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HIV/public toilet
Dec 31, 2012
I used a public toilet and I dropped my car key down the toilet and had to use my hand to fish it out. Yes I washed my hands afterwards.I also have few cuts on my hands, could I catch HIV or other diseases from putting my hand down the toilet?
also I suffer from testicular pain and masterbation stops this pain. Is it safe to do this down a public toilet? I know this is not the best place to do it, however the pain is so bad. I work at a cinema and use the public toilets there. I would not be able to continue at work with the pain!! I keep it as clean as possible and do not make any contact with the toilet area.
I do suffer from health anxiety and would just like some reassurance so I can kick this type of think out of my head.
Response from Mr. Glenn
Thanks for your question,
There is no risk for HIV from putting your hand in toilet water. None.
As for your testicular pain, you need to talk to a doctor about that. There are many possible causes of that. I'm more concerned with the cause of the pain than any imagined "risk of something from masturbating in the bathroom." Please follow up with a doctor ASAP.
Hope this helps!
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The wealthy Republican running for Illinois governor is catching heat for pledging $1 million of his personal fortune to a credit union on Chicago�s South Side for loans to small African-American businesses.
Bruce Rauner, who�s been courting black voters as he tries to unseat Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn, made the promise during a meeting this week with more than 60 members of an African-American economic development group.
�He said, �I can put up more than $1 million,� � said Mark Allen, president of the Chicago chapter of National Black Wall Street. �That�s when the room just erupted. People were saying �Do you know what you just said?� ... He got a standing ovation.�
Allen and other members of the organization say the funds will make a world of difference to �mom and pop� businesses struggling to keep their doors open in neighborhoods where jobs are scarce. They also say there was no promise of votes or an endorsement in exchange for the money.
But the pledge has raised ethical questions and drawn criticism from Democrats, who say it�s a blatant attempt to buy votes by a political newcomer who has vowed to end Illinois� well-known system of pay-to-play politics.
�This is the guy who�s going to shake up Springfield?� said Rikeesha Phelon, Illinois spokeswoman for the Democratic Governors Association. �What a fraud.�
Rauner spokesman Mike Schrimpf defended the move, saying it�s in keeping with the Rauner family�s long history of philanthropy.
�For Bruce Rauner, this is putting his own money where his mouth is, helping create jobs, business opportunities, and a better life in African-American neighborhoods � a cause he has pursued in his private life for decades,� Schrimpf said.
Allen said his organization invited both Quinn and Rauner to meet with them and pledge to spend some of their millions in campaign funds to open offices in black neighborhoods, run ads in black media and hire ex-offenders to do some campaign work.
He said the group members are tired of empty promises from politicians and are looking for a more concrete � and immediate � way to help their community. Rauner accepted the invitation immediately and agreed to their requests, Allen said, adding that they have yet to hear back from Quinn.
During the closed-door meeting, first reported by WLS-TV in Chicago, credit union member and activist Otis Monroe decided to take it one step further. He said he asked the venture capitalist to also pledge money as �citizen Rauner.�
Even if the agreement didn�t break campaign finance laws, it creates a perception problem that can be �corrosive,� said Kent Redfield, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Illinois Springfield and a campaign finance expert.
�The perception is you�re essentially having an auction, in terms of who�s the highest bidder,� Redfield said. �Whether it�s fair or unfair, people are going to connect those dots.�
Redfield said Rauner�s handling of the seemingly off-the-cuff exchange may be a sign of political inexperience. But he runs the risk, if elected, of having a portion of the population believe he bought the election.
Schrimpf, Allen and Monroe all pointed to a $55 million anti-violence program that Quinn started in the weeks before his 2010 election, which he narrowly won thanks to heavy support from black voters. The program was intended to curb violence in Chicago neighborhoods, but a state audit recently found had �pervasive� problems, including misuse of funds.
�Many would say the same thing about (the anti-violence program),� Monroe said.
Federal and state authorities are investigating the initiative, and U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk on Friday also asked federal authorities to look into $5 million in federal disaster relief money that also went to the program.
Quinn has said he quickly addressed the problems, including abolishing the agency that ran it.

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UNH No. 18 in USCHO.com poll
December 02. 2013 10:20PM
The University of New Hampshire men's ice hockey team, coming off a road sweep of Colorado College over the weekend, moved two notches higher to No. 18 in the latest USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll released Monday.
The doubleheader sweep was spearheaded by senior forward Nick Sorkin, who was awarded the Player of the Week by Hockey East Monday. UNH is now 9-7-1 on the year.
Sorkin recorded five points on three goals and two assists in two games against Colorado College. In the 6-2 win Friday, the senior recorded two goals. He notched the game-winning goal in a 3-0 shutout the following day and assisted on the second and third goals. His game winner came on a power play.
The two goals in the first game matched a career high for Sorkin, first achieved against St. Could State in October of 2011.
In the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll, UNH is not ranked but received six honorable mention votes.
The Wildcats return to action on Friday against Hockey East rival Boston College. Friday's game will be at Boston College while Saturday's game will be at the Whittemore Center.


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#1 The Government of What Difference Does It Make?01-25-2013, 02:12 PMNATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com
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Election-driven news and views . . . by Jim Geraghty.
The Government of 'What Difference Does It Make?'
By Jim Geraghty
Benghazi Hearings Mark End of Accountability, Forever
At the end of a day of Senate and House hearings on Benghazi, we know . . . not much more than we knew the day before.
Four Americans dead.
Nobody brought to justice. The lone suspect in the attack was released earlier this month by the Tunisians, citing a lack of evidence.
The release dramatized the negligible progress in any investigation into the attack, which killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans on Sept. 11 last year. The feebleness of Libya's transitional government since the fall of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has stymied any progress, despite what Benghazi residents describe as an abundance of leads.
In fact, the perpetrators are up to new attacks:
Several Egyptian members of the squad of militants that lay bloody siege to an Algerian gas complex last week also took part in the deadly attack on the United States Mission in Libya in September, a senior Algerian official said Tuesday.
The Egyptians involved in both attacks were killed by Algerian forces during the four-day ordeal that ended in the deaths of at least 38 hostages and 29 kidnappers, the official said. But three of the militants were captured alive, and one of them described the Egyptians' role in both assaults under interrogation by the Algerian security services, the official said.
If confirmed, the link between two of the most brazen assaults in recent memory would reinforce the transborder character of the jihadist groups now striking across the Sahara. American officials have long warned that the region's volatile mix of porous borders, turbulent states, weapons and ranks of fighters with similar ideologies creates a dangerous landscape in which extremists are trying to collaborate across vast distances.
No one at the State Department fired for failing to heed the requests for additional security on the ground. And nobody can specify what the heck "administrative leave" entails:
Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Clinton "pledged not only to accept all 29 of the recommendations, but to have the implementation of those recommendations well under way before her successor took over. So I think she'll want to give a status on that."
Asked for the number of State Department employees fired for their handling of Benghazi, Nuland said four people were put on administrative leave. They included Eric Boswell, who resigned from the position of assistant secretary of diplomatic security.
But Nuland declined to say if Boswell and the others still are working for the department in some capacity.
And no elected Democrat in Congress gives a hoot.
Oh, they say they care, but every time their turn came in the Clinton hearings, they shifted the topic to House Republican proposals to limit the budget, as if we hadn't just had this issue resolved, by State Department officials in October:
REP. DANA ROHRABACHER (R-CA): "It has been suggested the budget cuts are responsible for lack of security in Benghazi, and I'd like to ask Ms. Lamb, you made this decision personally, was there any budget consideration and lack of budget that led you not to increase the number of people in the security force there?"
STATE DEPARTMENT DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS CHARLENE LAMB: "No, sir." (U.S. House Of Representatives, Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Hearing, 10/10/12)
What we did learn is that Hillary Clinton thinks it is silly or unreasonable to ask why the administration kept talking about a video for five days, when everyone and their brother could have figured that the date of September 11 was pretty a key indicator that al-Qaeda-sympathizers or like-minded Islamists were out to mark the anniversary in their own murderous way.
"The fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest? Or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?" Clinton told Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. "It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator."
What's astounding are the number of folks on the Left who think this is a fantastic answer.
For starters, if your assessment of why an attack happened is wrong, doesn't that make it less likely you'll be able to prevent another one?
I'll leave it to the Washington Post's Erik Wemple to state the obvious:
No matter your view of the media's role in Benghazi; no matter your take on whether U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice leveled with the country on the Sept. 16 talk shows; no matter your view of Fox News's Benghazi campaign, it surely does make a difference whether it was "because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans." It makes a difference to the media, the public, the government, everyone.
The trustworthiness of the administration's version of events — even the early one — makes a difference. Whether it was hard-core terrorism or a spontaneous attack or something else — that makes a difference too, with strong implications for intelligence accountability. Goodness gracious, in her very own statement, Clinton herself even seems to acknowledge that it makes a difference, when she says, "It is our job to figure out what happened . . ."
Pardon me a comparison that may seem frivolous or silly, but I was reminded of a quite furious response from screenwriter Terry Rossio after he saw the 2006 movie Superman Returns. To say Rossio hated the movie was an understatement; on his web site, he laid out all the different ways in which the movie simply didn't "work" given the characters and concepts the creators chose to begin with, and made it clear that as a professional, as someone who believes in aiming for the best in his craft, it deeply offended him that the movie could be made the way it did, with such disregard for quality and respect for the audience, and that the movie's success illustrated something profound to him:
Okay, here's the part about the profound effect it had on me. First off, I just felt really, really good that I worked on Pirates and had nothing to do with that movie. I know crap-plus-one is a mistake, but on an emotional level, I just felt genuine relief and contentment to bear no responsibility for that film.
But here was the epiphany. From Superman Returns on, I realized that there are truly no standards any more.
The film got better reviews than Pirates, it got made, it's going to make $190 million dollars.
There are actually people in the world who enjoyed it.
The next time I get notes on a screenplay (''I think this main relationship doesn't work,' 'this ending isn't clear, etc.') I can just point to Superman and say, "You may be right but so what? It's better than Superman Returns." It's the ultimate, "Keep your notes to yourself and just tell me if you're making the film" movie.
Why would anyone, anywhere, even bother to attend a creative meeting on any project — after seeing that film?
Ultimately, stuff goes up on screen because somebody wanted it up there, not for any other reason. So it might as well be me who decides — right?
When we look at how our government has responded to the night of September 11 in Benghazi, Libya, we see there are truly no standards any more.
If the decision making before, during, and after the Benghazi attack is insufficient to get anyone fired, what decision in government will ever warrant that consequence? If Democrats on Capitol Hill can't take off their partisan blinders for one day to attempt to hold people accountable for decision-making that resulted in American deaths at the hands of extremists, and then lying to the public about it, then when will they ever? If Hillary Clinton can exclaim that it doesn't matter that the administration spent five days talking about a video when the video had nothing to do with it, and everyone on her side applauds, why should she or anyone else ever respond to an accusation with anything but audacious defiance?
This is it, folks. This is the government we have, and the lack of a public outcry about Benghazi ensures this is the government we will have for the foreseeable future.
If Hillary can get away with that, why can't one of my Soldiers? Why don't I just answer my boss with "What difference does it make?" the next time we can't account for our people or equipment? When the parent of a deceased Soldier asks me how their child died, I can just answer, "What difference does it make?" When we are pushed out of the Middle East, and terrorists can butcher us with impunity, when our government fails in its most basic function, we have the perfect answer, the perfect distillation of the nihilistic liberal creed: What difference does it make?
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Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people!
Amazing isn't it? 4 people are dead, security was botched, and her response is "what difference does it make". And the media fawns all over her.The American Left: Where everything is politics and politics is everything.
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#5 Re: The Government of What Difference Does It Make?01-26-2013, 01:05 PM--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people!
IMHO, it comes down to two scenarios.
1. Benghazi was a deal arranging a quid pro quo sacrifice of an ambassador for the killing of bin Laden, which satisfies an old Arab tradition.
2. It was staged for an ambassador to be "rescued" in advance of the election to make hussein look strong and competent, but went very wrong.
So was it a trade, or another "Carter" rescue attempt? But what difference does it make.........?
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Fortunately there are still some folks out there trying to keep this dictatorship from advancing. It's funny, everyone got all bent out of shape because GW joked about being a dictator but this clown shoes is actually behaving like one and no one cares.
And F U Hillary. Skank.Be Not Afraid.
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I was sitting in a hotel room in Fort Lauderdale when my phone rang. It was December, 2007. Earlier that day, I had made the four hour drive across the state to do a feature on the Miami Northwestern football team, which was playing Tampa's Plant High in the Class A state title game. In case you haven't heard, Florida high schools produce some pretty good football players. When I picked up the phone, the last thing on my mind was baseball -- the Phillies' season had been over for more than a month, and the Red Sox had already defeated the Rockies to win the World Series -- but that changed when the voice on the other end informed me that the Daily News was looking for a new Phillies writer.
In a 15-minute conversation, esteemed columnist and Mother Hen to aspiring writers Rich Hofmann rattled off various reasons why covering the Phillies would be an excellent gig for someone of my ilk. I wasn't exactly in a spot to be picky, seeing as though my chief responsibilities at that point in time were live blogging a high school football game. Nevertheless, his final selling point stuck with me.
"This team has a chance to be pretty damn good," he said, "for awhile."
Little did I know that he meant that the Phillies would go on to play in back-to-back World Series, win their first championship since I was born, trade for two former American League Cy Young winners, and establish themselves as the team to beat in the National League. Yet with 24 hours to go before the start of the 2010 season, that is where we sit. In my two years on the beat, the Phillies have expanded their payroll from a shade under $90 million to shade under $140 million. They have grown their attendance from 3.1 million to 3.6 million. And, on paper, they will enter 2010 with their most talented roster to date.
Tomorrow, the Daily News will publish its annual baseball preview. There is plenty of good stuff in there, most of which was produced by somebody other than myself. Most of these somebodies are well-versed in the losing history of the Phillies organization. I'm the only one with a byline in this preview issue who has never been on staff for a year that did not include a World Series berth. Common sense says the streak has to come to an end at some point. The last National League team to advance to three straight World Series was the 1942-44 Cardinals. The baseball season is such an unforgiving beast that requires such a great deal of good fortune to survive that it is hard to imagine a team being the last man standing for three straight years.
Nevertheless, the Phillies enter 2010 as the trendy pick to win it all. This year, ESPN asked 36 of their "experts" to make predictions. The number might have pushed 40, but the Bristol janitorial staff had off that day. Of those 36 experts, 11 picked the Phillies to win the World Series, and nine of them picked the Phillies to advance to the World Series and lost.
The problem with predicitons, of course, is that they are usually wrong. In many cases, that is a good thing. For example, I hope to be wrong in 2012, because I'm predicting that there will be no World Series due to the end of the world.
Phillies fans hope this is the year when predictions prove true. It would make it a rare year.
Take a sampling of nine of the more visible writers for ESPN.com -- Peter Gammons, Buster Oleny, Tim Kukjian, Jerry Crasnick, Jayson Stark, Jorge Arangure Jr., Keith Law, Rob Neyer and Jim Caple. Over the last three years, only three of these guys (Stark, Olney, Kurkjian has picked more than half of the division winners correctly. In only three instances did one of them pick the correct World Series Champion (Kurkjian had the Yankees in '09, Law and Crasnick had the Red Sox in '07). Heck, in only six instances did one of the nine even pick one of the two World Series teams correctly.
Last year, the most popular pick to win the National League was the New York Mets. Of the 21 staffers who made predictions for ESPN.com last season seven picked the Mets to advance to the World Series. As a wise man once said: "Oops."
My point isn't that ESPN.com would probably fare better if it trained a rooster to make its predicitions. My point is that we all would.
So instead of history judging me on a simple graphic in the paper, I thought I'd kick off this Easter Sunday with an explanation of my picks. That way, when I am wrong, you will at least know why I was wrong.
We'll start with the Philllies.
The Pick: Phillies over Twins in the World Series
Why I'm Wrong: There is little margin for error. There is no question that the Phillies have their deepest, most talented team since at least the early-80's, and maybe of all time. For the first time in the last three years, manager Charlie Manuel and pitching coach Rich Dubee are actually comfortable with their rotation. In 2007, the year started with guys like Freddy Garcia and Jon Lieber looking to contribute. In 2008, Adam Eaton was the No. 4 starter. Last year, Chan Ho Park began the year in the rotation even though the coaching staff thought he was best suited for the bullpen. This year, the Phillies have as formidable a rotation 1 thru 4 as there is in the National League. Sure, there are some questions about Jamie Moyer and Kyle Kendrick at No. 5. But the Yankees went practically the entire season with a definitive No. 5 starter last year. The No. 5 starter is a lot like the No. 8 hitter -- turn the rotation over, don't do anything to kill the team, repeat. Still, I think the biggest success story of the season will be the line-up, which now features Placido Polanco hitting second and Shane Victorino hitting seventh. The Phillies haven't had a .300 hitter in either of the last two seasons. I fully expect that to change this year, and I would be surprised if Polanco and Chase Utley didn't both reach that mark. This Phillies team is going to score a lot of runs.
But. . .
The Achilles heel of this team could be its lack of organizational starting pitching depth. Already, the bullpen is a huge question mark. But the bullpen is also the easiest part of the team to patch together on the fly. The Rockies practically re-invented their bullpen for the playoffs last season. Among the pitchers who changed teams last year - Rafael Betancourt, Jose Contreras, George Sherrill. The Phillies have a slew of mid-level prospects who would seem to be tailor made for a mid-season relief acquisition - John Mayberry Jr. and Quintin Berry are two members of a crowded field of outfield prospects. Righthander Andrew Carpenter, who will likely start the season in the bullpen, could provide a small-market team with a cost-effective bottom-of-the-rotation starter.
The rotation, however, is another story. The first hit already came with Joe Blanton missing three-to-six weeks with an oblique injury. He has an excellent chance to return and slide right back into the role he filled last year. But what if the injury lingers? What if both Moyer and Kendrick are unable to carry their successes into the season? What if somebody else gets hurt? Over the last two years, the Phillies have had plenty of margin for error. Their payroll was still expanding and their farm system was stocked, so they had plenty of flexibility to both add salary and trade prospects. Brett Myers injures his him, Park moves to the bullpen, Moyer struggles? Move J.A. Happ from the bullpen. Trade for Cliff Lee. Sign Pedro Martinez. Eaton and Kendrick struggle? Trade for Joe Blanton. Call up J.A. Happ.
This year, however, it will be more difficult to adjust on the fly. Carpenter is a former second-round pick who has the potential to become a 2010 version of Kendrick or Happ. Beyond him, however, there are no obvious solutions. The team obviously isn't going to part with top prospects for a starter, since they traded Cliff Lee for prospects. And if you believe what the Phillies have said all offseason, they do not want to push their payroll higher than it already is. They might have an extra $2 million or $3 million to sign a Pedro Martinez, Jarrod Washburn, Braden Looper or John Smoltz. But Washburn could be gone, and Martinez, Looper and Smoltz are all big question marks.
A team like the Yankees is built to endure injuries. They traded for Javier Vazquez this offseason, giving them three Cy Young-caliber starters in their rotation. Talented young righty Joba Chamberlain is waiting in the wings in the bullpen. Alfredo Aceves and Sergio Mitre are both options. Plus, the Yankees have never let payroll stand in their way.
The Phillies are not the Yankees, and no reasonable person should expect them to be. In the YES Network, Cashman and Co. have a revenue stream that simply does not exist in Philadelphia. The Phillies have had the luxury of expanding their existing revenue streams over the past few years. Attendance has grown steadily. Merchandise sales have increased. But common sense says that the growth will slow as it creeps toward capacity. Citizens Bank Park is only so big. The economy is down, which would seem to make it more difficult to increase rates for sponsors. Besides, many sponsorships come in the form of multi-year contracts with locked-in rates.
The Phillies are not a public corporation, so we'll never know the exact nature of their cash flow. But their contention that they are getting close to maxing out payroll makes sense. Does that mean they won't be able to add salary at the trade deadline? No. But it means it will probably be more challenging.
Much of the public malaise about the organization's decision to trade Cliff Lee stems from the potential impact of a rotation that would have featured both Halladay and Lee. But the most significant part of the decision was actually the depth that they parted with. A rotation with Halladay, Lee and Hamels is much more able to absorb a loss. If one goes down, you still have two left.
Did the Yankees need Vazquez to repeat as AL Champs? Probably not. But adding him helps protect against whimsical nature of the baseball season.
If all goes well, the Phillies will head to their third straight season. But that's a big If.
The Pick: Dodgers in the NL West.
Why I'm Wrong: Because the Rockies just might be the sleeping giant that the rest of the punditry sees. Ubaldo Jimenez could be a Cy Young contender. Betancourt and Franklin Morales are two impressive relievers. Carlos Gonzalez has the makings of a star. Nevertheless, I'm picking the Dodgers, because I love their line-up. I think Manny Ramirez is at his best when he isn't bored, and fresh off a disappointing season I think he'll be locked in. Matt Kemp probably should have been my pick for National League MVP. Lefthander Clayton Kershaw could establish himself as a bona fide ace this season. Chad Billingsley is not as bad as his numbers indicate. Sure, they lost Randy Wolf, but Hiorki Kuroda is a pretty darn good pitcher. And Vicente Padilla pitched two brilliant games in the postseason. Maybe the bullpen will show signs of wear. But at this point it is still the top unit in the National League.
The Pick: Braves for NL Wild Card
Why I'm Wrong: In addition to the Rockies, the Giants and Brewers could both have big seasons. But the Mets are the team I'd watch out for. The pitching staff leaves a lot to be desired. But just two years ago these guys were the trendy pick to win the National League. And teams who endure the amount of bad luck the Mets encountered last season tend to be rewarded by Mother Fate in the future.
The Pick: Yunel Escobar for MVP
Why I'm Wrong: Because this is one of those predictions that folks like myself make so they can later brag how smart they are on the off chance that they are correct. Nobody will think me a genius if I pick Albert Pujols to win the MVP. But if Escobar improves on the player we all saw last season and leads the Braves to the playoffs, then I can lean back in the offseason with my hands behind my head and cockily say, "Man, who saw that coming? Oh, wait a minute. . . I did!" I do think Escobar is an MVP caliber player. And I think the Braves need him to have a huge season if they are going to make the playoffs. And I think the Braves are going to make the playoffs. So, Yunel it is. But if I was a betting man, I'd put my money on Chase Utley or Matt Kemp.
Here are the rest of my predictions:
AL East
1. Yankees
2. Rays
3. Red sox
4. Orioles
5. Blue Jays
AL Central
1. Twins
2. White Sox
3. Tigers
4. Indians
5. Royals
AL West
1. Angels
2. Mariners
3. Rangers
4. A's
NL East
1. Phillies
2. Braves
3. Mets
4. Marlins
5. Nationals
NL Central
1. Cardinals
2. Cubs
3. Brewers
4. Astros
5. Reds
6. Pirates
NL West
1. Dodgers
2. Giants
3. Rockies
4. Padres
5. Diamondbacks
NL wild card-- Braves
AL wild card-- Rays
NL pennant-- Phillies
AL pennant-- Twins
World Series winner — Phillies
NL MVP — Yunel Escobar
AL MVP — Carl Crawford
NL Cy Young — Roy Halladay
AL Cy Young — Felix Hernandez
NL home run leader — Albert Pujols
AL home run leader — Alex Rodriguez
Phillies' record - 96-66
Braves' record - 89-77


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April 30, 2013
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines now recommend routine voluntary HIV screening for every US resident ages 1565 because people respond best to treatment early in an infection. This is also the time when people are often asymptomatic, so the only way to detect an HIV infection is through testing. The updated USPSTF recommendations now align with CDC, the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Disease Society of American, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists guidelines.
The 2013 USPSTF guidelines recommend one-time HIV screening for everyone ages 1565; HIV testing for pregnant women; and annual HIV screening for high-risk groups. High-risk groups include men who have sex with men; people who have unprotected vaginal or anal sex; and those who have sex with a partner who is HIV-infected, bisexual, an injection drug user, or who exchanges sex for money. Patients also should have the option to ask questions and decline testing.
Previous USPSTF guidelines -- issued in 2005 -- recommended HIV screening for pregnant women and high-risk groups, but stopped short of universal screening because of the possibility of false-positive results, social stigma from having HIV, and possible long-term risk of cardiovascular disease resulting from antiretroviral treatment (ART). The USPSTF panel has decided that the benefits of screening outweigh any risks, since 25 percent of US residents who have HIV are unaware of their infection. Also, recent studies indicate the increased risk of cardiovascular disease is slight.
University of California at San Francisco AIDS experts Dr. Moupali Das and Dr. Paul Volberding stated that only effective HIV screening and successful ART can make ending the epidemic "remotely possible."
The full report, "Screening for HIV" was published online by USPSTF at www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/uspshivi.htm.
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Resolve Anger Quickly by Rick Warren If you are angry, be sure that it is not out of wounded pride or bad temper. Never go to bed angry – don't give the devil that sort of foothold. Ephesians 4:26-27 (PH) *** *** *** *** It's okay to be angry, but anger becomes wrong when it's not resolved quickly. The apostle Paul teaches, if you become angry, do not let your anger lead you into sin and do not stay angry all day. The Phillips translation says, "Never go to bed angry." That would keep a few of us up all ...Leer más »
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Devotional Daily – The Witchcraft of Rebellion by Jon Walker
The Witchcraft of Rebellion by Jon Walker For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king. 1 Samuel 15:23 (NKJV) *** *** *** *** Today's guest devotional is provided by Jon Walker – Most of us would be shocked and angered if we found out a believer in our congregation was actively using a form of witchcraft to control people, places, things, and circumstances. In spite of our fear, we'd fight back once we learned that the ...Leer más »
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Love That Sweats by Jon Walker We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 (NIV) *** *** *** *** Today's guest devotional is provided by Jon Walker – When Jesus loves, he works up a sweat; he rolls up his sleeves, gets on his knees, and washes our feet with his blood, sweat, and tears. He labors at love, though his love is never like labor. He's a giver, not a taker, loving us into being ...Leer más »
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St. Anselm College swears in first lay presidentBy SUSAN CLARK
Union Leader Correspondent
October 18. 2013 9:19PM
St. Anselm College marked many firsts on Friday, as it officially installed the first lay president in its nearly 125-year history.
In becoming St. Anselm College's 10th president, Steven DiSalvo said, "Today, I officially became an Anselmian."
DiSalvo said he is the first parent president in the college's history, and his wife, Eileen, is its first first lady. He told the many faculty, students, alumni, dignitaries and his family that he has a true passion for education, and it is something he must be reminded of every day.
"If I forget, I need only look out my window and see students move across this quad between classes," he said.
He said the college must show strong leadership and make its mark throughout New England and the United States. The path to fulfill that mission is through the college's students.
"As an institution of higher learning, we must constantly ask ourselves one fundamental question: Are we doing our best to serve our students? That question must be answered affirmatively in regard to the students' experience inside the classroom, during athletic competitions, in the residential environment, among social settings and in their faith formation. That task lies in our hands, and the future of our mission, and this great institution, lies in their hands," he said. "Whatever else we do, we must guide our students each and every day."
He described his blue-collar upbringing in Queens, N.Y., and how his parents, Arlene and Sal DiSalvo, worked hard to give their children a Catholic foundation and education. Through their sacrifices, he said, he received his bachelor's degree, a master's, a doctorate and is now president of a Catholic college.
"Taught by Jesuits and hired by Benedictines. This must be proof of Pope Francis' first miracle," DiSalvo said.
He remarked on the students' moral compass evident in the 50,000 hours of community service they do every year through the Meelia Center. He also spoke of the college's future and the programs that make it a vital place of learning.
"The Institute of Politics at St. Anselm is an absolute gem," he said.
The institute shines a light on the college as future Presidents over the past 30 years have gotten their start, he said. The institute will continue to develop programs to provide opportunities of learning about the history of the presidency, summer camps for students, and extend programs to high-schoolers across the nation to show "what makes Saint Anselm so special."
He said the future of the college is bright, but is not without challenges, and he is sure the students, staff, faculty and alumni are best-suited to meet the demands.
"I ask you to join me as we walk into the future," DiSalvo said.
The ceremony began with a procession led by Grand Marshal Gary Bouchard, professor of English, and delegates from other colleges and universities. Speakers included the Rev. Jonathan DeFelice, past president; Bishop Peter Libasci of Manchester; and Thomas Horgan, president of the New Hampshire College and University Council; and Gov. Maggie Hassan.
DiSalvo was also congratulated by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte, who both said some of their staff members are St. Anselm alumni.
There was also a special presentation of the National 9/11 Flag by police and emergency rescue workers from the college, New York City, Massachusetts, Goffstown and Londonderry.
The National 9/11 Flag flew above the wreckage at Ground Zero and was brought to St. Anselm specifically for DiSalvo's presidential installation.
DiSalvo and his wife suffered the loss of friends on 9/11. Also, 14 young alumni of Fairfield University, where he worked, died in the World Trade Center.
DiSalvo helped arrange a major, anonymous donation for the New York Says Thank You Foundation, which sends volunteers to disaster sites across the country on the anniversary of 9/11.
DiSalvo has also placed a stitch in the flag. On President Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 2011, a piece of the flag that he laid upon after his death was stitched into the flag. The flag will be placed at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center.


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Cranes at High Altitudes~Community Talk with Dr. George Archibald
The inaugural Yampa Valley Crane Festival culminates during a free community talk with Dr. George Archibald, a revered ornithologist and co-founder of the International Crane Foundation.
George Archibald will share an amazing story about how Greater Sandhill Cranes in the Rocky Mountains of North America, Black-necked Cranes on Asia's Tibetan Plateau, and Demoiselle Cranes that migrate over the peaks of the Himalayas, survive at high altitudes. He will also explain the unique challenges in conserving these remarkable creatures as human populations spread up the slopes and as fragile high-altitude climates change.
About the speaker
Dr. George Archibald co-founded the International Crane Foundation with Ronald Sauey, a colleague from Cornell University, in the spring of 1973. They established it as the world center for the study and preservation of cranes using a creative combination of field research, help to local people living near the cranes, public education, habitat protection, and captive propagation and reintroduction. Today the International Crane Foundation has 50 employees and supports conservation projects in 45 nations.
Dr. Archibald received his undergraduate degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University. In 1984 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the Genius Grant) for his work with cranes. For 27 years Dr. Archibald served as the President of the International Crane Foundation. Today he continues to be employed full time by ICF and works on programs of his choosing in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Cuba, China, India, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, South Korea, and Russia.
Dr. Archibald has used the charisma of cranes to help unite people from diverse cultures and countries to work together to preserve habitat necessary for the survival of both cranes and people. His worldwide travels have given him unique experiences that make his presentations both informative and enjoyable.
Follow Dr. Archibald's work through Travels with George.
Crane photo courtesy Colorado Parks & Wildlife/David Hannigan.
About the Yampa Valley Crane Festival
Check out the Yampa Valley Crane Festival schedule, which is filled with free talks, crane viewing walks, art and community gatherings. Links to the daily festival schedules are below:
Sunday, Sept. 16
Monday, Sept. 17
Tuesday, Sept. 18
Wednesday, Sept. 19
The Yampa Valley Crane Festival is presented by the Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition and co-sponsored by American Kestrel Press, Audubon Rockies, BookTrails, Bud Werner Memorial Library, Colorado State Council of the Humane Society of the United States, The Nature Conservancy, Klauzer & Tremaine, LLC, Mangelsen Images of Nature, Off the Beaten Path Bookstore, U.S. Forest Service, Yampa Valley Birding Club, Yampa Valley Land Trust and Yampatika.
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Gene Simmons Loves Jiminy Cricket, Has No Sympathy for Philip Seymour Hoffman
Rolling Stone's latest issue is a long-overdue Kiss lovefest -- in fact, for the band's first-ever cover appearance, they collected so much material it couldn't all fit in the magazine.
Some of the better bits and pieces were gathered up in an online article titled '18 Things You Learn Hanging Out with Kiss,' which features a random assortment of Kiss quotes and anecdotes from members past and present. Some of it will come as no surprise to anyone who has even a passing familiarity with the group's music (they count the New York Dolls and Alice Cooper among their early influences), but it wouldn't be a Kiss article without a few colorful comments, and this one's no exception.
Unsurprisingly, some of the best stuff comes courtesy of Gene Simmons, who traces his dreams of stardom to the first time he saw Jiminy Cricket singing 'When You Wish Upon a Star' (a song he later covered, see above) in 'Pinocchio.' "I saw this little bug singing, 'Fairy tales can come true, they can happen to you,' and I'm thinking, 'Me?' It was a religious experience," Simmons recalled. "Jiminy Cricket was my Christ. This kind of dawning of consciousness of, 'I can be great.'"
[Editor's note: the lyric Simmons quoted above is actually 'Young at Heart,' a 1953 hit for Frank Sinatra, but the line nonetheless sums up 'When You Wish Upon a Star's' message]
Less warm and fuzzy are Simmons' thoughts on actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose drug-related death made headlines earlier this year. "I don't think it's sad at all," sniffed Simmons, who earlier shrugged off the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse. "He was white in this racist world. He was f---in' rich. And he was a movie star. If you wanna take your life, good luck to you. You know what's sad? A loving husband or mother who crosses the street and gets run over by a truck. That's sad. Because you didn't have anything to do with it."
The article also includes quotes from former members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss as well as Frehley's latest replacement, Tommy Thayer, who wears Frehley's signature makeup, much to many fans' chagrin -- a decision alluded to by co-founder Paul Stanley, who believes the Kiss brand was diluted by the introduction of new "characters" in the '80s.
"People didn't buy it," Stanley said of former guitarist Vinnie Vincent and ex-drummer Eric Carr's 'Ankh Warrior' and 'Fox' makeup. "And that was another reason that the fan base started to dissipate. It lost its believability. It became a menagerie -- we could have had Snail Man. And we saw a decline that started gradually, but quickly we fell off the edge of the cliff. To go from doing multiple nights in an arena to, next tour, not being able to sell out a theater, is stark."


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During nearly 35 years heading William and Mary's football program, Jimmye Laycock's coaching tree has become extensive. It's diverse, too, from Mike Tomlin's Super Bowl ring in Pittsburgh to Matt Kelchner's nearly perennial conference championships at Christopher Newport University.
The most-quickly growing branch of late has been in the Bay Rivers District. Of the five head coaches who have come on board the past three years, four have William and Mary ties.
"A lot of guys have made it in the coaching profession from here and you're proud in that regard," said Laycock, who has guided the Tribe to FCS national semifinals twice in the past nine years. "You're happy when good people get opportunities and make the best of them."
Andy Linn of Lafayette was the first of the current crop of W&M alumni to land a Bay Rivers District head-coaching job, hired in 2011 after Paul Wheeler resigned. He is the only one of the four to have played extensively for the Tribe, subbing on the offensive line for three seasons before starting in 1989 as a senior.
"He was a good, tough, solid player," Laycock said. "He's stayed pretty close to the program and helped out with our football camp at times.
"I'm glad he got his chance and I'm not surprised he's doing well. He has a solid understanding of football and of young men."
Linn's first two Lafayette teams won 18 of 23 games, tying for the Bay Rivers title a year ago. Linn credits the Rams' success in large part to lessons learned from Tom Brattan, his line coach at W&M, and Laycock.
"Coach Brattan taught me the importance of getting five offensive linemen to play together, trust one another, hang out together and become friends," Linn said. "Coach Laycock was a tough coach, and you had to be on your P's and Q's around him.
"Jimmye did a heck of a job because at William and Mary we didn't have a lot of blue-chippers. He brought in a lot of smart student-athletes who were willing to work to get better.
"You've pretty much got to do the same thing at a school the size of Lafayette: Take kids who are willing to work to turn themselves into football players."
Recent Grafton hire Matt McLeod had the most high-profile W&M position among the new Bay Rivers coaches, having spent the 2005 and '06 seasons as Tribe defensive coordinator after four seasons as a position coach (mostly of linebackers). While he spent the past three years coaching the high school football team at Deep Run in Henrico County, the Tribe influence will be strong at Grafton.
"William and Mary football was about concepts like accountability and responsibility," McLeod said. "Fundamentals were always stressed, and that's something I'm going to emphasize with Grafton.
"A particularly great time there was being part of the 2004 team that was the first at the school to reach the national semifinals and play the first night game. What I'm most proud of is that we were the only (Division I) team that year to win 11 games and have a 100 percent graduation rate."
Obie Boykin, who was recently named the interim head coach at Warhill, said that the intellectual approach to the game the coaches took made learning football at William and Mary a great experience. Boykin was on the Tribe roster from 2005-07 as a quarterback and wide receiver.
"What you learn there lends itself to coaching, because you're learning in the film room and on the chalkboard where it gets to upper-level complexity stuff," Boykin said. "Coach Laycock was a good head coach because he delegated well, which is something you don't understand until you get in this position.
"I saw all of the hats he had to wear as a head coach: with the media, his staff, the school and administration, while taking individual responsibility for the position he coached."
Lee Williams, who's entering his second year as Jamestown's head coach, got to see two sides of the program during his time at William and Mary. Inspired by a chat with McLeod, Williams made the Tribe scout team as a sophomore, then served as a student assistant coach a year later.
The latter experience, in 2009, proved particularly beneficial for Williams. He admits a lot of what he did was grunt work — things like charting plays, setting up equipment for drills and myriad other small things — but he got a close-up look at a coaching staff guiding the Tribe within a hair of a national championship-game appearance.
"I went to every practice, traveled with the team, was in every defensive team meeting and worked with the defensive linemen," Williams said. "It was a great experience seeing how all of that hard work paid off.
"I saw how coaches communicated with players, how they planned and how they took planning concepts to another level. It was a big influence on me."
Said Laycock: "Lee worked hard, did anything he could do and did a nice job. You could tell how much he wanted to be a coach and how much he wanted to learn to coach."
They teach that well at William and Mary, something that's apparent at Pittsburgh's Heinz Field as well as Wanner Stadium and Bailey Field.


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Camagüey is the capital of Camagüey Province and Cuba's third largest city. It has some beautiful old churches, but is not really a tourist stop.
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Thanks to Autocar, we're getting a glimpse of a Saab that will probably never exist: the 900 five-door hatchback. These ghostly images represent what would have been the next step forward for Saab, had the Swedish automaker not gone the way of the buffalo in 2010.
This new 900 was reportedly based upon the Saab Phoenix platform with a body designed by one Jason Castriota here in the US. This gorgeous mid-size five-door seems to have the rear side profile of a Mercedes CLS and the nose of an Audi A6. Mostly, however, this 900 resembles the most recent 9-5 with a hint of vintage Saab thrown into the mix.
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Sending power to the front wheels of the fated 900, buyers would have found a 200-horsepower, 1.6-liter turbocharged gasoline engine from BMW under the hood. Before its demise, Saab had penned a powertrain deal with BMW. Reportedly also in the powertrain pipeline was a hybrid with a rear axle-mounted electric motor designed in tandem by Saab and a company called American Axle.
This Phoenix platform that would have premiered on the new 900 last year could have been extended for a new 9-5 model. Autocar indicates that replacing the General Motors-based 9-5 was the next top priority for Saab before it went under and was snapped up by the Chinese who now aim to make Saab-based EVs.
We always loved Saab and these images simply remind us of what we lost: a re-birth of the old Saab. The next Saabs the world will see are the same old GM-derived Saab platforms but with EV bits underneath. While those might be exciting, they won't be real Saabs.
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SpectraLogic recently claimed it is the first tape library vendor to have integrated data integrity validation. But competitor Quantum says it introduced this last year.
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First to market with data integrity software was Quantum, which launched iLayer Media Data Integrity Analysis (MeDIA) with its Scalar i6000 tape library last year. MeDIA scans archived cartridges to detect and fix potential media problems to maintain integrity.
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Dr. Kathryn Campbell, is an Associate Professor of Education and Educational Psychology. She received her Ph. D. from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1995, where her dissertation won the Miriam Goldberg Research Prize. She received her M. S. in Education from Hunter College of the City University of New York in 1976 and her B. S. in Education from Dakota State College in 1970.
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