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Gut Check: 3 Essential Nutrients for Digestive Health
By Michael A. Smith, MDHave you ever heard that you're only as healthy as your gut? Well, it's true. Think of it this way: If you can't digest foods, absorb nutrients and eliminate waste, there's no way you can be all that healthy.
As a matter of fact, the health of your gastrointestinal system is paramount to your health and wellness. But aside from avoiding additives, artificial colorings, and foods that don't "agree" with your body, how else can you support your digestive system? Here are some essential nutrients for doing just that.
Support Your Gut Lining with GlutamineGlutamine is the most abundant, naturally occurring, non-essential amino acid in your body. It's necessary for all of your most metabolically active cells, especially those inside the lining of the gut.
We can't overstate the importance of glutamine for your intestines: It's the chief source of energy for your gut cells, and it's crucial for maintaining the structural integrity of your intestinal lining.
There are two primary ways that glutamine supports your gut. First, it helps with gut motility, helping food move through your digestive tract. This was specifically studied in people who had undergone stomach surgery. By helping move food through your system, glutamine reduces stress and damage to the cells that line your gut.1 Second, studies have demonstrated that glutamine improves blood flow in inflamed segments of the colon in patients who have ulcerative colitis.2
Powdered glutamine that's dissolved in water offers a soothing effect on your intestines, and the slightly sweet taste is actually quite pleasant. Even a small dose, like 2–3 grams, can quickly calm "queasiness" from an irritated stomach.
A Zinc and L-Carnosine Combo for Digestive HealthZinc and L-carnosine work synergistically to support your delicate stomach tissue. Carnosine is a small protein found in long-lived cells like nerve cells (neurons) and muscle cells (myocytes).3
Carnosine offers great benefits for the cells that line your gut, especially when it's combined with zinc. This zinc-carnosine combo was first developed in Japan, but it's now widely used in the U.S. to help ease GI inflammation. This combination has even been shown to help with the inflammatory cytokine release associated with the H. pylori infection, which is the culprit behind peptic ulcer disease.4,5
Probiotics: Essential Healthy Gut BacteriaAccording to the World Health Organization, probiotics are defined as "live micro-organisms that when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host." Probiotics are traditionally used to restore the balance of the intestinal microflora that become imbalanced from illness, stress, age, travelling or from the use of medications like antibiotics.
Most probiotic organisms belong to the lactobacillus and bifidobacteria genera. However, there are many genera, species, and strains of bacteria that inhabit the intestinal flora of the human GI tract at any given time.
Clinical studies have demonstrated that probiotics offer many health benefits, some of which extend beyond the health of your gut. Here's a list of benefits adapted from the International Probiotics Association (IPA):
- Reduction in the occurrence and duration of rotavirus diarrhea.6
- Prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea.7
- Alleviation of symptoms of lactose intolerance.8
- Alleviation of symptoms of food and skin allergies in children.9
- Reduction of recurrent urinary infections.10
- Make sure it's pre-tested for lactic acid production.
- Make sure it contains the maximum colony forming units (CFU). This is a measure of strength.
- Make sure it either has a gel or comes naturally in a spore-form to protect the bacteria as they pass through your stomach.
In Summary...Taking measures to protect your gastrointestinal system and support its function is critical for your overall health and wellness. Remember, your gut is responsible for digesting foods, absorbing nutrients and eliminating waste — three essential processes that you simply can't afford to neglect.
It's true that you're only as healthy as your gut — so please get on it!
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"Prior to Rick Perry, TxDOT had ZERO debt. Now it's racked up over $31 billion."
Terri Hall
Copyright 2011
Rick Perry and the GOP-dominated Texas Legislature are presiding over the most fundamental transformation of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in its history. Gone are the days of Dewitt Greer, who led the Department in its glory days when it was lean, super-efficient, and projects were well-managed and cost effective. Greer was known for eschewing debt and nixing anything that wasn't a good deal for the taxpayer.
Now, under Perry, he's left professional certified engineers behind and chosen political hacks, bankers, and campaign donors to run TxDOT, recently installing Jeff Austin III, a banker, as a Transportation Commissioner and Phil Wilson, former Perry aide and lobbyist for an energy company who donated over $1 million to Perry through the Republican Governor's Association, as the new Executive Director. Even before Wilson spent a single day on the job, Perry and the Legislature bumped-up his salary by $100,000 in a down economy when every other state agency has experienced cuts. Perry's Transportation Commission just authorized Wilson to expand his executive officers up to five, bringing the total for annual salaries of the entire executive team to more than $1.5 million.
Why? Because Perry and the Legislature think they can run TxDOT like a private, Fortune 500 company, with their big six figure salaries, and more importantly, make it a major player in the Wall Street bankster club. They think charging motorists' tolls are akin to a 'user fee' like the free market. Well, TxDOT's 'product' isn't like potato chips or an iPhone. It's tasked with building and maintaining our PUBLIC highway system -- and public safety and efficiency, not private profits, should remain its primary mission.
We already know what happened to public safety under these new design-build 'innovative financing' contracts that are not competitively bid....ten pillars on the US 290 interchange had to be torn down and re-built. We already know what happened when Perry and the Legislature launched TxDOT headlong from a pay-as-you-go cash system into a complex matrix of debt instruments, it had a $1.1 billion 'accounting error' (counting bond proceeds twice). Prior to Perry, TxDOT had ZERO debt. Now it's racked up over $31 billion.
Our public roads are monopolies where 'free market' principles don't apply. Tolls aren't true 'user fees' when boatloads of public money, like gas taxes, are used to build the road and then TxDOT or worse, a private corporation, charges taxpayers again to drive on it.
Efficiency has been replaced with a new layer of bureaucracy (Regional Mobility Authorities) and a massive network of inefficient toll projects, toll collection nightmares, and doing anything and everything to cover the debt propping-up unsustainable toll roads that aren't financially viable. Public safety has been replaced with profit-driven initiatives like increasing speed limits to 80 MPH in order to drive more traffic to corporate-run toll roads (See Exhibit 7).
TxDOT has become putty in the hands of private interests at the expense of taxpayers and property rights. It's not uncommon to see the likes of Goldman Sachs slithering around the Dewitt Greer building pimping its 'innovative financing' techniques while positioned to profit handsomely from them. After all, a trader finally said on BBC what we all know is true: "Goldman Sachs rules the world." Innovative financing simply put is building roads with a complex series of taxpayer-backed credit cards. These techniques include monetization of debt, multi-leveraged debt (using borrowed money to secure more borrowed money), 'creative' accounting and contracting, and public subsidies for private profits. The same sort of tricks that caused the financial collapse in Greece (and subsequently the Euro) and the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States.
Boy, does Texas need a new Dewitt Greer to recapture the highway department that once was the envy of the nation. But it's clear by Perry's recent appointments, that he has no intention of doing so. His cronyism is too ingrained for him to resist the temptation to steer billions in public road contracts to potential donors for his struggling presidential campaign. Not while he can have his cake and eat it, too -- to say he's making TxDOT run more like a private company, while, in reality, he's hijacking the highway department and turning it into a tool to grease Wall Street bankers.
The downward spiral at TxDOT will continue as it clings to these 'innovative financing' tools that prime our public infrastructure for massive taxpayer bailouts. So much for Perry's claim that he's fiscally responsible and has balanced budgets. His Wall Street-ification of TxDOT will surely fail as it did with Fannie Mae, the housing crisis, and financial crisis in Europe. Rest assured, Perry and state lawmakers will tap Texas taxpayers to bail them out.
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Blizzard conditions in some parts of South Dakota on Monday created challenges for those cattle producers in the midst of calving, said Warren Rusche, SDSU Extension Cow/Calf Field Specialist.
"In wet, cold, windy conditions like this, it doesn't take much to lose a newborn calf," Rusche said.
Rusche said the cold, wet conditions brought on with the March 31 storm can diminish mature cows' reserves and suck the life out of their newborn offspring.
"Cold stress with cattle is often associated with below zero temperatures, especially in South Dakota. However, if conditions are dry, cattle who have adapted to the cold conditions found in Northern Plains' winters can function and perform well under a wide range of conditions. That adaptation goes out the window when wet conditions are introduced," Rusche said. "It is as if you soaked a down-filled coat in water and expected it to keep you warm. If a cow is soaked it quickly drops her critical temperature."
As far as her newborn calf is concerned, Rusche says it all depends on the cattle producer's access to dry cover.
"Every cattle producer who is calving right now has been out in this storm trying to find, and provide shelter to every calf born. They are facing the reality that if they don't get their calves to shelter, the calves may die," Rusche said. "The risk of death loss from hypothermia is very real in these cold, wet and windy conditions.
Even mild cases of hypothermia can lead to problems with colostrum intake and absorption."
While there is little that can be done to change adverse weather conditions, Rusche says there are steps that producers can take to deal with spring storms and minimize negative impacts. Some of those steps include:
- Provide for as much shelter as practical, whether natural or man-made. Shelterbelts, wooded draws and windbreaks can be invaluable forms of shelter.
- Bedding will help minimize heat losses from the body, especially for calves. Newborn calves spend about 80% of the time laying down, so providing a dry surface out of the wind will help the calf keep dry and preserve body heat.
- Be prepared to warm newborn calves in the case of hypothermia. Immersing calves in warm water, physically drying them off with towels, or placing them under heat lamps are all methods that have been used successfully.
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Four years ago my mother gave every family a Hickory Farms gift set for the holidays. It was a gift well-liked by all. Since then, I look forward to going to the mall to the Hickory Farms kiosk during the holiday season to purchase food gifts for myself and others.
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StandardAero recently joined forces with three equally long-established companies—Landmark Aviation's MRO services (formerly Garrett Aviation), Associated Air Center and TSS Aviation. To solidify the corporate culture under one quality banner, the leadership team then set its focus on enhancing the company's reputation for technical excellence and high quality products and services with the implementation of a comprehensive Safety Management System (SMS).
Founded in 1911, StandardAero is one of the largest independent MRO businesses in the world. It has spent more than 40 of those years providing repair and overhaul services for one of the world's most successful helicopter engines—the Rolls-Royce Model 250.
The company has more than 4,000 employees working out of facilities located in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia and serving customers from more than 80 different countries.
StandardAero began its four-year SMS journey in March 2006. The decision was driven by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex 6 Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) that emphasized SMS as a key piece in the civil aviation safety puzzle.
Transport Canada was one of the many regulatory agencies that adopted SMS in the Canadian Aviation Regulations. On the U.S. side of the house, FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) is looking at implementing SMS language either this year or sometime early next year.
After familiarizing themselves with the ICAO recommendations, "Standard- Aero began its SMS journey by starting a little cross-functional team of about 8-10 employees," said Leon P. Dodd, Jr., corporate director of quality. "In 2007, we started developing procedures, a continuous improvement initiative and a corrective action initiative" that was already imbedded in their ISO-accredited quality management system.
With reference to the ISO AS9110 standard and ICAO's recommendations, StandardAero approached SMS integration by focusing on four distinct areas:
• Safety Policy and Objective
• Safety Risk Management
• Safety Assurance
• Safety Promotion
StandardAero has now fully implemented SMS and has been audited by DNV, its third party ISO/AS9110 accreditation entity. In addition, customers and third-party regulatory agencies like the FAA and Transport Canada are auditing StandardAero regularly.
Even though these review groups are coming in and looking at it, the official checklist for the many SMS policies and procedures are still being hammered out with ICAO and others, like FAA and DNV. "The four key aspects of SMS don't deviate much between ICAO, Canada, FAA and EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency)," said Dodd, "but there is a lot of interpretation on what each one of the four phases of SMS exactly means."
"When we kicked the program off," noted Tom Roche, vice president helicopter programs, "customer input was very important to us. We did a fair number of interviews with some of our major companies to really substantiate what their expectations were and try to baseline some things." StandardAero's customers have been very supportive and, in many cases, they have been very positive in their feedback. StandardAero has been able to effectively use its SMS process format and the background behind the system as an effective tool for marketing their total organization to certain customer segments.
Recently, some in the aviation community have questioned whether SMS is really just a way for the regulators to shift responsibility onto operators or service providers. Dodd refutes that assertion. "I've been in aviation 35 years and I have been though ISO, AS9110, TQM (Total Quality Management) and now SMS. Here in Maryville, Tenn., we have up to 70 audits a year and half of those are FAA-related. So, I can assure you, even with these new SMS standards coming out, StandardAero will still have these kinds of audits.
SMS looks at the enterprise as a whole, unlike traditional control methods that tend to focus on individual processes. While the majority of SMS activity will continue to be directed toward particular specialist functions, the system is also concerned with how those functions interrelate.
The cultural shift that is integral to successful SMS implementation is said to be possible only with leadership from the top. StandardAero's SMS accountable managers, Robert Mionis and Kim Olson, are at the pinnacle of the StandardAero leadership hierarchy. Mionis is CEO of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) Manufacturing and Engineering subsidiaries and president & CEO of StandardAero. Olson is StandardAero's senior vice president of engineering technology.
There was broad internal recognition that changes in the StandardAero organizational culture were necessary. The company had quite a few problem solving tools—one of them being a continuous improvement (CI) tool and a more formal corrective action request system (CARS). "We've integrated our SMS into these quality management tools to make sure that when the teams on the floor identify product safety issues," said Dodd, "they have the proper problem solving tools with which to reduce the risk that was identified."
When the SMS work got started, StandardAero launched several improvement initiatives against the key elements of the ICAO standard. It developed and provided an eight-hour training initiative for every employee within the company on continuous improvement, SMS and risk mitigation strategies. "On average," noted Dodd, "each business unit allows the teams to meet once a week or once every other week, for 30 minutes to an hour to do problem solving."
One of the challenges StandardAero experienced during its implementation of SMS was in the use of the word "safety." There was confusion about whether the word referred to shop floor safety, product safety or flight safety. "We had to do some training in the different interpretations of occupational health safety and flight safety," acknowledged Dodd. "Although some of the problem solving processes may be the same, in terms of risk identification and risk mitigation, and some of the tools for problem solving may be the same, we wanted to make sure that there is a differentiation between floor safety and product and flight safety."
Mike Turner, director of marketing and corporate communications, picked up on that differentiation, as well. "We do a lot to reinforce that from an internal communications perspective through our intranet and a number of internal communications pieces. By utilizing our newsletter and things like that, many of those stories are reinforced," said Turner.
One of StandardAero's more important safety metric numbers, from an SMS perspective, is found in its 2010 goal to reduce by 10 percent the risk associated with SMS continuous improvement programs. "We have more than 500 continuous improvement projects for 2009 and only 27 of them were SMS related, which is about par," observed Dodd.
"Other medium to large companies like ours are reporting 10 percent or less SMS CI issues compared to the rest of their initiatives. Some are product-related and some are cost reduction. And then others are SMS-related."
Risk management plays a very important role in StandardAero's SMS. When a continuous improvement opportunity is identified as an SMS-related issue, the CI facilitator or team leader goes into StandardAero's software and then opens a flight safety issue.
"What pops up," said Dodd, "is what we call our risk assessment matrix (RAM). The team does the initial risk assessment for the CI at the start of our seven-step CI process." The team identifies where the risk is in step one and they look at how much the risk was reduced during step seven.
StandardAero acknowledges there were costs associated with the start of its SMS program. "Certainly, initially, there is an added expense burden as you spool things up," noted Tom Roche. "But our business is all about driving operating costs down for the operator." Noting the company's investment in the eight-hour employee training program, Roche emphasized that the importance the company places on SMS is extremely high. "It's what we do. It's our business, our brand. It's what we deliver day in and day out."
Roche added that some of the improvements StandardAero is encountering are opportunities to extend the life of certain products or develop repairs based on the collective awareness of its highly experienced people. He noted that StandardAero employees "have many, many years of experience looking at the materials in the engines after they have been run though TBO (time before overhaul)," said Roche. With SMS, StandardAero has found they are identifying or highlighting areas in which recommendations can be made through customer service and engineering teams back to the customer. "Its not just an opportunity for us to provide flight safety awareness," observed Roche. "It's also an opportunity for us to provide feedback to the operator on opportunities they can implement to help reduce costs on their engine when it does come to us."
With the implementation of their SMS, StandardAero looks with an eye to improving operations. "Something simple like the way someone is doing their job or developing a new technique" is always getting fresh look, says Roche. "It doesn't always have to be focused on a flight safety issue, but, certainly, it is the same tool. It's the same mindset … making sure that overall, you are doing something better tomorrow than you did today."
In the helicopter world, StandardAero predominantly services the Rolls-Royce 250 turbine engine, although it does have a small Turbomeca operation in Singapore. The SMS concept has been rolled out throughout the entire organization. "SMS has had a big effect on how people think and how people approach their jobs on a daily basis," said Roche with a focus on his helicopter operations. "We had bits of the SMS system in our culture anyway, but this has really cemented a lot of things." He noted that SMS has really opened up the opportunity for people to provide insights and speak up when they don't think something is going the way it should.
StandardAero has coordinated two separate groups within the helicopter organization related to SMS—the Continuous Improvement Council and the Flight Safety Review Board. "The CI Council is where the management team reviews CI projects on a weekly basis and the people responsible for the projects brief us on their progress," said Roche. "They tell us what they are doing and we provide approvals for funding and what not."
"The Flight Safety Review Board (FSRB) is focused on anything in our organization, or in our customer's world, that is in any way, shape or form related to flight safety," said Roche. "It could be an in-flight shutdown or some reported incident from a customer, or it could be something that's happened within our own facility."
The FSRB is an internal group that is outwardly focused. "We are not only interested in what is going on in our own organization, but we are also interested in what's going in the operator's world," said Roche, noting that StandardAero has a Customer Council with large fleet customer representatives participating. "It helps us to know what's driving them to do certain things that affect not only their own operation, but the product as it comes back to us."
Both Dodd and Roche were proud that StandardAero's whole continuous improvement model has built in some of the primary elements of their organization with turn-around time and due-date compliances among the company guarantees that benefit. "We focus very heavily on maintaining or enhancing the customer's experience through the whole continuous process," said Roche. "SMS certainly has not had a negative impact on turn-time." StandardAero feels the tools behind SMS provide an opportunity for them to make sure that the customer receives much better product.
Regarding the implementation of an open culture, one of the fundamental tenets of a successful SMS program, Dodd was forthright. "I want to point out, first of all, that we have a very, very open culture. We encourage the employees to document their ideas. If they feel that there may be an issue with a supervisor or with the culture, they can leave it unsigned and hand the idea off to either a supervisor in Tom's organization or to an on-site quality inspector, chief inspector or accountable manager." If these reports need to be non-disclosed from an employee point of view, they are allowed to go through that route.
Does the emphasis on self-reporting and just culture tend to dilute the need for individuals to be responsible for their actions? "No," replied Dodd. "One of the things we did in training was to emphasize that this is not a get-out-of-jail card. We always want the employees to be accountable for the work that they do. Obviously, from management's point of view, we have to make sure they have been properly trained, have proper tooling, proper instructions and so forth. We always look to make sure that the proper tools were given to the employee to do the job correctly, but nonetheless, if there is an accountability issue, we'll deal with that as well."
Tom Roche had a similar perspective. "I originally thought we'd be faced with people using the system as a method to avoid accountability. But it has been refreshing to see that people have actually taken more responsibility for what they do." Roche notes that the employees have embraced the idea that they can push the envelope, so long as they are within the bounds of the organization. They don't have a fear of trying to do things better or more effectively. Roche was impressed that "we have some people that you wouldn't necessarily expect come forward and say, 'You know what, guys, I have really messed up here and we've got to take care of this right now.' It's worked out surprising well … but it takes a huge commitment on the part of the entire organization to make that work."
Dodd agreed: "We want the employee, when they find an issue, to get it resolved. You have to have that open culture value within your company to do that."
"Our customers really appreciate what we have done and they have asked for a lot of support from us in the development of their own systems, especially with the self-disclosure aspect," added Roche. "They have really struggled with that element of it and how to get around everything having a consequence. The secret is, says Roche, "everything doesn't necessarily have to have negative consequences."
In the helicopter world, where Standard- Aero has six facilities, the implementation across those sites was watched very closely. "You watch the wave kind of happen," said Roche of his global domain. "You get a bit of momentum going at one location and then it starts to leak out and get to the other organizations by little bits." He emphasized the importance of introducing SMS to the staff slowly because at smaller sites, the processes can initially be overwhelming.
"If it's not done properly," observed Roche, "people will shut down on you. But, I'll tell you, once you get there, once you demonstrate it to people, it's not a daunting task. It's not something that's going to prevent them from supporting their customers and it's not going to keep them awake at night," said Roche. "In fact, it makes me sleep better at night to know that everybody's thinking along the same lines and doing the same types of things and we have a lot of continuity in our organization. It does take time. There's no question. Until you get it firmly embedded in every one of those locations, you can't let it go. You absolutely cannot let it go."
Roche concluded his thoughts on the implementation of SMS at StandardAero by noting that, because they have some pretty significant levels of experience at their various sites, they did run into a number of our employees who kind of looked at the management team and said, "'Are you crazy? I've been doing this for 25 years; I've been doing this for 30 years. What can I learn? I know what it's all about; I know what the customers are like.' It's been really refreshing," noted Roche, "to watch them get engaged and realize that there is something that they can not only learn, but that they can impart on other people."
Dodd, like the consummate quality director he is, had a list of three take-aways form the StandardAero SMS implementation experience. "One," said Dodd, "was employee awareness of product and flight safety. A lot of these guys and gals are actually problem solving every day. This gives them an opportunity to document it and get some team recognition. Second is the actual risk reduction of the process they are working on for continuous improvement. And third is that StandardAero is using this unique opportunity to integrate SMS into our quality management infrastructure and make that a part of our DNA."


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- Bentz and Sickles Named First Team, Adam Waterhouse Named Coach of the Year -
New York, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the 2012 All-Conference Women's Tennis teams on Thursday, November 1st, after voting conducted among the Conference's seven head coaches.
The Skyline coaches selected sophomore Kirsten Ackerman of Sage as the 2012 Skyline Player of the Year, Morgan Holbrook of Mount Saint Mary as Rookie of the Year and Farmingdale State's Adam Waterhouse as Coach of the Year. In addition, Yeshiva received the Team Sportsmanship Award.
Ackerman is a perfect 13-0 in dual matches at the No. 1 singles flight and was 6-0 in league matches. The Guilderland, N.Y. resident has not lost a set in dual match singles competition in 2012 and boasts a 7-1 record at No. 2 doubles for the year. She was named the Skyline Player of the Week three times this season.
Holbrook is 12-0 on the year at No. 2 singles and 6-0 at No. 2 doubles as she helped lead Mount Saint Mary to a perfect 12-0 overall record and its fourth consecutive league title. The Montgomery, NY., native was a six-time Rookie of the Week selection and was tabbed the Most Outstanding Player of the 2012 Skyline Championship after posting a combined 4-0 record in singles and doubles competition in the Knights' wins over Purchase and Farmingdale State.
Holbrook is joined on the All-Conference first team by Gabriela Murphy-Goldberg of Mount Saint Mary; Farmingdale State sophomores Alex Bentz and Jessica Sickles (Massapequa Park, N.Y.); Mackenzie Riley of Sage; and Katelyn Dorsey of St. Joseph's-L.I.
The second-team All-Conference includes Moriah Ormsby and Melissa Siller of Purchase; Sage's Isabella Pericone; Nancy Marroquin and Katie Soeder of St. Joseph's-L.I.; and Ashlynne O'Brien of Mount Saint Mary.
Now in his sixth season, Waterhouse led Farmingdale State to a 9-5 overall record and a 5-1 mark in league play. The Rams advanced to the finals of the 2012 Skyline Championship for the first time in program history after their 5-3 semifinal win over St. Joseph's-L.I. on Oct. 24. A 1984 graduate of Oswego State, Waterhouse had led the FSC women's program to a 36-34 record.
Kirsten Ackerman*, Sophomore, Sage
Alex Bentz, Sophomore, Farmingdale State
Katelyn Dorsey, Senior, St. Joseph's-L.I.
Morgan Holbrook, Freshman, Mount Saint Mary
Gabriela Murphy-Goldberg, Senior, Mount Saint Mary
Mackenzie Riley, Senior, Sage
Jessica Sickles, Sophomore, Farmingdale State
Nancy Marroquin, Junior, St. Joseph's-L.I.
Ashlynne O'Brien, Freshman, Mount Saint Mary
Moriah Ormsby, Junior, Purchase
Isabella Pericone, Senior, Sage
Melissa Siller, Sophomore, Purchase
Katie Soeder, Junior, St. Joseph's-L.I.
*Player of the Year: Kirsten Ackerman, Sage
Rookie of the Year: Morgan Holbrook, Mount Saint Mary
Coach of the Year: Adam Waterhouse, Farmingdale State
Tournament MVP: Morgan Holbrook, Mount Saint Mary
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Volquez bested as Bucs offense stifled by Cards
ST. LOUIS -- Truth be told, the Pirates wished they could have challenged the fairness of having to face Adam Wainwright. The only thing Clint Hurdle could challenge, however, was a close play at first base.
Losing that challenge led to four St. Louis runs. Having to hit off Wainwright led to a 7-0 loss to the Cardinals on Sunday in the finale of the weekend series.View Full Game Coverage
ST. LOUIS -- Truth be told, the Pirates wished they could have challenged the fairness of having to face Adam Wainwright. The only thing Clint Hurdle could challenge, however, was a close play at first base.
Losing that challenge led to four St. Louis runs. Having to hit off Wainwright led to a 7-0 loss to the Cardinals on Sunday in the finale of the weekend series.View Full Game Coverage
Wainwright stretched his scoreless streak to 25 innings, walking two and striking out seven in eight innings. He was the cheese on the string to the Pirates' mice.
"I was having fun kind of tinkering with speeds out there," Wainwright said. "I changed speeds on my curveball throughout the game, my cutter, too. I threw a couple slower ones to see reactions."
Four of his runs immediately followed the Bucs' challenge, which, if leading to an overturned call, would have ended a scoreless sixth inning. The involved Pirates players thought both the call and its review were missed.
Their manager wanted to have none of it. For one thing, the challenge resulted from a relatively easy play that could have been made without the complication.
"You've got to play through it," Hurdle said. "We've been playing through calls you didn't like for 128 years. You've got to have the resolve to finish an inning. We finish that double play right there, four runs never get on the board."
As he has all season, the Bucs' Edinson Volquez matched serves with an opposing ace, still being in a 2-0 duel entering that sixth inning.
Matt Holliday and Matt Adams were aboard with one-out singles when Yadier Molina hit a double-play ball to third base. Pedro Alvarez tossed to second for the force but, with ample time to convert the double play on a ball hit by a catcher, Neil Walker's relay pulled Ike Davis off the first-base bag.
"Sometimes, when the ball gets to you that quick, it's a little different situation," Hurdle said. "But it's a throw Neil has made a hundred times. You hit the guy [Davis], give him a ball he doesn't have to get out for, you turn the double play. We didn't execute. We didn't finish the play."
Umpire Ted Barrett signaled safe. Davis flashed his own signal -- for Hurdle to come out and challenge, which he did.
The call stood, as replays were inconclusive.
"I still think I was on the bag. I could feel it with my foot," said Davis who, once he toppled off the bag, wound up sprawling in the infield dirt a foot off the base.
The inning continued. Allen Craig singled for a run before Jhonny Peralta smacked his second homer of the game for three more and it was 6-0.
"To be honest, he was out," Volquez said of Molina. "I was a little concerned about the call at first base. I don't understand how that happens. I saw the replay here … if we got it here, how are you not going to have it in New York, watching all those big screens? But when they called, they said they could not find the [convincing] replay. How that happen?"
Hurdle had no problem there.
"I understand 'clear and convincing.' There wasn't a shot they could use," the manager said.
Hurdle was less tolerant of a couple of shots not converted by the Pirates against Wainwright, who is not apt to give you many mulligans.
In the sixth, Jose Tabata was hit by a one-out pitch and Alvarez singled with two away. Walker took a called third-strike.
In a bigger opportunity in the third, Starling Marte followed leadoff singles by Tony Sanchez and Volquez with a hard bunt back to Wainwright, who got the easy force at third, then two more quick outs to end the threat.
"Not getting the bunt down to the third baseman hurt," said Hurdle, citing where Marte's intended sacrifice bunt should have been directed. "We might've had a window of opportunity there. That was the last real shot we had at [Wainwright]."
Volquez had hoped to be a force in the Pirates rotation. As the projected No. 5 starter, what he could not expect was being their "sacrificial lamb" -- the guy pitted against the opposition's ace. Yet, here he is after five starts, with a 1-2 record to accompany an ERA of 3.21.
He has twice faced both Wainwright and Milwaukee's Yovani Gallardo, and once went up against Johnny Cueto.
"I don't even think about that," Volquez said. "I just want to do my job, every five days. I don't care who I face."
He can, however, admire who he is facing.
"He's been outstanding ... great," Volquez said of Wainwright. "He's unbelievable. Everything he throws to the plate is a strike. Lot of movement. He's a superstar."
As they had in Friday night's 1-0 win, the Cardinals pushed across a first-inning run as Matt Carpenter led off with a double, was sacrificed to third by Jon Jay and scored on Holliday's sacrifice fly.
This time, however, the Cards added on. Peralta led off the fifth with a 427-foot home run, which made news in St. Louis not only because it gave the Cardinals two runs (they had scored one or none in 10 of their first 25 games) but because it was their first homer in 367 at-bats.
Soon enough, Peralta was hitting their second homer in nine at-bats, and 823 feet worth of long balls and two inches short of a bag did in the Bucs.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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systemd is a replacement for SysVinit that acts as a system and session manager.
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- Last updated: 2010-06-01
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Detailed Description
- FIXME--need to add more details about what the plans are for systemd as it relates to Fedora 14
Benefit to Fedora
Fedora currently uses Upstart but in SysV compatibility mode. systemd is a overall better design as detailed in http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html. We hope to reap the benefits of it by leading in distribution integration and including it by default.
Requires building packages for systemd (DONE: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598299 ), and taking advantage of it in a dozen or so desktop daemons that will benefit from systemd the most at present and make it default for Fedora 14.
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- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
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It seems to me that people think I am a constructive mathematician, or worse a constructivist (a word which carries a certain amount of philosophical stigma). Let me be perfectly clear: it is not decidable whether I am a constructive mathematician.
But seriously, if anything, you may call me a mathematical relativist: there are many worlds of mathematics, and the view of the worlds is relative to which one I am in. Any attempt to bring mathematics within the scope of a single foundation necessarily limits mathematics in unacceptable ways. A mathematician who sticks to just one mathematical world (probably because of his education) is a bit like a geometer who only knows Euclidean geometry. This holds equally well for classical mathematicians, who are not willing to give up their precious law of excluded middle, and for Bishop-style mathematicians, who pursue the noble cause of not opposing anyone.
What could be more appealing to a mathematician than the idea that there is not one, but many, infinitely many worlds of mathematics? Would he not want to visit them all, understand how they are related, and see what happens to his favorite subject as he moves between them?
Let us consider an example. The real numbers are a mathematical object of fundamental importance, and have many aspects:
- The reals as a set are uncountable and in bijection with the powerset of natural numbers.
- The reals as an algebraic structure form a linearly ordered field.
- The reals as a space are locally compact, Hausdorff, and connected.
- The reals are a measurable space on which measure theory rests.
- The reals of non-standard analysis contain infinitesimals.
- The reals as understood by Leibniz contain nilpotent infinitesimals.
- The reals as Brouwerian continuum cannot be decomposed into two disjoint inhabited subsets.
- The reals are overt.
We can have some of these properties but not all at once. History has chosen for us a combination that is taught today as a dogma. Any attempt to deviate from it is met with opposition. Thus you probably consider 1, 2, 3, and 4 as true, 5 as something exotic you heard of, 6 as Leibniz's biggest mistake, 7 as intuitionistic hallucination (because obviously the reals can be decomposed into the non-negative and negative numbers), and 8 as something you never heard of (but you should have because it is the concept dual to compactness and you have been using it all your life).
Once we break free from Cantor's paradise that Hilbert threw us in we discover unsuspected possibilities:
- It may happen that the reals are in 1-1 correspondence with a subset of the natural numbers, while at the same time they form an uncountable set.
- It may happen that the reals form a proper class.
- It may happen that every real number has a Turing machine computing its digits.
- It may happen that the reals are not linearly ordered.
- It may happen that the reals are locally non-compact, in the sense that every interval contains a sequence without an accumulation point.
- It may happen that every subset of the reals is measurable.
- It may happen that the reals can be covered by a sequence of intervals whose cumulative length does not exceed $1$.
- It may happen that the reals contain nilpotent infinitesimals, which validate the 17th century calculations that physicists still use because, luckily, they did not subscribe entirely to the $\epsilon\delta$-dogma of analysis.
- It may happen that every real function is continuous, and consequently the reals are not decomposable into two disjoint inhabited subsets.
- It may happen that the reals are not overt, whatever that means.
It should be admitted that some of the possibilities are rather bizarre. For example, I do not know what good it is to have the reals as a subset of the naturals, but I am sure somebody could think of something. But why should a measure theorist ignore a world of mathematics in which every subset is measurable, or a computer scientist one in which all reals are computable, or a topologist one in which all functions are continuous, or an analyst one in which all functions are smooth?
I am not proposing that mathematics should be compartmentalized so that each branch sits in its world of mathematics, incompatible with others. That would be a grave mistake indeed. In fact, the unification of mathematics under the umbrella of classical set theory has been immensely successful precisely because it allowed mathematicians to discover deep and unsuspected connections between different branches of mathematics. We have learnt to look for connections between branches of mathematics, and now we must also learn to look for connections that span worlds of mathematics.
We cannot ignore the many worlds of mathematics. Therefore, mathematics must become applicable in a wide variety of worlds. Mathematicians have to be educated so that they develop multiple mathematical intuitions that help them feel how the worlds of mathematics behave.
I have so far not given you any technical definition of a mathematical world. Such a definition may be useful for showing meta-theorems, but I think it can never be exhaustive. A world of mathematics may be a forcing extension of set theory, or a topos, or a pretopos, or a model of type theory, or any other structure within which it is possible to interpret the basic language of mathematics.
At the moment I am visiting the Institute for Advanced Study as a member of the Univalent Foundations group. We are building a new foundation of mathematics whose language is type theory rather than set theory, and whose primary objects are homotopy types and not just bare sets. Do I think this is an exciting new development? Certainly! Will the Univalent foundations disrupt the monopoly of Set-theoretic foundations? I certainly hope so! Will it become the new monopoly? It must not!


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Ex-officers worry that proposed exemption to anti-torture legislation would institutionalize the practice.
Among the fundamental conceits of the architects of the Bush administration's war on terrorism is that heavy-handed interrogation is useful, even necessary, to get any information that will protect the American people, and that such interrogation techniques are devoid of negative consequences in dealing with real or suspected terrorists.
One way this notion has played out in practice is the CIA's use of "extraordinary rendition," in which terror suspects overseas are kidnapped and delivered to third-party countries for interrogation -- which, not uncharacteristically, includes some measure of torture, and sometimes fatal torture.
Details about the extent and excesses of the U.S. government's interrogation practices have been ably documented by the media and human-rights organizations. Many thought that extraordinary rendition would be the worst of the revelations, but on November 2, The Washington Post revealed that the CIA has been running its own system of secret overseas detention and interrogation centers, known as "black sites."
Coming at a moment when both CIA Director Porter Goss and Vice President Cheney have been crusading to exempt the CIA from pending legislation authored by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would ban U.S. government personnel from using torture, and other abusive conduct, in interrogations, the story has been particularly resonant -- especially when at least one prisoner under CIA supervision at the now-defunct Afghanistan "salt pit" black site died as a result of abuse.
Although outrage has focused on the existence and symbolism of the black sites, comparatively little attention has been paid to the concerns -- if not outright objections -- of many distinguished CIA veterans about these sites and the use of torture in general. It's not just that such behavior is largely impractical, they say; it's that even by the morally ambiguous standards of espionage and covert action, the abuse is simply wrong.
Some perennially high-profile retired CIA officers like Bob Baer, Frank Anderson, and Vincent Cannistraro recently spoke out to Knight Ridder about their opposition to torture on practical grounds (Cannistraro said that detainees will "say virtually anything to end their torment"). But over the past 18 months, several lesser-known former officers have been trying, publicly and privately, to convince both the agency and the public that torture and other unduly coercive questioning tactics are morally wrong as well.
Speaking at a College of William and Mary forum last year, for example, Burton L. Gerber, a decorated Moscow station chief who retired in 1995 after 39 years with the CIA, surprised some in the audience when he said he opposes torture "because it corrupts the society that tolerates it."
This is a view, he confirmed in an interview with National Journal last week, that is rooted in Albert Camus's assertion in Preface to Algerian Reports that torture, "even when accepted in the interest of realism and efficacy," represents "a flouting of honor that serves no purpose but to degrade" a nation in its own eyes and the world's.
"The reason I believe that torture corrupts the torturers and society," Gerber says, "is that a standard is changed, and that new standard that's acceptable is less than what our nation should stand for. I think the standards in something like this are crucial to the identity of America as a free and just society."
The moral dimensions of torture, Gerber adds, are inextricably linked with the practical; aside from the fact that torture almost always fails to yield true or useful information, it has the potential to adversely affect CIA operations.
"Foreign nationals agree to spy for us for many different reasons; some do it out of an overwhelming admiration for America and what it stands for, and to those people, I think, America being associated with torture does affect their willingness to work with us," he says. "But one of my arguments with the agency about ethics, particularly in this case, is that it's not about case studies, but philosophy. Aristotle says the ends and means must be in concert; if the ends and means are not in concert, good ends will be corrupted by bad means."
A similar stance was articulated last year by Merle L. Pribbenow, a 27-year veteran of the agency's clandestine Directorate of Operations. Writing in Studies in Intelligence, the CIA's in-house journal, Pribbenow recalled that an old college friend had recently expressed his belief that "the terrorist threat to America was so grave that any methods, including torture, should be used to obtain the information we need." The friend was vexed that Pribbenow's former colleagues "had not been able to 'crack' these prisoners."
Pribbenow sought an answer by revisiting the arcane case of Nguyen Van Tai, the highest-ranking Vietcong prisoner captured and interrogated by both South Vietnamese and American forces during the Vietnam War.
Re-examining in detail the techniques used by the South Vietnamese (protracted torture that included electric shocks; beatings; various forms of water torture; stress positions; food, water, and sleep deprivation) and by the Americans (rapport-building and no violence), Pribbenow reached a stark conclusion: "While the South Vietnamese use of torture did result (eventually) in Tai's admission of his true identity, it did not provide any other usable information," he wrote. In the end, he said, "it was the skillful questions and psychological ploys of the Americans, and not any physical infliction of pain, that produced the only useful (albeit limited) information that Tai ever provided." But perhaps most noteworthy was Pribbenow's conclusion: "This brings me back to my college classmate's question. The answer I gave him -- one in which I firmly believe -- is that we, as Americans, must not let our methods betray our goals," he said. "There is nothing wrong with a little psychological intimidation, verbal threats, bright lights and tight handcuffs, and not giving a prisoner a soft drink and a Big Mac every time he asks for them.
There are limits, however, beyond which we cannot and should not go if we are to continue to call ourselves Americans. America is as much an ideal as a place, and physical torture of the kind used by the Vietnamese (North as well as South) has no place in it."
Retired since 1995, Pribbenow spends most of his time writing on Vietnam War history and translating Vietnamese works. With the exception of participating in a documentary series on the Vietnam War, he has never spoken to the press. But last week in an exclusive interview with National Journal, he revealed that part of what prompted him to write his piece was his own experience in Vietnam, where as an interpreter participating in CIA interrogations, he had occasion to interact with South Vietnamese torturers and their victims.
"If you talk to people who have been tortured, that gives you a pretty good idea not only as to what it does to them, but what it does to the people who do it," he said. "One of my main objections to torture is what it does to the guys who actually inflict the torture. It does bad things. "I have talked to a bunch of people who had been tortured who, when they talked to me, would tell me things they had not told their torturers, and I would ask, 'Why didn't you tell that to the guys who were torturing you?' They said that their torturers got so involved that they didn't even bother to ask questions."
Ultimately, he said -- echoing Gerber's comments -- "torture becomes an end unto itself."
Pribbenow also said he was moved to write down his thoughts out of concern for the current generation of intelligence officers. "I don't personally know of any cases where an agency officer ever [tortured] anyone; that was always taboo, something we just didn't do," he said.
"But I had been seeing stuff in the news, on TV, TV commentators, that sort of thing, in favor of torture," he said, "and I thought, 'I know there are a lot of new intelligence officers, new guys who don't have a lot of experience,' and thought maybe something like this will help them make their own decisions as to how to handle themselves in these situations, especially when people in authority are saying things that are unclear."
Indeed, Pribbenow, Gerber, and other veterans interviewed all noted that one of their greatest worries is that the proposed exemption to McCain's legislation will institutionalize something that has historically been an exception in CIA culture: CIA officers actually doing physical harm to interrogation suspects.
One longtime case officer asks, "Are there instances throughout history when we have known, and in some cases, at least, turned a blind eye to, that allied or friendly intelligence services are torturing people? Yes," he says. "Is it something our own officers have done? Almost never."
What has many veterans worried, he said, is the fact that while case officers aren't actually trained in interrogation techniques ("I'm not sure I ever knew anyone who was a 'professional interrogator' in the agency," says Pribbenow), in recent years officers have been getting the worst combination of no training plus ambiguous signals from management on the ethics of interrogation.
From 1972 to 1975, Frank Snepp was the CIA's top interrogator in Saigon, where he choreographed elaborate, protracted sessions with Nguyen Van Tai and, at one point, seven other senior Vietcong captives. To the question of whether torture or abusive behavior by interrogators is justified, Snepp's answer is unequivocally no. And the fact that this point isn't understood at the agency today, Snepp says, is a sign of serious problems.
"One of the big lessons for the agency was that the South Vietnamese torturing people got in the way of getting information," he says. "One day, without my knowledge, the South Vietnamese forces beat one of my subjects to a pulp, and when he staggered into the interrogation room, I was furious. And I went to the station chief and he said, 'What do you want me to do about it?'
"I told him to tell the Vietnamese to lay off, and he said, 'What do you want me to tell them in terms of why?' I said, 'Because it's wrong, it's just wrong.' He laughed and said, 'Look, we've got 180,000 North Vietnamese troops within a half hour of here -- I can't tell them, don't beat the enemy. Give me a pragmatic reason.' I said, 'He can't talk. He's a wreck. I can't interrogate him.' He said, 'That, I can use with them.'
"The important lesson for me was that moral arguments don't work," Snepp says. "But if you have pragmatic reasons, that will work. But the most important thing is that the only time you can be sure that what you're getting from someone is valid is through discourse. In Tai's case, the idea was to develop absolute trust, which you do not do by alienating and humiliating someone. He liked poetry; I brought him books of poetry, and in many sessions we sat and discussed poetry, nothing else.
The most extreme thing I did was a disorientation technique, where I would keep jumping from one subject to another so rapidly that he might not remember what he'd told me the day before, or not remember that he had not, in fact, told me what I was saying he'd told me. Little by little, I drew him into revelations. And I was highly commended for this work."
But today, according to case officers, younger CIA operatives have no formal training. No qualified old hands are around to informally mentor them, or to even swap collegial notes, on the practical or the ethical in interrogations.
"We're not trained interrogators -- to be honest, in those situations I really had no idea what I'm doing, and I'm not the only one who has had this experience," says a decorated active case officer with nearly 25 years of experience, who on several occasions in recent years has participated in interrogations of Islamist radicals conducted by foreign intelligence services.
"The larger problem here, I think, is that this kind of stuff just makes people feel better, even if it doesn't work.... I'm worried that this is becoming more institutionalized," the officer says. "There are other officers I know who I think are coming to take on faith that the only way to get anything out of a suspected terrorist is beating it out of him, because he's in an entirely different category, so fanatical that it's the only thing that'll work."
According to a 30-year CIA veteran currently working for the agency on contract, there is, in fact, some precedent showing that the "gloves-off" approach works -- but it was hotly debated at the time by those who knew about it, and shouldn't be emulated today.
"I have been privy to some of what's going on now, but when I saw the Post story, I said to myself, 'The agency deserves every bad thing that's going to happen to it if it is doing this again,'" he said. "In the early 1980s, we did something like this in Lebanon -- technically, the facilities were run by our Christian Maronite allies, but they were really ours, and we had personnel doing the interrogations," he said.
"I don't know how much violence was used -- it was really more putting people in underground rooms with a bare bulb for a long time, and for a certain kind of privileged person not used to that, that and some slapping around can be effective.
"But here's the important thing: When orders were given for that operation to stand down, some of the people involved wouldn't. Disciplinary action was taken, but it brought us back to an argument in the agency that's never been settled, one that crops up and goes away -- do you fight the enemy in the gutter, the same way, or maintain some kind of moral high ground?
"I think as late as a decade ago, there were enough of us around who had enough experience to constitute the majority view, which was that this was simply not the way we did business, and for good reasons of practicality or morality. It's not just about what it does or doesn't do, but about who, and where, we as a country want to be."


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A statement from the N.C. Department of Transportation said a threat of severe weather on Tuesday is combining with wind-driven tides and the narrow channel situation to create a safety issue that requires constant monitoring.
The inlet was dredged in May to address an immediate need and is scheduled to be dredged in several weeks by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Bougie folks I'm feeling out of place
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I'm actually meeting someone here, I'll just wait to order
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(Sir'? Sir'?!)
Staring at the man, I just seen walk between them doors
The way my body froze out, you swear you think I seen a ghost!
So familiar, looking like someone I seen before
Same eyes, even nose, same size ring & clothes
Mama always told me that the first impressions mean the most
But I been waiting my whole fucking life to let these demons go!
My body numb as he approaches
I grew up in the slums with the roaches cause this bum left me hopeless!
No, santa at my door, just a fucking eviction notice!
God damn mayne, let me gain my focus, fuck!
He walk up extend his hand, and look me in the eye
I accept, while tryna hide the evil in disguise!
Cause truth be told I wanna tell him come meet me outside!
Put a cannon to his temple, cocked, squeeze & watch you die!
(Hey, how've you been son?)
How I been?!
Man what the hell you mean?!
You don't know me!
How you act concerned for one you've never seen?!
Where the fuck was you when I was young & had to grow with fiends?!
House full of junkies mayne, I swear my crib was Medellín
It's all nightmares in the gutta, we don't ever dream, never smile!
(Shh, Shh, Shh, son, son)
Bitch you could get it too, & that's on everything!
I hate you nigga, I can't say it no other way!
(Whoah hey, calm down)
I hope you never live to see another day!
(Calm down)
Nice to meet you ho!
[Verse 2: Propain]
I feel the pain as I enter the room
The sudden change of scene, got my mental confused
Looking hopeless & stiff in a tube
It seem like yesterday we met, today you gotta live through a tube
Looking up to God, am I missing the clues?
I hoped he die, but I didn't know that my wish would come true!
But then again as I'm looking at him full of drugs
That resent me, built up in me, whispered "pull the plug"
I grew up lost & out of tone, tryna move with thugs
Anyone who took me in, funny what we do for love
Poor as shit, shoes looking like them hoes been through the mud!
Mama can't afford herself, fuck she suppose to do with us?!
No gifts for christmas, birthdays, no calls from you!
No pitch & catch, all that bullshit that a father do!
Word out, you got another son & a daughter too
But left me out to dry, bitch you wonder why my heart removed?!
But what if that's false?
What if that part confused?
What if mama lying, & just wanted me far apart from you?!
What if you was locked up, wrote me, but I ain't read the kite?
Wake yo' ass up dawg, don't leave me twice!
Knees starting to buckle
A face full of sickness
I'm acting like I'm perfect, all this fake shit I committed
All the lies that I done told, all these games I played with bitches
Who the fuck was I to judge?! I should be getting a sentence
So that's the past now, [?]
Honor thy father, it's in the bible, even if they ain't did shit
Could a been avoided for a few of them dollas
Never made it out that clinic
Now I stay with so much to say, but not too much time
& now it's too late
Happy Fathers Day!
In this song Propain basically vents on how he feels about his father leaving him to be raised by only his mom.


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The activity was reported to have taken place at the height of around 2,900 metres at a new crater.
Despite the thick clouds of smoke and ash, no disruption was caused to operations at the nearby Catania airport and there were no reports of evacuations from nearby towns and villages.
Local media reported five hours of activity at the volcano on Wednesday (February 27).
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"I definitely think that there is room for some more rootsy country music to come back into play, the 23-year-old told Billboard. "A lot of the females right now are ... doing the pop-country thing and I definitely want to do what makes sense right now for me and my life and my raising."
She adds, "It's so hard because ... you have to find that balance between what is old school and what works for today. I think if you could mix Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, and Jewel, I think that would kind of be what I'm going for."
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