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~ Skipping towards Gomorrah ~
MICHAEL McGRADE
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last/Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" queried William Yeats at the conclusion of his poem "The Second Coming" (1919). Today, we can assuredly answer that the "rough beast" has evolved "at last" into the unrestrained hedonism of the West. It is not, however, slouching towards Bethlehem. Rather, the nihilistic "beast" is heading for Gomorrah - with a spring in its step.
Yeats himself might have guessed at this eventuality. But I doubt he would have anticipated the leading role of the Catholic hierarchy in the moral decline, spiritual decay and dissolution of hierarchy, family and religion that characterises the depraved denouement we are facing.
The unspeakable treachery at play here is embodied in the long-running scandal of the sacrilegious 'gay' Masses being held twice monthly by the Soho Masses Pastoral Council (SMPC), at the church of Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory, Warwick Street, Soho. Fortunately, when the Soho Masses became a major focus of media attention in the run-up to the papal visit, we were able to counter homosexual disinformation and allay confusion in the blogosphere by referring internet bloggers to our detailed articles on the Masses which we have tracked closely for a number of years.(1) It is important, therefore, that we now update our chronicle.
Revealing blog
As a measure of the high stakes involved in this pivotal affair and the heat it generates, Dr Oddie later commented in the September FAITH magazine: "The [July] blog was brief, a mere 426 words. The comments, passionate on both sides of the argument, added up to a word count of nearly 11,000 after a week, and they [are] still coming in…."
Just as revealing were the comments posted by Soho Mass attendees in response to the Oddie article, all of whom openly displayed their opposition to Catholic teaching on homosexuality: usually dismissed as mere "Vatican doctrine" to be rejected at will. Other comments from those who have attended the Masses, but are not supportive of the dissent, were also very instructive:
And from another blogger:
Since moving the Masses from St Anne's Anglican Church, Soho, to Warwick Street in 2007, both Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor and Archbishop Vincent Nichols have regularly received detailed evidence of this flagrant dissent and sacrilegious behaviour which underpins and surrounds them. Yet in spite of this, they have steadfastly refused to intervene. On the very rare occasions that anyone has received replies from Westminster on this matter, the usual tactic is to deny that there is any problem. One such letter, written in August this year by Archbishop Nichols, disingenuously states:
Leaving aside the patronising assumption that the recipient of the letter has not been praying for all concerned throughout this scandal, the detailed and irrefutable evidence of dissent which has been sent to Westminster shows up Archbishop Nichols' ongoing pretence that these Masses are a "proper attempt" to draw people into the life of the Church, or that those who attend them are "struggling" to "conform their lives" to the teaching of the Church. The overwhelming evidence screams that the only struggle taking place at these Masses is the struggle to conform the Catholic Church to the dictates and aims of the "gay" lobby, whose body-and-soul destroying agenda His Grace is now facilitating with all the arrogance and disregard of a common hireling who has abandoned his flock.
Scandal sheet
Dissident ghetto
As the SMPC are always keen to point out that these Masses are part of the official pastoral provision for homosexuals in the Westminster Archdiocese, it is a disgrace that those who strive to keep the Church's teaching have been marginalised, while those who openly flout it are supported and cosseted. Indeed, these Masses are an affront, not only to chaste Catholics battling a disordered homosexual tendency, but to all men and women who strive, often under very difficult and painful circumstances, to remain faithful to Catholic moral teaching.
The SMPC's continued commitment to the promotion of dissent makes a complete mockery of what Westminster diocese initially stated about the Soho Masses, i.e. "Information about the Mass will be sensitive to the reality that the celebration of Mass is not to be used for campaigning for any change to, or ambiguity about, the Church's teaching."
Is this the sort of "unambiguous" pastoral care that the diocese promised to provide - promotion at Mass of "gay pride" parades; of "Queering the Church"; of "gay" activism; of authors who are "celebrated" for "facing down current ecclesiastical teaching on homosexuality" and of all the other horrors listed above?
For whatever reasons, it is clear that neither Archbishop Nichols nor the clerics he has delegated to cater for these Masses have the desire or will to stop the corrupting agenda being enforced in this dogmatically dissident "gay ghetto."
This ploy, long endured by pro-lifers bearing witness outside abortion mills, is the oldest trick in the book. It demonises those who pray in reparation, casting them in the role of threatening aggressors, while the SMPC are portrayed as innocent victims in need of protection from such a great evil. It is a shameful waste of tax-payers' money. Undoubtedly, there have been attacks on homosexuals in London, resulting in loss of life or serious injury, and only a sick individual would condone such acts. Yet any right-minded person would prefer the police to devote their time and resources to catching the perpetrators of violent crime, instead of colluding in the intimidation of manifestly peaceful and prayerful citizens.
"Gay" adoptions: the Soho link
It is important to view Warwick St. as one link in the chain of all these interlocking Pendergast groups, which in turn form but a microcosm of the sterile "gay" macrocosm. Under cover of "human rights," "equality," "diversity" and "tolerance," they channel their unflagging, almost preternatural energy and propaganda efforts - whether in churches or classrooms or the infotainment media - into recruitment, without which the barren macrocosm dies. It's all about survival. And in the process, they conspire to corrupt the Faith, society and souls.
An egregious example of this is the manner in which the RCC wickedly undermined the Church through its opposition to the Catholic Care agency in the Leeds diocese.
RCC wrote a letter to the Charity Commission protesting Catholic Care's application to restrict adoption to heterosexual couples (a commendable application but one which had already been seriously undermined by Bishop Arthur Roche of Leeds, who shot himself in the foot by not objecting to homosexual adopters per se, a fact which the RCC were quick to point out and exploit). The letter, in which the RCC signatories presented themselves as Catholics rather than CINOs, and subsequent reports, can be found on their website: www.rccaucuslgcm.co.uk.
Unsurprisingly, the Leeds diocese lost the case. Martin Pendergast followed up this 'victory' for RCC with a self-congratulatory gloat on The Guardian comments website, to which he is a regular contributor, titled: "Catholic gay adoption ruling is a victory for vulnerable children: The failure of Catholic Care's appeal recognises that church pronouncements on the matter are social comment, not doctrine."(7)
Martin should hang his head in shame. What about the promiscuous subset of "predatory gay men" who repeatedly rape young males and could easily get their hands on these children? "The 3,000-pound elephant sitting in the room that no one wants to talk about," as openly "gay" Los Angeles radio personality Al Rantel put it (CO, Feb. 2008, p. 69). "I think it's disgraceful, and I think the media needs to address this. The gay community needs to address this," insists Rantel with a compassion and candour which utterly escapes the mainstream media and the RCC.
And what of the well documented homosexual-paedophile nexus? Even one liberal (pro-"gay") study reported that homosexual pederasts admitted to 150 boy victims each, compared to 19 girl victims per heterosexual paedophile, conservatively an eight-to-one ratio. While the April 1999 Archives of Sexual Behaviour informs us that "The prevalence of homosexuality among pedophiles may be as high as 30-40%." A further study published in the same journal found that of 229 convicted child molesters "eighty-six percent of [sexual] offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual."
The hard fact is that homosexuals are massively overrepresented in child sex offenses. "Individuals from the 1 to 3 percent of the population that is sexually attracted to the same sex are committing up to one-third of the sex crimes against children," states Dr Timothy Daily of the Washington-based Family Research Council. "A study in the Journal of Sex Research found that although heterosexuals outnumber homosexuals by a ratio of at least 20 to 1 [in Britain statistically 100 to 1], homosexual paedophiles commit about one-third of the total number of child sex offenses."
Yet despite so many similar findings and the fact that relative rates of molestation put the risk of a homosexual molesting a child at 10 to 20 times greater than that of a heterosexual, in his Guardian article Pendergast fully supported the adoption of "vulnerable children" by his fellow sodomites!
To compound his complicity, Pendergast then also called for the Holy Father to publicly apologise for authorising the 2003 CDF document Considerations regarding Proposals to give Legal Recognition to Unions between homosexual persons.(8) He listed the sections of this document which so offended him: "… the absence of sexual complementarity in these (homosexual) unions creates obstacles in the normal development of children who would be placed in the care of such persons … Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development."
Yet studies like those just cited only confirm the Holy Father's worst fears about homo-adoption: the disproportionately greater chance of physical violence being done to children by homosexuals. Indeed the first homosexual 'couple' in Yorkshire (and among the first in England) to be approved by the authorities as foster parents turned out to be "gay rights" advocates who repeatedly abused children entrusted to them by local council officials too scared of being labelled "homophobic" to stop handing children over (Daily Mail, 6/9/07). Given the tiny number of homosexuals in the country (1.3% on latest official figures published just after the papal visit), and the tiny fraction of that percentage who adopt or foster children, the Yorkshire case is further alarming evidence of the shocking but largely unspoken truth about the staggeringly high (yet totally unsurprising) proportion of "gay" child molesters.
It is Mr Pendergast himself, therefore, who should be issuing apologies for his wildly erroneous and dangerous conviction that the defeat of Leeds' Catholic Care in favour of "gay" adoption represents "a victory for vulnerable children"! As for the bishops and their adoption agencies, they are more culpable still.
In the RCC submission, Pendergast and his cohorts informed the Charity Commissioners that of the fourteen adoption agencies active at the time of the enactment of the Sexual Orientation Regulations, "eleven have found a way of continuing their adoption services, whilst complying with the requirements of the SORs, with various solutions involving some formal severance from the Catholic dioceses which officially supported them but without losing their Catholic identity."
True to form, Martin's definition of "Catholic identity" is rather elastic! By handing over children to homosexuals and thereby massively increasing the chances of their being molested, such agencies and their personnel will stand guilty at Judgement not only of having surrendered their "Catholic identity" (shocking enough!) but of endangering innocent and vulnerable souls - morally, spiritually and physically.
DIY "gay theology"
From his pontifical Chair in Warwick St., Pope Martin infallibly defines that Church teaching on homosexuality is "officially recognised as third level in the doctrinal hierarchy of truths. It does not touch upon the primary beliefs that define a Catholic, and while requiring from Catholics 'religious respect - obsequium religiosum,' it may nevertheless be open to conscientious dissent."
He is often quoted making similar public statements. It is all some distance beyond parody: an arch-dissident CINO play-acting the part of a faithful Catholic concerned with doctrinal minutiae, as if it meant the world to him to retain his "religious respect" for the Faith he rejects and subverts at every turn! Truly, you couldn't make it up.
As one chaste homosexual familiar with the Soho ruse explained: "It is all aimed at implying that the Church's teachings are current and transient - and in doing so the pastoral outreach is validating a gay Catholic vocation and affirming the gay sub-culture and its lifestyle for gay Catholics."
SPUC Director John Smeaton skewered this fantastical "third level" (i.e. not infallible) teaching dreamed up by Pendergast to rationalise his "gay" deathstyle. In his blog of 23 August 2010, titled "The bishops must defend life by cutting their ties with pro-homosexual "rights" campaigning Catholics," (9) he wrote:
William May, a leading American bioethicist, exploded that claim, writing:
Going by the evidence to date, it looks as though that choice has long since been made in this two-horse race, with His Holiness as runner-up. Meantime, prior to Pope Benedict's arrival in Britain, both Pendergast and Joe Stanley, the Chair of the SMPC, were interviewed about the papal visit. Their dissent is on full display on the Time Out website, where, yet again, Pendergast trundles out the "third-level teaching" canard.(10)
Pre-papal visit coverage
The first programme to mention the Masses was The Pope's British Divisions by openly dissident homosexual journalist, Mark Dowd, who used to Chair the "gay" group Quest. It aired on BBC Radio 4 on 9 September. The Vicar General of Westminster, Mgr Seamus Boyle, was interviewed and stated that Rome has been, and continues to be, "very supportive" of the Soho Masses - in spite of the relentless stream of dissent associated with them. The magnitude of this claim of support from Rome cannot be overstated, particularly as Mgr Boyle revealed that the Masses are supported at a "high-up" level, naming Cardinal Levada of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (a prelate with a decidely pro-"gay" history).(11)
An anonymous Soho Mass attendee was interviewed and said that "we're not here to change Church teaching ... ." This of course is a barefaced lie. As we have exhaustively documented, dissent from Church teaching is constantly promoted at the Mass: in the newsletters, in the Mass leaflets, on the bookstall after Mass, and on the SMPC and related websites. But the most alarming comments about Warwick St were those provided by Archbishop Nichols, who totally ignored the fact that these people freely and openly admit to being practising homosexuals or in opposition to Church teaching on homosexuality - a fact of which he is well aware. Significantly, when asked by Dowd if he expected "total chastity from everyone who receives Communion at the Mass," the Archbishop waffled before issuing a thinly veiled threat: "anybody from the outside who is trying to cast a judgement on the people who come forward for Communion, really ought to learn to hold their tongue."
A brief but excellent report on this programme was published by SPUC Director John Smeaton, who in no uncertain terms told the dictatorial Archbishop that "Families will not 'hold their tongue' about bishop-protected dissent on pro-life/pro-family issues."(12)
The same day, later in the evening, Newsnight broadcast a TV programme on the Pope's visit which again featured a section on the Masses. The celebrant at this filmed Soho Mass, Fr Philip Endean SJ, was recently caused a furore by comparing the new translation of the Novus Ordo to the clerical abuse scandal. All those who were interviewed going into the church made comments which revealed their disaffection for the Church and her teaching on homosexuality. One person stated: "You just have to love thy neighbour .... you don't need too many commandments really." While the boastfully active sodomite and Eucharistic Minister Terence Weldon predictably trashed objective Catholic truth by pushing subjective majority opinion: "The simple fact is that Catholics across the world do not believe and do not follow Church teaching - Vatican teaching - on any number of sexual ethics matters."
Newsnight also interviewed ex-priest Tom Munn, who endorsed Weldon's subjectivism: "My faith is more important to me than what the Pope might think," he sniffed.
In spite of all this open dissent and the Holy Father's urgent Ad Limina plea to him and his brother bishops last March "to recognise dissent for what it is, and not to mistake it for a mature contribution to a balanced and wide-ranging debate," Archbishop Nichols continues to ignore the Sovereign Pontiff. And also Canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law: "Those . . . who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to holy communion." Instead, he berates those who oppose these sacrileges against Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament, telling them to "hold their tongue."
Soho also featured on the national evening news, where Martin Pendergast, who is in a civil partnership with Julian Filochowski, the ex-director of CAFOD, was described as "actively gay and actively Catholic," thus exploding once and for all the infantile pretence maintained by the diocese that these Masses are for chaste Catholic homosexuals who accept Church teaching.
Interviewed at Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory in Warwick St., Pendergast pompously declared:"I resist the harsh language that sometimes comes out of the Vatican, but the Vatican is not the Church. The Church is a global phenomenon, and thankfully, the bishops of England and Wales, certainly since around 1979, have developed a very pastoral, pragmatic approach, deeply caring."
What Martin the CINO describes as a "pastoral, pragmatic approach," a Catholic would more accurately describe as bishops turning a de-facto schismatic blind eye to buggery and the dissent that seeks to rationalise it - thereby spitting on the Pope's plea that they "recognise dissent for what it is."
Catholic pastoral care
Catholics have been writing to Westminster Archdiocese and to various dicasteries in Rome about this issue for several years now, yet still no progress has been made. On the contrary: the "gay ghetto" in the Soho village is more emboldened than ever; its adherents not only skipping gaily onwards to Gomorrah but doing so hand-in-hand with Vincent Nichols, their increasingly fragrant pal and protector.
It is all so very sordid. "I can understand why sodomy is a sin," American commentator Joseph Sobran once observed, "but I can't understand why it's a temptation." Quite. Nonetheless, in the course of Catholic pastoral care provided to all those suffering from particularly destructive addictions, provision should be made for those fighting a disordered homosexual tendency. But it must never be provided by Catholics In Name Only. Such care can only be entrusted to those who fully and unequivocally accept Catholic teaching, as well as the principles laid out by the CDF in its 1986 document: Letter To The Bishops Of The Catholic Church On The Pastoral Care Of Homosexual Persons.
Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory, pray for us.
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(6) The full list of aims of the Cutting Edge Consortium and details of member groups are at http://sites.google.com/site/cuttingedgeconsortium1/about-us
(7) http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/martin-prendergast (Note The Guardian's spelling error - this URL address uses 'Prendergast', instead of Pendergast.)
(11) See CO, Aug-Sept 2006, pp.10-16).
(12) http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2010/09/families-will-not-hold-their-tongue.html
(13) See:http://www.cv4r.org.uk/faith and click on 'Links'


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Polish Jews in Tadjikistan, Soviet Asia, recently held two memorial meetings in the city of Proletarsk for the Jews who fell in the battle of the Warsaw ghetto and decided to commemorate these heroes by collecting a fund to build a soviet tank unit named after them, it was reported here today by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
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The Senate today approved an amendment offered by U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., along with Senator Mark Dayton, D-MN., to the Senate's Budget Resolution that would help provide important federal grants for both America and Georgia's law enforcement officers.
Chambliss' measure would increase funds to the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program, which is designed to provide support through funding for a broad range of activities that prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system. Chambliss' amendment would restore $900 million to the JAG program.
"Over the past few years, funding for our federal law enforcement grant programs have been reduced significantly," said Chambliss. "This is all despite the fact that state and local law enforcement have had to respond to increased homeland security costs, and additional funds to fight the methamphetamine scourge that has grown in rural and urban communities across Georgia. This amendment will help Georgia's law enforcement officials continue their outstanding efforts to make our citizens and communities safe and secure."
Georgia's law enforcement community said Chambliss' measure is much needed to help them carry out their important jobs.
Frank V. Rotondo, the Executive Director, of the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police said: "The Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police applauds the efforts of Senator Chambliss to restore funding to support law enforcement efforts to meet the increasing number of challenges we are facing. With the threat of homeland security being of paramount importance and law enforcement having the task of being first responders in most cases of a threat, it has placed a greater strain on resources. There have also been challenges in the sophistication of domestic crime involving the methamphetamine wave polluting both our rural and urban communities. As we seek to improve operations through training, self assessment, intelligence, networking, etc., it becomes necessary to have funding to meet those objectives. Restoration of funding to the JAG program is the most positive step in the right direction to assist law enforcement in this most critical area. Thank you Senator Chambliss for being sensitive to these most dire needs of the law enforcement community."
Sheriff John Cary Bittick of Monroe County, current Chairman of National Sheriffs Association Congressional Affairs Committee and the past President of the National Sheriffs Association, said: "The National Sheriffs Association, as well as, the International Association of the Chiefs of Police and all other major law enforcement associations are going to be greatly appreciative of Senator Chambliss' efforts on our behalf. The Byrne grants are important to all law enforcement because it is how we fund our regional narcotics taskforces, as well as, our major efforts to fight drugs particularly methamphetamine."
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Glynn County Sheriff Wayne V. Bennett said: "Senator Chambliss has again demonstrated his support of law enforcement in the fight against illegal drugs and in reducing violent crime by authoring an amendment to restore funds for the Byrne Grants Program. The result of Senator Chambliss' actions will help not only the larger law enforcement agencies, but it will also help the smaller agencies who struggle for funding. Without such aid, many of the smaller agencies do not have the resources to adequately address the ever increasing drug problem that is so pervasive."
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Second Thoughts Game #35: Twins 4, Indians 9
Cabrera comes one base shy of cycle as Indians take series against Twins
An old baseball adage is pitching wins championships, but, of course, it helps to have at least some offense to back it up.
The Indians have had plenty of great pitching during this home stand as their starters have compiled a sub-2 ERA during this seven-game span. The Tribe managed to win five games and take both series, but one could argue that they could be on a seven-game win streak right now.
The lineup made up for lost time on Thursday, however, as they pushed nine runs across in a charge led primarily by Asdrubal Cabrera and Michael Brantley against Kevin Correia and the Twins' not-so-great pitching staff as they took three out of four in the series and jumped ahead of Minnesota in the standings to climb out of the cellar.
Player of the Game: Asdrubal Cabrera (4-for-5, HR, 2 2B, 3 RBI, 2 R, K)
Hmm, maybe I should stay off the Asdrubal Cabrera bandwagon for a while. After publically denouncing the former All-Star shortstop on social media during Wednesday's game, he has gone 6-for-7 with a home run, three doubles and three RBI.
Cabrera and teammate Michael Brantley combined for six of the nine runs driven in on Thursday as they both came one hit shy of the cycle. For Cabrera, in particular, it was as close as the call of the official scorer as he made it to third on his fourth hit of the day, but the hit was ruled a double with advancement to third on the throw.
Even with four hits, it wasn't all great for Cabrera on Thursday as he struck out with the bases loaded in the third and also misplayed a couple ground balls. He was not charged with any errors, however, since they were considered non-routine plays.
I'm just as ready for the Francisco Lindor era to begin in Cleveland as anyone, maybe even more so since I'm working for the RubberDucks this summer and have the opportunity to watch the young shortstop phenom play every night. (Did I mention that he hit a go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning last night?) But for the time being, if Cabrera wants to become a productive player again, I certainly won't stand in his way.
A Smooth Streak
After a brief dry spell, Michael Brantley appears to be back in form as he, too, came one hit shy of the cycle, but grounded into a force-out and lined out to short in his final two at-bats of the game. He did extend his hit streak to eight games and is now tied for third in the league in RBI with 29.
During his current streak, Brantley has hit .394 with two home runs, 10 RBI, two doubles and a .400 OBP. He has also only struck out twice during that 33-at-bat span.
What I've been most impressed about this season with Brantley is not just his newfound power stroke, but the fact that he is hitting bombs so effortlessly. Brantley said that the power has come from added lower body strength that he worked on building up during the off-season and even with the increased home run potential, it's nice to see that he's not swinging for the fecnes.
He is still doing well with runners in scoring position as he has now compiled a .333 batting mark with runners on base. Will he continue to lead the team in RBI? Hopefully not since there are higher profile run producers in the lineup, but he continues to prove how vital he is to the offense.
Magic Mike Rolling in May
It's a new month and a fresh start for the Indians and no one knows that better than Mike Aviles, who not only recorded his first career walk-off hit on Wednesday, he has 10 hits in 17 at-bats so far this month (.588). He has sldo recorded multiple hits in four of the five games in May that he's played in.
On Thursday, Aviles had three hits, including two doubles, one of which was on a check-swing. His hot start in May has raised his season batting mark to .328. He was one of four Indians players to rack up at least three hits on Thursday, but he was the only one not to drive in or score a run.
While the Indians continue to wait for Nick Swisher and Carlos Santana to find their groove at the plate and for Jason Kipnis to return to health, production from players like Aviles will certainly help keep the offense going.
Up next: Indians (16-19) vs. Rays (15-20) @ Tropicana Field. First pitch at 7:10 pm ET.
After a strong home stand, the Indians will hit the road once again and hope for better results. They will stay in the Eastern time zone this time as they head down to the Sunshine State to take on a struggling Rays team on the heels of a three-game sweep by the Orioles.
Corey Kluber is coming off another dominant start against the White Sox where he pitched eight innings while allowing only one run. Unfortunately, his effort was all for naught because John Axford blew the save. The right-hander had his only career start against the Rays cut short by a rain delay last season. He pitched two shutout innings while allowing only one baserunner via walk.
On the bump for the Rays will be young right-hander Jake Odorizzi, who has struggled since his first start of the season going 0-4 with a 9.17 ERA in a four-start span since then. Odorizzi is 0-1 with a 4.91 ERA in two career starts against the Tribe.
Jake Dungan is a communications student at Stark State College and an intern with the Akron RubberDucks. Follow him on Twitter @MajorLeagueJake.


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New Haven man arrested for DUI
Published 12:46 pm, Saturday, August 24, 2013
NEWTOWN -- A 49-year-old New Haven man is facing drunken driving charges after crashing his car on South Main Street in Newtown.
Angelo Ciotti Jr, of Whalley Avenue, New Haven was arrested Aug. 21 when police responed to a one-car motor vehicle accident on South Main Street near Sand Hill Plaza. Ciotti was attempting to leave the scene of the crash, police said.
Ciotti was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs and making a restricted turn. He was released on $250 bond with a court date of Sept. 9 in Superior Court in Danbury.


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Woman (90) dies after being struck by car
A 90-year-old woman died in the early hours of this morning at the Mater Hospital in Dublin in the latest road fatality of the year.
Gardai in Mountjoy are investigating the incident which occurred on Crawford Avenue in Dublin 9 last night.
A collision occurred at approximately 6.35pm between a car and the woman pedestrian on Crawford Avenue with the junction on Iona Road.
The pensioner was seriously injured and was taken by ambulance to the Mater hospital where she later passed away in the early hours of this morning.
The driver of the car, a 26-year-old woman who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, was uninjured in the collision.
According to the gardai, the road was closed for a forensic collision examination but re-opened in the early hours of this morning.
The gardai are appealing for witness or anyone who may have information to contact them.
The woman was the 155th death on Irish roads this year, and was the 24th pedestrian to lose their life.


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Hamburg was one of the cities to take in Huguenots. Read a historical account here:
Between 1572 and 1588 many Huguenots came from France and the Netherlands to Hamburg. They did not have the privilege to spread their religion within the city walls. The Earl of Holstein-Pinneberg granted them to build churches in Kleine Freiheit (city street). Here they heard sermons in French, Dutch and German. Because of language problems a separation within the parish was ordered. In 1716 the Hamburg parish was separated from the Altona parish and from the Hamburg parish the French speaking parish separated in 1761. The Hamburg senate issued religious freedom in 1785 which was fully recognized only in 1860.
The records of the Huguenots are housed in the Staatsarchiv Hamburg. The time frame is 1685-1908 and covers births, confirmations, marriages and burials among others.
The first Mennonites came from The Netherlands to Hamburg in 1570. At first the newly arrived received preaching privileges in Altona. They were able to build a church. Until 1682 three Mennonite parishes existed simultaneously. From 1726 on the Mennonites employed full-time ministers. Around 1800 the sermons were preached in German. In 1814 the Mennonites received full residental privileges mainly in Altona.
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No surprise that one of the biggest habits we get asked about as group fitness instructors is how to make exercise a regular part of life. And of course, it's not just about STARTING a fitness program (especially in the new year), but also STICKING with it.
One of the key ways to successfully put more movement into your life this month, next, and throughout the year is to resist temptation to get fit all at once. Overdoing it and trying to progress too quickly is a sure way to set your new or improved habit up for failure. No one wants to face next year and say "last year I wanted to lose 20 pounds. Only 25 to go."
Ok, seriously, the trick is to progress at a pace that allows you to convert desire into habit. What often happens:
Every year eager baby boomers, active agers, mid lifers, and others take on too much, too fast, too intensely. They get hard hit, instead of a habit.
When you are looking to improve your movement habits, keep in mind the FIT principle:
Change only ONE of these elements at a time, about every two to three weeks. Going harder and longer and more often all at once is a statistical road to failure. Up the ante one letter at a time – more F or I or T. No ands.
Let me repeat this as it's so critical and so overlooked: As you progress into your new life of improved movement habits, change only the Frequency, Intensity, or Time of your workouts when you uptick. Stick with the revised version another 2-3 weeks. Then consider whether you need to adjust upward again by going more often, harder, or longer. Pick one. Add. Keep. Adapt. Repeat. A little bit more than the week before.
Sustainable and better for you! Sounds like a new food or vitamin. The FIT principle will help get and KEEP you fit. Next thing you know, you'll have created a new, healthy, successful exercise habit.
Kymberly Williams-Evans, MA
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What lies behind the desire to "improve," "remake," or "change" ourselves? Ultimately isn't it a pursuit of happiness? "If only this or that changed, then I would be happy," is the implication. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. At least for 2014.
Meantime, both neuroscience and Outside magazine had the good timing to release a list of strategies that enhance happiness. Wouldn't you know it, but the keys to being happy involve exercise, healthy eating habits, and playing (mostly outdoors).
If you are looking to add more happiness to 2014 then try adopting some of the the following habits. I listed the happy habits that I either liked the best, saw as easiest to implement, or validated my current values. To see the complete, original article read the January 2014 issue of Outside magazine.
I was a little surprised that early risers are happier people until I thought of the days that my get up and go got up but good! I always feel better when I get a jump on the day. Sure, we need to get in our 7-8 hours of snoozing per night. But we also need our Vitamin D. So the more time awake during sunlight hours, the better our immune system. It's hard to be happy when ill; it's easier to greet the day with a high five when we've gotten a good night's sleep followed by an early rise. This habit is one I am working towards. Pretty sure this is really a sneaky way for me to have to set another resolution — get to bed earlier than midnight so I can wake refreshed at 6:30 or 7:00am, not the 7:30 that feels so luxurious.
If you read my post, A Tale of Caffeine and Dehydration, then you already know being dehydrated makes us — ok, ME — irritable. One supposition is that our neurons detect dehydration and warn the parts of the brain that affect our mood. Not enough water? The neurons hit the "bad mood" button. You'll know if you've drunk enough water to improve your mood if your pee is clear or pale yellow. Wheeeeee Peeeeeee!
Imagine how happy I felt reading this as a group fitness instructor for the past 33 years. Want to work harder while feeling happier? Being part of a team or group increases your intensity and endorphin levels more than when you train alone. Could this be the year you try group exercise classes or continue through the year? I have space in my classes for you! Perhaps a master's level team sport is in your near future.
Cardio workouts are brain boosters; exercise in general reduces stress; even a few months of activity can reverse age-related memory impairment. Now that you are so smart, remember that regular, ongoing exercise rewires your brain for the better. Low stress, younger brain, and a good memory? That spells "H-A-P-P-Y better than a crossword puzzle clue if you ask me.
Who cares the reasons?!* The fact that cocoa flavanols are good for us (in moderate doses) is just plain old good news. Enough said.
* For those of you who want the reasons, hold on a minute while I lick the dark chocolate from my typing fingers. Basically, chocolate (specifically the flavanols) releases endorphins and calms us. Yes, it's all in the mind. And mouth.
Dark green veggies, turkey, salmon, tuna, sunflower seeds, walnuts, black beans, — these and other foods high in tryptophan or glutamine positively affect your neurotransmitters. Get naturally high without medication! How many of you noticed that eating happy foods causes the opposite of being dehydrated?
Who wants to hear me sing? Debatable whether this will enhance your mood. Hmmm. Or you can hear Alexandra tra la la in many of our past radio episodes. Also debatable about the effect. We can say that if you listen to music you like, you will pump out dopamine (happy hormones) faster than Ahhhnold Schwarzenegger pumped it up back in the day. Tunes you enjoy give you an emotional rush. I now await a music company sponsor for this tip.
Yes, it's true and I'd be amiss not to confirm that genetics plays a role in your disposition. If born rich, I'd be happy! Oh, wait. That's not really what we're talking about here. Inherited tendencies determine about one third of our happiness level. So quit griping if your mom and dad were negative Norman and Nellie. You have two thirds of the story to write yourself. Especially if you follow the tips above!
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Name: The N House;
Trend.Land posted a few photos of the N House designed by Japanese architecture firm, Sou Fujimoto Architects, and we immediately fell in love with the sugar cube aesthetic of the structure. Damn personal privacy, we'd trade it for the chance to live in such a fantastic example of inside-out minimalism, with all the geometric play of interior/exterior framing throughout the Oyta, Japan residence. Check out a few more images below...
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There is a growing voice calling for church leaders to be bi-vocational. In some cases, this seems to be a financial necessity. Others seem to hold it up as a badge of honor.
This is a huge shift. It doesn't always work, and can also lead to some really hurt people. We need to talk about this. That's why my friends Zach Hoag and Scott Emery started the discussion.
Whether I like it or not, I've been bi-vocational for awhile now. I've worked full time church jobs. For the majority of my career, I've worked full time, attended seminary and been a leader in my church. Currently, I am helping plant Austin Mustard Seed while I also work as a Freelance Writer and Social Media Manager. So I know it both sides.
I'm not for or against bi-vocational ministry, but I am opposed to any elitism that may accompany it. It is important that we humbly seek God's calling in our situation. Many criticisms used by fans of this approach are actually criticisms of theology, strategy and ecclesiology, not arguments against paid ministry positions. Consider these three "straw man" arguments:
Straw Man #1: A bi-vocational Pastor is a better way to get people involved in ministry.
The Real Problem: A poor theology of the body of Christ
Most churches are stellar examples of the Pareto principle: 20% of the people do 80% of the work. In many churches, the bulk of the 20% are paid staff. How does not paying the church staff help with that? The problem is more endemic: our consumer culture views the church as a vendor of religious goods as services.
One of scripture's primary metaphors for the Church is the body of Christ. Everyone has an important, valuable role to play. Moving from vendor to body will require language, purpose and facilitation.
In my church community, we begin our time on Sundays by stating "the word liturgy means 'work of the people.'" We all have a role to play as hosts during our time together." This sets the expectation that while the teacher and musicians have visible roles, everyone plays a part in shaping and caring for the community.
If you want people involved in leading the church, caring for each other and serving the community, it will take more than cutting the church leader's salary. It will require the hard work of creating a community where every person recognizes their responsibility.
Straw Man #2: If the Pastor is bi-vocational, the church will be more involved in the surrounding community.
The Real Problem: A lack of relationship with non-church people.
The idea seems to be that if pastors had secular jobs, then they'd be in the community and become evangelization machines. This would inspire the church to do the same.
The fact is that when you're busy working at a computer or a cash register, you're not going to have a lot of time to discuss life, the universe and everything. The best moments for sharing about Jesus don't come at work. They happen at the lunches, parties, and happy hours where people are relaxed and able to share about their lives. They happen because those hours at work have created a relationship of trust.
The key then, isn't where you collect a pay check, it's whether or not you have relationships with people outside your church. Yes, this can happen in a secular job, but at the expense of 40 hours a week. It can also happen when you get a hobby, meet your neighbors, or become a regular at a neighborhood bar.
The goal is to meet people, understand them, win their trust, and be available when they are open to learning from you. When the rest of the church sees the leader's focus on these outside relationships, they will eventually follow suit.
Straw Man #3: Church leadership should not be a paid vocation.
The Real Problem: A lack of theology of vocation.
This idea seems to be a reaction against the idea something like "if you're really spiritual, then you'll become a pastor, missionary, etc." Not only is that unscriptural, it betrays a lack of theology of vocation.
Luther famously said "God is milking the cows through the vocation of the milkmaid." In other words, God is at work in the world through many more than just a few religious professionals. God is working through the one he calls to be a milkmaid. God is also working through the one he calls to be a church leader.
Generation after generation, we seem to forget that the Church is a priesthood of believers. We all carry the responsibilities of priests, in our church communities, families, neighborhoods and workplaces. The question is then: What kind of lawyer would Jesus be? What kind of barista would Jesus be? What kind of mom would Jesus be?
And, yes, what kind of pastor would Jesus be?
Here's the best way to determine whether or not a church leader should be paid: use the words of Jesus and Paul "the worker deserves his wages." Is there work to be done, which to do well, requires compensation? Then pay him or her.
Frederick Buechner said, "Vocation is where our greatest passion meets the world's greatest need." I'm not a paid church guy right now because that's the right thing for my current circumstance. I'm looking forward to the day when I can focus completely on my passions and use my skillset. Both now and then, I hope to be focused on my vocation.
Let's stop encouraging vocational or bi-vocational ministry. Let's encourage the type of ministry that is needed for a specific church or mission in a specific time and place. Let's encourage people to serve their hearts out in their current job. Let's encourage individuals and churches to ask "who is God calling us to be today?"


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10 things you might not know
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Published 11:46 pm, Wednesday, March 7, 2012
The University at Albany women's basketball team is one win from their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The Great Danes play Maryland-Baltimore County Saturday night at 8 in the America East championship game at SEFCU Arena, and the winner gets an automatic bid. UAlbany (22-9) is the only Divison I basketball team in the area still playing. Here are some things you may not know about the Great Danes.
1. UAlbany's 22 wins are the most in school history. Since going to Division I in 1999, the Danes have had only two seasons with winning records (in coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson's first two seasons). The Great Danes have won nine games in a row.
2. Forward Julie Forster is the leading rebounder in the America East (10.1 per game) and has eight double-doubles this season. She's also the team's chief pasta chef and makes some mean chocolate chip cookies.
3. Guard Ebone Henry repeated as the league's Defensive Player of the Year. She also is the Danes' top scorer (14.1 ppg). She has seven double-doubles.
4. Abrahamson-Henderson averaged 44 points per game one season playing high school ball in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Fifty-six girls teams in Section II averaged fewer than 44 points per game this season.
5. Senior guard Cassandra Callaway says she likes chewing gum but for some reason can't do it when she's on the basketball court.
6. During the America East regular season, UAlbany was 8-0 on the road. At SEFCU, the Danes were 6-2. UAlbany beat UMBC at home 53-41 on Jan. 4; the Danes won in Baltimore 65-63 on Feb. 1.
7. If the Danes need motivation, it usually falls on senior guard Adrienne Jones. She also is more than happy to tell you she is the team clown, too.
8. Abrahmason-Henderson had a floral arrangement delivered after practice Wednesday. It was sent by Mari Warner, who coached the UAlbany women from 1982-2002.
9. Great Danes players seem to do everything together. The whole team went to the movies recently to watch Denzel Washington in "Safe House."
10. Freshman Sarah Royals scored a career-high 21 points in the Danes' 74-61 win in the America East quarterfinals. Her previous high was 11 points in the second game of the season.


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I AM is the place to be on Saturday
On Saturday, don't be confused if it suddenly seems New London has become a giant magnet with a peculiar physical property for attracting Hip Persons.
Indeed, music lovers will be streaming in from not just our area but New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, as well - all pursuant to the sounds and sundry fun of I AM Festival 2013, taking place on five downtown stages.
With headliners Death, Cymbals Eat Guitars and Mark Mulcahy, along with a sterling lineup of 20-plus local and touring acts, the free music festival, celebrating indie rock in all its glorious possibilities, is an increasingly popular destination. (See schedule.)
For the record, this is the seventh edition of I AM - and the festival's founders, Sean Murray and Rich Martin, are earning nationwide reputations as visionaries who work wonders on a small budget. Past fests have included (at the time) up-and-coming national artists such as Matt & Kim, Mates of State, Rainer Maria, Tim Easton, Martha Wainright, Rye Coalition, Girl Talk, We Are Scientists, The Drums, Deerhoof and Jay Reatard.
In addition to free music, the downtown streets will be clustered with all sorts of food vendors, merch kiosks and various civic-minded info booths. Plus, the performance layout is strategically located to take maximum advantage of the downtown area's phalanx of restaurants, bars, shops and tourist attractions.
I AM Festival schedule
12:30 p.m.: The WTO Dance Crew
1 p.m.: Anderson Family Picnic (Mystic; instrumental touches of Explosions in the Sky and Dick Dale)
2:30 p.m.: Straight to VHS (New London; garage tunes so authentic you'll smell the oil stains)
4 p.m.: Fatal Film (New London; clever, driving indie rock careening left at Progville)
5:30 p.m.: Camp
7 p.m.: Echo & Drake (Wethersfield; dragging the best of '80s Brit pop into the future)
8:30 p.m.: Cymbals Eat Guitars (Staten Island; shimmering indie melodicism)
10 p.m.: Death
3:15 p.m.: Bedroom Rehab Corporation (New London; conceptual guitar/drums sludge-chanties)
4:45 p.m.: Elison Jackson (New Haven; indie folk-pop)
6:15 p.m.: Daphne Lee Martin (New London; jazz-lounge-country chanteuse)
7:45 p.m.: Mark Mulcahy (New Haven; renowned songwriter and former leader of Miracle Legion)
9:15 p.m.: The Guru (Waterbury; free-flowing Garcia/Weir-isms)
2 p.m.: James Maple (New London; post-millennial country-blues)
3 p.m.: Viking Jesus (Providence; lovely and haunting pop introspection)
4 p.m.: Violent Mae (Roxbury; duo boasting infectious tunes by Becky Kessler)
5 p.m.: Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes (Providence; smooth but deceptively complex pop explosions)
7 p.m.: Slander (Mystic; reinventing pop rock for the modern age)
8 p.m.: Slim Wray (Brooklyn; two-man wrecking machine music)
11 p.m.: Pretty & Nice (Boston; XTC-style power pop for Chowder Nation)
12 a.m.: Ava Luna (Brooklyn; densely layered cacopho-soul/pop)
6:30 p.m.: Camacho/Skobie Won/Erik Lamb (southeastern Connecticut; hip-hop)
11 p.m.: Empty Vessels (New London; Satan goes surfing)
12 a.m.: New Highway Hymnal (Lowell, Mass.; cobwebby feedback and gluey drone-rock)
1 a.m.: Horns of Ormus (New London; taking the power trio concept into the depths of Hell, laughing all the way)
The Day streams I Am online
If you can't make it for the whole day and night, some of the shows - including headliner sets from Death, Cymbals Eat Guitars and Mark Nulcahy - will be streamed live on www.theday.com/iamfest2013. From 1 to 11 p.m., theday.com will feature performances from three of the festival stages: the Parade, the Hygienic Art Park and The Telegraph. In addition to real-time coverage, Day correspondents will conduct live interviews with musicians. Feel free to join in by posting your fest photos on Instagram by using #thedayct, and join the conversation on Twitter by using #iamfest2013.
What: I Am Fest 2013
With: Death, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Mark Mulcahy, many more
When: Noon to 2 a.m. Saturday
Where: Five stages in downtown New London: Parade Plaza, Bank at State streets; Hygienic Art Park, 79 Bank St.; the Telegraph, 19 Golden St.; the Oasis Pub, 16 Bank St.; and 33 Golden, 33 Golden St..
Cost: Free
For more information: iamfest.org, facebook.com/iamfestival
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Officials with the Indiana Department of Transportation met with local government officials in Bloomington Tuesday. At the session, Lyle Sadler responded to concerns that state and local governments don't have enough money to address current roadway projects.
"I understand your concern," said Sadler, "but I'm assuring you at this point that it's already included in a program that we have federal approval on or federal recognition of that it's a sound program. We will be okay with this."
Open houses will be held Wednesday in the southernmost sections of the extension. In remaining sections 4,5, and 6, the project office open houses will be this Thursday. Section 6 project manager Tim Miller says crews will conduct what's called a "windshield survey" of the I-69 corridor over the next 18 to 36 months.
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A public open house governing section 4 of the proposed highway will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. at 3802 Industrial Boulevard in Bloomington. A second open house, for section 5 of the I-69 corridor, will be held from 9 to 6 at One City Center in Bloomington.


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03-23-2013 #1hooky 10 Guest
PS3 game save questions help?
right here it goes... I copied my resi 5 and 6 game saves onto usb thro saved data utility, and then done a system restore as my ps3 wasn't reading the discs. after restore I then copied the saves back to the ps3 and re-installed the games but it wont let me use the game saves.
aaarrgh!! is there a way of getting my system to allow me to use them? please any help would be very, very welcome. and also i've never been on psn so am not registered on it. TYA
03-23-2013 #2rdurbin Guest
did you make the profile name the same? by profile i mean the offline name not the psn one. I know some games will not read save data that were created from a different user name (profile)
03-23-2013 #3Azrial Guest
If your on Rebug CFW, it allows you to use saves from any profile, as it removes the profile link, if your on OFW, then you have to make sure your PS3 profile is exactly the same as it was before.
03-23-2013 #4Liongooder Guest
Yep there is a way, as long as you're on CFW (any CFW) assuming you have Mlutiman,plus your savegames on usb
1- Enter multiman & go to MMOS (file manager)
2- go to dev_HDD0/home/0000000x(your user profile)/savedata
3- look for your RE 5-6 IDs(if you don't have them create new savedata for both of them)
4- now when you enter the game id folder you'll find a bunch of files over there. copy your old files to this folder except PARAM.SFO,remember everything except PARAM.SFO alright. now when play the game you'll find your old save game,remember don't copy PARAM.SFO
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03-23-2013 #5hooky 10 Guest
thank you all for taking the time to try and help me, got no multiman or cfw just plain superslim and laptop. is there a way of downloading either cfw or multiman and if so what do I do then? sorry to be a pain. feel like changing my username to "MR UGG THE CAVEMAN"!
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There you are, patting yourself on the back over the great deal you got on your hotel and rental car. Then you get the bill including the taxes, and you feel like a chump.
When planning a trip, "Travel taxes are largely hidden from view," says Joseph Bates, Vice President for Research at the Global Business Travel Association. Although car rental companies now quote rates including taxes, sticker shock is not uncommon when you finally see that hotel or restaurant bill. Plus, taxes vary widely among states and municipalities.
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He said there are 50 percent more federal wage and hour investigators now than in 2008, when there were just 1,208 investigators.
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Industries targeted in Fair Labor Standards Act (the law governing pay and work hours) class actions and Wage and Hour Division investigations include:
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Representative Coffman's proposal for repealing and replacing the ACA presents information on healthcare and tax legislation in such a way that readers might come away misinformed on several issues.
Mr. Coffman's refers to "able-bodied adults" now covered through the Medicaid expansion. This terminology implies that these folks do not deserve assistance. Yet, the Kaiser Family Foundation research finds most are working, but earning only up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. They cannot afford coverage.
Mr. Coffman goes on to say that "it makes no sense ... that the federal government would favor (funding) able-bodied adults over all other Medicaid recipients such as disabled children, whose costs are reimbursed at 50 percent ...." The 90 percent federal funding for expansion was necessary to get states to buy into the program. As a result, the rate of uninsured American adults has fallen to 11.7 percent. If the federal contribution for the Medicaid expansion were to go to 50 percent, as Mr. Coffman proposes, it is likely that states now participating would not continue to do so and we would see our uninsured rates skyrocket once again.
Mr. Coffman proposes that taxes funding the healthcare exchange subsidies be addressed through tax reform; not healthcare legislation. GOP tax reform proposals focus only on cutting taxes; not on revenue to fund the health of the American public (Information from the Tax Foundation).
Finally, Mr. Coffman suggests he is ready for a bipartisan effort to lower health insurance costs. This is his sixth term as U.S. representative from CD 6. Why has he waited so long and voted so consistently against legislation that would support the well-being of so many "able-bodied adults" and disabled children?
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AS THE son of the late Ronnie Drew, actor Phelim Drew admits that living up to his father's name isn't always easy.
"It's generally small-minded people who would remind me that I'm not as good as my father. But in general, people can make the separation between me and my father. The comparisons are always going to be there. He was such a larger than life character and a big part of Irish culture for many years."
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Directed by Andrew Flynn, the play also stars Garrett Keogh and Carl Kennedy. Youth, middle age and old age and the challenges these stages in life pose, are explored in this play. All the show's narratives are love stories of a sort. The men, in taking stock of themselves, have to come to terms with the decisions they've made.
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The character experiences a lot of humiliation. "It's quite comic. But with all three characters, there's an underlying seriousness in terms of the effects their experiences have on their lives."
The other characters are a young man living in flat land and going to parties, and an older man who talks about a missed opportunity in his earlier life.
"In terms of examining the human condition, the play is very insightful. Conor McPherson can be comic but quite dark also. He's quite fearless as a writer. If a character is going down a dark road, he doesn't shy away from it."
For Drew, the underlying message in the play is that there's no point in focusing on regrets. "Sometimes, things are not meant to be. Chasing after what is perceived as a better life is a waste.
"My character's story moves quite quickly for the first two thirds of the play. The other characters' stories move more slowly."
Drew caught the acting bug at an early age. "The first time I remember really being taken by theatre and with acting as a possible career was whenI saw a production of The Field by John B Keane. I no longer saw acting as a possibility; I was pretty much hell bent on it."
Drew later attended the Gaiety School of Acting. Did he inherit his father's singing talent?
"I have a band called the Baskervilles which is a country and blues band. We play around the place, more for fun than anything else."
Drew, unlike the character he plays, says he is content with a career in his home town and raising a young family, and is definitely not chasing the glamour of Tinsel Town.
* Port Authority is at Siamsa Tire, Tralee, Nov14-15; Everyman, Cork, Nov 18-20; Belltable, Limerick, Nov 21-23
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