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Comedy: Maria Bamford is funny. And sad. And funny-sad.
Sad Clowning By Brianna Snyder/Explore ONLINE EXCLUSIVE The best comedy is often the stuff that mines the most painful human experiences. Lenny Bruce, Andy Kaufman, Joan Rivers, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor and Louis C.K. are all known for their demons as much as for their comedy. Maria Bamford is a known Comedian of Comedy, the […] [Read More]
Music: Dar Williams talks songwriting and cities
Travelin' Woman By Michael Hamad/Explore Most of us, it's fair to say, have a sheltered sense of the life of a traveling musician. On the one hand, we imagine it to be isolating; it's lonely being away from family and friends. Then again, we imagine it's pure gold for songwriters, that the experiences you encounter, the […] [Read More]
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The purpose of the North Carolina State University Athletic Hall of Fame is to recognize student-athletes, teams, coaches, staff and special inductees who have made demonstrably outstanding and significant contributions to the athletic tradition and heritage of Wolfpack Athletics.
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Between 100 to 200 educators, community leaders and policy makers are expected to attend Thursday's (June 12) Bridging the Gap for Underserved Students Symposium at the Jones Center.
The symposium will be from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and participants can register at the event. Registration costs $50 and $15 for students.
The keynote speakers are former NFL athlete Keith Jackson and Gary Ritter, UA director of the Office for Education Policy.
Jackson will address how his program has helped underserved students in Central Arkansas, according to the news release. As for Ritter, he will discuss his office's new report, "Performance of All Student Subgroups in Arkansas: Moving Beyond Achievement Gaps."
The conference wants to make sure every student is up to speed and gets the resources they need to be successful in school.
Mirna Ordoñez, member of the organizing committee, said, educators will be able to share their programs and issues in their school district.
"It takes a village to educate a child, like the saying says," Ordoñez said. "It's important that all of us get involved in order to see how experienced as leaders, as educators, as business people, and every sector gets involved in this."
"We are addressing this problem, trying to create awareness about it, but also provide solutions," she said.
There will also be panelists at the symposium including Senator Joyce Elliot, Bentonville Superintendent Michael Poore and Javier Reyes, UA vice provost for distance education.
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45 Years + Q&A with Andrew Haigh, Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay
A couple (Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay) plan to celebrate 45 years of marriage when the past gets in the way.
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Al Pacino stars as a recluse ex-con who's offered a new lease of life.
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Touch Of Evil
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10 July - 20 Aug
Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov's remarkable and game-changing exploration of city life.
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Bicycle Thieves
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Antonioni's stylish film about troubled relationships in an alienating world is a landmark of modern cinema.
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The Wonders
The lives of a family in rural Italy are chaged when they consider entering a TV competition.
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Fashion icon Iris Apfel is captured by the legendary Albert Maysles in this fascinating documentary.
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The Look of Silence
The award-winning companion piece to The Act of Killing focuses on an optometrist and his customers.
21 Aug (continues in Sep)
Love & Mercy
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The NIU Law Alumni Council held its 9th Annual Golf Outing on June 7, 2013 at River Heights Golf Course in DeKalb, IL. The day was nothing short of par for the course as alumni and friends came out to hit the links and raise money for a student scholarship. Golfers enjoyed a beautiful day with a full 18 rounds, lunch, drinks, dinner, gifts, golf awards, and raffle. More
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Thousands of Chicago children whose schools were shuttered last spring walked to new ones on the first day of school Monday under the watchful eye of police officers and newly hired safety guards there to provide protection as the kids crossed unfamiliar streets — many of them gang boundaries.
No incidents of trouble were reported, police said. While that didn't surprise parents and grandparents, they said they were still concerned that the city's obvious show of first-day force won't keep their children safe in the weeks and months to come.


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There is througout the world, and universe Just and Unjust Violence. Now According to the anti-fascist pro liberation side, such as the Nuremberg Trials, Geneva Conventions of war, and the United Nations Charter, true democracy and liberation is set at away from aggressive war as any nations foreign policy.
According to the axis powers and the Nazis-Fascist military methods victory is away from liberation; and victory does these three discredited fascist military methods, 1) Might Makes Right, 2) Unilateralism, (going it alone reguardless), 3) Pre-emptive Srikes, such as bombing Iran before they not having and nuclear bomb now, maybe would have one in the future, althought the Iranian religion forbids such devilish practice.
So yes do confront Obama and say that nuclear weapons are the devils spirit not the Iranians. It is the U.s. Imperialists and Imperialist Israel which possess nuclear weapons, and both countries are in fact using them, and are the only ones to have done so in wars.
DU- depleated Uranium is in fact, real alive radioactive uranium, and mini-nukes by both countries are illegal, by the anti-fascist liberation world and natural national laws.
Israel and the U.S. Imperialist state are both guilty of betraying the world laws on this question and are the very aggressers waring against the peoples of the world's Holyland, 'the cradle of civilization'.
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The Worst Ramen Place Ever
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- Frances in Toronto
I had to share this with fellow Chowhounders who may like ramen.
Last night I tried the worst Ramen place ever called Yokozuna Japanese Noodle House at 505 Hwy 7. First of all not only is it NOT run by Japanese people (surprise surprise) but the actual ramen was atrocious. I got sick afterwards. Their broth was not made hot enough, it was slightly above luke warm. Plus the soup tasted weird, not Japanese at all. The noodles were the worst part of the dish. Please do not eat here. I suspect Takebashi Noodle House, which is in the same plaza, is no better. Also we ordered deep fried gyoza, which tasted of MSG and like the frozen canadianized salty weird kind of pastry shell and filling. BAD gyoza, the worst I've tasted ever.
The only decent ramen I've had in Toronto so far is Ko-nichiwa, which is on Baldwin St. and it is run by Japanese people. It is kind of expensive however (because portions are small), and two pieces of gyoza on the side cost $3.95. But at least they are real gyoza.
Wish they had ok ramen noodle houses in Toronto like in Vancouver... Vancouver has Kintaro's on Denman St and Ezogiku on Rubson St (and even they are much inferior to Japan's....).... why won't they open real ramen noodle houses.... ARGH!
Frances in Toronto
I've passed by a ramen restaurant on Yonge between Finch and Steeles (west side), right in the heart of Koreatown II (as I like to call the neighbourhood). I think it's called Kenzo Ramen. I have not tried it.
I used to get wonderful ramen in the food court at Village by the Grange. I'm not sure if they're still there.
re: MJN
Tokyo Grill - I heard that the "ramen" there is questionable because they tell Japanese people who try to eat there not to order it because the soup base is not the real ramen soup base but the miso soup that you get on the side when you eat bento box combos.
I have heard about Kenzo Ramen too. Maybe I will try that next weekend. I hope I don't get another stomach ache like at Yokozuna (I PAID $8.95 FOR THE "YOKOZUNA RAMEN" AND IT WAS SO BAD, $4.50 for 4 HORRIBLY BAD GYOZA).
Would appreciate any more tips on the Ramen search in Toronto. I am going to ask my karate sensei about it, as he is Japanese... hopefully he might know of some secret place that most Torontonians may not know of.
re: Frances in Toronto
I've had a bowl of miso ramen at Tokyo Grill. As you suspect, Frances, it is a miso-soup-ramen, including tofu and wakame (seaweed)! How could they be so confused?! I was speechless when they brought it out. It is nothing like the miso ramen you get in Japan.
re: Mary
what a shame, Tokyo Grill making noodles in miso soup, that is just gross. argh!
looks like Ko-nichiwa is the best bet so far, i might try this kenzo ramen place... anything has to be better than that Yokozuna (bleh).
thanks for all the tips and feedback everyone, if anyone finds decent ramen in Toronto, please say something.
happy chowhounding
re: Frances in Toronto
I'm here in Toronto for the weekend. I'm from Seattle and my band played a show at Opera House last night. We got a day off and I'm craving REAL Japanese food. Curry, Crocquet, Tonktsu, Saba-Shioyaki, etc.. Anyone has an idea for the cheap lunch?
re: Frances in Toronto
I would consider myself as a Ramen master, I cook pretty good Reman myself, I want to recommand Kenzo to all of you..... first of all, this place is quite good, because the noodles are not too much, but the King Reman got so many different toppings, which makes the whole thing interesting, the Pork slices are really nice, more like the grilled thing... I would not say this is as good as the Japanese tradtional Reman, but for the standard in Toronto, it is already one of the best you can get... and most of all, they made their own noodles.. that is hard to find... and soup base is Korean influenced, spicy flavour, whis is nice in the winter time.
I like it, for a Ramen craving.. Kenzo is definetely the place to go!
re: MJN
Tokyo Grill is located at 582 Yonge St (416) 968-7054.
This is my favorite restaurant in town for a simple but well prepared homemade style japanese meal. Decor at this restaurant is very simple, prices are reasonable, and it is very popular among university students.
Not having ever been to Japan, I cannot comment on the authenticity of the ramen server there, but I can tell you that is is good and inexpensive. I find the texture of the chicken served with the ramen a bit strange, but that is just my opinion.
One of my favorite dishes there is the chicken katsu, juicy and tender chicken brest perfectly breaded, served with steamed rice, a small side of salad and miso soup. Another dish I like there is unagi don, the BBQ eel serving is generous; the only problem I found is that the preparation is not always consistent, but it is nonetheless satisfying.
Tokyo Grill has its faults, but I still find it a great place for a homemade style japanese meal.
re: Goober
I agree Toronto/GTA rocks! I wouldn't trade the variety of quality restaurants for anything! :0)
I went to Kenzo a few times and I would say it is acceptable. It cant be compared to the ones I had in Japan but in Toronto, I would still go there when I really want a bowl of ramen. They offer miso and shio soup base and both of them are okay. If you like spicy ones, try the middle column in the menu. Mind you, this restaurant is operated by Korean, not Japanese.
The other restaurant operated by Japanese is called Otaru. It is actually a Japanese restaurant, not a ramen place. It does offer 3 different kinds of ramen (goma, shio and miso). I found the soup base a bit greasy and salty but that's very personal. It is at Queen and Beaches if you want to give it a try.
Where is the exact address of Ko-nichiwa? I've been dieing for a bowl of good ramen in Toronto for so long. However, the only one I found is Kenzo Japan Noodle House that has good comment. I've tried several "Chinese like" ramen, and really wanted to try a bowl that is "japanese like". Please reply ASAP. Thanks.
Jen in Toronto
hello, I'm a fan of ramen too....I think 1/2 the reason goes to the fact that it's just so hard to find a decent Ramen place in Toronto, Not to mention finding an "authentic" japanese restaurant!
KENZO is good! but cannot compared to Japan.
there's also a good NICE little CAFE restaurant located south of SHEPHERD / Pharmacy, called MICHI CAFE. owned and served by Japanese.
prices are fair. Lunches menu start from $10 with salad, Miso soup, main dish, CAKE and gree tea or coffee. be sure to go there early on weekend as it is packed during lunch hours.
Enought talks about the Ko-Nichiwa, has anyone actually been there and give some review about the Ramen ?? Otherwise I'll have to try it out myself!!!
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Today, the suspect in a neighborhood shooting made his first appearance in court. This, after three shots rang out Wednesday in a Medford neighborhood.
SWAT and police responded in full force Wednesday morning after the shooting occurred. Now, the suspected shooter is behind bars. Causing trouble.
"Your honor, could we take Mr. Poff at the end. He was disruptive and we had to remove him from the court waiting area."
Today, 21 year old Devon Dean Poff of Medford was arraigned at the Jackson County courthouse.
He is the man police say fired three to four shots Wednesday morning on Tennessee street in North Medford, in a dispute over a vehicle with this man 25 year old William Tye Middlekauff.
We're told the shots missed their intended target, two bullets blasting through a neighbor's window.
the third hitting a tree. The 72 year old couple who lives inside were unharmed. They have asked not to be interviewed.
Poff at first declined a lawyer ... and admitted guilt.
"How do you wish to proceed at this time?" asked Judge Tim Gerking.
"Guilty," said Poff.
"I can't take your your plea today," responded Judge Gerking.
Ultimately, he allowed the judge to appoint a lawyer for him.
Poff already faced outstanding felony warrants. New charges include unlawful use of a weapon and reckless endangering.
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Due to the predictions of rain and thunderstorms during the evening of Thursday, July 30th, the concert by the Mighty Spectrum Band has been rescheduled to Tuesday evening, August 18th starting at 7:00pm.
The Montville Township Recreation Department is happy to announce the 2015 Summer Concerts in the Park
schedule. All concerts are free and will be held on Thursday evenings
at the Community Park Amphitheater unless otherwise noted. Parking is
available behind the High School and Public Library (enter from 90/100 Horseneck Road).
July 16: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Jacksonville Chapel Concert Band
July 23: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Kootz Band - Classic-Rock, Pop, Soul and Blues
July 30: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Mighty Spectrum Band - POSTPONED
August 6: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Country Comfort Band - Hits from today's top male and female Country Artists
August 13: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Soul Groove - Pop, Dance, R&B, and Soul Hits
August 18: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Mighty Spectrum Band - Timeless Classics from Chicago, The Doors, etc.
August 20: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Midnight Blue - Rock, Blues-Rock, and Classics
August 27: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Theater Rock - Songs from Rock Musicals
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The Township Committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, 2015 has been canceled. The next meeting of the Township Committee is Tuesday, August 11, 2015, 8:00pm, Montville Township Town Hall.
BACKGROUND: On March 27, 2015, JCP&L filed an
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transmission line between its substations in East Hanover and Montville.
This line will run through the Township of Montville
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Update #8 (7/24/15): The parties have had an initial conference with Judge McGee, the Administrative Law Judge who will be hearing Montville Township's challenge to the JCP&L-Montville-Whippany 230kV Transmission Project The Judge is asking the parties to come up with dates for discovery, the submittal of expert reports, and a timeline for the eventual hearing on this matter.
While the Township has not yet agreed on any of these discovery dates, it is certain that no decision will be rendered in this case until sometime, at the earliest, in the second quarter 2016. In the meantime the Township will continue to explore all possible experts and strategy to oppose this project. We note that no other parties have requested to intervene and the Court has not yet established an intervening date.
Update #7 (6/22/15): There are no new updates to report.
Update #6 (6/12/15): This past Tuesday evening, the Mayor and Township Committee met in executive session with Mo Bonder, the Township's expert engineer. Mr. Bonder outlined various potential issues relating to the upcoming litigation with JCP&L.
Update #5 (5/29/15):
This week the Mayor and Township Committee sent correspondence to other
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opposing the Montville-Whippany 230 kV Transmission Project. In
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A coroner's official late Friday released the identity of the pilot killed when a small plane crashed near Van Nuys Airport.
1 Dead After Small Plane Crashes In Lake Balboa
The Los Angeles Fire Department Friday was investigating a small plane that crashed in a busy intersection in Lake Balboa.
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A small plane that had engine trouble has landed safely in an Orange County park that used to be a Marine air base.
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A pilot and a passenger were rescued after a small plane crashed in the ocean near Catalina Island Saturday.
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A light plane crashed on Catalina Island Sunday slightly injuring three of the four people aboard.
Single-Engine Plane Makes Emergency Landing In Tujunga Wash
A single-engine plane made an emergency landing Saturday in the Tujunga wash in Pacoima, authorities reported.
4 Passengers Survive After Small Plane Crashes Into Big Bear Lake
Authorities Saturday say a small plane landed upside down in Big Bear Lake after reporting engine trouble.
Couple Injured After Small Plane Crash-Lands On CSUN Soccer Field
A small aircraft reportedly attempting an emergency landing Sunday crashed in Northridge.
Off-Road Racing Champion, 2 Others Die In Crash Of Small Plane Bound For Corona
A small plane — going from Las Vegas and bound for Corona — declared an emergency and crashed this afternoon near Daggett.
Small Plane Crash Kills 2 Near Cleveland National Forest
A single-engine plane has crashed near Cleveland National Forest, killing two on board, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed.
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A small plane has crashed near the Santa Paula Airport and authorities say at least two people have died.
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High women and infant mortality rates continue to burden the developing world. Although international organizations have called for an increased focus on maternal health, more than 500,000 women in developing nations die during pregnancy or childbirth annually. In Asia, one out of every 43 women will die of maternal-related causes, compared to one in 2,500 in the United States. The fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) aims to reduce the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) by one-third in the next four years; however, India's efforts—and those of many developing nations—lag woefully behind. According to PLoS Medicine, between 1990 and 2005, global maternal deaths decreased by only 1% per annum instead of the 5% needed to reach MDG 5. Training programs and technology to dramatically reduce these numbers are widely available, though appropriate funding, infrastructure and resources for maternal health have been lacking in countries that need it the most.
India, for example, has seen tremendous economic growth over the last decade, although government spending on healthcare—less than 2% of GDP (China spent 5.8% in 2002)—has not kept pace. With an estimated US$40 billion market that is expected to grow to US$80 billion by 2013, India's healthcare sector has seen an increase in private sector investments to fill the quality and supply gap. Currently, private investments account for nearly 80% of the healthcare industry, resulting in a new crop of privately funded and -run hospitals and medical facilities that are changing the face of the Indian healthcare industry.
LifeSpring Hospitals: Specialty Care for Expecting Mothers
Many new private sector health investments are focused on an emerging trend in the industry: the for-profit, single-care facility, which specializes in a particular area—cataracts, heart disease or liver transplants—to increase quality of services, reduce infrastructure needs and costs, and, ultimately, to provide affordable, niche care to patients. This "small but rapidly growing genre" incorporates the process-driven efficiency and results-oriented approach of a private sector franchise model while simultaneously focusing on improved care and customer satisfaction. In the maternal and neonatal care arena, LifeSpring Hospitals Private Ltd., founded in 2005, has emerged as a leader in providing routine obstetric care and delivery services for expecting mothers in urban poor areas of Southern India.
LifeSpring Hospitals, a joint venture by Acumen Fund and Hindustan Latex, offer natural births, caesarian sections and hysterectomies, often at costs 30-50% less than local rates. The for-profit network of maternal and neonatal care facilities pre-screens patients to identify high-risk pregnancies for referral to emergency care centers. The focus on low-risk procedures reduces the need for more advanced technology and infrastructure, and has allowed the company to standardize processes and procedures to reduce costs, improve focus-area training for doctors and nurses, and increase the potential for expansion. To date, LifeSpring has launched nine hospitals, with four more being built by the end of June 2011 and two additional planned for the end of the year.
LifeSpring has become "the largest chain of maternity hospitals in South India," according to Acumen Fund, "treating more than 70,000 patients and delivering more than 7,000 healthy babies." The 25-30 bed facilities operate with a cluster head that manages all associated hospitals to reduce overhead within the network. Further, the cluster shares ambulances, vendors and doctors, and is strategically situated in close proximity to neonatal emergency care centers, as well as blood banks. Each hospital has one high-end incubator, a basic lab and a partner pharmacy inside, which offer lower, negotiated rates to LifeSpring customers.
"We operate with basic facilities to keep our costs low," explains Priya Pingali, an assistant manager of monitoring and evaluation at LifeSpring. "But we don't believe quality and price conflict."
The company, which targets the working poor—rickshaw drivers, tailors, street vendors, housekeepers—has also devised a number of different schemes to create a trusted brand name in the areas they operate, thus driving demand. Women from the community are hired to go door-to-door on a daily basis to talk about LifeSpring—to mothers-to-be and non-mothers alike—and invite them to attend a free clinic in areas such as nutrition and breastfeeding and also receive a regular check-up.
Strategic marketing is necessary to run a financially viable hospital and to remain a competitor in the market. Women are often hesitant to visit a private hospital, explains Pingali, because they don't believe they can afford it. Though a price board hangs outside each of LifeSpring's hospitals, women tend to be skeptical and believe there are hidden costs associated. Currently, LifeSpring—which believes in full transparency—charges INR 4000 (~US$90) for normal delivery and INR 9000 (~US$200) for C-sections in the general ward. These costs are up from its founding year, 2005, when the price for a normal delivery was INR 1500 (~US$30). The company saw the need to adjust the prices, and within 1.5 years the first hospital broke even.
"Our biggest learning," explains Pingali, "has been with the cross-subsidy model, which we will no longer focus on going forward." Although the hospital chain originally offered tiered pricing and gave the option of semi-private and private rooms, few women in their target areas chose to avail of the premium services. Over 90% of LifeSpring patients opt for the general ward, which, unlike crowded public hospital facilities in India, offers a serene, clean setting where each woman has her own area divided by three walls and a curtain. The women prefer the close-knit nature of the general ward set-up. More than 50% of women who deliver their first child at LifeSpring returns for the next child.
Models such as LifeSpring's are providing much needed, high-quality basic services to expecting mothers, though those most at risk—women with potential complications—are still left out. In all likelihood, these high-risk patients will be referred back into the overburdened public system. While the private sector is filling an immediate gap, the public system simultaneously needs to be invested in and improved. Public-private partnerships are increasingly becoming the focus for alleviating "deficiencies in the public health system" and are also aiming to "reduce economic stress on those who seek services from an expensive, burgeoning and unregulated private health sector." Higher standards and regulations are needed in the sector to be sure the growing industry remains committed to patients over profit. For now, private-sector models such as LifeSpring are showcasing cost-efficient, financially viable approaches to providing affordable, quality care to the poor. As it expands, their model has the potential to save the lives of millions, and give women the dignified facilities they deserve to bring new life into the world.
This story originally appeared in the May 2011 edition of the Searchlight South Asia newsletter created by Intellecap for the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Jimmy Breslin wants to start his own church. He's had enough of the old one after almost 74 years, and who can blame him?
When you look back over the career of New York's consummate common-man columnist — one of the best at cramming characters, emotion and sense of place into a 650-word rectangle of newsprint that Gotham has ever seen — his break with the Roman Catholic Church has been a long time coming. It wasn't exactly the sexual abuse scandal itself that sent Breslin over the edge, although he's been covering it with intense and deepening anger for the last two years. Instead, he says, it was one of the scandal's side effects: discovering that one of the American church's most prominent men of God was a niggling, pedantic little man.
"A couple of things did it," Breslin tells me in his gargling-with-glass Queens accent. "I think, most of all, it was reading the transcripts of Cardinal Egan, when he was the bishop up in Bridgeport [Conn.], quibbling over the classification of a young man who was abused." That would be Cardinal Edward Egan, who was appointed archbishop of New York, and hence de facto leader of the American church, despite his indirect implication in an especially seamy scandal at his former diocese in Connecticut.
"They were in court over the issue of — did the priest bite his penis or did the kid bite the priest's penis? It was confusing," Breslin says drily. Egan objected to the opposing attorney's reference to the young man in the case as a child, since he had been a college freshman at the time. "He was testifying, Egan, and he wondered whether they should call this kid a child or a young man, because he was a student at Sacred Heart College. Basically, he was quibbling over the classification of a young man who was involved in a sexual act with a priest."
When you sit and talk with him, Breslin is a rumpled but guarded presence; like so many reporters, he keeps his own counsel. But here he sits up straight in his chair and spreads his hands wide, in a classic pose of street-corner argumentation. "Well, come on!" he says. "What are you, a cheap defense lawyer in Queens Criminal Court? Or what are you? Are you a church leader? Someone who can rise above this? No!"
Later in the same testimony, Egan went even further. He proposed the novel idea that bishops and other figures in the church hierarchy could not be held responsible for crimes committed by priests, because priests were private contractors rather than employees. To even the most firmly lapsed of ex-Catholics, this was a shocker: The men uniquely entrusted with the role of mediating between God and man, uniquely empowered to transform a translucent cracker into the flesh of Our Savior, had the same legal status, according to the archbishop, as traveling encyclopedia salesmen. "That was enraging," Breslin says, now quiet again. "Such an outright, blatant lie."
I visit Breslin on a brilliant summer morning at his apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side to talk about the eccentric and highly personal new book that marks his farewell to Catholicism, "The Church That Forgot Christ." The housekeeper lets me in; Breslin isn't there. He arrives a few minutes later, damp from a morning swim and a shower, still wearing a robe and flip-flops, and offers me coffee. He lives with his wife, former New York City Council member Ronnie Eldridge, in one of those brand new luxury penthouse apartments that looks like a furnished suite at the airport Hilton. At first it seems like a funny place to encounter the quintessential voice of the outer-borough working class. But as a friend of mine observed later, it's exactly the kind of digs the outer-borough working class would live in if they could afford to.
Breslin doesn't seem like an angry man in person, but "The Church That Forgot Christ" is fueled by unquenchable bitterness and rage against the church that reared him and the vanished world of Irish Catholic Queens that fed it. He was brought up as a "stone Diocese of Brooklyn Catholic," as he puts it, and attended weekly mass for virtually his entire life. For most of that time, as a troublemaking, thumb-in-the-eye-of-power columnist for four different newspapers (the last 12 years for Newsday), he has served as New York's — and maybe America's — most vocal lay representative of the church's liberal, Vatican II wing. He is a social-justice Catholic, a civil rights Catholic, an anti-death penalty Catholic, a feminist Catholic, a gay rights Catholic. Once upon a time, those didn't seem like impossible or self-contradictory categories.
At his age, Breslin isn't the reporter he used to be, as he'll admit to anyone. But he retains one of the finest sets of eyes and ears in the news business, along with a unique ability to penetrate the absurdity and flat-out bullshit of so much public discourse, and his trademark staccato writing style. In the huge Aug. 29 march, when 500,000 people came out to the streets of New York to stand against George W. Bush, Breslin walked next to a college student carrying a cardboard casket as they passed a commemorative sign marking East 20th Street as Theodore Roosevelt Way:
"Of course something had to put that sign there and have it noticed on this day. For it was Roosevelt who in the end seems to have known so much and so many of the governments that followed so little.
"And here, as Sarah Kruger passed under the street sign, were the words Roosevelt thought should be commonplace in his country:
"'To announce that there should be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, it is not only unpatriotic and servile, but it is morally treasonable to the American people.'
"And you could hear in the air his cry for lovely young Sarah Kruger: as she passed under his name carrying a casket: 'Bully!'"
I mention to Breslin that this article is likely to run on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, assuming that this consummate New Yorker will have something to say about that momentous event in the city's history. "I try not to pay attention to it," he says. "The anniversary is a day for exhibitionists, and for politicians trying to use it to their advantage. Who tried to use it more than Giuliani, the dog?" He uses another word, a gerund adjective, right before "dog."
"What would you want to be around it for? People I know don't care about it. I know the widow of a firefighter, and she doesn't want to hear anything about it. For me, the important anniversary came on the first Monday after the attacks, when everybody got up and went to work [after a week when the city was essentially closed down]. If their jobs were in Jersey City now, instead of lower Manhattan, then they got on the train and went to Jersey City."
In a recent column, Breslin observed that Osama bin Laden must need a new press agent, since no speaker at the Republican Convention was even willing to utter his name. "Well, one fellow mentioned it, he slipped up," he says. "It was [New York governor] George Pataki. And he had to make recompense with a scathing attack on Saddam Hussein, like he had anything to do with it."
Returning to the subject of Catholicism, I suggest to Breslin that from my limited perspective, as an "ethnic" Catholic whose ties to the church are those of blood and heritage rather than faith, the left-progressive strain of the church doesn't seem dead yet. He waves me away with a shut-up-already gesture. "There was only one person," he says. "Pope John XXIII was the only one we ever had, period. There was nothing before or after."
Maybe that's not a defensible statement on a factual or logical level, but it's the kind of emotional, electrical columnist's shorthand in which Breslin specializes. This is a guy who has done what he calls "the unthinkable" by abandoning the church of his upbringing and his forefathers. He clearly isn't alone. "The Church That Forgot Christ" is an impressionistic, anecdotal book in a vintage Breslin groove (which you either get or don't get), but if it can be said to have a central argument, it's that the current crisis in Catholicism is much wider and cuts much deeper than we now realize.
In his book, Breslin writes, "There have been four great movements in modern America that occurred without the news reporting industry knowing anything about them until they became a part of regular life. The first was civil rights, then the women, and, third, homosexuals and, last and suddenly, the crumbling of the Catholic church."
The clerical sexual abuse stories may have faded from the front page with the presidential campaign and the war in Iraq, but new cases of almost unbelievable depravity keep surfacing, seemingly by the dozen. The church now says it suspects there are something like 4,000 bad priests and 10,000 cases of abuse in the United States, which by any objective standard is a horrifying number. But Breslin insists that based on his reporting, which by its nature is anecdotal and subjective rather than scientific, he believes that's only the tip of the iceberg. The true number, he thinks, is 25,000 pedophile priests and something like 100,000 abused children in the years since 1950.
In other words, the Catholic Church in America became, at best, an institutional safe harbor for rapists and child molesters. The vow of celibacy became a cloak worn by warped and damaged men incapable of forming adult emotional attachments, who used their power and privilege to prey on the children entrusted to them by believers. It's hard to overemphasize how gravely the American church has been wounded by these last few years, or how deeply the church hierarchy, with its endless litany of lies, denials, evasions and weasel words, has been implicated.
The churches of North America are not yet empty, Breslin says. "But they're gradually emptying out. Collections are down. And it's not going to reverse. You just get the feeling that young people are staying away." When I ask him whether he thinks young families, the backbone of any organized religion, are still going to Mass, he stares at me in disbelief. "Would you?" he barks. "If you had younger kids now, would you go? I mean, it's horrible." (I do, and no, I wouldn't.)
Consider the case of Joseph P. Byrns, a priest who made the local news in New York a few weeks ago. Breslin hasn't written about Byrns, maybe because there's nothing exceptional about his story. Byrns was a prestigious figure in the universe of New York Catholicism; for many years he presided over a parish in the wealthy neighborhood of Douglaston, Queens, where he married John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal in the 1970s.
Two years ago, during the dark summer of 2002, when the sexual abuse scandal spread across the continent like an uncontained wildfire, Byrns was caught up in it. He was accused by a fellow priest, a man in his 40s, of having abused him three decades earlier, when the younger man had served as an altar boy in Byrns' Douglaston parish.
Unlike so many other accused priests and bishops, however, Byrns didn't cut and run. Instead, he stood up in the pulpit of his current parish, St. Rose of Lima in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Ditmas Park, and "unconditionally" denied the charges, calling one of his accusers "deeply troubled and disturbed" and inviting parishioners to pray for the younger man. The mass-goers at St. Rose gave him a standing ovation. Bishop Thomas Daily, then the boss of the Brooklyn diocese, stuck by his man, insisting the allegations were untrue. One good priest, it seemed, had stood up against the hysteria and paranoia sweeping through the church.
Of course the story didn't end there. Byrns was quietly suspended from St. Rose after the Queens district attorney announced that the charges against him were credible, but could not be prosecuted because the statute of limitations was long past. Last month, on Aug. 18, state police hauled Byrns out of a Holiday Inn in the upstate town of Oneonta, N.Y., where he was apparently hiding out. The new charge? Byrns is accused of repeatedly fondling and sodomizing an altar boy at St. Rose, during exactly the same period when he was delivering impassioned sermons proclaiming his innocence.
Byrns is still entitled to the presumption of innocence, at least until a Brooklyn jury gets ahold of him. But the Catholic Church isn't; it exhausted that right a long time ago. The only extraordinary thing about Byrns' case is that it's not extraordinary at all: the pattern of incorrigible abuse, the arrogant denials and seemingly pathological lying, the stonewalling and waffling of the hierarchy (which now says it was never sure whether the earlier charges were true), the humiliating comic-opera arrest (when he saw the cops, the 61-year-old cleric tried to skedaddle out the Holiday Inn's back entrance; they chased him down in the parking lot). The fact that all this was buried deep in the local news — "Perv Priest Nabbed" was the New York Post headline — testifies to how inured we have become to such tales of corruption. Just another priest screwing the altar boys and brazenly lying about it. Geez, what do you expect?
Breslin doesn't exactly put it this way in his book, but the current scandal seems to represent all the sexual hypocrisy of the Catholic hierarchy, all its misogyny and homophobia, all its cosseting of tyrants and its not-quite-repented anti-Semitism, finally coming to a head. The idea that a religion built around a terror of sex and sexuality was sheltering predatory pedophiles in large numbers seemed too medieval to be believed, too much like the sniggering punch line to an anti-Catholic joke. Breslin reports that in his conversations with other Catholics who ought to have known better, like New York police commissioner Ray Kelly, they all report feeling foolish about how long it took them to understand what was happening.
"It was hard to understand, personally," Breslin says. "Being raised in Queens like that, I don't think I knew anybody who wasn't Catholic. All right, I knew some Jews, maybe a few Protestants. But everything you did was associated with Catholics. If you went to a pro football game, well, that was a Catholic thing." Still, anyone who belonged to the church (like Breslin) or who felt attached to it by blood and heritage (like me) cannot have been totally surprised when the truth began to come out. "You heard certain stories" about certain priests, he admits. "But I never paid the slightest attention whatsoever."
Now, with the institution's credibility shattered and its future in jeopardy, he says there is only one solution. "Those people have to get out of the sex business. Just get out of it. They have no idea what they're doing."
There is little chance of that. Conservatives within the church, including some truly frightening reactionary elements who view Pope John Paul II as a softhearted liberal, have seized on the scandal as an opportunity to drive leftists and homosexuals out of the priesthood. They are not just willing but eager to jettison undesirable Catholics like Breslin, who are insufficiently committed to the church's sexual and moral agenda. They seem to want a smaller, narrower faith obsessed with fighting abortion and gay marriage, rather than a big-tent religion that encompasses family-values conservatives, fervent opponents of the death penalty and Latin American socialists alike.
Some of the saner Catholic prelates, like Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, D.C., have recently disavowed the wild notion that liberal Catholic politicians who favor gay rights or reproductive choice, from John Kerry to Jim McGreevey, are not entitled to receive communion. But make no mistake, these radical positions are spreading among the true believers; priests in central New York state, where I spend much of the summer, have been handing out bumper stickers to parishioners reading: "You can't be pro-choice and be a good Catholic." (No priests that I know of have suggested the corollary position, that you can't support the death penalty and be a good Catholic.)
Isn't the church hierarchy, I ask Breslin, now making common cause with its longtime adversaries, the Protestant fundamentalists of the Christian right? "Well, the bishops are more comfortable with them, I think," he says. "Execution, they say they're against it." He makes a growling, throaty noise I take to be laughter. "They're for it! Why don't they stop lying? The war in Iraq, they hardly whisper about it. The pope says he spoke out against it. Well, I'm unfamiliar with the stridency of his demands that the war end. I don't see any social good they do these days."
If you want a clear and cogently argued discussion of the current crisis in American Catholicism, or a journalistic history of the clerical abuse scandal so far, you'll want a different book, maybe Garry Wills' "Why I Am a Catholic" or Frank Bruni and Elinor Burkett's "Gospel of Shame," or the riveting "Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church," by the staff of the Boston Globe. "The Church That Forgot Christ" is something else, something very much in the Catholic tradition: I'd call it a lamentation.
Most vividly, Breslin's book offers a quasi-nostalgic tour of his old stomping grounds, amid the semidetached houses of Irish and Italian Queens, from Woodside to South Ozone Park, from Forest Hills to Jackson Heights. It's a world that has all but disappeared; a generation ago Queens was still the homeland of New York's "white ethnics," while today it is one of the most diverse places on the planet. (Elmhurst Hospital reportedly has access to interpreters for more than 150 languages, including Hmong, Albanian, Bengali and Yoruba.)
Breslin recalls many of the people and places of the old Queens tenderly, but he doesn't exactly miss it. When he returns to the parochial school in Richmond Hill where he was educated and finds that many of its students, and many neighborhood residents, are now Sikh immigrants, he seems positively delighted. "I thought they were great," he tells me. "I didn't know anything about their religion, but they told me that they believe men and women are equal, people of all faiths are equal." In other words, whatever their issues and problems may be, at least they're not the same old sour Irish Catholics.
His book has been criticized for its intemperate remarks about the Irish and their American great-grandchildren, but if Jimmy Breslin is not qualified to make those judgments, then for the love of God, who is? "You can blame the church's condition on the Irish, who gave us total religious insanity," he writes. "They are a race that sat in the rain for a couple of thousand years and promoted the most crazed beliefs in personal living outside of the hillbillies."
Of course those are deliberately outrageous statements, and they don't reflect the most nuanced understanding of Irish history. But I defy any Irish or Irish-American person to read them and not laugh the bitter laughter of recognition. Breslin is right that the Irish who came to America were the poorest of the dirt-poor, the wariest of a wary race, the likeliest to follow orders, ask no questions and do whatever was necessary to get along. While Ireland itself has blossomed in the last generation, Irish-Americans as a whole remain a conservative, conformist group, a race of insurance salesmen, accountants and sentimental drunks.
"You couldn't have the religion they were running unless you had a lot of impoverished peasants to follow you," Breslin says. "Peasants who do what they're told." The church hierarchy may believe it has a new generation of peasants to dominate — immigrants from Latin America, Africa and the Philippines now form the bedrock of the American church — but there is clearly a problem. The hierarchy and the priesthood are still overwhelmingly composed of aging Irish-Americans, and the supply of young men willing to take a vow of chastity to enter a dubious profession whose prestige is shattered has evaporated. (Many dioceses have begun importing young priests from Africa, which has created new racial and cultural dilemmas.)
Breslin remembers being at a church luncheon a few years ago when the late Cardinal John O'Connor, then the New York archbishop, offered to personally drive any interested young man to the seminary. "There were, I think, seven men training for the priesthood in the New York archdiocese at that time," Breslin says.
"It's a lifestyle that has been demolished by the steady change in the pages of the calendar. You can't ask young people today to lead such a cold, restricted life. There was an era when a mother with four children in Queens proudly sent one of the sons off to become a priest. It was like becoming a congressman or senator, a tremendous thing. The family was proud and the kid was proud. He wasn't in there to hide from sex, he was in forward motion, he was doing something. Now that's gone. We don't get that anymore."
In his book, Breslin dares to imagine a renewed and liberated vision of the Catholic faith. His faith and the Roman Catholic Church as it now exists, he writes, are different things, "separate and unequal." He imagines people holding masses in their homes, around the kitchen table, leaving the priesthood and the hierarchy behind. He imagines Catholics who cast off the church's wealth and grandeur, following the example of a certain Jewish carpenter who wore cast-off clothes, slept rough and threw the money-changers out of the temple. (When I suggest that from the point of view of religious history this idea of an intimate and personal Christian faith already exists, and that it is called Protestantism, Breslin doesn't want to hear it.) He imagines a new church in which the priesthood is open to men and women, married or single, gay or straight.
He imagines himself ending his career as a priest or bishop in this new church. Reading his book, I thought he was kidding, but as he talks about it now I can see that he isn't. "My wife — she's Jewish, but forget the religion for a minute — if we were at a parish, we'd get housing," he says. "And it's good brick housing usually. I would do the sermons. She's a politician, she could do the social work wonderfully. It would be a good, productive life, one you could be proud of and enjoy."
It's a wistful, genial image — the aging but unquenchable newspaperman-turned-priest with the Jewish wife, ensconced in the good brick housing and noble social work of a modest Queens parish. But Jimmy Breslin knows the Catholic Church will not be redeemed in this way, not in his lifetime or mine. His housing will continue to be a Manhattan high-rise and his sermons will appear three times a week in the pages of Newsday.
He pauses and you can see the sadness of a man who has left the church of his fathers behind, late in life. Could the current Catholic hierarchy do anything, I ask, to get him back? He shrugs. "They can go. Just go."
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A Durham school board seat that had no takers last week now has three opponents.
Two new candidates have joined the race for District 2 of the Durham Public Schools Board of Education: Sendolo Diaminah, a community organizer with People Durham, and Terrence Scarborough, assistant director of licensure for UNC General Administration.
They join Donald Hughes, an online-advertising strategist and community activist, in vying for the seat held by Fredrick Davis, who is not seeking re-election.
The filing period ends Friday at noon.
Diaminah, whose recent activism has focused on affordable- and low-income housing, said public schools are instrumental in Durham's future.
"Our schools lead us to the future that we're going to have," Diaminah said.
He said he would work to improve the quality of DPS and to keep "public resources in public education."
Diaminah said other priorities include lowering the suspension rate, erasing the disparity in discipline and improving literacy.
"Literacy is a huge issue for me, literally, politically and socially," Diaminah said.
Scarborough, a graduate of C.E. Jordan High School, said he wants to give back to a community that has given him so much.
"I want to make a difference in the lives of our youth," Scarborough said. "I truly believe they are our future."
He said closing the achievement gap and make sure students are prepared upon leaving Durham schools are top priorities.
"We must make sure students are prepared, whether they're joining the military, enrolling in a trade or vocational school or pursuing a four-year degree," Scarborough said.


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Recommended server specs for NS 7.1 for a 10k client organisation
Hello all
We're struggling at the moment with a really poorly performing NS installation at my organisation. At present we have around 2500 clients with the agent installed, and the NS server is struggling to say the least. Against advice, our server team provisioned this server on a VMWare virtual server. It has 4 virtual CPU cores, and it initially stated out with 16GB of shared memory allocated to it. I'm fairly confident this was underspecced for the number of clients we were going to place onto the system. We've since coaxed them into increasing the shared memory to 32GB, however this hasn't made a great deal of difference to the performance of the solution.
Now as a result of what I think is an underspecced sever, the console runs like a dog, making it painful to use. We now also need to roll out the agent globally to all of our other sites, bringing the client count to around the 10,000 mark.
My question is... I realise our current NS server will not cope with 10,000 clients (it barely handles 2,500), and we'll likely want to move to a physical box with dedicated memory. What sort of specification of server would you recommend for an estate of 10,000 clients?
In addition to the NS server, each of our sites has a site server installed, including the headquarters where the NS box is located. These site servers run PXE services as well as package and task services. One issue we have is at our HQ, it seems that half of the 1,500 clients on this site pick up the NS as their task server, and the other half pick up the site server. How do I force my clients to utilise the site server only? I'm assuming this will reduce traffic and load on the NS?
Last question, for a site server running PXE, Package and Task on a site with 1,500 clients, what spec of machine would you recommend?
Thanks for reading and I look forward to your responses.
Ryan Spooner
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Sorry one more question... we have an issue with tickle packets not reaching our clients. Could this be down to the performance of the NS or Site Server? This used to work fine, but recently when scheduling a job, the clients don't pick this up straight away and instead only pick it up on their next hourly check in. This causes havok with multi-task jobs as each task runs and then we wait an hour for the next one. Any thoughts?
Hey Ryan,
A couple of questions, what is your SQL configuration? Is it on box or off box? If you it's on box AND virtualized that is the bulk of your problem right there.
Also, what about your site servers? Are you just using the single NS to handle all tasks, packages, etc for all of the clients without any site servers to offload?
This guide was our biggest use when we rebuilt our structure too.
Starting from page 58 it gets into more nitty gritty of how you should layout and benchmark your system.
Systems Administrator
Rice University
Remember, "The happiness of your life, depends on the quality of your thoughts."
Hi Palvaran, thanks for your reply.
We did have the foresight to put our SQL on an off-box physical server, although it is shared. That said, we've had our DBAs monitor the server, and it;s by no means under load, so I'm fairly sure it's not a SQL issue.
As mentioned in my opening post (which I forgive you for missing, it was a bit long winded), each of our sites has a separate site server on a 1U physical box (all sites apart from the HQ). The services are installed onto the print server box at each site, with some NetApp SAN disk presented to them for the package storage.
At our headquarters, the site server is hosted on a VM. This VM also has Workflow installed. This VM isn't anywhere near as powerful as the main NS VM.
Any thoughts please? I'll give your link a read now.
There are just too many variables to figure out at the moment. Your setup sounds like it should work, but you need more data to formulate a real analysis. I know, it sucks and I hate the idea as much as you probably, but it might be time to call support.
The few flags that are going off in my head are the shared aspects. What is being shared and what resources are they using. In our environment, we were using shared storage with our SAN as well and noticed that it was slowing down our environment some. In the link I sent, it mentions sharing and the specific IO needs that the disks that are being used need. We had to rearchitect our striping and disk layouts to accomodate that. Also, our VM guests had to be migrated off of some hosts in order to have more resources. On the server side, we ended up tweaking IIS, recycling rates, and a ton of other stuff.
Here is one of the best links we are currently using. We went to Vision this year in Las Vegas and Symantec gave a great presentation on what to do to improve your infrastructure.
In the end, after viewing that presentation, we went back and started to reengineer how everything was done.
One idea which we are going to pursue, on October 9th, the new version 7.5 will be released. You could spin up a new VM and migrate your clients over.
Systems Administrator
Rice University
Remember, "The happiness of your life, depends on the quality of your thoughts."
What version of the platform are you running? The most current is 7.1 SP2 MP1 rollup 7 (released last week).
Also, check out my previous post for a couple of tuning tips:
The biggest performance gains to be had were accomplished by fix our SQL config as well as getting really aggressive with daily index maintenance tasks in SQL.


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Dana White Thinks TRT Is "Great" & "Fair" For Those Who Don't Abuse It | UFC NEWS
"Here's the thing about TRT. It's absolutely 100% legal. As sports medicine continues to advance, this is one of those things where every guy's testosterone level starts to drop as they get older and this is basically sports science now where they can bring it back up to a normal level. And I think it's great, it's absolutely fair, it's legal. The problem is, there are guys who say if this much is good THIS MUCh must be great, so you have guys who are always trying to do more than they're supposed to do. The big job is policing it, making sure that it's not being abused, that guys are using it the way it's supposed to be used."
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its defying age. you are suppose to lose it as you get older, nature does that intentionally.
with trt you are prolonging the inevitable and also doing yourself more harm as you are not letting nature take its cause.
if you are trying to feel fit and young again when you are not, guess what??? you should quit the fight game.
everyone should retire at some point.
What are you babbling about? Is "Nature's Course" in the unified rules of MMA? How is defying nature automatically bad for your body? It seems to me it's (obviously) helping your body be better. This is coming from a guy who still thinks TRT is cheating because there are other ways to get testosterone flowing and that there are other seldom talked about advantages to TRT. But what you have going here telling people they should just never fight again because we're all supposed to get old and die at 40 is BS– that is not why TRT should not be allowed.
he never said die you idiot.
he said you a re supposed to lose testosterone its a part of getting old.
if you are not strong enough to fight because you have testosterone depletion due to a natural loss that affects all men then you shouldnt be fighting
do you know much about trt?
from the facts i know, it is a synthetic testo reciprocator that eventually like steroids will affect your natural ability to develop it.
you are fucking with something that shouldnt be fucked with and is why a lot of steroid abusers now need it legally just to be normal as they have damaged the natural reproduction of test.
so basically dogfart is right, theres no valid reason for using it in this sport. if you cannot manage without it then you shouldnt be doing it. the long term effects of its use are potentially damaging and its cheating your body into thinking its better than it is. not only that but it weakens the bones and as you get older you have hight chance of breakages and osteoporosis
problem is everyone does abuse it except maybe Hendo
A level of 6:1 is legal, but nowhere near normal or natural.
Of course he thinks it great, if these guys can't juice you won't see great shows plain and simple. Let's face it majority of high level athletes are on some sort of PEDs which helps them put on extraordinary performances. It is what it is but to have shit like this aligned with martial arts is a disgrace to all the pioneers that did it natural with hard work and dedication. No I'm not saying roids makes you a great fighter but it sure does speed up the learning process..
a lot of new fans that do not understand trt's will call it roids but thats just because your stupid and don't understand how they test it do some research before you call every fighter a roid head
Joseph, I honestly don't know much about this topic from a medical perspective. But, isn't the general idea that you're enhancing your testosterone levels, by adding a substance to your body. And, when you add this substance, you elevate your game compared to someone who also have elevated their performance level?
I think the only real martial artist in the UFC (in this context) is Machida. His understanding of technique, and fundamental basics of martial arts allows him to easily do without. The rest gain a significant advantage in their fight game.
AS and JDS too
*compared to somone who hasn't elevated their performance level from a foreign substance* – brain fart.
Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frasier, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, and others didn't use it or even need it and neither should today's athletes. It's cheating bottom line. You can't be considered the best ever, when you're scientifically altering the playing field. If you want me to consider you as the best, then you have to show me how good you are as your body ages.
Bet everyone of those guys juiced at some point
Anyone else realize it's sponsored by Trojan and there's a fine chick doing the interview? Yeah subliminal messages.
I understand that you are allowed 6 to 1 testosterone levels just out of curiosity what is the normal limit and if it significantly lower how do generate those levels naturally eg thru training, diet
1:1 is average for most men. Athletes can have naturally higher t/e ratio's so the Olympic comittee and the World Anti Doping Agency allow t/e ratio's up to 4:1. For some shady reason the NSAC condones levels up to 6:1.
Thank you for the info
ASDF your anme and e-mail adrees is being published by bjpenn.com. what a disgrace for a website who publishes everyone e-mail addresses
yep mine as been published also many times. look at the small blue print on the log in
OneAll Social Login is a friggen JOKE at best.
too bad BJ will never know anything about this
It should be 1 to 1 ratio for trters un natural advantage if a normal dude has to fight a dude with a 6 to 1 ratio than wtf? Its not fair!
Cheating is cheating, plain and simple. If you can't hang with the comp. you're in the wrong sport. If you're too old to hang with the younger crowd, it's time to hang up the gloves. If you can't legitimately compete, you shouldn't be competing at all. The only reason Dana White is okay with it is cause half his fucking fighters are on it.
I tend to disagree. As medical science advances, humans live longer and longer. It's just a fact. Why not let people stay younger? TRT isn't the same as roiding up, and that's fine with me.
i think weed is great and fair for those who don't abuse it.
Alcohol is LEGAL Cigarrettes are LEGAL but they KILL MILLIONS EVERY YEAR DANA!!!
If the body NATURALLY loses it then TOUGH, get a NEW job!!!!
Soon the whole MMA will be JUICING and then the ATTENTION will shift back FULLY to BOXING!!!!!!!!!!
he wants to use big fighter names to promote and make his money. he doesnt care about his fighters.
Okay, I want all of you to go to google, type in testosterone, and do extensive research before you bash TRT or Hell even try to take a side. Seems like most of you are pissed about a topic you don't even know anything about. Stfu
What I don't understand is if you are taking TRT because you have low Test and the average ratio is 1:1. How the heck is it OK to go from below 1:1 to 6:1??? Unless you like superman or captain america no normal male is going to be 4:1 naturally much less 6:1.
I would be ok if the ratio allowed to fight is 2:1 but anything higher than that seems to be just taking advantage of the system.
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By Bill Scherlis
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The Department of Defense (DoD) has become deeply and fundamentally reliant on software. As a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), the SEI is chartered to work with the DoD to meet the challenges of designing, producing, assuring, and evolving software-reliant systems in an affordable and dependable manner. This blog post—the first in a multi-part series—outlines key elements of the forthcoming SEI Strategic Research Plan that addresses these challenges through research and acquisition support and collaboration with DoD, other federal agencies, industry, and academia.