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2011 Barkley Marathons winner Brett Maune—right after crossing the 100-mile finish line.
HOME SWEET HELL: Barkley Marathons mastermind Gary Cantrell oversees the fiendishly difficult 100-mile race from this campsite in Frozen Head State Park. First-time runners are expected to submit a license plate as part of the entry requirements.
Race director Gary Cantrell has earned the ire of hundred of runners with his grueling endurance test.
EYES ON THE PRIZE: Odd rituals and artifacts—like this bronze belt buckle, to be awarded to the first runner to break 24 hours (the course record is 55 hours)—have accumulated over the 25-year history of the Barkley Marathons.
Former winner Jonathan Basham prepares breakfast for his crew.
More than 30 of the race's 40 starters finished the first of five 20-mile loops this year. Only one, Brett Maune, finished all five loops.
BACK FOR MORE: Alan Abbs (left) and eventual winner Brett Maune head out for the second of five 20-mile loops in the Barkley Marathons.
Runners must tear out pages from books stashed along the trail to prove they ran the whole course.
This year's second-place runner, Carl Laniak
2001 Winner Blake Wood.
WAITING FOR A WINNER: After more than three days, the anticipation of a finish builds in camp. It's as exciting as waiting 10 or 12 hours to watch someone run—or walk—a few hundred yards can ever be.
THE AGONY OF VICTORY: Brett Maune fought cold, hail, heat, darkness, and a lack of sleep to finish the 100-mile Barkley Marathons.
FUN RUN: In his first attempt at the race, Brett Maune became just the 10th finisher in the history of the Barkley Marathons.


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so after much debate, research, and advice, I have finally decided on my supplement stack.
Fish Oil 1400Mg which I having been taking for a bit
GNC Sport Multivitamin one in the morning and one before workout
Complex B plus C vitamin
Right now, I am taking M5 Extreme for pre workout but I found something else I am going to try but I can't remember the name of it. It's similar to Jack3d or White Flood. I will have to look again when I go to the gym next.
Xtend is what I am going to use for my BCAAs. I will drink this as I workout. This also has the L-Glutamine in it to help recovery as was suggested to me. It also has B-6 in it.
For my post workout, I will make myself a shake with oatmeal, almond or peanut butter, protein powder,(thinking of using casein instead of whey) and ice. It is crazy how good it tastes plus it will be way cheaper. The one I tried has 320 calories so I can play with it a little to get the right amount of carbs and protein I am looking for.
What do you guys think?

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Friday, November 01, 2002Spartanburg, S.C. (November 1, 2002) - East Tennessee State freshman Jewel Aldea (Charleston, S.C.) coasted her way into the quarterfinals of the Wofford Fall Classic Friday night in Spartanburg, S.C. Aldea defeated Netzeli Reyes of Charleston Southern 6-2, 6-4 then went on to beat Erin Donovan of UNC Charlotte 6-4, 6-3. "Jewel showed signs today of why I recruited her, she played very well," said ETSU head coach Steve Brooks. ETSU had all seven players advance to the second round with only Aldea advancing into the Quarterfinals. "We played okay in the first round, but we need to become more mentally tough by the spring," said Brooks. "We have a chance to redeem ourselves tomorrow." The tournament will continue tomorrow and conclude on Sunday Nov. 3.
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- Brad Weitzel
Brad Weitzel is in his eighth season at Florida and has helped the Gators reach the NCAA Tournament all seven years that he has been a member of Kevin O'Sullivan's staff. During his tenure, the Orange and Blue advanced to the NCAA College World Series three-straight years for the first time in school history, have captured four NCAA Regionals, seized four Southeastern Conference Eastern Division crowns, brought home three SEC titles in the last five years and also won the 2011 SEC Tournament for the first time in 20 years. While with the Gators, he has overseen the development of eight All-Americans, 11 Freshman All-Americans and 26 All-SEC recipients.
Involved in all facets of the program, Weitzel's efforts have been critical to the team's resurgence over the past seven years to become a national powerhouse. His work with the Gator defense in 2010 resulted in a school-record fielding percentage of .978 that led the SEC and was ranked sixth nationally. Under his watch, UF has registered its top five fielding teams in school history (.978 in 2010, .977 in 2012, .975 in both 2013 and 2014 and .974 in 2011).
Picked third in the Eastern Division in the preseason coaches' poll in 2014, the Gators secured their third SEC Championship in five years and were a national seed in the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in the past six years, the only school in the country which can make that claim.
In 2012, Florida boasted five All-Americans and advanced to Omaha for the third-straight time for the first time in school history after sweeping through the Gainesville Regionals and Super Regionals at McKethan Stadium.
During a memorable 2011 campaign, the Gators established a school record for wins, advanced to the NCAA College World Series Championship Finals, captured their second-straight SEC title and collected their first SEC Tournament trophy since 1991. UF finished with an overall mark of 53-19 and returned to Omaha, Neb., in consecutive seasons for the first time after claiming the Regionals and Super Regionals held on its own turf.
In 2010, the Gators captured their first SEC Championship in five years and advanced to the final College World Series held at historic Rosenblatt Stadium. Along the way to an impressive 47-17 performance and a top-10 national ranking, UF also seized its second-consecutive SEC Eastern Division crown, swept through the NCAA Gainesville Regional for the second year in a row and defeated Miami (FL) in two games of the NCAA Gainesville Super Regional to reach the CWS.
In '09, the Gators claimed the SEC East, captured the NCAA Gainesville Regional with three-straight wins, appeared in Super Regionals for the first time in four years and enjoyed their highest finish in the national rankings since 2005 with a consensus top-15 showing. Florida enjoyed an increase in batting average (.309) and fielding percentage (.966), as well as a drop in the staff's earned run average (4.27), for the second-consecutive year.
During Weitzel's first season at UF in 2008, the Gators returned to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the program was the runner-up at the 2005 NCAA College World Series. His efforts were instrumental in helping UF improve across the board in hitting, pitching and fielding on its way to a third-place showing in the SEC after preseason projections had the club expected to finish near the bottom of the league. In 30 league games, the Gators boasted an SEC-best .305 batting average and also registered the lowest team ERA (4.00).
Named the Florida Diamond Club Scout of the Year in 1998, 1999 and 2004, Weitzel became a member of the Gator staff in June 2007 after serving as the Florida Area Scout for the Minnesota Twins since 1991. Nineteen of his signees have reached the Major Leagues, including A.J. Pierzynski of the Boston Red Sox and Denard Span of the Washington Nationals. Weitzel was a coach for Minnesota's organization in the Instructional League between 1996 and 2001, coached with the Gulf Coast League Twins in 1996 and was the team's pitching coach in 2000.
"When we put this staff together, what I wanted to do was have a well-rounded staff," head coach Kevin O'Sullivan said. "Some guys get labeled as a hitting coach or an infielder's coach. In coaching, you use a player's strengths to put him in the right situation. Coaching is no different."
"When I put this staff together, Brad was at the top of my wish list. We each have the same coaching background. His hitting, fielding, and base-running philosophies are all what I would teach if my expertise was in those areas of the game. It would be a great mistake to limit either Brad or Craig (Bell) to coaching only one area on the field. They must have constant communication between each other about where they're at with certain kids and we will do that on a daily basis. I'm going to let these guys go and do what they do best."
An assistant coach at the University of North Florida from 1987-91, Weitzel served on the staff of the Ospreys' teams which placed third in both the 1989 and 1991 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) World Series in Lewiston, Idaho.
Weitzel served as pitching coach for the Erie (Pa.) Sailors of the New York-Penn League in 1990 and guided the squad to a runner-up performance in the best-of-three championship series versus the Oneonta (N.Y.) Yankees. He was also an assistant at Palm Beach (Fla.) Community College from 1984-87. Weitzel coached current Gator assistant Craig Bell all four years of his collegiate career, in 1986-87 at Palm Beach and in 1988-89 at UNF, and coached O'Sullivan when the UF skipper was a member of the 1987 Jupiter (Fla.) American Legion team.
Weitzel earned his master's degree in health education from Nova Southeastern University (1987) and his bachelor's degree in health and physical education (1983) from the University of Georgia, where he was an infielder for the Bulldogs under head coach Steve Webber in 1981-82. He received an associate of arts degree from Palm Beach in 1980 and was a two-year letterwinner on the baseball team for head coach Dusty Rhodes during the 1979 and 1980 seasons.
Weitzel and his wife, Lori, have been married for over 31 years and are the parents of 20-year-old twins, Layne and Lucas. Lucas, who holds the national career prep record for hit-by-pitches (71), and Layne are both students at UF.
Birthdate: November 16, 1957
Hometown: Salamanca, N.Y.
- Associate of Arts - Palm Beach Community College, 1980
- Bachelor of Science - Health and Physical Education, University of Georgia, 1983
- Master of Science - Health Education, Nova Southeastern University, 1987
Coaching Career:
- Assistant Coach, Palm Beach Community College, 1984-87
- Pitching Coach, Erie (Pa.) Sailors, New York-Penn League, 1990
- Assistant Coach, University of North Florida, 1987-91
- Coach, Minnesota Twins, Instructional League, 1996-2001
- Coach, Gulf Coast League Twins, 1996 & 2000
- Assistant Coach, University of Florida, 2007-present
Professional Baseball Experience:
- Florida Area Scout, Minnesota Twins, 1991-2007
Playing Career:
- Palm Beach Community College, 1979-80
- University of Georgia, 1981-82
Weitzel's Major Leaguers
|Signed (14)
|Cleatus Davidson
|Minnesota Twins (1999)
|Matt Fox
|Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox (2010)
|Gus Gandarillas
|Milwaukee Brewers (2001)
|Doug Mientkiewicz
|Minnesota Twins (1998-2004), Boston Red Sox (2004), New York Mets (2005), Kansas City Royals (2006), New York Yankees (2007), Pittsburgh Pirates (2008), Los Angeles Dodgers (2009)
|Jason Miller
|Minnesota Twins (2007)
|Kevin Ohme
|St. Louis Cardinals (2003)
|Juan Padilla
|New York Yankees (2004), Cincinnati Reds (2004), New York Mets (2005)
|Danny Perkins
|Minnesota Twins (1999)
|A.J. Pierzynski
|Minnesota Twins (1998-2003), San Francisco Giants (2004), Chicago White Sox (2005-12), Texas Rangers (2013), Boston Red Sox (2014)
|Robert Radlosky
|Minnesota Twins (1999)
|Fred Rath
|Colorado Rockies (1998)
|Denard Span
|Minnesota Twins (2008-12), Washington Nationals (2013-14)
|Anthony Swarzak
|Minnesota Twins (2009, 2011-14)
|Tommy Watkins
|Minnesota Twins (2007)
|Drafted (5)
|Lance Carter
|Kansas City Royals (1999), Tampa Ray Devil Rays (2002-05), Los Angeles Dodgers (2006)
|Chris Heston
|San Francisco Giants (2014)
|J.D. Martinez
|Houston Astros (2011-13), Detroit Tigers (2014)
|Steve Pearce
|Pittsburgh Pirates (2007-11), Baltimore Orioles (2012), Houston Astros (2012), New York Yankees (2012), Baltimore Orioles (2013-14)
|Mickey Storey
|Houston Astros (2012), Toronto Blue Jays (2013)
Weitzel' Major Leaguers that he coached as an Amateur, Minor Leaguer or in Instructional League (34)
|Andy Abad
|Jupiter American Legion
|Oakland Athletics (2001), Boston Red Sox (2003), Cincinnati Reds (2006)
|Travis Bowyer
|GCL Twins Rookie League
|Minnesota Twins (2005)
|Rob Bowen
|Twins Instructional League
|Minnesota Twins (2003-04), San Diego Padres (2006-07), Chicago Cubs (2007), Oakland Athletics (2007-08)
|Jay Canizaro
|Twins Instructional League
|San Francisco Giants (1996, 1999), Minnesota Twins (2000, 2002)
|Kevin Chapman
|University of Florida
|Houston Astros (2013-14)
|Michael Cuddyer
|Twins Instructional League
|Minnesota Twins (2001-11), Colorado Rockies (2012-14)
|Matt den Dekker
|University of Florida
|New York Mets (2013-14)
|Anthony DeSclafani
|University of Florida
|Miami Marlins (2014)
|Todd Dunn
|University of North Florida
|Milwaukee Brewers (1996-97)
|J.D. Durbin
|GCL Twins Rookie League
|Minnesota Twins (2004), Arizona Diamondbacks (2007), Philadelphia Phillies (2007)
|Cole Figueroa
|University of Florida
|Tampa Bay Rays (2014)
|Gar Finnvold
|Palm Beach Junior College
|Boston Red Sox (1994)
|Joe Grahe
|Palm Beach Junior College
|California Angels (1990-94), Colorado Rockies (1995), Philadelphia Phillies (1999)
|Torii Hunter
|Twins Instructional League
|Minnesota Twins (1997-2007), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2008-12), Detroit Tigers (2013-14)
|Adam Johnson
|Twins Instructional League
|Minnesota Twins (2001, 2003)
|Jacque Jones
|Twins Instructional League
|Minnesota Twins (1999-2005), Chicago Cubs (2006-07), Detroit Tigers (2008), Florida Marlins (2008)
|Jason Kubel
|GCL Twins Rookie League
|Minnesota Twins (2004-11, 2014), Arizona Diamondbacks (2012-13)
|Matt LeCroy
|Twins Instructional League
|Minnesota Twins (2000-05, 2007), Washington Nationals (2006)
|Nick Maronde
|University of Florida
|Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2012-14)
|Joe Mauer
|Twins Instructional League
|Minnesota Twins (2004-13)
|Jose Morales
|Twins Instructional League
|Minnesota Twins (2007, 2009-10), Colorado Rockies (2011)
|Justin Morneau
|GCL Twins Rookie League
|Minnesota Twins (2003-13), Pittsburgh Pirates (2013), Colorado Rockies (2014)
|Peter Moylan
|GCL Twins Rookie League
|Atlanta Braves (2006-12), Los Angeles Dodgers (2013)
|Josh Rabe
|Twins Instructional League
|Minnesota Twins (2006-07)
|Mike Restovich
|Twins Instructional League
|Minnesota Twins (2002-04), Colorado Rockies (2005), Pittsburgh Pirates (2005), Chicago Cubs (2006), Washington Nationals (2007)
|Luis Rivas
|GCL Twins Rookie League
|Minnesota Twins (2000-05), Cleveland Indians (2006), Pittsburgh Pirates (2008)
|Juan Rincon
|Twins Instructional League
|Minnesota Twins (2001-08), Cleveland Indians (2008), Detroit Tigers (2009), Colorado Rockies (2009-10)
|Sid Roberson
|University of North Florida
|Milwaukee Brewers (1995)
|Steven Rodriguez
|University of Florida
|Los Angeles Dodgers (2012-14)
|Alex Romero
|Twins Instructional League
|Arizona Diamondbacks (2008-09)
|Mike Ryan
|GCL Twins Rookie League
|Minnesota Twins (2002-05), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2010)
|Brian Tollberg
|University of North Florida
|San Diego Padres (2000-03)
|Brian Wolfe
|Twins Instructional League
|Toronto Blue Jays (2007-09)
|Mike Zunino
|University of Florida
|Seattle Mariners (2013-14)


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What are CRAZYDOLFAN305 posts, Alex?
Dumbest threads ever:
What are CRAZYDOLFAN305 posts, Alex?
I live near Hollywood, and have many liberal friends that have shared with me their opinions on a variety of topics (granted most I disagree with). At my work, they would only show the supposedly moderate CNN at lunchtime. When I use Google and Yahoo, I am exposed to many liberal talking points thumbing through the headlines, and I occasionally stumble across articles on the Huffington Post or New York Times from the links. I am exposed to "liberalism" almost by default. I hardly live in a bubble, and have come to my own conclusions. I doubt that you are bombarded by "right-wing" thought as much as I am exposed to the "leftist" journalism.
It is apparent that your Progressive tendencies have shaped your outlook as an "Independent." You are hardly impartial nor are you selfless as you wish to portray. Your condescending nature of "hoping" that I one day achieve a similarly blissful state of "enlightenment" (ignorance) is laughable.
My prior comment in this thread was not without merit, although it was definitely generalized for the sake of brevity. Please respect my opinion, and I will tolerate yours.
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To compliment the webpage dedicated to all the base helping agencies, Team Edwards has implemented an online directory listing all those agencies for personnel off-base and on-base.
For off-base personnel, the directory is located via the Edwards Air Force Base home page under the Base Helping Agencies Directory tab. For on-base personnel, the directory appears as a 412th Test Wing icon at the bottom each Edwards government computer taskbar.
"Initially, with the IDS webpage, we wanted to provide an online resource for the base populace to seek information about the human services assistance," said Kimberly Shirley, 412th Test Wing Sexual Assault Response coordinator. "By implementing this online directory, we're providing an easier way for our Team Edwards community to access help when someone is in need – a one-stop shop to find information on all the helping agencies available from any computer."
According to Shirley, the directory contains a description of the helping agency, hours of operation and contact information.
"Not only will this tool save time and effort for leadership and supervisors who seek assistance for their people, but it will be an effective way for individuals seeking assistance to locate the proper helping agency directly," added Nancy Koch-Castillo, 412th Test Wing Community Support coordinator.
For those not familiar with the function of the IDS, part of the IDS consists of a conglomerate of all the helping agencies on base, which include the Airman and Family Readiness Center, Equal Opportunity, Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, the Employee Assistance Program, the Military and Family Life Counseling Program, Mental Health, Family Advocacy, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Program, the Health and Wellness Center, the Legal Office, Chaplain Services, Safety, and many more agencies.


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Vet wr then go get a cb or the in the first round
Yes I hope we draft 3 of them...
WHY? we have our LT in John Martin , imo i think he did a fair job blockin argubly the best DE in Smith ,in football yeah he is a rookie but will get better, imo we will be lookin for a RT IF ANYTHING , but not in the first 3 rounds maybe a RT in FA or the 4th rounder or so , but we need a pass rusher to go oppsite of wake and i think if Teo is there we have to take him or the CB Dee Milliner but i just dont see a OL in the first round.
here is my plan. get dwayne bowe. dude wants to be a dolphin. typical joe philbin size WR. Draft Tyler Eifert. People, listen up, a great TE is needed for any great QB and some have two of them!!! Eifert will help any tackle having problems blocking as he is a beast of a blocker and a read zone threat. Everyone focuses on WR but forget about TE. The last great TE we had was Jackson. I would go two TE's in this draft and get Fauria in the 3rd.
Poyer CB in 2nd round
Rambo S to go with his goergia buddy Jones
Swope at end of round 3. This dude is not flashy but flashy is not what this team needs. What this team needs is someone who ran with Tannehill and understands this offense so he can contribute early and often.
We need another T and G regardless if we sign Jake. One could be gotten in FA and one drafted late who fit ZBS.
Derrick Shelby will be a guy who will be looked at seriously at DE next year once he hits full offseason program and same goes for Vernon. They are rookies and people tend to forget these facts. Its about the progression. I disagree with the deep need for DE. If you can upgrade by all means, but this team needs offense all day and night and its quite obvious.
1. Melvin Gordon RB
2. Bernardrick McKinney ILB
3. Steve Nelson CB
4. John Miller G
5. Adrian Amos FS
5. Kenny Bell WR
Sign Greg Jennings, draft Tyler Eifert in the first round and pick up Stedman Bailey in round 2.
Ill be happy with either WR/DE/CB in the first round of the draft. Our defensive line is good, but we need a 2nd Pass Rusher.. Cowboys revamped their secondary but still the same results, gave the big money to Carr, picked up Claiborne, but until they get somebody on the opposite side of Ware, they aren't going to be a consistent defense. We need somebody on the opposite of Wake, we need a S opposite of Jones and we need a true play-making corner. Our offense is a different story. We have a lot of needs on that side of the ball.
I think it would be better to get a proven WR like Wallace or Bowe than to try and get one in the first round of the draft. It does seem that when a team addresses it's WR problem in the draft when they have a young second of third year QB, it increases the chances of that QB being a bust. See Harrington and Lions, Carr and the Texans, Russell and the Raiders, Gabbert and the Jaguars.
In the first round you take a WR, unless another player has a much, much higher grade.


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|Women's Tennis » News » Schedule » Roster » Coaches » Statistics
Women's tennis hits the road for crucial conference weekend
Thursday, March 17, 2011
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Mar. 17, 2011) - The ETSU women's tennis team will hit the road once again for two pivotal matches at Campbell and USC Upstate beginning on Friday afternoon.
The Bucs open the weekend with a very important match at Campbell on Friday at 2 p.m. The Bucs are one match behind the league leading Camels in the A-Sun standings. ETSU along with UNF, Kennesaw State, and Stetson each have just one loss in league play. ETSU will then take on USC Upstate on Saturday at 2 p.m.
ETSU heads into the weekend with an even 6-6 (2-1 A-Sun) record on the season. The Bucs are coming off two solid wins against Belmont and Lipscomb at home over the weekend, before falling at Virginia Tech. The Bucs have received strong play from the bottom part of their lineup as senior Andra Voinea (Brasov, Romania) leads the team with an 8-3 (4-0 A-Sun) in dual play.
Campbell enters the weekend with an 8-4 overall record, including a perfect 4-0 mark in A-Sun play. Karolina Chernaya leads the team with a 10-2 overall mark and a perfect 4-0 record in A-Sun play, while playing mostly in the No. 2 position. Senior Lisa Sutton has also been solid for the Camels as she owns a 9-3 overall record and a 3-1 A-Sun mark.
USC Upstate heads into the weekend still looking for its first win of the season. The Spartans are 0-11 (0-4 A-Sun) so far this year.
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looks expensive, very comfortable, worth the money...
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Fire, logging, insects and extreme weather can wreak havoc on forests. With support from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory climate modeler Daniel Hayes and University of Tennessee–Knoxville ecologist Joseph Hughes map eastern U.S. forests to characterize changes. They use satellite imagery collected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as well as ground data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the U.S. Geological Survey to calibrate and validate the satellite data. The maps help improve the models that are set in motion in simulations to explore the effect of landscape alterations on the carbon cycle. Hughes will present the research Aug. 7 in Minnesota during a talk at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.
Left: Daniel Hayes, shown here outside of Nome, traveled to the Arctic in June to study climate change. Image credit: Santonu Goswami
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Left: A map of total forest changes near Newport, Tennessee, from 2000 to 2011 shows red regions that experienced vegetation removal (due to fire or logging), blue areas of regrowth, and green zones that are a mixture of both. Darker areas experienced more aggregate change than lighter areas, such as the Cherokee National Forest to the southeast and Douglas Lake to the west. Image credit: Joe Hughes
Hayes uses the temporally and spatially explicit dataset captured in Hughes's forest maps to quantify disturbances in models and discern their dynamics with the climate. His models track carbon as it cycles through land, oceans, ice and atmosphere. Among land disturbances, fire has the biggest effect on the global climate budget. Combustion quickly sends carbon to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide or methane. Its lasting effects reset forest patterns for regrowth, carbon uptake, energy balance and water movement.
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In 1973, Americans trusted organized religion highest among American institutions higher than the military or even the Supreme Court. But not today.
Only 44 percent of Americans today have a lot of confidence in organized religion, compared to 66 percent in 1973 when organized religion or church was the highest rated institution in Gallups confidence in institutions measure.
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- The vicious and self-righteous cover-ups and counterattacks by bishops on victims who are seeking peace for their brutally disrupted lives testifies to the church's moral bankruptcy.
- The cowardly sheltering under 'diplomatic immunity' in the Vatican of Americas most notorious pedophile-protecting bishop, Bernard Law, testifies to the churchs moral bankruptcy.
- The spectacle of the Catholic churchs oligarchical elite, the Roman pope and his all-male administration, feigning remorse for scapegoated individuals, but claiming eternal innocence for its own corporate self, testifies to the churchs moral bankruptcy.
- The 15 consecutive years of ignoring the United Nations Committee on Rights of the Child for a report on how it deals with child abuse, but the immediate executive order to respond to the world banking community which had frozen millions in Vatican funds during a money laundering investigation testifies to the churchs moral bankruptcy.
- And today, the evidence that trust in church has plummeted to an all time low in the American psyche testifies to the churchs moral bankruptcy.
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"a devastating verdict against the Catholic Church," an editorial in the Dallas Morning News says that the case "involved sex abuse of minors by (a man} whose horrific crimes, to a great degree, were facilitated by an institutional failure to protect vulnerable children."
The case in Philadelphia "represents the first time that a senior official of the Catholic Church was held responsible for the abuse carried out by priests under his supervision."
"... Lynn was like many church administrators in that he knew the histories of abusive priests and yet did nothing to prevent them from preying on children."
"The significance of the verdict in Philadelphia, however, does not end with Lynns conviction. Evidence produced in the case offers indisputable proof that Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, an ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church and the head of the Philadelphia Archdiocese from 1988 to 2003, was equally guilty of endangering children. ..."
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VATICAN CITY The sexual abuse scandal has tarnished the image of the priest and contributed to a crisis of priestly vocations in the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said Monday (June 25), while also faulting a widespread secularized mentality and parents ambition for their children, which leaves little space to the possibility of a call to a special vocation.
(A lack of priest careers, the Vatican, said is a result of "a widespread secularized mentality" and parents' ambition for their children." -- The Washington Post quoting a Vatican news release Monday, 25 June 2012.
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"Lynn was a smart, able manager who at any time could have called the police, warned parishes, or threatened to blow the whistle," McKiernan said. "He was not a helpless good guy. The only helpless people in this ongoing catastrophe were the children, the many hundreds of boys and girls who were sodomized and terrorized by the men Lynn managed."
Terence McKiernan, president of BishopAccountability.org.
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Lynn is the first Roman Catholic official in the U.S. to be convicted of coverup and child endangerment on charges related to sexual abuse by priests. In the landmark case, prosecutors said Lynn reassigned pedophile priests in Philadelphia while covering up allegations of sexual abuse.
Lynn faces up to seven years in prison on the endangerment conviction. He was denied bail and will remain in custody while awaiting a sentencing hearing Aug. 13.
Barbara Dorris, victims outreach director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, called the days decision long overdue.
This dayand the relief, vindication and healing it gives clergy sex abuse victimsis long overdue. The guilty verdict sends a strong and clear message that shielding and enabling predator priests is a heinous crime that threatens families, communities and children, and must be punished as such, she said in a statement released minutes after the verdict was announced.
It is also the criminal justice system's "shot across the bow," sending a clear signal to all institutions: Protect kids, oust predators or go to jail, Dorris said.
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Referring to the public relations debacle resulting from the Vatican crackdown on American nuns, Romes censoring of another nuns theological writings, the USCCBs investigation of the Girl Scouts, and the bishops pact against the Obama administration, Boston high priest Sean O'Malleys solution proposed that the US bishops hire out better PR.
"The problem is a lack of substantive reform, not a lack of professional spin-meisters. If bishops would listen more often and take more decisive action especially in clergy sex abuse and cover up cases they wouldnt have to worry about public relations." -- David Clohessy, SNAP Director
Read Medium is message? Catholic bishops debate hiring a spokesperson in the Washington Post
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It can take many years to come to terms with abuse and to be able to talk about it, much less pursue legal action.
However, under most current law, victims of childhood sexual abuse have only a short time after they reach adulthood, or after they first realize, as an adult, that they had been abused to seek justice from the institution where the abuse occurred.
Clearly, state statutes of limitations favor the abuser over the abused.
However, in New Jersey yesterday, it was reported that the State Judiciary Assembly voted to lift the states 2 year limit on the rights of victims to bring civil suits against the churches, schools and other organizations that failed to protect the children in their care.
The bill, if finally passed, would lift the time limit on lawsuits against alleged abusers as well as the institutions that employ them, and establish a two-year window for anyone to refile a suit that was dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired.
Chief among those who argued to continue limiting the rights of their child victims was the Roman Catholic Church, as is typically the case in disputes over statutes of limitations.
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In Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a young girl has claimed that her spiritual adviser has been abusing her for 3 years. But instead of taking steps to protect the girl until the truth is fully revealed, her accused perpetrator has been embraced and defended as wrongly accused.
The girl has been called a slut and a troublemaker, her family threatened and spat at on the street.
The rallying around the accused perpetrator, who goes on trial this month, and the ostracizing of his accuser and her family reflects long-held beliefs in this insular community, which insists that problems should be dealt with from within and that elders have far more authority than the young.
"There are other people that claim misconduct and they can't come out because they're going to be re-victimized and ostracized by the community," said a friend of the young accuser's family who counsels troubled girls."
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So writes David Gibson in the Wall Street Journal. Throughout the crisis of the sexual abuse of innocents by priests, as it unfolded over the last 10 years in both the US and the world,
"the bishops exempted themselves from accountabilityeven though records showed that feckless inaction by many bishops, or even deliberate malfeasance by some, had allowed abusers to claim so many victims." -- The Wall Street Journal, 07 June 2012.
Read the full article 'US Bishops still stonewall on sex abuse' in the Wall Street Journal of 07 June 2012
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Comment from the leader of the morally bankrupt Roman church in America, and former CEO of the Milwaukee diocese, to charges that he paid off pedophile priests in his employ to go away, is glaringly conspicuous in its absence, at least as of this posting.
In yet another case of how outrageous does outrageous have to get Timothy Dolan, leader of the USCCB, while head priest in Milwaukee, gave pedophile priests on the diocese payroll ten grand to simply start the paperwork of getting lost and finding another job.
When the Vatican said ok to the laicization of these men, Dolan gave them another ten grand, and extended their church-goer financed benefits as well. So says the NY Times and the Milwaukee Post.
Read the entire account of this latest moral depravity perpetrated on the faithful of Milwaukee in the links below.
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In the mid 1990's a pair of controversial state supreme court decisions fully immunized the church from any and all corporate liability for priest child molesters based on a controversial interpretation of the first amendment. It is a testament, therefore, to the courage and persistence of Todd and Troy Merryfield and their families who have doggedly pursued justice through a much more daunting path of filing their claim under the states fraud statutes.
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Read the statement by SNAP Midwest Director Peter Isley ...
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It isnt until they deal with the emotional trauma of what happened to them that they then are ready to confront their abuser.
Unfortunately, our justice system is not set up to deal with this all-too-common occurrence.
Instead, there is a statute of limitations in place that only gives victims a certain amount of time to file a complaint, either civil or criminal.
If they come forward after that time period has expired, they are barred from going forward. We have seen this most prominently with accusations against priests in the Catholic Church.
This (statute of limitations) system not only does not allow victims to seek the justice they deserve, but it also protects the sexual abuser, whose identity otherwise might never become public. -- The Philadelphia Patriot-News, 20 May 2012.
In response to the Penn State coaching and the Catholic Church priest abuse scandals, an editorial in yesterday's Philadelphia Patriot-News calls for altering the state's statute of limitations on reporting sex crimes. The new state code would then favor the victims, for a change, and no longer the abusers.
The editorial calls on Pennsylvania to create a window or period of time when victims who are beyond the statute of limitations can come forward and file a suit against an abuser.
Other states, such as California, Delaware and most recently, Hawaii, have enacted such laws. When California opened a one-year window, 300 cases were opened.
Read the full editorial in Sunday's Philadelphia Patriot-News ...
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They cared about money, they cared about the business of the church, not the flock and not the parishioners." -- Assistant District Attorney Patrick Blessington, Courtroom 304 Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center.
The mountain of evidence pointed to a long-standing culture in the hierarchy - and at times the ranks below - that chose secrecy over transparency and the welfare of the institution over victims.
"It was all about the good of Mother Church," Assistant District Attorney Patrick Blessington said in arguments to the judge Thursday. "They cared about money, they cared about the business of the church, not the flock and not the parishioners."
Read the full story in yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer ...
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A Dallas County jury has found a Roman Catholic priest, John F. Fiala, guilty of plotting the death of a young boy he is accused of sexually abusing. Fiala could be sentenced to up to life in prison for solicitation of capital murder.
Fiala will also stand trial for the rape of the young boy, and for threatening him at gunpoint.
Read the full story in the Dallas News ...
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In a statement, the Legion said it was sorry it hadn't acted "earlier and more firmly" to remove priest Thomas Williams from his very public ministry as a spokesman, author and high-profile television personality.
Just last week, the Legion admitted that seven of its priests were under investigation by the Vatican for allegedly sexually abusing minors suggesting that the same culture of secrecy and silence that Maciel used to cover his crimes enabled other priests to abuse children.
Williams, an American moral theologian and former superior of the Legion's Rome general office, admitted Tuesday he had had a relationship with a woman and had fathered a child.
This is the order beset by scandal following revelations that its late founder, priest Marciel Maciel, fathered three children with two women and sexually abused his seminarians.
Maciel died in 2008, and in 2009 the Legion admitted to his crimes.
The Maciel scandal has been particularly sensational given that the Mexican-born priest was held up by the John Paul II regime, including its second in command Joseph Ratzinger (currently pope), as a model for the faithful, with his priests admired for their orthodoxy and ability to bring in money and attract new seminarians.
The facade, however, began to crumble in 1997 with revelations of his abuse, though it wasn't until 2006 that the Vatican sanctioned Maciel to a lifetime of prayer and penance for his crimes.
Just last week, the Legion admitted that seven of its priests were under investigation by the Vatican for allegedly sexually abusing minors suggesting that the same culture of secrecy and silence that Maciel used to cover his crimes enabled other priests to abuse children.
Read the full story 'Legion Of Christ Priest ... Admits He Fathered Child' in the Huffington Post ...
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"This month, it was the Leadership Conference of Women Religious that bishops were concerned about. Before that, it was Catholic Charities in the United States. Then it was Caritas, the church's umbrella organization for the coordination of international charity. And now it is the Girl Scouts." -- Joan Chittister
Joan Chittister is a well-known and outspoken Benedictine nun in the Roman church in America. In her column 'From Where I Stand' published May 16 on the National Catholic Reporter website, Joan speaks up loudly about the preposterous and apparently random gyrations of the all-male Catholic hierarchy caste, asking the following key question:
Where has all this energy for empirical destruction come from in a church now projecting its own serious problems with sexual issues onto everything that moves?
In the powerful article, Chittister says that each of the groups attacked has been "curtailed, 'investigated' or put in some kind of canonical receivership because of their reputed lack of orthodoxy on sexual issues or because of association with other groups that, according to the bishops, have the same problem. And all of that in the face of the sex abuse debacle of the church itself, still to be resolved, never monitored, and totally closed to outside investigation."
The article also briefly reviews a new book: Pius XII: The Hound of Hitler by noted historian Gerard Noel. Noel traces the rise to power of Eugenio Pacelli (a.k.a. Pius XII) whose goal became the centralization of the church, and the control of all its organizations. "Under Pacelli, law became the power of the church; the Gospel, its victim."
Chittister goes on:
"For the first time in history, the Vatican took sole control of episcopal appointments, extended "infallibility" to "definitive" statements like encyclicals and gave the pope the right to declare on universal issues without the advice and consent of episcopal conferences, synods or councils. It was a recipe for monarchical control. And it worked.
"Now, as a result, bishops are cut out of common cloth. They are chosen to be what the Vatican wants rather than what the culture or the people need. They are an arm of the Vatican rather than the voice of the flock in dialogue with the Vatican."
Read the full article in the National Catholic Reporter of 16 May 2012:
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In the statement, Pesha said that "after much thought and consultation" Carlson had decided to restructure the archdiocese's legal representation, pointing out that "a number of dioceses throughout the country follow this similar structure."
Read more in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ...
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The BBC's This World program reports that as late as 2010 Brady had the names and addresses of those being abused by Brendan Smyth, "Ireland's most prolific pedophile," but did nothing about it, and did not ensure their safety.
Read the full story in the BBC News ...
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"Given the known scope of the abuse in the California dioceses, it is nearly unfathomable that, even now, the California bishops are lobbying against modest extensions of the statute of limitations and meaningful background investigations for those working closely with children on a regular basis" -- Victims advocate, attorney Marci Hamilton
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Robert Finn, religious superior of the Kansas City - St. Joseph diocese of the Roman church, will be compelled to face a jury of his peers to plead absolution from the criminal charges which he denies.
With the decision in the Missouri court Thursday, Finn becomes the first Roman hierarch to face criminal charges in the decades old Roman Catholic priest sexual abuse crisis.
Read more:
- Judge orders Kansas City bishop to stand trial in abuse case
- Judge John Torrence's order
- KC bishop charged with failure to report child abuse
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"This is NOT your usual plain green bean casserole. This is a recipe that started with my great-aunt and has been passed around our family for years. People tasting it for the first time ALWAYS want the recipe!"
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1 (10 ounce) can
condensed cream of mushroom soup
3 ounces
processed cheese (i.e. Velveeta®), cubed
1 tablespoon
real bacon bits
1 (4 ounce) can
mushroom stems and pieces, drained
2 (15 ounce) cans
cut green beans, drained
1 (2.8 ounce) can
French-fried onions
If I could give this 1000 stars, I would!!! This recipe is so fantastic. I made it differently, though... I didn't make mine in the oven, I made mine in the crock pot (a double batch fits well in a 3-quart cooker, if you have an army to feed! lol!) basically just mixing everything together (softening the cream of mushroom soup just for about 30 seconds in the micro to make it easier to stir.) I cooked it on low for about 3 hours, stirred it, and let simmer until I was ready for it. Then, right before serving, I stirred some of the FF Onions in with the beans, then sprinkled some on the top as well. I had a few people at Thanksgiving with an aversion to not only green bean casserole but to mushrooms as well, but they tried it and LOVED IT!!! I guess you could leave out the mushrooms if you have a lot of protesters! :) I WILL be making this again! I will try to add a bit more cheese next time, I like stuff very cheesy!
Oh, I also used the "Real Bacon Bits" instead of frying up bacon and crumbling it myself (I'm a lazy cook, I look for shortcuts where I can, heh heh) and it tasted just wonderful! Turkey bacon might be good, too!!! Play around with it, have fun!
Not much flavor. I did use french cut green beans which added a little visual to the recipe. I felt as if this recipe was lacking something. We all ate it but no one was blown away.
387 Ratings
The original recipe called for a jar of Kraft Bacon cheese spread. It comes in a small, 5 oz. glass jar (with a metal pry-off lid). It also comes in other flavors. Old English is the one I use when I can't find the Bacon (as a last resort Velveeta-type)and add 1 to 2 T. finely minced cooked bacon. Obviously, the bigger the chop, the less bacon there will be in 1 T. This recipe doubles or triples nicely. I have also doubled the amount of green beans without changing the other ingredients and this works well too in a pinch. Hope this helps ~Deb
I chose to do this in a crockpot over Thanksgiving, do to the oven being overused as it was. I doubled the recipe and used the kraft old english substitute, frozen greenbeans and no extra mushrooms (also sub cream of celery). I let cook about 4 hours on low. If doing in a crockpot, in the future i would recommend turning off to let the sauce set up (was a little runny.) Also the cheese added a little too much salt, so i just added pepper. I like this recipe and will use again for Christmas.
This was a nice change from the usual green bean cassarole. I used frozen greenbeans like others have suggested and I really liked them better than the canned ones. I also used some fresh mushrooms instead of canned ones. My only dissappointment is that it was a little too cheezy for my tastes. I think I would prefer about half the amount of cheeze next time.
This is my go to recipe for all pitch-ins and family functions. I omit the bacon pieces to make it vegetarian. As seen in the italics at the bottom, the velveeta is a substitution and not in the original recipe. I use kraft old english cheese spread. It is in a little glass container that looks like a juice glass almost. I've tried to make this in a crockpot, but it doesn't get the same flavor. I've found that baking it as normal (without adding the french onions) and then transferring it over to a crockpot to keep warm works okay. I do bake the french onions separately to get them crispy, but I serve them in a dish on the side. I do not put them in the crockpot.
Yum! This was my first Thanksgiving as hostess, and this recipe definitely helped me through it! I put it together the nigt before (all but the fried onions) and kept it in the fridge to make things easier the day of the big meal. I used Kraft Old English Cheese for the processed cheese, made my own real bacon (instead of bacon bits), and used fresh baby portabella mushrooms (instead of canned). All of the leftovers are gone and I'm ready to make this again! This recipe will be a staple for years to come!
This was not only delicious, but versatile! We enjoyed the casserole on Christmas, and then I added some more veggies, chicken, velveeta, french fried onions, and cream of chicken soup together to the leftovers, topped it with a pie crust and had the BEST POT PIE ever. This was a HUGE hit on Christmas!
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Never Enough Green Bean Casserole
Serving Size: 1/6 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 6
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 204
Calories from Fat: 120
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