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Solemn Charge.* 1I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingly power:a 2proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching.b 3For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity,* will accumulate teachersc 4and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths.d 5But you, be self-possessed in all circumstances; put up with hardship; perform the work of an evangelist; fulfill your ministry.

Reward for Fidelity. 6* e For I am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7* I have competed well; I have finished the race;f I have kept the faith. 8* From now on the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the just judge, will award to me on that day,g and not only to me, but to all who have longed for his appearance.

IV. Personal Requests and Final Greetings

Paul’s Loneliness. 9* Try to join me soon, 10for Demas, enamored of the present world, deserted me and went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia,* and Titus to Dalmatia.h 11Luke is the only one with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is helpful to me in the ministry.i 12I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus.j 13When you come, bring the cloak I left with Carpus in Troas, the papyrus rolls, and especially the parchments.k

14Alexander* the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.l 15You too be on guard against him, for he has strongly resisted our preaching.

16At my first defense no one appeared on my behalf, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them!m 17But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the proclamation might be completed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.n 18The Lord will rescue me from every evil threat and will bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.o

Final Greeting. 19Greet Prisca and Aquila* and the family of Onesiphorus.p 20Erastus* remained in Corinth, while I left Trophimus sick at Miletus.q 21Try to get here before winter. Eubulus, Pudens, Linus,* Claudia, and all the brothers send greetings.

22The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with all of you.r

* [4:15] The gravity of the obligation incumbent on Timothy to preach the word can be gauged from the solemn adjuration: in the presence of God, and of Christ coming as universal judge, and by his appearance and his kingly power (2 Tm 4:1). Patience, courage, constancy, and endurance are required despite the opposition, hostility, indifference, and defection of many to whom the truth has been preached (2 Tm 4:25).

* [4:3] Insatiable curiosity: literally, “with itching ears.”

* [4:6] The apostle recognizes his death through martyrdom to be imminent. He regards it as an act of worship in which his blood will be poured out in sacrifice; cf. Ex 29:3840; Phil 2:17.

* [4:7] At the close of his life Paul could testify to the accomplishment of what Christ himself foretold concerning him at the time of his conversion, “I will show him what he will have to suffer for my name” (Acts 9:16).

* [4:8] When the world is judged at the parousia, all who have eagerly looked for the Lord’s appearing and have sought to live according to his teachings will be rewarded. The crown is a reference to the laurel wreath placed on the heads of victorious athletes and conquerors in war; cf. 2 Tm 2:5; 1 Cor 9:25.

* [4:913] Demas either abandoned the work of the ministry for worldly affairs or, perhaps, gave up the faith itself (2 Tm 4:10). Luke (2 Tm 4:11) may have accompanied Paul on parts of his second and third missionary journeys (Acts 16:1012; 20:57). Notice the presence of the first personal pronoun “we” in these Acts passages, suggesting to some that Luke (or at least some traveling companion of Paul’s) was the author of Acts. Mark, once rejected by Paul (Acts 13:13; 15:39), is now to render him a great service (2 Tm 4:11); cf. Col 4:10; Phlm 24. For Tychicus, see Eph 6:21; cf. also Acts 20:4; Col 4:7.

* [4:10] Galatia: some manuscripts read “Gaul” or “Gallia.”

* [4:1418] Alexander: an opponent of Paul’s preaching (2 Tm 4:1415), perhaps the one who is mentioned in 1 Tm 1:20. Despite Paul’s abandonment by his friends in the province of Asia (cf. 2 Tm 1:1516), the divine assistance brought this first trial to a successful issue, even to the point of making the gospel message known to those who participated in or witnessed the trial (2 Tm 4:1617).

* [4:19] Prisca and Aquila: they assisted Paul in his ministry in Corinth (Acts 18:23) and Ephesus (Acts 18:19, 26; 1 Cor 16:19). They risked death to save his life, and all the Gentile communities are indebted to them (Rom 16:35).

* [4:20] Erastus: he was the treasurer of the city of Corinth (Rom 16:24); cf. also Acts 19:22. Trophimus: from the province of Asia, he accompanied Paul from Greece to Troas (Acts 20:45).

* [4:21] Linus: Western tradition sometimes identified this Linus with the supposed successor of Peter as bishop of Rome, and Claudia as the mother of Linus (Apostolic Constitutions, fourth century).

a. [4:1] 1 Tm 5:21; 6:14 / Acts 10:42; Rom 14:910; 1 Pt 4:5.

b. [4:2] Acts 20:20, 31; 1 Tm 5:20.

c. [4:3] 1 Tm 4:1.

d. [4:4] 1 Tm 1:4; 4:7; Ti 1:14.

e. [4:6] Phil 2:17.

f. [4:7] 1 Tm 1:18; 6:12; Jude 3 / Acts 20:24; 1 Cor 9:24; Heb 12:1.

g. [4:8] 2:5; Wis 5:16; 1 Cor 9:25; Phil 3:14; Jas 1:12; 1 Pt 5:4; Rev 2:10.

h. [4:10] Col 4:14; Phlm 24 / 2 Cor 2:13; 7:67; 8:23; Gal 2:3; Ti 1:4.

i. [4:11] Col 4:14; Phlm 24 / Col 4:10; Phlm 24.

j. [4:12] Acts 20:4; Eph 6:21; Col 4:7.

k. [4:13] Acts 16:8; 20:6.

l. [4:14] 1 Tm 1:20 / 2 Sm 3:39; Ps 28:4; 62:12; Prv 24:12; Rom 2:6.

m. [4:16] 1:15.

n. [4:17] Acts 23:11; 27:23; Phil 4:13 / 1 Mc 2:60; Ps 22:22; Dn 6:23.

o. [4:18] 2 Cor 1:10 / Rom 16:27.

p. [4:19] Acts 18:2; Rom 16:3; 1 Cor 16:19 / 1:16.

q. [4:20] Acts 19:22; Rom 16:24 / Acts 20:4; 21:29.

r. [4:22] Gal 6:18; Phil 4:23; Col 4:18; 1 Tm 6:21; Ti 3:15.

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The Man Born Blind. 1* As he passed by he saw a man blind from birth.a 2* His disciples asked him,b “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him.c 4We have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.d 5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”e 6When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes,f 7and said to him, “Go wash* in the Pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed, and came back able to see.g

8His neighbors and those who had seen him earlier as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the one who used to sit and beg?” 9Some said, “It is,” but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” He said, “I am.” 10So they said to him, “[So] how were your eyes opened?” 11He replied, “The man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went there and washed and was able to see.” 12And they said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”

13They brought the one who was once blind to the Pharisees. 14Now Jesus had made clay* and opened his eyes on a sabbath.h 15So then the Pharisees also asked him how he was able to see. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.” 16So some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he does not keep the sabbath.” [But] others said, “How can a sinful man do such signs?” And there was a division among them.i 17So they said to the blind man again, “What do you have to say about him, since he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”j

18Now the Jews did not believe that he had been blind and gained his sight until they summoned the parents of the one who had gained his sight. 19They asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How does he now see?” 20His parents answered and said, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 21We do not know how he sees now, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him, he is of age; he can speak for him self.” 22* k His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone acknowledged him as the Messiah, he would be expelled from the synagogue. 23For this reason his parents said, “He is of age; question him.”l

24So a second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give God the praise!* We know that this man is a sinner.”m 25He replied, “If he is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know is that I was blind and now I see.” 26So they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” 27He answered them, “I told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?” 28They ridiculed him and said, “You are that man’s disciple; we are disciples of Moses! 29We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this one is from.”n 30The man answered and said to them, “This is what is so amazing, that you do not know where he is from, yet he opened my eyes. 31We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if one is devout and does his will, he listens to him.o 32* It is unheard of that anyone ever opened the eyes of a person born blind. 33If this man were not from God, he would not be able to do anything.”p 34They answered and said to him, “You were born totally in sin, and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.

35When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, he found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” 36He answered and said, “Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” 37Jesus said to him, “You have seen him and the one speaking with you is he.”q 38He said, “I do believe, Lord,” and he worshiped him. 39* Then Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see might see, and those who do see might become blind.”r

40Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not also blind, are we?”s 41Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you are saying, ‘We see,’ so your sin remains.t

* [9:110:21] Sabbath healing of the man born blind. This fifth sign is introduced to illustrate the saying, “I am the light of the world” (Jn 8:12; 9:5). The narrative of conflict about Jesus contrasts Jesus (light) with the Jews (blindness, Jn 9:3941). The theme of water is reintroduced in the reference to the pool of Siloam. Ironically, Jesus is being judged by the Jews, yet the Jews are judged by the Light of the world; cf. Jn 3:1921.

* [9:2] See note on Jn 5:14, and Ex 20:5, that parents’ sins were visited upon their children. Jesus denies such a cause and emphasizes the purpose: the infirmity was providential.

* [9:7] Go wash: perhaps a test of faith; cf. 2 Kgs 5:1014. The water tunnel Siloam (= Sent) is used as a symbol of Jesus, sent by his Father.

* [9:14] In using spittle, kneading clay, and healing, Jesus had broken the sabbath rules laid down by Jewish tradition.

* [9:22] This comment of the evangelist (in terms used again in Jn 12:42; Jn 16:2) envisages a situation after Jesus’ ministry. Rejection/excommunication from the synagogue of Jews who confessed Jesus as Messiah seems to have begun ca. A.D. 85, when the curse against the mînîm or heretics was introduced into the “Eighteen Benedictions.”

* [9:24] Give God the praise!: an Old Testament formula of adjuration to tell the truth; cf. Jos 7:19; 1 Sm 6:5 LXX. Cf. Jn 5:41.

* [9:32] A person born blind: the only Old Testament cure from blindness is found in Tobit (cf. Tb 7:7; 11:713; 14:12), but Tobit was not born blind.

* [9:3941] These verses spell out the symbolic meaning of the cure; the Pharisees are not the innocent blind, willing to accept the testimony of others.

a. [9:12] Is 42:7.

b. [9:2] Ex 20:5; Ez 18:20; Lk 13:2.

c. [9:3] 5:14; 11:4.

d. [9:4] 11:910; 12:3536.

e. [9:5] 8:12.

f. [9:6] 5:11; Mk 7:33; 8:23.

g. [9:7] 2 Kgs 5:1014.

h. [9:14] 5:9.

i. [9:16] 3:2; Mt 12:1011; Lk 13:1011; 14:14.

j. [9:17] 4:19.

k. [9:22] 7:13; 12:42; 16:2; 19:38.

l. [9:23] 12:42.

m. [9:24] Jos 7:19; 1 Sm 6:5 LXX.

n. [9:29] Ex 33:11.

o. [9:31] 10:21; Ps 34:16; 66:18; Prv 15:29; Is 1:15.

p. [9:33] 3:2.

q. [9:37] 4:26; Dn 7:13.

r. [9:39] Mt 13:3335.

s. [9:40] Mt 15:14; 23:26; Rom 2:19.

t. [9:41] 15:22.

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The Miserere: Prayer of Repentance

1For the leader. A psalm of David, 2when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone in to Bathsheba.a

3Have mercy on me, God, in accord with your merciful love;

in your abundant compassion blot out my transgressions.

4Thoroughly wash away my guilt;

and from my sin cleanse me.

5For I know my transgressions;

my sin is always before me.b

6Against you, you alone have I sinned;

I have done what is evil in your eyes

So that you are just in your word,

and without reproach in your judgment.c

7Behold, I was born in guilt,

in sin my mother conceived me.*d

8Behold, you desire true sincerity;

and secretly you teach me wisdom.

9Cleanse me with hyssop,* that I may be pure;

wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.e

10You will let me hear gladness and joy;

the bones you have crushed will rejoice.

11Turn away your face from my sins;

blot out all my iniquities.

12A clean heart create for me, God;

renew within me a steadfast spirit.f

13Do not drive me from before your face,

nor take from me your holy spirit.g

14Restore to me the gladness of your salvation;

uphold me with a willing spirit.

15I will teach the wicked your ways,

that sinners may return to you.

16Rescue me from violent bloodshed, God, my saving God,

and my tongue will sing joyfully of your justice.h

17Lord, you will open my lips;

and my mouth will proclaim your praise.

18For you do not desire sacrifice* or I would give it;

a burnt offering you would not accept.i

19My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit;

a contrite, humbled heart, O God, you will not scorn.

20*Treat Zion kindly according to your good will;

build up the walls of Jerusalem.j

21Then you will desire the sacrifices of the just,

burnt offering and whole offerings;

then they will offer up young bulls on your altar.

* [Psalm 51] A lament, the most famous of the seven Penitential Psalms, prays for the removal of the personal and social disorders that sin has brought. The poem has two parts of approximately equal length: Ps 51:310 and Ps 51:1119, and a conclusion in Ps 51:2021. The two parts interlock by repetition of “blot out” in the first verse of each section (Ps 51:3, 11), of “wash (away)” just after the first verse of each section (Ps 51:4) and just before the last verse (Ps 51:9) of the first section, and of “heart,” “God,” and “spirit” in Ps 51:12, 19. The first part (Ps 51:310) asks deliverance from sin, not just a past act but its emotional, physical, and social consequences. The second part (Ps 51:1119) seeks something more profound than wiping the slate clean: nearness to God, living by the spirit of God (Ps 51:1213), like the relation between God and people described in Jer 31:3334. Nearness to God brings joy and the authority to teach sinners (Ps 51:1516). Such proclamation is better than offering sacrifice (Ps 51:1719). The last two verses express the hope that God’s good will toward those who are cleansed and contrite will prompt him to look favorably on the acts of worship offered in the Jerusalem Temple (Ps 51:19 [2021]).

* [51:7] In sin my mother conceived me: lit., “In iniquity was I conceived,” an instance of hyperbole: at no time was the psalmist ever without sin, cf. Ps 88:15, “I am mortally afflicted since youth,” i.e., I have always been afflicted. The verse does not imply that the sexual act of conception is sinful.

* [51:9] Hyssop: a small bush whose many woody twigs make a natural sprinkler. It was prescribed in the Mosaic law as an instrument for sprinkling sacrificial blood or lustral water for cleansing, cf. Ex 12:22; Lv 14:4; Nm 19:18.

* [51:18] For you do not desire sacrifice: the mere offering of the ritual sacrifice apart from good dispositions is not acceptable to God, cf. Ps 50.

* [51:2021] Most scholars think that these verses were added to the Psalm some time after the destruction of the Temple in 587 B.C. The verses assume that the rebuilt Temple will be an ideal site for national reconciliation.

a. [51:2] 2 Sm 12.

b. [51:5] Ps 32:5; 38:19; Is 59:12.

c. [51:6] Rom 3:4.

d. [51:7] Jb 14:4.

e. [51:9] Jb 9:30; Is 1:18; Ez 36:25.

f. [51:12] Ez 11:19.

g. [51:13] Wis 1:5; 9:17; Is 63:11; Hg 2:5; Rom 8:9.

h. [51:16] Ps 30:10.

i. [51:18] Ps 40:7; 50:8; Am 5:2122; Hos 6:6; Is 1:1115; Heb 10:57.

j. [51:20] Jer 31:4; Ez 36:33.

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Senate Needs To Be Drawing Up Amendments For Healthcare Bill Bigtime! (Part Two)

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    The Senate bill lays the responsibility for paying for the exchanges on the backs of the states. Even though for the first few years, until Jan. 1, 2015, the bill provides for financial grants to be given to individual states for this purpose it is doubtful these monies will fully cover each states costs for their exchange. Moreover, the bills plan for each state to fund its exchange which is that it gives each state the authority to charge a fee to the insurance companies that offer health insurance through the exchange is inadequate. States have to be mindful that any fee charged to these insurance companies will be passed on to consumers so the fee will have to be modest which means from a practical standpoint that the money each state gets from this fee and the other general revenue raising power given to the states by the Senate bill will not be sufficient to cover the cost of operating the exchange so states will be saddled with another unfunded federal mandate that they have to pay for out of their general revenue fund. These cost considerations make this individual state exchange idea a disastrous, extremely dumb idea. States cant afford this exchange mandate, many states arent even fulfilling their Federal Medicaid mandate because they cant afford it. Is the Senate oblivious to what is currently going on in the states? Many states are cutting staff and raising taxes, they are fighting to avoid or are in a financial crisis! The Senate should amend this bill and scrap the individual state exchange idea and adopt a one exchange idea run by the Federal government like what is in the House bill. The House bill on this topic is pretty good except for the Houses idea to actually have the exchange register Americans in individual private insurance plans which is foolish because it is an unnecessary expense, leave that task to private insurance companies.

    If the Senate adopts a one federal government exchange idea, it is more efficient and thus cost effective than a fifty or individual state idea. In the fifty state idea, collectively the states will have an enormous amount of duplicative staff such as insurance experts, lawyers, IT professionals and management, etc.; eliminating duplicative staff in the one exchange idea will save an enormous amount of money. Plus, in the individual state idea what the country will have is state employees enforcing federal government laws and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Secretary of H.H.S.. It seems pretty nonsensical to expect state employees to enforce well federal laws and regulations especially when one considers that to a large degree it will be in individual states interests to make available low cost health insurance to their citizens which the Federal governments regulations will often work against. Even disregarding the state enforcing federal regulation issue to operate an insurance exchange well, that is, insuring good plans are offered on the exchange, monitoring these plans and performing all the exchange customer service functions well, etc. will be an enormous challenge - America will be fortunate if it can get one exchange to run well let alone fifty. In addition, it will be easier and less costly for insurance companies to deal with one exchange compared to numerous exchanges because remember some insurance companies sell health insurance in multiple states and also human nature being what it is exchange staff in different states will likely in some cases interpret regulations differently thus requiring private insurance companies to in effect jump through different hoops to get their plan placed on different states exchanges. Lastly, having a fifty state exchange system will design vulnerabilities for corruption into the health insurance system across the nation. Remember, exchanges will have discretion on what insurance plans they offer on their exchange; instead of having one management staff that needs to be ethical which the one exchange idea would require, the nation will need fifty management staffs to be ethical in the individual exchange idea  the Senate is living in a fantasy world if they think the latter scenario will occur!

    The Senate Democrat leadership is really behaving in an egregiously underhanded manner with the public option provisions in the Senate bill. The majority of Americans dont want a government run single payer health care system, they recognize that it will lead to health care rationing and hold back advancement and excellence in health care for patients. Wise Americans recognize that the public option is absolutely a bad idea because it will put the nation on a course for a single payer system because the federal government will not be able to resist the temptation to mandate Medicare like health care provider prices for the public option and once this happens the public option will have a cost advantage and will be able to undercut private insurance companies on premium prices which will eventually drive the private insurance companies out of the health insurance business. So to address this huge concern amongst Americans our esteemed Democrat Senate Leaders publicly proclaim we got the message loud and clear and what we will do is we will write into the bill that the public option has to negotiate prices with health care providers just like private insurance companies. So our esteemed Democrat Senate Leaders have preserved fair competition in the health insurance industry, right? Wrong, immediately following the provision in the bill requiring the public option to negotiate prices is a provision mandating that the public option insurer is not to be charged higher than the average price charged considering the prices charged to all the insurance issuers listed on the exchange (Sec.1323(b)(6)(B)). This means that the public option issuer has a built in by law competitive advantage over at least some of the private insurers. Congressional leadership is beginning, that is from day one, this public option initiative with this competitive advantage for the public option issuer and they expect proponents of a strong private health insurance industry to trust them that they will maintain a level playing field for private insurance companies to compete. This leadership is out of its cotton-pickin mind, the American people shouldnt trust Washington one iota on this issue, the American peoples position on this issue for Congress should be Congress dont even open up the door for the public-option, dont even include it in the reform bill to any degree because we the American people dont trust Washington on this issue!

    The other thing about the Senate bill that is not widely known amongst the American people and should make Americans unsettled about the public option involves the way the bill implements the public option. The way the Senate bill implements the public option is that the bill instructs that the Secretary of H.H.S. is to hire a vendor to be a contract administrator for the public option insurance issuer for each and every state, the contracts are to run five to ten years and this vendor scheme appears from the bill to go on in perpetuity (Sec. 1323(e)). One of the extremely important concerns amongst the American people with this reform bill is that the Federal Government is not with this public option initiative creating another entitlement program which puts the American taxpayer on the hook to pay for it  because the American people cant afford it! To ordinary Americans this public option as the saying goes looks, smells and tastes like an entitlement program! Democrat Senate leaders like to often sound off that they are doing what the American people want, Let this leadership do a poll amongst the American people on this contract administrator initiative for the public option and see how many Americans think this is a good idea!

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I have waited several days to see how the aftermath of the first 2016 Republican Debate would play out following the explosive confrontations between Fox News host Megyn Kelly, and front-runner Donald Trump. After watching what is happening in the news media and on social media, the biggest winners seem to be the candidates who appeared in the 5pm “early” debate broadcast.

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rodThe University of Toledo (UT) supports the Northwest Ohio Stuttering Clinic (NWOSC) on its campus. The NWOSC is the only private practice, nonprofit clinic in the Greater Toledo Area that focusses on the evaluation and treatment of stuttering, conducting cutting edge research on stuttering, and educating the community about stuttering. The clinic is directed by Rodney M. Gabel, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-F. Dr. Gabel is a certified and licensed speech-language pathologist and a Board-Recognized Specialist in Fluency and Fluency Disorders.

The Northwest Ohio Stuttering Clinic offers a broad range of services to individuals who stutter. Dr. Gabel and other trained Speech-Language Pathologists offer assessment and treatment, including in-person and telepractice sessions, to adults and children who stutter in Toledo and locations beyond Toledo. For information about fees and service and to schedule a session, please contact Dr. Gabel by email or phone 419-530-6682.

Two intensive clinics are offered. The first is the Intensive Stuttering Clinic for Children and their Families (ISCCF). The clinic is designed to provide services for older children between the ages of 8 and 12 and their parents. The program will focus on teaching children about stuttering, address negative attitudes and feelings about speaking, learn better means of coping with stuttering, and use effective techniques for speaking more fluently. Parents will be engaged in an educational program during the clinic, so one parent is required to be involved during the entire program. Parents are a critical part of treatment, thus the educational program is a critical part of this program.

This 5 day clinic will be offered July 10th -14th during the summer of 2017. This is one of very few intensive programs for children in this age group in the country. The cost of the clinic is $400 for the entire clinic, including the cost of therapy and housing for those traveling a great distance to attend the clinic. This low price is possible due to the generosity of the UT Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic and the Psi Iota Xi National sorority (other scholarships may be available).

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The Intensive Stuttering Clinic for Adolescents and Adults (ISCAA), will also be offered during the summer of 2017. This intensive therapy program includes 60 hours of direct treatment (both groups and individual sessions). The purpose of this intensive clinic is to help adolescents (12 years and older) and adults who stutter to develop positive coping strategies for dealing with stuttering. Participants will increase their understanding of stuttering and learn to communicate effectively.
art museum clinic photoThey will learn to eliminate their maladaptive reactions to stuttering and reduce their stuttering severity. This clinic is for individuals who are willing to invest a significant amount of time and energy to make meaningful changes in their speech and their lives. To date, research suggests that this program helps people who stutter to make significant changes.

As with the ISCCF, this 10 day clinic (offered Monday-Friday, no weekend therapy) is one of very few intensive clinics that are offered throughout the country. The 2017 clinic will run from July 10th through July 21st. The cost is $800 for the entire clinic. This fee includes the price of all therapy and housing for the entire intensive portion of the clinic. As with the ISCCF, this low price is available due to the support of the University of the Toledo (UT) Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic and generosity of our community supporters, especially the Psi Iota Xi National sorority. Additional scholarships and sliding scales may be available.

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Important details about both intensive clinics are as follows:

  • Up to 10 participants for each clinic. The ISCCF will include students between 8 and 12; the ISCAA Is for individuals over the age of 12.
  • The therapy delivered during each clinic emphasizes teaching individuals to modify his/her stuttering, eliminate maladaptive behaviors related to stuttering, and change the negative or self-defeating emotional reactions, feelings, and attitudes related to speech.
  • The ISCCF offers 30 hours of therapy and the ISCAA offers 60 hours of formal treatment during the intensive clinic. The clinic sessions will run from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm for each clinic. Participants will also schedule three 30-minute diagnostic sessions to be completed prior to attending the clinic. Details regarding these sessions can be discussed with Dr. Gabel.
  • Housing will be offered in one of the residence halls at UT. Meals are not included, but there are several dining halls on campus and many restaurants close to campus. Those participants under the age of 18 will need to stay with a parent or guardian during the program. Those interested in housing in Toledo, but not in the residence hall, should contact Dr. Gabel to discuss options.
  •  For those who cannot attend the  programs in July, an additional one-week intensive program is available the week of June 26th, 2017. This one week clinic is for people of all ages.

This clinical program is supported through a National Project Grant from the Psi Iota XI National Sorority and through donations made by Psi Iota Xi chapters in Ohio. To learn more about Psi Iota Xi, please visit their website.

Research Papers About the Therapy Programs

Gabel, R., & Irani, F. (2012). Improving services for people who stutter: Intensive therapy and telepractice. eHearsay, 2, 71-78.

Irani, F., Gabel, R., Daniels, D., & Hughes, S. (2012). The long term effectiveness intensive stuttering therapy: A mixed methods study. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 3, 164-178.

Irani, F., & Gabel, R. (2011). Intensive stuttering therapy with telepractice follow-up: A case study. Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders, 21, 11-21.

Gabel, R., Irani, F., Palasik, S., Swartz, E., & Hughes, C. (2010). Treatment Outcomes of the Intensive Stuttering Therapy for Adolescents and Adults. In A. Harrison (Ed.), Speech Disorders: Causes, treatments, and social effects (pp. 139-158). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Gabel, R., Daniels, D., & Hughes, S. (2008). A mixed-model approach to studying treatment outcomes. Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders, 18, 6-16.

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Safety and helicopter maintenance have had a long – and interesting – relationship.  During the past two decades, safety has played an ever-increasing role and is now one of the primary influences on each and every task mechanics perform.

But can too much initiative in the name of safety have a more negative than positive effect in a maintenance environment?  Can safety actually become a hazard?

"What you talk’n bout, Willis?”

No, this is not about removing basic safety procedures, nor regressing to the old days of bathing in MEK, or working 48 hours straight to change an S-76 transmission.  This topic focuses on the current shift to apply abstract safety initiatives directly into aircraft maintenance procedures.

Somewhere along the line when it came to safety policies, or of late, Safety Management Systems (SMS), maintenance operations became grouped with the rest of the company instead of remaining with flight operations.  This opened the door for flight-critical maintenance operations to be influenced by a company’s general industrial safety policies, customer-developed standards, and other third party initiatives.

One result of this shift has been the increase in safety documentation and procedures mechanics are required to use during aircraft maintenance.  While these new initiatives are a positive force in theory, their sheer volume is starting to mitigate the actual maintenance task more than the hazards associated with that task.

Unfortunately, most people assume that anything labeled “safety” is good and therefore should not be questioned — anyone with a differing opinion risks being labeled a rebel or not a team player.  Even for those SMS programs that have an established two-way dialogue policy, or “stop work” policy, it can be difficult to communicate these emerging conflicts to those not involved

However, time is running out.  With Safety Management Systems soon approaching regulatory status, it is imperative that we open a positive, information-based dialogue about the relationship between maintenance and safety before our maintenance operations are once again lost in the transition.

Growing Trend

To illustrate this shift we only need to compare the work environments of mechanics and pilots.  In the past, a pilot simply performed his duties with his hands on the controls, his flight manual and company manuals close by, and a basic flight plan.  Within this same time period a mechanic stood at the aircraft, wrench in hand with the maintenance and company manuals at his side, ready to perform his assigned tasks.

Fast forward to today where the cockpit environment has remained basically the same.  Except for a few more buttons to push, it’s still the pilot, his two manuals, and the act of flying the aircraft.  On the other hand, we find the mechanic is still in the maintenance office reviewing the SMS manuals and the customer-required maintenance task forms, while waiting for the maintenance computer to download the required Job Safety Assessments (JSA).

Now, with the appropriate maintenance manual, company maintenance manual, company SMS manual, customer task form, JSAs, and company safety notices in hand, the mechanic can approach the aircraft.  And once he gathers his maintenance gloves and bump helmet he might actually be able to start his assigned tasks.

So what the heck happened?

The Confusion

When we apply an informal safety analysis to our maintenance operations, we encounter an unbalanced assessment when compared to flight operations.  To start, I don’t recall hearing about or reading about an upswing in industry-wide maintenance related incidents, or an increased risk of maintenance related errors and omissions.  Yet, there has been a tenfold increase in the amount of preparation mechanics must undergo in order to perform their tasks safely.

What makes it even more confusing is that a majority of these additional safety procedures are already covered in most manufacturer maintenance manuals or, in some cases, the company manuals.  So why generate duplicate, and often conflicting, additional maintenance requirements when there is no risk history?  The standard answer: safety protocol.

If that is true then why don’t we have pilots review a JSA on enhanced operational control or inadvertent IMC prior to each flight?  Or, why isn’t proper flight planning included in the SMS manual?  Or, why aren’t pilots required to use flight helmets, nomex, and gloves in all flight operations?  All of which have been topics in numerous public discussions, along with a well-documented risk history. The standard answer: cockpit distraction.

Yet, it’s not distracting in aircraft maintenance operations?

The question now is how do we transfer our maintenance operations from the current industrial-safety level to the flight-safety level that oversees flight operations.  Simple, we troubleshoot it just like any other discrepancy, by first defining the situation.

The Basics

In terms of actual work, the main difference between flight operations and maintenance is the ability of pilots to accomplish their work tasks (flying) within a controlled environment.  As a matter of fact, in 1981 the FAA enacted FAR 121.542 and FAR 135.100, better known as the Sterile Cockpit Rule, to ensure that only essential activities were undertaken during critical stages of flight.  This effectively allows the pilot to concentrate on his main task (flying the aircraft) free of unnecessary distractions.

In contrast, mechanics work in an uncontrolled environment.  With no regulatory oversight, our work environment has become ever increasingly cluttered with redundant requirements, non-maintenance procedures, and other distractions that would be more appropriate in a general industrial setting rather than in a flight-critical maintenance function.

One option to curb this non-regulatory path of influence on maintenance safety oversight, and regain our “sterile” environment, is the use of a fundamental safety tool: risk assessment.

Risk Management

At the core of most safety programs is some form of risk management that identifies and quantifies the different levels of risk exposure.  Each perceived risk is assessed and, if needed, an appropriate barrier is developed to mitigate that risk.

Our very own helicopter industry would not exist in its present form without managed and acceptable risks.  For example, nearly every certified rotorcraft cannot perform 100% of its duties without entering the shaded area of its height verses velocity performance chart at some point.  However, on a daily basis the majority of the industry operates their aircraft within this area.

Why?  Because it was determined to be an acceptable risk.  This risk is even supported by specific regulations that allow pilots to transition through these terminal performance areas: FAR 91.9(d) and FAR 136.13(b).  So it is important to understand that while there may be risks in our maintenance operations, these risks can be mitigated without an overabundance of initiatives that only further distance the mechanic from the most important item – the actual work on the aircraft.

Taking Corrective Action

Following the FAA’s lead, we could call this process the Sterile Maintenance Rule.  To start with, amend existing SMS programs so that the applicable aircraft manufacturer’s documentation is the foundation for all safety requirements during the performance of maintenance on the aircraft.  The manufacturers have done an outstanding job of documenting the potential hazards involved in maintaining their aircraft, and it would be a disservice not to use those warnings, cautions, and notes.

The second tier of maintenance safety initiatives should be the company maintenance manual.  It should reflect all company-initiated modifications, additions, and substitutions – with their associated safety requirements – to the manufacturer’s documentation.   References to other supporting maintenance documents like ASBs, STCs, TBs, internal safety alerts, customer task cards, etc. should also be included in the appropriate sections.  For large diverse fleets, a separate company manual can be generated for each specific model, maintenance manual, and/or manufacturer.

If an SMS program mandates JSAs, then initiate one JSA that references adherence to factory and company maintenance manual safety instructions.  This JSA could be affixed to the outside cover of each manual to ensure its review.

And this is where it should stop.  Keeping all pertinent safety and maintenance information in a simple, concise, and organized system promotes safety in itself by reducing the chances of a mechanic missing an item in a system that is spread out over numerous locations and formats.

Ideally, a final action would be to standardize the entire maintenance operation.  Nothing will promote a safer working environment better than removing the individual learning curves a mechanic faces when moving between maintenance locations and departments.  While this particular initiative is always met with the dreaded “cost” stigma, it begs to ask: Can a company truly afford to put a “price” on safety, when the entire industry has made safety its new battle cry?

To sum up, I believe increased levels of safety awareness, and the resulting safety initiatives, are a good thing.  But as with all good things, too much can also create problems.  A striking example is the Macondo Prospect blowout and oil spill in April 2010.  The companies involved were among the most safety conscious and structured entities in the world, yet they suffered one of the most tragic events in recent history.  Unfortunately, the only discussions on avoiding a repeat of this event appear to revolve around adding more levels of safety initiatives, instead of correcting the existing ones.

I think as mechanics we must insist that all safety-related initiatives be secondary to our main responsibility of performing maintenance on the aircraft.   And unless the current trend is altered, we may find ourselves victim to the very same safety initiatives put in place to protect us.

About the author: Scott has worked in various maintenance positions at a major helicopter operator for over 31 years.  When not working his scheduled seven-day hitch, he provides technical writing and research services through his business TEK Aviation LLC, and can be contacted at tekaviation@cox.net

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All kinds of advice came back that seemed messy or involved me buying something. Un-du, Goo be gone, Gobbledy gook, rubbing alcohol followed by detergent, mineral spirits and on and on. I put it down on the washing machine, perhaps hoping it would take care of itself. God knows I spent enough money on that machine that it should work by itself.

So I cleaned the laundry room the other day and there. it. was. Not fixed all by itself.

Now I have to actually do something about it or throw it out. I’m not throwing out a perfectly good (other than the mess on the front) shirt. So back downstairs to the internets I go. I look it up again and something catches my eye.

How did I not see it before? It’s practically in my DNA from my father – Duct Tape.

Of course, Duct Tape. Adhesive removes adhesive!

Just put some tape on the sticker residue, press firmly, and peel off. Seriously. That’s it.

No sticker shirt

If I were a better blogger there would be a before picture of the shirt. But I’m not, so there isn’t.

(sing it with me now)

Mighty glad you stayed :-)

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    I just tired this on a sweater that had a huge size sticker stuck to it and it got about 90% of the adhesive off! Thanks for this tip!

  2. Single Best Pinterest Tip EVER!!! You are a genius.

  3. Leanne /

    As I was reading this… It was the same scenario with my sons shirt!! It’s been sitting on the was for months!!! I just did this… Took me about 2 min and it’s all gone!! Who knew

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The darker side of PJ Harveyby JR Moores

She’s the only artist to have won the Mercury Music Prize twice, was given an MBE in 2013, has made an Outstanding Contribution To Music according to the NME Awards and edited what the Daily Mail deemed the “worst ever” edition of Radio 4’s Today programme.

So, it’s safe to say Polly Jean Harvey is a national institution. Even so, she has many brilliant tracks hidden away on non-album releases that will be familiar to only her hardcore fans. As she gets ready to release her ninth solo album, The Hope Six Demolition Project (out on Friday, 15 April), here are 10 such curios from The Peej’s esteemed back-catalogue.

Reeling (B-side to 50ft Queenie (1993))

A solo take of Reeling was included on PJ’s 4-Track Demos compilation but there’s also a lesser-known full-band version on the B-side to 1993’s 50ft Queenie single. Here, Rob Ellis’s drums clatter feverishly around the speakers to PJ’s thick blankets of guitar squall. Reeling is also notable for boasting some of PJ’s best opening lines, ever: “I wanna bathe in milk/Eat grapes!/Robert De Niro…” Sing along, folks.

Daddy (B-side to Man-Size (1993))

The Man-Size single had two great Peej B-sides, the first was a cover of Wang Dang Doodle, an old blues number written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin’ Wolf. Yelping and wailing like she was a woman possessed, Harvey confidently made that song her own. She coupled it with the bizarre ode that is Daddy, which basically sounds like Kate Bush covering a long-lost cabaret song backed by an oompah band at an abandoned funfair.

Lying In The Sun (B-side to Down By The Water (1995))

The title Lying In The Sun might bring to mind the kind of summery feel-good single that bands such as Weezer like to release. In actual fact, PJ’s track sounds so little like Rivers Cuomo’s nerd-rock four-piece that it begins with a minute and a half of eerie, uncompromising guitar feedback, more in the vein of Sonic Youth.

Then PJ starts chugging some very slow chords and singing a sexually-tinged tribute to her black-haired lover. He probably doesn’t look just like Buddy Holly.

My Naked Cousin (from The Crow: City Of Angels soundtrack (1996))

Before we had franchises like The Matrix, Pirates Of The Caribbean and all those ones where Iron Man teams up with Deadpool to defeat The Fantastic Four who’ve been tricked by a time-travelling Ian McKellen (or something), we had The Crow films. They were about a frowning goth bloke who comes back to life to avenge his own murder and had soundtracks with lots of alt-rock, industrial and nu-metal songs.

For the second instalment, PJ provided a new recording of this bawdy non-album rocker she’d been knocking around since circa 1993. It’s infectious, ingenious and possibly slightly dodgy.

Nina In Ecstasy (B-side to The Wind (1998))

This song was not an homage to the flamboyant German popstar Nina Hagen, who had an album called In Ekstasy, but was apparently inspired by watching an adult movie in a hotel bedroom. With Harvey singing in a higher register than usual, really stretching herself to hit those top notes, and accompanied by nothing but the bare sound of an organ, it’s a beautiful little lullaby, despite its typically dark lyrics (“Once Nina/Was a young girl/Now she’s dead...”).

66 Promises (B-side to Good Fortune (2000))

It was the early noughties. Jay-Z had 99 problems. So Solid Crew had 21 seconds (to go). And PJ Harvey had 66 promises. The latter wasn’t a hit, however, because it was tucked away as a B-side to the lead single from the album that would bag Harvey her first Mercury Music Prize, Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea.

It’s a ragged rock track about the disintegration of a relationship with some dramatic quiet-LOUD-quiet dynamics. The single’s other B-sides are worth a gander as well. Memphis is a passionate eulogy to the late Jeff Buckley, while 30 couldn’t be any more moody if it stormed to its bedroom and painted the walls all black.

97° (B-side to Shame (2004))

...Harvey didn’t just have 66 Promises, she also had 97 degrees. Here, her sorrowful lyrics (“look what you’ve done, you’ve ruined everything”) are juxtaposed with the warm, fuzzy sound of her guitar. It’s got the kind of stoner shuffle that suggests the work she’d just completed on Josh Homme’s Desert Sessions side-project had rubbed off on her.

The Falling (B-side to The Letter (2004))

The Falling has many of the hallmarks of a great Harvey B-side: it’s got that homemade demo feel, a murky guitar sound, hoarse vocals and jilted lyrics about how “I see you kissing other people’s arms”. As a bonus feature, this one also comes with an uncharacteristic and atmospheric synthesizer sound that lurks around in the background as if Harvey was being haunted by The Cure.

Liverpool Tide (B-side to The Devil (2008))

On 2007’s White Chalk, Harvey withdrew from the raw rock sound that had defined her previous album Uh Huh Her to produce a hushed collection of piano-based works. Instead of including further ivory-centric compositions for its singles’ B-sides, Harvey dug into her archive.

The tracks she unearthed included Wait and Heaven from way back in 1988 and this scuzzy ballad, recorded 10 years later. It’s another mournful solo rocker, complete with the imagery of “salty tears”, “shipwrecks” and “snow”.

The Big Guns Call Me Back Again (B-side to The Words That Maketh Murder (2011))

2011’s Let England Shake was the album that got Harvey her second Mercury award. Its concept was inspired by the history of armed conflict, from older events like World War One’s Gallipoli Campaign to modern violence in Iraq and Afghanistan. This outtake could have slotted so suitably into that record’s tracklisting that you wonder why it was ever left off. It’s a haunting gothic folk number, reeking of gunpowder and shivering with shellshock.

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What do I start with when talking about the 2012 Olympics in London? Even now, 14 days after the flame was extinguished, the vibrant and positive feeling that the games brought - not only to London, but to Great Britain - can still be felt strongly.

Preparations in the stadium for the closing ceremony

Of course the opening and closing ceremonies where wonderful, the organisation at the stadiums, on the roads and with public transport was all impeccable, but truthfully, the excitement, enthusiasm, and exhilaration that engulfed what seems like the whole nation was down to one group of people, and that was the athletes. 29 golds and 65 medals overall is still a bewildering accomplishment for a tiny island that sits between the North Atlantic and North Sea.

Brian May rehearsing for the closing ceremony

Team GB came third in the medals table, among the huge superpowers and might of the USA, China and Russia. I don't think a nation could be any prouder. Amongst the many successful athletes, Jessica Ennis and Sir Chris Hoy stood out for me, not just for winning gold medals, but the dignity and class they show is a truly outstanding example not just to future athletes but to all sports men and women, and - if you'll forgive me for getting a little carried away - a great example to everyone in the public eye. Can I also mention that both drive Jaguars…? I think we would get on very well indeed (and before anyone mentions it, yes I know I drive a Mercedes now.)

And of course the Olympic Games were made that little bit more special for myself (and Mum and Dad Gandy who were in the stadium), because I got to take part in the closing ceremony. I was truly honoured to be asked to be one of representatives of British fashion, even more so when I realised I was the only guy.

We had rehearsed three days before in an old industrial car park area four-to-five miles from the stadium. This was the day we all really started to get excited (and rather nervous) not just because of our segment, but because of the people around us - Pink Floyd, David Beckham, the Spice Girls, George Michael, Take That... I almost didn't notice that I was surrounded by eight of the most beautiful supermodels on the planet. All rather bewildering...

Taking direction

The actual day was very special. Even though we didn't go on until 10pm, we had to be there by midday. Ten hours would normally seem a long time to wait, but we could wander anywhere around the stadium, watching rehearsals, speaking to all the guys building the sets, and getting so close to the Olympic flame I could have cooked some marshmallows on it.

The centrepiece

When the time came to go on and we were loaded onto our platforms, we still couldn't see the inside of the stadium that was now full with 75,000 people, so when we were revealed to the crowd I couldn't help but have a beaming smile on my face, and it's funny when people ask what I was thinking, well this time I can tell you - it was 'I hope my flies are done up!'

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I haven't actually watched the footage - I rarely watch myself back when I've been on television - but those few minutes are something I will never, ever forget.

Afterwards we all celebrated, but as I've said in interviews, considering the calibre of the stars in the closing ceremony, there were no diva-ish antics. The mood was respectful, positive and courteous. The true heroes and the people who deserved to be in the spotlight and hopefully will be for a long, long time are the athletes. Not only will these Olympic games never be forgotten, but the legacy of the success of the athletes has been proven, and will be found in future generations that they will have inspired.

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"I am very pleased to introduce the Council's Municipal Waste Management Strategy for the Wakefield District. The strategy has been produced in response to the Government's requirement for sustainable waste management.

The question of what we do with our rubbish concerns every one of us. We can no longer have a strategy that relies heavily on disposing of rubbish to landfill, as we must meet local, national and European targets in managing Wakefield's municipal waste. If present trends continue, the amount of municipal waste produced per year will double in twenty years' time.

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These proposals will require significant changes to the way we deal with our rubbish. The Council has made progress in addressing some issues but there is much more we have to do. We need to think about waste minimisation, complex separate recycling collections, composting, and new technologies, including mechanical biological treatment, to deal with the rubbish that cannot be recycled or composted.

The extensive consultation process allowed the Council to ensure that the views, comments and ideas of everyone in the district, were heard and taken into consideration.

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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) - Long-shot Hardest Core ran down favored Magician in the stretch to win the Arlington Million by a length Saturday.

Ridden by Eriluis Vaz, Hardest Core, the 11-1 outsider, came on strong from the outside just after the turn for home.

“I knew he was going to make his run,” Vaz said. “On the last turn I had a lot of horse.”

Magician, the winner of the Grade I Breeders’ Cup Turf, went off as the favorite at 9-5 odds.

“I had a good trip, no excuses,” Magician jockey Joseph P. O’Brien said.

Magician had a clear lead midway in the stretch, but Hardest Core eased past.

“Words can’t explain what a great feeling this is,” Hardest Core trainer Edward L. Graham said. “He has a good kick and he has a great gallop and he got it done.”

The 4-year-old Hardest Core ran 1 1/4 miles on the turf in 2:01.51 and paid $25, $10.40 and $6. Magician returned $4.20 and $3, and Side Glance paid $5 to show.

Hardest Core is owned by Andrew Bentley Stables. It was Hardest Core’s fourth straight win, the first in graded company. Entering the Million, Hardest Core had accumulated just under $250,000 in career earnings. Magician had earned nearly $2.4 million.

Hardest Core, who had never been entered in a graded stakes race prior to the Arlington Million, nearly died from castration surgery last November.

As for what’s next on the racing docket for Hardest Core, Graham was succinct.

“I have no clue. I’ve got to get over this one first,” Graham said.

The race had seven entrants, matching the lowest total in event history.

Defending champion, Real Solution, trying to become the first back-to-back winner, finished seventh.

“I had a beautiful trip,” Real Soltuion jockey Javier Castellano said. “Unfortunately, he didn’t show up today.”

In the other stakes races at Arlington International Racecourse, Euro Charline charged down the stretch to win the $750,000 Grade I Beverly D. with jockey Ryan L. Moore on board. Stephanie’s Kitten came up late to take second place and Just The Judge was third.

Moore also rode to victory in the $500,000 Grade I Secretariat, beating Tourist by 1 1/2 lengths.

The Pizza Man, with jockey Florent Geroux on the saddle, won the $400,000 American St. Leger by a length.

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