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The first time I walked into St. Peters in Rome, my eyes tracked to the dove above the alter the symbol of the Holy Spirit. It was that same bird that I saw in my dream years ago.
Fr. Thomas Corbino grew up in a time when the
Roman Catholic Church in Chicago had a comfortable calm about
it. But he realized his vocation during the turbulent
days after Vatican II, when anti-war demonstrators filled the nightly
news and it seemed the last thing a young man
would want to become was a priest. Today, nearly
30 years after putting on the Roman collar, he knows
he was right to say yes when called. And
he finds joy and comfort in his work as a
diocesan priest and his membership in Regnum Christi.One of Fr.
Thomas Corbins early pastors had a tradition of occasionally placing
a berretta, the small black hat favored by some religious,
on the head of a boy he thought had what
it takes to be a priest. Young Tom Corbino
often got the hat. The pastor seems to have
been blessed with considerable insight.Fr. Tom started thinking about the
priesthood as a small boy. Through the years of
childhood, youth and college, those thoughts continued, bolstered by prayers,
dreams and well-placed encouragement.My earliest childhood memory is of my
mom taking me to church, showing me how to use
holy water and genuflect, Fr. Tom said. I was
about four years old at the time. By the
time I was in the second grade, I was actually
talking about being a priest. And I was encouraged
by my mom and the wonderful nun who was principal
of my school.School in those early years was at Holy
Trinity, a parish in what was then Chicagos Little Italy
neighborhood along Taylor Street. In was the 1950s and
the parish school was small, with four nuns teaching and
two grades assigned to most classrooms. Fr. Tom said
the nuns had an incredible impact on his life, as
they seemed to be the backbone of the school and
church -- doing everything from teaching to cleaning to cooking
to running fundraisers.Fr. Tom also remembers the two pastors who
served at Holy Trinity during his early years, both dedicated
and holy priests who would occasionally ask whether he had
an interest in the priesthood. They encouraged him, but
more than that, they were the models of what he
wanted to be.Fr. Toms family settled in Lombard, a far
west suburb. He continued high school in Chicago at
St. Philip High School, while the family joined St. Pius
X Parish in Lombard. At St. Philips, the Servite
priests also encouraged him in considering a vocation to the
priesthood.Im a priest today because of several great pastors, some
wonderful nuns and priests who modeled for me what it
means to be a priest, Fr. Tom said. They
encouraged me they were my models.After high school, Fr.
Tom attended St. Precopius College in Lisle, Illinois (now Benedictine
University). Thoughts of the priesthood continued, but took a
back seat his first couple years in college, as for
the first time he received considerable discouragement about his vocation.It
was the 1960s, a time of cultural upheaval in the
United States and the Catholic Church. American students protested
the war in Vietnam and many turned to a free
lifestyle that seemed based on sex, drugs and rock &
roll. While that might not have been the atmosphere
at St. Precopius, few students had an interest in a
religious vocation. Most wanted to get married, have a
family and get a good job.Friends from high school and
college just couldnt understand why I would want to be
a priest, Fr. Tom said. They thought I was
giving up too much. Even my father had doubts,
mostly because he feared losing a son and not having
grandchildren with the family name I was the only
boy in the family.Ironically, Fr.Tom eventually became a priest of
the diocese where his parents lived, while his two sisters
moved far away. I saw my parents fairly often,
Fr. Tom said. Sometimes, Dad and I would
walk around the local shopping mall and kids who recognized
me from church and high school teaching would come up
to say hello. I think he realized that I
might not be a dad like him, but I still
have many children.Dad died about 16 years ago, suddenly, of
a heart attack. I visited him just the day
before and his last words to me as I left
were that he loved me, he was proud of me
and he was glad I was a priest.But in the
1960s, it had taken an amazing leap of faith to
enter religious life. Vatican II was changing the church,
not always in ways intended.I had always felt comfortable in
the church, Fr. Tom said. I liked being in
the building, praying before the Blessed Sacrament. But I
knew that the church I grew up in would not
be the church in which I would serve as a
priest. So much was changing. The issue became
not whether I wanted to be a priest I
did. But I wasnt certain what it would be
like.I believe I was called to be a priest and
my answer was yes, Fr. Tom said. There never
really was a question of not being a priest
only a question of what my life would be like.A
couple years of college completed, Fr. Tom entered St. Charles
Borromeo Seminary, in Lockport, Illinois, where he finished college.
From there, it was on to Conception Seminary in Missouri.
He finished his studies for the priesthood at St.
Marys Seminary in Baltimore.It was a time of incredible transition
at each of the three seminaries, said Fr. Tom.
Both Borromeo and Conception closed within a couple years of
the time I was there. With all the changes
in the Church and society, the seminaries were trying to
define their place. I received good formation, a solid
foundation in theology. And I continued to ask God
to show me his will for me and continued
to get the answer of the priesthood.Fr. Tom was ordained
in 1972, at his family parish. For the first
four years, he served at Immaculate Conception Parish and high
school in Elmhurst, Illinois. As chaplain, teacher and department
chairman, he was asked to go to St. Charles Borromeo
Seminary, in Lockport, as Dean of students and teacher.
After that, he returned to Immaculate Conception in his former
position. The parish included 33 nuns and five priests
on the grade school, high school and parish staffs.
However, this began to change as many priests and nuns
began to leave religious life. But for Fr. Tom,
leaving was never so much as a thought.I know I
was called to my vocation, that it was the work
of the Holy Spirit, Fr. Tom said. It was
the right decision. Whenever I feel discouraged, I spend
time before the Blessed Sacrament and Im reminded that there
really is nothing to fear, that nothing of real value
can be taken away.As a young boy, I had a
recurring dream, Fr. Tom continued. I was in the
church, kneeling at the communion rail. A white bird
descended on me from the top of the church.
The first time I had this dream I was afraid
and woke up choking and crying. But after than,
I wasnt afraid.The first time I walked into St. Peters
in Rome, my eyes tracked to the dove above the
alter the symbol of the Holy Spirit. It
was that same bird that I saw in my dream
years ago.After his time at Immaculate Conception, Fr. Tom went
on to various assignments, first as an associate pastor, and
in his last two churches, as pastor. He has
had a range of experiences, including the building of a
new church in Warrenville, Illinois.In early 2001, Fr. Tom joined
a group of pilgrims to Rome, where he became a
member of Regnum Christi, the apostolic movement affiliated with the
Legionaries of Christ. He explained:In relation to diocesan priests,
a membership in Regnum Christi is a sharing in the
charism (gift) of the Legionaries of Christ and Regnum Christi.
It is not a canonical commitment (Church law) such as
the Legionaries of Christ and Regnum Christi.This allows the diocesan
priests to live out his vocation among his people with
active support. It is not for everyone, but it helps
a priest who so chooses in living his mission as
assigned by his diocesan Bishop (e.g. as a pastor or
parochial vicar).Thus Regnum Christi offers to diocesan priests a Christ-centered
spirituality based on the habit of prayer, spiritual direction, and
retreats. It allows the diocesan priest to live out his
commitment with other priests praying together, reflecting together, and growing
together. Teams of priests help each other to grow and
this impacts the personal/spiritual life of the priest.Finally, it encourages
diocesan priests to join in the charism of helping to
develop lay apostles and to evangelize and to propagate the
faith. By strengthening our own faith as priest, we help
to strengthen the faith of our people, to develop a
formation of our lay people and to develop active, committed,
properly informed, and correctly formed lay leadership to carry out
the mission of Christ and his Church.He clearly enjoys his
life of sacrifice and service. Material goods have little
meaning for him, although there is one gift he received
at the 25th anniversary of his ordination that holds special
value. It is a black berretta just like the
one the pastor put on his head five decades ago.
It turned out to be a perfect fit.


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- Backtrack on the Internet Radio Fairness Act considerably.
- Push the annual subscription option, but find some way to incentivize it.
- Cultivate additional revenue streams immediately.

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Kate Shindle, Andrew Samonsky, Betsy Wolfe and More Set for 7th Annual Broadway Sings for Toys, 12/10
The Broadway Boys will once again host Broadway's favorite holiday party and concert with the 7th Annual BROADWAY SINGS FOR TOYS: A Benefit for Toys for Tots, Monday, December 10th at 7pm. This year?s concert is a cocktail party/concert/toy drive featuring Broadway's hottest talent and is one of the most joyful and inspirational holiday events of the year.
Scheduled performers joining The Broadway Boys this year include Tony winner Adriane Lenox (Doubt, Dreamgirls), Kate Shindle (Wonderland, Legally Blonde), Andrew Samonsky (Scandalous, South Pacific), Alyssha Umphress (Bring It On, On a Clear Day...), Jenny Fellner (Wicked, Mamma Mia), Betsy Wolfe (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Everyday Rapture), the companies of Wicked, Scandalous, and Mary Poppins, and more to be announced!
A raffle will be held this year and will include prizes such as JetBlue tickets, signed cast albums, Bottles of Hammer + Sickle, and more.
The 7th Annual Broadway Sings for Toy swill be held at Joe's Pub (located 425 Lafayette Street). Tickets, are priced at $15 + new, unwrapped toy for standing room, $40 for reserved seating and $100 for a VIP package including a pre-show reception with the performers and gift bags. All tickets can be purchased by visiting on their website at www.joespub.com.
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The Wyoming Premium Heifer Program successfully closed its first year of sales yielding positive results for livestock producers who participated in the initiative.
Two combined internet video and live sales were conducted for 772 bred heifers and 774 replacement heifer calves at the Torrington Livestock Market and the Buffalo Livestock Auction in November 2012 and January 2013.
Certified bred heifers at the Torrington sale brought $22 more per head than the market average for commodity Wyoming bred heifers during that same time totaling a premium of $7,216. Certified bred heifers at the Buffalo sale brought $81 more per head, or $35,964 total, over the market average at the time of that sale for a total premium of $43,180 for both sales.
The Wyoming Premium Heifer Program is a joint venture with the University of Wyoming's Animal Science Department and the Wyoming Business Council's Agribusiness Division. It is designed to develop and market bred and replacement heifer calves that are certified under a standard set of guidelines and that would ideally demand a higher price per head at market.
John Henn, Livestock and Meat Marketing Program manager in the Business Council's Agribusiness Division, said the beef cattle industry is experiencing the lowest cow numbers since the early 1950s. The low calf and cow numbers have created an alternative market opportunity for cow-calf producers for replacement and bred heifers.
"Over the next few years we will see a very high demand on heifers from several segments of the industry creating a great marketing opportunity for cow-calf producers in the state," Henn said. "The Wyoming Premium Heifer Program is providing the ability for producers to create and capture that added value sought by buyers across the country. As the program grows over the next several years and is promoted in and out of state its reputation and recognition will be realized in the industry by sellers and buyers."
For more information on the program, contact Henn at 307.777.2847 or email@example.com.
The mission of the Business Council is to facilitate the economic growth of Wyoming. The Business Council, a state government agency, concentrates its efforts on providing assistance for existing Wyoming companies and start-ups, helping communities meet their development and diversification needs, and recruiting new firms and industries targeted to complement the state's assets. For more information, please visit the Wyoming Business Council website.


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At the home of Cate (Aka Sweetnicks), Tuscan Style Steaks with rosemary and sage were on the menu this week, along with Sweetnicks Chinese Chicken Salad.
Davis, California, U.S.A.
It has been a hectic week for Sher from What Did You Eat, and rather than resort to fast food, for times like this Sher makes Desperation Spagetti. With homemade tomato sauce from the freezer, and chopped fresh oregano and basil, this sounds pretty yummy to me.
New Jersey, U.S.A.
Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy
A fascinating thing to make from basil is the drink that Ilva from Lucullian Delights is calling Basilcello. This basil-flavored alcoholic concoction is meant to be served icy cold. As usual, don't miss the wonderful photos that accompany this recipe.
Even though it is Easter, Stephanie from The Feast Crusade is rebelling against the idea of having lamb, and thinking about the pomelo. Stephanie writes about uses of pomelo skin, gives us the name of this interesting fruit in many languages, and shares a wonderful sounding recipe for Squid, Pomelo, and Green Mango Salad. Stephanie is also drying the pomelo ring to see if she can use it as a remedy for sore throats, so stay tuned for that.
Farmgirl's Farm, Missouri, U.S.A.
Melbourne, Australia by way of Hanoi
Ed Charles has been visiting Vietnam, and I'm very jealous since that's a place I really want to go. While he is there, Ed is exploring the connection Vietnamese people have with their food, including this interesting commentary about pineapples in Vietnam.
Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A.
Strata from My Bay Area Kitchen has been doing more gardening than blogging lately, and you can tell when you see the photos of her garden producing early crops. She has enough produce to make a great salad featuring Batavian Nevada Lettuce, mesclun mix, and Nasturtium flowers and leaves.
That's all the entries for this week, but it's not too early to get started on Weekend Herb Blogging for next week. Your post doesn't have to be about herbs (any herb, veggie, plant, or flower is eligible) and it doesn't have to be on the weekend (just be sure to send me your link by mid-afternoon on Sunday to participate). For more information about the history of Weekend Herb Blogging and how to participate, check out the Weekend Herb Blogging Archives. If you'd rather read about dogs or cats, check out Weekend Dog Blogging at Sweetnicks or Weekend Cat Blogging at Eat Stuff.
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Venezuela After Chávez
Regardless of whether the president makes it to his inauguration, the angling to replace him has begun.
Is Hugo Chávez dead or alive? And if he is dead, won't that make it difficult for him to take the oath of office on Thursday—when he is supposed to be sworn in as the Venezuela's president for another six-year term?
Inquiring Venezuelans want to know. It has been four weeks since Mr. Chávez left the country for cancer surgery in Havana, and he has yet to make a postoperative public appearance. The details of his illness and his...


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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a group of inherited disorders that affect your connective tissues — primarily your skin, joints and blood vessel walls. Connective tissue is a complex mixture of proteins and other substances that provides strength and elasticity to the underlying structures in your body.
People who have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome usually have overly flexible joints and stretchy, fragile skin. This can become a problem if you have a wound that requires stitches, because the skin often isn't strong enough to hold them.
A more severe form of the disorder, called vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, can cause the walls of your blood vessels, intestines or uterus to rupture. If you have vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, you may want to talk to a genetic counselor before starting a family.
Signs and symptoms of the most common form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome include:
Symptom severity can vary from person to person. Some people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome will have overly flexible joints, but few or none of the skin symptoms.
People who have the vascular subtype of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome often share distinctive facial features of a thin nose, thin upper lip, small earlobes and prominent eyes. They also have thin, translucent skin that bruises very easily. In fair-skinned people, the underlying blood vessels are very visible through the skin.
One of the most severe forms of the disorder, vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome can weaken your heart's largest artery (aorta), as well as the arteries to your kidneys and spleen. A rupture of any of these blood vessels can be fatal. The vascular subtype also can weaken the walls of the uterus or large intestines — which may also rupture.
Different subtypes of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome are associated with a variety of genetic causes, some of which are inherited and passed on from parent to child. If you have the most common varieties of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, there's a 50 percent chance that you'll pass on the gene to each of your children.
Complications depend on the types of signs and symptoms you have. For example, overly flexible joints can result in joint dislocations and early-onset arthritis. Fragile skin may develop prominent scarring.
People who have vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome are at risk of often fatal ruptures of major blood vessels. Some organs, such as the uterus and intestines, also may rupture. Pregnancy can increase these risks.
You might first bring your concerns to the attention of your family doctor, but he or she may refer you to a doctor who specializes in genetic diseases.
Before your appointment, you may want to write a list of answers to the following questions:
Your doctor may ask some of the following questions:
Extremely loose joints, fragile or stretchy skin, and a family history of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome are often enough to make a diagnosis. Genetic tests on a sample of your blood can confirm the diagnosis in some cases and help rule out other problems.
There is no cure for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, but treatment can help you manage your symptoms and prevent further complications.
Your doctor may prescribe drugs to help you control:
Joints with weak connective tissue are more likely to dislocate. Exercises to strengthen the muscles around a joint can help stabilize the joint. Your physical therapist might also recommend specific braces to help prevent joint dislocations.
In rare cases, surgery is recommended to repair joints damaged by repeated dislocations. However, your skin and the connective tissue of the affected joint may not heal properly after the surgery.
If you have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, it's important to prevent injuries. Here are a few things you can do to safeguard yourself.
Coping with a lifelong illness is challenging. Depending on the severity of your symptoms, you may face challenges at home, at work and in your relationships with others. Here are some suggestions that may help you cope:
If you are a parent of a child with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, consider these suggestions to help your child:
If you have a personal or family history of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and you're thinking about starting a family, you may benefit from talking to a genetic counselor — a health care professional trained to assess the risk of inherited disorders. Genetic counseling can help you understand the inheritance pattern of the type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome that affects you and the risks it poses for your children.
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Specialists in medical genetics at Mayo Clinic's campus in Minnesota coordinate care for children and adults with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Specialists in pediatrics and vascular surgery are often involved in care of children 5 years and older.
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Marywood Celebrates Spiritual Heritage and Cultural Life through Music
Published on Tue, February 25, 2014
The Music, Theatre, and Dance Department recently completed its work on a CD, titled Meditations. The recording is a celebration of spiritual music for violin and piano, featuring Sophie Till, M.M., clinical assistant professor of violin, and Ron Stabinsky, pianist.
The music represented in Meditations is from different denominations and was recorded in the Marian Chapel. By selecting repertoires from across the denominational spectrum, the music reflects many different faiths, from music for a Bar Mitzvah to music for Easter about the crucifixion, as well as spirituals from the African American tradition. The repertoire has been used for several concerts, including two in the United Kingdom.
Meditations can be purchased online. Proceeds from the sale of the CD benefit the Music, Theatre, and Dance Department.


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Re-exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) occur when foreign LNG shipments are offloaded into above-ground U.S. storage tanks located on-site at regasification terminals and then subsequently reloaded onto tankers for delivery to other countries. A total of 53.4 billion cubic feet (Bcf) were re-exported in 2011, compared to 32.9 Bcf in 2010. Re-exports of foreign-sourced LNG from U.S. LNG terminals exceeded 12 Bcf in January 2011, equivalent to about 30 percent of U.S. LNG import volumes during that month. There are currently three U.S. LNG terminals that have been granted Federal approval to re-export LNG: Freeport in Texas, and Sabine Pass and Cameron in Louisiana.
U.S. LNG imports and deliveries from terminals to the domestic market are down relative to last year due to increasing domestic natural gas production and average U.S. spot natural gas prices that are well below levels in other major natural gas markets with the capability to import LNG.
Typically, low utilization at these terminals has created available LNG storage capacity in their storage tanks. Re-exportation of LNG lets marketers and suppliers store gas that may have come on the market during times of excess world natural gas supply, while waiting for higher prices before delivering their LNG, typically to the higher-paying markets in Asia, Europe, and South America.
(For the Week Ending Wednesday, February 22, 2012)
- Spot prices at most trading locations across the country posted only small changes for the report week. Spot price changes were mixed, with prices at most locations rising or falling by less than 10 cents. The Henry Hub spot price posted a net increase of 6 cents, rising from $2.54 per million British thermal unit (MMBtu) last Wednesday, February 15, to $2.60 per MMBtu yesterday.
- At the New York Mercantile Exchange, the near-month (March 2012) contract rose from $2.425 per MMBtu last Wednesday to $2.643 yesterday.
- Inventories of working natural gas in storage were 2,595 Bcf as of Friday, February 17, according to EIA's Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR). This represents an implied net withdrawal of 166 Bcf
- The natural gas rotary rig count fell by 4 to 716 last week, according to data reported on February 17 by Baker Hughes Incorporated.
Changes in spot prices during the report week were mixed, and small. The Henry Hub price rose 6 cents on the week, from $2.54 per MMBtu last Wednesday to end yesterday at $2.60 per MMBtu. Prices at almost all trading locations showed double-digit increases on Friday, February 17, heading into the long weekend, likely in anticipation of forecasted cold weather, but these gains were reversed in the following trading days. Compared to the rest of the country, several trading points in New England posted relatively large declines for the week. The spot price at the Algonquin Citygate, which serves Boston, declined 20 cents per MMBtu to end the week at $3.07 per MMBtu.
Spot prices remain well below their year-ago levels. Last year, on February 23, the Henry Hub price settled at $3.83 per MMBtu. The price last year at Transcontinental Pipeline's Zone 6 trading point for delivery into New York City was $8.38 per MMBtu (compared to a price of $2.88 per MMBtu yesterday), and last year's Algonquin Citygate price was $8.80 per MMBtu. Abundant production and storage over the past year have played a role in the price declines.
Supply declined slightly this week, as production remained flat and pipeline imports and LNG sendout declined, according to data reported by BENTEK Energy, LLC (Bentek). Although overall Canadian imports declined 11.5 percent from last week, imports from Canada to the West increased over the previous week, likely the result of increased power demand in the Pacific Northwest. LNG sendout declined after rising to relative highs last week to meet increased demand from cold weather, according to Bentek.
Demand declined after rising last week in response to the cold. Domestic consumption fell by 15.5 percent during the week, but was 9.7 percent greater than last year. The year-over-year increase this week was driven by a large increase in use of natural gas for electric power generation. Bentek data show that use of natural gas for power generation is higher than last year in seven of the eight regions it reports. Texas and the Southeast United States, which are particularly dependent on natural gas for power generation, have seen large year-over-year increases in power burn.
The NYMEX near-month futures contract rose during the week by more than 20 cents. The March 2012 contract increased from $2.425 per MMBtu last Wednesday to $2.643 yesterday, possibly reflecting expectations for a large natural gas inventory withdrawal report. The 12-month strip (the average of the 12 contracts from March 2012 to February 2013) rose from $3.044 last Wednesday to $3.175 yesterday.
Working natural gas in storage fell to 2,595 Bcf as of Friday, February 17, according to EIA's WNGSR. This represents an implied net withdrawal of 166 Bcf from the previous week, which is 14 percent more than the 5-year average implied net withdrawal of 145 Bcf. Inventories in all three regions posted declines, with the East region contributing the most to this week's implied net withdrawal, with a decrease of 97 Bcf (a 7.3 percent decline from the previous week's level).
Stocks were 744 Bcf higher than the 5-year average level of 1,851 Bcf and 753 Bcf higher than last year at this time. Inventories in the Producing Region remain 343 Bcf (52.8 percent) above the 5-year average of 650 Bcf. Stocks in the East and West Regions are also above their 5-year averages by 300 Bcf (32.2 percent) and 102 Bcf (38.1 percent), respectively.
Temperatures during the week ending Thursday, February 16 averaged 36.1 degrees, 4.3 degrees cooler than last week. National average temperatures were below normal for the first time since November 11 last year, averaging 0.1 degrees colder than the 30-year normal temperature and 0.3 degrees colder than the same period last year. Regionally, temperatures were warmer than normal in the Northeast and the East North Central region, but cooler than normal in the other areas of the country. The average temperatures in the East South Central and West South Central regions in the South were particularly cold, both averaging 3.6 degrees cooler than normal. Heating degree-days nationwide were 0.5 percent above normal and 1.5 percent above last year.


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The Long Ball about the 75 season (Great book), and in it they told the story about a light-hitting 3B the Reds had before they moved Rose there (cant remember his name), who Sparky pinch-hit for in the second inning. The guy was obviously livid and railed on Sparky for killing his confidence and Sparky replied, I dont give a @#$* about your CONFIDENCE! Im here to win ballgames, and if I think pinch-hitting for you in the first inning will help me do it, I will.
Hello Dusty...remove Gomes...stop worrying about his confidence and such, and this view..
Im trying to be patient, waiting on Jonny, because I know how he can carry your club, Baker said. Hes putting a lot of pressure on himself, being his option year. If he doesnt play some, hes not going to get it at all.
Baker said that Gomes, a former American Leaguer with Tampa Bay, is the top candidate to be the designated hitter when the Reds visit Cleveland this weekend.


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1992 Ford F-350 Problems
RepairPal has identified the most common problems with the 1992 Ford F-350 based on complaints from actual vehicle owners. We'll tell you what the problem is and what it'll take to fix it.
The FIPL (fuel injection pump lever) sensor may fail. When this sensor goes bad, shifting is erratic and the Check Engine Light should illuminate. Proper adjustment of this sensor (when replacing it) is a must or the problem will continue. See service manuals for proper adjustment of the FIPL sensor.
A ticking noise may develop from the engine due to a warped exhaust manifold. Damaged exhaust manifolds will require replacement to correct this issue.
The engine oil pan gasket can develop a leak. Leaking oil may accumulate on the exhaust system resulting in a burning smell. Replacing the gasket should correct this leak.
Catalytic converters can go bad and potentially plug the exhaust, hurting engine efficiency and performance.
The front brakes may stick, bind, or grab. This can happen when the front brake caliper pins become corroded. Cleaning or replacing the caliper pins will be necessary to correct this problem.
Failure to change the power steering fluid can cause the fluid to become gray with metal particles. The contaminated fluid can damage the power steering pump resulting in a growling noise when the wheel is turned; the damaged pump will require replacement to eliminate the noise.. Life of the power steering gearbox and pump will be shortened if the fluid is not serviced regularly.
The tachometer sensor may fail; if the tachometer needle jumps around and the transmission has harsh shifts or does not upshift, this sensor should be checked. This sensor is mounted in a cover at the front of the motor.


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Today Eli had his first visit to the play park! Obviously he didn't do much playing, rather, he slept the entire time... a pleasant surprise. His two girlfriends, Jolie and Lucy, came as well! We met these girls and their moms at a nursing group we attend every Wednesday morning. Can you tell these babies were all born within a week of each other?
Tomorrow Lucy's mom is going to teach me how to KNIT - I'm so excited!
Don't worry, I'll let you know if I succeed. There's nothing sweeter than a hand-knit baby blanket!


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Antihyperlipidemic Effects of Oyster Mushrooms
This study has been completed.
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
Information provided by:
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 29, 2003
Last updated: September 25, 2007
Last verified: September 2007
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The primary goal of this study is to evaluate the short-term safety and potential efficacy of oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) for treatment of hyperlipidemia in HIV-infected patients who are taking Kaletra, a protease inhibitor (PI) that is commonly used in highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).
|HIV Infections Hyperlipidemia
|Drug: oyster mushroom
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Antihyperlipidemic Effects of Oyster Mushrooms
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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDSU.S. FDA Resources
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|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|June 2004
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|May 2006
This is a single-arm, open-label, 8-week "proof of concept" pilot study in 20 subjects to determine if there are detectable lipid-lowering effects of oyster mushrooms in patients with HIV and hyperlipidemia who are taking Kaletra (a ritonavir-containing HAART regimen). The study will also assess whether the concurrent administration of oyster mushrooms and such regimens is safe, and investigate the mechanism of action whereby oyster mushrooms may exert their antihyperlipidemic effect.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion criteria:
- Documented HIV infection (positive ELISA and Western Blot or measurable plasma HIV RNA).
- Taking Kaletra (ritonavir/lopinavir), a ritonavir-containing antiretroviral therapy, for at least 12 weeks
- Elevated non-HDL cholesterol >= 160 mg/dl as defined by the National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines (within 30 days of enrollment)
- AST or ALT <2.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) within 30 days of study entry.
Exclusion criteria:
- Currently receiving antihyperlipidemic treatment (e.g., statins, fibrates, bile sequestrants, niacin)
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
- Documented history of myopathy or myalgias on HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors
- Documented history of rhabdomyolysis
- Documented diagnosis of diabetes mellitus
- Any condition that, in the judgment of the investigator, precludes successful participation in the study.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00069524
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00069524
|United States, California
|General Clinical Research Center, San Francisco General Hospital
|San Francisco, California, United States
Sponsors and Collaborators
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|Principal Investigator:
|Donald I Abrams, MD
|University of California, San Francisco
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R21AT001782-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|September 29, 2003
|Last Updated:
|September 25, 2007
Keywords provided by National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH):
Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)
Oyster mushrooms
Non-HDL cholesterol
Complementary Therapies
Treatment Experienced
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Lipid Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Hypolipidemic Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Lipid Regulating Agents
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With a last second play setup you need a couple good screeners and some shooters. The play drawn would have worked well if it wasn't thrown in to Foster, rather someone who looked for a quick pass to Dunleavy, and if not available could turn and shoot. For the sake of it lets just say it was broken, Its hard to believe the play was designed for a one option pass to Dunleavy.
Brandon Rush needs to be in the game more, especially with Daniels out. Its obvious his minutes would lessen with the return of Dunleavy, but how much better would it have been to see Rush guarding Kobe to allow Granger to be involved in the final play? We know he's a rookie and has his shortcomings, but the talents he does possess (defense and shooting range) need to be utilized more efficiently. O'Brien should consider dropping the bench banishments to 'teach lessons' and keep those players available for whatever advantage they may bring.


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For a few years now I've been completely infatuated with roasted vegetables. I've experimented with Roasted Asparagus, Roasted Broccoli, Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Roasted Butternut Squash, Roasted Carrots, Roasted Cauliflower, Roasted Green Beans, Roasted Mushrooms, Roasted Vidalia Onions, Roasted Radishes, Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Roasted Turnips, and Roasted Zucchini! Winter is the perfect time to make roasted veggies, when you don't mind heating up the house and you might be using the oven to cook other parts of the dinner anyway. I often toss my roasted vegetables with Parmesan cheese after they're cooked, but this recipe was a happy experiment where I added the cheese before I roasted the cauliflower, and it was crispy and delicious!
(Makes 2-4 servings, depending on the size of the head of cauliflower and what else you're serving it with; recipe created by Kalyn and inspired by many roasted vegetable recipes through the years.)
1 head cauliflower, core cut away and cut into bite-sized flowerets
1-2 T olive oil (enough to coat all the cauliflower)
salt and fresh-ground black pepper to taste
2-3 T freshly grated Parmesan cheese (depending on the size of your head of cauliflower; I used coarsely grated cheese)
I don't think this would reheat especially well, but you probably won't have any left!
South Beach/Low-Carb Suggestions:
Cauliflower is a very low-glycemic and low-carb vegetable, and this cauliflower recipe would make a great side dish for any phase of the South Beach Diet as well as any other type of low-carb eating plan.
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More Fun Ways to Cook Cauliflower:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Cauliflower Gratin with Sharp Cheddar and Parmesan from Kalyn's Kitchen
Pureed Cauliflower with Garlic, Parmesan, and Goat Cheese from Kalyn's Kitchen
Spiced Cauliflower with Sesame Seeds from 101 Cookbooks
Cauliflower Dal with Panch Phoron from Fat Free Vegan Kitchen
Roasted Cauliflower with Bacon and Garlic from Steamy Kitchen
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Oprah Winfrey said she wept for half an hour when she heard a dorm matron was accused of abusing students at her school for disadvantaged South African girls. She promised to "clean house" starting with the headmistress.
Winfrey said officials at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls hid facts and told students to "put on happy faces" and not complain to her. Though she said she was not responsible for hiring at the school, she said the screening process was inadequate and "the buck always stops with me."
She spoke to reporters in South Africa by satellite from the United States hours after the accused dormitory matron appeared in court near Johannesburg.
Tiny Virginia Makopo, 27, was not asked to submit a formal plea. But she said she was "not guilty" of the 13 charges of indecent assault, assault and criminal injury against six students ages 13 to 15 and a 23-year-old fellow dormitory matron.
Makopo, who was arrested Thursday, was freed on $450 bail and ordered to return to court on Dec. 13.
Superintendent Andre Neethling, from the police's sexual offenses and child protection unit, said there were at least three serious cases of indecent assault and that the alleged abuse had taken place over four months.
The $40 million school opened with much fanfare in January with a ceremony attended by a cast of celebrities including Nelson Mandela, Spike Lee, Sidney Poitier, Mariah Carey and Tina Turner.
Before the allegations, Winfrey said she had told the pupils she was the "momma bear" who would protect them.
Winfrey said she had been informed by the school's chief executive, John Samuel, in early October that 15 girls had produced a list of complaints including the sexual assault of a classmate.
"When I first heard about it I spent about a half hour crying, moving from room to room in my house," Winfrey told the news conference, calling it "one of most devastating experiences of my life."
The talk show host has spoken in the past of being raped by a distant cousin at age 9 and then abused by three other men, trusted family friends. She has campaigned for laws in the United States to protect children from abusers
Winfrey said that because of the high rates of rape and sexual abuse in South Africa, she had worked to ensure outsiders would not be able to reach students at the school.
But "as often is the case, child abuse, sexual abuse, happens right within the family, right within the confines of people you know," she said. "My experience with child predators is that no one ever abuses just one child," Winfrey said.
After hearing of the allegations, she organized an independent investigation headed by Richard Farley, a Chicago detective who specializes in child abuse.
Winfrey said she flew to South Africa to speak with the students and encourage them to come forward with their complaints.
"This was a chance for them to break the silence," she said.
Makopo was suspended from her job at the school on Oct. 17.
Three days later, Winfrey flew to South Africa again to meet with parents and "apologized for the unfortunate circumstance and promised changes."
She said Monday that the school headmistress contract would not be renewed and indicated others also would be dismissed. She said the changes will involve "cleaning house from top to bottom."
But Winfrey was adamant that the scandal had not affected her desire to help the girls achieve a better future.
"No one-not the accused nor any persons-can destroy the dream I have held and the dream that each girl continues to hold for herself at this school. Their lights will not be diminished by this experience," she said.
Samuel, the chief executive, said there was now a sense of relief at the school and that life was beginning to return to normal.
"We are beginning to heal. The spirit of the girls remains strong," he said Monday.


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Topic: Portal vein intrusion CC
I am currently living in Japan with my fiance (we are both from Pennsylvania)
My fiance's father was just diagnosed with Cholangiocarcinoma. The tumor is around 6cm and has invaded the Portal Vein, so the doctors at University of Pennsylvania said that his tumor is not resectable. As far as they know, it has not spread. We submitted the data to Sloan and Hershey medical center, but we haven't gotten a second opinion yet.
He is only 50 years old. He is otherwise healthy. His heart is working great. his father just passed away half a year ago from cancer. We are losing our mind...
They are gonna start chemo/radiation therapy this week. It will be for 5 times a week for 6 weeks. My fiance will go back to the states and look for a job around where her dad lives in PA. I am trying to look for a job before I move, because two incomes gone at once will be too risky because cancer treatment is very expensive.
Sorry for the long introduction, but we have couple questions
1. Will this chemo/radiation likely to shrink the tumor and be resectable?
2. We currently live in Japan, where CC is extremely common compared to the states. I am fully bilingual in Japanese and English. Should we look into transferring her father over here?
3. I found couple articles regarding Japanese doctors performing portal vein and hepatectomy with promising results
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/jour … p;SRETRY=0
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articl … id=1356151
Ofcourse, if the combined removal is performed in United States with promising results, I would transfer him immediately. However, from what I understand, that really isnt the case...
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Q. Occasionally my slicer-shredder will not turn on, or the ON-OFF switch works intermittently. Why is this?
Q. Sometimes I have trouble disengaging the food chamber assembly from the motorized base? What am I doing wrong?
Q. How come I sometimes have to use a lot of pressure to get food out of the slicing-shredding chute or no food comes out at all?
Q. Occasionally my slicer/shredder will not turn on, or the ON-OFF switch works intermittently. Why is this?
A. Most likely the food chamber assembly is not attached properly to the motorized base. The slicer/shredder power switch is designed to work only when the food chamber is centered with the handle on the motorized base. Either the ON-OFF latch on the motorized base is not positioned directly between the two tabs on the food chamber or the interlock bracket on the bottom of the food chamber assembly is not positioned in the bracket slot on the front of the motorized base (see Fig. G, H, and I in the instruction manual that came with the slicer/shredder). Should the ON-OFF switch operate intermittently, check the position of the food chamber. Realign it so it is centered properly.
Q. Sometimes I have trouble disengaging the food chamber assembly from the motorized base. What am I doing wrong?
A. You probably forgot to turn the slicer/shredder power switch off. The unit is designed with a safety switch feature which prevents the food chamber from being removed when the slicer/shredder power switch is in the ON position.
Q. Why do I sometimes have to use a lot of pressure to get food out of the slicing/shredding chute or no food comes out at all?
A. Any of the following may be occurring:
(1) You have packed the food chamber too tightly. Foods should fit loosely in the food chamber. Leafy vegetables, such as cabbage and lettuce, should be cut into chunks the size of the food chamber.
(2) The food is not fresh and firm. All food slices and shreds better when it is fresh and firm.
(3) Pieces of the fruit or vegetable may have wrapped around the cutting cone during processing or may have become wedged in the cutting cone preventing food from coming out. If this occurs, simply disconnect the unit from the outlet, remove the cutting cone, and clean out the buildup of food.
(4) You may be slicing or shredding a hard vegetable, such as a sweet potato, or shredding cheese. Cheese and hard vegetables may require more pressure on the food guide. Sometimes when slicing or shredding hard vegetables or when shredding cheese, the motor may sound as if it is laboring. This is normal.


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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday announced that the agency has not found evidence to support a finding of severe "economic harm" that would warrant granting a waiver of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). The decision is based on economic analyses and modeling done in conjunction with the USDA and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
"We recognize that this year's drought has created hardship in some sectors of the economy, particularly for livestock producers," said Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Air and Radiation. "But our extensive analysis makes clear that Congressional requirements for a waiver have not been met and that waiving the RFS will have little, if any, impact."
To support the waiver decision, EPA conducted several economic analyses. Economic analyses of impacts in the agricultural sector, conducted with USDA, showed that on average waiving the mandate would only reduce corn prices by approximately one percent. Economic analyses of impacts in the energy sector, conducted with DOE, showed that waiving the mandate would not impact household energy costs.
A coalition of livestock, poultry and dairy organizations expressed extreme disappointment with the EPA's decision.
The National Council of Chain Restaurants issued the following statement from Executive Director Rob Green on EPA's decision: "We are very disappointed in the Environmental Protection Agency's decision not to grant a waiver from the Renewable Fuel Standard ethanol mandate.
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) expressed its gratitude for the decision. "The National Corn Growers Association supports the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to deny the Renewable Fuels Standard waiver request. We believe Administrator Jackson appropriately recognized petitioners did not properly prove severe nationwide economic harm had occurred thereby creating no justification for a waiver of the RFS," said NCGA President Pam Johnson.
Earlier this summer governors of nine states along with 156 U.S. House members and 26 U.S Senators officially petitioned the EPA to grant the RFS waiver. In addition, the waiver was requested by many poultry and livestock groups.
In comments to the EPA in October, the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) said a waiver of the federal requirement for the production of corn ethanol was needed because the mandate, along with the 2012 drought, have pushed up prices of feed grains causing severe economic harm to pork producers.
The RFS requires 13.2 billion gallons of ethanol to be made from corn in 2012 and 13.9 billion gallons in 2013. The amounts will use about 4.7 billion and 4.9 billion bushels, respectively, of the nation's corn crop. The USDA estimates that just 10.7 billion bushels of corn will be harvested this year.
EPA is responsible for developing and implementing regulations to ensure that transportation fuel sold in the United States contains a minimum volume of renewable fuel. The RFS program regulations were developed in collaboration with refiners, renewable fuel producers, and many other stakeholders.
The RFS program was created under the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005, and established the first renewable fuel volume mandate in the United States. As required under EPAct, the original RFS program (RFS1) required 7.5 billion gallons of renewable- fuel to be blended into gasoline by 2012.
According to EPA, under the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, the RFS program was expanded in several key ways:
- EISA expanded the RFS program to include diesel, in addition to gasoline;
- EISA increased the volume of renewable fuel required to be blended into transportation fuel from 9 billion gallons in 2008 to 36 billion gallons by 2022;
- EISA established new categories of renewable fuel, and set separate volume requirements for each one.
- EISA required EPA to apply lifecycle greenhouse gas performance threshold standards to ensure that each category of renewable fuel emits fewer greenhouse gases than the petroleum fuel it replaces.
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BERKELEY -- Could you forgive someone who disagrees with your sexual orientation so vehemently that he straps razor blades to his boots, kicks you in the head and leaves you for dead?
That's the heavy question pondered in a 23-minute documentary by a Berkeley filmmaker up for an Academy Award on Sunday night.
"I don't know if I could forgive someone the way he has been able to forgive me," says former neo-Nazi skinhead Tim Zaal, 48, in the opening line of "Facing Fear."
"I knew the only way I was going to get past it was to forgive him," says his victim, and now friend, Matthew Boger. "And that is a huge undertaking."
The story retells the horrific beating of Boger by Zaal and 13 of his jackbooted buddies in the late 1980s and proceeds through 25 years of guilt and anger experienced by both of them, followed by a chance meeting between tormentor and victim in the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, of all places. It gives it an almost too-good-to-be-true feeling. But true it is, and that's what's so amazing about the story, you can't make stuff like this up.
Berkeley resident Jason Cohen, 42, is contending for an Oscar in the Documentary Short Subject category, along with his collaborators, including his co-producer and editor, Oakland resident Tom
The film was edited in Berkeley's own Zaentz Media Center in West Berkeley.
Cohen, who wrote, produced and directed "Facing Fear," learned of the story through the Fetzer Institute, a group focused on love and forgiveness worldwide, that hired him to document stories like
this one.
This latest effort is not a newly discovered story. Boger and Zaal had been working together giving presentations on forgiveness and tolerance at the Museum of Tolerance for six years before Cohen decided to tell their story on film.
"Our goal had been to explore the process of forgiveness they were going through over the last six years," Cohen said. "We felt it hadn't been done really, up to that point. The idea was: Let's show how these guys grew in this process over six years in dealing with the challenges and struggles for forgiveness. And then there's the perpetrator and his own inner struggle and forgiving himself, which he talks about a lot in the film."
The shooting and editing of the film, and the fact that both men have been telling their story before audiences for six years, dismisses the need for any narration.
In classic docu-style interviews, the two tell the story themselves. Although they were interviewed separately, the editing has one man almost finishing the other's
"I don't really like that 'Voice of God' narration style," Cohen said. "I'd rather have the people in the film tell the story because it feels more honest to me. And we're not trying to tell people that forgiveness is the answer. We wanted people to make their own decisions on how it relates to them. Some people don't buy it."
Christopher said as he was working on the film and talking to his wife about it over dinner, the conversation kept coming back to the seemingly insurmountable idea of forgiving someone for such a horrific act.
"My wife was a very difficult sell on this topic," Christopher said. "She would say how could someone do this? Could you do this yourself? She made it very personal. I needed to make it seem visceral, something you could believe. In that way, we had our work cut out for us. Our biggest challenge was selling forgiveness. We're not trying to tell you how to do this; we're telling a story about two people who did it and how they did it."
Cohen joins a long list of documentary filmmakers with ties to the Bay Area who have been nominated over the years, including Charles Ferguson, who won an Academy Award in 2010 for the "Inside Job" about the U.S. financial crisis; Steven Okazaki, who has been nominated four times, most recently in 2008, and won in 1990 for "Days of Waiting," about a female Caucasian artist who voluntarily went to an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II; and Jessica Yu, who won a 1996 Oscar for "Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien," a film about a Berkeley journalist and poet and his struggle with polio that forced him to live much of his life in an iron lung.
Cohen, who has been busy working the media like a mad man leading up to the Academy Awards, said he hasn't thought about a speech if he wins.
"I haven't had time to think about all that," Cohen said. "We're already happy because the recognition is going to achieve our goal, because we know it will affect a lot of people."
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Academy awards BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
"Cavedigger" -- Jeffrey Karoff
"Facing Fear" -- Jason Cohen
"Karama Has No Walls" -- Sara Ishaq
"The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life" -- Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
"Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall" -- Edgar Barens


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Politics and music go together like sex and drugs. Last night New York got a mix of it all. My home stage will now allow same sex marragies. Whether or not you agree with what the fat old white people decided it's a win for freedom. People who wanted to do something they couldn't do before now can. The small town boy in the Bronski Beat song was always welcome in NYC.
"Mother will never understand why you had to leave. For the love that you need will never be found at home. And the answer you seek will never be found at home. Run away, turn away, Run away, turn away." – Jimmy Sommerville (Bronski Beat)
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How, why, and the effects of the Montreal Screwjob
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It is in my opinion, the best and worst moment in history of Survivor Series. The moment in 97, people are still talking about to this day. Decided to dedicate a blog of breaking down how, why, and try to explain the effects of Montreal Screwjob based on my opinion. This moment didn't just effect Bret, Vince, & HBK.....it also had an effect on the wrestling world.
Why it happened:
History-Before the Montreal Screwjob, Bret and HBK weren't the best of friends. Post Iron Man Match @ WM12 according to Bret, Bret attempted to shake HBK's hand and HBK told him to get the f out of the ring. Following year, planned match WM13 was suppose to be a rematch w/HBK losing. Bret felt if he jobbed for HBK, HBK should job for him. HBK lose his smile according to HBK, he got in a bar fight and got beat up bad. Bret thought it was a phony injury to get out of jobbing for Bret @ WM. HBK also dated Sunny in which she was a friend of Bret's. HBK believed at 1x that she was cheating on him w/Bret. "Sunny Days" promo on Raw.
Why Bret didn't want to lose to HBK:
- Didn't like the direction the company was heading into the "Attitude Era". HBK fit that mold driving for the change with the clique.
- Felt if HBK won the title again, clique members would be the ones who will get the title shots and main event matches. Holding back friends like Taker, Stone Cold, among others.
- Bret claims Canada didn't play a factor "nec". It did, I believe at least based on the information I know. 1 of the biggest heroes in Canada losing to a man that put a Canadian flag up his nose.
Why Vince screwed Bret?:
- Leaving to a rival company who already threw 1 of your belts in the garbage on National TV.
- Bret and HBK had several fights backstage where everyone got sick of it. 1 of them had to go....
- Bret refused to lose to HBK. He hates HBK, clique, and the direction of the company. Went public about it on TV weeks before Survivor Series.
Other info on the Screwjob:
Vince offered and Bret signed a 20 year contract. Turning down an offer to go to WCW. At the time, WWF were struggling financially according to Vince which is why he wanted out of his 20 year contract with Bret. Vince + Bret arranged him to go to WCW because Vince believed Bret deserved the money he couldn't afford to give him. Bret believed if he lost to HBK...it would kill the "Hitman" character. Bret isn't the #1 face or heel in the company at the time. Bret wanted to leave on his own terms. Didn't jave tp be a clean win, but he wanted to leave as the hero. Vince did what he did for his company. Bret did what he did for the boys, his pride, and what he believed in. Was it the best for the company? No because a world champion leaving without losing the title makes the title mean less in my eyes. Look how it looked when Flair showed up in WWF with the world title. They were struggling to survive. Both Vince and Bret had good intentions.
- Rumors swirled that a strike could happen the next night on Raw over the Screwjob. Some believe Bret deserved better than what he received. Just imagine if that ended up happening.
- Karma: Some folks believe HBKs back injury @ Royal Rumble 98 that caused him to retire for 4 years was the result of Karma. Karma? For screwing Bret at Survivor Series 97.
- Bret's career never the same in WCW. He wasn't used properly due to politics in contracts. Such as, they didn't have to work with you if they didn't want to. Some believe if you weren't good friends with Bischoff, you couldn't make it in the company anyways. Very few good moments in WCW. His career ended at Starrcade due to a more serious concussion than Bret thought vs Goldberg.
- WWF won the war with neither Bret or HBK as the top star. First WWF rating victory in 98 was when the main event between Vince and Austin happened in April or March of 98. Went the direction most supported in the company.
- Superstars wanting to jump ship to WCW. After the screwjob, The Anvil, Bulldog, among others jump shipped to WCW w/Bret. 1 member was missing which was Owen Hart who signed a long term deal before the screwjob. They wouldn't let him out of his contract. He didn't support the "attitude era" either with strong language, sex appeal, among other things. Owen refused to turn on Jarrett his tag team partner at the time to start a relationship on TV with Debra. He didn't want his kids to see him kissing another woman on TV. Punishment? According to WWE was go back to his old gimmick which was the blue blazer. Owen didn't see it that way though. He was glad he didn't have to do that.
This is how I see the Montreal Screwjob based on my opinion. Some of the factors that may have led to it happening like history of them two not liking each other. Montreal Screwjob will forever be the most discussed moment probably in the history of the company. Why? No one really knows what happened. Everyone has sides to the story. I recently watched back Bret's DVD he put out Wrestling with the Shadows. This blog was put out so I could give my opinion on it. I would have probably did the same thing that if I were in both of their shoes based on several factors. I may have missed something, but it is something that deserves a blog dedicated to it. Here it is!! All the factors I lised above may not have caused the screwjob, but I believe most of them did. This is how, why, and the effects of the Montreal Screwjob based on my opinion. Any thoughts on this blog, Montreal Screwjob, or the factors I listed? Did I miss any? Leave that in the comment section below. Thanks for reading....


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AFTER recent postponements of both the Spring & Knockout Cup finals due to waterlogged pitches it will a case of third time lucky if first division runners-up Westbury United Reserves and second division winners Lacock get to play the final of the Briken Motors & AM Print & Copy-sponsored A&B Cup.
It is hoped that Saturday afternoon's battle at Weymouth Street, home of Warminster Town will draw a bumper crowd as this is the first time for many years that the League have held a final in the afternoon.
Lacock, who go into the game not having lost in their 25 games to date, began their cup run with a 2-0 over first division Castle Combe.
Adrian Webb and Andy Wilkins scored the goals that set up a second-round tie at home second division stablemates Trowbridge Town Reserves and thanks to goals from Craig Gingell and Sam Hodsell they secured a 2-1 success.
After two tough matches things didn't get any easier for Joe Martin's side as their quarter-final opponents were first division champions Freshford United.
But although away from their Meriton Avenue fortress they came up trumps winning 3-1, Jake Marshall striking twice and Simon Gray once in the win.
Lacock's semi-final opponents were the much-fancied White Horse FC, but like those before them Pete Ayton's side were blown away by Martin's side.
Goals from Craig Burge, Jake Marshall, Darrin Moss and substitute Simon Gray earning them a 4-1 win and a place in the final.
Westbury United Reserves had a trickier than expected route to the final, they started with a 5-2 victory at third division Holt, Ashley Easton, Eben Mortimer-Taylor, Gary Tugwell, Nick Taylor and substitute Elliott Hughes earned them a tie against top flight rivals Semington Magpies in round two.
Goals from Gary Tugwell and substitute Connor McKay put Westbury 2-0 up before Semington fought back to level at 2-2 and take the tie to extra time where Marc Lanfear's penalty saw Westbury over the line and saw them triumph 3-2.
Westbury then hosted first division Heytesbury for a place in the last four and after racing to a 4-0 interval lead, they were stunned by a second-half fightback from their near neighbours who gave Jason Edwards side a huge fright before they eventually ran out 5-3 victors.
Joe Moloney twice, Ashley Easton, Jon Price and Gary Tugwell shared the goals.
With Warminster Town Reserves standing in Westbury's way of a second final of the season, the green and whites had to be at their best at Meadow Lane.
For a while missed chances looked as if they would prove costly but in the end it took a second-half strike from Nick Taylor to earn Westbury a place at Weymouth Street.
The final that kicks off at 3pm has all the makings of being a classic.
Lacock, who won the second division title by a country mile and are in the hunt for a possible four trophies, will start as slight favourites, ahead of their next meeting in four days time when they meet at the Conigre on Tuesday evening in the Knockout Cup final.
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It's easy to tell the difference between the monster that lurks beneath Loch Ness in Scotland and the one that was briefly sighted Sunday in Vallejo's Lake Chabot.
The Vallejo creature wore mascara.
For about an hour Sunday, the lake bounded by Dan Foley Park and Six Flags Discover Kingdom hosted the latest project of Vallejo art car factory Obtanium Works: a foam replica of the so-called Loch Ness Monster.
"This might not be a real monster," said Shannon Lacy, who watched from the fishing dock as the green monstrosity bobbed on the lake surface.
The artists of Obtanium Works, known for creating their fantastical art cars that have become a staple at both Burning Man and Vallejo events like the Mad Hatter Parade, spent months developing the early April Fools prank.
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Obama vindicated, Romney vanquished in 2012 election
Historians will long debate which presidential election was Barack Obama's greater achievement.
It's easy to make a case for 2008, when an African-American broke the race barrier and racked up the biggest Democratic winning margin since LBJ in 1964.
But Obama had the wind at his back four years ago. The electorate - exhausted by a needless war in Iraq; angered by an economic meltdown - was anxious to rid itself of George W. Bush and his disastrous tenure. Obama's bid was brilliantly orchestrated, both on the stump and on the ground, but he had the advantage of fortuitous timing. He surfed a very big wave.
But in 2012, he was swimming against the current. This time around, he was an incumbent saddled with a sour economy. He faced a ginned-up opposition that hated him and wanted him gone, an opposition bankrolled (thanks to the Citizens United ruling) by an unprecedented amount of money, courtesy of the Koch Brothers and many others in the one-percent plutocracy. No president except Franklin D. Roosevelt had ever won re-election while burdened with such a high jobless rate, and on that factor alone, it appeared that the arc of history would bend against him.
Not. Obama is serving another four years, and another failed Republican campaign has gone into the trash can.
Historic implications
He now joins FDR as the only other Democrat to win two straight elections with more than 50 percent of the vote. The losers will naturally try to demean Obama's win any way they can (this is what they do), but that historic achievement speaks for itself.
Obama's victory appears to have shocked a lot of people - most hilariously, Karl Rove, who lapsed into denial on Fox News last night; live and in color, he morphed into Baghdad Bob, the Saddam Hussein flak who kept insisting under U.S. bombardment that everything was hunky dory. But there is really no cause for shock. Some of us (dare I say, including yours truly) intuited many months ago that Obama's win was in the offing.
Back in July, in my newspaper column, I wrote that "the 2012 contest has taken on the broad contours of 2004," when Bush (another polarizing figure burdened by a major issue - in his case, Iraq) eked out a narrow win by successfully framing the race not as a referendum on himself, but as a choice between him and a more flawed opponent. I wrote, "the parallels are almost eerie," given the fact that the opponent, both in 2004 and 2012, was "a rich Massachusetts patrician with seemingly flexible convictions and a personality that impedes any visceral connection with voters...an opponent who is easy to attack."
Bush wound up winning narrowly in the Electoral College, and by roughly two percentage points in the popular vote. He did so in part by defining his opponent, John Kerry, early and often, in highly negative terms. President Obama has won fairly easily in the Electoral College, and by roughly two percentage points in the popular vote. He did so in part by defining Mitt Romney, early and often, in highly negative terms. Especially at ground zero - Ohio - Romney was relentlessly hammered in TV ads as an out-of-touch one-percenter who refused to release multiple tax returns; who hid his money in the Caymans; who shuttered factories and outsourced jobs during his tenure at Bain Capital. These attacks had the added advantage of being true, and in response Romney (just like "flip flopper" Kerry) sat on his hands all spring and summer, failing to fight back.
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But these parallels can only go so far; Obama didn't triumph just because he outmanuevered Romnney on the tactical front. He won because his core themes (the importance of the safety net, the belief that the rich should pay their fair share) resonated with more voters; and Romney lost in part because the core themes of the Republican brand are just not very popular. In fact, the Republicans have now lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. As Casey Stengel would say, you can look it up.
Romney's trickle-down pitch worked swell during the primary season, when the audience was white middle-aged conservatives. But his message didn't go down well with the rainbow coalition that constitutes America in the 21st century. One of these days (maybe), the Republican party will wake up and realize that it can't win national elections by narrowcasting its appeal to aging white people. But apparently this realization will require multiple head-hammerings with a 2-by-4.
The hammering continued last night. The electorate continues to become more racially diverse, and Republicans continue to reap nothing from this diversity. Obama won the burgeoning Hispanic vote by a whopping 44 percentage points. That's not a typo; that's an unprecedented chasm. Florida alone tells the tale. Romney desperately needed to win Florida, but Hispanics virtually shut him down (rough justice for his primary-season anti-immigrant demagoguery). Back in 2008, Hispanics were 14 percent of the Florida electorate, and Obama won them by 15 percentage points; this time, Hispanics were 16 percent of the Florida electorate (a new high), and Obama won them by 22 percentage points. And the growing Hispanic electorate helped fueled Obama's wins last night in Virginia, Colorado, and Nevada - all formerly Republican strongholds.
And if we assess the electorate along gender lines, Obama's political edge was even clearer. His defense of the safety net resonated with women, just as Romney's determination to shred the net (defund Planned Parenthood!) turned them off. Just as in 2008, women voted far more heavily than men - constituting 53 percent of the electorate - and they favored Obama by 11 percentage points. But to really appreciate the gender gap, take a look at Iowa, one of the swing states that Romney was banking on. Obama won the state by six points - and he owes his win to women, who were 54 percent of the state electorate, and favored him by 19 points.
And just as Bush won in 2004 by winning the turnout battle, Obama did the same in 2012. All we heard all year long was that Republicans were far more enthused than Democrats, that Republicans were jonesing so badly to beat Obama that they would overwhelm the other side at the ballot box. This was a big theme among conservative bloggers, and among the trolls who foul the comment boards. But guess what - it didn't happen. Check out the exit polls, and you'll discover that self-identified Democrats were 38 percent of the electorate; Republicans, 32 percent. In fact, that 32 percent is identical to the GOP share in 2008, when the party's spirits were supposedly at their nadir.
Challenge isn't over
Does Obama have big challenges going forward? Obviously. The GOP, even in defeat yet again, is likely to concede him nothing. The usual polarization will persist. But those are matters for another day. For now, as the smoke of battle dissipates, let it be recorded here that, for those of us who treasure factual reality, it is deeply deeply satisfying to witness the defeat of a guy who is arguably the most ignominious pioneer of post-truth politics.
Into the hazardous-waste bin, we can hereby dump all of Romney's rhetorical toxins - his lies about Obama's (non-existent) apology tour; his lies about Obama's (non-existent) gutting of the workfare law; his lies about the Obama bailout that's prompting Chrysler to ship Ohio jobs to China (not); his lies about how Obamacare will supposedly dictate "what kind of treatments" people can have (not happening); his lies about how Obama supposedly voiced sympathy for terrorists within hours of the attack in Benghazi; his embrace of birther clown Donald Trump; his indulgence of surrogate John Sununu, who blew the dog whistle by asserting that Obama needed to "learn how to be an American"; his TV ad endorsement of tea-party extremist Richard Mourdock, who infamously said it's "God's will" that women bear the children of their rapists. . . and on and on.
It seemed for awhile that Romney's serial mendacity would never end. Now, blessedly, it has. For that alone we can be thankful, when we cut the turkey.
As for Karl Rove, the super PAC operative whose plight is a metaphor for his party's, perhaps he'll spend the ensuing days trying to explain to his rich donors how he wasted $300 million of their money. Is this a great country, or what?
By the way, with respect to yesterday's post: Maine and Maryland made history last night - as the first states to approve gay marriage by popular vote. The same result appears likely in Washington state. To quote Martin Luther King, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
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'If they're not fed and they're hungry, they're not going to perform as well'
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. -- In Springfield Public Schools, 63 percent of students are on free or reduced lunches. Guy Lee Elementary School has one of the highest numbers with 87 percent of students receiving this help.
Oregon has the highest rate of child hunger in the nation, according to state and federal statistics. Around 30 percent of children in Oregon are food insecure. In Lane County, 53 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunches.
Guy Lee Elementary School has made it their mission to fight hunger and provide their students and families support. Over the past few years, the school has partnered with several organizations including Food For Lane County with food assistance programs.
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Future Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis is expected to return to action for the Baltimore Ravens before the end of the season, Yahoo! Sports reports.
According to Yahoo! Sports, citing several sources, Lewis, who suffered a torn triceps last month, will be back at least for the critical Week 15 game against Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos on Dec. 16.
The sources told Silver that Lewis' recovery has been expedited by plasma therapy, to the point the linebacker could be available to practice as early as later this week.
Because coach John Harbaugh and the rest of the Ravens officials held out hope the 37-year linebacker still can help their defense on the field this season, Lewis was put on injured reserve but also designated to return.
Lewis has remained a rah-rah emotional leader while he's been out, and youngsters such as Jameel McClain, Dannell Ellerbe and Paul Kruger have risen to help the Ravens' linebacker corps maintain its usual edge. It also has been a boon to have another veteran playmaker, outside linebacker Terrell Suggs, surge back from injury.
With the Ravens in the AFC title hunt, it's no surprise Lewis is working so hard to play with the goal of his long-awaited second Super Bowl in mind.