. "One day in February 2009," he says,
I was in a taxi in the middle of Karada when special police [maghawir] stopped the car, asked me for my ID, and searched me. They took my phone and my wallet, and handcuffed me. They put a bag over my head, hit me and put me in a car. They took me to the Ministry of Interior.
Once we got there, I heard them talking on a walkie-talkie: they were telling people from the intelligence service what had happened.
They put me in a room, a regular room, took the bag off my head, and there I was with five other gay men. I didn't know them previously, but I found out we had mutual friends. They gave their female names but not their real names. Gay men in Iraq are very cautious that way.
Then two hours later, they separated us and put each in a room. After they separated us, I didn't know anything about the fate of the other five men. And then a police officer came and said. "Do you know where you are? You are in the interrogation wing of the Ministry of Interior." He told me, "If you have ten thousand US dollars, we will let you go."
I said I didn't have that kind of money.
The next day at 10 a.m., they cuffed my hands behind my back. Then they tied a rope around my legs, and they hung me upside down from a hook in the ceiling, from morning till sunset. I passed out. I was stripped down to my underwear while I hung upside down. They cut me down that night, but they gave me no water or food.[68]
"I was kept in a solitary cell," Nuri says:
It was a little over two meters high: I could reach the ceiling. There was no space for me to lie down. I had to sleep semi-standing. It was like a metal box.
Next day, they told me to put my clothes back on and they took me to the investigating officer. He said, "You like that? We're going to do that to you more and more, until you confess." Confess to what? I asked. "To the work you do, to the organization you belong to, and that you are a tanta" [queen].
"The officers talked about religion," Nuri says, "that what I did was against religion. Whenever they brought up religion they would get really aggravated and beat me more." But he adds that money was foremost on their minds. "They knew the name 'Iraqi LGBT'-and they knew it helped mithliyeen financially. They knew about the safe houses. All they wanted to know was, 'Who's paying? And why are they helping you?'"
When I was questioned, they said, "You have to confess." And I said, I have nothing to confess. Then they showed me a police report. I read it and it showed everything about me from 2005 until the day I was arrested. ... They knew personal details, through gay informants. And then they took me into another room, and began torturing me again.
There were guards in army uniforms all over the Ministry building, but those who interrogated me were wearing civilian clothes. During the "business hours" they had official uniforms; but these investigations all happened after 3 p.m. when the offices closed. The interrogations were very violent: I guess they didn't want people screaming while people were visiting the building.
For days there were severe beatings, and constant humiliation and insults. I was in prison 25 days and the torture lasted 25 days. They were nine in all, working in groups of three, and every day they changed the group of three. Every day there was a ranking officer, and two of a lower rank. The three would torture me every day, for four or five hours.
It was the same form of abuse every day. They beat me all over my body; when they had me hanging upside down, they used me like a punching bag. That happened every day. Now I have a migraine because I spent so much time upside down. I have tremors, headaches. They used electric prods all over my body.
Then they raped me. Over three days. It was toward the end of the period. The first day, fifteen of them raped me; the second day, six; the third day, four. There was a bag on my head every time.
Nuri, sobbing, showed us scars above his hands. "I tried to cut my wrists with a plastic spoon after the rapes."
There was one officer among the nine who tried to help. He was part of the torture team. But he said he had avoided sending the police report on me to the judge who he said would pass the sentence. He told me he would save my life if I gave him a five thousand dollar bribe.
One day, they took me up to the top floor, where there was a little window, straight onto the courtyard. They gave me binoculars to look. I could see: there were the five men from the cell when I was first arrested. They were lying dead. They'd been executed.
Then they showed me a piece of paper and said it was the court order for their execution. I said, give me the phone. And I called my friend in London.[69]
The friend in London sent money to an acquaintance of Nuri in Baghdad, who gave it to the officer.
After that, at 3 a.m. one night, the officer came and gave me army fatigues, and a head mask-a baklava where you could only see my eyes. There are rotations of guards, where some come and go, and I escaped by leaving with the soldiers-I was limping because of the torture but he showed me how to walk like a soldier so I couldn't be suspected. He took me out and put me in the trunk of a car and dropped me off on some road on the edges of the city. I walked for three hours after that.
When he asked me for a bribe, I thought he would take it and kill me. I didn't believe I was going to live until I got out of the trunk of the car.
[60]Criminal Code: Law Number 111 of 1969 and its Amendments (Third Edition), ed. Nabeel Abdelrahman Hiyawi (Baghdad: Legal Library, 2008). Amnesty International has reported that in November 2001, as part of a moral cleansing campaign, the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC)-the country's highest executive body under the Saddam regime-"issued a decree to provide the death penalty for the offences of prostitution, homosexuality, incest and rape." ("Iraq" in Amnesty International Annual Report 2002: The State of the World's Human Rights.) Human Rights Watch has been unable to find the exact text of this decree. Amnesty International believes the decree was temporary (email to Human Rights Watch from an Amnesty International researcher, June 11, 2009), and in any case Revolutionary Command Council decrees are no longer in force under Iraq's post-invasion government.
[61]Criminal Code: Law Number 111 of 1969 and its Amendments (Third Edition), ed. Nabeel Abdelrahman Hiyawi (Baghdad: Legal Library, 2008).
[62] Reporters Sans Frontieres, "Doctor Jailed in Kurdistan for Writing about Homosexuality," December 2, 2008. Kurdish Regional Government president Masoud Barzani freed Hussein two weeks later as part of a seasonal spate of pardons: Reporters San Frontieres, "Kurdish President Pardons Doctor who Was Jailed for Writing about Homosexuality," December 8, 2008, both at http://arabia.reporters-sans-frontieres.org/article.php3?id_article=29508, accessed May 2, 2009.
[63]Timothy Williams and Tareq Maher, "Iraq's Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder," New York Times, April 8, 2009.
[64] Human Rights Watch interview with Samir (not his real name), Iraq, April 24, 2009.
[65]Human Rights Watch interview with Mashal (not his real name), Iraq, April 20, 2009.
[66]Human Rights Watch interview with Haytham (not his real name), Iraq, April 13, 2009.
[67]Human Rights Watch interview with Wahid (not his real name), Iraq, April 23, 2009.
[68]This quotation and those following are from Human Rights Watch interviews with Nuri (not his real name), Beirut, Lebanon, April 15 and 27, 2009.
[69]Although Nuri says the officers called the paper a "court order," he did not see it, nor did the police say what alleged crime had led to the death sentence. Secret executions by judicial sentence have apparently been widespread in Iraq since 2003. (See for instance Brian Bennett, "The Secrets of Iraq's Death Row," Time, November 12, 2006, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1558285,00.html, accessed May 3, 2009.)However, if the men were executed judicially, it is not clear what the charges might have been.Among the laws listed above-ones that might be invoked against homosexual conduct or against rights defenders addressing gender or sexual orientation-the highest penalty (under paragraph 200) is seven years' imprisonment.
In April 2009, Iraqi LGBT shared with Human Rights Watch a copy of a note allegedly smuggled out of an Iraqi detention center. The writer said Ministry of Interior forces had arrested him:
They beat me heavily and asked me strange questions. They spoke badly to me and kicked me on my head and my buttocks to elicit false information from me because of my membership in Iraqi LGBT. They then transferred me to the criminal court in al-Koukh and after an extremely speedy trial they sentenced me to death without giving me the opportunity to defend myself or appoint a lawyer. .. Two days later they informed me that the execution will take place in the next two weeks. … I send you this appeal, is there anyone who can help me before it is too late? (Scan of the note, in Arabic, on file with Human Rights Watch)
The note was not dated and did not mention the charges (if the victim even knew them). Iraqi LGBT also told us they had received, from Baghdad sources, the names of four other Iraqis also detained and facing death. It is possible that this information dated back to February and that these five were the men whose corpses Nuri saw.
Human Rights Watch wrote to the Iraqi Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Human Rights on April 3, asking urgently for information about the five men's whereabouts and fates. We did not receive a reply.
If the note is authentic, it still cannot be confirmed that the "trial" was an actual judicial process-or that the "court order" police flashed before Nuri was real. These may have been extrajudicial killings carried out by Ministry forces.
On March 27, 2009, Iraqi LGBT went public with the information in that note, to forestall what it believed were the pending executions of the five. It warned that "Urgent action is needed to halt the execution of 128 prisoners on death row in Iraq. Many of those awaiting execution were convicted for the 'crime' of homosexuality" (Iraqi LGBT, "Stop Executions of Gay Iraqis: Members of Iraqi LGBT Group on Death Row: Action Needed to Halt Judicial Executions," March 27, 2009, at http://iraqilgbtuk.blogspot.com/, accessed May 29, 2009). These numbers came from an alert issued earlier that month by Amnesty International, on the imminent execution of 128 convicts in Iraq (Amnesty International, "128 Face Execution in Batches of 20," March 12, 2009, at http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/iraq-128-face-execution-batches-20-20090312, accessed May 4, 2009). Amnesty had no indication that any of those men were accused of homosexual conduct. Nonetheless, Iraqi LGBT-which had not spoken to Nuri since his release-assumed that the five were alive and among the larger number on death row.
Based on the evidence, Human Rights Watch concludes that if the five named by Iraqi LGBT were executed, it happened earlier, when Nuri was arrested in February. However, the Iraqi LGBT news release, claiming that "many" of the 128 had been convicted of "homosexuality," inadvertently led to confusion among activists and bloggers in the US and Europe. A petition was launched "to save the lives of 128 prisoners sentenced to death because they are homosexual," and the false claim that all those on death row were "gay" received wide currency. (See Everyone Group, "Petition to save the lives of 128 homosexuals sentenced to death in Iraq," April 3, 2009, http://www.everyonegroup.com/EveryOne/MainPage/Entries/2009/4/3_Petition_to_save_the_lives_of_128_homosexuals_sentenced_to_death_in_Iraq.html, accessed April 14, 2009). Iraqi LGBT soon clarified that it believed only five of the 128 were "gay." However, the misimpression still spread.


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