Watch stunning goals by Lionel Messi, Samuel Etoo, Thierry Henry, Rafael Márquez, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Maxi Rodríguez from Barca vs Atletico Madrid in Spain’s La Liga Soccer Premier League. A complete football treat though Atletico were getting walloped, because of the quality of football played. Maxi Rodriguez with a stunning long range strike gave Atletico something in a season which has seen them look better in the Champions League than in the Primera division. The Messi freekick goal can be seen in all its solitary splendour there if that’s what you’ve come here for. The rest of the highlights also include a cool solo run by Messi, beautiful goals by Eto’o and Thierry Henry who in the last couple of weeks seems to be getting back into some sort of rhythm. In fact, Barcelona seems to be falling into place – big things could be on the cards in the UEFA Champions League. Arsenal or Barcelona, take your pick.

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Watch stunning goals by Lionel Messi, Samuel Etoo, Thierry Henry, Rafael Márquez, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Maxi Rodríguez from Barca vs Atletico Madrid in Spain’s La Liga Soccer Premier League. A complete football treat though Atletico were getting walloped, because of the quality of football played. Maxi Rodriguez with a stunning long range strike gave Atletico something in a season which has seen them look better in the Champions League than in the Primera division. The Messi freekick goal can be seen in all its solitary splendour there if that’s what you’ve come here for. The rest of the highlights also include a cool solo run by Messi, beautiful goals by Eto’o and Thierry Henry who in the last couple of weeks seems to be getting back into some sort of rhythm. In fact, Barcelona seems to be falling into place – big things could be on the cards in the UEFA Champions League. Arsenal or Barcelona, take your pick.

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The end of the baseball season is a good time to evaluate the Phillies broadcast team.
In general, these guys are terrific. Baseball is the only sport I follow with any dedication or genuine interest. Because I travel a lot, I see and hear baseball games in several cities.
Most play-by-play announcers and color commentators are boring next to the crew the Phillies have assembled to present its games. At first I thought I was not adjusting well to various styles. Then I realized that personality and keen knowledge of the game were missing from broadcasters from other cities.
The Mets radio team can lull you into indifference.
The Yankees radio team is saved only by a cranky woman who is so New Yawk shes entertaining if not always informative.
The Phillies crew know how to have a conversation and instruct their audience about the fine points of the game. They also have a camaraderie I havent found anywhere else with the exception of the marvelous work done by Jon Miller and Joe Morgan on nationally televised games. Miller and Morgan have been itinerant based on the network that has the Major League Baseball contract at any given time. Right now theyre on ESPN, and they do the cable outlet proud. Compare them to the stiffs heard on Saturday afternoon Fox broadcasts, and their superiority will be amply apparent.
So, a general bravo to the guys in the Phillies TV and radio booths and to the Phillies organization for hiring them.
A great team still has room for improvement. Two members of that team stand out beyond their colleagues. One is a classic fixture who certainly sets the tone and pace for Phillies broadcasts. One is a solid journeyman who can hold his own but needs to develop more zip to his conversation. Two need work. Not serious work, but work nonetheless.
The standouts are Chris Wheeler, who generally stays on television but makes occasional visits to the radio booth, and Larry Andersen, who has grown from a grumpy amateur to a showman that not only makes baseball games fun but a lesson in baseball fundamentals and best practices.
Wheeler is a baseball guy in the same way Charlie Manuel or Larry Bowa is. Hes in the game his whole working life. He just never appeared on the field. Im not sure of Wheelers entire history, but I know he began his life with the Phillies in the teams community affairs department. In that post, he helped begin something that is a Philadelphia sports tradition, bringing the benefit of the team and its players to charities, social events, schools, and the region at large. Scrappy in the way of a disciplined Philadelphia fan, Wheelers style of talk must have impressed someone in the Phillies broadcast division some 20 years back because he joined Harry Kalas, Richie Ashburn, and Andy Musser as what seemed like a guest and later moved in to claim a permanent place in the booth. Wheeler, with his Philadelphia accent and fans take on the action, was the first person I remember giving some criticism about the game and how it was played. He openly praised great work by other teams and expressed dismay at Phillies mistakes. He did it with the or zeal of a guy in the stands. As time went on, he refined his act, but the spirit and style of his original appearances remains. is the guy on the Phillies team I want to hear most.
When Larry Andersen left the bullpen for the broadcast booth, he was funny and offhand, but he was mean. For someone so bright, he was a downer, more of a complainer than a critic and always negative. You didnt have to imagine his sigh when the Phils made a bonehead move. His attitude in those early days was, What do you expect from these lunks. They couldnt do anything right if they tried.
But Andersen has grown out of being a grump. In a surprising but wonderful transition, he has learned to comment on the game, at times critically, with the same humor in which he constantly makes mic-mate Scott Franzke laugh and delights the Phillies audience with his antics. Andersen has found a tone that gives his critical words an entertaining bite. You know he knows the game, and he presents what he sees in a breezy and positive tone that is compatible with being the clown to Franzkes straight man at other times. Radio games are a delight because of Larry Andersen. When he gets the chance to work with or Harry, he is particularly outstanding.
Kalas is a legend. His outta here home run call is as much a part of baseball history as home run records. Harry is indelible no matter what else happens. Older now, fans can hear the missed beat and the lapse in concentration. Again, Harry is indelible, and any signs of age are superseded by his smooth, conversational presentation of a baseball game - or, in Harrys case, any sports event - and his knowledge of the game. More than anyone, Harry Kalas established the ease and energy that is so much a part of Phillies broadcasts. It remains a pleasure to see and hear him.
The journeyman is Tom McCarthy, able and facile at the mike, a good play-by-play man but a worklike professional who doesnt quite have the guy-in-the-stands breeze to his voice. While most of the Phillies broadcasters know their jobs and that their main focus needs to be the game, they can be jaunty and offhand. McCarthy is all business.
He is not boring, like that awful crew from Atlanta or the dead-heads that bring you San Diego games, but McCarthy does not exude the personality that has come to be expected from a Phillies broadcaster. Maybe thats his role, to be the Mary Tyler Moore who anchors the team while the others are more distinct character and show off their ability to chat. McCarthy can learn from Kalas, who was that anchor for most of the last 38 years and could keep up the patter with Ashburn, Tim McCarver, and others of large personality with whom he shared the booth. McCarthy is an asset, but he is standard issue in a market that leans toward the special.
The two who need work are Gary Matthews and Franzke.
Matthews is a baseball guy who has not yet become a broadcaster. He knows the game, but his presentation of it lacks fluidity, and he hasnt learned when to come in with a comment and when to stay mute. His conversational style is OK, but his speech pattern is slower than Wheelers, McCarthys, or Kalas, so he gives the impression of bogging down the broadcast when he takes the mike. When Matthews is on, you miss the announcer who isnt, especially if its Wheeler. as Matthews is called, has something to contribute, but he is not the best fit for the Phillies team.
Franzke could be perfect. Hes personable. His byplay with Andersen is amusing and charming. He knows the game. He has a good pace and lively rhythm to his play-by-play. He also describes everything in complete and meticulous detail without being tedious or boring. The problem is his tone. Franzke is statistic happy. In and of itself, that is not a failing. Anyone who knows me knows you can never bore me with stats. On the contrary, my eyes light up when I see spreadsheets and twelve-page reports. Franzkes downfall is the way he presents the stats. His tone betrays a doom and gloom. Nothing is matter-of-fact. His attitude seems to be one of Look at this. This guy hit a home run off of Moyer in 02, and now hes up against him with a catcher in scoring position and the Phillies eight runs ahead. Disaster approacheth. Franzkes way of reading simple facts always sounds like a danger signal. In a different way from Andersen during his first days, Franzke is negative. He worries about things of casual interest, and he spreads that worry to the audience. Franzkes goal for 2009 is to learn to put things is less gloomy perspective, to take the figures he has before him and presents them in his stride. His oh, no tone is annoying. It puts a pall on the game, even games in which the Phillies are ahead and - probably - sailing toward victory. Franzke makes you expect the worst while never seeming to appreciate the best. If Andersen wasnt next to him, Id turn off the radio and risk traffic calamity by going to www.mlb.com, setting my laptop, a constant companion, on Gameplay, and following the game that way. (Gameplay has audio, but Im sure if I could trust myself not to look at the screen at an exciting moment or if Chase Utley or Jayson Werth (MVUP - Most Valuable Utility Player - is batting.)
I hope Franzke can make the adjustment to a cheerier or more casual presentation. If he cant, then his one glitch outweighs his many talents because that glitch ruins the broadcast. For me, anyhow.
Mitch Williams and Jim Jackson are also part of the Phillies radio experience, Williams also appearing post-game on Comcast SportsNet. They are both excellent additions to the local baseball scene. Williams is offhand and can deliver criticism in a way from which Franzke can learn. Jackson is a burst of sustained energy - and good writing - from the time he takes the mike following Phillies radio games. Few could make a list of scores more vibrant. Joe is a consummate broadcaster who Id like to hear try his hand at baseball play-by-play or color commentary. I know hed be terrific.
A pink tint to the sky
Starting Wednesday evening, buildings throughout the Delaware Valley will be lit in a pink cast to support breast cancer awareness via an annual initiative by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer organization and major sponsorship by Channel 3.
So if you gaze up at the night sky around Philadelphia and think you see pink, your eyes are fine and youre seeing support to remind people about an all-too-common disease from realtors and businesses who want people to know there are resources available if breast cancer strikes.
Neal Zoren commentary on television and radio appears every Monday.

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Winners of this years Washington State Book Awards include a novel about a wayward young woman who may or may not be manipulated by a secret band of evil mind-controllers, poetry by the states poet laureate, a new history of native Seattle, a book about dirt and its role in the decline of civilizations and an autobiographical novel for young adults about growing up on an Indian reservation.
The Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library announced the winners last week. The awards go to outstanding Washington authors for books published the previous year; Washington author is defined as a current resident of the state who has lived here for at least three years, or someone who was born here.
Winners will pick up their awards at an Oct. 22 ceremony. The winning titles are:
Bad Monkeys By Matt Ruff (HarperCollins)
This science-fiction thriller by a Seattle author is the story of Jane Charlotte, a young woman who tells her increasingly surreal tale of murder, kidnapping and an evil tribe of bad monkeys who are trying to control her actions to a skeptical psychiatrist.
Finalists in the fiction category: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, Male of the Species by Alex Mindt, Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake, Fish Grooming and Other Stories by Joseph Powell.
The Grace of Necessity
By Samuel Green (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
Poetry by the states newest poet laureate, a resident of Waldron Island in the San Juans.
Finalists in the poetry category: Mars Being Red by Marvin Bell, Red Studio by Mary Cornish, s Written on the Body by Peter Pereira.
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place By Coll Thrush (University of Washington Press)
This history by a professor at the University of British Columbia examines the presence of Native Americans in Seattle both before white contact and after natives became part and parcel of the citys life, and includes an Atlas of Indigenous Seattle. Thrush grew up in Auburn.
Finalists in the history/biography category: Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther Kings Last Campaign by Michael Honey, and Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: from Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner.
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations By David R. Montgomery (University of California Press)
traces how, throughout history, soil degradation has led to the demise of civilizations. Montgomery, a University of Washington professor, learned this month that he also has won a MacArthur Foundation grant.
Finalists in the general nonfiction category: The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the Worlds Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn; Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bibles Harlot Queen by Lesley Hazleton; The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster and the Water We Drink by Robert D. Morris; Sky Time in Grays River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place by Robert Michael Pyle.
The winners of the Scandiuzzi Childrens Book Award are, for a picture book: s Gift by Bainbridge Island author George Shannon, illustrated by Laura Dronzek (Harcourt) and for middle grades and young adults: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Seattle author Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Ellen Forney (Little, Brown). Last fall, Absolutely True Diary won the National Book Award in the young readers category.
Mary Ann Gwinn: 206-464-2357 or mgwinn@seattletimes.

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Mexico Manifesto, presented last month at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.

From the earliest days of the epidemic, we have had to fight horrific stigma against those who hate or fear us. But when they would not allow us to hold their children, work at their side, touch their dishes, use their towels or live under the same roof, it was our empowered voice that educated them.
When the nation’s political leadership failed to address the emerging crisis—and was content to watch us die—it was our empowered voice that gave us the political muscle to force change.
But today, all too often our focus on empowerment is a slogan rather than a system. One only needs to look at the invisibility of AIDS in this year’s presidential contest to see how our political muscle has atrophied, which has paved the way for greater stigmatization and disempowerment.
Another mark of this disempowerment is how people with HIV have disappeared from the boards of directors of AIDS organizations. Several years ago, I gave a World AIDS Day speech bemoaning the fact that some of the largest and best-known AIDS organizations in the country had diminished or only nominal HIV-positive representation on their boards of directors.
And even of those few HIV-positive people on the boards, it should be noted that they are individuals chosen by HIV-negative board majorities. Sometimes the people with HIV chosen to serve on boards are also employees of other AIDS-related agencies. Both are factors which sometimes can cloud or compromise priorities.
Many of these groups were founded by people with AIDS—founded to confront a status quo that was killing us. It still is, but some of the organizations we created to combat that status quo have abdicated their responsibility.
What’s more, they have cast those of us with HIV out of their boardrooms. That has been costly indeed. Concurrent with the decline of HIV-positive representation on these boards has been a decline in our number amongst the senior staff, as well as a decline in advocacy—a “toning down,” with some of the toughest issues relegated to backburner status.
In too many instances, prevention programs with integrity and results became secondary to those that could get funded. Complicated and controversial issues, like fighting criminalization, have been downplayed or ignored. The loss of positive representation on the boards of directors constitutes a de facto abandonment of the Denver Principles’s mandate to fight the epidemic in partnership with people who have the disease.
Representation on boards is, of course, only one measure of an organization’s commitment to empowerment. I acknowledge that it is an imperfect measure. But it is indicative of something that has gone terribly wrong—and which we must fix.
Measuring a provider organization’s commitment to empowerment is not an easy task, but I think it is time that we set out to do so in a systematic fashion.
I have a modest proposal, which is that we establish objective, quantifiable empowerment standards by which we can measure adherence to the Denver Principles.
This isn’t about saying this group is good and that one is bad; it is about providing a yardstick against which agencies and administrators and boards of directors and the community could measure performance.
It is about articulating what “empowerment” truly means in the challenging real world of nonprofit governance, resource constraints and delivery of services to communities already burdened by poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, homelessness, addiction and mental health issues.
One model of empowerment is Housing Works, based in New York. Housing Works is legally constituted as a membership organization; every client, every volunteer and every staff member has voting rights, including for board positions. That is empowerment and very different from agencies whose boards are self-perpetuating.
Housing Works’s bylaws require that a third of their board be people with HIV and that people of color comprise more than 50 percent of their board. That is empowerment and a far cry from agencies with little diversity or that put one or two people with HIV on their board and then don’t provide those persons the training, skills and tools necessary to become effective board members.
Housing Works has more than 400 employees; about a third of them are former clients: people with HIV who were once homeless. That is empowerment and very different from many agencies whose proportion of HIV-positive employees has declined over the years.
Housing Works measures the performance of their caseworkers, in part, on how successful the caseworker is in getting a client registered to vote and involved in advocating for their rights. That is empowerment because participating in the political system is a necessary component to truly taking control of one’s life and health; the failure to encourage and promote such participation is, in my view, profoundly disempowering and shortsighted.
Housing Works is a huge agency with a budget this year of over $40 million. My point is not about Housing Works, but that this is not theoretical; genuine empowerment can be achieved in a large agency.
Housing Works is activist-oriented, often speaking first and most passionately about the rights of people with AIDS, demonstrating leadership, and fighting stigma and criminalization. That is not a coincidence; it is a result of its governance structure and putting into practice a commitment to the Denver Principles.
One aspect of the epidemic that I think has especially suffered from the diminished influence of HIV-positive voices is in regards to HIV prevention.
We have a prevention paradigm built on the illusion of “zero risk,” which contributes to stigmatization of people with HIV as vectors of disease and encourages HIV-negative people to have a false knowledge of the actual risks inherent in sexual contact.
We must work to expand the sexual safety zone for people with HIV—which I believe is critical to HIV prevention—through risk-reduction strategies like serosorting, seropositioning, pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis and incorporating viral load and treatment status into risk assessment.
There are circumstances, for some serodiscordant couples, when the risk of sexual transmission of HIV is so negligible or nonexistent as to render obligatory condom use—to further reduce the risk of transmission—as unnecessary. The January 30, 2008 statement by the Swiss Federal HIV/AIDS Committee (EKAF) recognized these facts.
The assertions made in the Swiss statement are rightfully subject to continued and important scientific debate. They ought to also be subject to a widespread discussion within the community. But that has not happened.
The provocative Swiss statement was first met by silence or outright rejection from most AIDS policy leaders in the United States, who were more intent on reinforcing the “use a condom every time” message than taking advantage of an extraordinary opportunity to engage the community in a more nuanced discussion about risk reduction, and the impact of antiretroviral treatment on infectiousness.
Perpetuating an illusion of safety for those who are HIV negative is more important to many than recognizing the right to sexual intimacy for people with HIV and how that can be safely achieved.
Put simply, the sexuality of people with HIV is considered more as a threat to society than it is as a fundamental and necessary part of our lives and identity. Our right to intimacy has been devalued, despite the Denver Principles proclamation of “as full and satisfying sexual and emotional lives as anyone else.”
Restoring complete intimacy to the sexual lives of people with HIV is of vital importance to the dignity, quality of life and health of people with HIV. Moreover, social integration, without the crippling burdens of stigma or stereotyping, is crucial to reducing the spread of the virus and enabling people with HIV to fulfill one of the responsibilities outlined in the Denver Principles, which is to disclose their HIV status to their sex partners.
Efforts to restore safe intimacy to the sexual lives of people with HIV are to be celebrated. Opposing such efforts is an insult to people living with HIV, is discriminatory, perpetuates stigma, and reveals the hypocrisy of some who claim to be concerned with the well-being of people with HIV.
We ought not to be timid or shamed when pursuing our rights, whether that is demanding representation on boards of directors or pursuing our right to sexual intimacy. We may be stigmatized by the culture, marginalized by political leaders and criminalized by the law, but we must not be silent.
In the darkest days of the epidemic—when we were all frightened, when we were all suffering, when we were all angry—we knew what to do, and we did it. The Denver Principles are the Magna Carta of AIDS activism—our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights rolled into one.
Returning to that original vision, heeding its clarion call and empowering positive people is our hope for the future. Thank you.
Sean Strub is a longtime AIDS activist and the founder of POZ magazine. He has lived with HIV for more than 25 years.

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This is a very cool item, and may get some extra exposure (ie pricer) given that Mega Man 9 just came out. Right now however, I would say its a steal.
This auction is for a “SNES Megaman Soccer Ball promo from Capcom. This item came from the Capcom vault a few year back and I was lucky enough to get two, one for me the other for the winning bidder. It was used to promote the release of MEGAMAN SOCCER for the Super Nintendo. The ball is made of a hard sponge like material and is about 7 inches in diameter. Please note that this is not a real soccer ball but a RARE PROMOTIONAL PIECE that was used to promote the SNES Game MEGAMAN SOCCER.

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