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Sea tragedy mum was top Oldham doctor
Date published: 08 April 2014
TRIBUTES have been paid to Royal Oldham Hospital doctor Uma Ramalingam (42), who died with a friend in Tenerife as they battled to save the lives of their children, who had been swept out to sea.
Olubusola Amu, consultant and clinical director of Women and Children Services at The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "We are greatly saddened to hear the death of Uma. She was a fantastic doctor.
"This is a terrible shock to everyone who knew Uma. Our thoughts are with her family at this sad time. She will be sorely missed."
Dr Ramalingam, a consultant obstetrician in Oldham for six years, was on holiday with her friend Barathi Ruvikumar (39) a Lincoln GP, when tragedy struck on Sunday.
The two women went to the aid of their children, who had been swept out to sea by a powerful wave off the coast of Playa Paraiso on the South-West of the island.
Mrs Ramalingam and Mrs Ruvikumar were both pronounced dead at the scene but Uma's child, aged 10, and Barathi's, aged 14, were pulled to safety by locals and tourists. The eldest child suffered cuts and bruises and the youngest was taken to hospital with hypothermia.
A third member of their group survived after being resuscitated on the shore.
Raxsana Karim, community midwife at the Royal Oldham Hospital and a friend of Mrs Ramalingam said: "She was absolutely lovely. It's heartbreaking."
'Hero' is a much misused word these days, but someone who knowingly puts themselves in danger to save the life of someone else is truly heroic.
Tragic indeed for the surviving children as they will no doubt have to cope with survivor guilt for the rest of their lives.
My heart goes out to the family of this brave lady, willing to put her own life on the line for others, RIP Uma.
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|Sport, 2 pitches, 160'
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By saxfiend
From: Decatur, GA
Mar 10, 2008
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
Outstanding route! Balancy edging most of the way, but no really desperate sections. Can easily be done in one pitch with double ropes.
Also, there were no missing hangers on this route as of 3/08.
By John Saunders
From: Cornelius, NC
Feb 21, 2011
rating: 5.10c/d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
|Excellent route!! So far, my favorite in fact. Found that a couple small TCUs/C3s are helpful before the first bolt and after that it was a clip up. Found that following this route, I felt the crux to be low on the first pitch. After having led it I found that the crux was definitely high on the 2nd pitch, and it was actually getting to the 2nd to last bolt. It had forced me up and left of the bolt and the balancy traverse back to the bolt was a treat. I found no bolts to be loose on the route though the right hanger on the first pitch belay does spin.
By Sam Stephens
Mar 24, 2011
Wound up out left of the second to last bolt. Skipped it because I was afraid things were going to start breaking off if I stayed too long. Top is excitingly fragile...
Did it in one mega pitch. Rope got realllll heavy up at the top.
By sanz
From: Raleigh, NC
Nov 7, 2011
|Great route, similar balancey crimping to Seven Year Itch but minus a few tougher crux moves. A .5 C4 in the perfect mail slot keeps the high first bolt from being an issue. Clip up after that, with a long runout over easy terrain to finish. If you led this, you should try Seven Year Itch!
By nate3265
Oct 1, 2012
rating: 5.10c/d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
|I only climbed the first pitch and it was great. is the second pitch as good/hard?
By mattjohnson
From: Laurens, SC
Feb 21, 2013
rating: 5.10b/c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
|I found the hardest part to be a little over halfway up on the second pitch, right where you're starting to think its going to be smooth sailing to the top. Easily the hardest move on the route, and its a little ways above the previous bolt.
By BJ Cook
From: San Diego, California
Oct 9, 2014
rating: 5.10c/d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
|Classic route with nice little crimpy edges and some sidepulls. Definitely all about the feet on this one. It started raining and we met John and Katie from Asheville, who took us back up here and lent us some cams. We did the 1st pitch only.
By Mike Nevko
From: Currently Charlotte
Dec 22, 2014
Do it as at mega pitch and top belay the follower. 70M or double ropes needed to get down by rapping straight down 7 year itch. You might be able to swing over to the intermediate wrap on Gun Boat With a single 60, we didn't.
Technical crux is definitely up high on the 2nd Pitch, You think you are smooth sailing, but tricky guard the exit. Rope drag is manageable, so do the super pitch.
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From: Asheville NC
Feb 7, 2016
rating: 5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b
|accidentally blew a hand hold off near the top, still managed to hang on and get through it but I might have changed the climb sorry. This climb seemed easier than Lake view 5.10a

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The actor best known for his role Cesare Borgia on the Showtime drama series has reportedly been approached to replace Charlie Hunnam in the Sam Taylor-Wood directed pic.
Francois Arnaud is the latest actor rumored as Charlie Hunnam's replacement in "Fifty Shades of Grey". According to Just Jared, the 28-year-old Canadian actor has been approached to take on the role of Christian Grey, but no formal offer has been made.
Universal and Focus Features are rushing to find a new male lead, after Hunnam abruptly left. A recent rumor suggested he clashed with the producers over script issues, and earlier report said he got cold feet over the overwhelming attention he received from the film.
The "Pacific Rim" star was initially set to play Christian Grey opposite Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele. Their casting was met with backlash, and Johnson was recently said feeling the pressure as well. Rumor has it, he was to get only $125,000 for the role.
An adaptation of E.L. James' erotic book of the same title, "Fifty Shades of Grey" is expected to kick off production this coming November for a planned August 1, 2014 release. Sam Taylor-Wood is on board to direct the pic about a D/S relationship between young wealthy businessman Grey and naive college student Steele.
Arnaud joins "True Blood" hunk Alexander Skarsgard and "The Fall" star Jamie Dornan as potential candidates, along with "Divergent" actor Theo James and "Magic City" star Christian Cooke who initially lost the role to the "Sons of Anarchy" actor.
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Never mind all this holiday stuff. Let's look ahead to American Idol. Oh yeah. Here it comes, complete with Ellen DeGeneres and all. Fox has just announced all the dates for everything, so get ready:
The ninth season premiere kicks off on Fox with the Boston audition round on Tuesday, Jan. 12 (8 0- 10 p.m. ET/PT) and the Atlanta auditions on Wednesday, Jan. 13 (8:00-9:15 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
After the two-night premiere, auditions will continue for three weeks:
Chicago on Tuesday, Jan. 19 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT)
Orlando on Wednesday, Jan. 20 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT)
Dallas auditions will air Tuesday, Jan. 26 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT)
Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 27 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT)
Denver on Tuesday, Feb. 2 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and "The Road to Hollywood" auditions on Wednesday, Feb. 3 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).
Don't forget: In the audition cities, host Ryan Seacrest and judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi are joined by rotating guest judges Victoria Beckham, Mary J. Blige, Kristin Chenoweth, Neil Patrick Harris, Joe Jonas, Avril Lavigne, Katy Perry and Shania Twain who will help select the hopefuls worthy of the "Golden Ticket" to Hollywood.
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Costa Rica is one of the preferred destinations of ecologically minded visitors. A large percentage of the country's overall land area is dedicated to national parks and wildlife preserves, and visitors can have eco-friendly adventures all across the country. But before "green" activities—and tourism—became quite as popular in Costa Rica as they are today, Costa Ricans took part in the kind of inadvertent recycling common when goods are scarce. Unfortunately, modern life has put an end to much of this necessity-fueled recycling.
Packaging materials—styrofoam, bubble wrap and cardboard inserts—were practically nonexistent in Costa Rica about twenty years ago. People wrapped all valuables in newspaper, which was a prized commodity. Gardeners, who cut the grass with razor-sharp machetes, wrapped their tools in newspaper bound with string. Everyone stored old newspapers at home, and people reused the same wrinkled sheets over and over again. In the areas around San José, men pulled wooden carts through the streets, collecting old newspapers or other clean papers that people might not need. These papers then made their way to the Central Market (Mercado Central), in San José, where vendors used them to wrap fish and pieces of meat or to protect their vegetables.
Glass was also valuable, and some of these cart-pulling men also collected bottles from the houses around San José. Few home-goods or decorating stores existed in Costa Rica at the time, and people collected pretty bottles to use as vases and decanters. Thermoses were expensive and hard to find, so workers often transported their milky coffee to work in repurposed Coca-Cola bottles. A small bottle-cutting industry also thrived in Costa Rica, and people could buy drinking glasses made from all colors and sizes of bottles that had been sliced in half and filed smooth.
At about this same time, disposable plastic bags and plastic food containers were a rarity in Costa Rica. No stores sold Ziploc bags or Rubbermaid containers. People reused plastic bread bags for their lunches. Some market vendors sold their products in plastic bags that had once held other items. Almost everyone had a drawerful of plastic bags that they had washed and reused numerous times. Some people owned the odd piece of Tupperware, which they cared for assiduously and used repeatedly. Everyone also rinsed out plastic yogurt and margarine containers, keeping them to use for food storage. People often encouraged one another to buy particular foods at the grocery store, solely because they came in sturdy containers that would withstand many uses. One particular ice cream company used such fine containers that when it went out of business, most people were more sorry about the disappearance of the containers than about the ice cream itself.
With increased trade and more foreign imports, Costa Ricans now have access to hundreds more products than were available in the 1980s. Sadly, this new access has created in Costa Rica a new sense of disposability. Companies no longer pack their products in durable containers, and nobody reuses containers or paper the way they once did. Convenience has given rise to more waste. However, perhaps Costa Rica's new eco-friendly identity will push it closer to the mindset of its inadvertent recycling days.
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Model Miranda Kerr, 28, gave birth to adorable 10-pound baby Flynn in January and now here she is on the catwalk in Sydney, Australia. In a skimpy bathing suit.
Kerr opened yesterday's David Jones Spring/Summer 2011 Fashion Launch, strutting her stuff in front of a large crowd at Sydney's Royal Hall of Industries. Her lack of stretch marks is a big topic of conversation this morning on the Web.
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Kerr says she did yoga, but otherwise wasn't worried about her body during her pregnancy. "I didn't care if I got stretch marks, I didn't care if I didn't get back into shape. My main focus was to have a healthy child and it didn't matter to me if I could model or not." Turned out, obviously, not to be a problem.
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As many Americans celebrate Columbus Day, The Boston Globe has an interesting opinion piece by James Carroll about a side of the voyager that gets overshadowed by talk of Indies trade: his Christian faith.
According to historians, Christopher Columbus was "deeply religious" and believed it was divine will that he sail west.
He wrote in his journals:
"Your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes devoted to the Holy Christian Faith and the propagation thereof, and enemies of the sect of Mahomet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said regions of India, to see the said princes and peoples and lands and the disposition of them and of all, and the manner in which may be undertaken their conversion to our Holy Faith ..."
Columbus addresses the Spanish Inquisition, too, which, of course, was going on at the time: "having expelled all the Jews from all your kingdoms and dominions ... Your Highnesses commanded me that I should go to the said parts of India," he wrote.
Carroll also quotes Columbus writing to "Your Highnesses" that "all the gain of this my Enterprise should be spent in the conquest of Jerusalem," arguing that his primary motivation may not have been riches, but instead ending Islam's hold on the Holy Land. Caroll writes:
[Columbus] believed that the final restoration of the Holy Land to Christian dominion would usher in the Messianic Age ... An apocalyptic impulse informed the New World project at its birth; the project assumed hostility to Islam; and its ultimate purpose involved Jerusalem. Those three facts remain pillars of the American problem today.
READERS: What do you think spurred Columbus? Does his possible motivation and his subsequent role in spreading Christianity impact your feelings -- positively or negatively -- about the holiday?
--Anne Godlasky, USA TODAY
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Our Vision for the next five (5) years is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to as many people as the Spirit of God would enable us by His grace. We are praying and trusting the Lord to add to His body the church millions of souls through the ministry of pgall.
Our mission is our name: "To Preach the Gospel 2 All." We aim at preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the rest of humanity that have not had the opportunity to hear the good news of life. There is no reason for anybody to go to hell when heaven is free for all.
Our first goal is to give evrybody the opportunity to decide his or her own eternity (destiny). To choose life or death; good or evil; hell or heaven: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen" (Mathew 28:19-20 kjv). Our second goal is to equip the saints to evangelize. It is great to be saved but there should also be a progressive growth towards a deeper knowledge, understanding and fellowship with Jesus Christ.
Such a move translates into holiness, righteousness and maturity in life and evangelism. For this reason, we seek to disciple every born again believer:
God "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth" (1 Timothy 2:4). Our third goal is to encourage Christians to make it a habit to fellowship together. Bible studies and prayer meetings must be a habit for each individual born again.
For those who have stopped church fellowship altogether, pgall provides the means, tools, and encouragement to start fellowship in the comfort of their own home together with one or two other Christians; especially, as we see the day of the Lord approaching. The benefits of fellowship cannot be over emphasized and must be encouraged. No Christian is to fall short at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ: "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-and all the more as you see the Day approaching" (Hebrews 10:25 kjv). A church gathering does not have to be hundreds or thousands of people meeting in a specialized place or location. Jesus said: "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (Mathew 18:20). Two or three Christians studying, reading and praying in a small room or in the convenience of their private home can experience the presence of the Lord just as may be the case of hundreds of gathered believers.
"But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen" (2 Peter 3:18).


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And it is damning. All 212 pages of it. All 69 findings (what was that, Courier-Journal, about 30 findings? WFPL?).
This could be the beginning of the end of Jerry Abramson's political career. No amount of spinning can cause the audit train to jump its tracks at this point.
The document we're about to digest in bullet points and summaries details some of the most inexcusable behavior, waste, fraud and abuse that we've seen in an audit report from Crit Luallen's office. Not necessarily because of willful misconduct but because of the sheer amount of laziness, ignorance and carelessness that went in to potentially costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.
"Our audit raises several concerns in areas of metro government that need the city's full attention in order to improve accountability going forward," said Crit Luallen. "We offer numerous recommendations in the audit as tools for Louisville Metro to strengthen financial oversight."
The audit suggests that much of this nightmare stems from the good old boy system where people are promoted because they're present and loyal, not because they're the best at what they do. When there are no managerial standards set in government, this is what happens.
Some of the highlights:
Louisville Metro Should Recognize Revenue In Accordance With Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- $9.7 million in accounts receivables selected for testing were in dispute with a federal grantor.
- Auditors unable to substantiate $4.8 million of deferred revenue in the general fund, $17.8 million in the special revenue fund and $23.5 million in accounts receivable for the special revenue fund.
Metro Department Of Corrections Should Take Immediate Steps To Improve Its FInancial Management
- Cash management weaknesses relating re: the use of generic manual receipt books for significant revenue sources
- Improper revenue recognition for fees
- Inappropriate segregation of duties
- Failure to properly tag, record and monitor capital assets
- IT Weaknesses
- Inconsistent information obtained from employees re: control processes
- Weak controls re: seized property which provided opportunities for theft
- High fraud risk due to the lack of controls noted and as perceived by the agency's management
Metro Department Of Corrections Should Improve Revenue Recognition And Cash Management
Auditors performed a reasonableness test on the inmate booking fee. The test resulted in estimated fees of $1,131,000. The amount actually received by Metro Govt? $370,066, a $760,934 difference. 67% less than should have been collected.
Metro Department Of Corrections Should Strengthen Internal Controls Over Inmate Receipts
When an inmate is booked, all cash on their person is deposited in an account from which fees (booking, medical, commissary, damages) and such are taken. But auditors found that inmates are not provided a detailed receipt of charges applied against their accounts upon release. You can make the necessary assumptions about how that mess is ripe for fraud, I'm sure.
Metro Finance Should Improve Internal Controls Over Bank Reconciliations
Of 96 reconciliations completed in a three-month time span, 86 of them were either missing, not dated or not completed within ten business days of the following month. When Metro Finance isn't following its own cash management policies, it's nearly impossible to detect discrepancies in a timely manner between the bank and recorded transactions.
Trust me – you'll want to read the rest of this hot mess after the jump. Metro Animal Services, LMPD, Housing, KentuckianaWorks. Departments galore. Millions at stake. Hundreds of problems. Dig in!
Metro Finance Should Improve Cash Management Procedures
The Cash Management Division of Metro Finance is responsible for cash deposits from various governmental departments. But check some of the weaknesses spotted by auditors:
- One staff member has the ability to receive cash, input receipt information, prepare reports, perform the daily count and reconciliation of the cash drawer, prepare the deposit, access the safe and void transactions
- Previously prepared deposits held in cashier's drawer
- Unsecure cash counting areas
- Receipts are not batched daily
- Surprise cash counts are not performed
- Cash drawers aren't re-counted by supervisors or other employees
- Cashiers have the ability to modify dollar amounts of checks transmitted to banks
Metro Purchasing Should Improve Internal Controls Over Contracts And Update Policies And Procedures To Better Reflect Current Practices
Check out these problems with vendor contract files:
- One file contained correspondence indicating that the contract was awarded to a bidder without review of other proposals and didn't contain a bid evaluation sheet
- Two contracts didn't contained required Human Relations Commission response documents in the bid file
- One contract didn't include a written findings form
- One couldn't be located by Metro Purchasing Staff
Metro Should Comply With KRS 45A.365 In Awarding Bids
Auditors found that during FY 2009, contracts were awarded for some services to multiple vendors to create a vendor pool instead of awarding them based on the lowest price bid as required by law.
Metro Purchasing Should Identify Required Elements For All Metro Contracts, Including A Right-To-Audit Clause
Remember the mess between Louisville Metro and LG Financial, Inc./Cordish? The forgivable loan was $1.8 million over five years for the restoration of vacant space in the Starks Building. But it didn't contain a right-to-audit clause. But when questioned by the Metro Council, Cordish/LG talked David Tandy into agreeing not to release details about the use of funds after he reviewed some documents. He even signed a confidentiality agreement.
Metro Finance Should Improve Internal Controls Over Payroll Check Distribution
Straight from the audit report, better than I can say it: During the course of our audit, we noted that the Louisville Metro Finance Payroll Division was not reconciling the number of checks printed to the "Transfer of Checks from Payroll Division to Cash Management Division" reports. In processing payroll checks, Metro Payroll Division prepared these reports each pay period of the number of checks printed for each department, and the report was then forwarded to Metro Cash Management Division along with the actual checks for disbursement. The report was used as a departmental sign off sheet when checks were picked up. Metro Cash Management Division performed a reconciliation between the Transfer of Checks report and the number of checks received, and documented the discrepancies on the payroll report. However, Metro Cash Management Division did not investigate the cause for the discrepancies, or communicate discrepancies to Metro Payroll Division for correction.
Metro Human Resources Should Implement Procedures To Improve Documentation Related To Personnel Actions
Human Resources doesn't – get this – keep an updated position personnel and action form in each employee's file. There were 13 discovered instances in which employee files didn't have updated forms. No consistency in pay rates per the form and the pay register. Meaning there's a major risk that employees could be paid incorrect salaries or be improperly classified in the payroll system.
And you wonder why the city is broke.
Metro Should Ensure Employee Benefits Are Consistently Applied In Accordance With Established Policies And Procedures
Some inconsistencies and weaknesses in Metro's payroll and personnel policies and procedures:
- 2 members of Metro management got pay-outs upon retirement for 20 days of vacation leave OVER the amount allowed by personnel policy
- 1 retiring employee got a 5-day payout for compensatory leave, which isn't allowed
- 1 member of Metro management got an annual payout contribution toward the purchase of service credit in the County Employees Retirement System. The annual contribution was set at $25,000 for the first five years initially and then was increased an additional $9,000/year. Guess what isn't mentioned anywhere in personnel policy.
Overriding policy means you can go broke even more quickly than imagined when you're in a – wait for it – major recession.
Metro Should Capitalize Asset Renovation Costs In Accordance With Generally Accepted Account Principles
Remember the Trolley Barn Renovation Project, which was partially funded by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's Transportation Enhancement funds? Check out some of the concerns raised by the audit:
- Inability to confirm total cost of renovation expenditures due to comingling public and private funds and lack of records
- Lack of sufficient oversight
- Improper procurement procedures in awarding the construction management contract
- The manager hired to solicit bids was also permitted to bid
- It wasn't ensured that the construction manager was fully bonded prior to awarding the contract
- Proper procurement procedures weren't followed for a whopping $15.3 million in construction costs
- Metro's payment to the architect on the project exceeded the contractual amount by $1.4 million
- Materials were not competitively bid
- Metro failed to appropriately capitalize construction in progress in its financial statements
Metro Finance Should Improve Internal Controls Over Reporting Capital Assets
Two duplicate items totaling $12.3 million were discovered during the audit because Metro had no procedure in place to detect and correct errors. $12.3 million!
Metro Human Resources Should Improve Procedures For Verifying Health Insurance Claim Payments
What's that sound? Why, none other than Metro Human Resources not verifying whether or not dependents are the spouse or a dependent child of a Metro employee.
Metro Departments Should Conduct Periodic Physical Counts Of Capital Assets And Improve Safeguarding By Tagging Assets
LMPD, Public Works, and Corrections… hadn't conducted physical inventory counts within the last two years. Assets weren't even tagged.
Metro Department Of Corrections Should Improve Controls Over Handwritten Receipts And Take Steps To Improve Security Of Personal Information
Handwritten receipts are provided for fingerprinting, court monitoring and copy charges. Receipt books aren't used in numerical order. No real inventory is kept. And what's that? Oh, right. Social security numbers were written on the receipts.
Metro Department Of Corrections Should Properly Segregate Incompatible Cash Management Duties Over The Inmate Fund
There are no words: The property room receives cash from two sources – cash taken from persons being booked into the jail, and from deposits made by people outside of the jail to fund an inmate's account. Those funds are received by property room officers, applied to inmate accounts, processed at shift changes, and dropped in a drop box for verification and deposited by another individual. The auditor noted that only one property room sergeant is handling these funds after they are being dropped. This officer is responsible for verifying all shift drops made, preparing the deposits, and physically taking the deposits to the bank. This sergeant has the ability to post transactions and void items in the Inmate Management System (IMS) without approval or review from another party. The auditor observed the sergeant processing multiple days of receipts, and upon inquiry the sergeant indicated that he rarely takes time off, but when he does need to take time off he doesn't allow anyone else to perform these procedures when he is out.
Metro Department Of Corrections Should Improve Internal Controls Over Timesheet Processing
During a review of payroll records, seven instances of employee timesheets not being signed by the employee and their supervisor were discovered. Meaning exactly what you think it could mean.
Metro Animal Services Should Take Steps To Improve Its Overall Business Climate
Just some of the factors making everything at MAS a nightmare?
- There was no full-time business manager from June 2009 until October 2009
- Numerous control weaknesses over major business functions like receipts, expenditures and animal inventory
- Physical working conditions at MAS are poor quality, have deteriorated since the August 2009 flood. Cramped and unclean workspaces and restrooms, overcrowded facility housing the animals, lack of security resulting in vandalism
- Employee morale diminished due to pressures stemming from internal investigations, poor public relations and employee complains filed against the Director
Imagine that. And Jerry's people merely acknowledges the mess at MAS is "less than optimal."
Metro Animal Services Should Strengthen Internal Controls Over Receipts
Highlights of internal control weaknesses:
- 17 instances of cash checkout sheets not signed
- 2 deposits included multiple days' receipts, some for more than $1,000 per day
- 10 deposits weren't supported by a checkout sheet
- Lack of physical security over checks and cash. Kept in unlocked boxes, then in a combination-locked safe at the end of the day. Pre-flood, cash was merely kept in locked drawers.
- Walked-in and mailed-in payments were not logged or otherwise tracked upon receipt
- Auditors were told receipts collected by adoption clerks were immediately taken to a drop safe. But an auditor observed an adoption receipt being placed in a desk drawer.
Metro Animal Services Should Improve Inventory Procedures
In just a few words: MAS has inadequate animal inventory procedures. As of August 25, 2009 there were 617 animals housed at the current facility.
Some of the crap:
- A full animal inventory is not performed daily
- Animal inventory counts were not performed at satellite locations in FY 2009
- 134 animals were missing in May 2009. They were initially recorded but couldn't be located or identified during the inventory process.
Louisville Metro Government Should Ensure Sufficient Authentication Is Required To Access Potentially Sensitive Information
17 out of 500 (3.4%) of machines scanned did not have sufficient authentication enabled on one or more ports. And a remote access service was active on 11 machines.
Metro Revenue Commission Employee Transfers Should Be Executed On A Timely Basis
During the review of accrued vacation pay liability, it was discovered that an employee who transferred to the Finance Department on October 13, 2008 was included in the June 30, 2009 accrual calculation for the Metro Revenue Commission. That employee's salary and benefits were still being paid by the MRC.
Metro Internal Audit Should Expedite The Investigation Of Apparent Fabricated Invoices Processed By Metro Department Of Neighborhoods Over Multiple Fiscal Years
Think it was just about a book? Guess again. One $15,000 invoice was fabricated. And…
36 invoices from 15 separate vendors processed between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2009 appear to have been created by someone other than the vendor. The checks totaled $368,660. But because investigations are not yet complete, there's potential for additional invoices to be detected.
One of those 15 vendors was Butler Books, owned by Carol Butler. She was paid $14,900 over three fiscal years. She was, of course, forced to resign along with another employee. (Oh, and Carol– You shouldn't have spoken so loudly about the book at a local coffee shop and I wouldn't have overheard months ago. Just saying.)
Metro Housing And Family Services Should Submit Accurate Performance Reports For CDBG And Home
Some of the mess surrounding required performance reports for two major grants:
- The HFS staffer responsible for reports wasn't knowledgeable of the programs' reporting requirements or about the supporting data to ensure accurate reporting
- The reports weren't submitted by the due date and only then when HUD requested them
- Worksheets used to complete reports weren't organized or summarized
- The HOME report was incorrect and didn't included necessary information
- HFS wasn't compliant with federal program requirements that require reports to be submitted for each project over $200,000
- The HOME Program Annual Performance Report was reviewed and it was discovered that it wasn't supported by Metro's financial accounting system. $3,362,254 in income was reported as balance on hand at the end of the reporting period. But Metro Finance had no accumulation of program income recorded in the accounting system.
Metro Housing And Family Services Should Continue To Strengthen Cash Management, Matching, And Earmarking Controls Over Shelter Plus Care Program And Take Appropriate Action To Ensure Program Funds Are Not Forfeited
Let's just cut straight to the point: $167,916 in grant awards were FORFEITED back to HUD thanks to lax oversight.
Metro Public Works Should Improve Procedures To Ensure Invoices Are Paid In Accordance With Contractual Agreements
Contractual agreements between Metro and various service providers related to expenditures for federal disaster relief grants were reviewed. Three major internal control weaknesses and instances of noncompliance with invoices reviewed:
- In 8 instances, 3,952.61 tons of debris were removed from Metro roads at $25/ton higher than the contracted rate. That results in $74,111 in questioned costs, representing 75% of the federal share portion of the invoices
- In 2 instances, a grid location was cleared of debris which wasn't specified in the bid. Questioned costs totaled $4,010, 75% of the fed share.
- In 6 instances, amounts were billed at rates that could not be supported in the contracts provided to the auditor. No info to determine whether the costs were allowable or accurate as billed.
That's $78,121 in questioned costs. Twice what many families make in a year.
Metro Public Works Should Implement Procedures To Ensure Grant Charges In LeAP Are Accurate And Traceable To Valid Supporting Documentation
Public Works was unable to reconcile grant accounting to the tune of an understated $1,608,084.
Metro Office Of Management And Budget Should Implement Policies And Procedures To Ensure Consistent And Equitable Application Of Its Indirect Cost Allocations
Metro apparently doesn't consistently recoup indirect costs for all departments. In FY 2009, Finance only requested reimbursement for indirect costs for two grant programs – Community Development Block Grant and Lead. A total of approximately $678,004.
Metro's approved indirect cost rate of 18.59% applied to the more than $19.8 million in direct federal program salary and benefit expenses suggests that as much as $3.7 million could be recouped. $3.7 million!
Metro Housing And Family Services Should Improve Procedures To Ensure Compliance With The Davis Beacon Act
In two instances tested, HFS didn't review the payrolls submitted by contractors to ensure wage rates paid by the contractor were in agreement with the wage rates specified in the project agreement.
Metro Housing And Family Services Should Document Its Review Of Contractors Paid With Federal Funds To Ensure Compliance With Procurement, Suspension and Debarment Requirements
You'll have to read this mess of the blame game for yourself. Serious instances of passing the buck.
Metro Housing And Family Services Should Ensure Employee Responsibilities Are Adequately Segregated
Don't listen to the Abramson Administration when they tell you changes have been wholly implemented. Check this: In response to the prior year audit comment but subsequent to FY 2009, Metro Department of Housing and Family Services (HFS) implemented new supervisory review procedures for this program. The Case Review Board, which includes the HFS Housing Director, reviews cases before funds are released. Auditors reviewed a file prepared subsequent to fiscal year 2009 and found evidence of the HFS Housing Director's review. However, since the weakness existed during FY 2009, and was not corrected until after the fiscal year, a repeat finding was warranted.
Metro Housing And Family Services Should Strengthen Internal Controls Over LIHEAP Eligibility
Eligibility determinations for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program are documented through the completion of a verification checklist and are maintained in a database. Check some of the exceptions noted by auditors:
- 12 instances where the client file didn't agree to information in the database, including instances in which applications shown as approved in the file were void in the database
- Inconsistent information between documents within the client file, including instances in which income amounts varied between application and verification checklist, as well as the housing type– affecting the dollar value of benefits an applicant can receive
- 3 instances where document copies were used instead of originals
- 9 instances where copies were incomplete
- 2 instances in which required applicant signatures were missing
- 1 instance in which disallowed documents were used for income verification
- General policy of maintaining multiple files for one individual for each time application is made
Metro Housing And Family Services Should Ensure Eligibility Requirement Procedures For Shelter Plus Care Are Followed And Required Rent Reasonableness Tests And Inspections Are Performed
48 clients were reviewed that received rental assistance during FY 2009. Each was file was reviewed for eligibility requirements, documentation of a rent reasonableness test and compliance with housing quality standards inspections. Of the 48 tested, 23 contained some deficiencies:
- 2 instances where case files didn't clearly indicate eligibility requirements were met. In one instance, a recertification was never processed. In the other, a client had a child that was over 18, requiring that the income for that person be included in the calculation – that info was never obtained
- 17 instances where there was no supervisory review or the signature was six months to a year+ past the date the occupancy agreement was signed by the tenant
- 6 instances where errors were noted with the eligibility calculation. Errors included: amounts paid to the landlord over the eligible amount, info necessary for calculations missing, discrepancies noted.
- 5 instances didn't have a timely recertification as established by policies
- 2 instances where rent reasonableness wasn't on file
- 7 instances lacking either a timely housing quality standards inspection or didn't have a re-inspection of a failed initial inspection within the required 10 days
- 1 instance where a landlord continued receiving payments for a client that transferred to the Section 8 Housing program. $363/mo for August 2008 through April 2009, totaling $3,267. Although the file contained emails noting that the individual transferred to the Section 8 program, timely follow up wasn't performed and overpayment wasn't refunded until June 2009.
- Dozens of other instances where landlords were overpaid, received payments after a tenant no longer lived in their unit or received duplicate payments.
Metro Housing And Family Services Should Continue To Strengthen Controls To Ensure Accurate Recording Of Shelter Plus Care Transactions And Ensure Reimbursement Draw Down Requests Are Only For Allowable Costs
Payments to landlords weren't properly monitored during the first half of FY 2009 to ensure proper record keeping. Coding errors occurred in draw downs and in recoding payroll expenses of the program. The auditor initially identified $1,220,975 coded in error. Of that amount, $223,769 was miscoded draw down funds, $49,958 was payroll expenses and $947,248 was landlord payments.
You tell me that's not a nightmare.
KentuckianaWorks Should Ensure WIA Grant Funds Are Used Only For Costs Allowable To WIA Programs
Questioned cleaning service costs of more than $6,000 because WIA and non-WIA programs weren't split up.
Metro Public Works Should Improve Internal Controls Procedures Over Preparation And Review Of Project Worksheets
Public Assistance Grants transactions were reviewed, identifying questioned costs of $4,012. Because an incorrect state road reduction rate was used in preparing a project worksheet.
Metro Public Works Should Strengthen Procedures Over Payroll Expenditures Charged To FEMA Disaster Grants
Payroll summary forms and timesheets were reviewed to ensure adequate internal controls were in place. Some of the noncompliances included:
- 3 instances where supporting documentation either lacked a supervisor signature or a specific employee daily job summary couldn't be located to support the amount recorded on the forced labor sheet
- 1 instance where an employee's timecard documented 6 hours of overtime but the daily job summary worksheet and the Project Worksheet's forced labor form documented a total of 8.
Metro Public Works Should Ensure All Documentation Is Maintained To Support Grant Charges And Implement Procedures To Reduce Errors In Expenses Submitted For Reimbursement
$6,533 in questioned costs because of a lack of supporting documentation.
I could go on for days, but it's probably best for you to CLICK HERE (Warning: PDF Link) to review the audit yourself.
If some of this seems like old news? It is. Remember last June when then-Chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party held a press conference about Jerry Abramson which the Courier-Journal ignored? Click here to read the remarks Cummings delivered at the time. Or here for the video footage.


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Horse racing lacks stars to compete with Tiger, LeBron
ELMONT, N.Y. - Less than 12 hours after Union Rags' dramatic finish in the final Triple Crown race there is no sign of victory at Belmont Park.
The bay colt and trainer Michael Matz shipped back to their Fair Hill (Md.) home and Bob Baffert, trainer of runner-up Paynter elected not to show up at his barn in the morning.
The circus has left town and all that is left is the clean up. Racing has been put on the back-burner once again.
COLUMN: Even a Triple Crown couldn't cure the ills
STORY: Shadow of I'll Have Another hangs over race day
STORY: Union Rags wins Belmont Stakes
Dale Romans, who trained Belmont favorite Dullahan (7th place) said of the effects of the five-week Triple Campaign that "I'm ready to go home and take a nap."
Sadly for horse racing there are a lot of fans who feel the same way.
Maybe the most ironic part of the term "racing luck" is that racing doesn't seem to get any of it.
The industry can't seem to get out its own way and getting dealt bad cards seems to be a huge part of it.
On a weekend in which racing had a chance to outshine a Game 7 in the NBA, a Stanley Cup playoff game and a Manny Pacquiao fight, the sport never got the chance.
When Triple Crown hopeful I'll Have Another pulled out of the Belmont after injuring a tendon, the air went out of the weekend and the sport.
To salt the wound, one of the most exciting Belmonts in years - with Union Rags nailing Paynter at the wire in front of 85,000 fans - will be swallowed up now by those very NBA, NHL and boxing events they had been competing against.
There was no Triple Crown but the Heat won Game 7, the Stanley Cup continues and Pacquiao's loss will generate far more discussion than the Belmont. Even Maria Sharapova winning the French Open got some of the Belmont play.
If they weren't enough competition, than how about Tiger Woods going after another U.S. Open this week to prevent racing to get much bounce out of the Belmont?
I'll Have Another's injury didn't just prevent him from running in the Belmont but also led to his retirement. The colt may become a great sire but breeding doesn't sell tickets or get people to turn on the TV or talk about the sport.
A rivalry with Union Rags and Bodemeister -- beaten in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness but less than two lengths total -- would have helped promote the sport until its next national TV spotlight - the Nov. 2-3 Breeders Cup in California.
Right now racing doesn't have the stars to bridge the gap sufficiently for the next four months.
Jennie Rees, the long-time racing writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal was asked before the Belmont to name the five horses she would put on her Horse of the Year ballot and she named I'll Have Another, Wise Dan, Successful Dan, Alteration and Shackleford.
Even if you know throw in Union Rags and Bodemeister the sport is not developing enough household names to battle in the weeks they go against LeBron, Manny and Tiger.
A Triple Crown would not have cured all the ills of the sport. But it wouldn't have hurt.
Andy Black of Manchester, N.H. "wanted to see history" so he called off a trip to Saturday's Belmont in order to watch hockey on television.
"The Triple Crown would not heal all of horse racing's problems but maybe it would make horse racing relevant again," said Paul McGinty, who owns and breeds horses in Maryland. "At least for more than a few minutes."
But racing needs more than a few minutes. And they keep getting stopped in their tracks.
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who has won 13 Triple Crown races, thinks his sport should stop depending on something that hasn't happened for 34 years and start celebrating the things that make the sport special - individual achievement.
While he admits after all the bad publicity that had racing gotten a Triple Crown it would "have been the feel good story" that was needed. But adds that the "Triple Crown (races) should enjoy its day in the sun because we are always onto something next week. It is now like the Indy 500. We watch it and then it is over and we don't think about it anymore."
So Lukas is in favor of just appreciating and celebrating each high-point, each great race and not wait for a Hail Mary event like the Triple Crown to try to salve all wounds.
"I just think we need to embrace what it is," he said. "That is who we are and we should then embrace what is in front of us. We have to look at as an advantage we have. We don't enjoy what is good about the sport. NASCAR has all of these things and they have crashes and we need to treat it like that and celebrate the guy who gets all the way around the track."
For an industry that lost a superstar in Barbaro in 2006 when he was injured in the Preakness and was euthanized almost a year later, and, then had the filly Eight Belles break both ankles in the 2008 Kentucky Derby, good things need to happen. Not bad luck events.
Or even controversy of a more benign nature such as the "Security Barn" that put all the Belmont horses grouped together in one area. A move that seemed like a slap in the face to I'll Have Another trainer Doug O'Neill and allegations in California of him using illegal substances.
Lukas called it "all political" and Romans said it was a "major blunder" and "so little thought out" as to "make a joke of things."
Romans agreed that sometimes the threat of a Triple Crown allows people to take an eye off the ball and disregard what in front of them.
"Racing is still alive and well," he said. "This is an exciting game and we saw it at its best."
Maybe Paul Reddam, owner of I'll Have Another has it right saying "this has been a fairytale up to this point. But this is real life….we're not going to look back."
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Denver Phil: Inauspicious Beginnings
Denver Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday, November 15, 2013 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM (MST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Friday November 15, 2013
Inauspicious Beginnings
7:30 pm at KPOF Hall, 1340 Sherman St. 80203
Lawrence Golon, conductor
James Buswell, violin
Beethoven: Fidelio Overture
Barber: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor
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KPOF Hall
1340 Sherman St.
Friday, November 15, 2013 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM (MST)
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Our mission is to continually redefine the way our community experiences and engages with classical music. Lawrence Golan, Music Director.


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Brian France: Telemetry, dirt racing may be part of NASCAR's future
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service
HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France provided a glimpse of the future of the sport in a Saturday press conference at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
That future may entail the use of real-time telemetry during practice sessions of competition weekends, a practice that heretofore has been taboo in NASCAR.
That future likely will include a return to dirt-track racing for the first time since 1970, when NASCAR's top series competed at the North Carolina Fairgrounds in Raleigh.
That future certainly will include a more scienced-out Sixth Generation Sprint Cup race car that also will provide a broader platform for potential sponsors and greater opportunity for the men and women behind the wheel to make a name for themselves -- literally.
First, the cars themselves. In a move away from homogeneity, the Sixth Generation cars that will make their competitive debuts during Speedweeks at Daytona represent a vast improvement over their predecessors in terms of brand identity.
France wants to make sure they're as competitive as they are identifiable.
"The missing and final piece, which we're working on now, is to improve on the quality of racing, which, as everyone knows, is a stated goal of ours, to have the closest, most competitive, tightest racing that we can, and that's what we're testing now," France said.
Identity isn't confined to the car makers -- Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota. The 2013 cars will have a new look in terms of locations of sponsor logos and drivers' names. Next year, the last names of the drivers will appear on the windshield, giving them a higher visibility.
Sponsor decals and car numbers will no longer be allowed on the headlights and taillights, two of the features that readily differentiate one car make from another. The car numbers will be moved from the lights to the front and rear bumpers.
For the first time, NASCAR will allow one sponsor logo on the roof of the car, underneath the number. Team sponsor decals can extend past the front edge of the "B" post. Because of the slightly smaller size of the Gen 6 cars, numbers will be reduced in size by 10 percent and contingency decals limited to 26 square inches.
All the cosmetics in the world won't mean much if the cars don't produce exciting racing. That's why NASCAR and its teams, in conjunction with tire maker Goodyear, have been testing extensively, both on the track and in the wind tunnel.
That's also why France opened the door to the possibility of using telemetry in practice as one way to hasten the process of getting the cars up to speed. That's why France also spoke of the development of a digital cockpit for 2014, an innovation that also might include the ability to interact via social media.
"I think we're going to try to figure all that out," France said. "You see it with fuel injection. You're seeing it with, as I said, digital cockpit. We have Sprint as our lead partner in the wireless business, so they're helping us figure that out.
"So we'll manage that differently than we did in the past, but we'll still have to be careful of if we don't get some unintended consequences. We're still race team versus race team, and we don't disturb that competitive balance."
France allowed that NASCAR may be going back to the future in terms of its choice of venues for the Camping World Truck Series. Under consideration is a truck race at Tony Stewart's half-mile dirt Eldora Speedway, where Richard Childress Racing trucks already have tested.
"It's part of our history at a high level," France said of dirt-track racing. "It still is at the weekly level. And that hasn't been completely worked out, but that's a possibility. That would put a unique twist on the Truck Series if that is able to be worked out.
"We have a lot of fans that that's what they grew up watching and seeing at their local short tracks. I ran a short track, a dirt track in Arizona when I first got there.
A short-track race at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in South Carolina also is a high likelihood.
Before France took the stage, Steve O'Donnell, NASCAR senior vice president of racing operations, announced a significant change to NASCAR's eligibility requirements for the Truck Series based on the influx of young talent into NASCAR's regional touring series.
"We're going to move the age restrictions that currently exist for the trucks from 18 down to 16," O'Donnell said, "and that rule will be in place for road courses and any tracks 1.1 mile or less."
NASCAR on Friday announced the addition of Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, to the Truck Series schedule. That will mark the first time in 13 years the trucks will compete on a road course.
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Police have opened a murder investigation, after a 30-year-old man was apparently stabbed to death in a home in Makiki. Police were called to a weapons case on Metcalf Street just before 4:30 a.m. Sunday. When they arrived, witnesses were trying to restrain the suspect in a struggle. Police found the victim unresponsive and performed CPR until paramedics arrived and took him to a trauma center in critical condition, but he died there. Police arrested a 26-year-old Kauai man and an 18-year-old Palolo man at the scene on suspicion of second-degree murder. Charges are pending. People at the house told the Honolulu Star Advertiser the victim was the aggressor, and the two men who were arrested were trying to defend a pregnant woman when the victim held a knife to her.


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Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Roundup
We have three Deus Ex: HR items, today.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun has the second part of their hands-on impressions:
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Adam Jensen is perched, dark and predatory, at the lip of a vent overlooking the interior of a warehouse, office and simple research facilty where armed, jittery radicals stalk and bark between aisles of goods. The stakes of his mission- and yours- are high. Not only do you need to recover an experimental weapon belonging to your company, not only are there hostages being held in the complex, but this is the first test of the newly augmented Jensen following the disaster that left him at death's door.
As a player, crouched up there, watching your opponents patrol and thumbing your way through your comprehensive map of the area, it's a gorgeously intimidating situation. And, being a task that could have been pulled cleanly from the design document of the original Deus Ex, it feels like a statement of intent. As such, when you play this mission you may not be entering from the roof. You may have gotten your hands bloody in a direct assault on the front door. But we're getting ahead of ourselves, and this mission demands patience.
IGN has a piece titled Does Human Revolution Feel Like Deus Ex?
The second important part of Deus Ex that Human Revolution appears to get right is the element of choice. It seems like Eidos Montreal has paid a lot of attention to this aspect in Human Revolution, both in terms of completing missions and developing Jensen. Making kills and discovering hidden pathways offers experience, eventually freeing up Praxis points. These points can then be dropped into a wide range of augmentation categories. Some augmentations go well together, like the ability to see through walls and then punch through to dismantle targets. Sadly this wall punching ability was not in the demo I played, so I concentrated on stealth for silent takedowns and hacking.
...and VG247 has five new screens and a preview roundup for those that want to catch everything.
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Living in the closet is sort of like staying in the womb! It's safe! At least we can fool ourselves into believing it is safe. But safe isn't always comfortable. It's a struggle between who we are and who we want to be. With how we wish to be known by others and how we really feel, about ourselves and about our sexuality.
Perhaps, for some of us, it's most difficult to come completely out to ourselves. It's easy being "out" at church or even in a club, where it's expected that we are gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgendered (GLBT). But what about being out to those at work? Or those people we see daily who might look up to us because of our education, or our vocation, our degrees, our career, our executive positions? What exactly is at risk here?
Do we want to be known by our accomplishments, by our personality, by our complete being? Or do we want to be known by our preference of significant other? If I do this thing, participate in the Gay Pride parade planned for spring, stand tall and proud with all my friends and church family, everyone will know. They will also see me as a professional person, as a really caring Christian, as an educated, honest person and will also know that I probably am in a loving relationship with another woman! I am a lesbian!
I can say that to myself. I haven't been able to say that to anyone else. I'm sure some of those people whose opinion of me is important will turn away. It's happened in the past. Those that do not turn their backs on me will be the true friends, the ones who really count. I know all this! I'm not ashamed of who I am. But I don't flaunt it either.
Being GLBT only means that we have a different preference in the ones with whom we choose to have intimate relationships. Society in general doesn't see it the same way we do. The majority of adults have many choices about those they will choose for a "significant other." (That phrase in itself came about because of heterosexuals who did not desire to marry in order to live together.) Everyone has basically the same choices. Those choices involve ethnicity, various backgrounds, education, affluence, etc. GLBT people make those same choices, only take it a step further and choose that "s/o" from our own gender.
What about the risk we take of not being loved? The risk of losing people in our lives whose approval has meaning to us? If I participate in this parade, all the friends of my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will know that I am a lesbian. How will that affect my family? It begins with parents and family, of course, but what about those people who only know us by our accomplishments? Are we willing to risk losing their approval?
Where is the risk here? Our Lord, Jesus Christ in Mark 12:31 gave us the greatest commandments of all. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second greatest is this, Love your neighbor as yourself there is no commandment greater than these." None. No commandment greater. "They will know we our Christians by our love!" Do they know we our Christians if we don't love ourselves enough to be who we really say we are and are completely honest with those around us? What if we don't love ourselves enough, even if we may be GLBT, to be completely honest with ourselves? Who am I kidding?
If I truly believe that the Lord loves me unconditionally and has forgiven me ALL my sins, why would I still be afraid to "come out?" What could be holding me back?
We are not an abomination to God! God created all men in God's own image. Does that mean that God is straight? Or that God is gay? That God is a man? Or that God is a woman? Is God white? Or is God black? Look around you. How many different people do you see? How many colors of hair, shades of skin, colors of eyes do you see? Some people are born blind, does that mean God is blind? Some are born without arms or legs, without some parts of the body? Who is the different one? The one that society says is perfect or the one with a deformity? Which one is the one created in God's image?
The truth is that we are all created in God's image, because God's image is spiritual, not physical. God's image is on the inside, not on the outside. God is love, pure and simple. If we follow God's will for us, that we are in constant, prayerful and loving service to God and all his creations on earth, we cannot fail. We cannot fail God. We cannot fail ourselves. And we cannot fail those around us. Not if we seek only to do God's will.
We are afraid to take the risk of "coming out" because we still see ourselves the way society sees us, on the outside. We are still putting others in little compartments of classification. We are still seeing others on the outside instead of looking at the person that God has made, the spiritual one that resides inside.
The eyes are the windows of the soul. When we first meet someone do we look into their eyes and allow our spirits to meet? Or do we take in their size, shape, color, or gender? We are trained to see the outer first. We are trained to be attracted to that "tall, dark, handsome" person, are trained to be repulsed by obesity, by deformity, and ugliness. How fortunate for us that these are learned behaviors. Learned behaviors can be unlearned and replaced with other, more appropriate and Godly behaviors.
Where do we find the pattern for the behaviors we should be changing to? They are all right there in the handbook. God gave us a wonderful manual for living. It is called the Bible. The best ones are called "study Bibles" and are geared for everyone at every stage of life. There are study Bibles for teens, for adults, for parents, for seniors, for women, for men.
But a Bible cannot be used as a handbook for living until it is opened and read. Because life is more important than a household appliance, a vehicle, or even a game, the Bible needs to be read and studied regularly, not glanced at occasionally when living brings problems. Most manuals aren't even opened until the appliance breaks down. Like any manual it begins with a basic history of how things came about and how God dealt with the world and the people in it. When God had enough, the son of God, Jesus Christ, was sent to walk the earth. He came as a helpless little baby, dependent on parents for food, clothing and nurturing. Jesus came to be the same way as each one of us did. When I was born there was no one around who said, "This baby looks like a lesbian!" I was just one of God's creations. When you were born you were just one of God's marvelous creations.
Well, guess what? We are still just one of God's marvelous creations! We have not changed. We have only made different choices! God does not love us for our choices. God only loves us because we are one of God's wonderful creations.
Addendem to Coming Out
February 26, 1998
The decision of coming out publicly at the Gay Pride Parade in Corpus Christi has been made for me. I'm not certain that it was God's work or not, but needless to say, I will NOT be participating in the parade. I found out that the parade will be held on Sunday afternoon, sometime after church. As I have to leave immediately after church for home to get ready for work at 3 p.m. it will be physically impossible for me to participate. I can't say I'm not relieved, I am. I was really struggling with this one. I realize that there is a possibility of taking that day off work. For me to get a weekend day off, especially after May 1 when our summer season begins, is next to impossible. It was very difficult getting a day off to attend an out of town event, even for one day! In the hospitality business there are no weekends, holidays, etc.
For now, I will not be able to answer the question of whether I am ready to come out publicly in a Gay Pride parade. I have been televised a couple of times at the AIDS Day services at our church. But many heterosexual people attend those services also. I guess this is something I'm supposed to struggle with for a while longer.
Another item for my Lenten prayer list.
The Harpercollins Study Bible : New Revised Standard Version
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The art of the engine will be celebrated Saturday in Fallbrook with the inaugural Motor Fest, which is scheduled to bring music, beer and horsepower to downtown.
The event will join four seasonal festivals held each year by the Historical Downtown Merchants Association and could become an annual celebration, said Michael Calvanese, president of the association.
Calvanese said inspiration for the Fallbrook Motor Fest came from the third Wheels of Desire show running at the Fallbrook Art Center, where 39 motorcycles are on display through Aug. 15.
"I just thought it would be great to piggyback on that," said Calvanese, owner of Café des Artistes in the Art Center.
While the Wheels of Desire exhibit is about motorcycles only, Calvanese said Motor Fest will be more inclusive.
"The concept is not just motorcycles," he said. "We're going to have vintage Porches, classic cars and more bikes.I was trying to get a helicopter here. Anything that has a motor. I see it expanding in the years into anything that has a motor, even yachts."
Motor Fest will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday on Main Avenue, which will be closed to traffic between Elder and Alvarado streets. The festival is free for people walking on Main Avenue to admire the motor displays, but there is a $5 fee to enter the two beer gardens at either end of the event.
Music will be provided in the beer gardens by the bands Andre J, Gin Pistons, Given Life and Indica Roots.
Vintage cars from local clubs, as well as five classic Porsches from California Porsche Restoration in Fallbrook, will line Main Avenue during Saturday's event.
People visiting the festival also will have an opportunity to stop by the Wheels of Desire show at the Art Center on the corner of Main and Alvarado. Mary Perhacs, the center's executive director, said the center will be open past its regular 4 p.m. closing time that day.
Admission to the center is $8, but visitors that day can buy a $30 VIP ticket that will get them into the center and the beer gardens, discounts to local restaurants and an event T-shirt designed by local artist Brett Stokes. Owners of some of the motorcycles on display in the show will be at the center that day, she said.
Perhacs said motorcycles and Fallbrook seem to be a good match, although he noted that some regular patrons of the center weren't convinced before the first Wheels of Desire show was presented in 2003.
"I said, 'Give it a chance,'" Perhacs said. "They came in and said, 'These are beautiful.'"
Custom motorcycles are at the heart of the popular reality television show "American Chopper," and Perhacs said a Guggenheim Museum exhibit on motorcycles inspired her to create the first Wheels of Desire show. The Fallbrook exhibit has been expanded in its third incarnation at the center, she said.
"Many people look at them as art forms," she said.
Perhacs also said she was encouraged to learn that people from Los Angeles and Palm Springs were coming to see the center's motorcycle show and that more than half of the visitors said they were interested in learning more about the center.
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How much did George Steinbrenner change in the more than quarter-century of owning the New York Yankees? Two pieces in today's coverage of Steinbrenner's death on Tuesday offer some perspective.
Dave Anderson, the venerable columnist for the New York Times, and Tyler Kepner, their well-regarded national baseball writer, offered perspectives on the Boss as part of today's coverage. Needless to say, Anderson saw a far different dimension than Kepner, who began covering the Yankees in 2002:
Wrote Anderson:
(Steinbrenner) just didn't always understand that he had his faults. Years ago, Joe Vecchione, then The Times's sports editor, was chatting with the principal owner in spring training one year when several fans stopped to get Steinbrenner's autograph. Pleasant and friendly, Steinbrenner turned and said: "Joe, look at this. Everybody loves me except Dave Anderson."
I loved George Steinbrenner, too, but as somebody to write about, certainly not somebody to work for.
By the time Kepner began covering the team, he saw a different Boss, one who went out of his way to help the Times rebound from a plagiarism scandal that had riddled it a year before. And Steinbrenner showed a very personal touch with news reporters.
Wrote Kepner:
One day in 2006 I saw him (at spring training) and shook his hand, thanking him for sending a baby gift for my daughter. It was a children's book written by his daughter Jessica, and it included a congratulatory note that emphasized the importance of fatherhood.
He did not seem to make the connection when I shook his hand, and perhaps he did not remember, or someone had sent the gift on his behalf. In any case, it was a touching gesture, and a window to the gentler side of Steinbrenner so often obscured by his bluster.
Covering Steinbrenner became a far different exercise in his latter years, when interviews were infrequent and his classic outbursts rarer and less predictable. While the baseball world mourns Steinbrenner, the news media and fans surely have reason to note the passing of another era, when the Boss made things far more interesting for those who hung on every word from baseball's most colorful owner.
By Gabe Lacques
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