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The Detroit Lions had to do one thing to give themselves a chance against the Minnesota Vikings. One thing.
Stop Adrian Peterson.
That didn't happen.
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The Vikings put up a season-high point total in their 34-24 home win against their NFC North rival. The Lions know what Peterson can do more than anyone else in the NFL. The Vikings running back has slaughtered the Lions on a regular basis since he entered the league in 2007.
Sunday was no different.
Peterson finished with 27 carries for 171 yards, including a 61-yard touchdown run in which he dipped inside, bounced outside and ran away from anyone wearing Honolulu Blue.
Some might think, "Give the Lions a break. All Day torches everyone." Not like this. The Lions have held Peterson to under 100 rushing yards just four times in 11 games. He's scored nine touchdowns and ran for 1,165 yards in those games -- that's an average of 105.9 yards per game.
The Vikings' offense has revolved around two players in 2012 -- Peterson and wide receiver Percy Harvin. Harvin missed Sunday's game with an ankle injury. The Lions should be the one team to focus entirely on Peterson and risk losing to Christian Ponder's arm.
Didn't happen.
Peterson ran with power up the middle and outran defenders on the outside. The vaunted Lions defensive line seemed to tire as Peterson had giant lanes to run through in the fourth quarter. The "Silver Crush" were flat-out pushed around as the game wore on.
This has been said repeatedly, but we'll say it again. Peterson is a freak of nature and his knee surgeon should received an expensive Christmas gift from this famous patient.
Notes: Lions defensive end Cliff Avril was taken to the locker room in the third quarter and was later diagnosed with a concussion.
Lions cornerback Chris Houston left the game with an ankle injury.
The Lions started 0-for-8 on third downs and finished 1-for-9.
Peterson became the first running back to reach 1,000 yards in 2012 and Sunday was his 31st career 100-yard rushing game.
Vikings fourth-round pick Jarius Wright caught a touchdown in his first game. He moved up the depth chart with Harvin out.
Follow Kareem Copeland on Twitter @kareemcopeland.

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Ablation -- Elimination or removal.
Amniocentesis -- A test performed to discover genetic disorders and birth defects. The test involves inserting a needle through the abdominal wall of a pregnant woman and into the amniotic sac to retrieve a sample of amniotic fluid.
Aneurysm -- A widening in a blood vessel or area of the heart that may result in a rupture.
Angioplasty -- A procedure to widen narrowed arteries.
Anomaly -- An abnormal structural feature not usually present in a healthy individual.
Aorta -- The blood vessel that delivers oxygen-rich blood from the left ventricle to the body.
Aortic stenosis -- Narrowing of the opening of the aortic valve.
Aortic valve -- The valve that regulates blood flow from the left ventricle into the aorta. Consisting of three flaps, or cusps, it prevents blood from flowing back into the ventricle.
Arrhythmia -- An abnormal rhythm of the heart. Also called dysrhythmia.
Arteriosclerosis -- Hardening and thickening of the walls of the arteries.
Artery -- A blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood away from the heart to the body.
Atresia -- The absence of a normal opening in the body.
Atria -- The top two chambers of the heart. A single chamber is called an atrium.
Atrial fibrillation -- Irregular beating of the atria.
Atrial septal defect (ASD) -- A hole in the wall between the right and left atria.
Balloon angioplasty -- A procedure that uses a catheter (tube) with a balloon in the tip to open up a narrowed valve or blood vessel.
Balloon valvuloplasty -- A procedure in which a balloon-tipped catheter is passed into the heart and across a narrow valve, then inflated in order to expand the valve opening.
Birth defect -- Any defect present at birth; sometimes referred to as congenital.
Biopsy -- Collection of a small sample of tissue for closer examination.
Blood pressure -- The pressure of the blood flowing in the arteries.
Calcium channel blocker -- A medication that lowers blood pressure.
Capillaries -- Blood vessels between arteries and veins that distribute oxygen-rich blood to the body.
Cardiac -- Pertaining to the heart.
Cardiac arrest -- When the heart stops beating, either temporarily or permanently.
Cardiac catheterization -- A diagnostic procedure in which a tiny, hollow tube (catheter) is inserted into an artery or vein in order to evaluate the heart and blood vessels.
Cardiologist -- A doctor who specializes in treating heart diseases.
Cardiology -- The study and treatment of heart disorders.
Cardiomyopathy -- A disease of the heart muscle that causes it to lose its pumping strength.
Cardiovascular -- Pertaining to the heart and circulatory (blood vessels) system.
Carotid arteries -- The major arteries in the neck that supply blood to the brain.
Closed-heart surgery -- Surgery done on the heart without the use of the heart-lung machine.
Colic -- An attack of crying and apparent abdominal pain in early infancy.
Congenital -- Any trait or condition existing at birth.
Congenital heart defect -- A heart problem present at birth, caused by improper development of the heart during fetal development.
Congestive heart failure -- Inability of the heart to pump blood efficiently, which results in inadequate blood flow to other organs.
Cryoablation -- The use of intense cold to destroy the source of abnormal electrical signals, which can cause the heart to beat irregularly.
Cyanosis -- Bluish color in the skin due to insufficient oxygen.
Diagnostic -- Tests or procedures that are intended to evaluate a problem, rather than treat it.
Diastolic blood pressure -- The pressure of blood inside arteries when the heart is at rest. In a blood pressure reading, it's the bottom number.
Echocardiogram (echo) -- A procedure that evaluates the structure and function of the heart.
Edema -- An increased amount of fluid in the body tissue that results in swelling or puffiness, especially in the hands, feet and around the eyes.
Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) -- A test that records the electrical activity of the heart, shows abnormal rhythms (arrhythmias or dysrhythmias) and detects heart muscle damage.
Epidural anesthesia -- Numbing drugs injected into the fluid sac that surrounds the spinal nerves to prevent pain signals from traveling up the spinal cord to reach the brain.
Esophageal electrophysiology study -- A diagnostic test for abnormal heart rhythms. A thin tube is placed down the esophagus to send and receive electrical signals from the heart.
Gene -- Portion of DNA that determines a characteristic of an organism. Human beings have around 100,000 genes.
Genetic counseling -- An assessment of inherited risk factors and information to patients concerning the consequences of a disorder, the probability of developing or transmitting it, and ways in which it can be prevented, treated and managed.
Genetic testing -- Tests performed to determine if a person has a genetic condition or disease or is likely to get the disease.
Heart attack -- Interruption of the normal circulation of the heart due to the loss of blood supply. Also called myocardial infarction.
Heart murmur -- A noise that occurs as blood flows through the heart, that can be heard by listening with a stethoscope. Some murmurs are heard in children with normal hearts; others may indicate a structural abnormality that may or may not be serious.
Heart valve -- One of the four structures in the heart that control the flow of blood to and from the heart.
Heart valve prolapse -- A condition of the heart valve in which it is partially open when it should be closed.
Heart-lung machine -- A machine that does the work both of the heart (pumps blood) and the lungs (oxygenates the blood) during open-heart surgery.
High blood pressure -- Blood pressure that is above the normal range. Also called hypertension.
Hyperlipidemia -- High levels of lipds (fats) in the bloodstream; high cholesterol.
Hypertrophic -- Refers to an organ or part of the body that is enlarged or overgrown.
Hypoplastic -- Refers to an abnormally small organ or blood vessel due to abnormal development prior to birth.
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome -- A congenital heart defect in which the left side of the heart is poorly developed, resulting in small mitral valve, left ventricle and aorta.
Hypotension -- Low blood pressure.
Idiopathic disease -- A disease for which no identifiable cause can be determined.
Inherited -- Passed on to an individual through the parent's genetic code.
Interrupted aortic arch -- Part of the aorta is missing. This can lead to severely reduced blood flow to the lower part of the body.
Intravenous (IV) -- Into a vein.
Interventional -- Medications or procedures intended to treat an existing problem.
Jugular veins -- Veins that carry blood from the head back to the heart.
Left atrium -- The upper left-hand chamber of the heart. It receives oxygen-rich (red) blood from the lungs, and then sends this blood to the left ventricle.
Left ventricle -- The lower left-hand chamber of the heart. It receives oxygen-rich (red) blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta, which takes the blood to the body.
Lung scan -- A diagnostic test to determine the percent of blood flow to each lung by intravenously administering a small amount of fluid.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- A diagnostic procedure that uses a combination of large magnets, radio frequencies and a computer to produce detailed images of organs and structures within the body.
Marfan syndrome -- A genetic disorder that affects the connective tissue of the body. It causes dilation of blood vessels and abnormalities of cardiac valves.
Mitral valve -- The valve between the left atrium and left ventricle. Consisting of two flaps, or cusps, it prevents blood from flowing back into the atrium from the ventricle.
Mitral valve prolapse -- An abnormality of the valve between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart that causes backward flow of blood from the left ventricle into the left atrium.
Myocardium -- The muscular part of the heart which pumps blood.
Open-heart surgery -- Surgery done on an opened heart while blood flow is being diverted through a heart-lung machine.
Opiates -- Narcotic drugs such as morphine and fentanyl often are used to reduce the pain from surgery. While very effective at controlling pain, these drugs may have side effects such as drowsiness, itching, constipation and nausea.
Palliative treatment -- Treatment that relieves symptoms, such as pain, but is not expected to cure the disease. The main purpose is to improve the patient's quality of life.
Patent ductus arteriosus -- A blood vessel present in all infants that usually closes shortly after birth. It connects the aorta to the pulmonary artery. When it remains open, it allows extra blood to pass through from the aorta to the lungs.
Pericardium -- The thin elastic-like sac that covers the heart.
Perinatal -- Pertaining to the period immediately before and after birth.
Postpartum -- After delivery.
Pulmonary -- Pertaining to the lungs and respiratory system.
Pulmonary artery -- The large artery that receives blood from the right ventricle and carries it to the lungs.
Pulmonary hypertension -- Abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs.
Pulmonary valve -- The heart valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery. It consists of three flaps, or cusps.
Pulmonary vein -- The vessel that carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left side of the heart.
Radiofrequency ablation -- The use of concentrated radio waves to heat and destroy the source of abnormal electrical signals, which can cause the heart to beat irregularly.
Red blood cells -- Blood cells that help transport oxygen to all the tissues in the body.
Regurgitation -- The abnormal backflow of blood through a valve.
Right atrium -- The upper right chamber of the heart, which receives oxygen-poor (blue) blood from the body and sends it to the right ventricle.
Right ventricle -- The lower right chamber of the heart, which receives oxygen-poor (blue) blood from the right atrium and sends it to the pulmonary artery.
Shunt -- An artificial connection of blood vessel intended to redirect blood or other fluids.
Septum -- One of the walls that divides the two chambers on the left side of the heart from the two chambers on the right.
Sporadic -- Not inherited, occurring occasionally, in irregular instances.
Stenosis -- The narrowing or constriction of a blood vessel or valve in the heart.
Stent -- A device implanted in a vessel used to help keep it open.
Syndrome -- A set of characteristics that tend to occur together and reflect the presence of a particular disease or an increased chance of developing a particular disease.
Systolic pressure -- The pressure of blood inside arteries when the heart contracts. In a blood pressure reading, this is the top number.
Thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension -- Caused by a blood clot in the lungs, thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is a dangerous increase in blood pressure in the artery that carries oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the lungs.
Transesophageal echocardiogram -- A type of echocardiogram in which sound waves are transmitted into the heart from a thin tube placed down the esophagus, behind the top chambers of the heart. The returning echoes from the surfaces of the heart are recorded.
Tricuspid atresia -- A congenital heart defect in which the tricuspid valve and right ventricle do not develop properly, preventing oxygen-poor (blue) blood from reaching the lungs via its normal pathway.
Tricuspid valve -- The heart valve that controls blood flow from the right atrium into the right ventricle.
Valve -- An opening, covered by membrane flaps, between two chambers of the heart or between a chamber of the heart and a blood vessel.
Vascular -- Pertaining to the blood vessels.
Vein -- Any one of a series of vessels that carry blood from various parts of the body back to the heart.
Ventricle -- One of the heart's two lower chambers that receive blood from the atria.
Ventricular fibrillation -- A condition in which the ventricles contract in rapid and unsynchronized rhythms and cannot pump blood into the body.
Ventricular septal defect -- An abnormal opening in the wall between the right and left ventricles.
White blood cells -- Blood cells needed in the destruction of viruses, bacteria and fungi that cause infection.


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The Week Of May
Well, the first bombshell of the new IMS regime that affects fans directly was dropped on Tuesday, when it was announced that qualifying for next year's Indianapolis 500 has been trimmed from four days to two – over a single weekend, one week before the race. Pole Day will be held on Saturday May 22 and Bump Day will take place on Sunday May 23. Opening Day will be on Saturday May 15 for Rookies and Veterans needing a refresher. All drivers will hit the track on Sunday May 16. Race day is Sunday May 30. With only a week of practice, two days of qualifying and then the race, this is barely more than the WEEK of May.
The primary reason given for this is to save the teams money. While I'm sure that's partially true, I think that new CEO Jeff Belskus sees this as a way for the Speedway to cut costs as well. It drains an enormous amount of cash from the IMS coffers to staff the Speedway for every single day that the track is open to the public.
Do I understand the need for this? Yes. Do I like it? Of course not. There is too much of a traditionalist in me to like it. It's sort of like going to Best Buy and wanting to walk out with the latest seventy-two inch plasma TV. I know that economics simply won't allow it, but that doesn't mean that I have to like it. Plus, I selfishly want cars on the track for every day possible.
Although I use tradition as an excuse to complain, this is certainly not the first time that I have seen qualifying messed with. Unfortunately, I'm old enough to remember when the Month of May was just that – a full month. The track was always opened for practice on May 1 and the race was always run on May 30 — which was always the traditional day for Memorial Day – no matter what day of the week it fell on. The only exception was when May 30 fell on a Sunday, which pushed the race back to Monday May 31. My how times have changed.
In 1971, a law passed by Congress took effect that moved the observed date for Memorial Day to the last Monday in May. From 1971 to 1973, the race was scheduled to run on Saturday. In 1974, it was decided that the 500 Festival Parade would be held on Saturday and the race would be permanently moved to Sunday, with Monday in reserve for a potential rain date.
That was not the only change to the schedule in 1974. In response to the energy crunch of the early seventies, qualifying was cut back from the traditional four-day two-weekend format to two days. For some strange reason though, they chose to run both qualifying days on consecutive Saturdays. As luck would have it, both days were effected by rain. They also trimmed an entire week of practice off of the beginning of the month, which never returned. The four-day format was reinstated the following year.
Qualifying was also heavily tweaked in 1998. This time as a direct result of the dwindling crowds for qualifying that have never returned. I attended Pole Day in 1995 and the place was packed. Pole Day used to be considered the SECOND largest single-day sporting event in the world. Go back and look at old videos and the stands are practically full for Pole Day.
When the split came, Pole Day is where the apathy was most apparent. The crowds still showed up for Race Day but not so much for qualifying. What was once a packed house quickly dwindled to what you see nowadays at qualifying – a respectable gathering behind the pits with a smattering of bodies spread throughout the outside grandstands, with tons of space in between each one.
The thought was that cramming more into two days of qualifying made those days more intense. It didn't work as the collective yawn continued. In 2001, they added a third day on the Sunday following the first weekend to be designated as Bump Day. Then car count took a hit and the only drama on Bump Day was whether or not there would be a full field.
Then for 2005, someone got the bright idea to create some artificial buzz. The idea was to add the fourth day back and to qualify only eleven cars each day. The same car would be given three qualifying attempts per day – an unheard of concept under the old format – and there would be bumping amongst those eleven qualifiers each day. It was a silly and contrived format that didn't actually get to be tried until 2007 due to Pole Day being completely rained out in 2005 and 2006. Yes it generated drama and excitement, but it was about as authentic as an infomercial. It was strictly "Made-for-TV".
So now they're going back to a schedule similar to that of the late nineties. There are a couple of silver linings in this; first there is the possibility that they might ditch the contrived format of withdrawing cars and bumping every day. Secondly, the fact that Opening Day will be on a Saturday with all drivers hitting the track on Sunday is a vast improvement over the most recent format that saw Rookies on the track for Sunday and Monday with all drivers taking the track on Tuesday. Tuesday?
I might consider driving from Nashville to Indianapolis for the opening Sunday, but never for an opening Tuesday. That schedule was prohibitive for most fans wanting to be able to show up and watch a day of practice. This schedule is more fan friendly for those of us who live out of town, although I had already started making plans for attending Pole Day next year on May 15. Now I'm going to have to adjust my whole schedule for May. I'll have to look at several different options before figuring out what to do.
Regardless of whether I like it or not, it's what we have to work with. If those days get rained out, we'll see the field filling up just a few days before the race. It is just another step toward stripping the magic from the Month of May. I know that things change, but I hold the traditions of the Speedway sacred. What once took an entire month to unfold will now take just a little more than a week to play out. There is something a little sad in that.
George Phillips
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I'm also a long-time fan of the traditions of the 500 George, but I think this is a good change. With the small number of entrants recently I've felt like they were artificially filling the four days anyway. This new system could add to the excitement of quals and make for a really fun weekend at the track–unless, as you said, it rains. (Then it will make for an exciting Monday?)
It makes sense economically for the teams and the Speedway and hopefully will bring back a sense of urgency and action to qualifications.
As you may surmise from my handle I' been going to INDY for a number of years (Haven't missed a year since 1946) and My take on this is that it will be another nail in the coffin for open wheel racing and especially the lesser funded teams to be able to compete. I crewed on such a team in 1984/85 and without the extra time of the second weekend we would have never made the field since we were not able to have all the track time (we had none) the deep pockets teams did prior to the 500. Street courses, road courses and 1/2 an INDY I'm glad I was here when there was American open wheel racing and most likely will not be here to see the last of this debacle.
Remember when Tony George said "33 is just a number?" The damage that he has done to OUR beloved race is still being felt and will continue to be felt for years. I had 30 Indianapolis 500 races in a row until 1996 when I went to Michigan so I consider myself a fan. Having Buddy Lazier and Eddie Cheever and Kenny Breck on the Borg Warner trophy is a CRIME. Juan Montoya showed the racing world what a JOKE the 500 had become in winning the 2000 race. A newcomer to the track and he wins by TWO LAPS! Us old-timers need to realize that the 500 is just like Humpty Dumpty because it has been broken and it will never be like it once was. Sad, but true!!!
Montoya did dominate the 500, but nobody's won by two laps in ages. Emerson Fittipaldi in 1989 was the last to do so (and the last to lap the field as well.) 2001 was the year the CART guys really stomped on the field with the Penske/Green/Ganassi cars lapping the field with 5 CART drivers and Tony Stewart. But still, not 2 laps. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the CART guys had come over in say '98 that they would have lapped the field by two laps, but the IRL teams had raised their game somewhat by 2000-2001, although I acknowledge CART was superior until about 2003 when Ganassi/Green left and they were about even.
I don't see your Brack diss either. After leaving the IRL, he went to CART and proved himself as one of the best oval drivers there as well in 2001 (de Ferran won the championship because he was better on road/street courses, but Brack was kicking butt on the ovals.) I'd say Brack was more deserving than even somebody like Luyendyk…
Cheever? Yeah, he basically had decades of not doing anything in open wheel and is the exact equivalent to Michael Waltrip winning the Daytona 500. Well, not exact, as MW along with Junior had by FAR the superior car, while Tony Stewart probably had the best car the year Cheever won.
Lazier? It's true he did nothing in CART, but he had horrible rides and is such a nice guy and won with a broken back. Although I'll admit he doesn't meet the CART standard for Indy winners, it's so hard to knock him. Cheever is the only one I'd call a true embarrassment.
Having said that, I certainly agree with you that the split was a mistake and is why the 500 isn't taken as seriously. I agree with others that a full month when there aren't many fans coming to the track and only about 35-36 entries doesn't make sense.
Well said on all counts, Sean. You beat me to it yet again. 🙂
I understand how important the Month of May tradition is, but I think this was a move that had to be made. A condensed schedule not only saves money, but it stands a better chance of staying in the heads of today's audiences. Back when the '500' was king, there wasn't as many entertainment options to choose from. Now, the '500' is in rehab and we're in the age of 24/7news (with some help from Twitter and Facebook) — there's seemingly infinite ways to be entertained.
Now, some events that play out over an extended period — like say, March Madness — can get away with doing it, but right now, the '500' can't. It's stronger than it was five years ago, but it's still rebuilding. So why not kill the momentum lulls, ensure that fans at the track get more out of their $$$ (provided it doesn't rain too much), and make TV watchers on ABC/Versus realize that if they miss something, they're gonna be sorry? Bump Day is going to be a madhouse and if the old 'three attempts per car' format returns for qualifying, we'll have Must See TV.
Let's give it a shot. Besides, if the economy gets better, fans can always pressure the Speedway to beef up the schedule again.
Excellent points Chris. I couldn't agree more.
I agree redd, I too love the Indy traditions, one of few lasting in motorracing. But still, if we want to keep the 500 this might be a step that needs to be taken.
Now, I'm not sure about this, but if the complete month of may has been there from 1911, wasn't this to try out innovation? If so, there's not much innovation left in the current formula, so not much to try out anyway.
Still it's sad to see this tradition go.
I loved the idea of having the whole month of May as a build-up to the 500. But let's admit it, it isn't the same race anymore. In the past you had race teams from all over the world coming to Indianapolis just to try to win the race. Some of them came with innovative designs that needed to be shaken out and improved on the track. There were track records every year (pretty much) through the early '90s. There was enough excitement to fill the month. There was drama because lot of teams didn't make the show after working for the entire month.
Now the 500 is a spec race. Only 34 or 35 cars are legitimately trying to make the field. With this 8 year-old chassis/engine/tire combination the Penskes and Ganassis are rolling off the truck ready to go with the setups that they have already perfected. There is also no chance for track records. There just isn't enough to fill a month. Add the budget crunch to the mix and this is a necessary, sensible move.
I hope that the 500 finally completes its rehab and more teams come to Indy for the prestige and purse of an Indy 500 win. Hopefully they'll bring design innovation and new track records with them so that using the entire month of May makes sense again.
Sorry about the 2 lap victory margin. However, Montoya led 137 laps, Greg Ray led 26 & 2 others led for 7. So, no matter how you cut it, he covered the field that day and showed the mighty IRL that they were NO WHERE as good as they thought they were. I HOPE that Open Wheel survives because I believe that we are in serious trouble. Hopefully, for the sport that I love, Tony George didn't take our sport and ruin it so badly that it can never recover.
And so a discussion of an innovative yet tradition-breaking schedule once again veers off track back to the CART/IRL sword fight…
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I've got expanded thoughts on the matter over at my place today (yeah, two posts in one week! Call the Pulitzer and the Guinness folks!), but the main thing that I don't care for is the effective elimination of second-week deals. Plus, SEVEN days of practice leading up to Pole Day? Who needs that?
I like it to be honest. The shorter build-up time focuses the news on the 500 rather than having the event dragged over four weeks – which in this day and age is far, far too long.
Add to that, the fact that Kansas is now looking like the very end of April / start of May; it only leaves two weeks between that race and the start of qualifying.
Add to that, the week before qualifying begins can now effectively be utilised as a media build-up to the 500 – prior to that the three/four week gap would be too long.
People get forgetful nowadays and this new schedule reflects that – the old tradition was fantastic, but if the IRL is to rebuild itself and focus on younger generations, then maybe this is the way forward.
As momentum moves, I don't see why a new tradition cannot be created.
I think when there is a need and demand from the competition to develop setups for new cars the schedule will change to accommodate.
The series must change to rehabilitate IICS to relevance.
While the IICS may be in a painful stage of resurgence, NASCAR is already well into it's own decline of un-sustainability. They just don't believe it yet.
One word: Television! I see TV as the reason pole day (and every other day) crowds have diminished so much. Someone from Chicago or Cincinnati or Louisville who really wants to see who wins the pole has no further to go than their living room. I think VERSUS should cut their qualifying coverage to a wrap up show at 6PM…which, of course, will never happen. I understand that qualifying was fully televised before the split, but I think the crowds stayed at 6-figures because the cars were still setting records.
Let's just be glad that we haven't gotten so made-for-TV that we're holding 50-lap qualifying heats (*cough*Daytona*cough*).
"So, no matter how you cut it, he covered the field that day and showed the mighty IRL that they were NO WHERE as good as they thought they were."
No, it showed that a world-class talent in the best funded and most experienced ride in the field, could win the Indy 500. Which we see at almost every Indy 500, in ANY other year.
I don't know what you are talking about with "IRL was not as good as they thought they were" stuff. Montoya kicked everybody's ass in CART back then too, remember. Its not like Mark Blundell or Tora Takagi came over with their teams and won the race.
And, BTW, Scotty Dixon led most of the laps 2 years ago in his Indy 500 win with the same team that Montoya raced for. Against all of the "big boy teams".
Buddy Lazier, Eddie Cheever and Kenny Brack all DESERVE to be Indy 500 winners. They showed up and raced and got to the checkard flag first in their given years. They have nothing to apologize for. And Buddy Lazier more then proved his merits as a racer, in both the 2005 Indy 500 and just qualifying for the 2008 Indy 500. Money and race teams matter BIG TIME in racing and especially modern-day Indy Car Racing. Lazier could run with ANYONE at Indy in a equally-prepared/engineered/financed car in his prime. So could have Brack.
Shortening the 500 to 2 days unfortunately makes sense, interest on the national is waning and budgets for teams, league and speedway are paltry at best. In tough times you've got to make tough decisions and IMS and the IRL are having to make a lot of those decisions as we speak, money seems to be the driving force behind these changes and I'm sure we can all relate to that. As far as Juan Montoya goes, the dude's a BADASS in any car on any continent, he is easily one of the most natural open wheel ovals racers I've ever seen (7 oval wins in 2 years+1 Indy 500). He would have contended for the 2000 CART title if his Toyota RV8E engines didn't consistently spew proprietary engine parts all over the race track. Robin Miller calls Montoya "the throttle psycho" cause once the throttles flat he ain't liftin' no matter what happens next!


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The agency charged with overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons received a declaration from Damascus on Friday outlining the scope and sites of its program, a step in the recently agreed U.S.-Russia plan for dismantling the weapons.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague, said Syria's initial disclosure was being examined by the group's technical experts.
Leaders of the OPCW, which enforces the international Chemical Weapons Convention banning the use of such arms, hope to meet next week to approve an expedited schedule for the inspection and destruction of the Syrian stockpiles and program.
OPCW leaders have struggled to convene a meeting to approve the U.S.-Russian schedule. First it was set for Friday, later moved to Sunday, and now is planned for an as-yet-unspecified day in the coming week. The OPCW gave no reason for the delays.
The U.S.-Russian timeline calls for Syria's chemical-weapons production, mixing and filling facilities to be destroyed by November, and for the entire arsenal to be dismantled in the first half of 2014. That schedule, set under international diplomatic and political pressure, would be far faster than the OPCW's usual pace of work, and would be particularly challenging since the inspections would take place in a war zone.
After the OPCW approves a timeline, its decision is expected to be reinforced by a United Nations Security Council resolution.
The organization said it wouldn't reveal the contents of Syria's report on Friday.
U.S. officials said they would evaluate the documents to see if they provide a full disclosure and advance the process of destroying the arsenal, but wouldn't insist on fixed deadlines as they wait for international agencies and inspectors. The 41 countries on the OPCW's executive committee are working to agree on a timeline and other details before they convene.
"I think today was a step that we were looking for in terms of an initial document, and we'll go from there," said Marie Harf, a State Department spokeswoman. "These things take time. We know it's a massive stockpile. But we've said that this whole process needs to move forward very quickly."
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The OPCW, which has about 125 inspectors, was established in 1997 when the Chemical Weapons Convention took effect, prohibiting the production or use of chemical arms. The OPCW's members are the Chemical Weapons Convention's 189 signatories. Syria filed a request to become the 190th member on Sept. 14, in the wake of the U.S.-Russia agreement.
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Frankly, I have become increasingly rankled--irritated, if you will--by something of a rising great divide in the North American church. It was summarized in a recent exchange I witnessed in which pastors who described their church as a seeker congregation were challenged by others renouncing the term.
The former believed they were tuned to an enhanced approach to evangelism. The latter were persuaded that "seeker" meant shallow, and were confronting what they saw as a cheapened gospel--a message trimmed to suit the tastes of a pagan culture in order to entertain their presence.
My frustration is that I couldn't find complete agreement with either group, primarily because they were fixated on a term--"seeker sensitive." Each group either asserted or attacked the validity of the idea, and a solution was impossible because each espoused a different definition of what they meant by the concept.
One clearly felt the other was out of touch with the contemporary, while one perceived the other as having lost touch with the timeless. Because such ill-defined points of debate seem to regularly appear on the church's radar screen, breeding self-righteousness and separatism when they do, I am writing to get the subject on the table as a starter for us--especially we who pastor congregations where services have historically been times we expect God to visit and move among us in manifest ways.
It does appear that there are some undiscerning advocates of seeker-ism who are so committed to being cool and contemporary as the absolute prerequisite of ministry that they have entered a fog bank of coy and clever strategies, and have lost their bearings.
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It can be seen as priorities slide from achieving true evangelism and building a discipling church, to focusing events essentially driven by the sole value of simply sustaining something exciting.
At the same time, there clearly are purist critics whose pharisaical judgments have become hurled at terminology and ministry style that doesn't satisfy their criteria for a proper liturgy at church, and promotes their bluntly confrontational (albeit orthodox) preachments at every congregational gathering.
They are quick to announce that the sky is falling, that everything seeker-oriented is an indication that the church has sold the store. Presuming each understands the other's shallowness or hard-shelled-ness (take your pick), undefined, undiscussed suppositions dominate in most speeches made by advocates of seeker sensitivity pros or cons.
To my awareness, Bill Hybels--a cherished brother I've known for years and who has been in my pulpit just as I have been welcomed to his--is the leader who either coined the term seeker sensitive, or put it into common usage. Since I've known him for nearly 20 years, I think I understand something of his passion for souls and an awareness of the heartfelt compulsion that birthed his conception of seeker services.
Bill came from a highly traditional church background in upper-Midwestern America, where evangelicalism was sound of truth, but too seldom warm or embracing to guests. Having observed something of the same in my own early environment, I understand the crippling effect of a tired, outdated style of church service that projects irrelevance, irrespective of content; where a visitor is left uninformed of the liturgy, and their discomfort and edginess become obstacles to evangelism.
When Bill became determined to break that mold, at Willow Creek he led in framing a style of church life that revised the traditional Midwest evangelical service. His goal was not born of a desire to be clever, but driven by a passion--not to build a big church, but (using Bill's words) to "keep people from going to hell."
Bill Hybels doesn't need me to defend him, but I would like to underscore the fact that I know his purpose with seeker sensitivity goes beyond a style of outreach. It progresses beyond reaching and evangelizing, to growing people--to discipling them.
For my part, that's a critical qualifier in defining the subject; one that separates the myth of seeker sensitivity from the shallow and affirms the substantial--the establishing of people in Christ, not merely interesting them in a church experience.
With the exposures I've had to settings called seeker churches (some pleasant, some disturbing) I am convinced that there isn't any single interpretation of what seeker sensitive means.
In fact, I have found the seeker spirit everywhere I find leaders or churches that seek to reach their surrounding culture for Christ. Whether they use the term or not, I see it wherever a leader seeks to cultivate a tactical approach to penetrating that facet of a pagan world where God has placed his or her ministry.
Since seeking the lost is not a style, but a passion born in a leader's soul which begets approaches suited to each one's call, setting and point of cultural encounter, seeker sensitivity is not a one-size-fits-all concept. Such a definition needs to be overthrown.
If seeker sensitivity is allowed to be defined by a single culture, it will eventually become a Christianized cult--either a band of snobbishly superior, self-impressed leaders trapped in their programs and gimmicks, or a separatist tradition in blind pursuit of a self-styled approach that becomes an end in itself rather than a means to see souls saved and lives transformed.
In contrast, to my understanding, seeker sensitivity expresses a goal to communicate warmly and intelligently. For many leaders, it spawned a whole new vision of what church and church services might look like. Everything from parking lot to platform has undergone re-evaluation and deservedly so. Access and a sense of being cared for begins with a visitor's arrival and penetrates every aspect of the environment. So, leaders took a fresh look at what face a congregation shows when people visit there. It prompts concerns for:
This only begins a list of seeker values which I would think any sensible leader would be sensitive toward. Seeker sensitivity drives us to confront tired habits, dead traditions and institutional stodginess, and to refuse that kind of self-study is to guarantee cultural obsolescence no matter how pure my doctrine is.
He was a younger pastor who became oriented to what he called a seeker-church philosophy. When he said, "Jack, my experiences at The Church on the Way causes me to see it as seeker sensitive too," I was gratified. It wasn't because I felt he was either branding me a Willow-mime, or verifying my worth as an in touch leader. Rather, it pleased me because this early 40-something pastor recognized that the term is more than a catchphrase associated with a brand of ministry.
In fact, he had visited several of our services, where we aggressively involve people in a service, where expressive worship characterizes the congregation, where a manifest passion in public prayer and an orderly exercise of supernatural gifts are evident in the meeting and a forthright appeal calling people to a decision for Christ is presented after the message.
With discernment, this young leader recognized that seeker sensitivity is not defined by seeing how little commitment we dare exact of a visitor or newcomer.
To my view, that pastor gets it. I mean, he clearly is savvy to the idea that seeker services aren't stamped out of a cultural cookie-cutter. Instead, they are churches and services where people are warmly communicated with, where they are not left at sea about what is taking place, and where a holy respect of persons characterizes the way all planning, interaction with people and teaching from the pulpit takes place.
Accordingly, I can accept his describing us as "seeker sensitive," for it has not hindered, for example, our inviting visitors to enter in with our congregation when we lead everyone in all services (in a sensitive way) to join hands with others and form small circles of prayer together. (This practice, incidentally, not only doesn't hinder seekers, but has become one of our most effective means of evangelism.)
I think we're at a point of a reconciling view on seeker sensitivity can be declared and agreed to--one that centers (1) in granting liberty to each leader to shape the tactic for his environment that will best suit reaching his culture and (2) honestly brings us all to answer the question: "What do we think people are seeking at church anyway?"
In the last analysis, I don't think people can be lured to church by a cutesy program or be charmed by how cool the worship team is. Rather, I think we are living in a world of people that are desperately looking for a real relationship with God, and however we seek them, we must come to terms with the fact that they will never find or be found in an atmosphere more concerned with its classiness than its spiritual power.
A seeker church will discern the difference, and if we all pursue that passion, we'll not only dismantle a myth, we'll dismantle strongholds of spiritual resistance and see more and more people come to Jesus as Savior and Lord.
Jack W. Hayford, Litt.D., is the founding pastor of The Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California; chancellor of The King's College and Seminary and the president of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
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Medicine & Healthcare in Ghana by Geneviève Digby
How my volunteer experience in Ghana helped me become the Doctor I am today
In 2006, I was a keen undergraduate student studying Human Biology with aspirations of going to medical school. I was looking for a way to make my application to medical school more competitive, but I also wanted to broaden my horizons and experience more from the world. That's when I came across Projects Abroad and their Medical Placement in Ghana.
I spent 6 weeks learning and volunteering in a hospital in Kumasi, a city in central Ghana in the Ashanti Region. This experience would ultimately shape my medical career and my life moving forward. Since then, I went on to graduate from medical school, complete my residency in Internal Medicine and now, 7 years later I will be starting a fellowship in Respirology. As I return to Africa now to use my medical skills in a clinic in Tanzania, I am reminded of how instrumental my medical placement in Ghana with Projects Abroad was in shaping my career.
Arriving in Ghana
When I went to volunteer in Ghana, I knew very little about medicine. My placement in Kumasi involved volunteering at a small, local hospital and helping out with some of the organised trips to rural villages to help disseminate information about HIV.
At the hospital, I would observe as the doctor saw patients, and if patients spoke English, I would participate. There were surgeries in the operating room almost daily, and I would often assist with those. I will never forget "scrubbing in" on my first C-section – an experience I wouldn't have again until my fourth year of medical school! Deliveries were very common and I witnessed the birth of countless little Ghanaians. Overall, the doctors I worked with were very busy and very versatile, but were also extremely accommodating and sought to involve me as much as possible in their day-to-day work.
I experienced a lot of medicine and helped out where I could – weighing babies, writing prescriptions, or simply providing entertainment to the children. Despite this, the educational experience was so vast that I often felt as though I was getting much more out of the experience educationally than I was able to give back!
Visiting villages to raise awareness of HIV
At least once per week, I had the opportunity with another volunteer to travel to rural villages where the head doctor at the hospital would give educational talks to the villagers about HIV. I would help set up the equipment as required. We frequently got to meet the village chiefs, which was a fascinating experience in itself. But, perhaps the most enjoyable part was how amazed the village children were by seeing a white person, many for the first time. They would surround me and want to see me and touch my skin. My favourite memory from the villages was when I reached out my hand to a child and about a dozen little hands reached out to touch mine. It was a truly moving experience.
When I wasn't at the hospital, one of the hospital project coordinators would take me on tours of where he worked, or to villages where there were outreach projects, or sometimes I would spend time in an orphanage to visit some of the other volunteers that were working. Everyone was so accommodating and enriched my experience in Ghana in whatever ways possible.
Free time in Ghana
When not working, there were plenty of fun activities to be a part of. I visited Accra, the capital of Ghana for a volunteer gathering, travelled to Cape Coast and did the famous Canopy Walk. Even simply touring Kumasi was an incredible experience.
My time in Ghana taught me so much about medicine but also about fundamental aspects of global health and how they apply in a relatively poor country. The experience also taught me a lot about myself, solidified my goals and aspirations, altered some preconceived notions and broadened my understanding of the world.
I believe that my work with Projects Abroad helped me to become a better doctor and shaped the person that I am today. It has inspired me to learn more about global health and to return to Africa to apply the skills that I have learned. I am grateful for the experience I had and would recommend it to anyone contemplating a career in healthcare!
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"Theoretical NMR spectroscopy in solids"
I will give an introduction on how to model NMR chemical shifts [1] and quadrupole interactions [2] in solids using periodic boundary conditions, Density Functional Theory (DFT) and in particular our WIEN2k code[3]. I will discuss the accuracy and limitations of this approach [4] with an emphasis on understanding the origin [5] of the observed chemical shifts or quadrupole splittings. Finally I will show various examples starting from a series of very simple systems and moving on to rather complex materials, where the combination of experiment and theory can help to come to an unambiguous interpretation of the experiments.
[1] R. Laskowski, P. Blaha: "Calculating NMR chemical shifts using the augmented plane-wave method"; Physical Review B, 89 (2014), 014402.
[2] M. Body, C. Legein, J. Buzare, G. Silly, P. Blaha, C. Martineau, F. Calvayrac: "Advances in Structural Analysis of Fluoroaluminates Using DFT Calculations of 27AlElectric Field Gradients"; Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 111 (2007), S. 11873 - 11884.
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[4] R. Laskowski, P. Blaha, F. Tran: "Assessment of DFT functionals with NMR chemical shifts";
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[5] R. Laskowski, P. Blaha: "Origin of NMR shielding in fluorides"; Physical Review B, 85 (2012), 245117.
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When I was 4 years old my parents seperated. That was back in 1965. My brother, Donald and I were placed as wards of the court through Catholic Charities into the home of our patenal Aunt Dollyann (Bone) Johnson. Dollyann is a very wonderful lady. She is a devout Catholic. At the time she was raising six children of her own. She was married to Gordon William Johnson. A few years after we came to live with her Uncle Gordon became quite ill. He fought heart disease which at that time, open heart surgery had not yet been done. He became one of the first people on the recipient list to qualify for this new experimental procedure. Unfortantely he passed away in 1972 before he could have the surgery. Aunt Dollyann was now left to care for a very large family on her own. She found this nearly impossible. She soon came to the realization she could no longer keep Donald nor I in her care. That is when her eldest daughter, Alice Kay (Johnson) Durbin came forward and I came to live with her. I was adopted soon after.
My biological parents were John "Howard" Stephen Bone and Betty Mae Acton. Howard was a circus performer and traveled the country performing magic and various side show acts. Betty became his assistant in his magic show act. They had married in Aug of 1960 but by 1965 they had seperated. It was one of their tempered arguments which brought about the police and thus the reason for Donald and I being placed as wards of the court. I am sure there was probably more to it than that but I was a very small child and was never told the true reasons they split up and I don't suppose it was ever meant for me to know.
Betty went to live with her parents in Eustis/Deland, FL. Howard continued to travel with the circus. Donald and I were content living with Aunt Dolly and our cousins- Alice, Carolyn, Kathie, Marisue, Henry & Thomas. They treated us as if we were their little brother and sister in the best way they could. We came to accept them as such.
Howard (our Dad) would come to visit on occasion when he came through town. But he never stayed more than a few days at a time. Betty we rarely saw. On the few occasions she came to town our visitation with her was supervised through the Catholic Charities office with a case worker present. As for birthday's and Christmas... we never heard from her. Donald and I used to chat into the night about when and if our mother would come back for us. Then at some point our cousins convinced us that Aunt Dolly and Uncle Gordon were going to adopt us as their own. We kept waiting and waiting but Uncle Gordon become more and more ill.
I remember as a small child wondering what my mother was like. I knew she had another daughter named Susan. I could not understand why Susan was not with us. Betty's parents I knew were from England and that intriqued me. You see living in the midwest it was rare that a person ever met anyone from England more yet knew they were somehow related. I wondered why they had not helped our mother to come back and get Donald and I. Then I heard that Betty's mother had passed away.
I used to ask Aunt Dolly what my mother's parents names were and she would tell me that they are Mr. & Mrs. Acton. Dollyann was very strict about manners and calling people by their appropriate titles. I don't think I ever knew their first names until I took a trip to Florida as a teenager just before my adoption. (Later I would learn the real reason for this trip was so that Alice and her husband Barney could obtain Betty's signature for my adoption). That trip was the first time I can remember ever having spent any time with my mother and sister. Susan was a very sweet girl. Full of spunk but very delightful. She was just as excited to get to spend time with me.
Donald was never adopted. He had a personality conflict with Alice's husband Bareny Wayne Durbin. After one incident where he was reprimanded rather severely for a boyhood prank he told the case worker he wanted to be placed into the foster care system. He was soon being bounced from home to home.
When it came to genealogy - the Bone side of my family I was well educated on. My mother's side though I had no knowledge of. My adoptive parents, Alice and Barney, have always been understanding of the fact that I really needed to know more about my mother and her side of the family.
Unfortately shortly after I visited my mother in Florida, she and Susan and my grandfather went through some financial hardships and the home they had been living in for years they were forced to sell. Per Susan (my sister) the deal did not go as planned. They were left homeless. They turned to Betty's brother in New York to stay, but he soon grew tired of them. Then moved to Betty's sister's home. Betty's sister was unaccepting of Betty as she was not working and soon put her out. Betty's father, Karel, remained there but passed away soon after. Betty and Susan were left homeless again with no place to go.
They traveled as vagabond's about the country. Every few years I would get a letter from one of them but then my letter back to them would get returned and I would not hear from them again.
Then this past year I was astounded to learn a new amazing family secret. I received a call from a lady in AR who stated she was researching the family Acton and particularly an Acton who married a Bone. I listened to the lady explain that she was adopted when she was 3 days old. Her adoptive parents had driven for several hours to pick her up at a hospital in Olean new York. Still nothing made any sense to me as at the time I still did not know that my mother was from New York. When she first told me I dismissed her telling her that I was the oldest of the 3 children. After I got off the phone I started to think about it a little more. My mother I had been told was in her 30's when she had me. (I never knew how old she was). I started thinking that what if my mother had been married before my Dad. I then proceeded to pull out documents I had here from my adoption and Donald's birth certificate. It just struck me when I looked at it that there was a field on it that asked the mother "How many previous births not counting this child?" The field had a 2 in it.
I then called Dollyann and asked her if she had any knowledge of my mother ever having been married or having any children before me. To my shock I learned that she did know my mother had given up a baby daughter when she was in her teens. I promptly called the lady back in AR and advised her of what I had learned. We then started digging. I looked for any information I could find on my mother. I fonud some old letters that had been written about 7 years prior. Grasoing at straws I decided to try to write to her. I had no idea where she was even living by this point. I had an address for her and another for Susan. I tried them each.
Soon I received a response. Susan wrote me back asking why I was suddenly writing. (I did not give the details in the letter as figured that would be to much of a shock). I just wanted a re-aquaintance. Susan did not know where mom was living but last heard she was either in MS or TX. Another week went by and I received a call from my mother. She was beside herself in tears.
As it turned out she had been living in a nursing home in TX until Hurricane Katrina hit. The storms demolished the home she was living in and the Salvation Army had to air lift all the residents out to emergency shelters. She had been taken to the Salvation Army in Louisville, KY. (Just a few hours from my home). She was disoriented and really had no idea where she was really at. It turned out that a family in the area had taken her in (they owned a bed and breakfast) and put her up with them for several months and helped her to get into an apartment on her own in a high rise for the elderly.
I explained to her the reason for my tring to reach her and the mysterious call I had received. She asked me the name of the lady. I advised her the lady's name now is Susan Lantz but that at birth her name was Alice Marie Acton and she was adopted from a hospital in Olean, New York. Her name had been changed to Susan Ruth Cook upon her adoption. Mom started crying out "That is your sister!" she declared. Of course Susan and I were both a little more skeptical. We decided to have a DNA test done and it was soon confirmed that we were indeed blood relatives with 99.9% accuracy.
Shortly after we all met. Susan offered to move mom to AR to be near her and get to know her. Mom was of course estatic. A few months later Susan took a trip to visit her daughter in ID and mom totally lost her mind and went bezerk in route. After tehy arrived a few days later Mom had another attack and threw her walker at Susan's daughter and shoved her small child down. Mom was soon hospitalized. The doctors advised she was unstable to be moved. She remained in the hopital there until she could be stabilized. At which point she was placed in a nursing home in Kimberly, ID. Mom has been having delusions seeing things and saying things that are not there or are not true. She seemed to think she was engaged to Susan's husband and they were going on a honeymoon to the Bahama's.
Things have been stabilized for her and I am sure she is in good hands in the nursing home there but it saddens me that she has nobody nearby that she knows. There is no family there and when she passes away she will more than likely be buried by the state.
It is no wonder it is difficult to find some of our missing relatives when life happens to them. This is one reason I feel so driven to locate our missing relatives and to document each of them. If in 50 years one of my descendants would look at my family tree -- they would have to search the grounds over for all of the leaves that have fallen off and blown away.
In the sadness of all of this I am thankful for I have gained my 2 sisters,(yes both named Susan.) Susan Lantz resides in AR and Susan (Bone)Edwards resides in CA. At age 45 I am finally trying to attain that sisterly relationship that we whould have had growing up.
Knowing where to begin
I have had many people tell me they would love to find their missing relatives but have no idea where to begin looking. The best place to start is with what you know. Write it down! Who are your brother's and sisters? Who are your parents? Grandparents? Where did they live. Once you have the essential information that is when the fun begins. Find the obituary or memorial card you kept from when Grandpa passed away and record the date of his death. Next go to you county office and obtain a copy of his death certificate. It usually has the names of his parents on it. If not, then go to the library and locate the cenus record for the county that he was living in. It take's a while to go through and locate them but once you locate the first one in the census and find Grandpa and Grandma then you simply go back ten years to the previous census and until you find Grandpa with his parents. Sounds easy does'nt it. Well not always! Sometimes it pays off better to go to Grandma's side or to Uncle Waylon's. I have found that locating the unusal names are not always as easy as one would think. Just remember after you get back before 1850 records were not as easy to obtain and spelling errors are almost imminent. Always try to locate more than one source for each person. Don't forget to document your resource information. (I have learned that the hard way and now have to go back and enter the information in my computer files). Patience is a virtue when it comes to genealogy. I can go months without finding anything and then I will find one thing that will have numerous sources to follow up on. I also don't hesitate to look for other researchers on the same surnames. When you find that Your Great-Grandpa's brother has a great-grandaughter who is also researching the same line it is much easier to link the records up. Just be sure to check her resources and make sure everything is correct and matches up. It is not uncommon to run into issues with families nameing children after their parents and thus if the dates don't match. Don't link the file until you are positive you have the right John Doe.
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Hi, It is the first time I have been to this site and I am still unclear how to use it. I have quite an extensive Gedcom file which include many surnames. Some of those included are Acton, Bone, Kiely, Folsom, Baxter, Wilder, Miller, Grossman just to name a few. I have documented names and dates to the best of my ability but am just now going back to list sources. If I have a name in my file that someone needs a source on just ask and if I have the source information I will galdly share it. My file is unique in the fact that I was adopted by my cousin. Therefore I have a double history on my (biological) father's side of the family.
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Galván, Mahoney, Gariaeff; Desnoyers, Melis, Stafford, Williams, Irwin;
Lamplighters Music Theatre, with Chorus and Orchestra, Peeples. Lamplighters Music Theatre (2)
Ah, Iolanthe — what's not to love? Of all the operas in the Gilbert & Sullivan canon, Iolanthe combines Gilbert at his funniest and most satiric with a Sullivan score that contains, arguably, 1) the best men's chorus, "Loudly let the trumpet bray"; 2) the best double chorus, the Act I finale; 3) the best patter number, the Lord Chancellor's "Nightmare Song" in Act II; and 4) the most heartfelt and sincere solo aria, Iolanthe's "He loves." The Iolanthe story, pitting a corps of fairies against the House of Peers, has delighted audiences since 1882, when it became the first G&S opera to have its premiere at the Savoy Theatre. It ran for 398 performances, replete with sparkly wands, courtesy of that new-fangled discovery, electricity.
This new release from Lamplighters Music Theatre of San Francisco, the second in an anticipated sweep of the canon, was recorded live — with audience — at an August 2013 performance. This, of course, carries inherent risks, among them distracting stage noise and varying sound levels, as characters move about the stage. Fortunately, only the latter of these is an issue here (pardoning an errant thump or untimely cough). One case in point: Sonia Gariaeff, the Fairy Queen, sings with a lusty contralto, but I would hazard a guess that most of her entrances were from way upstage, judging from the inaudibility of crucial dialogue lines.
This Iolanthe is musically complete, with all dialogue scenes included. The hallmarks of this recording are the fine, well-rehearsed ensemble singing and the connection between singers and orchestra, a testament to the conducting skills of music director Baker Peeples. The vocal winner, from a truly excellent principal cast, is tenor Michael Desnoyers, whose crystal-clear timbre as Lord Tolloller contrasts with the edgier baritone of his friend Lord Mountararat, sung by the properly smug-sounding Robert Stafford. As the Arcadian shepherdess Phyllis, soprano Elena Galván's appeal is evident; her voice shines with a winsome, lyric luster. As sung by baritone John Melis, her half-a-fairy suitor Strephon is a strapping and commanding presence.
Rick Williams's solid characterization of the Lord Chancellor is tinged with what comes across as anger, combined with no small dose of dirty old man. Indeed, the Act I scene in which Phyllis appears before the lords has the leering, somewhat sinister feel of Susannah among the Elders. Williams also brings terrific diction and energy to his "Nightmare" patter (although there's some snarling, too). Molly Mahoney sings Iolanthe's great Act II aria with simplicity and eloquence. All other principals — including Lizzie Moss and Maayan Voss de Bettancourt, as Celia and Leila, and Sean Irwin, as Private Willis — handle their roles with skill and humor.
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The Mammoth Book of Best War Comics
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