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Skip to comments.Frank Predicts Gay U.S. Prez in 20 Years
Posted on 05/20/2013 5:41:57 PM PDT by presidio9
Outspoken gay former Congressman Barney Frank was in San Francisco this week and told a gathering of the Commonwealth Club that while he wont consider a presidential run, he predicted the U.S. could have a gay president in 20 years.
Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, has never shied from speaking his mind, and he held forth on a wide range of topics during an interview with gay radio reporter Scott Shafer of KQED. The audience of over 500 people, including former Ambassador James C. Hormel and his partner, Michael Nguyen, gave Frank a standing ovation as he stepped to the stage.
Frank, with his husband, businessman James Ready, seated just a few feet away, is known for his humor and wit, and quickly had the audience laughing.
"Im glad to see so many of you who apparently have attention spans that exceed a tweet," Frank, 73, quipped. He said early in his 45-year political career, he always answered his phone with "How can I help you?" However, free from Congress, he now asks: "Why are you bothering me?"
Now retired, Frank said he enjoyed "freedom from stress." He said members of Congress were in the "grief business" because people only go to them when they have complaints.
Frank is spending his time now writing a book at his husbands place in Maine.
Elected to Congress in 1980, he said in the early years he could find ways to work with House Republicans, but not today. "There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore," he said. "Its all right-wing Republicans now and it has caused gridlock."
During House debate over repeal of the militarys "Dont Ask, Dont Tell" policy a few years ago, Frank said Republicans tried to separate the repeal from a large military bill with a pledge to pass the repeal as a stand-alone bill.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), who Frank called "one of the greatest leaders in House history," was speaker at the time and got angry. Her "heritage came forward" Frank said, as she told Republicans they could repeal DADT in the bill or there would be no military bill. This drew large applause from the audience.
Regarding legislation in response to the economic slowdown and Great Recession near the end of President George W. Bushs administration, Frank said Democrats and Republicans argued over whether a bill should be called stimulus or recovery. He preferred stimulus, he said, "Because people like to be stimulated."
Despite political differences, Frank, who once served as chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, said Democrats and Republicans "pulled together" to do the best for the country during the economic crisis. Still, he said, after President Barack Obama was elected, Republicans laid the crisis on him.
Frank detailed the political bargaining and deal-making behind the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, which the Washington Post called "the most sweeping overhaul of the nations financial regulatory since the Great Depression." He said a new book by Washington Post veteran reporter Robert Kaiser covered the political action on the bill well.
Frank called Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (D), who helped with Dodd-Frank, "a star of the party," and "an extraordinary woman" with "great accomplishments."
Coming Out
Though elected to Congress in 1980, Frank did not come out until 1987. It was a gradual process for him, he said. He first came out to his family and friends and in LGBT circles in Washington, D.C.
When Frank told House Speaker Tip ONeill, a fellow Massachusetts Democrat, that he was gay and coming out of the closet, the speaker was unfamiliar with the term. "Barneys coming out of the room," ONeill told press aide Chris Matthews.
"Hell," was how Frank described living in the closet during his early political career. When Boston Globe reporter Kay Lazar finally asked him if he was gay, Frank replied, "Yes, so what?"
Frank said two Republican senators congratulated him on coming out: Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, now retired, and former New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman, now deceased. Frank said Simpson told him he hoped he had never said anything anti-gay to him. Rudman, when he met Frank in a store shortly after his coming out, shouted, "Good for you!"
"One House member," Frank said, "refused to use the House gym with me over HIV concerns."
Frank said he married Ready, 44, while he was still in Congress because he wanted his colleagues to be "confronted with the reality of marriage equality." He said a House colleague gave him a wedding gift and later placed an anti-gay House vote.
"We returned the gift," he said. Of his marriage to Ready, Frank said, "it strengthened an already strong bond."
Frank called former President Bill Clinton "a hero of gay rights." He said Clinton had been politically forced to sign DADT into law by Republican homophobes. At the time, "it was the best Clinton could do," he said.
Among Clintons accomplishments for the LGBT community, Frank cited the presidents reversal of a longstanding executive order that denied gays security clearances. Clinton also ended discrimination against LGBT federal workers and allowed persecuted LGBT people in other countries to seek asylum in the United States. He called the GOP House impeachment of Clinton "an attack on democracy."
Frank said "being gay in Washington, D.C., is not easy." He teased the audience by saying he knew closeted politicians on Capitol Hill: three in the Senate and four in the House. He did not mention any names.
"Whats behind the Republican disrespect for President Obama?" asked one questioner.
"Race is a factor," Frank said.
He also said basketball star Jason Collinss recent announcement that he was gay was "helpful" and "important for LGBTs in the African American community." Frank said that the Congressional Black Caucus had been better for LGBT rights than LGBT members.
After Franks remarks, Hormel said he "made a rapid fire" presentation. He said he regretted Frank was no longer in Congress, but he "appreciated his reasoning" for leaving. He said he agreed with Frank that gays should come out, because people needed "to recognize the presence of gays in our society."
Attendees Jeff and Rhona Shulman, a retired couple from the East Bay, said they had, "a warm place in our hearts for Barney Frank." They said Frank, while in Congress, had the "best interests of the people at heart" and that he "put people before banks and corporations."
The Shulmans expressed a common view among the large and adoring crowd. Barney Frank, they said, "definitely did not disappoint."
we already have one
That is just weird, and I don't mean the fact that Barney is writing a book.
Barry will come out of the closet long before that.
I guess the First Lady will become the "First Significant Partner".
Obama is so 'gay' that even Barney tries to cover for him!
The future is now.
Apparently Frank's the wife.
This like the Clinton black prez thing. He wasn't black black. but he was black. Obama isn't gay gay, but he's gay. So the next Dem in power will rape rape, but not rape America.
Hell, if he could, 0bama would replace Old Glory with the rainbow flag.
Oh, wee-wee? We awe-weady have a faggot in our White House, Mr. Bawney Fwank. Although he's not wee-wee owur pwesident, he's still a fair-wee pwincess.
Nah, they'll just have nightly orgies and crossdressing gang bangs and pick the "first lady" at the ring of midnight each evening. And thenn all the little fairy princesses in drag shal/descend the white house staircase to do theirthing on the lawn. What a nightly adventure it will be, ER is...is.
Obama is as queer as they come. It wouldn't be surprising to see him show up for a press meeting in drag.
beat me to it
Huh? What do you think the president is?
They want lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people behind Hillary in the 2016 campaign. So Hillarys going to come clean for the votes. Shell admit that shes bisexual and has had lesbian relationships.
All of these people combined comprise maybe 2% of the adult population. And they already vote overwhelmingly Dem.
LOL. We've had at least one already with James Buchannan.
By the way, if we had a gay candidate who cut spending, appointed conservative judges, was strong on defense, did not coddle criminals, defended the borders, protected gun rights and got rid of entitlements, I'd vote for him.
Meanwhile, all of his friends have been celebrating since 2008.
This is less plausible than Frank thinks.
I'd rather have a Gay POTUS who was fiscally conservative and knew foreign affairs well enough to know when to kick ass and when to stay the hell out, than some self-proclaimed moralist who talked a good game in church.
Do they know how to balance a budget (by which I mean all of the concomitant horse trading and realpolitik) and when to-and when not to- use military force- THAT is the job of the POTUS.
Well at least it won't be Frank himself he should
have assumed room temperature in 20 years if not he will be to old to run.
Now you've done it! That created a mental picture I can't erase! I'll have nightmares!
That means now, right?
A second queer president would not be a big surprise.
After all - we've already had a queer milk cow as a congressman.
People in MA believe in Frank, and so do those in many other liberal states too.
We've moved into the era of "historic firsts" where elections will be more about electing the first member of a liberal diversity victim group than about the candidates position. In the next several elections we'll likely see the first female President, the first Hispanic President, and perhaps the first gay or atheist President.
There's a chance the Republicans could win the Presidency in 2016 if enough people have the integrity to hold all the current scandals against the Democrats, but if the Republicans don't win in 2016 I don't see a white (non-Hispanic) male winning the Presidency for a long, long time. Perhaps never again.
Is he predicting that El Supremo Barry Ochavez will still be president in 20 years?
I thought we already had one.
I hope the gay Commander in Chief won't order soldiers to "bring up the rear." (Sorry!)
Apparently Franks the wife.
Now you've done it! That created a mental picture I can't erase! I'll have nightmares!
Bawney is the husband on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
We have one now. He is still in the closet.
One day Obama will come Out and then he will have been the first President.
James Buchanan. Been there! Done that!
Good point.
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Tupper village, town support rail grant application
TUPPER LAKE – The village and town both decided in the last week to support a request for $15.2 million to rehabilitate the railroad tracks between Big Moose and Saranac Lake.
The Adirondack Rail Preservation Society, which runs the Adirondack Scenic Railroad, completed earlier this year a business plan to determine what it will take to run passenger trains all the way through the corridor from Lake Placid to Utica, said ASR board member Al Dunham.
"We've always wanted to rehab it, but we've been not able to find a good, strong funding source," Dunham said.
Tourist trains currently run between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid, and a recently completed portion extended the southern portion of the run from Utica to Big Moose.
The rail bed is the subject of polarizing controversy among residents along the corridor, with the ASR looking to rehabilitate the rail throughout the entire path and create trails alongside it, while the Adirondack Recreational Trail Advocates want to see the rails ripped up in the currently unused part of the corridor and a trail installed.
The Tupper Lake town and village boards recently passed controversial resolutions asking the state to open up the corridor's unit management plan, which rail advocates fear would revert the rail to a trail.
Dunham is on an ad hoc committee with several Tri-Lakes locals and a few people from the southern end of the railroad who have been planning the future of the railroad for the last six months or so.
Dunham said that although estimates in the past have varied widely as to the cost of fixing up the remaining rails, the engineers ASR worked with on the business plan are confident that the $15.2 million will be enough to bring the rails from Big Moose to Saranac Lake up to Class II standards, which would let it go 30 to 35 mph. Currently when trains are brought along that track, the speed limit is 5 mph.
"We're pretty comfortable," Dunham said. "We've got a good plan."
It would mainly pay for rail bed rehabilitation, including ties and ballast – the most expensive part, Dunham said – grading in some areas, and a few curved rails that need to be replaced, though most of the rails are still in good shape, he said.
The ASR, through the Adirondack North Country Association, is applying for federal grant money to pay for the project. Dunham gave a quick presentation to town board members on the topic last week, getting them to agree to send a letter of support to endorse the application. The village board decided to send a similar letter of support at their meeting this week, though no ASR board member was there to tell village trustees about it.
The Strategic Transportation Enhancement Program grant would give the ASR federal Department of Transportation money, funneled through the state.
Dunham said the application is with the state now, and if it's chosen from the pool of projects at that level, it will move on to the federal DOT to compete with projects from across the country. At the town board meeting, he called it a long shot but said it's a good application.
"We think it looks pretty good," Dunham said. "Our business plan is pretty strong."
Dunham told the Enterprise that ASR only had about a week to put together the grant application, but if they had more time, they probably would have sought out partners like the town or village of Tupper Lake to try to add a trail element to the proposal. The grant funding is for "multi-modal" transportation corridors, and ASR envisions the rail corridor to include both rail and trails in the future, but this grant would only go to the rail work.
"We could easily have made this a $30 million project, which would have made the application even stronger," Dunham said. "We're not in the trail business. We can get you to the trail."
Part of the ASR's business plan is to give passengers access to trails along the corridor, so they can bring a kayak or bicycle on the train, get dropped off, then picked up after they're done. Dunham said that's already happening in the southern portion of the railroad, and if more tracks are opened on the northern end, it would give people access to underused trails.
Dunham said he understands that people have gotten frustrated waiting for the railroad to get rehabilitated. Former Gov. George Pataki left $5 million for the work when he left office, but that money was reallocated under Eliot Spitzer's administration, and since then, the railroad hasn't been able to get any significant funding. Dunham said that's unfortunate.
"It's like a major highway, but they've just let it sit," Dunham said.
He said there's more support for the railroad rehabilitation in the Utica area, where people see the train as an opportunity to connect to the Adirondack wilderness.
If this grant funding doesn't come through, Dunham that it's not the last resort. He said the ASR is working with state and federal officials to find other opportunities for the corridor.
"We're not just putting all our eggs in one basket," Dunham said.
The key is having the business plan in place, he said. Now the ASR has the information it needs to seek other grant funding and other collaborations.
"We know how to do it now," Dunham said. "This application was an opportunity to test that."
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A Shot in the Dark - Page 2
On November 24, 2007, I invite a friend to run that same Albuquerque trail with me the following day. Around 3 a.m. that night, I am awakened by a noise outside my bedroom window. A man is attempting to steal my pick-up. I make a terrible mistake. I throw on my jeans and march to the door.
I flip on the porch light, fling open the door and, unwittingly, present my body as a target.
"Hey, get the hell away ..." I don't get to finish with "from my truck, you bastards."
A man in a hooded sweatshirt pops up from behind the bed of the truck, parked 15 feet away. A rifle is at his shoulder. Fire rips from its muzzle. It roars. I duck to my left as the first bullet grazes my shoulder. The next bullet is a linebacker hitting me in the right thigh. Drilled into the cold, hardwood floor I screech, but utter not a word as I scramble to a knee, slam the door and lock it.
I stagger to my feet, slipping in my own blood, and step forward on my right leg. It collapses. The pain is foreign, a ball bat cracking the femur. I drag myself off of the floor and hop to my bedroom where I sit on the edge of the bed long enough to see the blood soaking my sheets. I slide to the floor with a splat as the warm sticky blood oozes across the floor.
My black jeans are shiny and shredded over my right leg. There is a smaller hole on the left leg. Breath comes heavily, groans emitting every second or third exhalation. I open the largest tear in my jeans—blood gurgles from a gaping crater of meat.
"Femoral," I groan and jam three fingers up to the second knuckle into the hole clamping the femoral artery between my fingers and the heal of my hand. With the other hand I dial 911. My body grows colder, my vision diaphanous, life oozing out onto the floor. I wonder about the finish line for this race and how long I will have to suffer before reaching it.
The finish line is a trauma surgery suite where, two painfully conscious hours later, I stare up into fluorescent lights, with masked trauma surgeons looking down at me. Breathing drugs through a mask, I consider the triage nurse's informed-consent warnings (death, amputation, transfusions, etc.) and wonder if I will awaken with both legs.
Euphoria. Theodore Roosevelt once said that there is nothing more exhilarating than being shot without consequence. I awaken in a recovery bay. Wires are connected to my chest and abdomen. IV needles puncture both arms. An oxygen tube tickles my nostrils. An electronic box chirps near my bed, but it seems far away.
Everything seems far away, especially the toes on my right foot ... my right foot. I have a right foot. Tears well in my eyes. I blink, wiggle my toes. I smile and shake my head while laughter creeps from my belly, up my chest and out of my mouth. I laugh at my hands that are still covered in dried blood up to my wrists. I laugh despite my inability to pull my right foot toward me, and because of the anesthetics, the shock and the fact that I am safe, warm and not alone. I laugh because I am alive. It seems absurd.


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Géczy leaves Lloyds
The banker who was tipped to permanently take the reins of Lloyds Banking Group's Wholesale Banking & Markets division last summer has left.
Andrew Géczy joined Lloyds in January 2009 as a managing director. Under Truett Tate, the bank's then head of Wholesale Banking & Markets, Géczy was handed a remit to grow Lloyds' capital markets business – historically a small part of its operations.
Deals that the bank worked on under Géczy included the structuring a £600m bond for the Greater London Authority to help finance the construction of the Crossrail project.
Lloyds announced that Tate was to retire in January 2012 with Géczy taking over as chief executive on an interim basis. A number of press reports including those by the Financial Times and The Daily Telegraph put him as the leading internal candidate to take over the position permanently.
However, in May last year, Lloyds bought in Andrew Bester from Standard Chartered to lead the business – a position that comes with a seat on the bank's executive committee - with Géczy returning to his previous position. The Wholesale & Banking division was renamed Commercial Banking last summer and Lloyds remains active in debt capital markets, direct private equity investment via its LDC team, asset finance and foreign exchange hedging.
A spokesman for Lloyds said it had subsequently been agreed that Géczy would leave his role at the end of November 2012, remaining for a short period thereafter in an advisory capacity to assist Bester.
The spokesman said: "During his four years leading the, then called, Wholesale Banking & Markets business, Andrew Géczy oversaw a number of key developments to its platform and services, with the bank developing and maintaining market-leading positions in a number of business areas. We wish Andrew every future success."
Géczy began his career with accountancy firm Price Waterhouse, now PwC, in 1986, before moving to Paris with KPMG as head of corporate finance. He later moved to Citigroup, where he rose to the position of global head of structured corporate finance.
After leaving Citi in 2005 Géczy launched two financial boutiques, Manresa Partners and Pure Bridging. He resigned as a company director of both in early 2009 following his appointment at Lloyds but his wife – jewellery designer Antje Géczy – remains a director at both, according to filings at Companies House.
Géczy could not be reached for comment.
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Great Live Moments - Branford Marsalis
June 30, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: ballad, bassist, branford marsalis, burnout, chicago jazz festival, drummer jeff, Great Live Moments, jazz quartet, jeff tain watts, kenny kirkland, Listening Post, pianist, revis, square park, tain, washington square, washington square park, wbgo
In 1998, Branford Marsalis was the host of JazzSet. He was also the leader of an amazing jazz quartet. In August of that year, they played a concert at Washington Square Park in New York. WBGO was there to capture the performance.
I remember seeing this band at the Chicago Jazz Festival, just a few weeks after this recording. Branford, along with bassist Eric Revis, drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts, and the late pianist Kenny Kirkland had the unique ability to pin you to your seat for more than an hour. The music was relentless, whether it was some burnout tune or a ballad. Kenny Kirkland's "Mr. J.C." is a great example of the former. Enjoy the blistering solos from Kenny and Branford. Click here to listen.


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Student Media
Riverview celebration
Monday, April 19, 2010
The extensive renovation of the only campus building on the National Register of Historic Places, Riverview, will be celebrated at an open house reception and ice cream social from 3:30 to 5 p.m. April 30.
- View the poster (PDF)
- View the program (PDF)
The $6.2 million renovation retained the historic features of the original building while adding high-tech innovations. Two "historic classrooms" furnished in 1913 style stand next to smart classrooms and modern communication labs.
Riverview was opened in 1913 as a laboratory school for the St. Cloud Normal School. From 1958-2008 Riverview was home to the St. Cloud State Department of English. This past fall the Department of Communication Studies moved into the newly renovated building.
When Riverview was a lab school it was a place for Normal School students to observe and practice their teaching skills. For South Side children it was the neighborhood elementary school from 1913 through 1958, when the Gray Laboratory School building – now the Engineering and Computer Center – was built.
Area students in grades kindergarten through ninth grade attended Riverview Lab School. At times more than half the students were children of faculty and staff at St. Cloud State. Several alumni of the lab school from the late 1920s through the 1950s will be special guests at the open house to share their memories and photographs.The event also will feature a ribbon cutting led by President Earl H. Potter III, music by the Husky Sports Band, video presentations about the building's history and the renovation process.
For more information, contact Roseanna Ross, chair, Department of Communication Studies, 320-308-2217, email@example.com.
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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: Quite an enjoyable day - until the baggage buses at the end!!In full: Like many others, this was my first ever GNR... it was also one of my long held ambitions to take part in an oft TV spectated event!To a large extent, I would have to say that the day did live up to expectations - certainly the early part of the day!From the point of view of accomodation, hotels etc really cash in on the weekend and hike their prices up so much that you have no choice but to pay the hugely inflated prices being asked. We got "lucky" and managed to get accomodation in Newcastle city centre (I'll not name names but the well known chain of "lodge" which you "travel" to) where we stayed charged £100 more for the Sat night than they did for the Sun night, but I'm sure that they are not alone in respect of this. Given that this day had been a long held ambition, I wanted to savour it and enjoy it as much as possible so I had my happy head on when I set off that morning and for much of the day, I had no reason to change my mood!We followed the crowds to the start. located my baggage bus without too much trouble and were in our pen, stood ready and waiting with a good half hour to spare...fortunately the rain held off until we were about to go or it might have been a different story!The early part of the race was absolutely fantastic! There was a great buzz at the start and we were kept suitably entertained in the lead up to the "off". Highlights for me must have been a fly past from the Red Arrows, quickly followed by a "high 5" from Mo Farrah, then running over the Tyne Bridge - races don't get much better than that in the first mile or so, do they?By comparison, the next 11 miles were nowhere near as exciting, but how could they be? But the many and varied bands along the route...and the spectators...and the enthusiastic charity buses...and the well organised feed stations and first aid facilities did much to detract from the fairly mundane route which unfolded for the most part. At the halfway point, I saw the electronic sign saying "enjoy the 2nd half" and I thought to myself "I'll try and do that!" However, being a newbie to the event and not knowing the course, I hadn't realised about the sequence of inclines during the latter stages and along with many others, I suffered for about 3 miles.Being one of the many thousands of charity runners who was taking part in the race, it gives an indication as to my speed when I say I was at the 10 mile point when the Red Arrows were doing their display. Given that I was running for the British Heart Foundation in memory of my son, it was a particularly touching moment when two of the Red Arrows left the heart shaped vapour trail in the sky, at which I blew a kiss to the heavens for my son!I have to confess to having found miles 9-12 quite hard but the spectators did their best to keep us going! Then came the point that I recognised from TV - the short but steep downhill stretch to the seafront - and I came alive again after a malaise of plodding for so long! The sight of the sea and the support of the crowds along the last mile did much to renew my vigour and I enjoyed the run along the seafront to the finish!It was only after I'd finished that the problems began. Because I had finished some way down the field, the goody bag people had already run out of my preferred size of T shirt. Like countless others, I couldn't get a mobile signal and could only locate my family from text messaging. We visited the charity village and I received some much needed sustenance from our charity tent.Then the day turned really sour - we set off to the baggage buses before heading into South Shields to travel back to Newcastle - only to find the most monumental cock up had taken place and all of the bags had been taken off the baggage buses and placed into one tent - from which quite literally hundreds of competitors were trying to reclaim their property and there was absolutely no system or anywhere enough people in place to make this happen! There were an awful lot of very angry people at the impromptu baggage reclaim - who were very tired and getting cold and being rained upon - and who were in an entirely and unnecessary shambolic situation - all as a result of the decision of an unnamed party - to remove the bags from buses (which were going nowhere) and put them into a situation of disorder - from which chaos reigned!! Some 45 minutes later, I managed to collect my bag - it could have been much, much longer had it been one of the last to have been announced!ORGANISERS PLEASE TAKE NOTE - NEVER EVER ALLOW SUCH A SITUATION TO ARISE AGAIN!!It was sufficient to send me away with a black cloud over my head, having soured what had been a decent day until that point!!Having been reunited in South Shields with my family, it was then a case of colossal queues for the metro and we got back to our digs at around 7pm!Whilst I enjoyed the pre-event activities and the race itself...and I'm very pleased to have fulfilled an ambition...I'm not so sure that such a mass participation event as this is really my cup of tea! I would not be so dogmatic as to say never say never again...but it might not necessarily be next year!!Date of review: October 7, 2012
In short: A well organised, really enjoyable event.In full: Had heard much hype about this race in advance. Thankfully, the race lived up to its billing and if anything exceeded expectations. Fantastic venue and facilities, on the whole good marshalling, medical aid was on the ball.Special thanks for plentiful supplies of water throughout course, much appreciated on a warm day. Good course from runners perspective, mostly flat, and good for spectators at start and finish. Fine race forum on RW website both pre & post event that provided all the encouragement you could need. Hope to be back again!Date of review: October 31, 2005
In short: "Wasn't it fun, the day we spent, splashing about in the water?"In full: Awful weather...flooded route to contend with...more like a cross country than a road race...sounds like a disastrous day?...far from it!! Yes, the heavens opened and yes, there was lots of splashing about to be done, but this just seemed to enhance the event if anything! What's all that about triumphing in adversity, well that's what the organisers did here! Splendidly organised and very well marshalled race, despite difficult conditions. Everyone is to be congratulated, from the boy scouts on the water stations to the 400+ competitors who braved the weather and enjoyed a good race. And a lovely towel as a memento of the day! This is one I'd definitely do again. Thanks Southport Waterloo A.C. and Natterjack.Date of review: October 27, 2005
In short: What a fantastic evening for a really pleasant run.In full: Thoroughly enjoyed myself. This one really is flat - it must be for me to have run a PB! Did this one with my training bud, who was running his first ever race of any distance. He too really enjoyed himself and was in buoyant mood afterwards, insisting he wants to do another! You couldn't really wish for a better recommendation for any other potential debutants, could you?Date of review: May 17, 2005
In short: A well organised and enjoyable run through some lovely Shropshire countrysideIn full: Initially, what looked to be a rough afternoon in terms of weather actually turned out to be quite pleasant. About half an hour before start time, the heavens opened and it looked as if all we could look forward to was a dull and rainy afternoon. Aided by a gusty wind however, the clouds moved on quite quickly and with the exception of a couple of brief showers, the race field was blessed with blue skies and sunshine. Being a relative beginner to running, I began at the back of the field, which co-incidentally, is where I spent most of the race! The run itself however was enjoyable, clearly visible mile markers and information signs for both runners and motorists and plenty of assistance from a small army of marshalls. Perhaps with my being a newcomer to the sport, I still have to adapt to some of the terminology as I think I might have classed this as an undulating course rather than flat, (but perhaps I still have a lot to learn!) I finished just outside of my target time for the day but still left feeling pleased that I had participated in a very well run event and met some nice, friendly folk in the process! Date of review: May 10, 2005
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Woody Harrelson to Army: End Warfare Tests
Victory: As a result of PETA's campaign, the Army announced that it is ending its cruel use of monkeys in chemical attack training exercises and will instead use advanced human simulators!
Woody Harrelson was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of an Army captain in The Messenger, and now the actor is sending a real-life message to the Army's new chief of staff regarding the cruel chemical agent poisoning of monkeys at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. The star of the hotly anticipated Hunger Games film sent a letter to Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, describing how the monkeys who endure a forced overdose "suffer the wretched symptoms of chemical poisoning, including seizures, breathing difficulties, loss of bowel control, and convulsions," and asking the general to "stop this crude exercise at Aberdeen" and replace it with superior non-animal methods of simulating nerve agent attacks.
Woody's letter follows a PETA protest outside Army Secretary John McHugh's home and as thousands of compassionate people's responses to PETA's action alert—which I must ask you to respond to also and to pass on to everyone you know (get the whole office to sign—the whole neighborhood!).
Please join Woody in sending Army officials the message that not only is the image of America's armed forces tarnished by conducting crude warfare experiments on monkeys—who are snatched from their Caribbean homes and families and who endure frightening shipping conditions—these cruel procedures also violate military policies requiring the use of non-animal methods when available and prohibiting harming primates for training exercises.
Written by Jeff Mackey
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Thanks for showing your compassion to animals the do feel just like humans. I hope this will never happen again.
Well Done to PETA and to Woody Harrelson for putting pressure on the US Army to stop the barbaric chemical agent poisoning of monkeys at Aberdeen Proving Ground at Maryland.Thank you to Nick Justice for ending this cruel use of monkeys in chemical attack training exercises. Please Sir ensure that the transition is made to advanced human simulators forthwith! Yours Sincerely, Nicholas Hunter, Scotland
Excellent news, let's hope it is the first of many recognitions that the use of animals for such experiments is highly unethical and terribly cruel.
Thank you US Army for a wise decision and thank you PETA for your tiredless efforts to bring these autocities in to light.
A BIG THANKS to the U.S.ARMY for ending experiments on monkies
A big thank you to the US army for ending experiments on animals
thank you to you for this document. That we can see what s happening out there. Its terrible. What can the animals do ? Nothing ! ! ! And we ? ?
Thank you for stopping those experiments.
Me and the all of the monkeys say: Thank You US Army!!!
Thank you very much PETA and USA Army for not experimenting on life animals any more. Stop it immediately!!!!
Aberdeen Proving Ground Commanding General Nick Justice, Thank you for your wise and compassionate decision, ending cruel use of monkeys in chemical attack training exercises, please Sir, ensure that the transition to simulators is made immediately. Yours sincerely, Isabel Rute Rodrigues Pereira Lisboa – Portugal
is terrible the way animals are treated by cruel people in the name of science to stop testing, stop the testing of nerve agents in animals, animals are entitled to dignity and to die with dignity thanks!!!
This is outright EVIL. The US military is nothing but a legalized form of the "mafia" or "narcotraficantes."
Good for Woody Harrelson & PETA for stopping those **** cruel experiments. When I get a few extra bucks, I'll send PETA a little bit of money, I'm in the poor middle class so I can't send much but will try to send at least $20.00 – $25.00 when I can to PETA because of their good work.
Thank You US Army!!!
Thank you very much for ending the experiments.
Thank you for showing as humane side!!
Thank you U.S.Army, Peta and Woody for ending the experiments. Animals are voiceless, helpless but got senses organs like human beings. They should be treated with dignity and we need to stop this cruelty to any kind of animals or any cruelty. Animals have feelings too and we need to be their voices.. Thank you all of you for caring.
Congratulations, to PETA, & a BIG THANK YOU, & WELL DONE! to Woody Harrelson for all you have done. Both of our nations have marched off to battle in the past, to stop this sort of thing from happening to members of our own species, yet it is treated differently when it comes to what are, undoubtedly, the most defenseless, & innocent inhabitants of the planet….the animals. let us all never, ever see war declared on the innocent again. God Bless you for all your effort PETA! Eric Brooks. Australia.
Please imagine being operated on, without anesthesia,you will realize what pain those innocent animals must be undergoing when such experiments are conducted on them.
This cruel practice must be stopped!!! Shame on US army forses!
is terrible the way animals are treated by cruel people in the name of science to stop testing, stop the testing of nerve agents in animals, animals are entitled to dignity and to die with dignity thanks!!!
Great news. It is always so helpful when celebrities support these animal causes. Thanks Woody!
millitary??? i can not believe this!!!! what/who give us the right to do this to helpless animals?!?!!!!!!!
Please, stop harming these animals. Just be better people, nothing good can come from this terrible actions!
Thanks so much!!!This is the right choice!
Thank you so much to all the compassionate people involve in this most welcome and humane resolution. Stopping animal use for any cruel experiments is an intelligent and well oriented effort for a better future not just for the human animal, but for all animals in the world. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. We all must learn to share the planet by respecting the lives of all creatures.
Please help raise the consciousness of humanity. America's armed forces are tarnished by conducting crude warfare experiments on monkeys—who are snatched from their Caribbean homes and families and who endure frightening shipping conditions—these cruel procedures also violate military policies requiring the use of non-animal methods when available and prohibiting harming primates for training exercises. Be the Greatest you can be with Compassion for All Life.
I am glad you have finally put an end to this inhumane lab…..


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Villa Roma,Thank you for the figuring this out for me and giving detailed instructions. Since my KASL doesnt have an absorption rate of 65%.do you think this would be okay to use a higher hydration to start my test with? I am willing to try this if you think it will work out okay. If you dont mind telling me about your experiences with using a preferment. I would appreciate you telling me about what kind of results you have achieved with a preferment in achieving better crust flavor.My digital scales only weighs in ounces, pounds and kg. I am not familiar with kg and grams. Sorry to be asking all these questions, but in time I will learn. Thank you for taking the time to answer my post. Norma Thanks,Norma
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(Cleveland) - Great Lakes Brewing Company is tapping a new keg Tuesday.
Rally Drum Red Ale is a handcrafted pub-exclusive beer named in honor of legendary Indians fan John Adams. Rally Drum Red Ale pays homage to Adams who's been beating his drum in the bleachers during home games for 28 years.
GLBC says, "John's rally drum is the heartbeat of our hometeam. From the minute the batter steps into the box, to the set and the pitch, his steady hands add drama and excitement to every inning of every game."
Rally Drum Red Ale is an American Red Ale, a modern non-traditional style borrowing heavily from characteristics associated with more classical styles such as "pale ales" or "bitters." This unfiltered copper-colored ale is brewed with a blend of Harrington 2-Row Base Malt, Crystal 77, and Special Roast malts, yielding a toasty layered complexity. Cascade and Simcoe hops add bitterness and aroma.
Rally Drum Red Ale will be tapped in the GLBC Brewpub Tuesday monring and will be served while supplies last.
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