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Emergency officials say drainage systems largely were keeping up with the deluge
Two days of steady rains left Southwest Florida residents wading through floodwaters Tuesday, navigating around closed roads and worrying about leaky roofs — and the deluge is not over yet.
With more showers forecast for today, Rena Greenberg was pressing Sarasota County officials to help solve a drainage problem that sent waters from a backed-up retention pond to within a few yards of her Siesta Key home Tuesday.
Greenberg had to wade through knee-deep water to pick her daughter up from school.
"It's kind of scary," Greenberg said. "This is really serious."
Greenberg's street was among the more severe trouble spots in a day of mostly minor flooding across Southwest Florida.
Emergency officials reported a handful of street closures and other rain-related problems, but said drainage systems largely were keeping up with the deluge.
The National Weather Service extended a flood watch for the area through Wednesday evening. Steady showers and bouts of heavier rainfall are expected for at least another day, with the region drying out later in the week.
River levels are forecast to hit minor flood stage Wednesday, but the waters should crest below the point where even moderate flood damage would occur.
Record rain
Nearly two inches of rain fell at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport by Tuesday evening, adding to the record-breaking three inches that fell on Monday.
The previous mark for Sept. 23 of 2.67 inches was set in 1947.
Total rainfall at the airport is now up to 10 inches since Sept. 1, nearly three inches above normal precipitation for the entire month.
Radar data indicated isolated areas along coastal Sarasota County received four inches of rain by Tuesday evening. Charlotte County had some of the heaviest rainfall in Southwest Florida, with nearly six inches falling around Punta Gorda. The city closed a number of flooded streets.
A section of Beach Road on Siesta Key was also closed to traffic because of flooding, as were stretches of State Road 64 and State Road 70 in Manatee County.
A low pressure system has been moving along the boundary of a cold front that stalled over the Florida Panhandle, pushing tropical moisture east across the state. The steady rains are adding to an already above-average wet season for Southwest Florida.
Rainfall at the airport is nine inches above average since June 1. Roughly two-thirds of Florida's rainfall typically comes between June and September.
Roofers are busy
Sarasota roofer Amos Borntreger said calls for roof repairs have doubled over the last two days.
It has been a busy summer.
"Rains like this will show poor workmanship really fast," said Borntreger, owner of Sonshine Roofing.
Rising waters also can be good for wildlife watching, said Myakka River State Park manager Jon Robinson.
"It's a neat time to come to the park because a lot of animals seek the high ground, and that's exactly where the road is," he said.
Though selected areas like Fisherman's Loop were under water and closed, the main roads were passable. But tourist traffic was nonexistent, especially at the Myakka Outpost gift shop.
"I saw an eight-point buck this morning right over there," said outpost manager Buddy Coyle, pointing to the parking lot, "and turkeys have been around this building for two weeks looking for higher ground."
Coyle, a local since 1966, says the current weather system would be hard pressed to match what happened here in 1992 and 1997. He showed off a photo album, which features snapshots of floodwaters inundating the porch.
"That's high," Coyle said.
But on Siesta Key, Greenberg said the flooding on her street was the highest she had seen in 14 years. She canceled her daughter's afternoon piano lesson to save the teacher from wading into the light brown water.
Sarasota County workers were trying to find a solution as the floodwaters kept inching up late Tuesday.
"It's a saturation factor," said Jason Brown, an operations manager in the county's field services department. "We're completely saturated. There's no room for it to go into the ground so it has to run off and until this rain stops it's not necessarily going to run off."


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Somehow, we just knew that no matter how good the book was, the title "Another Bulls*** Night in Suck City" wasn't going to stick. But the new trailer more than makes up for whatever disappointment the name change brings.
Based on Nick Flynn's memoir, "Being Flynn" stars Paul Dano and Robert De Niro as an estranged father and son who are reunited when the father shows up at the homeless shelter where the son works. If the film is half as good as the book, a funny and raw portrait of family strife, someone's gonna be up for an Oscar.
De Niro's taken a lot of shots from this corner of cyberspace, and we stand by every one, but we're thrilled to see the legend once again doing some work that might be up to his level of talent.
In addition to two great leads, the film, directed by Paul Weitz ("About a Boy"), boasts an equally impressive cast of supporting players: Olivia Thirlby, Dale Dickey, Lili Taylor and Julianne Moore. It'll be out sometime next spring.

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VMware refuses to accept the global convention for referring to the "datacenter" as one word and has ploughed on with updates to its Software-Defined Data Center (hence the four-letter acronym SDDC) model as part of the VMworld symposium and convention.
Regardless of corporate obstinacy, the company is sure that developers may now look to new (well, they're a year old now) architectures providing advanced virtualization for networking, security, storage, management, and automation.
The 10th annual VMworld in San Francisco this week sees 21,000 attendees introduced to new technologies including VMware NSX, VMware Virtual SAN, VMware vCloud Suite 5.5, and VMware vSphere with Operations Management 5.5 for those that want it.
Executive VP of cloud infrastructure and management Raghu Raghuram says that by extending the virtualization capabilities of abstraction, pooling, and automation across all datacenter resources and services, the SDDC architecture "simplifies and speeds" the provisioning and management of compute, storage, and networking resources through policy-driven automation.
VMware NSX is a new network virtualization platform that delivers the "entire networking and security model" in software; i.e., decoupled from networking hardware.
"VMware's approach to network virtualization enables [users] to treat the physical datacenter network as a pool of transport capacity that can be consumed and repurposed on-demand. Virtual networks are programmatically created, provisioned, and managed, utilizing the underlying physical network for simple IP connectivity," said the firm.
The good news here is that the VMware NSX virtual networks support existing applications, unchanged, on any physical network infrastructure. Also new is VMware Virtual SAN — a policy-driven control plane that automates storage consumption and management via virtual machine-centric policies.
VMware also introduced VMware vCloud Suite 5.5, which enables users to build and operate a vSphere-based private cloud using the SDDC architecture, providing virtualized infrastructure services with built-in intelligence. For developers, this means the ability to automate on-demand provisioning, placement, configuration, and control of applications based on policies.
To improve the response time of latency-sensitive applications, VMware vSphere 5.5 also introduces a low-latency sensitivity feature. VMware vSphere 5.5 enables configurations 2x the previous physical CPU, memory, and NUMA node limits.
"With VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions, developers can now run Apache Hadoop and Big Data workloads on VMware vSphere 5.5, alongside other applications, to achieve greater resource utilization, reliability, and agility," said the company.


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Bush did his last State of The Union gig last night, which usually ends up being a very cathartic political experience for me. I invited a few people over to heckle. I don't remember which channel we watched it on, but the camera person managed to locate all the sleeping and yawning people in the audience and show closeups of them during the blather, so it was very entertaining- all until the Democratic response, which actually made the President's speech look good.
While the president has addressed climate issues in the last couple of SOTUs, this year he said greenhouse gases exist and that we should do something about it- big talk! His plan is to let his successor take care of it, though- he's proposing a three-year commitment to give $2 billion to an international fund, so that other countries can develop clean technologies. This allows him a two-year getaway, plus it's a bad idea in the first place. First off, $2 billion is a small sum and shows indicative of Bush's real lack of concern about these issues- even the UAE beat Bush by 2 weeks and $13 billion, and Japan set up it's own international fund this weekend with $10 billion in financing. Secondly, if we're in such a financial crunch, why are we giving money to other countries for technologies we don't have enough of here at home?
Invest the $2 billion in the US for clean technology, Bush, then we can sell it to the rest of the world. That will give us something valuable to export, stimulate the economy, create good jobs, and it's a lot better than that ridiculous plan of yours to mail me a $600 check to fix the recession.


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CSA Releases the Expanded Top Ten Big Data Security & Privacy Challenges
Blog Article Published: 06/17/2013
Big Data remains one of the most talked about technology trends in 2013. But lost among all the excitement about the potential of Big Data are the very real security and privacy challenges that threaten to slow this momentum. Security and privacy issues are magnified by the three V's of big data: Velocity, Volume, and Variety. These factors include variables such as large-scale cloud infrastructures, diversity of data sources and formats, streaming nature of data acquisition and the increasingly high volume of inter-cloud migrations. Consequently, traditional security mechanisms, which are tailored to securing small-scale static (as opposed to streaming) data, often fall short. The CSA's Big Data Working Group followed a three-step process to arrive at top security and privacy challenges presented by Big Data: 1. Interviewed CSA members and surveyed security-practitioner oriented trade journals to draft an initial list of high priority security and privacy problems 2. Studied published solutions. 3. Characterized a problem as a challenge if the proposed solution does not cover the problem scenarios. Following this exercise, the Working Group researchers compiled their list of the Top 10 challenges, which are as follows:
- Secure computations in distributed programming frameworks
- Security best practices for non-relational data stores
- Secure data storage and transactions logs
- End-point input validation/filtering
- Real-Time Security Monitoring
- Scalable and composable privacy-preserving data mining and analytics
- Cryptographically enforced data centric security
- Granular access control
- Granular audits
Data Provenance The Expanded Top 10 Big Data challenges has evolved from the initial list of challenges presented at CSA Congress to an expanded version that addresses three new distinct issues:
Modeling: formalizing a threat model that covers most of the cyber-attack or data-leakage scenarios
- Analysis: finding tractable solutions based on the threat model
- Implementation: implanting the solution in existing infrastructures The full report explores each one of these challenges in depth, including an overview of the various use casesfor each challenge. The challenges themselves can be organized into four distinct aspects of the Big Data ecosystem as follows:
The objective of highlighting these challenges is to bring renewed focus on fortifying big data infrastructures. The Expanded Top 10 Big Data Security Challenges report can be downloaded in its entirety here.


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On Wednesday night, the Columbus Crew and Los Angeles Galaxy played to a 1-1 draw. Jairo Arrieta scored for Columbus. Then Robbie Keane scored for Los Angeles. That's a summary of the soccer.
Wednesday night was not about soccer.
At 8:17 a.m. on the morning of August 5, the Columbus Crew released a curiously worded communiqué:
Having pulled an unplanned all-nighter driving back from an emergency visit to my uncle's death bed in New York City, I awoke at about 11:00 on just a few hours of sleep. I grabbed my phone and saw the tweet, which was one of the first to hit my timeline after I had finally shut my eyes that morning. The wording puzzled me. My first thought was that Kirk must have had a setback in his injury rehab and needed season-ending surgery. But why would they announce that early on a Sunday morning? And that wording was more like the wording a team would use if one of its players got arrested, which obviously made no sense in the context of Kirk.
The link finally loaded…
Marco Rosa, the Crew's communications manager, would later describe it as "the three hardest sentences I've ever had to write."
I knew Kirk more through his reputation than I did through personal interaction. I now wish it weren't so, but it would be unconscionable for me to pretend otherwise. The fact is that it's the reality of my situation. I can't go to training. I almost never travel with the team. When it comes to face time with Crew players, I respectfully barge into their world a couple times per month, and most of the time it is in a chaotic postgame setting where time is short. There are occasional emails, phone calls, and texts, but most of what you read is crammed into about 20 chaotic minutes 20 times per year. The only reason it somehow works at all is because of the helpfulness of the players themselves.
It's a situation that is hardly conducive for getting to know the new guys right away. Usually, I get to know them by reputation before circumstances provide a chance to know them through conversation. In the meantime, it's been my experience that fellow players, staff, media members, and general observation often combine to give me a pretty good general feel. And the Notebook's annual newcomer roast, in the form of Oughton's IntroDunctions, was conceived not only for the Kiwi comedy goldmine that it is, but also as a way for me (and readers) to learn more about the newcomers in a fun and colorful way.
Eventually, something happens that will bridge that gap. Eric Gehrig will defeat Chad Marshall to win the fantasy football championship, or Josh Williams will have a string of breakout games that will prompt me to dig deeper into his improbable journey from Copley to Cleveland to Columbus.
I hadn't gotten there yet with Kirk. And now I will only know Kirk Urso through his reputation, through the stories and reactions of others, and through my own fleeting impressions from our brief encounters.
The last time I set foot in Crew Stadium, the theme of the night was giddiness. After Aaron Horton and Ben Speas scored against Stoke City, it was a night for celebrating the unpredictable nature of sports and reveling in the first blossoms of promising youth.
I never could have imagined that my next trip to Crew Stadium, giddiness would be replaced with grieving. That instead of celebrating the unpredictable nature of sports, I would be lamenting the unpredictable nature of life. Instead of reveling in the first blossoms of promising youth, I would be mourning at a wreath commemorating a promising young life cut short.
Photo by Steve Sirk
This photo of Kirk with Lamar Hunt looking over him gets me every time. Since I was paying my respects to the Crew's fallen, I also wandered over to the west side of the stadium to visit Tom Fitzgerald. I'll never understand why, but now Fitz has a captain to coach.
Photo by Steve Sirk
And since I received a phone call 20 minutes before leaving for the stadium informing me that my uncle passed away at 2:33 Wednesday afternoon, I wore two Kirk Urso wristbands. I wore one normally, while the other I turned inside out as a black wristband in memory of my uncle. It was no disrespect to Kirk, but rather an acknowledgement that these two overlapping losses have been inseparable in my mind and in my heart. And now on my wrists.
"You just don't realize how much people touch you until they are gone. You go back in your head and you think about the little conversations that you had, or the little quirks that he was known for, you keep that in a special place. I think everyone shares that same feeling right now." --- Danny O'Rourke
Crew director of team operations Tucker Walther talks of Kirk's "smirky smile." I remember my first encounter with it. Like I said, I rarely travel with the team, but earlier this year, I got to do so when the Crew chartered a flight to Toronto. Road trips can be a good change of pace because it's not as harried as the postgame locker room.
On that trip, for example, I got to have some fun chats with Cole Grossman about our Toronto experiences, and with Cole and Josh about their ceaseless LeBron talk. I got to see Ethan Finlay attack all of his rookie grunt work like it was the greatest and most important job in the world. He happily explained his role as the luggage tag collector, and he also loaded up and pushed around overstuffed baggage carts with exuberant zest. It reinforced my original training camp impression that Ethan is a happy, hardworking kid. Based on what I would learn of Kirk, it made sense to me when I found out that they were roommates.
My memory of Kirk from that trip was that he sat across the aisle one row away from me on the flight home. You know those times where you see or hear something stupid or weird, and you look around to see if anyone else caught it? It happened a few times on the flight, and whenever I looked around to see if anyone else caught it, that person was invariably Kirk and his smirky smile.
My heart aches to recall the details of what prompted these non-verbal interactions, but they were totally insignificant at the time. The only significance I attached to it at all was that I came away thinking, "Urso pays attention. I think I'm going to like that guy."
The members of a soccer team aren't immune to tragedy, but it's something that happens in the real world. It's something that happens outside of soccer. It's something that occasionally impacts an individual, who then receives the support of his teammates.
Within the four walls of that locker room, in the collective sense, heartbreak means dropping points after allowing a stoppage time goal; missing a teammate means the guy got traded or released; an unfathomable and inexplicable loss is something that involves the Dayton Dutch Lions.
But not anymore.
Here is the only time I quoted Kirk in the Notebook. It was after he collected his first career assist in the Crew's 4-1 home loss to the New York Red Bulls on April 7.
One unfortunate side effect of such a romp is that it casts a pall over some otherwise cheerful milestones. For example, Kirk Urso picked up the first assist of his MLS career on Marshall's goal. Urso has been the Crew's corner kick specialist, and it seems a rite of passage for that role is to watch Chad Marshall thump your service into the net with his noggin.
"I know that's part of my role on this team," Urso said. "I am always looking to play good balls and to find Chad in there. It was definitely cool to get an assist, and I'm glad to help the team out, but with a 4-1 loss, it didn't give us the help we needed."
In the days that followed Kirk's passing, I was overcome with what I described to friends as a tsunami of empathy. The loss of a 22-year-old man who had only begun to scratch the surface of what he was going to accomplish in his career and in his life is tragic under any circumstance. And to think of his parents, Mike and Sandy, and his brother Kyle…I could not even begin to fathom what they were going through, but even if I couldn't comprehend the torment, I knew it existed.
I thought about all of the guys in the locker room, reeling from the loss of their dear friend and teammate. I thought of Robert Warzycha, whose son Bartosz is Kirk's age, and how Kirk's passing had to hurt on multiple levels, conjuring the old nightmares of Bartosz's life-threatening cancer diagnosis in 1998. I thought about how, incalculably, Danny O'Rourke has tragically lost a young friend and teammate for the second time in his life. I thought about Ben Speas, Ethan Finlay, Rich Balchan, Eric Gehrig, and other young players who were especially close to Kirk, many knowing him from before he joined the Crew. To see them bravely push past their own pain in order to open up to the world in print and on radio, sharing their love for Kirk, was as heartbreaking as it was impressive. They did Kirk proud.
I could go on and on. And in reality, I did. My heart broke with each new ripple in the Crew's ocean of tears.
"Sirk, get over here," Tucker said in a mostly empty locker room. Kirk stood next to Tucker, who sat on a bench drinking a beer. "If I asked you for your phone number, what would you say to me?"
"I'd say '(Bleep) you, Tucker.'"
"No seriously, if I asked you for your phone number, what would you say?"
"I'd say, 'Why the hell are you asking me for my phone number when you already have it?'"
"What if I lost my phone? What if I need your number because I lost my phone?"
"If you lost your phone, how are you going to call or text me?"
The more agitated Tucker got, the bigger the smirk on Kirk's face.
"Okay, what if Kirk asked you for your phone number? What would you say?"
"I'd say it's 614—"
"A-ha! So you'd start with the area code!" Tucker then turned to Kirk. "See! He uses the area code!"
"Yeah, I always start with area code," I said to Kirk. "People move and you never know what area code someone might have."
"See! Use the (bleeping) area code!" Tucker added for extra reinforcement.
Kirk smiled, and then off he went. He was one of the last players to leave the locker room that night despite being out injured.
I couldn't tell who enjoyed the conversation more. Was it Tucker for receiving validation for his bombastic busting of chops? Was it Kirk for getting Tucker all riled up in mock outrage over something so trivial? Or was it me for being an unwitting two-way foil in some sort of ridiculous, out-of-context, faux showdown ?
In the end, I think we were all winners in whatever that was.
During warm-ups, Crew players wore t-shirts with Kirk's initials on the front and his number 15 on the back. Kirk's number was also mown into the playing field. Aaron Katzeman snapped an achingly poignant photograph of Ethan Finlay carrying on in his friend's honor.
Photo by Aaron Katzeman
Before the game, the Crew held a moment of silence and showed a video tribute to Kirk. The entire team, not just the 18, dressed in uniform. Even William Hesmer, Tommy Heinemann, and Bernardo Anor, who are out for the year. The entire roster joined the starting eleven on the field, with arms wrapped around each other's shoulders, as the following video played on the scoreboard:
"I had the option of watching the video before the game, and I did," said goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum. "I watched it and it gave me chills up and down. The thinking there was that you wouldn't be as affected when they showed it before the game. That is not the case at all. I lost it on the field. It took everything to try to hold it in. You could hear it. All the guys were breathing a little heavier. All of the guys were emotional. It was difficult."
"There were definitely some emotional moments in the first part with that video," Eric Gehrig told TheCrew.com's Cody Sharrett. "I know it brought some tears for us."
Photo by Sam Fahmi
I saw some of Danny O'Rourke in Kirk. I will elaborate.
Back in 2008, Crew coach Sigi Schmid made the decision to switch O'Rourke from midfield to center back. Danny had to learn a new position on the fly, and results were not always pretty at first. There was a seemingly endless parade of penalty kicks. There was that game against Kansas City where he made a foolish low-percentage attempt to cut out a long pass and came up empty, resulting in the game-tying goal. There were lots of unpleasant learning experiences along the way, but the thing that Sigi knew, and the thing that a lot of people knew about Danny, is that he is a winner. That he is tough enough to learn those hard lessons without being broken by the failures. That he would take responsibility. That he would work relentlessly to navigate his way around that steep learning curve. By the second half of the year, it seemed like O'Rourke had been playing there his whole life. His transition to center back was one of many integral parts to the Crew's championship run.
In 2012, Urso found himself in a similar situation. It's exceedingly rare for a supplemental draft pick to find himself in the opening day lineup. Especially at an important spine position like defensive midfield. Especially when that player isn't a defensive midfielder by trade. But Crew coach Robert Warzycha knew about Urso what Sigi once knew about O'Rourke. Kirk was a winner. Kirk was tough enough to learn hard lessons without being broken by failures. Kirk would take responsibility. Kirk would work relentlessly to navigate his way around the learning curve.
Kirk got off to a better start at defensive mid than Danny did at center back. He made his share of rookie mistakes, and he was the first to admit it, but there is little doubt in my mind that he would have found success like Danny did before him. It's who they are.
One of the more illustrative impression-forming moments came to me during my interviews after the Crew's 2-2 draw with Houston on April 21. O'Rourke's return to the lineup that night sent Urso to the bench. As expected, a seasoned veteran playing in his natural position brought about improvement from a rookie who had been shoehorned into the role. But what struck me that night was that when I asked players about the importance of O'Rourke's return, they went out of their way to mention Kirk, and to emphasize that singing O'Rourke's praises was not meant to diminish Kirk.
That always stuck with me. To me, it said that they knew what they had in Kirk Urso, and they believed that the best was yet to come. I filed that away in the "impressions" sector of my brain.
Wednesday's game marked the second Crew match day since Kirk's passing, but it was the first time the Crew took the field. The game originally scheduled for August 11 against Toronto FC was rescheduled for August 22, allowing the players to attend Kirk's memorial service and funeral in Illinois.
The guys in the Crew locker room have done Kirk proud in many ways over the past two weeks, and this was just another example. Postponing a game is not an action that is undertaken lightly by the league or its clubs, and there are a lot of moving parts to the logistics of such a decision, but the players were resolute in their determination to be in Illinois to honor Kirk and to be there for his family. To them, it was non-negotiable.
"We said behind closed doors that there was no doubt in our minds," O'Rourke said. "We had to do this. We were adamant about it."
There had been initial talk of chartered flights and a delayed kickoff in order to accommodate the needs of the players and the Ursos while still playing the game, but none of those proved feasible, either logistically or emotionally. So the Crew, Toronto FC, and the league worked together and did the right thing. On the day that Kirk Urso was laid to rest, Crew Stadium sat empty.
"It was difficult with going to the services," Carlos Mendes said. "That had to come first. It's so emotionally draining, and everyone handles it differently, so it would have been tough to play on Saturday. Kirk's family had to come first. That was more important. The league and Toronto worked with us to reschedule the game."
"Looking back now, I don't see how we could have played that game," Eddie Gaven said. "It was definitely in our best interests, and Kirk's best interests, and his family's best interests for us to be there. It allowed us to just focus on that without having to worry about playing a game hours later. It was the right call."
There's a reason human beings hold funerals. They are an important first step in the healing process. Much more so than a soccer game could ever be.
For the community at large, a soccer game can indeed be a big step in the healing process. I know Wednesday night was helpful for me personally, just as it surely was for many of the fans in attendance. There is strength in community.
On August 5, while most of the Crew community was still at a loss for words, Crew fan Justin Bell (@MassiveCityFFC) somehow managed to cobble together these touching words on his blog:
These young men, we get to know them quickly. They may be with us for many years, or maybe only a season or two, and, this being Columbus, we inevitably get to know them as friends. It's one of the many qualities of this sport in this city that make it the best sport in the best place in the world. We supporters know their names and faces minutes after they sign on to our team, and, after a couple of seasons, they often get to know our names and faces, too. They mean a lot to us. They mean more to us than athletes in other sports and other cities with whom a fan might identify as heroes, because we identify with them as friends.
Kirk Urso was here for less than a year. We knew him by name and by face and by number. Our time with him was sorrowfully short. Who can have any doubt that he was going to be our great friend?
This young man, we didn't get to know quick enough; but he will remain with us, and he will Be Massive.
Be Massive, My Friend. Always.
Those would-be friends in the Nordecke outdid themselves in a fan tribute to Kirk. As soon as the clock hit 15:00, the Nordecke fell silent. The rest of the stadium followed suit. It was at that moment that I understood what the term "deafening silence" meant. It is so quiet that the effect is that you yourself are deaf. About the only things you can hear are your own heartbeat, your own sniffles, and the occasional oblivious beer vendor.
The Nordecke held up dozens of "KU 15" banners during the moment of silence, as well as a series of banners that read "Kirk Urso. 1990-2012. Forever Massive." As the minute of silence reached its conclusion, a bagpiper played "Amazing Grace." I think the plan was for everyone to sing, but too many lumps in too many throats left the bagpipes to wail mostly without accompaniment.
Photo by Greg Bartram
Photo by Greg Bartram
"The crowd was unbelievable with their signs, and then they were quiet at the 15 minute mark," O'Rourke said. "Nobody knew that was happening."
"It was definitely super special," Finlay told TheCrew.com's Cody Sharrett. "I actually didn't really realize it at first, and then all of a sudden, the Nordecke went silent and so did the stadium. You could hear a cricket out on the field. It was definitely special."
"It was amazing for the crowd to do that," Gehrig told Sharrett. "It just shows how much the fans, for one, love us, and they love Kirk. It was a classy sign of respect. I know Kirk was looking down. I know his family was here and they really appreciated it too. Everything that was done today for Kirk was really good."
Speas tweeted the following reaction: "Thanks so much to @Nordecke for making it so special for us who knew him, it really meant alot. Boys fought hard tonight, just like #KU would."
"I can't say enough about what the fans did tonight and have done to honor Kirk Urso," said Grossman. "It's pretty special to look up there and see all the 15's and KU's and all the various tributes. At the end of the game, just looking up there almost brought tears to my eyes. The fact that they care so much about one of their own is very special."
For the players on the field, their focus was on the match, although they were no less appreciative. Josh Williams was aware that something was going to happen, but regrettably got too swept up in the game to notice.
"I heard they were going to do that," he said, "and I tried to remind myself to watch the clock and then check over there to see what it was like, but once the game got going I forgot."
Focus is not forgetfulness.
"Let's go Crew!!! Huge game tonight!!!" – Kirk's final tweet, sent at 3:46 p.m. on August 4, 2012, hours before the Crew kicked off their game at RFK Stadium against rival D.C. United.
Wednesday's game against the Galaxy was huge too, but its immensity had nothing to do with the result. While it would have been a fantasy tribute for the Crew to beat the Galaxy 15-0, the reality is that the act of playing was a victory in and of itself, regardless of the result. Taking the field was a welcome respite and a brief return to normalcy.
"It was a very difficult emotional week," said Marshall. "To some extent, guys were probably excited to get back on the field and play in memory of Kirk. It's been a hard experience. It's something I've never had to go through in my life."
"It's really hard to explain," said Williams. "You just feel like you have a hole in heart. It will heal, but it's going to take some time. It was good to get back out there and compete in his honor. To be honest, I can't stop thinking about it. Every little thing seems to remind me of him. It was good to get your mind off of it and play to honor him. Unfortunately we didn't get the three points, but tonight was a much bigger thing than three points. The most important thing was playing our hardest and putting in a good night's work for Kirk. You don't want to forget him, and we're not going to forget him, but in a way it was nice to get out there and escape reality for a little bit."
"Even though we didn't get the result we wanted, it was a night that was more about one human being that it was for three points," O'Rourke said. "Everybody fought hard tonight. There was no doubt about that, and it epitomized who Kirk was."
"It was just so much to process," said Gaven. "So many different feelings and emotions. This game was about so much more than soccer. This whole year is going to be about so much more than just getting wins. It's about playing for Kirk and trying to honor his memory in each and every game and each and every training session. Tonight was the first step in that. It would have been nice to get a win, for sure, but the team worked extremely hard tonight and if we play with that kind of fire we are going to win more games than we lose and we would be honoring Kirk's memory pretty well. Those are my thoughts for right now. I just need to go home and sit down and try to process all of the emotions from tonight."
Warzycha was proud of how his team responded under such difficult circumstances.
"I think if you look at performance, I think they did well," he said. "I think that is the right way to do it. We talked about focusing on the game and that it will be something we won't forget. Obviously, the three points were not the most important thing today. I think there was a bigger thing we were playing for."
After the game, Danny O'Rourke took one of the "Urso 15" banners and held it up to the crowd, as if he were returning Kirk's love and affection.
Photo by Sam Fahmi
Photo by Greg Bartram
Word spread before the game that Kirk's parents, Mike and Sandy, and his brother, Kyle, had made the trip to Columbus. They would be there to see the outpouring of love for Kirk, and they would be there to support Kirk's friends on the Crew, just as those friends had supported their family back in Illinois.
After the game, Duncan Oughton offered hugs and a brief conversation. Then the Ursos were led into the Crew locker room. Many more hugs followed. The touching and unexpected visit left an impression on the locker room.
"It was nice that his family was here and we got to see them," Marshall said. "The fact that they traveled and came here with all that they have been going through the last couple of weeks, it shows what kind of people they are. They're unreal. It shows why Kirk was such a great person. It's where he came from."
"I didn't even know they were coming until I was walking out onto the field for warm-ups," said Gaven. "It gave me goosebumps to see them there. Just to see that they would be willing to come here to see the team that their son played for, it just made me want to win the game that much more for them."
"I'm glad they came," said Williams. "It meant a lot to us. I'm sure it was hard for them, but it was so good to see them."
"Seeing them before the game and after the game, it really meant a lot," said Mendes. "It's been so emotional, so it was really nice to have them here. Kirk was such a wonderful person, so we left everything on the field for him today."
"I saw them before the game," Gruenebaum said. "I didn't know that they would be here until I got here. I think it's really tough for them to come, probably, but I'm really glad they did. Hopefully they are just as happy that they came. They are a part of this family. Thirty years from now, I won't be on this team, but I will still remember them. They will always be in my heart and in my memories."
"They're just incredible people, and that's why Kirk was the type of guy he was," Hesmer said. "For them to make that drive, and to be there for all of the tributes….in the grand scheme of things, we were a small part of his life, but they understand how important Kirk was to us as well."
"I hope they will be able to follow us," O'Rourke said. "It's tough for them. They're still in the initial shock phase. Hopefully we can continue to do Kirk right and his family right as well. People talk about how tonight was for Kirk, but it's going to be every night from here on out."
On Friday, August 17, the Urso family released the following statement through the Crew's website:
During this most difficult journey in our lives, we would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to all the wonderful people associated with the Columbus Crew from the Hunts to their loyal fans. While our pain continues, the support, help, memorials, words of encouragement, and far too many other things to mention helped and are still helping us adjust to our life without Kirk. He opened a world to us that we didn't realize we had by those whom he came in contact with. We couldn't have asked for a classier club to be associated with. Everyone from the top down are special people. We also want the fans to know that when you come to watch the Crew play, you are watching the most wonderful group of guys, but you are also supporting a club that realizes while soccer is their purpose, there is more to life. We are comforted in knowing that Kirk sat in the team locker room with teammates, coaches and staff who had hearts of gold. I wish everyone could have known Kirk the way we did. He was a unique, inspiring individual who seemed to bring people together, and he accomplished this to the end. He was so looking forward to getting healthy and trying to work his way back on the field. Thanks again for making him a part of your family and giving him a chance.
We would also like to thank the entire MLS community, coaches, players, former teammates, referees, and fans who paid tribute to Kirk whether it be by coming to his hometown and paying their respects to him, posting videos, wearing arm bands, having moments of silence or other memorials. He knew many people and loved you all. I know he was pleased that all the teams were unified as one, giving up their rivalry for single moments, while they remembered Kirk. This would be exactly what he wanted and is smiling down that he had a hand in it. Thank you.
Mike, Sandy and Kyle Urso
I know this Notebook only scratched the surface, but it is the best I can do for now. I want to offer a huge thank you to the players and staff who took some time to share their thoughts during what is still a difficult time. Also a huge thank you to the fans for making Wednesday night so special. And, as always, I will continue to wish nothing but peace and strength and love to the Urso family. I may not have gotten to know Kirk well before he passed, but I assure you that I am far from finished in getting to know him.
I could try to write some powerful thousand-word ending to his piece, but in one piece of art, Nordecke banner-making legend Rick Thomas said it better than I ever could:
Photo by Steve Sirk
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On Wednesday night, the Columbus Crew and Los Angeles Galaxy played to a 1-1 draw. Jairo Arrieta scored for Columbus. Then Robbie Keane scored for Los Angeles. That's a summary of the soccer.


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Abstract: The well-being of employees is currently a central matter of concern both in public and private companies. If employees do not feel well, in the last instance they might experience a burn out or fall ill from stress and thus add to the highly costly yet ever growing number filling up the statistics of this modern epidemic. In short, well-being is key to productivity. For sure this is not a new story, but at the core of organization and management theory: how to best organize the human resources of production balancing off the need for increased productivity and the preservation of physical and mental resources of the worker? In contrast to classic principles such as Taylor's scientific management, it seems today generally agreed that well-being thrives when work is organized by principles of 'flexibility', 'learning', 'empowerment' and 'creativity'. However, at the same time workplaces and organizations are under an enormous pressure towards standardization and optimization. This dissertation investigates empirically competing or intersecting ways of organizing well-being and productivity, with an analytic outset in the work task, departing from historically generated, however still prevalent, dichotomies and normativities of standardization and flexibility respectively. The empirical case of the dissertation is the organization of postal work in a big and formerly publicly run distribution company in Denmark. Based on an ethnographic field work and the employment of an auto-photographic method, the dissertation investigates how the current and simultaneous efforts of standardization and flexibility configure the well-being(s) and productivities of postal work. The theoretical framework is primarily informed by Actor Network Theory and the dissertation attend to a detailed investigation of how well-being and productivity are enacted in the daily work practices and the constant shifting/delegation going on between the inscribed postal worker of work tools, standard procedures and management programs on the one side and the routinized bodies of the postal workers on the other. Most of the time this results in 'working compatibilities' silently enacting bodies-with-standards that are both productive and well. At other times, however, controversy and conflicts arise, pointing to the fact that the presence of multiple modes of organizing are not always productive. The empirical chapters departs from selected auto-photographs that prompt different unfoldings of the way postal work is organized – or sought organized – and the way well-being and productivity arise as effects of these organizations. In this unfolding the analysis proceed on a tension between phenomenological and actor-network theoretical readings of empirical material creating a patchwork-like assemblage of postal work. This involves a stitching together of highly mundane, corporeal practices and material such as bicycles and kickstands, personal experiences, the researcher's interpretations, the technical scripts of electric bikes, the norms of postal workers, the discourse of management and the political-economic developments of European postal markets. Through the empirical chapters, the dissertation depicts postal work not as a story of standardization versus flexibility, but as a constant 'juggling' and balancing act between them. This is not a story of humanization or the opposite, it is both at once. It is not a story of stabilization or perpetual change, it is both at once. It is a story of the hanging-togetherness of an organization that displays multiple versions of well-being and productivity as well as multiple controversies as a result of this. Depending on the stakes one has in this complex organizational set-up, whether one is the postal worker, the local manager, the HR consultant or perhaps the customer, preferences will differ, and indeed this is an important discussion. What is the better way to organize postal work? The analysis presented in the dissertation will not deliver the answer to this, but hopefully make the discussion a more qualified one, by displacing old truths. Having as point of departure and final emphasis a heuristics of the work task, the thesis aims to contribute to a specification of organization theory, HRM and work environment theorizing, which otherwise tend to have lost its primary object: work. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8589
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FARMINGTON – Bill Roorbach calls his novel "Life Among Giants" his Big Book.
That's capital B, capital B, the one that moves his career from successful writer to superstar.
Imagining the Wikipedia entry for the book, he says with a laugh, "It will say, 'At this point, Roorbach's career really took off.' "
On the cusp of 60 and with a half-dozen books and prestigious awards and fellowships to his name, Roorbach thinks he's finally found his artistic stride after decades of trying to balance writing and teaching.
Fully retired from academics, he's ready to become the writer he's always known he could be, full of confidence and ambition.
"I loved teaching, but I really needed to move past it and become the writer I'm going to be," he said, sitting on the porch of his Farmington farmhouse. "I'm a good writer, and I'm going to get better. All the other books were training for this one."
Released in November by Algonquin, "Life Among Giants" has earned rave reviews. The New York Times called it "a dizzy romp. There's murder and intrigue and sex and terror, and Roorbach is generous with it all."
Gatsbian in its scope, "Life Among Giants" stars "Lizard" Hochmeyer as a young football stud from Fairfield County, Connecticut, who excels at Princeton and goes on to minor fame with the Miami Dolphins as Bob Griese's back-up.
There's also a mysterious ballerina and her rock-star husband, who live a row-boat ride across the pond from the 6-foot-8 and very buff Lizard. There are a mad older sister, gay chefs and shady businessmen.
Grand characters all, tangled and bound in all manner of misdeeds and mythical scenes and affairs.
The book represents a lifetime of imaginations for Roorbach, and includes many biographical nods: His life growing up in New Canaan, Conn.; an older-brother star athlete; the years he made his living playing keyboard and singing in a rock band in New York; and a broken heart, delivered by a beguiling ballerina during those New York days.
But most of all, it satisfies the author's near-lifelong fascination with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway, the narrator of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." Roorbach has always wanted to write a book with a Carraway-inspired figure in the lead. Lizard is the perfect modern Carraway.
"Life Among Giants" has kept Roorbach busy. It was an Amazon Pick of the Month in November, and the author has traveled coast to coast since then, pausing only for the holidays.
The publication date for the paperback has been moved up to summer, said his editor at Algonquin, Kathy Poires.
"The response has been really, really strong. I can't think of a negative review," she said. "We're moving the paperback publication to summer because we believe he can reach an even broader audience."
Additionally, a premier cable channel has expressed interest in turning the characters from "Life Among Giants" into a series, but further details were unavailable at press time.
As the title suggests, Roorbach made his characters big when he made them, and did his research by reading "a ton of dance histories" and rock biographies of Bob Dylan, Keith Richards and Rod Stewart.
He modeled his rock star after Mick Jagger.
The football star-turned-restaurateur could be any millionaire athlete of today. And Sylphide, the sweet ballerina with a cute foreign accent and perfect figure, is so real you'll Google her.
It took Roorbach four years to write the book, spending long hours in a former sugaring house that he converted into a writing studio when his daughter, now 12 and also a dancer, was born.
The book tapped a vein of creative energy. Roorbach feels ready to let the artistic juices flow.
"There's going to be a series of really great books," he promised.
Roorbach has lived in Maine for more than two decades. He and his wife, Juliet, came here in the early 1990s so he could teach at the University of Maine at Farmington. He loved the job, but stayed only four years. In 1995, Ohio State University hired him away.
It wasn't a mistake to go to Ohio; Roorbach thrived there and had a great job. But the couple missed Maine.
They always knew they would come back, and kept their farmhouse in Farmington for that day. It came in 2000, when Elysia was born.
They wanted to raise their child in Maine, so in 2001, Roorbach quit his tenured position at Ohio State and moved back to Maine to live full-time.
For a while, he commuted to Worcester, Mass., to teach at Holy Cross. Then in 2009, he gave up teaching for good to concentrate on writing and country life.
Roorbach has 16 chickens, and surrounding farms are populated by bison and sheep. He cross-country skies all winter long, and has an unfiltered view of Derby Mountain off the back of his property.
His sugaring house-turned-writing studio is modest in size and pretense. He apologizes for the "classic Maine siding" of Typar house wrap. "I'll get to it soon," he muses.
A few days before this interview, a skunk let loose below the studio. Roorbach hoped it wasn't a metaphor for things to come.
That's not likely, said Poires, who has just received an early version of Roorbach's next book, another novel.
"There is just such exuberance in the way he writes and the characters he creates. He has a very personal style," she said. "His sentences have a different rhythm to them than I am used to.
"It's almost like he can create really long sentences, but you are never stopped by the fact that he is doing that. He takes you right along through them with him. It's like having a conversation, but with music to it at the same time."
Roorbach feels grateful that so many people are interested in his book. At stops all along the way, he has read for and talked to people who know "Life Among Giants," who have read it cover to cover and asked tough questions. In Miami, a Dolphins fan challenged Roorbach's characterization of Coach Shula.
"It's been really exciting. There's nothing more fun than having a gathering of people who have read the book and are excited to meet you," he said. "More and more people have actually read it, and that feels great."
Equally gratifying, the success of "Life Among Giants" has led readers into Roorbach's back catalog, to his nonfiction titles, "Summers with Juliet" and "Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey," and to his only other novel, "The Smallest Color," from 2001.
After he turned "Life Among Giants" over to Algonquin in 2010, he went quickly back to the sugar shack to get going on the next project.
He had to test his theory about creative energy, and he admitted feeling terrified, beset by a fear best described as, "What do I do next?"
He decided on another novel that's much shorter and focused than "Life Among Giants."
He found this one easier to write, and satisfying on a different level. Whereas "Life Among Giants" required a lot of work — a lifetime of work, really — this one came much more easily.
He figures he's maybe just a late bloomer.
He spent his 20s in a band, and didn't get serious about writing until he enrolled in graduate school at Columbia University when he was 33.
But he never gave up his goals or dreams, even when he felt the pressure of society "to do something more conventional," he said.
"I wish I could go back and tell myself, 'It's going to work out. It's going to be OK.' "
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The Best Bites at The Clam, Mike Price and Joey Campanaro's West Village Restaurant
The Clam
420 Hudson Street (at Leroy; map); 212-242-8420; theclamnyc.com
Setting: Upscale but cozy.
Service: Friendly, casual, and attentive.
Compare To: The Little Owl, Pearl Oyster Bar
Must-Haves: Spaghetti & Clams, Steamed Littlenecks, Scallop Crudo
Cost: Appetizers $8 to $18, Mains $21 to $31
Recommendation: Good for the neighborhood, provided you order carefully.
There are plenty of things to love about The Clam, Mike Price and Joey Campanaro's new shellfish-centric seafood restaurant in the West Village. Though Campanaro—the man behind nearby The Little Owl—has a hand in The Clam, the restaurant is largely run by Chef Mike Price, who has a similar arrangement with Campanaro at Market Table, his New American restaurant a few blocks away. The Clam's aesthetic is the most refined of the three. Not as cramped or cozy as Little Owl, not as loud or rustic as Market Table, with more tablecloths than either.
The menu can be a little perplexing in both format (raw bar, appetizer, entrée, and "seasonal vegetables" sections, along with a large clam-based "House Specials" list that mixes both large and small format plates) and conceit (is this upscale seafood shack food, or is it New American market-driven? Can it be both?), but there are good bites to be had amidst the confusion.
Simple salads and thoughtful appetizers like Sliced Long Island Duck ($14), and a butter lettuce number with apples and cheddar cheese—the kind of stuff that makes The Little Owl's menu so appealing—are also quite good here. A Scallop Crudo ($15) with pear and hazelnuts seems thematically out of place between stuffed cherrystones and clam dip, it's one of the most subtle and refreshing bites on the menu.
Campechana Coctel de Camaron takes its cues from Mexico with a tart, ketchupy concoction with plenty of tender shrimp and chunks of avocado. I'm not sure why the raw bar offerings all come with a tiny butter cup filled with raw vegetables, but they do make for good table conversation, I suppose.
On the clam front, that Clam Dip ($9), served with thick and crunchy house-fried potato chips is about as good as clam dip can be (that is, moderately good), but the Steamed Littlenecks ($14) with chunks of garlicky bread and plenty of buttery, wine-fortified broth are the best way to go. Save the bread for broth-dipping if you'd like, or just order a couple extra Parker House rolls, served hot, sweet, yeasty, and buttery with big flakes of sea salt on top.
The house-made Spaghetti & Clams ($21) is one of the finest red sauce-based clam spaghettis I've tasted. (Though I wish they'd serve the slowly wilting salad perched on top of it on the side.)
In fact, general advice: if it looks like it'd be at home on the Market Table or Little Owl menu, it'll probably be great. Riffs on East Coast seafood classics get a little muddled.
My wife has a deep and abiding love for Crab Cakes ($31), but we both had trouble getting behind The Clam's. There's plenty of fresh, chunky crab in there, but they're buttery to the point of being heavy, a problem not helped by a cayenne-butter sauce that adds more richness. A slaw made with gorgeously ribboned vegetables was pretty, but lacked the crisp bright contrast that a more standard slaw would have provided. It's times like these I wish I carried lemon wedges around with me.
Some other questions: Does a perfectly good Fried Belly Clam Sandwich ($24) need chunks of lobster in its remoulade? Not when you can't even taste that they're there. I'd rather have a few bucks knocked off the price and go with a plain tartar sauce. Does Clam Chowder ($12) taste better when it's served with on-the-half-shell littlenecks that you have to pluck out of their shells before you can dig in? I'd take the $8 bowl made the right way with chopped quahogs at Littleneck any day.
These are details that pay more service to looking pretty on the plate or on the menu than actually improving upon the original, all while bumping up already high price tags.
For its few trip-ups in food and a menu that begs for a bit more focus and personality, it still occupies the upscale seafood niche in the oyster-bar happy West Village, and their clam-centric menu is a nice change from the oyster, lobster, and fried fish you'll find at nearby Mermaid Oyster Bar, Pearl Oyster Bar, or Mary's Fish Camp. For this alone, it's a restaurant that should earn any clam-lover's reservation on a night out—provided you know what to order.
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With the global economy still on the skids - despite over $5 trillion in stimulus spending committed worldwide - market researchers are all revising their forecasts for sub-sectors of the IT economy. It was iSuppli's turn, and it has tweaked its prognostications downward for the chip and electronic sectors for 2009.
Back in April, iSuppli was projecting that global semiconductor sales would fall by 21.5 per cent from 2008's $258.5bn, but now it's saying it expects a 23 per cent drop to $198.9bn. Japanese chipmakers cut their production severely in the first quarter, according to Dale Ford, senior vice president of market intelligence services at iSuppli, and this is one of the big factors behind an 18.8 per cent decline in semiconductor sales in the first quarter of 2009. But the Japanese chip makers have burnt off their excess inventory and are now producing again.
"There were signs that the economic decline was becoming less pronounced near the end of the first half," Ford explained in a statement. "Even after trimming their expectations for the year, key semiconductor companies are entering the second-quarter financial reporting period with revenue guidance averaging 13 percent sequential growth compared to an overall revenue decline of 18.8 percent posted in the first quarter of 2009."
That sure sounds like good news. But not good enough to keep iSuppli from lowering its semiconductor forecast just the same. Based on the chart that iSuppli put out, which you can see here, it looks like semi makers raked in just under $45bn in the first quarter, just awful compared to sales in the first quarter of 2008. (iSuppli did not release the actual numbers, just some charts).
The second quarter will see semi revenues worldwide push up a bit to what looks like $47bn. The second half of the year is looking a might bit better, with sales of around $53bn in the third quarter and maybe $55bn in the final quarter of the year. And as you can see from the chart, iSuppli is projecting that 2010 will look quite a bit better than 2009, but still nowhere as good as 2008 when it comes to semiconductor revenues. iSuppli is projecting that worldwide semiconductor sales will rise by 13.1 per cent in 2010 to just under $225bn. The 2010 levels may just be the new normal. That surely looks to be the case in server spending forecasts from IDC.
iSuppli also put out some numbers for the global electronic equipment market, which in its dicing and slicing encompasses electronic gear relating to data processing, wired communications, wireless communications, cars, industrial stuff, and consumer devices. The market researcher has revised its expectations for electronic equipment sales for 2009, with sales now predicted to come in at $1.38 trillion, down 9.8 per cent from the $1.53 trillion in sales in 2008.
Back in April, iSuppli was projecting only a 7.6 per cent decline in 2009. The automotive electronics biz is a big loser this year, and iSuppli is now forecasting that sales for these products will decline by 24.4 per cent to $75.2bn. That's an additional 3.8 percent of decline since the April forecast, according to Ford. All the other areas of electronic equipment had a few extra per cent of decline heaped on them too, in the latest forecast.
Looking ahead to 2010, the electronics equipment story looks to be about the same shape as 2009, though the revenue bars are slightly taller. For the full year, iSuppli is projecting that electronic product sales will rise by 4.9 per cent, to about $1.45 trillion. ®
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Archbishop Celestino Migliore
Apostolic Nuncio to United Nations
Commencement Address to the Class of 2006
Dr. Dillon, President of Thomas Aquinas College; Mrs. Maria Grant, Chairman of the Board of Governors; Reverend Fathers, faculty, graduates, students, and friends: It is a great privilege for me to be here to address the graduating class of 2006. I am honored to receive the St. Thomas Aquinas Medallion from such a prestigious college known for its excellence in education and in preparing individuals for a life of the mind, of action, and spirituality.
Proper Pride
My dear graduates, you, your parents, and your tutors ought to be proud of all you have accomplished during your scholastic career. Some of you may be surprised that a bishop is telling you to be proud. As you know from your good Catholic education, pride leads the list of the seven deadly sins.
Nevertheless, there is a certain kind of pride that is legitimate, even useful and necessary. We can call it by another name, for example, self-respect, or the ability to recognize the good things that we are capable of accomplishing. It is the pride that we find in the Parable of the Talents, where those entrusted with the talents were able to invest them and earn another ten or five. It is the specific pride of a Catholic college like yours. Today I would like to invite you to reflect upon how you can justly be proud of your faith and of your ability to make a positive contribution to society as citizens of the United States and of this world.
Called to Be a Diplomat
I ask your indulgence as I speak a bit of my personal experience. I would like to share with you my first-hand knowledge of this particular pride. Dr. Dillon introduced me as the representative of the Pope at the United Nations in New York. You may think this is something I chose to do or that I may have had an inclination towards this type of work, but nothing could be further from the truth.
I come from a family with no experience or tradition in diplomacy; therefore, I had no idea what this work entailed. I was born and raised in the northern region of Italy, in a town called Cuneo. While you may not be familiar with the name, most of you heard a lot about Torino as it was the site of the Winter Olympics. Well, that's my region.
When I was a boy I had many friends who were altar boys, and we would spend a lot of time together. There I knew a priest whom I admired very much because he was a wise man and had the ability of using his gifts for the service of others. This priest knew a lot about many things and was a man who was accessible to his people 24/7. His character, his wisdom, his availability to serve the poorest of the poor fascinated me, and I said to myself that I wanted to be like him. I did not yet know at the time what it meant to be a priest, but I wanted to be like that pastor who put himself at the service of all. With this in mind, I entered the seminary, began my studies and gradually learned what it meant to be a priest. At times I was discouraged because I thought it was impossible to realize, but the desire to emulate that model of priesthood always sustained me.
Shortly after my ordination, my bishop called me and told me that I was being sent to Rome to begin specialized studies for the diplomatic representations of the Holy See around the world. I thought it was a bad dream. I knew nothing of this kind of work. In fact, it seemed totally contrary to my ideals. I was afraid that it was bureaucratic work, office work, in which I would not be able to do any good for anyone.
My immediate response was that I was unable to accept. But the bishop insisted saying, 'Look at the Gospel: Peter was a fisherman; he never attended school — he only knew how to fish — and yet, he began to follow Jesus. Eventually at a certain point, Peter, who always lived in Palestine and spoke only Aramaic, got into a boat and went to Rome which was the capital of the world at the time. In Rome he met many people. He spoke frequently to the first Christian community and had to learn Latin since that was the language of the Romans. From a man who barely knew his own geography of Galilee and the skill of fishing, Jesus made him a man capable of confronting life in the capital of the world. Matthew, likewise, was a tax collector. He knew how to add and to collect other people's taxes. Nothing more. He decided to follow Jesus and became a writer whom we admire to this day, two thousand years later, whenever we read the Gospel according to Matthew.'
With that, I accepted my bishop's invitation, having faith in his words, and I never regretted having said yes.
Earlier I spoke of a just pride. Well, I feel proud, not of myself, but of Him who has called me, of Him who proposed things far beyond what I was able to accept; of Him whom I once accepted and who has followed me, has given me perseverance, tenacity, the willingness to go forward, and the courage to start again after difficulties.
This is the difference a Catholic college ought to make: that is, to offer a diploma of the highest academic standards, and to offer the ways and means to obtain the highest level of personal—human and spiritual—and social achievement.
"A Lever Long Enough"
In your study of physics you most likely came across that famous quote by Archimedes: "Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can move the earth." Our world, our society desperately needs a jolt. Any successful Catholic college, such as Thomas Aquinas College, from which you are graduating today, strives to give its students "the lever long enough," in the form of the highest level of education. In addition, you have been given the most important element, "the place to stand" to use that lever, that is, your personal, communal, and ecclesial relationship with God. Now, it's up to you to make good use of that lever, and to treasure the transcendent place to stand, which I hope will be for you a source of personal and social creativity. That is one thought I would like to leave with you graduates this day.
The Natural Law Must Take Precedence
There is a second message. When speaking of diplomacy, of the work that I do, one often thinks of hypocrisy. Indeed, diplomacy is a word full of meaning. The popular notion is that which comes from Machiavelli when he said: "Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want at any cost and by any means." How can the Holy See accept this concept of diplomacy, this vision of things?
My time in the diplomatic service has taught me that what changes the world is not might, but the truth. The truth is not simply reporting facts and verifying the accuracy of words and figures without distortion; rather, it is a natural law that cannot contradict itself and which takes precedence over the laws of any state and deliberations of international institutions.
The Catholic Church is convinced that real democracy cannot be based simply upon the majority opinion of any given moment in time. A viable democracy recognizes the authority it has comes from a set of universally accepted principles upon which every political society is founded. These principles can be found in the national constitutions and in the great international declarations — which merge together in recognizing natural law, a healthy philosophical and religious spirit, and the principles and experiences that have established a national community. For this reason, the subsequent laws voted upon by a particular majority must always be in accord with fundamental, objective values. These values, once acknowledged as true, may be updated and expressed in contemporary ways, but never abrogated.
In Truth, Peace
At the start of this year, Pope Benedict XVI addressed Catholics and all women and men of good will, inviting them to unite their efforts in reflection, cooperation, dialogue, and prayer to overcome terrorism and build a just and peaceful coexistence in the human family. In his message for World Day of Peace, entitled In Truth, Peace, the Pope expressed "the conviction that wherever and whenever men and women are enlightened by the splendor of truth, they naturally set out on the path of peace."
In particular, Pope Benedict spoke of two trends that are very fashionable today: nihilism and fundamentalism. These two trends "share an erroneous relationship to truth: the nihilist denies the very existence of truth, while the fundamentalist claims to be able to impose it by force. Despite their different origins and cultural backgrounds, both show a dangerous contempt for human beings and human life, and ultimately for God Himself. Indeed, this shared tragic outcome results from a distortion of the full truth about God: nihilism denies God's existence and His provident presence in history, while fanatical fundamentalism disfigures His loving and merciful countenance, replacing Him with idols made in its own image."
In view of those risks, "all Catholics in every part of the world have a duty … to show that acknowledgment of the full truth of God is the first, indispensable condition for consolidating the truth of peace. God is Love which saves, a loving Father who wants to see His children look upon one another as brothers and sisters, working responsibly to place their various talents at the service of the common good of the human family.…History has amply demonstrated that declaring war on God in order to eradicate Him from human hearts only leads a fearful and impoverished humanity toward decisions which are ultimately futile. This realization must impel believers in Christ to become convincing witnesses of the God who is inseparably truth and love, placing themselves at the service of peace in broad cooperation with other Christians, the followers of other religions and with all men and women of good will."
Be Proud of God
Today's ceremony at which degrees will be conferred suggests an ending, an end of a long period of intense study. And yet, ironically, this ceremony is called a "commencement." This word comes from the Latin which means "a beginning," "a start."
Today you are going to start or begin a new chapter in your lives. And so, dear graduates, as you pursue your studies or begin your respective professional lives, be proud of Thomas Aquinas College where you learned to walk side by side with God in your life; be proud of God who at any time can make of you a new creation, a new being. Remember the values and virtues imparted by your Catholic education here at Thomas Aquinas College and seek to use your voice as a means of spreading truth and love.
"The diverse and in-depth education I received at Thomas Aquinas College was extremely valuable, first and foremost, for my soul; but it also proved to be more beneficial for my vocation as a physician than all the 'hard sciences' combined, perfectly blending the practical with the philosophical, and allowing me to see Christ in all whom I treat."
– Caroline Johnson, M.D. ('97)
Internal Medicine Hospitalist


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Hurricane Katrina's scars are harder to see as fans converge on New Orleans for the Super Bowl
NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans has celebrated plenty of milestones on its slow road to recovery from Hurricane Katrina, but arguably none is bigger than hosting its first Super Bowl since the 2005 storm left the city in shambles.
To see the remnants of Katrina's destruction, fans coming arriving for Sunday's game will have to stray from the French Quarter and the downtown corridor where the Superdome is located. Even in neighborhoods that bore the brunt of the storm, many of the most glaring scars have faded over time.
Billions of dollars in federal money has paid for repairing and replacing tens of thousands of homes wrecked by flooding. The city's lifeblood tourism trade has thrived despite the double-barrel blow of Katrina and BP's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.


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Ancelotti reveals Di Maria will leave
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti says that Angel Di Maria is leaving the La Liga giants -- so a move to Manchester United for around 80 million euros is now likely to be completed in the coming days.
Di Maria's future has been a huge talking point around the Bernabeu all summer, with club president Florentino Perez apparently keen to sell to at least partially balance the books after spending the same amount on World Cup star James Rodriguez from Monaco.
Ancelotti had at first appeared keen to hang on to a player who was so important to Madrid winning the Champions League and Copa del Rey trophies last season, but changed his perspective last week when he claimed that Di Maria himself was now trying to force a move away.
1) £85m Gareth Bale -- Tottenham to Real Madrid, Sept. 2013
2) £80m Cristiano Ronaldo -- Man Utd to R. Madrid, June 2009
3) £75m Luis Suarez -- Liverpool to Barcelona, July 2014
4) £71m James Rodriguez -- Monaco to Real Madrid, July 2014
5) £59.7m Angel Di Maria -- Real Madrid to Man Utd, Aug. 2014
6) £56m Kaka -- AC Milan to Real Madrid, June 2009
ESPN sources have learned that Manchester United are close to agreeing a fee, but that Real Madrid want the same deal as they paid for James: 75 million euros, plus five million euros in incentives.
Still, Ancelotti revealed that a transfer is so close to completion that Di Maria had already said goodbye to his soon to be former Blancos teammates.
"[Di Maria] came in, but this morning he did not train," Ancelotti said. "It is not fully done, but he is close to a transfer. He came to say goodbye. We thanked him for what he has done for this team and we wished him luck for the future. It is not official, but it is resolved."
Ancelotti -- who fought hard to keep Di Maria through last season and kept playing him even after the player thrust his crotch at Madrid fans whistling him at the Bernabeu -- said the club had done everything possible to keep the player but the Argentina international had himself decided to go.
"I have a very good relationship with him," he said. "It was his own decision, the club did everything possible, offering him all that he could get here. He has decided something else, so we wish him much luck."
Di Maria's unhappiness at Madrid is thought to stem from him not receiving sufficient recognition from Perez for his contributions through recent seasons. AS report that the player was last season on about 3.5 million euros a year, putting him outside the 'top 10' of the club's best paid players.
The sports daily say he was offered about five million euros to stay this summer, while United made an offer of eight million euros to his agent Jorge Mendes.
Miguel Delaney also contributed to this report
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Latest Champ Car
News and Commentary
Kalkhoven and
Forsythe buy Cosworth from Ford
by Mark
15, 2004
(L to R) Ford's Richard Parry-Jones, Kevin Kalkhoven and Cosworth
Managing Director Tim Routsis
Mark Cipolloni/AutoRacing1.com
In what can only be described as the
deal-of-the-decade, Champ Car owners Kevin Kalkhoven and Gerald
Forsythe have acquired Cosworth from the
Ford Motor Company. Today in London, England Kevin
Kalkhoven, along with Cosworth Managing Director Tim Routsis,
made the announcement to over 500 employees at a Rugby Club
stadium in Northamptonshire, England, near Cosworth's
The sale includes all aspects of
Cosworth that Ford owned, including the headquarters in
Northampton, England (north of London) and the plant in
Torrance, California that looks after the Champ Car and IRL
engine programs.
Kalkhoven and his Champ Car series
partner Gerald Forsythe are 50/50 owners of Cosworth that will
see Forsythe have an equal financial position in the company but
Kalkhoven having more of the oversight role.
So far-reaching is
Cosworth's motorsports business, that Kalkhoven and Forsythe
have moved from being owners of Champ Car (along with Paul
Gentilozzi) to becoming two of the most influential men in
Cosworth, who has a reputation for being one of the premier
racing engine manufacturers in the world, has a history that
dates back to the 1960's when they powered the late great Jimmy
Clark to so many Formula One victories in a Colin Chapman Lotus.
Champ Car owner Kevin Kalkhoven addresses the media in London.
Mark Cipolloni/AutoRacing1.com
Not only does this deal secure the future supply of engines for
their Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by
Ford, it guarantees that the Red Bull (formerly Jaguar) and Minardi
F1 teams have engines to use in 2005.
Kalkhoven has also given guarantees that Cosworth will continue
to supply engines to Chevrolet for their IRL program despite the
fact that the IRL and Champ Car are bitter rivals.
There were many offers made for
Cosworth, over 60, but it was clear that the Forsythe/Kalkhoven
offer was superior.
"We had many offers for Cosworth,"
Routsis told AutoRacing1.com, "but it was clear that the
Forsythe/Kalkhoven team had the best deal for Cosworth, its
employees, and for Ford. Dealing with Kevin Kalkhoven and
his staff was a pleasure. Many of the teams submitting
proposals were racing folks. However, it was clear his
team were professional businessmen, and at the end of the day,
Cosworth must be run like a business. A business can only
be successful if it's profitable and it's clear Kevin and his
team know how to do that."
As many people are beginning to find
out in motorsports, Kevin Kalkhoven is a man of his word, and
all the people we have talked to say he's like a breath of fresh
air in the industry.
Tim Routsis, Managing Director of Cosworth
Mark Cipolloni/AutoRacing1.com
"I first sat down with Kevin about a
month ago and we wrote down the plan outline on a single piece
of paper," said Routsis. "It's amazing that after many
days of intense negotiations the final contract came out just
like we summarized it that day. It's a testament to the
integrity of a man like Kevin. It was clear his team knew
why they wanted to buy Cosworth and their plans for the future
of the company were best for Cosworth, its employees and Ford.
With Cosworth now cutting its
umbilical cord from Ford, they are free and independent to do
business with any car manufacturer in the world.
Not only will Cosworth continue to
make some of the best racing engines in the world, Kalkhoven has
big plans for Cosworth to make after-market car parts for any
number of cars worldwide. Particularly interesting to him
is the "tuner" car market, which is a craze in Europe, Asia and
North America.
Champ Car owner Kevin Kalkhoven looks back from the cockpit as he flies
his Gulfstream V jet to London for Monday's announcement. There's
no looking back now.
Mark Cipolloni/AutoRacing1.com
"We have no plans to change the name
of Cosworth," Kalkhoven told AutoRacing1.com in London.
"We are pretty much happy with the management team, headed by
Tim Routsis of Cosworth, and that will stay largely in place."
"This is a unique opportunity to own
a company with a heritage and legacy," said Kalkhoven. "I'm
delighted with the Red Bull deal and that Cosworth will be on
the F1 grid."
"We are strongly committed to continuing the great F1 tradition
at Cosworth and take that very successful heritage into the
Kalkhoven bought JDS Uniphase for
$11 million with his partner Dan Pettit, and grew it into a
billion dollar business.
"When we signed that deal,"
Kalkhoven told AutoRacing1.com, "Dan and I were completely out
of money. We had nothing left, but we took a gamble, grew
the business, and several years later we sold it for almost $1
Kalkhoven and company have made a
career out of taking pieces of businesses from large
corporations and building them into profitable entities.
"I have made a career out of buying
pieces of companies and growing them into successful businesses.
Cosworth is no different than JDS Uniphase in that regard," said
Kalkhoven. We see Cosworth as a company that has
tremendous potential and we intend to grow it into a hugely
profitable business."
Both Kalkhoven and Routsis see a big
opportunity for Cosworth in the tuner car market in the USA.
"We see the Torrance, California
plant playing a big role in that," said Routsis. It makes
sense to make car parts as close to the location where you are
going to sell them, especially in the low-margin, high volume
business like that.
There are also plans for Cosworth to
build race engines for the support series of Champ Car as well.
"We are looking at building
economical but powerful race engines for Champ Car's support
series as well," said Routsis. "We see the Torrance shop
servicing all those engines as well as our Champ Car and IRL
programs. Cosworth can build race engines for any racing series
now. We have some of the best engineers and manufacturing
processes in the world and we no longer have to do stuff just
for Ford."
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Head Chef Stuart Philips, has attended the Aberaeron Seafood festival for the last ten years. The festival takes place on the quayside of Aberaeron and is now established as a highlight on the Welsh food calender. Chefs present samples of their food using seafood, fish and local produce, all at £2.50 per portion. This money goes to cover the cost of the festival and is donated to local charities.This year, Henry, Jo and Stuart's neighbours Mandy and Trevor (previous Masterchef cookery class pupils) all joined him to help out.
The stall was set up by Henry, Mandy and Trevor with a lovely Beurre Blanc, spiced bean casserole with dill mustard and creme fraishe. Stuart and Jo arrived on Stuart's motorbike, jumped out of their leathers, straight into whites and began cooking! They were soon knocking out Dill crushed new potatoes with Buckler Leaf Sorrel and Beurre Blanc and Hake Casserole with Turmeric spiced beans, Garlic butter and Lime and Coriander.
There were boxes of iced fish neatly stacked from Debbie and Paul at Swansea Fish. A brilliant array of the best Welsh produce including Razor Clams, Langoustines, Cockles, Mussels, Hake, Bass and Monkfish. Henry was kept busy filleting and portioning, while Stuart kept on producing pan after pan of Bouillabaisse, Scallops with Chorizo, Langoustine with Fennel, Clam and Mussel Risotto. Mandy was stirring and cleaning while Trevor was slicing and dicing!
It was a boiling hot day, with around 7000 visitors roving up and down the quay from stall to stall from 11am-4pm.
Stuart says, "It's a great day out with a great bunch of chefs and helpers. I really enjoy seeing people tuck into the different dishes and answering questions as people peer into bubbling pots. Thanks again to Glynn and Menna for organising it all."
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In Chicago, either a stabbing or a shooting (details are still sketchy) at Simeon vs. Morgan Park High School; in Naples, Florida, players from Immokalee went into the stands to deal with some persistent hecklers after a loss to Naples High.
The video above is of the Immokalee incident, wherein, according naplesnews.com,
Emotions spilled over for Immokalee as the final horn sounded. As teams prepared to line up to shake hands, several Indians coaches and players jumped the fence behind their sideline and rushed into the visitors stands in response to being heckled by their own fans.
A different type of fracas broke out in Chicago at roughly the same time:
From the press box, everything seemed normal, with both sides totally into the game, before the melee began.
Suddenly a wave of fans on the Morgan Park sidelines started running out of the stands, apparently trying to get out of the stands as fast as possible.
The commotion quickly caught the attention of the game's officials, who stopped play as players from both teams sprinted for the sidelines.
Someone in the press box ordered the lights to be put out during the melee, and a person could be heard yelling: "Get down, get down - shots, get down, shots."
Police could not immediately confirm if shots actually were fired.
One person with a stab wound was taken to a local hospital. They're replaying the game tomorrow. Simeon is the same high school future 30-For-30 subject Ben Wilson attended when he was shot and killed in 1984. The lesson, as always, is that if you're going to go to a high school football game, keep your head down and for God's sake, don't go around yelling at people.
Prep Football: Naples Manhandles Immokalee [naplesnews.com]
Melee Erupts During Prep Football Game On Far South Side [Chicago Tribune]
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