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Where to Find Pastoral Ears?
'Lewd Conduct'? 'Unlawful Marriage'?
Intercessory Prayers Worthwhile?
Does Domus Sanctae Marthae Have Any Other Use?
Q: I am seeking some perspective on
family matters. Frankly, I think many
of us empty nesters, good Catholics caught
in a riptide of family challenges and crises,
feel like we are drowning. Although I
belong to many charitable organizations
and subscribe to several Catholic publications,
attend Mass faithfully and pray daily,
I cannot find a place, the privacy or the persons
with pastoral wisdom to throw me a
spiritual "life jacket" so that I can reach solid
The Church is so busy surviving these
days. I think we Catholics have lost the
most vital connections with our Church:
opportunities to be heard and to talk with
those who are our shepherds. Having been
married for over 35 years, I have seen the
Church and society change and become so
busy, beset by deadlines and dilemmas,
that it is very difficult for people to find a
listening pastoral ear.
Having been involved with counseling
people in my work, I sense that Catholics are
having trouble finding compassionate listeners.
Years ago I was involved with a small
Christian community in my parish, but those
people have either died or moved away.
What can we do, as Catholics, to find
places of refuge and wisdom? We are not
seeking therapy or treatment—simply a
ministry of listening.
We need to connect our everyday experiences
with the wisdom of the Church.
We need to have circles of conversation
with our pastoral brothers and sisters. But
where, how and when?
A: Your concerns are very deep. I
can offer some suggestions
about meeting the needs you have
identified, but your letter already shows
a strong desire to be with others in
Within the Catholic Church, the
needs you describe are being addressed
in various ways. Some people find that
going to a spiritual director fills their
needs; others regularly participate in
group retreats, directed retreats, Cursillos,
Renew or similar groups. The
Sacrament of Reconciliation offers the
possibility that, besides naming their
sins, people can reflect on and receive
feedback about heartening or disheartening
trends in their lives.
In some parishes, groups of Catholic
men meet regularly to share their faith
journeys; there are women's groups
addressing the same need. If there is
not such a group in your parish, there
might be one at a neighboring parish.
If not, perhaps God is prompting you
to start such a group.
Although some conversations you
may need to have with a priest, please
do not underestimate the help your
parish's deacons and/or lay pastoral
associates may offer. "Pastoral ears" do
not have to be clerical ears. Some people
seeking the help you describe have
found it through talking with monks or
nuns in monasteries.
The way that we see ourselves is
related to our mental images of God
and how we see other people. A change
in one area influences the other two. If
I think of God as rather stingy, that
gives me permission to be stingy. Realizing
that God is incredibly generous,
on the other hand, moves me in the
same direction.
Whatever synthesis we have reached
about God, ourselves and others can be
disrupted by new events. Achieving a
new harmony may involve some struggle.
Besides our need for talking and listening,
we also need to serve, to share
generously with people who are in
physical or spiritual need. Faith involves
clarifying our ideas, but it must also be
a faith "working through love," as St.
Paul said (see Galatians 5:6). A co-worker
in such service may have the
listening, pastoral ears that you seek.
'Lewd Conduct'? 'Unlawful Marriage'?
Q: In Matthew 5:32 we read, "Whoever
divorces his wife (unless the marriage
is unlawful) causes her to commit
adultery, and whoever marries a divorced
woman commits adultery." This teaching
is repeated in Matthew 19:9.
One Catholic Bible that I consulted in the
1970s translated the parenthetical remark
above as "except for lewd conduct" and the
footnote advised, "See your parish priest."
A later edition of that Bible removed that footnote. Now the Revised New American
Bible reads "unless the marriage is unlawful."
What is going on? I am very tempted
to lose trust in Bible translations but not in
the Bible itself.
A: Because biblical translations are
made by human beings, they can
be improved over time, as is the case
with translating porneia, the key word in
understanding these passages. Please
don't let one difficult passage undermine
your trust in all Bible translations.
The word porneia means "unlawful
sexual conduct" and could thus cover
a wide range of actions, including fornication
and adultery (which have their
own words in Greek) or marriage between
relatives considered too close to
allow for marriage (uncle/niece, etc.).
Jews were stricter than gentiles about
how many family members were excluded
as potential marriage partners.
When gentiles became Christians, the
issue arose as to which traditional
understanding should be followed. The
Church chose the stricter (Jewish) one
but understood that one's former spouse
must be provided for in a just manner.
No new phrase was introduced into
the Gospel of Matthew in the 1980s
or '90s. The term in question has always
been there but has been translated into
English differently over the centuries,
moving in the direction of greater precision.
It is clearly a parenthetical remark,
abruptly but temporarily changing the
direction of the sentence. If this verse
is addressing which family relationships
are too close to allow marriage,
then it is saying that, when a gentile
(pagan) becomes a Christian, he or she
must accept the Jewish understanding
on this matter.
If a new Christian was already in such
a marriage, he or she would have to end
it because it was not a true marriage.
This is probably the sense of porneia in
Acts 15:29, which the Revised New American
Bible translates as "unlawful marriage."
In the New Jerome Biblical Commentary,
Benedict Viviano, O.P., writes that
in Matthew 5:32 and 19:9 this understanding
of porneia as the marriage of
very close relatives "fits the text best."
Q: My husband and I disagree on
whether praying for a person's salvation
makes any difference. He says that
we cannot do anything for the salvation of
another person. Is there biblical evidence
that we can?
A: St. Paul wrote to the Christians
in Thessalonika that he always
prayed for them (2 Thessalonians 1:11).
Earlier he had urged them to pray without
ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17).
James 5:16 urges us to pray for one
another. The Gospels of Matthew and
Luke especially devote a good deal of
attention to prayer by Jesus and to
prayer by other people.
Prayer cannot guarantee that someone
will respond generously to God's
grace. We pray for others because we
and they are part of the communion of
saints, which involves three sets of people:
those who are in heaven (who
inspire us but do not need our prayers),
plus those who are in purgatory (who
need our prayers), plus the living people
for whom we pray.
An honest relationship with God
overflows into honest prayer. If you
had a relative, friend or co-worker involved
in some self-destructive behavior
or relationship, wouldn't you pray
that he or she would wake up and realize
where this is heading? Wouldn't
your honest prayer eventually prompt
you to say something or do something
to help that person?
Honest prayer is always about opening
up to the grace of God. Your prayer for
someone who is living does not guarantee
that he or she will accept God's grace,
but it makes you a better sign of God's
grace for that individual. Perhaps that is
precisely what God is counting on.
Q: In your May 2005 column, you explained that this residence in Vatican
City was used by the cardinals during the recent conclave. Is
it used for any other purposes? It would seem like a terrible waste
to use this facility so infrequently.
A: Yes, it is regularly used for other purposes. Most recently, it
housed many participants at the General Assembly of the
World Synod of Bishops (October 2-23).
The Holy See hosts many international meetings, as well
as periodic gatherings of bishops, archbishops and cardinals who oversee
the Holy See's 23 main offices. There are frequently bishops who are
making their ad limina visits (every five years), plus papal diplomats
who are reporting to the pope in person about developments in their
region. Clerical and lay participants at meetings connected to pontifical
councils and commissions sometimes also stay there.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Harley-Davidson has signed on to sponsor musician Kid Rock's 2013 Rebel Soul tour, which will include a Saturday night performance for the company's 110th Anniversary celebration in Milwaukee over Labor Day weekend.
Kid Rock's Rebel Soul tour kicks off Feb. 2 in Kansas City. Harley-Davidson plans to offer fans unique experiences at each of the 60 planned stops during the tour. The tour sponsorship is just one aspect of the relationship, which will extend from concerts to retail promotions.
The final stop on the tour will be Aug. 31, when Kid Rock rolls into Milwaukee to party with thousands of his fellow riders. Kid Rock will play a ticketed show at the Marcus Amphitheater, on the south end of Milwaukee's Henry Maier Festival Park (Summerfest Grounds). Fans who buy 110th Anniversary ticket packages, available from Ticketmaster, will have an opportunity to buy tickets for Kid Rock's 110th Anniversary performance before they go on public sale later this spring.
Kid Rock is one of three headliners Harley-Davidson plans to announce for the Anniversary Celebration in Milwaukee. The other announcements are expected this spring.
A unique element of the partnership is an exclusive line of limited-edition, co-branded Rebel Soul merchandise featuring a line coined by Kid Rock: "I can't hear you over the rumble of my freedom." Fans will be able to buy concert-specific merchandise at each show, as well as an exclusive line of merchandise at participating Harley-Davidson dealerships across the United States. This is the first time either brand has offered such an extensive line of co-branded merchandise.
Also, at every tour stop this year, Harley-Davidson will offer one winner the chance to join Kid Rock's Rebel Soul band and rock on stage for one song during that night's performance. Fans have to find the Harley-Davidson display area at each venue to register.
Harley-Davidson is also holding a national promotion in which one fan will win a factory-customized motorcycle and the opportunity to rock alongside Kid Rock on stage during the Anniversary show in Milwaukee. Fans can enter to win the national promotion at www.h-d.com/kidrock beginning Feb. 2. The winner's VIP trip to the 110th Anniversary will also include a meet-and-greet and photo shoot with Kid Rock.
Harley-Davidson plans to announce ticket sales information for the Kid Rock performance in Milwaukee in the coming weeks, along with additional details related to the 110th Anniversary.
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After 34 Years of Anonymity Kent Keith Gets Credit for His Words of Wisdom
"If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway."
"If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway."
When Kent Keith heard those aphorisms almost five years ago in a speech at a Rotary Glub meeting in Waikiki, he was stunned—and deeply moved. Not so much by their wisdom as their attribution: The speaker credited them to Mother Teresa, the unofficial saint of Calcutta. But Keith, 53, an executive of the YMCA of Honolulu, knew the real author: himself.
As a 19-year-old Harvard sophomore in 1967 he had composed 10 proverbs and published them in a booklet. Unbeknownst to Keith, his moral marching orders, which he called "The Paradoxical Commandments," were copied out and passed around, while his authorship was all but forgotten. Quoted by celebrities and politicians and cited on more than 6,000 Web sites, Keith's sayings had been credited to everyone from Mother Teresa to rocker Ted Nugent. In fact, when Keith announced after the meeting that the words were his, the speaker, recalls Keith, "gave me a look that said, 'You poor, delusional megalomaniac' "
Until that day, Keith had no idea that his commandments had taken on a life of their own. But after the publication by Penguin Putnam this week of his book Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments—Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World, he may finally become as famous as his words. With a hefty pressrun of 175,000 and a national publicity tour, his profile has already begun to rise. Nugent, for one, says, "I'd like to buy this man a pineapple soufflé." And Keith is discovering the power of fame. "Suddenly you're in a new kind of lay ministry," he says, recalling that at a recent writers conference, "people came up to me and shared their hopes and dreams."
The road to recognition began in a book-shop, to which he raced after the Rotary meeting. Leafing through Mother Teresa's 1995 bestseller A Simple Path, compiled by author Lucinda Vardey, Keith found his commandments. Vardey had spotted a version of the aphorisms on a wall at the nun's Calcutta orphanage but knew nothing of their origin. "I wanted to laugh, scream, jump up and down," says Keith, who was thrilled that his sayings had inspired one of his heroes. He immediately rang his wife, Elizabeth, a translator who was on assignment in St. Louis. "I was so moved I wanted to cry," says Elizabeth, 46. Adds her husband: "We adopted our three children from orphanages in Japan and Romania. That my words were on the wall as Mother Teresa and her coworkers ministered to children really touched us."
That night he decided to write his own book, which weaves inspirational essays around his original principles. Cookie mogul and YMCA of Honolulu board member Wally "Famous" Amos—who told Keith he had long used the commandments in his speeches without knowing who had written them—put the author in touch with a small Hawaiian company, Inner Ocean Publishing, which printed the book last October. Sensing its hit potential, Penguin Putnam bought the rights in January, paying a reported $300,000.
Keith's commandments grew out of his experience as class president at Roosevelt High School in Honolulu, where he has lived since 1962. (His father, Bruce, now 85, is a retired spokesman for the Marines, and mother Evelyn, now 80, is a homemaker.) Once at Harvard, he found a role advising high school student governments and wrote the maxims for a booklet called The Silent Revolution—Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council. Harvard distributed 10,000 copies nationwide.
While the commandments' following was quietly growing, Keith applied their "just do it" ethos to his own life. After graduating with a government degree in 1970, he traveled to England as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a master's in philosophy and politics from Oxford. He then acquired a law degree from the University of Hawaii in '77 and a Ph.D. in education from the University of Southern California in '96. He and Elizabeth, whom he wed in 1976, share a five-bedroom home with Kristina, 16, Spencer, 12, and Angela, 11.
Keith has been a lawyer, director of Hawaii's Department of Planning and Economic Development, and—from '88 to "95—president of Chaminade University of Honolulu. But he is comfortable knowing that his defining work remains a set of proverbs he wrote 34 years ago. "I still believe," he says, "in every one of them."
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ePunk has gone public, and expanded its retail network to 80 businesses nationwide.
ePunk Inc. is a diversified distributor of private-label and name-branded powersports products, accessories and related services through CountyImports.com and other e-commerce businesses, and a newly established brick-and-mortar store in Southern California. The company has announced the following update on its operations and several key initiatives it is undertaking in 2012.
"We continue to see strong online demand at CountyImports.com for our products and remain committed to providing our customers with the highest quality powersports products, accessories and services for the most competitive prices," said Jesse Gonzales, CEO and president of ePunk.
Fiscal year-to-date, as of Oct. 1, ePunk's County Imports dealer division, ViperSportUSA distribution business has added 16 dealers across several states including Kentucky, Mississippi, California, Georgia, Tennessee, North Dakota, Missouri, New Mexico, Louisiana, Florida and New Jersey. This brings County Imports total dealer network to more than 80.
"We have recently become a publicly traded company, and we are optimistic that we are well-positioned to deliver strong sequential and year-over-year growth from both an operational and financial perspective. We are committed to building a strong management team and adding experienced and value-added directors to the board that will provide current and prospective shareholders of ePunk with a level of confidence that driving shareholder value, transparency and strong corporate governance are our top priorities," said Gonzales.
Consolidation of Operating, Fulfillment and Administrative Operations
ePunk has now brought all business segments in-house, after outsourcing its administrative and fulfillment operations via third party until now.
"December of 2011, we have secured the No. 1 position in highest volume of natural web traffic gained via natural search traffic, and I have found strong indicators in our historic sales data compared to year-to-date sales that identify potentially strong growth for 2012. We intend to complete this transition in the first half of calendar 2012, and believe that the move will reflect very positively on our top-line revenue and gross profit as well as accelerating ePunk's path to profitability. We look forward to providing more details in the coming weeks and months."
Expansion of Products and Services
In October the company launched a rental service from its newly Dana Point, Calif., store, PCH Rides, for its BMS Scooter and Scoot Coupe lines. ePunk management expects that rental business at PCH Rides for tourism in and around the Dana Point Harbor will be an opportunity for revenue and branding growth. "We have customers driving over 2,000 miles to pay us a visit and participate in the services and products we offer that make us unique."
"In addition," Gonzales added, "in 2012 we will be adding more dealer sales representatives that will enable us to spearhead our geographic reach throughout North America." Key to ePunk's growth initiatives in 2012, the company states, is continued emphasis on leveraging its online marketing and e-commerce expertise and experience. Last year, the company launched a beta site, www.BidPunks.com, to further leverage its expanding online traffic and customer base at www.CountyImports.com to offer an exciting and value-driven online power sports marketplace. "We remain on track for the commercial grand launch of www.BidPunk.com in 2012," said Gonzales. "I firmly believe these key elements in www.BidPunk.com will be monumental in securing a solid foundation in the online auction industry."
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Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the American physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) began writing poetry when he was young, publishing "Old Ironsides," one of his most famous works, in his early 20s. A respected doctor and popular author, Holmes was a member of Boston's literary circle along with writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Old Ironsides
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout,
And burst the cannon's roar; —
The meteor of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more!
Her deck, once red with heroes' blood
Where knelt the vanquished foe,
When winds were hurrying o'er the flood
And waves were white below,
No more shall feel the victor's tread,
Or know the conquered knee; —
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle of the sea!
O, better that her shattered hulk
Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every thread-bare sail,
And give her to the god of storms, —
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Now, four years later, there are many companies making waistcoats/vests for the guys. Many of the vests are one-of-a-kind. The majority of them are velvet with a satin back. They are embroidered, and then usually shipped without the crystals. Moms of boy Irish dancers are pretty handy and creative at getting the crystals on-- which are usually Swarovski element crystals. Anything seems to go as far as color. The other big trend other than the jackets and military look, is that in giving the vests a very custom-looking, form-fitted appearance and embellishing the vests, many designers have opted to do away with the front opening with buttons and instead have gone to a hidden side zipper under the arm of the vest.
Here are some links to some popular Irish dance costume makers and waistcoat designers (there are wonderful pictures of the latest waistcoats/vests that they have made on the sites):
That above link is also the premiere source for custom-made, boys, Irish dance pants.
Where my son and I once said, "Not the rhinestone buttons!", we now say, "Bring on the crystals and color." For my kiddo and me, we both really love the current trends in boys' costumes. I will say, "Stop!" though if any electric lights go on the costumes. However, until that line in the sand is reached, I love all the fabulously unique and creative costumes the boys, moms, teachers, and designers are coming up with. I can't wait to see what the trends for boy Irish dance costumes will be come 2012!


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Definition of prosaic in English:
1Having or using the style or diction of prose as opposed to poetry; lacking imaginativeness or originality: prosaic language can't convey the experience
More example sentences
- The methodical and rather prosaic style may not have the literary skill of, say, Abanindranath Tagore's diary.
- He also performs some prosaic poetry of more recent vintage, before nervously taking to the mic to croon.
- Many poets seem threatened by the apparently easily appropriated and fungible modes of prose and prosaic rationality.
unimaginative, uninspired, matter-of-fact, dull, dry, humdrum, mundane, pedestrian, heavy, plodding, lifeless, dead, spiritless, lacklustre, undistinguished, stale, jejune, bland, insipid, vapid, vacuous, banal, hackneyed, trite, literal, factual, unpoetic, unemotional, unsentimental, clear, plain, unadorned, unembellished, unvarnished, monotonous, deadpan, flat
1.1Commonplace; unromantic: the masses were too preoccupied by prosaic day-to-day concerns
More example sentences
- These, though, are vague considerations for him; his immediate concerns are more prosaic.
- They're mostly worried about a more prosaic concern, which is whether the game is fun.
- Though aware of surrounding political, military and social developments, they focused on more prosaic concerns.
ordinary, everyday, usual, common, conventional, straightforward, routine, humdrum, commonplace, run-of-the-mill, workaday, businesslike, pedestrian, tame, mundane, dull, dreary, tedious, boring, ho-hum, uninspiring, monotonous
- Example sentences
- 'I'm pleased with the shut-outs, but at the end of the day, it's more pleasing to win,' he states prosaically.
- Damage control, contextualization, historical positioning: This is myth-making - or branding, as we so prosaically call it these days - at its finest.
- The problem, as we have noted many times, is that these metaphors, which concern that which cannot in any other way be told, are misread prosaically as referring to tangible facts and historical occurrences.
Late 16th century (as a noun denoting a prose writer): from late Latin prosaicus, from Latin prosa 'straightforward (discourse)' (see prose). Current senses of the adjective date from the mid 18th century.
Words that rhyme with prosaicalcaic, algebraic, Aramaic, archaic, choleraic, Cyrenaic, deltaic, formulaic, Hebraic, Judaic, Mishnaic, Mithraic, mosaic, Pharisaic, Ptolemaic, Romaic, spondaic, stanzaic, trochaic
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Another week of intriguing action. Another week of tough decisions to make.
Members of the dutiful Ring Ratings Panel had a variety of opinions on a number of fighters who either made strong statements or suffered setbacks over a busy weekend on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Among the questions that had to be answered:
Let's start with Huck. The cruiserweight titleholder gave the No. 2-rated heavyweight all he could handle in spite of the official scorecards: 114-114, 116-113 and 116-112. THE RING scored it 115-113 for Huck, who landed the more-damaging blows.
Huck certainly looked like a legitimate heavyweight contender.
However, could we really justify rating a heavyweight who has never won a heavyweight fight? If the decision were an obvious robbery, perhaps that would make sense. It wasn't, though. Huck lost a close fight.
Plus, Huck could very well announce any day now that he plans to give up his heavyweight dreams and return to cruiserweight. Then where would we be?
Thus, as much as it pains us after the admirable effort Huck gave, THE RING Editorial Board decided to leave the heavyweight ratings as is.
Alexander? The case against him is that he beat a natural 140-pounder who was not rated as a welterweight, which is a reasonable argument.
This is an unusual situation, though. One, Maidana was a highly rated junior welterweight with a reputation for being as tough as any fighter in the world. Two, Alexander did exactly what Maidana did – jump up to 147 for their fight.
Alexander tore Maidana apart, which no one else has done. The performance was striking.
And, finally, we considered the fight in the No. 10 position: Shane Mosley, who in his last three fights looked horrible in losses to Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao and struggled to a draw with Sergio Mora.
The decision really wasn't difficult in the end. Alexander replaces Mosley at No. 10.
As for Maidana, THE RING must acknowledge an unfortunate mistake: We removed both Maidana and Alexander from the 140-pound ratings even though only Alexander said his intention was to remain at 147.
Thus, we decided that Maidana shouldn't be punished for our mistake and should return to the junior welterweight ratings.
The question was where? The fact is that he was pummeled by a fighter who also was moving up a weight class, which we can't ignore. With that in mind, we were comfortable inserting Maidana at No. 9, pushing Vernon Paris (No. 9 last week) down a notch and Humberto Soto (No. 10 last week) out.
Now on to Broner, who looked positively ferocious against an overmatched Perez (No. 9 last week) en route to a fourth-round knockout.
The Cincinnati product looked so spectacular that several members of the Advisory Panel suggested we elevate him to the No. 2 position, behind No. 1 Takashi Uchiyama and ahead of Juan Carlos Salgado (No. 2 last week), Roman Martinez (No. 3 last week) and Takahiro Ao (No. 4 last week).
In the end, we decided to slide Broner in at No. 3, behind only the unbeaten Uchiyama and Salgado, who is more accomplished than Broner at this point.
Perez leaves the ratings after his one-sided loss, leaving room for a newcomer.
Among those we considered were Bryan Vazquez, an unbeaten fighter from Costa Rica, and Gary Buckland, the British junior lightweight titleholder.
Neither fighter has great accomplishments on his resume but we decided upon Vazquez because of his one-sided decision over solid Santos Benavides for the interim WBA title.
Also in the 130-pound division, Juan Carlos Burgos (No. 10 last week) outpointed veteran Cristobal Cruz on Friday. He leapfrogs Jorge Solis (No. 8 last week) into the No. 8 position, pushing Solis down to No. 9.
Vazquez enters at No. 10.
The only other change we considered was in the light heavyweight division, in which Nathan Cleverly (No. 4 last week) shut out journeyman Tommy Karpency on Saturday.
After all, Tavoris Cloud (No. 3 last week) was fortunate to slip past Gabriel Campillo (No. 7 last week) in his most-recent fight.
However, we didn't feel a victory over Karpency was meaningful enough to lift Cleverly over Cloud.
Rated fighters in action this coming weekend (with current ratings)
Heavyweight: Wladimir Klitschko (C) vs. Jean-Marc Mormeck (Saturday)
Cruiserweight: Ola Afolabi (No. 6) vs. Valery Brudov (Saturday)
Super middleweight: Thomas Oosthuizen (No. 6) vs. Serge Yannick (Saturday)
Bantamweight: Malcolm Tunacao (No. 8) vs. Yuki Takemoto (Saturday)
Flyweight: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (C) vs. Sonny Boy Jaro (Friday)
Strawweight: Moises Fuentes (No. 3) vs. Michael Landero (Saturday)
Pound for pound: Wladimir Klitschko (No. 7) vs. Jean-Marc Mormeck; Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (No. 8) vs. Sonny Boy Jaro


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There's a scene in "Moneyball" in which outfielder David Justice, freshly arrived from the stately New York Yankees, pounds a locker room vending machine in frustration. Miguel Tejada walks by and tells Justice he needs to insert a dollar. "Welcome to Oakland," he says sarcastically.
Justice -- the real Justice -- saw that scene in the trailer and chuckled.
"Never happened," he said. "That's Hollywood."
In another scene, the actor playing A's bench coach Ron Washington recoils at the idea of teaching catcher Scott Hatteberg how to play first base: "It's incredibly hard," Washington says.
That one is closer to the mark. "Hatteberg and I did have that conversation," said Washington, now the manager of the Texas Rangers. "I told him that if he's willing to work, he can get it done. But it's not going to be easy."
Such is the nature of turning a best-selling book into a blockbuster biopic. Even if the events are true -- even if they're mostly true -- things will be pulled, twisted and tweaked so that they fit nicely into a cinematographer's frame.
The good news about "Moneyball," which opens Friday, is that it's mostly on the money. Brad Pitt embodies Billy Beane's blend of arrogance and charm, his incisiveness and playfulness, and the picture captures the essence of the A's creative friction during the early 2000s.
Beane, the A's general manager, really did transform one of the poorest teams in Major League Baseball into a contender by challenging the game's sacred tenets. He really did have a laptop-wielding Ivy League assistant by his side as he steamrollered over longtime scouts and cajoled manager Art Howe into abandoning traditional strategy. (Side note: Howe really wasn't selfish and sinister, but apparently every movie needs a villain.)
"I know how Hollywood can fictionalize everything. But for the most part, it was pretty true," said A's equipment manager Steve Vucinich, who ought to know. He has been with the organization since 1968. "They gussied it up some. But that's Hollywood, and that's OK."
Something else the movie nailed: Beane really is a handsome devil.
"Brad Pitt playing him is dead-on," said former A's pitcher Barry Zito, now with the Giants. "Actually, Billy is better looking."
So what's fact and what's fiction? We broke out our score card during a recent screening to track all the hits and errors:
True: Beane did hire a former Cleveland Indians employee who had graduated cum laude with an economics degree from Harvard. In reality, he was Paul DePodesta, a self-assured former college athlete.
False: In the movie, DePodesta is re-imagined (for legal reasons) as Peter Brand, played by Jonah Hill as a jittery misfit with an economics degree from Yale. DePodesta joined the A's in 1999; Brand starts in 2002.
True: Beane was heavily influenced by baseball writer Bill James, whose evocative analysis helped fans see baseball in a whole new light, despite being met with resistance by the baseball establishment.
False: DePodesta did not introduce Beane to James' work in '02, as the movie suggests. Former A's general manager Sandy Alderson encouraged Beane to read James' revolutionary "Abstracts" as early as 1995.
True: Scouting director Grady Fuson clashed with Beane over the A's increasing reliance on spreadsheets and soon found himself working in another organization.
False: He wasn't fired by Beane after a fit of rage. Fuson left in 2002 for a more prominent position with the Texas Rangers (and since has returned to the A's).
True: Jeremy Giambi was the team's discount leadoff hitter at the start of the 2002 season and had a reputation for wild nightlife.
False: While the movie suggests he was a new acquisition to replace his brother, Jason, Jeremy Giambi already was with the team. The A's got him from the Royals on Feb. 18, 2000.
True: The A's were so eager to make a run at Hatteberg -- a castoff catcher whose career was at a crossroads -- that they pestered his agent on Christmas Day.
False: Beane and Washington did not show up unannounced on his doorstep to make their pitch. It was all done by phone. "That scene captured what it felt like, though,'' Hatteberg said.
True: First baseman Carlos Pena was indeed jettisoned from the roster as part of a shake-up designed in part to force Howe to play Hatteberg at first.
False: The movie jumbles the timeline and shows Pena being traded within minutes of Jeremy Giambi in late May. In truth, Pena was sent to the minors at that point and not traded to the Tigers until early July.
True: The A's won their 20th consecutive game against the Kansas City Royals on Sept. 4, 2002, when Hatteberg, pinch-hitting for Eric Byrnes, hit a homer on a 1-0 pitch from Jason Grimsley in the bottom of the ninth.
False: We couldn't spot a "false" anywhere in this game's re-creation. Everything in this scene matches up with the box score. Even the out-of-town scores in the outfield show Tampa Bay beating the Angels 4-2, just as it happened that day.
True: Beane really did spurn a lucrative offer to become the Red Sox G.M., largely because he wanted to stay closer to his young daughter, Casey, who was living in San Diego.
False: There's nothing really false about this sweet note, but it's worth remembering that Casey is now in college in Ohio. Rumblings are building that the Chicago Cubs will try to lure Beane away this offseason.
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Lentz Therapy
(Lentz Therapy, Immunopheresis, UltraPheresis cancer therapy)
- IMMUNOAPHERESIS Refers to the process of antibody cleansing.
- APHERESIS Process in which blood is drawn from a person, separated into various components, then returned to the patients.
- PLASMA Your blood is made up of a liquid portion and a cellular portion. The cellular portion contains white blood cells that fight infection, red blood cells that carry oxygen, and platelets that aid clotting. Plasma is the liquid portion of your blood. It has a number of vital functions in bleeding and infection control. It contains proteins and antibodies, which are produced by the immune system to fight diseases. sTNFRI block the immune system's ability to recognize cancer cells and allow the cancer to grow.
UltraPheresis cancer therapy is based on the use of a blood filtration system developed by Dr. M. Rigdon Lentz, an American oncologist practicing now in Germany.
Simply put, UltraPheresis cleans the blood of decoys which cancer cells use to hide from the immune system. The immune system can then attack and kill cancer cells on its own.
This treatment is effective, safe and non-toxic.
This represents a new paradigm for cancer treatment; many feel it is worthy of the Nobel Prize in medicine.
To find out more about how the EuroMed Foundation uses Lentz therapy for holistic cancer treatment, click here to request your free personal orientation online. One of our doctors will be happy to answer general questions in person or over the phone.
How does UltraPheresis Therapy Work?
The immune system has a surveillance function called the Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF). The immune system deploys an army of proteins designed to recognize and destroy tumor cells.
But smart cancer cells escape detection. They produce and shed immune system inhibitors into the bloodstream. These inhibitors are called soluble tumor necrosis factor receptors (sTNFR) and these are overproduced in cancer patients.
Dr. Lentz devised a method of treatment, somewhat like kidney dialysis, to remove sTNFRI from the bloodstream.
When plasma is separated from a cancer patient's blood, filtered, then run through a device impregnated with antibodies, these inhibitors are removed, enabling the immune system to attack the tumors. The patient experiences inflammation in the tumors and a flu-like feeling. Over time the tumors shrink, often in short order.
Depending upon the person, this treatment is used as a stand-alone treatment or in conjunction with other cancer treatment alternatives, such as surgery and/or low dose insulin potentiated chemotherapy.
It is widely agreed that cancer is a failure of the immune system. UltraPheresis therapy is an immune system normalizing therapy. It is non-toxic, and straight-forward. It treats close to the root cause of the problem.
At our Arizona cancer center, patients are typically treated for two hours per day, five days per week. Patient progress is continuously monitored. The full treatment generally takes two to three months. The main side-effect of this treatment is pain from the person's own appropriate immune system response destroying the cancer cells.
Dr. Lentz's clinical experience demonstrates that complete tumor destruction is certainly possible through this treatment. He believes the potential for cancer recurrence is decreased. If a cancer recurs, it is responsive to repeating this therapy.
A small amount of inhibitors occupying a normal cell structure.
A cancer cell that has shed a massive amount of tumor necrosis inhibitors to cover itself. Outside the cell, the red item represents the TNF (tumor necrosis factor).
The TNF being made inert through binding of inhibitors.
Dr. M. Rigdon Lentz
This patented technology was developed by American-born and American-trained oncologist Rigdon Lentz, MD. He currently resides in Bavaria, Germany.
Dr. Lentz is affiliated with the Lombardi Center for Immunology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He collaborates with physicians at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden in the research area of tumor immunology. He is the former chief of hematology and oncology at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Valdosta, GA and the former director of the Nashville, TN, Apheresis Center.
In the late 1980s, Dr. Lentz carried out FDA-supervised Phase I and Phase II studies. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Lentz and colleagues identified, purified, and characterized immune system inhibitors found in the blood of cancer patients.[1]
Dr. Lentz spent two decades investigating the ability of cancer to turn off an otherwise-normal immune system. Attempting to physically remove blocking factors, he custom built a machine that filters them out of the cancer patient's bloodstream.
Dr. Lentz founded Biopheresis Technologies Inc, a U.S. company, and its wholly owned operating company, Biopheresis GmbH, located in Heidelberg, Germany.
In April, 2008, the device received the C.E. Mark ("Conformite Europeenne"). This is a European marking certifying that a product has met EU health, safety, and environmental requirements for consumer safety. At this time, 32 countries recognize the C.E. Mark. The United States does not recognize the C.E. Mark; the FDA is often slow to approve non-toxic treatments and this is one reason so many Americans go to Europe for treatment.
Cancer treatment alternatives to radiation or chemotherapy would be a welcome addition to the arsenal of weapons for the war against cancer. Drug based therapies are based on discovery of molecules to poison or block a single biological event in order to kill a cancer cell. The UltraPheresis treatment however, is based on the removal of soluble immuno-inhibitors known to interfere with the most powerful agent of the body's own innate immune system that acts against cancers, TNF.
The Trophoblastic Thesis
The trophoblastic thesis was first put forward in 1902 by the Scottish embryologist, John Beard. He was among the first to notice that the cancer cells bear a marked resemblance to cells that normally surround the developing embryo called trophoblast cells.
A human being begins with one fertilized cell. It divides and nine months later, that first cell gives rise to entirely different living forms – bones, skin, eyes, hair, organs, etc. However, later in life, each cell has but one function – a liver cell will always be a liver cell.
Trophoblasts, said Beard, are profoundly different. While a normal cell is a good neighbor, the trophoblast is born to be wild. It is primitive, corrosive, and invasive. Sound familiar? Of course: these are the very characteristics of cancer.
One of the mysteries of biology is how and why the embryo survives an immune system that, by all accounts, should kill it on contact because it looks like a foreign invader. Nature has somehow made this trophoblast able to turn off an otherwise vigilant immune system.
Cancer cleverly follows the trophoblast's example, using nature's one big exception to the rule, like a burglar who first turns off a burglar alarm, before he robs the house. Cancer, said Beard, is simply trophoblasts in the wrong place at the wrong time, triggered into malignant life by what we call hormones and carcinogens.
Beard noticed that in various species, trophoblast cells stopped doing the wild thing when the embryo begins to produce pancreatic enzymes. So Beard used pancreatic enzymes in the treatment of advanced cancer. In March, 1909, a man with metastatic sarcoma of the left upper jaw was treated with 120 injections of pancreatic enzymes. By the next year, the man had completely sloughed off the cancer and subsequently remained cancer free.
However, others were unable to reproduce Beard's work, perhaps because he used pancreatic enzymes directly from animals and the others used what was commercially available. Beard's ideas fell by the wayside; he died in obscurity in 1924.
In 1942, Beard's ideas were rediscovered by Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. and his colleagues. In July, 1950, they published an article in the Medical Record on "The Unitarian or Trophoblastic Thesis of Cancer." Krebs believed that "cancer is trophoblast in spatial and temporal anomaly, hybridized with, and vascularized by, hostal or somatic cells and in irreversible and fiercely malignant antithesis to such."[2]
The Nature of Cancer
Cancer is not a foreign invader. The cancerous cells originated from our own native cell population, damaged by environmental agents (ionizing radiation, mercury, sugar, pesticides, formaldehyde, cigarette smoke, chronic viral infections, etc.)
There is also a genetic factor. We often see an increased risk of multiple types of cancer in family members and increased incidence of second sites of cancer in people who survived a first cancer.
Cancer means cells have become defective and the immune system is not on top of the situation.
Healthy mature cells are programmed to divide just so many times in their entire life. This cycle is limited by the number of telomeres on the ends of each strand of DNA. Each time the cell's DNA divides, one telomere is dropped off the end of the DNA. When the DNA runs out of telomeres, no more reproduction is possible and eventually the cell undergoes apoptosis (naturally programmed cell suicide). Cancer cells have a telomerase enzyme that reproduces telomeres; they have an endless supply.
Several therapies used in holistic cancer treatment are aimed at helping with DNA repair. Vitamin A, vitamin D, folic acid, and PolyMVA (palladium alpha lipoic acid) have been used to repair defective DNA.
Some complementary therapies use knowledge of cancer cell weaknesses to kill the cells. Vitamin C for example was promoted by the double Nobel Prize winner, Linus Pauling as a treatment for cancer. Cancer cells lack the healthy ability to gain nourishment from most natural nutrients. Most of cancer's nourishment comes from sugar and cancer cells have many more insulin receptors in order to maximize their sugar uptake. Vitamin C is concentrated in cancer cells by the same mechanism that glucose uses to enter cells, i.e. through insulin stimulation.
Click here to find more information about complementary therapies.
Dr. Lentz wrote that:
"Pregnancy and cancer are the only two biologic conditions in which antigenic tissue is tolerated by a seemingly intact immune system ... trophoblastic tissue has all the characteristics of a true cancer; it is deeply invasive, it is highly anaplastic in morphology, it has a high mitotic index, and it produces oncofetal antigens ... [I]n every respect, [it] behaves as a true cancer."[3]
A "war on cancer" was declared in 1971 by President Richard Nixon. How are we doing? Cancer is expected to be the leading cause of death in the United States by the year 2010. It is the primary cause of death in women between the ages of 35 and 74. Cancer is the chief cause of death in children between the ages of 1 and 14.
From Ralph Moss, PhD, a leading author and consultant on cancer treatment:
"If there were a simple, safe, evidence-based cure for cancer do you think it would make the mainstream ('old') media news today? There is such a cure....It is a really powerful and well-documented cancer therapy that's been around for over 20 years: a simple blood filtration technique developed by oncologist Dr. Rigdon Lentz to remove serum blocking factors produced by the cancer....Remove the blocking factors from the blood and you remove the 'force field' blocking the immune system attack on the cancer. Dramatic tumor 'necrolysis' results."
Doctors belong to a profession whose oath is "First, do no harm."
A Personal Experience:
"I am a 56-yr old woman who was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer two years ago. When conventional treatment failed (I was too far gone for surgery, got chemo for 5 months here in D.C.), I went to Germany for treatment by an American oncologist now working in Prien am Chiemsee, M Rigdon Lentz, who has developed a treatment for soft tissue cancers based on immunotherapy. This is highly scientific, technological in nature... After a year and a half of treatments I am now in clinical remission. Dr. Lentz has just received the CE Mark from the European Union for his device, the technology of which is based on apheresis and the use of antibodies to cancer shed receptors/inhibitors that interfere with TNF response.
This is a treatment that can help thousands of cancer patients in the future. I am only one of a group of people who have come here with a variety of cancer types who now have our cancers under control."
F. Miller, Ph.D.
April 16, 2008
Our Teamwork with Dr. Lentz
We personally work with Dr. Lentz, we have traveled to Germany many times to spend time in his clinic. We have the capability to refer patients to his clinic. We run your preliminary lab tests and ascertain if UltraPheresis cancer therapy would be appropriate for you. If so, we discuss the case with Dr. Lentz and arrange for you to be treated at his clinic.
If you would like to learn more about Lentz therapy and holistic cancer treatment at the EuroMed Foundation, click here to request your free personal orientation online. Or you can call our office at 602-404-0400 to schedule a phone or in-person orientation.
[1] PNAS 87:8781-8784, 1990; also, Cell 61:361-370, 1990
[2] Townsend Letter for Doctors, Feb.-March, 1993, p. 175
[3] Lentz MR. The phylogeny of oncology. Mol Biother 1990;2:137-44.


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Wayfarer Foothills
Wayfarer Foothills
- Levels
- 1 – 15
- Type
- Zone
- Region
- Shiverpeak Mountains
- Connects to
- Diessa Plateau (NE)
Frostgorge Sound (N)
Hoelbrak (W)
Snowden Drifts (NW)
- Pets
- Arctodus
Ice Drake
The norn around Hoelbrak have established the Wayfarer Foothills as their primary hunting grounds. Further north, there lies a treacherous landscape of frozen fields and icy crags corrupted by the Sons of Svanir, norn who revere the Elder Dragon Jormag.
— In-game description
The Wayfarer Foothills is the first area visited by newly created norn characters and is located next to Hoelbrak. Shrines for the four Spirits of the Wild are located in this area, some of which are threatened by attacks from either the dredge or Sons of Svanir. Each shrine holds a unique event. This area is a part of the Shiverpeak Mountains.
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Eir Stegalkin
Word of Your Deeds
Greetings. No less than four strangers came up to me yesterday to speak of your recent exploits. You are a rare find in these dark times, someone who selflessly protects so many lives. May the Spirits watch over you.
—Eir Stegalkin
Interactive map[edit]
- Gain snow leopard's form from Shaman Sigarr, then hunt down the dredge (5)
- Protect Shaman Velja while she recovers the kidnapped snow leopard cubs from the dredge (2)
- Answer riddles posed by Raven's statues (2)
- Defend the Bear shrine from the Sons of Svanir (2)
- Stop the enraged jotun from crushing the Bear shrine (3)
- Drive the stampeding minotaur from Borealis Forest (3)
- Steal food from grawl for Kani (3)
- Kill the ice drake broodmother (3)
- Stop the grawl from stealing drake eggs (3)
- Defend Ulfred until he finds a location for his statue (4)
- Run with Wolf's pack and destroy the Svanir camp (4)
- Defeat the Svanir Dragon Shaman (4)
- Destroy the turrets surrounding the dredge's construction zone (4)
- Stop dredge from repairing their tower (4)
- Protect Lunt's fire from the dredge (6)
- Clear the roadblock built by the Sons of Svanir (6)
- Collect fur samples for Linnea (6)
- Collect dolyak meat for Gareth (7)
- Kill the Son of Svanir and his corrupted wolf pack (8)
- Escort the mead delivery as it goes to Endenvar's Homestead (9)
- Collect armor scraps and bring them to Rani so he can build a snowman army to scare the grawl (9)
- Protect Foreman Agvior while he rewires the drilling machine (11)
- Defend Jora's shrine from the Sons of Svanir (12)
- Join Osborn as he hunts a giant frost wurm (12)
- Escort Talon Killpeace's caravan to Crossroads Haven (13)
- Defend Crossroads Haven from the Sons of Svanir (13)
- Failure: Defeat the veteran Sons of Svanir zealot and recapture Crossroads Haven (13) [Group Event]
- Stop the skritt burglar before it escapes with the treasure (0) (Varies)
- Meta events
- The Frozen Maw
- Protect Tor the Tall's supplies from the grawl (10)
- Protect Scholar Brogun as he investigates the grawl tribe (10)
- Protect Tor the Tall's supplies from the grawl (10)
- Assault on Svanir's Dome
- Help Reztiff Sunderfoe capture the east tower (15)
- Help Shaska Kaldmorn take the west tower (15)
- Capture the center of the Svanir Dome (15)
[Group Event]
- Kill the corrupted leader of the Sons of Svanir (15) [Group Event]
- Capture the center of the Svanir Dome (15)
Karma equipment[edit]
|Sold by
|Carman Fawntracker
|Taigan Groves
|Maxtar Rapidstep
|Dolyak Pass
|Tor the Tall
|Hunter's Lake
|Sheriff Padra
|The Icesteppes
|Surveyor Falki
|Halvaunt Snowfield
|Lodge Keeper Kevach
|Dolyak Pass
|Sheriff Padra
|The Icesteppes
|Sheriff Padra
|The Icesteppes
|Tor the Tall
|Hunter's Lake
|Lionscout Alli
|Svanir's Dome
|Short bow
|Lodge Keeper Kevach
|Dolyak Pass
|Tor the Tall
|Hunter's Lake
|Lionscout Alli
|Svanir's Dome
|Lodge Keeper Kevach
|Dolyak Pass
|Sold by
|Tor the Tall
|Hunter's Lake
|Lionscout Alli
|Svanir's Dome
|Sheriff Asta
|Halvaunt Snowfield
- Moleberia (In a building behind a veteran dredge in the north of the cave)
- Frusenfell Creek (In a cave across the creek, east and slightly south of the Vendrake's Homestead Waypoint)
- Darkriven Bluffs/Taigan Groves (On either side of the river)
- Snowlord's Gate (Raven's shrine by the larger statue)
Crafting resources[edit]
- Resource nodes
- Copper Ore/Rich Copper Vein
- Aspen Sapling
- Blueberry Bush
- Button Mushrooms
- Carrots
- Herb Seedlings
- Onions
- Bulk ingredients
- Celery Stalks in Bulk from Bjarni No longer available (31/10-2014)
- Green Beans in Bulk from Albin Chronicler No longer available (31/10-2014)
- Recipes
- Recipe: Bjarni's Celery Snack from Bjarni No longer available (31/10-2014)
- Recipe: Dolyak Stew from Maxtar Rapidstep
- Recipe: Wurm Stew from Lodge Keeper Kevach
- Recipe: Wooden Sword from Carman Fawntracker No longer available (09/09-2014)
- Recipe: Copper Mace from Foreman Agvior
- Recipe: Copper Sword from Foreman Agvior
Diving locations[edit]
- East of the southeastern most vista in Wayfarer Foothills. It's a relatively short way across the stream.
- Taigan Groves Northwest of Victor's Point
Veteran locations[edit]
- Darkriven Bluffs
- Veteran Ice Wurm - at the top of the frozen waterfall
- Dawnrise Pass
- Veteran Ice Imp - North of Dawnrise Pass Waypoint
- Doldenvan Passage
- Veteran Alpine Skelk - Southwest of Darkriven Waypoint, underwater
- Dolyak Pass
- Veteran Elder Dolyak - Two of them, Southwest of Dolyak Pass Waypoint
- Veteran Ice Elemental - Halfway between the Help the Lionguard at Crossroads Haven Renown Heart and Lostvyrm Cave Waypoint
- Frusenfell Creek
- Veteran Arctodus - In a cave just southeast of Vendrake's Homestead Waypoint. (Note: this is also where 3 Juvenile Arctodus are located!)
- Halvaunt Snowfield
- Veteran Pinesoul - Wanders the trees west of Crossroads Haven
- Veteran Ram - West of the Halvaunt Waypoint
- Veteran Sons of Svanir Zealot - When defending Crossroads Haven
- Hunter's Lake
- Veteran Ice Wurm - Northwest of Krennak's Homestead Waypoint, near the lake shore
- Icevine Dale
- Moleberia
- Veteran Dredge Exterminator - Northern section by the prison cells
- Solitude Vale
- Veteran Cave Spider - Three of them, inside Warmspring Grotto - North of Dolyak Pass Waypoint and East of Solitude Waypoint (Ancient Cave Spring Hero Point location)
- Taigan Groves
- Veteran Pinesoul - In the trees around the Taigan Waypoint
- The Osenfold Shear
- Veteran Jotun - Inside Haivoissen Kenning
- The Shadowhorns
- Veteran Wolf - On top of the rock formation south of the Zelechor Hot Springs Waypoint
- The Assist Grimarr Molesmasher renown heart was removed in the September 2014 Feature Pack.


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Richard M. Linnehan
Richard M. Linnehan (DVM)
NASA Astronaut
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Personal data
Born September 19, 1957, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Raised by his paternal grandparents, Henry and Mae Linnehan. Single. He enjoys various sports, outdoor activities and natural history. His sister, Colleen, resides in Nevada.
- 1971-1974: Attended Alvirne High School, Hudson, New Hampshire
- 1975: Graduated from Pelham High School, Pelham, New Hampshire
- Attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine and the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire
- 1980: Graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a bachelor of science degree in Animal Sciences and a minor in Microbiology
- 1985: Received the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine
Member of:
- the American Veterinary Medical Association
- the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians
- the International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine
- the Association of Space Explorers
- Adjunct Professor at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
- Board member, Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network, and the Tulane/Xavier/NASA Astrobiology Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Special honors
- Navy Group Achievement Award
- Navy Commendation Medal
- three NASA Space Flight Medals (1996, 1998, 2002)
- NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (1999)
- AVMA Presidents Award
- The OSU College of Veterinary Medicine Alumni Award
- The University of New Hampshire Distinguished Alumni Award.
After graduating from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine in June 1985, Dr. Linnehan entered private veterinary practice and was later accepted to a 2-year joint internship in zoo animal medicine and comparative pathology at the Baltimore Zoo and Johns Hopkins University. After completing his internship Dr. Linnehan was commissioned as a Captain in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps and reported for duty in early 1989 at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California, as chief clinical veterinarian for the U.S. Navys Marine Mammal Program. During his assignment at the Naval Ocean Systems Center Dr. Linnehan initiated and supervised research in the areas of cetacean and pinniped anesthesia, orthopedics, drug pharmacokinetics and reproduction in direct support of U.S. Navy mobile marine mammal systems stationed in California, Florida, and Hawaii.
NASA experience
Selected by NASA in March 1992, Dr. Linnehan reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1992 where he completed one year of Astronaut Candidate training qualifying him for Space Shuttle flight assignments as a mission specialist. Dr. Linnehan was initially assigned to flight software verification in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL). He was subsequently assigned to the Astronaut Office Mission Development Branch, working on payload development, and mission development flight support for future Space Shuttle missions. He first flew as a mission specialist in 1996 on STS-78, the Life Sciences and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS) mission. In 1998, he served as the payload commander on the STS-90 Neurolab mission. In 2002, he was a member of the 4-man EVA crew on STS-109. A veteran of three space flights, Dr. Linnehan has logged over 43 days in space, including 3 EVAs (spacewalks) totaling 21 hours and 9 minutes.
Space flight experience
STS-78 LMS (June 20 to July 7, 1996). The Life Sciences and Microgravity Spacelab mission was flown aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. The 17-day flight included studies sponsored by ten nations and five space agencies, and was the first mission to combine both a full microgravity studies agenda and a comprehensive life sciences payload. STS-78 orbited the Earth 271 times, and covered 7 million miles (11 Gm) in 405 hours and 48 minutes.
STS-90 Neurolab (April 17 to May 3, 1998) was his second Spacelab mission. During the 16-day flight the seven person crew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia served as both experimental subjects and operators for 26 individual life science experiments focusing on the effects of microgravity on the brain and nervous system. STS-90 orbited the Earth 256 times, and covered 6.3 million miles (10 Gm) in 381 hours and 50 minutes. Both missions served as a model for future life sciences studies on board the International Space Station.
STS-109/HST Servicing Mission 3B (March 1-12, 2002) was the fourth Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission and Ricks third flight aboard Columbia. The crew of STS-109 successfully upgraded the Hubble Space Telescopes systems over the course of 5 consecutive EVAs, leaving it with a new power control unit, improved solar arrays, the new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), and an experimental refrigeration unit for cooling the dormant Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). With his teammate Dr. John Grunsfeld (EV1), Dr. Linnehan (EV2) performed three of the five spacewalks totaling 21 hours and 9 minutes. STS-109 orbited the Earth 165 times and covered 3.9 million miles (6.3 Gm) in just over 262 hours.
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It was good news to Ducks fans, teammates and staffers (like myself) when it was announced Thursday that Ben Lovejoy had agreed to a new three-year contract. It's not just because what Lovejoy did on the ice as a shutdown defenseman, who was a huge asset after being acquired by the Ducks from Pittsburgh in early February (and played great in this year's playoffs). But Lovejoy brings a quirky, smart and often funny personality to the Ducks locker room.
While Ducks fans were happy to be keeping Lovejoy around for another few years, teammates were as well, based on a couple of tweets:
Bobby Ryan: Really happy to see @RevLovejoy6 back with the boys! We have great chemistry in the executive corner of the locker room! #hesaheadcase
Lovejoy commented on that tweet in this Q&A I did with him on Friday: "When I got traded, I got put in a corner next to Bobby Ryan, who has been awesome. We really bonded in that corner. Also in that end of the locker room is Teemu, Getzlaf and Perry. So now with me signed, we have all the high-rollers locked up. I need to text our trainers to make sure I still have my locker room spot next to Bobby."
And on the #hesaheadcase remark: "I'm not a superstitious guy, but I have a lot of routines. And I think Bobby is just as bad, if not worse. So he's dishing it out a little."
Here was Kyle Palmieri's reaction on Twitter: Congrats to @RevLovejoy6 on his extension. Well deserved. You can buy a whole lot of hand sanitizer with that! #germaphobe
In case you missed it, Lovejoy volunteered his germaphobia (I think that's the word) when I interviewed him about playoff beards just before the postseason started:
"I'm a chronic handwasher," he said. "I don't like shaking hands, I just don't like touching things. People give me a hard time for not being a dog lover or an animal person. It's not that I don't like them, I just don't enjoy touching them."
I asked him if he shakes hands or goes with the Howie Mandel fist bump.
"I will tough it out," he said, "and then pull out some hand sanitizer when I have to. I carry it with me all the time."
I asked how long it's been the case. "It's been awhile," he said. "My teammates here have recently discovered it. I get a hard time, but I think they understand."
They better. They'll have those quirks around the locker room and the road for another three years.
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When I was a kid I used to watch a programme called 'America's Top Ten' I was a music buff. I had a fascination with the charts, how many records were sold, and how long these chunks of vinyl stayed popular. It was natural that one day it would become my job. The programme used […]Continue reading


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By 1st. Lt. Dennis S. Whitt June 18, 2013
Hohenfels, Germany -- Steve Foster's retirement from the Royal Navy was the beginning of another journey that led him to the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) to uncover his Father's past.
Traveling from the United Kingdom to Hohenfels with his wife Chris on board their Triumph motorcycle, the Foster's are retracing the steps of Steve's late father, British Army Sgt. Fredrick Foster.
It was during World War II that Sgt. Foster spent five years as a Prisoner of War (POW) in a German prison camp known as Stalag 383.
Though the physical remains of Stalag 383 are sparse and nearly covered by the buildings that make up the Hohenfels Military Community, the story of Fredrick Foster has risen from the past as a reminder of what happened here over seventy years ago.
Fighting as a British Territorial Sergeant in Norway, in the earliest days of World War II, Foster was captured by the Nazis after five days of fighting.
He was sent to Poland as a POW in Stalag 20A. After a bold escape attempt which brought Foster and a close comrade as far as the Swiss border, he was recaptured by the Germans and sent to Stalag 383, at Hohenfels, for the remainder of the war.
For Steve, finding out what happened after his father's capture in Norway was a challenge that that he undertook with passion and commitment.
"He talked more about his five days of fighting in Norway than he did about his five years as a POW," remarked Steve, who discovered a suitcase of post-war letters his father had written after his release from Stalag 383.
Motivated by a desire to honor his father's service to his nation while uncovering his hidden past, the younger Foster arrived at Hohenfels with a photo album filled with pictures and letters from his father's time at Stalag 383.
What he did not expect was the warm welcome that awaited him.
Over thirty motorcyclists from the military communities of Hohenfels and Vilseck, along with riders from local German towns, were staged at the post entrance in order to escort the Fosters by motorcade to the former site of Stalag 383.
"It was a great surprise," said his wife Chris, "we appreciate all the moral support. It was absolutely marvelous!"
As the motorcade came to a halt at the former site of the Stalag 383 barracks, the riders disembarked and circled around Steve as he told the story of his father's imprisonment and the five hard years he spent as a POW so long ago.
"Hohenfels has a lot of history and it's great to let people know what it used to be like here," said James Kincaid, Senior Vice President of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter and organizer of the Foster's motorcycle reception.
Learning about the personal stories of Soldiers like Sgt. Foster and the hardships they endured before the United States liberated Hohenfels in 1945 sheds new light on this shared history and gives new meaning to the mission that is carried out on a daily basis.
"It all comes to life when you're walking through the footsteps of seventy-three years ago," said Steve, who admitted that though it was emotional, the trip was definitely worthwhile.
"This was a way to find out about my father, I'm grateful to my colleagues and the military for making it possible," remarked Steve as he thanked the crowd that had gathered to hear the story of his father.


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OGB Elections: Proper Positioning
By Alanc-Oracle on Mar 11, 2007
I haven't had a chance to write full position papers like some of the other candidates, so for my positions, you'll mainly have to rely on these answers I wrote to some of the questions submitted via e-mail to the candidates:
- My answers to "Questions for OGB Candidates from DTrace"
- My answer to a followup on opening the ARC process
I did vote in the poll being used to test the OpenSolaris elections system, so will share my vote there, and explain some of my choices to help further show my positions on the issues facing the community.
The poll asked (and the order of these is the one I was shown - the order is randomized for each voter to reduce bias if people just start voting "1 2 3 4..."):
QUESTION 1.1: ("Priorities") Which of the following items, presented in a randomized order, should be prioritized by the Governing Board in order to promote OpenSolaris and increase its developer mindshare? 1 - Deploy a public defect management system ('Defect_Mgmt') 2 - Remove inactive Communities or Projects ('Remove_Inactive') 3 - Provide an x86/AMD64-based kernel/project build facility ('X64_Build') 4 - Deploy a public Request To Integrate (RTI) system ('RTI') 5 - Provide a SPARC-based kernel/project build facility ('SPARC_Build') 6 - Create an infrastructure project to run opensolaris.org ('Infrastructure') 7 - Replace or remove Jive forum interface ('No_Jive') 8 - Reorganize the existing Community/Project organization ('Reorganize_Community') 9 - Replace opensolaris.org tools with an open source CMS or wiki ('New_CMS') 10 - Deploy a public wiki on opensolaris.org ('Wiki') 11 - Deploy a public code review facility on opensolaris.org ('Code_Review') 12 - Eliminate reliability issues with opensolaris.org web pages ('Reliability')
My vote was:
RESPONSE 1.1 --> 1 6 9 8 4 5 3 11 10 2 7 VERIFY: Your ballot is: Priorities: [Defect_Mgmt Infrastructure New_CMS Reorganize_Community RTI SPARC_Build X64_Build Code_Review Wiki Remove_Inactive No_Jive ]
So why these?
- Deploy a public defect management system
Right now bugs.opensolaris.org is not truly a two-way communication system - for people outside Sun, it's Write Once Read Many (WORM) - they can file a bug, search for bugs, and read bugs, but not update them or have them assigned to them to work on. Additionally many of the bugs and bug fields are still restricted to internal users only, though that's a harder nut to crack due to various legal and customer privacy issues.
This means projects with external contributors are at a gross disadvantage, and has led to projects such as ksh93 using a separate bug tracking system (Steve Lau graciously set up a bugzilla for them on his system), which segregates their bugs from the rest of the community, so bugs.os.o no longer has all the relevant data. This needs to be solved before non-Sun employees can be first-class members of the development community.
- Create an infrastructure project to run opensolaris.org
Right now, too many improvements are stalled because the team running opensolaris.org can't keep up with the everything they need to do to implement them. Open it up now, let the community help you, and let us all move forward.
- Replace opensolaris.org tools with an open source CMS or wiki
The current infrastructure is customized and weird - Project & Community Leaders are the only ones who can edit pages in their areas, so to add someone to edit anything, even just one project subpage, they have to be made a leader, even if they're not doing any leadership. The syntax is also strange and confusing to those used to just about any other wiki-like system in the world.
- Reorganize the existing Community/Project organization
This has been discussed to death elsewhere already, and a big part is just cleaning up the original set of communities created before projects were done. The election confused many people since those doing the most work (projects) are not given voting rights, while those just interested in the technology (communities) are.
- Deploy a public Request To Integrate (RTI) system
This is specific to the ON family of consolidations that use the RTI system (Desktop consolidations, including X, don't - I don't know about all the others), but once the code repository is outside, this will be the biggest obstacle to letting non-Sun people commit code on their own without any internal sponsor.
- Provide a SPARC-based kernel/project build facility
- Provide an x86/AMD64-based kernel/project build facility
SPARC is higher priority than x86, since more people have x86 system access on their own, but commits to most OpenSolaris consolidations require you to build and test on both platforms first, and that's hard to do if you aren't working at Sun or another place with both kinds of machines around and installed with the build environment.
- Deploy a public code review facility on opensolaris.org
- Deploy a public wiki on opensolaris.org
For both of these, while it would be nice to have on opensolaris.org, we've got community ones already that work fine - for instance, I'd be happy just making wiki.opensolaris.org redirect to http://www.genunix.org/wiki/ and declaring that one done.
- Remove inactive Communities or Projects
These clutter up crowded pages and cause confusion, but don't stop any real work from being done.
- Replace or remove Jive forum interface
Again, as much as it annoys me, it's not preventing real work, and can be mostly ignored if you truly hate it. (It would be nice if it didn't break threads and cross-posting and such for people who use the mailing lists instead.)
- Eliminate reliability issues with opensolaris.org web pages
As much as I was tempted to vote for this just to tweak stevel, I just haven't seen enough of a reliability issue to declare this a major problem that needs attention, so I just left it off my choices completely.


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As there was not a quorum present, the following are notes from the meeting of those present.
Members Present: Dr. Joe Ugras, Chairman, James Bowe, Member, Representing Newtown Township, Stuart Myles, Treasurer, representing Newtown Borough, and Scott Harp, Liaison for Newtown Township. Not in attendance is Mark Craig, Liaison for Newtown Borough and Ernie Bancroft, Member, representing the Newtown Borough.
Others Present: Joe Di Julio, President and General Manager of Comcast, Walt Iwaskiw, Resident, David J. Slowik, representing Holy Family College, John Bradley, Representing Bucks County Community College, and Edward J. Meell, Chairman of MMS Education Market Specialist.
CALL TO ORDER: Chairman Joe Ugras called the meeting to order at 7:35 p.m.
1. University Channels
2. Comcast Update3. Approval of the Minutes of February 21, 2001 Meeting - Postponed
4. March 31 Event being sponsored by the Bucks County Advisory Board for Bucks County
5. New Business
MARCH 31, 2001 EVENT: Edward J. Meell, Chairman of MMS Education Market Specialist, came to the meeting to discuss the upcoming March 31, 2001 event being sponsored by the Bucks County Joint Cable/Telecommunications Advisory Board of Bucks County. This board is made up of seven communities. Ralph Douglas is the Chair of this Board. There have been about 10-15 communities that meet the last Tuesday of every month. The meeting rotates between the communities.
The March 31, 2001 event will be held at 9:00 a.m. at the Bucks County Community College, in the Gallagher Room. As of this date, there have been about 75-100 people registered, including some senators, state representatives, county commissioners and representatives from the municipalities, school districts and community organizations and community programs. This session will open with a brief general session and there will be two panels in the morning. There will be three legal eagles, to discuss cable franchises, regulations, ordinances and issues which involve the townships and boroughs. The second session will discuss community programming and public assess channels. This will be made up of a panel of four individuals. Following lunch there will be a wrap up session of where do we go from here.
Registration can be made by phone to Mr. Meell at (215) 579-7866, by leaving your name and the name of the organization and/or the name of the municipality being represented.
UNIVERSITY CHANNELS: Discussions were lead by Dr. Ugras to discuss the changes being made to the channel line-up. Council Rock School District and Bucks County Community College will be sharing a channel. Newtown Township, Newtown Borough and Northampton will be placed on the government channel. The education channels will be made available to several other municipalities in addition to Newtown Township and Newtown Borough.
Dr. Ugras addressed a letter sent to Joe DiJulio from Cornell Hopkins, Township Manager, requesting to have the educational channel and government channel separated.
Issue: What is going to be placed on the educational channel and the process involved in having the universities being able to listen to the university channels. There are three universities in Newtown Township that may have an interest in the university channel: Bucks County Committee College ("BCCC"), LaSalle, and Holy Family.
Joe DiJulio indicated that channel 23 will be the local government access channel. Channel 78 will be an educational access channel (as of March 19, 2001, BCCC should be on this channel) which will consist of the school districts in the municipality of the Council Rock School District.
Dr. Ugras discusses that he would like Newtown have their own broadcast separate from Wrightstown and Upper Makefield. Joe DiJulio indicated that our Franchise Agreement allows for 3 with an option for more.
Mr. Harp indicated that what will soon be channel 78, will probably have plenty of programming with Council Rock and BCCC. With authority from LaSalle and Holy Family, he would like them to take channel 58 so that they may have more opportunities for their use.
Mr. Bowe indicated that BCCC and potentially the other universities might want to use these channels to reach other areas besides Newtown. The university channel should be able to reach other surrounding counties. Mr. DiJulio explained that the local franchising authority controls this issue. Comcast is only involved in the programming.
At present: channel 23 will be the government accesses channel and channels 78 and 58 will be designated as the educational channels.
An issue arose, as was what if St. Andrews wanted to do a program? Scott Harp indicated that they could present it to the Board and the Board would review it and then determine where to air the program.
Mr. Slowik indicated that he believes there is a potential for any one organization to use a full day of events at their school depending on that the Board wants programmed on this channel, i.e. community service things only or a form of business learning and/or guest lecture events. The schools must be advised first on what type of programming is acceptable to be aired prior to determining how best to utilize their time.
Scott Harp asked the school representatives what are the things you had in mind that they would like to see on the public access channels? Mr. Slowik indicated this would depend on how the cable board would allow this channel to be run. It was discussed that sporting events may want to be added or an interesting speaker at a college may be placed on the general access channel. Mr. Harp discussed that he would not want to see an hour show played over an over. He would like to advertise the program and the time it is scheduled to run. Once the program has run, it will not be replayed.
Mr. Slowik indicated that it may be a good idea for the time designations to be made and presenting them to the schools and advising what type of program to run so the schools would be able to utilize their time wisely.
Dr. Ugras discussed that at LaSalle's channel 56, there are shows that are broadcasted at 8 daily used by the communication faculty and students. They tape events and those shows are fed to Comcast, in Philadelphia, and then fed out as live taped shows. LaSalle has a web page that displays what shows are scheduled. Their web page is lasalle.edu channel 56. Between 2:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. there is a bulletin board like we have now for BCCC. LaSalle does not have distant learning on that channel.
Mr. Harp indicated that he reviewed correspondence from our cable attorney asking if we wanted a contractual arrangement with the universities that we do business with for the peg channel. Upon discussion it was believed that this could be done in a less structured format.
It was also discussed that that any programming should not be commercial in nature. The Cable Act indicates all programming must be non-commercial programming. Commercial programming would be a retailer advertising on the channel. If a company were sponsoring a school event, then it would be appropriate to advise the community that they are sponsoring the event, but may not use their commercial advertising.
Dr. Ugras summarized that Council Rock has their own channel, the township has their own channel and we now have another channel that is available. We have universities that can access these channels, if the Board makes a decision on how that programming can be allowed and/or shared. We have to set policy to decide on how to use this capacity.
It is important to get some guidelines together and solicit the advice of our counsel prior to presenting them to the universities. Once this is complete, the universities may then begin to present their programs that they would like to air to the Board. Stuart Myles indicated that if the Board polices the programs then the Township becomes liable. If the Board does not police them then the Township does not carry that liability.
It was discussed that Jim Bowe and Dr. Ugras will begin working on the guidelines together and discuss them at the next meeting.
COMCAST UPDATE: Joe DiJulio indicated that the modems are selling like mad. They have about 1,300 modems being installed a month in the Central Bucks area. There is a tremendous demand for them; however, there have been some central problems and e-mail problems.
Joe Di Julio indicated that Comcast's next big step is the digital boxes. They presently are one-way digital. When you order a movie you dial an 800 number. The number you call is the movie you are going to watch. That number recognizes your home phone number and cross-references it with the time you called, which then begins to play the movie you ordered. Sometime this year, Comcast wants to turn the box around, which will make this a two-way system, so when you order a movie you hit the buy button. The long-term goal is true video demand. You will have 500 videos to choose from and decide when you want it to begin to run. You will also have full VCR capability. It will be like purchasing a movie at the video store, so you can watch it for 24 hours and if you fall a sleep, you can watch it again in the morning. Comcast would like to have this up and running within a year.
NEW BUSINESS: The Board discussed a recent memo submitted by Tom Harwood. Mr. Harwood indicated that a permit application was submitted for the pedestal, which was used as our test to see if the cable company was requesting permits when they placed additional pedestals throughout the township. The Cable Company advised Mr. Harwood that in the future they would follow the proper processing procedures.
A memo was also submitted from the township discussing complaints from the residents with their modems. It was discussed that the Board does not wish to get involved with this issue, as they do not see this as a problem from other ISPs. They will, however, mention this to Joe Di Julio.
Mr. Harp discussed the possibility of having one of the Board members be in charge of keeping track of the customer service complaints and discussing them at the monthly meetings.
ADJOURNMENT: Motion was made Jim Bowe to adjourn the meeting, which was seconded by Stuart Myles.
Motion carried unanimously.
Respectfully submitted, By __________________________________


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- Western Regional Climate Center -
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- National Geosciences Data Repository System. US Data Sets. Maintained by American Geological Institute
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- U.S. National Atlas. Download ArcView layers, or view atlas interactively
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|Strain-Induced Grain Growth during Rapid Thermal Cycling of Aluminum Interconnects
|January 01, 2007
|We demonstrate by use of automated electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) the rapid growth of grains in non-passivated, sputtered Al-1Si interconnects during 200 Hz thermal cycling induced by alternating electric current. Mean grain diameters were observed to increase by more than 70 % after an accumulated cycling time of less than six minutes over a temperature range of 200 degrees C, which corresponded to a total strain range of 4 x 10-3. Plasticity in growing grains primarily took the form of topography formation at the free surface and grain rotation, while consumed grains tended to retain relatively high dislocation content. Grain growth was characterized by means of pairwise comparisons in EBSD pattern quality across moving boundaries. Out of 92 cases where a grain was observed to grow into its neighbor, 61 cases indicated that the growing grain had a higher average pattern quality factor than that of the consumed grain, at the 95 % confidence level. The results are consistent with a strain induced boundary migration mechanism, wherein stored plastic strain energy differences from grain to grain drive growth, some of which was observed after only 10 seconds of cycling.
|Metal. Mater. Trans.
|pp. 2263 - 2272
|electrical testing,grain growth,interconnect reliability,thermal fatigue,thin film reliability
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874 words (≈ 3 minutes)
Matt and Dom spend a night in watching a movie together. 800 words of pure sweetness.
Disclaimer: I do not own Muse. The events within are entirely fictional.
I read the first one: The Ghost of you Lingers. That was a good one. Congratulations. Keep on writing. ;)
Language: English
Written in: 2010
Published: 2010-06-17
Word count: 874 words (≈ 3 minutes)
Tags: muse slash, gay, literature, muse
Bookstore clerk by day, writer by sleepless night. I am a self-proclaimed geek and lover of music in many forms. Feel free to stalk me at my journal.