The Howard Stern Show producer Gary Dell’Abate, aka Baba Booey, threw the first pitch of a match between New York Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday. On the day, Mr. Dell’Abate, an avid Mets fan, was at Citi Field as a celebrity guest to raise the Autism Awareness. Though having prepared the event for weeks, Gary Dell’Abate apparently made a blunder, his pitch flied wildly over the top! As a result, Baba Booey’s first Mets pitch has now became a laughter stock, click on the play button of Youtube video above to check out “what has to be the most embarrassing ceremonial first pitch” according to New York Daily News. Some sez Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory’s first pitch is even worse!
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Gary Dell’Abate First Pitch: Baba Booey Mets Pitch A Blunder!
Posted on May. 11, 2009 by Lindsay Britney
Connie Culp First US Full Face Transplant Recipient, Connie Culp Pictures and Video
Posted on May. 06, 2009 by Lindsay Britney
Connie Culp, a 46-year-old woman from Hopedale, Ohio, is the first full face transplant recipient in USA. Connie Culp was transplanted 80 per cent of the face donated from an unidentified dead woman after a long facial reconstruction surgery at Cleveland Clinic in 2008 December, becoming the person who received the most extensive face transplant performed so far.
Connie Culp is a victim of domestic violence. She was shot by husband Thomas Culp during an apparent suicide-murder attempt in 2004. Thomas’s point-blank shotgun shot blew away Connie’s nose, palate, upper jaw and lower eyelids, and caused her not able to eat solid food or breathe on her own. But after Cleveland Clinic’s estimated US$250,000 to $300,000 surgery led by Dr. Maria Siemionow, Ms. Connie has since made much progress.
Culp’s husband, Thomas, shot her in 2004, then turned the gun on himself. He went to prison for seven years. His wife was left clinging to life. The blast shattered her nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye. Hundreds of fragments of shotgun pellet and bone splinters were embedded in her face. She needed a tube into her windpipe to breathe. Only her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin were left.
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She endured 30 operations to try to fix her face. Doctors took parts of her ribs to make cheekbones and fashioned an upper jaw from one of her leg bones. She had countless skin grafts from her thighs. Still, she was left unable to eat solid food, breathe on her own, or smell.
Then, on Dec. 10, in a 22-hour operation, Dr. Maria Siemionow led a team of doctors who replaced 80 percent of Culp’s face with bone, muscles, nerves, skin and blood vessels from another woman who had just died. It was the fourth face transplant in the world, though the others were not as extensive. [...]
In January, she was able to eat pizza, chicken and hamburgers for the first time in years. She loves to have cookies with a cup of coffee, Siemionow said.
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Culp left the hospital Feb. 5 and has returned for periodic follow-up care. She has suffered only one mild rejection episode that was controlled with a single dose of steroid medicines, her doctors said. She must take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of her life, but her dosage has been greatly reduced and she needs only a few pills a day. [AP]
Connie made a public appearance on May 5 during a post-surgery press conference in Cleveland and thanked the donor’s family and the doctors who performed the surgery. Watch Connie Culp’s press conference video below.
Mackenzie Brown, 12, Baseball Perfect Game Pitcher
Posted on Apr. 24, 2009 by Lindsay Britney
Mackenzie Brown (Picture: Tim Farrell/The Star-Ledger)
Mackenzie Brown, from Bayonne, New Jersey, is a baseball perfect game pitcher. Mackenzie Brown, 12, became the first girl in Bayonne Little League history to throw a perfect game on Tuesday after she retired all 18 boys she faced during the match. A perfect game is a rare event in Little Baseball League, there were estimated only 50 to 60 occurrence every year, not to mention a girl can score a perfect game. The achievement of Mackenzie who started playing the baseball since 6 has attracted the national attention. She has since appeared on the local tv programs, FOX News and ESPN. Mackenzie Brown’s great honor will come on Saturday because she was picked to throw out the first pitch at a game between New York Mets and Washington Nationals at Citi Field in New York. Source
General Ann Dunwoody Is US’s First Female Four-star General
Posted on Nov. 15, 2008 by Lindsay Britney
Gen. Ann Dunwoody and her husband, U.S. Air Force Retired Col. Craig Brotchie, in Bend, Oregon. Lt. Gen.
Meet General Ann Dunwoody, the first female four-star general of United States of America! General Ann E. Dunwoody, the Commanding General of U.S. Army Materiel Command received her fourth star on 14 November 2008, becoming the first woman in the U.S. military to hold the rank of a four-star general.
“There is no one more surprised than I, except of course, my husband [Craig Brotchie, a retired USAF pilot],” she said in her acceptance speech yesterday, ”And you know what they say, behind every successful woman there’s an astonished man.”
Born in 1953 at Fort Belvoir of Virginia, Ann Dunwoody is from a military family which has fought in every American war since the Revolution according to army chief of staff Gen George Casey. Dunwoody graduated from State University of New York with a degree in physical education and was direct commissioned into the Women’s Army Corps in 1975. Since then, she has embarked a military career spanning 33 (and increasing) years. [wikipedia] (more…)
