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Thomas Aquinas College mourns the passing of Mr. John W. Blewett, who died on Friday, February 8, after a protracted illness. An emeritus member of the Board of Governors, Mr. Blewett served as a vice president of the College for 18 years until his retirement in 1997. He is also the father of three Thomas Aquinas College alumni, Katharine (Masteller '82), Margaret (Wall '82), and Paul ('85); the father-in-law of Michael DeTar ('80); and the grandfather of Joseph DeTar ('11) and Mary Colette ('11), Michael ('13), and AnnaMaria Masteller ('16).
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OK, that's a hokey headline, I know. But I stole it from ESPN's E:60, which recently did a feature on Kim Ng, our assistant GM. I was fortunate enough to attend a luncheon today in which she and Ann Meyers Drysdale (another true legend) were honored by Kids in Sports, a very cool organization here in Los Angeles. Kim rarely get the recognition she deserves for being one of the best executives in baseball, so it was cool to see her honored today in that sort of setting. If you're so inclined, you can donate to that great organization at the link above.
And she'll actually be honored again this weekend, along with our famous longtime photographer, Jon SooHoo's, whose photos you see on the site every day.
In the meantime, we start our longest homestand of the year today and hope you'll all be out here, sitting in the new Mannywood section or anywhere else in the stadium (he got a kick out of the fact that this exists when I told him today and hopefully he'll have some fun with those of you sitting out there).
Here's the lineup:
Furcal, SS
Hudson, 2B
Manny, LF
Ethier, RF
Loney, 1B
Martin, C
Kemp, CF
Blake, 3B (by the way, we took the prototype of his bobblehead around the clubhouse today and the entire team was shocked how much it looks like him. If you haven't made plans to come out yet on May 20, you can still get them but keep in mind, bobblehead nights usually sell out)
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I have had the honor of having my picture taken by John SooHoo at Dodger Fantasy camp when I attended some years ago. He does a great job.
New thread. I will try to be for all the games! I am sitting in the field level for one of those days
ibirken, Jon SooHoo sure does a great job with the pictures. My friends and I have copied some of his way of taking pictures.
I saw a special on Kim. just don't remember where. ::scratches head:: Shades of senility
I saw the ESPN profile of Kim and it was great. She hopes one day to be the first lady GM in baseball. I think it would be fantastic if it happens for her. She's one tough cookie!
Thanks True! You got a better memory than I do.
Everyone have a great weekend. I got to wrap everything here at work and head to the train station. We are having a birthday party on the train with pizza, cake, and drinks. I Today I left my car at the Burbank train station so I head to the stadium from there.
MANNYWOOOOOOD! Ha that is a great idea to get people to go to the games. We are making plans to attend and sit in the MANNYWOOD section… And oh yeah we are for sure attending Blakes bobble head game. We got our tickets, so hope to see ITD'rs there.
Well I do hope KIM-possible becomes the first lade GM in Baseball.
Last nights game was not gooooood! But I will put it behind and hope todays game is a better game.
EMMA – Have fun at the game and enjoy the cake & pizza.
Inspired by Scott from Arcadia… Village People YMCA:
Hey Matt, there's no need to feel down.
I said, "Hey Matt!, just because Joe's a clown."
I said, "Hey Matt!, it's the dude with the frown."
There's no need to play ol' slappy.
Hey Matt, there's no place you can go
I said, "Hey Matt!, Juan's the one with the dough."
Juan can play there, but I'm sure you will find
Juanpy drives us out of our minds.
It sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
It sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
He just ain't got the tools that we need to employ
not like all of our other boys.
It sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
It sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
You can view the misplays, you can see a caught steal,
You can watch the offense unreel…
Hey Matt!, are you listenin' to me?
I said, "Hey Matt!, center's yours to roam free."
I said, "Hey Matt!, you're the one of our dreams."
You're the 5-tool guy for our team.
But Juan P, wants it all for himself
I said, "Hey Joe, put Juan P on the shelf."
Juan shunt be there, he plays Y.U.C.K.
But I'm sure he'll be back Sunday.
It sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
It sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
He just ain't got the tools that we need to employ
not like all of our other boys.
It sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
It sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
You can view the misplays, you can see a caught steal,
You can watch the offense unreel…
Hey Matt, glad I'm not in your shoes.
I said, "Hey Joe, lighten up on the screws."
I feel no one cares to see Pierre play
He can ruin I T D's day.
That's when I'z delighted to see
Yippee, benchtime for our pal ol' JP
There's a new dance called the Y.U.C.K.
That we'll do til he's gone someday.
It sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
It sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
He just ain't got the tools that we need to employ
not like all of our other boys.
Y-U-C-K… sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
Hey Matt, hay Matt, there's no need to feel down
Hey Matt, hey Matt, its just that JoJo's a clown.
Y-U-C-K… sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
Hey Matt, hay Matt, there's no need to feel down
Hey Matt, hey Matt, its just that JoJo's a clown.
Y-U-C-K… sucks to see Juan play Y-U-C-K
Hey Matt, hey Matt, are you listenin' to me?
Hey Matt, hey Matt, center's yours to roam free…
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©NedCo Broken Records 2009
As a Dodger fan I'm proud of the connection between the team and China.
11 straight games at Dodger Stadium should bring us plenty of victories and keep our hold on first place.
Starting with Jimmy Mack tonight.
E, good job!
Loved Y.U.C.K. Enchanted!!!!!
I see on the Homepage we now have Weaver and activated Wade……sending DeWitt back down. Elbert was swnt down on Wednesday.
red pen *sent down
DeWitt seems like the odd man out this season in a no win situation for him. Doesn't it seem as if every game is a big game even so early in the season? I mean this in two ways; big for the team and big for certain players such as McDonald and Kershaw who are trying to make their mark while playing for a big market team for which the fans have high expectations.
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just got done reading the Captions, and "OH MY GAWD!!!" That is too hilarious.
Courtesy of dodgereric. Its "make your own caption" day on ITD. Here's the pix, you make the caption and add it below:
………."If Andre doesn't get that ball, they will expect me to throw it too"
lbirken ~ you are right. Every game is a big game and even though many think our division is weak, we can't afford to throw games away. Especially to teams in our own division. A game lost now, even though it is early in the season can come back to bite us in the a** later.
"What would spider-man do???"
Obviously we'll need caption day several times a year.
LMAO!!!!!!!!! That picture is something else!!!!!!!
BTW – great song enchanted!!!!!!!!! I am sure many are thinking of changing that first letter because that is what many of us think when we see him in the starting lineup. 🙂
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!! Oh that picture – LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not a betting man but I have a feeling if MACK comes out early we'll see Weaver tonight.
I am not taking that bet because I think you are right 🙂
OUTSTANDING!!!© Beav!!!!!!!!!!
Hello all!!!
At least Andre wasn't stuck to the wall – LMAO!!!!!!!! Oh, that image is going to be around for a while isn't it?
It's a good thing they were Dodger fans in the right field stands where 'Dre had to go to get that foul ball.
jhall is in the ITD house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good Evening sir!!!
Hey Nelly!!!!!!!!!!
Let's kick butt tonight!!!
That would be nice jhall!!!!
Hi, Jhall.
Nellyjune ~ I knew you'd love the picture!
Hey Trumom!!! Yep, that is a classic!!!
I was laughing all day! I came up with a few captions that were probably not acceptable here.
Yeah, Andre…………..rbi #22
Sealed with a kiss from Andre to Nelly!!!!!!! Way to go
Wifey dear probably didn't go for the beard.
I sure hope the Dodger Brain Trust (I use that term loosely) signs Andre to a long term deal soon and buy out a couple of years of free agency. This guy is the real deal. If he was one step faster he would be considered a 5 tool guy.
LOL!!!! funny jhall 🙂
tru – Andre's Song that my student did got first place in the county, and it will be displayed at the mall the second week in May.
….and I'm sure he is working on that one step faster too 🙂
pitching, pitching, pitching
That is so cool, NellyJune! Are you guys sure that Juan isn't pitching?! lol
We have too good of a lineup to have to worry about pitching like this. It's amazing how we had that exact opposite problem last season.
Time for Mac to sack up!!!!!!!!!
oldbrooklyn fan – I think Weaver will make a showing tonight. Mack has already pitched 33 pitches.
There you go oldbrooklynfan!!!! He's warming up!!!
Kid's not ready for prime time!!! Rats!! Needs to go back to AAA. JMO!!!
Weaver is up in the pen.
Jhall ~ can we send Juan with him!
LOL Tru!! Probably only in our dreams!!!!
This is to painful to watch.
C'mon JoJo, go get him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We're going to need a bunch of runs tonight
Kid's trying too hard. Darn shame. Never thought I would be happy to see Jeff Weaver.
Mac is a head case. Get him off the major league club and send him back no higher than AA.
I've always been a negative thinker and I couldn't fight the thought of this happening even before the game started.
He reminds me of Koufax, when he first came up, especially tonight.
This team's in serious need of some pitching.
Nice job Ned.
"Cool! I'm batting 11th!"- Juan Pierre Thought Bubble after seeing tonight line-up card.
Now, lets get these runs back
Welcome back, Jeff Weaver.
I don't see much choice but to dangle DeWitt, McDonald, Elbert and possibly a couple other names for some pitching.
Letting the opposing pitcher drive a run in, after you get a DP during a bases loaded situation (caused mostly by walks). UNACCEPTABLE!
After the SF debacle (should have won Monday) we need to get the power surge going now. Jeff keep us in the game!
Enchanted ~ I don't think we can wait until June for pitching. If we don't get some now, it will be too late.
Hi, Koufax ~ how are you tonight?
I'm starting to agree with you Tru.
Too early to panic gang!!!
Not many or any impact players are available this soon. Perhaps in July, if we are still in need, something worthwhile will be there.
If we have to use the pitchers we have right now, we will have to score at least 7 runs a night.
I'm afraid our bully won't last until July Wally when we only get 1 2/3 out of our starter(s).
Panic is why we are stuck with PileOPhew!!! Also, Schidt!!!!
Also the Curacao Cow was a result of Ned's panic and trying to fix it. Geez!!!!!! Stop the ignorance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unfortunate Beav and very true. Bad part is, Ned is not the guy to go looking for a deal with.
yeah, Raffy & ODog!!!!!
Good evening all. Better late than never I guess. Looks like another tough outing for McDonald. UGH!
Hopefully Weaver can come in for long relief & stop the bleeding. Kuroda needs to get healthy in a hurry & get back in the rotation.
Sweet!!! Way to get the kid off the hook. Now let's win this freaking game.
New ball game!
WooHoo!!!!!!!!! Way to go Manny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes!!! Glad to see we have some resiliency to come back from a tough start!!!
Vl4 ~ good to see you!
Hi, Perumike ~ good to see you, too!
Thats what I am talking about!
We ever do put some real pitching together with this team – look out!
Tru B……….Doing Great! Glad to us all enjoying that back to back jacks!
This could be an exciting year, Enchanted!
Great to see you too trublu, and all our fellow ITDers. Hopefullly Weaver can keep things under control!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Weaver. I don't look forward to getting into our BP again too soon.
Damn Martin, you have to at least swing to hit the ball.
Marty keeps this crap up and I'm gonna be jumpin' on messagebear's bandwagon…
Lookout – its Weaver's second time through the order.
Well, I am back and I can see we at least got our one run lead back…..that's a start.
Jeff's bobbin' and Weaverin'.
MATTY showing one of his tools.
Because of Matt's last catch, JP should never start again!!!!!!!!!!!
You will get no argument from me on that 🙂
I know that nobody cares but Jody Gerut got the first hit, the first HR, scored the first run, had the first RBI and was the first batter ever to bat in Citi Field.
If you love baseball, you do care 🙂 That is a great piece of history and I am sure to be a trivia question for years to come. Thank you oldbrooklynfan.
Nice job by Weaver and a nice clout out to left field.
If you love baseball, you do care 🙂 That is a great piece of history and I am sure to be a trivia question for years to come. Thank you oldbrooklynfan.
Nice job by Weaver, and nice clout to Left Field
I made the change on my comment but not nearly in time.
Manny and Andre lead in multi-hit games with 11. Way to go!!!!!!!!
What's happened to Loney's power? He and Martin need a better batting coach than what we have.
The fact that no catcher is hitting well, is good for Russell.
I am not sure what is up with James…..no homeruns yet 🙂
However, that is great about Manny and Andre. They are a duo that shouldn't be separated really.
pitching, pitching, pitching
Hey everyone. I missed the first few innings, but Weaver looked pretty good from what I saw. That second catch by Matt was fantastic. They really need this game.
James has not been getting under the ball or hitting with power. I knew we were going to let them back into this hame. Oh God, we are in trouble with Ronald coming in.
Now we could almost go back to my first comment when I said,
NellyJune ~ send Michael down there!
Can anyone on this team pitch?
Can we run Billz out there every day? 🙂
Enchanted, if it weren't for Bills, we'd really be in trouble right now. He's been the only consistent starter for sure.
Is it asking too much to have a little power and good pitching all in the same year.
boblee ~ Joe's probably thinking the same thing right about now!
Back during spring training we were half joking (I think) about the offense having to score 10 runs or more a game in order to win games because of our pitching. Well, it looks like unless things change, with the exception of Billz, we just may have to do that. Once again, this is too good of a lineup to have to worry about pitching.
Let's go, get one in to tie this thing up!
Tie game! Loretta has done a great job pinch hitting.
Loretta – hittin' 'em where they ain't.
Do I see a drag bunt in our future? 🙂
So, if Loretta can pinch hit, why do we need Juan?
I know they sent DeWitt down but they can send XPaul up!
We don't
Thats a question we'll be asking ourselves for 3 more years Tru.
What luck! About time some went their way.
Let's go Dre!!!! Make them pay!!!
Andre's first career grand slam would be nice about now.
Let's Go Andre!!!!!!!! Yes, that would be good bluecrewgirl !!!!!
Bummer. Hope the one run lead will be enough.
Let's get a hold and a save!!!
OK, who's turn is it to blow the lead in the 8th tonight?
Good hitting by O Dog lead to the break.
Enchanted ~ Charlie just said that Milton the Toaster will probably be called up because he is smaoking hot! And, Estes, too.
red pen, *smoking!
I think we can all agree on one thing: this Dodger team is interesting to watch.
I am very happy to see Cory Wade back…….that is a definite positive to the pitching staff.
That was pretty funny. Glad neither one of them got hurt.
Nice job Cory!!! One more run would be really nice here!
lbirken – that is probably an understatement. I don't think there will be any dull moments – LOL!!!
My Loney has a first name,
It's J-A-M-E-S
My Loney has a second name,
It's L-O-N-E-Y
I love to watch him every day
And if you ask me why I'll say
'Cause James Loney has a way
With H-I-T-T-I-N-G!
By leefink and martinloneykemp
Positive vibes for Martin…
Talk about getting together.
Oh well, I tried.
Alright Matt!!!!!!
weavers our new number 5 starter.no question.nice job kemp.good to see wade back.its johnny time
Great job, Matt! That extra run is great, but a few more would be nice, especially with who the Pads have coming up in the top of the 9th.
Sure glad Matt Kemp showed up tonight. I am sure the rest yesterday helped.
I'd like to see Bills, Kersh, Kuroda (when healthy), Wolf, and either Weaver or Stults. I think Stults may be the odd man out if they don't want to use three lefties.
I know, don't give Joe any ideas.
CASEY may have sealed it.
Here's Johnny!
Here's Johnny!!!!!!!!!!!!
The dreaded lead off bases on balls.
He' better find his control fast. He looks wild like he was the other night.
I hate defensive indifference. That's just not baseball.
when broxtons in the zone,hes unhittable.the man is nasty.weaver deserved the win,but a wins a win.great game
What does Johnny Say?
Fu Qy'all
Fu-Q Y'all!!!!!
COME ONE COME ALL TO THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH!! ANOTHER GLORIOUS DODGER VICTORY!!! Tremendous effort by New Old Dodger Jeff Weaver. HUGE MASHING from BATMAN HUDSON and our very own MANNYWOOD. Furcal, Ethier, Kemp and Blake all with TWO HITS. BENCHBEAST LORETTA with another pinch hit. New set-up man CORY WADE with a great inning coming back from the DL. Another SAVE FROM JONATHAN BROXTON. NOTHING CAN STOP THIS TRAIN FROM PULLING AWAY IN THE WEST AND RETURNING AS CHAMPIONS IN 2009!!!!
Well, he definitely found his control. Great victory!
Someone please takeover – I'm running out of alcohol…
Very Good beavndeschenes!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just get your refill from seesky 🙂
E, I am with you on the so called defensive indiference. I can see it with a big lead but not with a one or two run lead. A two run game can become a one run game so easily, and one swing of the bat and the game is tied.
Sorry E, the only alcohol I have is Kosher wine and trust me, you don't want that!
Birk – just seems to me a force out may be easier at times than throwing across the diamond. What could be a force out may wind up as an infield hit because you've lost that option. Never saw that crap a few years ago.
You're right – I need the hard stuff if I'm expected to go on.
E, the only argument that can be made about letting the runner take second is a fear of a throwing error that sends the runner to third. Kind of lame, but I guess we can put it in with quality starts, pitch counts, holds and all the other stats we never had when we were kids.
Is always a good thing to come home to a game we won. WB Weaver I really hope he can help us down the stretch and I won't mind seeing him in our rotation but think Mcdonald need to be in the bullpen.
Interesting we have the better batting average combined from our OF's combined.
I guess this is a good article to read and it's look like one of our boys Mientkiewicz was defending ARod.
I missed when Beimel did the lineup last year on fox.
Great game. I wish I could of watched it.
The below link is why the Giants fans chant BEAT LA all the time…
Check out the second shot & that will explain it. They've had to look at these flags fly like this for years.
A little luck and a couple of clutch catches and it worked out for my boy Weaver. I always liked how he changes his arm angle.
So…a 13 man pitching staff will not get it. Two inning starts and a pen that takes turns trying to give the game back will not work. We need more than 4 bench players. We can win the West as we are now, but the playoffs? It will be interesting to see where this pitching help will come from.
I'd rather have 4 bench players if we can some how dfa Pierre and called up Paul. I think a 13 man pitching staff would work. No more Broxton come in the middle of the 8th innings to save our butt.
How different last night's game would've been if Pierre was playing center. That's why you DON'T SIT A 24 YEAR OLD 5-TOOL PLAYER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FOR JP.
Thank you, had to get that out of my system.
A 13 man staff blows, especially when JoJo wastes JP pinch running (can't believe I just said that) like he did last night. You only have 4 bench players, you don't have the luxury of pinch runners that aren't pitchers.
Enchanted ~ What's going to happen if they call up Milton and Estes? I think McDonald will be sent down, but what else?
I agree with Shad. We need to call up a big bat, like XPaul. He's killing the ball right now.
Somewhere along the line we need to get a legitimate starting pitcher, whom you can reasonably expect to eat some innings and accumulate at least a .500 won lost record with the type of offense that we have. That will involve some trading over the next couple of months, although we probably have until mid-July to see if someone like Milton or Estes can work out, which in my mind is doubtful. I think we have a couple of tradeable pieces, which in my mind would certainly include Stults, McDonald, DeWitt and Hu; Mota and Pierre, as if anybody wants them. If the pitcher available is really a #1 or #2 quality, such as Halliday, I would at this point be willing to offer Martin as part of the deal. Frankly we have Ausmus for the rest of the season, and he's proved to be so much more than the catching backup stiffs that we've had in the past, and I believe that Ellis will be able to provide us with the longer range catching that Martin promised but is no longer able to deliver.
If Weaver manage to at least go at least 5 innings but would Milton or Estes last 2 innings without given up a run?
A couple of quickies while I'm on a micro-break:
I felt really bad for McDonald last night. He really took that hard. Although I'm a "get back on that horse" guy, perhaps it would be a good idea to exchange him and Weaver for a while. I think a minor league return would do more harm than good to what appears to be a psyche problem at this point.
Right now we have essentially 1 pinch-hitter. Ridiculous. Paul needs to be called up, send Mota down.
Ironic, isn't it? Or is it coincidence?
Matt Kemp = 5tool player
Juan Pierre = Stool player
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Good morning everyone!
Rose _ birthday party was great. Good pizza, drinks and killer homemade brownies.
Yesterday I said "have a good weekend" and I also said it when I left work only to have people remind me that it was Thursday. I guess I am used to the boys coming back on Fridays or Mondays.
I am very sad that Tony Jackson was laid off from the paper. I had his blog linked to my blog and always went there to read. I will miss reading Tony's articles on the paper which I will no longer buy and reading his blog. I hope he will find a new place. I will also miss seeing and talking to Tony at the stadium and on the road. He is very personable. Good luck Tony.
If you read his blog at http://www.insidesocal.com/dodgers/2009/04/scott-elbert-op.html stop by it and wish him well. thanks
It is a sad state of affairs when we only have one back-up outfielder and he is to quote Dodgereric, " A 5stool" player!
Please pray for me my aunt just called my mother and something bad about to happen to my 97 yrs old great grandmother. Why do this have to happen? I've lost my uncle back in thanksgiving now this. I hate to say this but my great grandmother should be the one over my grandfather back in 2001, my aunt 2003 I think, my grandmother on my dad side in 2006 my uncle back on thanksgiving in 2008.
You've got 4 back-up players: Pierre and Castro can't get the ball out of the infield, Loretta is basically a singles hitter, and Ausmus you can only use in dire emergencies.
Good plan Ned & JoJo.
Sad to hear about Tony Jackson. He seemed like one of the good guys. Needless to say that printed newspapers are probably on their way out, recession or not. Just one of the big changes taking place in the communications world. The main daily in Seattle folded a couple of weeks ago, and they are strictly maintaining an online presence with very little staff and no more printing and distribution.
Sorry Shad, hang in there.
Sorry to hear about Tony Jackson. I enjoyed reading his stuff for the most part.
Shad – I know it's hard, but I would have to think your great grandmother has lived a long and wonderful 97 years. Think about the good stuff to get you through. As enchanted said, hang in there 🙂
pitching, pitching, pitching………………and now no bench….just wonderful!
We have plenty of pitching…
Its just that most of its not very good.
I notice the moment my mother answer that phone and it was my aunt calling that something bad was going to happen. The good thing about my uncle he take good care of his grandmother and my aunt (that used to be my grandfather and his mother) live across the street 1 door over. I really hope I could see her alive one more time I mad a big mistake with my grandmother on my dad side not talking to her but I was sleep and promiss to called her the end of the week but a week later my uncle said she pass away. I still blame myself oh what happen and one year later on that day I had my high school reunion in July 07 but that memory was still in my head and I couldn't really enjoy my time.
Why couldn't she be 35 years younger lol.
Oops should've been my grandfather house that my aunt is now living at.
Sorry Shad. My prayers are with you.
oops mad=made damn it really hard to type and spell right when you so nervous.
Thanks everyone.
Hang in there Spit! Celebrate her wonderful 97 years of life.
Yeah is amazing she live this long to bad I never really knew my other 3 great grandparents and my other grandmother on my mother side passing away in 1982 when I was 4 too young so I really only knew my grandmother on my dad side. She always buy me a plane ticket to Chicago, Houston and sometime her and me always drive to other states to see more family members like Montgomery for the summer. I've been seeing her when I was 4 every summer until I was like 12 flying alone and than I got tired of them when I got older lol.
I really wish she was still living. I don't have any kid yet but someday I will and she going to miss out on them.
I was 3 when my mom passed away so I don't remember her but I was raised by my grandmother on my dad's side. I was devastated when she passed away when I was 21(long time ago).
SHAD – Prayers go out to you, your family and of course your grandmother. She is very lucky to be living at 97. Pray for the best and hang in there.
EMMA – I'm glad you enjoy the food and the BROWNIES mmm mmm! I am sure that you had a great time at the game. DODGERS WERE GREAT…KEMP was awsome (those catch he made were outstanding). MANNY, BLAKE & HUDSON what can I say. I do wish MARTIN comes back with his power he does seem thinner than last year?? Well girl hope to see you during BLAKES bobblehead game, I will be there, along with 15 other of my FAM BAM.
ERIC – I wish to add to the Captioned questions for JP's picture (which is hilarious): "NO, NOT THE WALL – NOOOOO DON'T HIT THE WALL"
By Rose
Thx Rose, her last great grandson my youngest brother is about to graduate next month I really hope she still be here to see it even though she might not even go to see it.
I'm so mad! How could Joe start a slug like Kemp over a veteran like Juan Pierre last night?
Pitching a dramatic script in Los Angeles.
Damn RIP Danny Gans to bad I never seen any of his performance.


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A security and privacy researcher at Indian University, Christopher Soghoian, found an affidavit filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) requesting to unlock an Android phone.
The FBI wanted access to the phone of Dante Dears, the reported leader of "Pimpin' Hoes Daily" street gang. The FBI's Regional Computer Forensics Lab couldn't get past the "pattern lock." If you try too many false patterns, you lock the phone's memory, which can then only be unlocked with a user's Google account password and username.
Google replied, "Like all law abiding companies, we comply with valid legal process. Whenever we receive a request we make sure it meets both the letter and the spirit of the law before complying. If we believe a request is overly broad, we will seek to narrow it."
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By DAVID GREEN
Despite paying more for an increased number of performers and losing money on the rodeo, Morenci's Town and Country Festival committee reported a net profit of $3,131 from this year's event.
Co-chairs of the festival Dale Long and Bill Foster reported to city council members Monday on the economic side of the festival.
"We did a lot of new things this year and a lot of that paid off," Foster said.
Six bands helped bring in visitors and new events such as the pedal tractor pull, a 5K run and the dodgeball tournament each netted a profit. A dog raffle brought in $550 after the winner, Fran Bell, donated it back to the festival.
The festival's share from the Eagles' beer tent brought in $1,415 and proceeds from the carnival rides and games netted $1,734 for the committee.
"Dale worked really hard on the food vendors and merchant vendors," Foster said. "I think it was the most merchant vendors we've had in a really long time."
Many events were backed by merchant donations, Foster said, to help keep costs down.
In addition, he said, there was ample fund-raising throughout the year and those efforts brought in $1,363 before the festival got underway.
The committee spent $2,400 for entertainment and the sound system. The rodeo finished short by $1,552, but Long said it always draws a large crowd and many of them are from out of town.
One large donation for the fireworks fund left the account with $55 to start on next year's campaign.
"Overall things went well," Foster said, "and we have several fresh ideas for next year."
"That's an excellent job," Mayor Keith Pennington said about the committee's job this year.
ELECTION—Election inspectors for the Aug. 7 primary election were approved. Gail Johnson will serve as chair. Other inspectors are Joyce Woerner, Tonia Hoffman, Laurie Schisler and Leasa Slocum.
COMPUTERS—Council accepted a bid from IT Right—the company that currently works with the city—to buy two computers for $2,100. The purchase was made in anticipation of the new software the city will use.
JUNK CARS—Police chief Larry Weeks said the department mailed 21 notices to the owners of inoperable vehicles from late June and into July.
"We've gained compliance with every one but four," he said. "I do appreciate their compliance without having to take more aggressive action to get those vehicles removed."
K2—Chief Weeks said he followed the county health department's order to speak with local business owners that could sell chemically engineered marijuana—also known as K2 and other names—and informed them that the substance is now illegal.
"We've had some issues with that in town," he said. "We've had some people who have overdosed. It does impact our community."
EMS—Weeks, who also serves as Morenci Area EMS coordinator, told council that Dan Sallows chose to step down from the position of station coordinator due to conflicts with his full-time job.
His assistant, Chad Corbin, will take over as supervisor.
FIRE CALLS—Fire chief Chad Schisler said the department has been extremely busy.
"We're at 96 calls for the year and our average is 125 for the entire year," he said.
Schisler said a county-wide burn ban remains in effect.


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Marriage over motherhood? Yes, says Giuliana Rancic, who welcomed baby boy Edward Duke via surrogate last summer with husband Bill Rancic.
Speaking to Us Weekly on Feb. 26 at a Toast to Red Carpet Style event hosted by Crystal Light Liquid and the E! News host, Rancic shared the secret to their happy marriage: She and her husband make their relationship a priority, even when there's a "cutest baby ever" in their life.
"We're husband and wife, but we're also best friends, and it's funny because a lot of people, when they have kids, they put the baby first, and the marriage second," says the 37-year-old breast-cancer survivor. "That works for some people. For us, I find, we put our marriage first and our child second, because the best thing we can do for him is have a strong marriage."
"So we're even stronger than we ever were before and even imagined we could be," continues Rancic, who recently reported from the Oscar red carpet for E!. "Like Oscar morning, Duke wakes up, like, twice during the night because he's so hungry and wants to eat every 4 hours. So Bill, like, no question was like 'I got it. Tonight you get a good night's sleep.' And when Bill has shoots the next day or meetings the next day, I do it . It's kind of amazing . I always say to Bill, 'You were my first baby,' because he was! He was my first love and my first baby and Duke is my second baby."
The couple, who have plans for a second child ("We'd love to do it, so hopefully it's sooner rather than later," she says), also makes sure to schedule in time for date nights. "We do it all the time. I had Oscars and then Fashion Police, and now I'm done. Awards season is over. So last night Bill surprised me. He had Chicago deep dish pizza flown in from Giordano's!," the reality star tells Us. "He knows after awards season, I go to town! We had that and some frozen yogurt for dessert and walked around Santa Monica. It was sweet!"


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Lawmakers took Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to task Wednesday over how the DOL's recrafting of its fiduciary rule is progressing—specifically how the department is collaborating with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the timing of the reproposed rule, and the rule's inclusion of individual retirement accounts (IRAs).
Solis testified before the House Committee on Education and The Workforce on Labor's 2013 budget and the agency's priorities.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., who also sits on the House Financial Services Committee, told Solis that a final outcome on DOL's and SEC's fiduciary duty rules "has been dragging on for some time now. It's not good. Businesses need to know what to do." McCarthy said Labor officials "need to sit down with members of Congress [and discuss] where this [fiduciary rule] is going."
McCarthy added that "many of us here on this particular committee, [and] many on the Financial Services Committee, would like to work together and see if we can come to some sort of resolution in the near future."
Solis replied that she would encourage Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary of labor of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the chief architect in re-crafting the proposed fiduciary rule, to set up a meeting with lawmakers.
McCarthy also questioned Solis on why Labor has said it may release its reproposed rule in May when the SEC has not given a specific timeline for releasing its fiduciary rule.
Solis said: "I'm not interested in pushing this [reproposed rule out] until we have everything we need. We want to have a fully fleshed-out rule."
Solis then cited EBSA's attempts to secure additional information from industry groups on the department's request regarding what impact the conflicts of interest faced by brokers and advisors who advise on IRAs have on IRA investors.
Labor, Solis added, is also disappointed that Oliver Wyman has declined to hand over data underlying its report stating that applying a fiduciary standard to IRA recommendations is costly.
While McCarthy said lawmakers had heard Labor and the SEC were sending "emails back and forth" in their efforts to collaborate on their fiduciary rules, Solis responded: "It's not just emails. We've been working with the other agencies involved" in crafting the fiduciary rules.
Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., asked Solis if Labor—as the agency did in the past with the Treasury Department—would issue a joint Request for Information (RFI) with the SEC since Congress, under Dodd-Frank, gave the SEC, not the Labor Department, the authority to write new fiduciary rules for brokers.
Solis replied that she couldn't say whether Labor would issue a joint RFI, citing the Administrative Procedures Act.
Tim Ryan, president and CEO of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, said Monday at SIFMA's compliance conference in Miami that SIFMA would "like to see the SEC and the Department of Labor move forward together, so that we actually have one [fiduciary] standard, not multiple standards." He said SIFMA hopes both agencies come out with a rule "if not this year, than early next year so we could comment on and basically really level the playing the field for advice."
Collaboration between the agencies does indeed appear to be taking place as Michael Davis, deputy assistant secretary of labor, said Monday at the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries' (ASPPA) annual conference in New Orleans that Labor's reproposed fiduciary rule would be accompanied by a set of prohibited transaction exemptions that address 12(b)-1 fees, revenue sharing and principal trading—all top issues for the SEC as well.


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Join MLSsoccer.com's Jackie Pickering and Nick Firchau as they travel from LA to Vancouver, checking in on all the West Coast teams, meeting with fans, and stopping into adidas HQ in Portland to pick up the game ball for First Kick on March 15 at Qwest Field.
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LAS VEGAS – There are two types of people who follow soccer: fans and supporters.
Though supporters are certainly fans of the game and their team, it's their passion – some might say obsession – for the latter that sets them apart. Their songs, their flags and their coordinated tifo displays are all indicators that they don't just want to watch the game, they want to be part of the game.
Fans love soccer, supporters live soccer.
Turn on any MLS or US Soccer broadcast these days and you'll see dramatic shots of a packed stand heaving with raucous, die-hard supporters. It may be either during the run of play or as part of the pregame package, but the passion and pageantry are always on display.
From Toronto to Chicago, KC to DC, this dynamic fan support has become so common in MLS that the uninformed observer could be excused for taking it for granted. But anyone who's been around the game in the US and Canada for any length of time knows that things have come a long way from the league's early days.
"One thing that's changed is with the arrival of social media like Twitter and Facebook, you have all these different ways of organizing many people in a short time," former USMNT and MLS player Alexi Lalas said.
"The organization of the groups has become very sophisticated; they're organized and have a plan," Lalas added. "That's wonderful from a player's perspective because they are an integral part of the growth of this sport as much as any of us who have ever kicked a ball."
Another change is that when it comes to supporting their team, fans now have a multitude of options that weren't always there in the past. Nowadays almost every MLS club has several independent and official groups a potential supporter can throw their lot in with. The same holds true for national teams.
For years Sam's Army was the only game in town for fans of the USMNT. While informal and somewhat ragtag, the group pioneered supporter's culture in the United States and provided a template upon which newer groups like the Lincoln, Neb.-based American Outlaws to build.
[inline_node:306366]"Our goal is to be consistent and do the most we can for each game regardless of its significance," AO president Justin Brunken said during the group's inaugural rally here this past weekend. "We want to have chapters in as many cities as we can because without the local chapters to do the legwork, we can't do the things we do. Ultimately that's what sets us apart: We understand that people want to be part of something bigger, and we want to help them do it."
The idea of being involved in something bigger is part of the supporters group's appeal. The camaraderie, the sense of brother and sisterhood among the group's members is a far cry from the alone-in-a-crowd experience that can often occur in any other section of the stadium.
This pack mentality has led to a boom in fan travel, so much so that many groups now have a travel coordinator among their ranks and take advantage of discount deals with major airlines, with no destination seemingly too far or inconvenient.
"People are more dedicated to it than ever before, traveling a lot more," Brunken said. "They'll just pick up and go with little reserve."
"It's grown into a community where someone from LA can fly to Seattle and someone they don't really know will house them for the weekend. That's something that I don't think was there when I first started following soccer."


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History of El Bulli and Ferran Adria
9 Fascinating Facts to Know About El Bulli
Despite closing its doors in July 2011, famed Spanish restaurant El Bulli and its fearless leader, Ferran Adrià, continue to inspire the restaurant world. Though only a small fraction of people were able to gain entry to the sought-after dining room, El Bulli received plenty of buzz for its development of nouvelle cuisine and experimentation with molecular gastronomy. Chefs around the globe have sought to emulate, improve, and modernize the dining experience, using El Bulli as the prime example of success. As El Bulli gears up to reopen as a foundation, it's sharing history, artifacts, and key philosophies of the restaurant through a museum exhibit entitled El Bulli: Ferran Adrià and the Art of Food, at the London Somerset House until Sept. 29. Prepare to be astonished by some rich learnings about the restaurant and its chef.
(Clockwise from left) A larger-than-life bulli made from meringue, a young Ferran Adrià in the center, and old El Bulli menus
- Mini golf course turned beach bar: Dr. Hans Schilling and his wife, Marketta, founded the restaurant in 1965. Schilling envisioned turning the property into a mini golf course, but instead, El Bulli became a beach bar that served drinks and sandwiches.
- Bulli equals bulldog: Marketta owned several French Bulldogs, and her nickname for them was "bullis," which inspired the restaurant's name.
- Chef at 25: It wasn't until 1984 that Ferran Adrià and Christian Lutaud became head chefs, but by 1987, Adrià had taken sole charge of the kitchen at the young age of 25. In 1990, the restaurant received its second Michelin star, and in 1997, El Bulli received its third star.
Keep reading for more unusual facts about El Bulli.
Molding clay putty plate next to a picture of the finished dish
- Clay putty practice: The El Bulli cooks used colorful clay putty to plate each dish to scale, exactly as they envisioned, before the item made it to the menu.
- Proper plating: Part of serving new-age dishes is just that — paying attention to the dishes. In the '90s, El Bulli began experimenting with offbeat dish designs, partnering with design firms like Riera Casso SCP to design metal pieces inspired by origami.
- Vegetables but not: The textured vegetable panaché is a symbolic dish for El Bulli. First served in 1994, it redefined El Bulli as a restaurant that prioritized interesting cooking concepts rather than dishes. The plate contained sorbet, mousse, puree, foam, and jelly, all made from vegetables and nuts.
(Clockwise from top left) A collage of every El Bulli dish ever made, a model of the El Bulli foundation, frozen water, and the entire El Bulli catalog
- Mediterranean to molecular: In 1987, Adrià decided the restaurant would only create original recipes, and in 1994, the restaurant transformed from a fine Mediterranean restaurant to one that focused solely on molecular gastronomy and experimentation. Every dish was dated and cataloged with a number; that way, El Bulli can refer back to previous menu items, and the public knows when a technique or concept was invented.
- The sixth sense: Ferran Adrià started "The Workshop," his cooking lab, as a way for his cooks to meet and create new cooking techniques. Adrià sought to explore the "sixth sense" in each dish, his term for a diner's emotional response (surprise or joy, for example) to the food.
- Restaurant to foundation: By 2014, El Bulli will complete its renovation and reopen as a foundation with the intention of educating the public and innovating more radical concepts.


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DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. - The case of a Quebec woman charged with killing her three young children is set to resume later today.
Sonia Blanchette faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two-year-old Anais, four-year-old Loic and five-year-old Lorelie.
A judge was told in mid-December that more time was needed to determine whether Blanchette is fit to stand trial.
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BURNS LAKE -Ronnie Lowrey was 21 years old in 1969 when she left behind her family in Ireland to move to Prince George, one of 4,000 members of a "peace corps" used by a charismatic bishop to expand Catholic schooling across northern B.C.
On the airplane with Lowrey were 20 other young people from Ireland, England and Scotland who came to volunteer in 14 Catholic schools in "frontier" towns, stretching from Prince Rupert to Dawson Creek. They were part of a large group dubbed the Frontier Apostles.
Among those arriving from Ireland that summer was John Furlong, who would become a household name as the head of the Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Olympics but whose past as a Frontier Apostle only emerged two months ago.
This period of Furlong's life — and of B.C.'s past — fell under the spotlight in September when the Georgia Straight reported eight former native students allege Furlong hurt them while he was a 19-year-old gym teacher in Burns Lake in 1969 and 1970.
This week, Furlong launched a civil suit against the newspaper and reporter Laura Robinson, alleging she wrote the story as part of a campaign to discredit him and that she ignored warnings from Furlong's lawyer that he would sue if she published anything defamatory.
"During his time as a teacher, the plaintiff (Furlong) never engaged in abuse of his students, nor did the plaintiff engage in bullying or racial taunting," says the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in B.C. Supreme Court.
"Robinson maliciously intended to injure the plaintiff's reputation and cause the plaintiff harm."
The Georgia Straight article, which was filed in court by Furlong's lawyer as part of his lawsuit, quotes one former Furlong student who alleges he was hit with a stick, and on another occasion punched very hard.
Shortly after the article was published, Furlong issued two statements denying the accusations, saying he "categorically deny(s) absolutely any wrongdoing."
The RCMP is investigating allegations involving Furlong but won't provide any details.
Furlong's lawsuit claims the RCMP investigated a report from Robinson about one of the former students and found "inconsistencies."
When contacted this week, Robinson said she could not comment because she had not seen the lawsuit yet.
Over several weeks earlier this fall, The Sun spoke with more than a dozen people associated with the school or the Frontier Apostles in the 1960s and 1970s.
They include five former native students of Furlong's, whose recollections of him range from strict to harsh; four additional students who are fond of the bishop who created the schools but critical of their time in his classrooms; three former Frontier Apostles, who deny witnessing violence in the schools, and insist the focus was to integrate native and white students; and a number of people who recall Furlong as a nice, young gym teacher.
Furlong would not speak to The Sun about his first trip to Canada in 1969 because of the court action over the Georgia Straight article, his lawyer Marvin Storrow said in an email.
Furlong arrived in B.C. at a time when corporal punishment was common in many schools, subjecting children to the strap or the back of the hand for perceived infractions.
And for some native children in northern B.C. in the 1960s and '70s, they would be taught by young, foreign teachers who had little experience with First Nations culture.
The question at the heart of this controversy may be whether those children received a good education and a level of discipline that was commonplace for the time, or rather were subjected to disrespect and unduly severe punishment.
O'Grady's mission
Furlong arrived in Canada the same summer as Lowrey, and may have been on the same plane; all she can remember is sitting with 20 nameless strangers who later became her friends. What she vividly recalls is the culture shock of leaving Dublin, a city swept up in the worldwide economic boom and the civil rights movements of the 1960s, and landing in Prince George, which was also growing but had just 30,000 residents in 1969.
"I felt like I had stepped into a sort of Western movie: the wide main street and the flat-topped roofs to the stores," Lowrey said in an interview from her Ontario home.
"It was really quite radically different. And of course the smell of the paper mills was the first thing to hit me when I got off the plane."
Lowrey, Furlong and thousands of other young Catholics from around the globe, including Western Europe, the United States, the Philippines and Japan, came to B.C. to work for free for the larger-than-life and highly revered Bishop Fergus O'Grady.
Shortly after he was consecrated in 1956 as the top Catholic in northern B.C., O'Grady was nicknamed the Bulldozer Bishop because he cleared tracts of bushland and forest to build Catholic schools in the north. On occasion, he drove the bulldozers himself.
The Catholic Church and its members donated thousands of dollars and volunteer hours to construct the buildings. Once the schools were completed by the mid-1960s, thousands more volunteers, like Furlong, came to teach, receiving only $25 a month plus room and board.
Most of the bishop's schools were not residential: the children attended classes during the day and went home to their parents at night. And they were open to all local children, as it was O'Grady's vision to "integrate" white students and youngsters from the local native bands.
"The Indians of the diocese, especially, needed help and I thought education was the solution to their problems, so that is why I concentrated on building schools," O'Grady said in a 1968 interview with The Vancouver Sun.
That O'Grady was well-liked and well-intentioned is almost universally accepted, including by many band leaders and former native students.
But his goal of integration appears to have failed, as many former native students say they never felt equal to white children and complain of mistreatment by some of the nuns and volunteer teachers.
Some academics argue native students' experiences at the Catholic day schools were not dissimilar to the assimilation that was the focus of B.C.'s notorious residential schools.
"Irish and English teachers could do little to assist in a process of cross-cultural reflection or sensitivity — the purported aims of integrated education," Kevin Beliveau wrote in his 1992 master's thesis, Belief, Backbone and Bulldozers: Fergus O'Grady's Vision of Catholic, 'Integrated' Education in Northern British Columbia.
Beliveau, who today is a campus minister at Vancouver College, an all-boys Catholic grade school, attended Prince George College, the high school built by O'Grady.
Beliveau wrote in his 115-page thesis that while he respects his former teachers and admired O'Grady, he is conflicted by the fact he learned little about aboriginal culture in his "integrated" classrooms.
"Unlike Catholic education aimed at dominant society, Catholic missionary education was aimed at 'converting and civilizing' the Aboriginal people," he wrote.
Corporal punishment was legal in B.C. schools until 1973, and it was not unusual before that time for students to be physically disciplined by teachers or principals. One of the questions now being asked is whether some native students at O'Grady's day schools were subjected to overly harsh treatment, even by the standards of the day.
A range of recollections
Ryan Tibbetts attended Immaculata, the Catholic elementary school in Burns Lake, in the 1960s. He said Furlong was "strict" but he was never harmed by the gym teacher.
However, Tibbetts describes a "culture of violence" at the school. During an interview at his Burns Lake home, he said native students who did not speak English were strapped by the nuns if they couldn't understand what was being said to them.
A former Burns Lake Indian Band councillor, Tibbetts said he didn't know if anyone in First Nations leadership at the time spoke out against abuse at Immaculata, but noted he wasn't sure if that was "allowed or even thought about" then. Such complaints might have been considered tantamount to "questioning God's authority."
When Henry Michell was a boy growing up in Burns Lake, he was also required to attend Immaculata. It was the 1960s, and all aboriginal children from the surrounding area, including from his Babine Lake Nation, were sent there because their parents had been forced to go to a religious school and — flawed as their experiences might have been — that was all they knew.
"Most of our parents went to mass — we had no choice but to attend Immaculata," Michell said in an interview.
Michell, like other former students, claimed it was not a pleasant experience. He can remember students being physically harmed for minor infractions, such as running in the hall.
The nuns, he alleged, would deliver 10 to 20 straps across the palms of your hands.
"When you are mentally and emotionally abused, it stays with you. You hope to work towards healing," said Michell, who helped to organize an awareness walk in northern B.C. in 2006 for "survivors" of residential and day schools.
Mary Taschner, however, recalls efforts to be inclusive and helpful to the native students at St. Joseph's elementary school in Vanderhoof, where she volunteered as a primary teacher for three years.
She joined the Frontier Apostles in 1971, at the age of 25, moving to B.C. from Washington state, where she had been working as a teacher.
She said that Mary John, a respected community leader, taught the Carrier language at St. Joseph's; volunteers from the community helped native children with English reading and grammar; and some Frontier Apostles visited the native students' parents to personally deliver report cards.
"The homes when we went to visit were very sparse," Taschner said, adding there appeared to be few books. "So, we read a lot (in class). I used to sit in this low chair, and one girl would rub my legs ... You just felt very close to the kids."
Taschner, whose husband Robert was also a volunteer Frontier Apostle at another O'Grady school in the 1970s, doesn't remember corporal punishment at St. Joseph's.
"I don't remember the strap," she said in an interview from her Prince George home. "I don't remember physical discipline."
But Beverly Abraham alleged she was treated harshly by Furlong while he was her gym teacher at Immaculata in Burns Lake. She is one of eight former Furlong students from whom the Georgia Straight said it obtained signed affidavits.
Abraham complained that if she was slow running laps around the playground, she would have to do pushups in the gym, where Furlong would allegedly put his "big foot" on her back. She repeated the same allegations in an interview with The Sun.
Ronnie Alec, a student in the late 1960s and early 1970s at Immaculata, also signed an affidavit for the Georgia Straight. Alec, who recalled being on the receiving end of nasty punishments at the school, alleged Furlong kicked him from behind or slapped him on the head if he wasn't fast enough in gym class.
In the lawsuit filed against the Georgia Straight earlier this week, Furlong said the allegations made against him, including those of Abraham and Alec, were untrue.
In an interview with The Sun, Alec recalled being punished by other adults at the school, including being strapped in the boiler room and locked outside in freezing temperatures if he was late for class.
"It hurts when you bring (memories) back. It brings back the pain and anger," he said.
Those memories came back, Alec said, when he saw Furlong on TV in 2010 as the face of the Vancouver Olympics.
Furlong's best-selling biography talks about when he immigrated to Canada in 1974, but does not mention teaching in Burns Lake and Prince George from 1969 to 1972, when he returned to Ireland with his wife Margaret — another Frontier Apostle whom he married while in B.C.
In the lawsuit, Furlong says his book was about his life only as it related to his role in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, and that his volunteer service at Immaculata School had no part in that story.
A 'visionary program'
Lowrey, the former Frontier Apostle from Ireland, remembers Furlong in Burns Lake as "a delightful young man."
Although she is no longer a practising Catholic, she described the Frontier Apostles movement as a "marvellous, visionary program" because it predated John F. Kennedy's peace corps movement.
But she also acknowledged such a large volunteer organization could not be perfect.
Without speaking directly about Furlong, Lowrey said most students educated in Ireland in the 1960s were the product of a school system run by often-uncompassionate Christian brothers and nuns.
"They were equally brutal to us. I have no fond memories of being taught by the religious people," she said. "They were devoid of the milk of human kindness in their veins."
That background could have influenced how some Irish Frontier Apostles interacted with their students, she said, but wouldn't necessarily have meant the volunteers were "bad at the core."
Before she left Ireland in 1969, Lowrey had worked as a secretary in Dublin. When she came as a volunteer to Prince George it was not to teach, but to work in the Frontier Apostle recruitment office.
She said Furlong was an anomaly because at age 19 he was younger than most of the Frontier Apostles selected to teach. However, Lowrey said he was likely a good athlete and that the requirements for gym teachers might have been viewed differently then.
During her time in the recruitment office, from 1969 to 1971, there were more volunteers than positions to fill, recalled Lowrey, who believes the vast majority of Frontier Apostles were there with good intentions.
But, speaking generally and not about anyone in particular, she said a small number of the 4,000 volunteers likely shouldn't have been accepted and that their screening process could have been "tighter."
Struggles to adjust
Bill Beatty grew up in a white family in Burns Lake, where his mother taught at the public school and his sister Louise attended Immaculata. Beatty and his mother volunteered to pick up several of the Frontier Apostles from the Prince George airport in 1969, and that is when he first met Furlong, who became a friend.
He said many of the young volunteers had "significant adjustments" getting used to their new lives in northern B.C. towns, where the culture was different from Europe and many of the residents — both native and white — struggled with alcohol and the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome.
And this was unfolding during the counterculture of the late 1960s, when young people were challenging societal norms about race, sex, women's rights and authority figures.
"That was a time of dramatic social change for young people and John came into it as an idealistic, impressionable 19-year-old," said Beatty, an adjunct professor at Trinity Western University.
Beatty never had Furlong as a teacher but played basketball with him and witnessed him interacting with students at Immaculata. Furlong "valued performance" when he was coaching, he said, but not to the extent that he would be tough on the students.
While Beatty said he saw conflict between the aboriginal and white communities in Burns Lake, he insisted Furlong was never a part of that.
The volunteers who arrived in 1969/70 were given an orientation program that stressed treating native students with respect, said Lowrey, the former Frontier Apostle. "It emphasized again and again that the most important thing was to give back a sense of importance to the people."
Prince George College, she added, held First Nations celebrations, such as Haida dancing, at a time when society was often critical of native people.
Lowrey was not aware of students being strapped at Prince George College and — although she "has no time" for the Catholic Church today — she does not believe O'Grady would have condoned abuse if he heard about such behaviour.
"I'm not speaking out of defence for the Catholic Church when I say: Everything that Bishop O'Grady did came from a heart of goodness," she said.
"He had a fabulous vision of improving life for native students so that they wouldn't have to drop out of high school, so they could be equipped to deal with the world."
Before becoming bishop of the Prince George diocese in 1956, O'Grady, a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate order, spent several years working at residential schools in Mission, Williams Lake and Kamloops.
O'Grady, though, "seemed to ignore prevailing Oblate sentiment" to continue operating residential schools, Beliveau's thesis said, because "three decades of residential school administration inclined him to support (their) closure."
The federal government has announced a compensation program for residential school survivors, many of whom suffered physical, emotional and sexual abuse. But some native students who attended day schools allege they were subjected to similar abuse and want financial payouts, too.
Jim Miller, a University of Saskatchewan history professor, does not think when the key parties hammered out the residential school compensation agreement that much thought was given to the day schools.
"I think in terms of denigration of indigenous culture and those sorts of problems, (as well as) harsh discipline, there wouldn't have been a great difference between a day school and a residential school. The difference comes in after classroom hours, when the residential student is still there subject to the supervision of the staff," said Miller, an expert on the relations between native people and Canadian settlers.
A complicated history
To describe the history of the day schools built by O'Grady in northern B.C. as complicated would be an understatement. While native students complain about some nuns and volunteer teachers, many also have fond memories of other staff.
Nadleh Whut'en First Nation member Larry Nooski can recall Furlong being a tough gym teacher in the 1960s. When he went to Prince George College high school, he said, he dropped gym and took sewing instead to avoid having Furlong as his teacher again.
However, Nooski's experiences at the Catholic schools were not entirely negative.
"The nuns, as well as the priests, there were some that gained our respect. We did like them. Some we couldn't have the time for them or any use for them," said Nooski, who now lives in Sechelt. "There are a lot of good Frontier Apostles."
However, Ann Tibbetts, who attended Immaculata in the 1970s after Furlong left, alleges volunteer teachers threw rubber balls and chalk at her, and strapped her. She complained she was stabbed in the face with a pen and her long braid was cut off by other students.
And she told The Sun the Frontier Apostles and the principal ignored her complaints.
Tibbetts, though, spoke glowingly about the man who built Immaculata, calling O'Grady "warm, bubbly, happy, always laughing."
When O'Grady died in 1998, Taschner's husband Robert, who went on to become a florist, made the flowers for the casket. The bishop was buried in a native buckskin vestment, and many First Nations people came to his funeral in Prince George, she recalled.
"The native people really loved him," she said. "He was very personable."
O'Grady had created an unusual program, convincing 4,000 mainly young people to leave their home countries and come to much smaller communities in northern B.C., where some built schools, others drove buses and worked as janitors, and still more were teachers or cafeteria staff. Another element of this group was the so-called bread-winner apostles, such as nurses, secretaries and bank clerks, who donated their salaries to O'Grady to fund these schools.
Taschner's parents drove her from their home in the Seattle suburb of Renton to the school in Vanderhoof where she taught for three years. She stayed with four other teachers in a double-wide trailer with five bedrooms and a common living room. They had breakfast in the trailer, but lunch and dinner at the school cafeteria.
The $25-per-month stipend jumped to $50 in the second year of volunteering.
According to the literature about Frontier Apostles, there were many who met a future spouse while with the program.
Beatty, the friend who picked Furlong up from the airport in 1969, also gave a ride to a female Frontier Apostle named Margaret, who later became Furlong's first wife and the mother of his two children. Beatty attended their wedding.
"Margaret was lovely. Both, of course, (were) quite young when they married," he said.
The Frontier Apostle program started to shrink in 1977 when the provincial government began providing operational funding to independent schools, which allowed Catholic schools to hire paid teachers.
Some of O'Grady's schools are no longer open today due to declining student populations.
Community divisions
Nearly 50 years ago, Wilf Adam was forced to leave the public school on his reserve to attend Immaculata. He was in Grade 6 and, although he doesn't have fond memories of the school, he said it wasn't excessively violent.
"They treated (native students) like everybody else. If we didn't behave, we got strapped. I guess it was normal back then," said Adam, who today is chief of the Lake Babine Nation.
"I remember Furlong. He taught physical education in Immaculata. He was like a tough sergeant. He was very forceful.... I know we talked about it amongst ourselves, but at those times if you went to the principal they wouldn't take the student's side."
Adam, who was athletic, did not get hit and said he knows some former students who liked Furlong.
This story, he said, has divided the community. Adam issued a statement on behalf of the Lake Babine Nation urging the RCMP to do a thorough investigation into the Furlong allegations, so this chapter of Burns Lake history can be closed.
"I've talked to many people, and some were dismayed that this has happened. And some are dismayed that it is coming out now and when is it going to stop," Adam said.
"I hope the RCMP (get to the bottom of these questions) because if they don't, it is just going to get worse."


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Chelsea FC vs Norwich City preview - Mourinho turns attention to Norwich
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Jose Mourinho expects a reaction from Chelsea's Champions League elimination on Sunday against a Norwich side fighting for their Premier League status.
The Blues boss is determined his side respond from successive home defeats to Sunderland and Atletico Madrid in the final Stamford Bridge game of the season as the Canaries seek to end their dismal campaign on a high by avoiding the drop.
"The day I'm happy a couple of days after a defeat is because there is something wrong with me, and there is nothing wrong with me," Mourinho said.
"I'm not happy two days after a defeat. I consider myself a strong personality. I consider myself somebody with a great capacity to react to the negative moments and the negative feeling and in this moment I only think about the next match, the next couple of matches and the next season."
Norwich are "playing the game of their lives", Mourinho says.
"I expect they are going to play a final," he added.
"They have two games to decide where they are next season. Are they in the Championship? Are they in the Premier League?
"Are they playing against Chelsea, against Arsenal, against Manchester United?
"Are they playing at Anfield? Are they playing at the Emirates? Are they playing midweek matches in the Championship?
"It's going to be very, very, very difficult."
Chelsea, who must hope Manchester City and Liverpool have late collapses to have any hope of the title, need one point from the Norwich encounter and trip to Cardiff on the final day to confirm third place.
Mourinho also insists Chelsea have a "responsibility" to the other sides battling relegation to perform.
He added: "I have to motivate my players with the responsibility of finishing in the top three, which is very important for us to give us a better pre-season. If you play a play-off your pre-season is completely different; it changes a lot.
"I have to motivate my players with the fact that the fans deserve us to win at home.
"I also want to motivate them with the fact we must feel responsibility to be fair and to be correct with every other team that is also playing for relegation.
"I don't think Cardiff, Fulham, Sunderland, the teams that are also there, I can imagine they are not waiting for Chelsea to have a bad performance and to lose the game against Norwich.
"For many, many factors we must play a very serious game but respect professionals that are playing for their future."
Mourinho plans just a short summer hiatus before resuming preparations for the 2014/15 campaign in earnest.
Stamford Bridge was the scene of Neil Adams' greatest achievement in his managerial career and he is hoping to seal another memorable result on Sunday.
Adams took charge at Carrow Road in early April following the sacking of Chris Hughton but has been unable to halt the Canaries' slide into the relegation zone.
The 48-year-old was promoted due to his success within the youth set-up at Norwich, where he guided the team to FA Youth Cup success last season.
Chelsea were beaten over the course of two legs, with a 3-2 win at Stamford Bridge sealing an unexpected triumph for the Norfolk club.
Now, with five defeats in a row, Adams knows his side must replicate those heroics in west London if they are to stand a chance of top-flight survival.
"I have very good memories," he said. "The last time I was there as a coach was the Youth Cup final and we were successful. If there are any coincidences or traces of luck then hopefully that will happen.
"It is exactly the same, everyone outside of Norfolk doesn't give us a chance on Sunday. Chelsea are going for the title and we are in the bottom three and it doesn't take a genius to work out who the neutral will be fancying to win the game.
"It was exactly the same with the Youth Cup final, nobody really gave us a chance against a big and expensively-assembled Chelsea side but it is very similar to now, if you get the players right and get them believing they can go there and cause an upset they can."
Norwich go into the game on the back of a 4-0 defeat at Manchester United last weekend, having kept Ryan Giggs' side quiet for much of the first half.
Adams admits his players are at a low ebb and need to be ready to react if they slip behind on Sunday.
"It is very easy to get into the mentality when you are on a losing run. They say winning can become a habit and we have to make sure losing doesn't become a habit," he said.
"We have to prepare the players for if we go a goal down, does everything go out of the window or do we stick at it and make sure we have got an alternative option or an alternative plan. When you have lost games and you are at the bottom of the table it is tough."
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Jewish World Review May 1, 2013/ 21 Iyar, 5773
Blame pro-choice lobby for Philly monster
By Christine M. Flowers
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | (MCT) In "The Emperor's New Clothes," a preening monarch is hoodwinked into believing that he's just bought a magnificent outfit when all he's been sold is a bill of (dry) goods. Prancing around in what he thinks is cloth of gold, the emperor is complimented by his obsequious subjects. They all would have lived happily ever after had a young boy not pointed his finger and said "he's naked!"
I love that story for what it tells us about the human capacity for self-delusion. We often believe what our hearts suggest despite the clear and urgent message relayed by facts.
Philadelphia has been getting a powerful lesson in self-delusion these past five weeks, as Kermit Gosnell has gone on trial and shown us a disturbing aspect of the abortion industry.
Of course, the supporters of pro-choice and their ubiquitous friends in the media will deny that fact. They, like the emperor's tailor, hope that most of us are gullible enough to believe that Gosnell was an outlier who is as much the face of reproductive rights as Josef Mengele was the face of scientific research.
But their arguments, necessary and understandable from a pro-choice perspective, are weak and contradicted by the facts, which are far more substantial than those invisible imperial garments.
To hear the abortion advocates of Planned Parenthood, NOW and NARAL Pro Choice America, the only way to prevent more Gosnells is to preserve Roe v. Wade. This is exactly what they want us to believe, hoping we don't notice that Gosnell exists precisely because Roe created him. Harry Blackmun did Jesus one better. The son of God turned water into wine, while Mr. Justice conjured a right to intrauterine murder out of the right to use birth control.
But this is not a column about the legal legitimacy of what the late Arlen Specter once called, laughably, a "super precedent." This is about hypocrisy and fear, both of which have been exhibited by the advocates of choice in the two years since Gosnell was charged with numerous counts of murder.
Contrary to the frantic attempts of pro-choice advocates to make it seem as if they focused like a laser beam on this doctor and his criminal rampage, their silence has been deafening. While there were a few souls who accused Gosnell of heinous acts, most of them were desperate to distance the doctor from the reproductive-rights movement. As the predictably tone deaf Katha Pollitt wrote in The Nation, "Only women who felt they had no better alternative would have accepted such dangerous, degrading and frightening treatment."
With all due respect to Ms. Pollitt, that's hogwash. Gosnell has had a flourishing practice since 1979, six years post-Roe, and he was aided and abetted in his deeds by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its reluctance to probe too closely into his unorthodox practices. They obviously did this to avoid drawing the ire of the abortion industry and its most powerful lobby, Planned Parenthood. Roe is the law of the land, and despite legislative efforts to limit its scope, women still have a virtually unlimited right to dispose of their pregnancies as they dispose of their trash.
The ridiculous suggestion that more Gosnells would crop up if Roe were overturned is contradicted by the sad and sordid facts.
Even if there were some truth to that assertion, this does not justify the despicable manner in which the pro-choice advocates have operated during these past two years and, more specifically, during the past few weeks of trial.
Think, for a moment, of how much attention Michael Vick received when he brutalized pit bulls. Think, also, of the sentence he served in Leavenworth. While no one is excusing violence toward animals, what was done to those poor creatures pales in comparison to the acts committed against babies: crushed skulls, beheadings and severed limbs.
As one unusually honest pro-choice journalist named Megan McArdle noted last week, those on "her side" were reluctant to shed any light on the Gosnell case because, consciously or unconsciously, they wanted to prevent the public from associating reproductive rights with infanticide.
And so, the fairy tale continues. We in the pro-life camp are criticized for conflating Gosnell with abortion, even though our local Sweeney Todd is not an isolated case. Clinics in Alabama, New Mexico, Minnesota, Maryland, Colorado and Florida are being investigated for hazardous conditions and botched abortions.
The abortion industry is naked and bloody. It's time to start pointing the finger.
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TGI Fry-Day: Do Nachos Get Much Better than the Machos Nachos at Chicago's Little Goat?
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We commemorated last year's Super Bowl with a look at the best Buffalo wings in the city. This time around, I had nachos on my mind. But before I even started, I got—how shall I say this—absolutely terrified. The ghosts of nachos' past began to haunt my dreams, as I imagined all the pools of congealed cheese sauce, pasty refried beans, greasy ground meat, and haphazardly chopped mushy tomatoes sitting atop the shattered remains of stale tortilla chips. Frightening, right? I'm sure there are a few good versions out there, and let me know if you have any suggestions, but I gave up the quest after digging into a plate of the Machos Nachos at the recently opened Little Goat. Honestly, I'm unsure if nachos get a whole lot better than this.
As all nachos should, it looks like an absolute mess, but there is an underlying method to this madness that separates it from most others. Chef Stephanie Izard loves to vary texture with her dishes, and nachos are all about the mix of crunchy chips, tender meat, and crisp vegetables. Izard also knows when to pull back from the absurd cliff and when to freely jump off.
Instead of a deluge of cheese sauce, only a thin layer of shredded cheddar is melted on top of the freshly fried, and very crispy, tortilla chips. But any missing heft is more than made up for with heaps of tangy and tender barbecue pork. She keeps the pickled chiles in play, while upping the acidity with pickled red onion. Some beans, sour cream, and sliced avocado round out the plate.
When the plate landed at my table, my wife and I both laughed at the massive offering, only to find ourselves dangerously close to polishing the whole thing off before our entrees arrived. Consider this your warning.
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Growing body parts and improving prosthetics
Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is used to hearing his work described as science fiction.
Way back in 1999, he and his team grew bladders in a lab and successfully implanted them in patients with spina bifida. Then in 2004, his team grew urethras for five young boys in Mexico City. Eight years later, the laboratory-grown tissue looks as natural as the boys' own.
At the rate research like Atala's is progressing, scientists predict that replacement organs will be a reality within years, not decades. That's part of the future of medicine: new tissues, new body parts and new hope for recovery.
It was in 1981 that scientists first tried to grow skin from a patient's own cells. Although it was unsuccessful, it did help the healing process.
Today, scientists are growing more than 30 types of tissues and organs at the Wake Forest Institute in Winston-Salem, N.C. The hard work of growing vital organs "is a major challenge," Atala says. Although his lab has already grown a set of lungs, so far they're only experimental. "It should be only a matter of time before we create solid organs" such as livers and hearts, he says.
Replacement limbs
Growing a liver is one thing; growing a new arm or a leg is still beyond the realm of possibility. And that's where prosthetics come in.
More than 65,000 people in the U.S. have a limb amputated each year, and for most, adjusting to a mechanical body part is a huge challenge. One of the biggest problems is the inability to feel objects.
That's why the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has developed a procedure called targeted reinnervation, which allows patients to "feel" sensations through a prosthetic arm. The procedure involves connecting the nerves that remain after an arm is amputated to another muscle, ideally in the chest.
After the procedure, patients are able to move more naturally. Sensors in the prosthesis send signals to the working muscle and allow patients to feel the lightest touch, even hot and cold. They can cut vegetables, pick up a glass and even shake someone's hand with a more natural motion, says Dr. Todd A. Kuiken, a Northwestern University professor and director of the Rehabilitation Institute's Center for Bionic Medicine.
Most people underestimate the sophistication it takes to make a working arm, Kuiken says. Picking up a glass or a flower without crushing it requires just the right amount of pressure and coordination. Even reaching out to shake a friend's hand can be a problem if you have a prosthesis.
"We do a lot of social interaction with our limbs," he says. "If you're going to squeeze someone's hand with your prosthesis, it makes it more meaningful."
Researchers have used targeted reinnervation not only on recent amputees but also on patients who have been missing their arms for years, including some veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kuiken says the center is now working on motorized legs that will give patients a more natural range of motion.
Artificial muscles
The premise of Steve Austin's "Six-Million Dollar Man" may still be alive.
In a field known as biomimetics, scientists are using polymers in an attempt to create muscles that are vastly more powerful than natural muscles — as much as 50 times stronger. Moreover, they hope to create muscles that run on fuel cells that can last much longer than bulky batteries.
Ray Baughman, a professor of chemistry and director of the NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas, sees many uses for artificial muscles. One possibility is that they'll power prosthetic limbs for those who become frail with old age. They may even be made into a glove that can help the elderly hold or carry heavy objects.
Spray-on skin
In Philip K. Dick's 1960 novel "Dr. Futurity," a time-traveling physician uses a spray-on skin called "art-derm." Now it's becoming a reality.
In a building at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, researchers are testing a spray-on skin that could greatly reduce the way skin grafts are collected for burn patients.
"I foresee it changing the way we treat burns forever," said Dr. James H. Holmes, director of the medical center's burn center and leader of the trial.
Burns are some of the most difficult injuries to recover from, particularly because the harvesting of skin grafts creates a second area of scarring. But with a postage stamp-sized skin biopsy and a spray-on kit, a doctor can cover nearly 50 square inches of a patient's body.
The technology is already being used in Europe and Australia under the name ReCell, but it hasn't yet been approved for use in the United States. If it gets the nod from the Food and Drug Administration, it could be in use by 2014.
Researchers at the University of Utah have applied a similar gel on heart patients' scars after surgery and on other wounds slow to heal due to poor circulation. The gel is made with platelets as well as stem cells, which have the ability to kick-start an older person's healing abilities to nearly the level they were when they were younger, says Dr. Amit Patel, director of clinical regenerative medicine at the university.
"The stem cells are key because they respond to the local environment and determine whether we need more skin cells or more blood vessels," Patel says. "If you only pick one cell type, it may not stick or survive as well."