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Paul says the cross of Christ is a stumbling block. He is right. I'll tell you why.
Because the cross is so… historical. I have no sympathy for people who see it as metaphorical. Clearly the New Testament writers and the early church took it as fact. To write it off as metaphor would be convenient. There's something attractive about an esoteric mystery religion surrounding a tragic, self-sacrificing mystical prophet. But those nails put a stop to that. Nails bashed into history. History with a face and a date. And a claim to be alive.
But being historical, it's embarrassingly anomalous. What, he… came back to life? You're telling me that sounds normal? Oh, ok.
So what does it mean? This is where it does get mysterious. Jesus was god and man – both. He died. He was raised. By… God. Who had died. Well, sort of… And through this he forgives sins. Because he's the Passover lamb. He's a Jewish sacrifice. And the Jewish high priest. He's what?
The resurrection is really hard. It's a stumbling block to intellect, to rationality, to wanting to appear like you've still got your head screwed on. The cross and the resurrection together make earthy and real what could otherwise be – and sadly, often is – a floaty-mystery religion.
The resurrection is like a splinter in your palm that keeps you uncomfortable. Like a stone in your shoe as you walk down the catwalk of sanity. The resurrection provokes and irritates.
The gloom of Good Friday and Easter Saturday I can understand. We can all identify with pain, loss and hopelessness. But the celebration of Easter Sunday? The hope of Resurrection Day? Well, hopelessness can be real forever, lived in forever, without much effort. But hope? Hope is intentional. Hope always risks being dashed. Living with hope – just hope – is exhausting, as a deliberate , intentional and daily choice in a world of crescendoing hopelessness.
In the Hunger Games, President Snow, in charge of subjugating and oppressing his people, says he cannot let his people have hope:
President Snow: Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, alot is dangerous. This fact is fine, as long as it's contained.
Seneca Crane: So…
President Snow: So, contain it.
The reason he doesn't want the people to have hope is because hope is dangerous. Hope drives out fear. And he wants people to be afraid. God doesn't want us to be afraid. God's hope, rooted in God's love, drives out fear.
And we're back to the resurrection. Hope was contained for 2 days. Hope was dashed for what seemed like it would be a lifetime. Fear was most definitely in control. And then…
Still a stumbling block. Sometimes I struggle to believe it. But it has not lost its power. Because if it really is true… it changes everything.
The resurrection – counter-cultural, anti-rational, rooted in history and bursting with hope. If only we could let him breathe outside the tomb.


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Nothing that new Lipscomb women's basketball coach Greg Brown said spoke louder than the presence of one person.
Thursday afternoon as Brown addressed a large throng of fans, friends and relatives in the Hall of Fame room at Allen Arena he noticed a surprise visitor – Joi Williams, his former boss at UCF who made the trip from Orlando.
Williams admitted it was bittersweet to lose Brown who had been a member of her staff for the past five years, rebuilding the UCF program.
"Greg meant a lot to the program," Williams said. "We started with a program that was in the very bottom of the league. We really built something special there and won championships together. We did it side-by-side.
"It is a joy to see somebody like him get this opportunity. He has worked hard for it. This is the one special place for him and his wife, Theresa. They both went to school here. They have family here. I couldn't be happier."
Williams thinks that Brown has what it takes to make the Lipscomb program a force to be reckoned with in the Atlantic Sun.
"It is a process," Williams said. "You talk about winning championships and that is the big picture. But when you start to break it down into how you are going to do that there is a process that has to be put into place to get that done.
"At the end of the day everybody wants to win. But is everybody willing to do what it takes? That is what the process is about. There is no better person than Greg to get that point across to the Lipscomb team."
With most of the players on break from school this month Brown is contacting many of them by telephone. He will probably echo what he told them the day he visited campus to meet with athletic director Philip Hutcheson about the job – do they want to play and compete at the highest level?
"The answer should always be `yes' and if that is the case it is my responsibility to hold them to that level," Brown said. "Trust and buy-in are the keys to building a program _ that they believe in my vision and that they share that vision.
"We want to be vital to the community. We will start with Green Hills, work our way through Middle Tennessee and expand from there. We want to have a loyal following. We want to keep the local talent. We want to put ourselves in a position to win championships. And we want to graduate our student-athletes."
The question that Brown cannot answer at this time is how quickly he will be able to turn the Lady Bisons program around.
"We have four core values," Brown said. "Spiritual development is at the center of everything we do. That is what makes this campus and this university different from any other school in the country. The other values are academic development, athletic development and career development.
"The process is day-to-day. We want to win today. It may be in the classroom, the practice court or a game, but we are going to win today. We want to be a team, but we want individual responsibility. We want to be accountable for our own actions. If we hit the mark that we are supposed to do then things will go well.
"We want to figure out what we can control and what we can't. The quicker you figure out the elements you can control the better off you will be. We have to focus on the things we can control."
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Regardless of whether linebacker Manti Te'o knew or should have known that his fake dead girlfriend was indeed fake and, in turn, not dead, Te'o has opted not to rely on the distraction created by his knowledge of the hoax as an excuse for his subpar performance in the BCS national championship game.
During his interview with ESPN's Jeremy Schaap (I've read the entire transcript), Te'o insists that the situation didn't hamper his play — even after Schaap seemed to try to persuade Te'o to claim that it did.
"I wouldn't say it affected me," Te'o initially said.
"I know you don't want to say it," Schaap said, demonstrating a previously unknown ability to read minds. "But how could it not?"
"When you're stuck in big game like that, you can't let it affect you, no matter how much it's weighing on you," Te'o said. "In a big game like that, there's people that depend on you to perform. And no matter what you're going through, you need to perform. So in that case, I can."
Regardless of what anyone thinks of Te'o's failure to detect the hoax or his undetermined role (if any) in it, we respect him for not taking advantage of the easy opportunity to blame the missed tackles and otherwise uninspired play on the stress he was experiencing.
Then again, maybe he's smart enough to realize that he doesn't have to claim that it affected his play, since so many people are simply assuming it did. Regardless, we've seen too many players in the months preceding the draft look for ways to devise excuses for things that happened on the field; Te'o had a golden opportunity to do just that, and he didn't.


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August 15, 2016Associate Professor Alexei Korennykh is a recipient of the Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation 2016 Young Investigator Award. The Vallee Foundation seeks originality, innovation, and pioneering work by men and women who are dedicated to understanding fundamental biological processes.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
August 11, 2016Professor Ileana Cristea has been elected as the next President of the American Human Proteome Organization (US-HUPO).Grants, Fellowships and Awards
June 30, 2016Assistant Professor Alexander Ploss was selected as a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infections Disease (PATH) Award for 2016.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
June 10, 2016A new study in zebrafish suggests that irregular fluid flow through the spinal column brought on by gene mutations is linked to a type of scoliosis that can affect humans during adolescence.Research
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April 28, 2016Eight fellowships were awarded to Molecular Biology postdoctoral fellows, Jia Peng, Qiang Ding, Matthew Niepielko, Heath Johnson, Rachel Kadzik, and Angela Mitchell; graduate student, Alexander Goglia; and former postdoctoral fellow, Rumela Chakrabarti.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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Local college roundup: UB women win ECC volleyball title
Women's volleyball
NEC final at Bridgeport
Bridgeport 25 20 25 15 15--3
Records: Bridgeport 21-2. Highlights: It is the second straight ECC title for the Purple Knights, who advance to the NCAA Division II tournament. Bridgeport's Biljana Savic, who had 28 assists, was named the tournament's MOP.
MAAC semifinals at Loudonville, N.Y.
Manhattan 26 24 19 22--1
Fairfield 24 26 25 25--3
Records: Manhattan 20-13; Fairfield 18-12. Highlights: Fairfield plays in the championship Sunday at 1 against either Marist or Iona. Sophomore Maddie FitzPatrick had a career day for the Stags, recording nine kills and eight total blocks. Junior Caitlin Stapleton, of Milford, posted a season-high 18 kills on .364 hitting with four total blocks. Junior Marilyn Peizer recorded her fourth double-double of the year with 14 kills and 13 digs to go along with four total blocks. Senior Hayley Moyer tied a season high with 14 kills, hit .481, and added three blocks and five digs.
NEC semifinals at Brooklyn, N.Y.
Sacred Heart 20 21 20--0
Central Connecticut 25 25 25--3
Records: Sacred Heart 15-16, Central Connecticut 21-8. Highlights: Senior Dianis Mercado, an All-NEC first-team pick, led the team with 14 kills, while 2013 NEC Rookie of the Year Sarah Krufka had 13.
Women's hockey
Sacred Heart 0 1 2 0--3
University of New England 0 2 1 1--4
Records: Sacred Heart 1-5-2, University of New England 3-2-3. Goals: SH--Heather Daley, Emily Falvey, Cara Curran; UNE--Cassandra Connolly, Jenni Poulin, Gabby Crugnato, Gabriella Moscato; Assists: SH--Briana Connolly, Megan Finlay, Casey Stathopoulos, Megan Ofner; UNE--Emily Corrales, Poulin, Crugnato, Melissa Boudreau; Goalies: SHU--Mandy Montgomery (29 saves); UNE--Kendall (20); Shots: SHU--33; UNE--23.
Cross country
ECAC/IC4A championships at New York
Highlights: The Fairfield men's placed eighth out of 20 teams in the University Division, while the women's team placed 10th out of 17. Freshman Jacqueline-Ann Willsey ran a 5K time of 19:25.0 to place 38th overall. Sacred Heart's Brianna Castrogivanni won the individual title, finishing in 17:58.8. For the men, Brian Cleary ran a five-mile time of 26:32.6 to place 20th.
Men's hockey
Army 0 0 1--1
Sacred Heart 2 1 1--4
Records: Army 1-10-0, 1-7-0 AHA; SHU-4-8-0, 3-3-0. Goals: A--Shane Hearn; SH--Brian Sheehan, Jordan Minello, Evan Jasper, Ben Lake; Assists: A--Brian Schultz, Clint Carlisle; SH--Chad Filteau, Jeff Carroll, Justin Danforth 2, Mitch Nylen, Drew George, Daniel Lisi; Goalies: A--Rob Tadazak (31 saves); SH--Andrew Budnatchuk (31); Shots: A--32; SH--35


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[Image credit: Frances Priest, Grammar of Ornament | India (detail), collection of 16 ceramic forms, 2014. ©the artist. Photography Shannon Tofts]
It's A Fine Line that separates art and craft.
A Fine Line features work by four contemporary artists based in Scotland - Lizzie Farey, Angie Lewin, Frances Priest and Bronwen Sleigh. This group exhibition explores the fine line between art and craft in two and three dimensions, bringing together a diverse range of disciplines including printmaking, drawing, collage, sculpture and ceramics.
[Image credit: Lizzie Farey, Indomitus (wild, untamed), willow, steel pins, 2016. © the artist]
Working with different media but united by detailed observation and strong draughtsmanship, these artists experiment with linear mark-making and drawing in its widest sense. Each artist produces works inspired by places and spaces in either the natural or man-made environment.
Exhibition in partnership with Inverness Museum and Art Gallery and Gracefield Arts Centre.


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WBU Alums Return to Vie for Coming Home Queen Honors
PLAINVIEW – Ten ladies from Wayland Baptist University's past will return for Homecoming 2006 to compete for the title of Coming Home Queen. The nominees represent the honor classes for the weekend event, classes ending in 5 and 6, with twice the nominees this year due to a double homecoming event.
Visiting alumni vote for their choice for Coming Home Queen, with the winner announced at the Saturday luncheon and all nominees introduced at the homecoming basketball games Saturday afternoon.
The nominees are as follows:
Corrine Cook Shields of Abilene is representing the Class of 1955. A native of Amarillo, Shields served as head librarian at Howard Payne University while husband James was professor of theology and Baptist Student Union director, then was associate director of university libraries at Hardin-Simmons University until her retirement. She is active in Women on Mission and City Lights Ministry at First Baptist Church of Abilene. The Shieldses have a son and daughter and three grandchildren.
Faye Wilson Gould of Dallas is representing the Class of 1956. A member of the Hutcherson Flying Queens while at Wayland, Gould was a flight attendant for Continental Airlines until her marriage to husband Oliver in 1966. The couple retired in 1995 from American Rockwool, a privately-owned corporation. Faye is an active volunteer and has served on the boards of the Dallas Symphony Association, The American Heart Association, Dallas Fort Worth Ballet, Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra and others.
Representing the Class of 1965 is Ethelyn Burris Garnett of Lockney. Garnett taught school for 30 years after graduating from Wayland, retiring in 1997. She is active in the First Baptist Church as an assistant Sunday School teacher, a co-librarian and director of a weekly sewing group. She is a member of the Quilt Guild of Plainview. The Garnetts have three children and three grandchildren.
The Class of 1966 is represented by Judy Smith Langley of South Fork, Colo. A children's author and Christian speaker, Langley wrote and published six mission picture books for children while her husband Phil served on the staff of the California Southern Baptist Convention. She taught school in New Mexico and Oregon and served with Phil as missionary to West Africa. She directed California Christian Writers' Fellowship and served as Stateside Mobilization Coordinator for the Celtic Languages Team, and she trained and led prayerwalking teams to Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The Langleys have two sons and four grandchildren.
Carol Bashaw Dozier of Broken Arrow, Okla. is representing the Class of 1975. A teacher in Levelland, Houston and Dallas, Dozier earned her Early Childhood Montessori Certification in 1982 and was a private school administrator in Tulsa and Dallas. She received her Oklahoma real estate license in 2005 and is an associate with McGraw Realtors. She is co-founder of a company that buys, remodels and sells houses. Carol and husband Bill have a daughter and a granddaughter.
Representing the Class of 1976 is Valerie Wright Ritchie of Burnsville, Minn. An active student at Wayland, Ritchie worked for the Traveler for four years and was a member of the Wayland Handbells ensemble and Delta Chi Delta sorority, was a cheerleader, class officer, APO Sweetheart and a summer missionary. She taught for six years after graduation and currently substitutes in her children's school. Valerie and husband Bob have two children and are active in school and church activities.
Linda Kay Nunn Rapstine of White Deer represents the Class of 1985. Rapstine worked as a CPA before becoming a homemaker to husband Chris, a math teacher and farmer, and their three children, Becca, Thomas and Jacob. She stays busy with the activities of her children and volunteers regularly, serving as an FCCLA Parent. She also is active in her church, serving as organist, youth leader, member of the liturgy committee, a home Bible study leader, member of the Homemakers Club and president of the women's ministry.
The Class of 1986 is represented by Tara Younger Mercer of Bentonville, Ark. Married for 20 years to Joe Mercer, also a WBU graduate, Tara was a cheerleader at Wayland. The family moved from Texas to Oregon, and they now live in Arkansas, where Joe is regional personnel manager for Wal-Mart. Tara has worked in the teaching field for three years and also does consulting with Bentonville vendors. The couple is active in their church, teaching Sunday School, serving on the worship team and coaching Upward Basketball. The Mercers have four children, Shae, Sheridan, Seth and Samuel.
Tracy Burkhart of Nashville, Tenn., represents the Class of 1995. Coming to Wayland from Buckner Baptist Children's Home in Lubbock, Tracy served as class president before her graduation. She continued her education at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, earning master's degrees in Christian education and in church and community ministry. She served as a children's minister and writer in North Carolina and now does motivational speaker and writing in Nashville. Her speaking targets children and youth as well as adults who serve children in foster care, churches, adoption or children's home settings.
The Class of 1996 is represented by Amy Gray Conley of Lubbock. After serving as class president at Wayland, Conley earned a master's degree in counseling and human development at Hardin-Simmons University and worked in a residential substance abuse facility in Abilene for three years. She moved to Lubbock in 2000 and began providing individual and group therapy to those released from prison-based substance abuse treatment programs. She and husband Shane are active members of Indiana Avenue Baptist Church, where Amy sings on the praise team.


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I was given an outline of this recipe by an acquaintance who lived in Kyushu, South West Japan and it's now become a household staple.
- Into a large saucepan add a mixture of vegetable oils (I suggest good quality olive oil, canola/rape seed oil, and sesame oil). A tablespoon or two in total should be enough.
- Gently heat a sliced onion until soft.
- Add some finely sliced peeled jerusalem artichoke/sunchoke (use one or two of these depending on the size). I initially substituted this for gobo/Japanese burdock root but found I preferred it this way. Naturally, if you can't find jerusalem artichoke, use matchstick pieces of peeled gobo instead. (For some reason, parsnips do NOT make a good alternative).
- Add a largish grated carrot.
* You can add a sliced potato at this point (optional).
- After the carrot has cooked for a couple of minutes, add a litre of hot water (just under two pints), some chopped leek, and allow to simmer for at least twenty minutes. But before then:
- Slice some cabbage leaves (3 or 4 will do) and add to the pan. When you add the cabbage depends on how firm you want the cabbage to be. Other vegetable can be substituted instead like spring greens, kale or spinach. Check the cooking times for each vegetable before adding.
- Once the soup has been simmered take it off the heat and add 1 heaped tablespoon of the best red miso (aka miso) you can find. As the miso is salty, there is no need to add any other kind of salt.
Check for taste. Miso varies in taste a great deal, feel free to add more spoonfuls if the soup requires it. If the miso you're using isn't rich enough, you might like to add some shoyu to taste.
This soup will last for a few days in the fridge, heat it up gently as you want it. But the taste of many misos is affected by heat, so take care not to cook the miso over too long a period (i.e. heating it up again and again won't do much for the taste)
You can make the soup more filling by adding a portion of brown rice to each bowl.
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Beef, brewers rice, corn gluten meal, whole grain wheat, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), chicken meal, dried beet pulp*, fish meal, egg product, natural flavors, dicalcium phosphate, whole grain corn, calcium carbonate, potassium chloride, salt, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), choline chloride, ascorbic acid (source of Vitamin C), riboflavin supplement, niacin, calcium pantothenate, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, biotin, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, pyridoxine hydrochloride, manganese sulfate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite. D-4469 * 5% - a source of fiber
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Insufficient meat content, use of low quality grains, fat and other controversial filler.
The first ingredient in the food is a named meat product, but since this is beef inclusive of its water content (about 80%) and this ingredient will weigh only about 20% of its wet weight once water is removed (as it must be to make kibble) it is unlikely that this is the true first ingredient in the food. Chicken meal is the 6th ingredient but this is insuffient to elevate the meat content to an acceptable level. There is a further meat product in the food, fish meal 8th on the ingredient list but this is too low to make up a substantive portion of the food. We note that the manufacturer does not claim to use ethoxyquin-free sources (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish destined for meal, and is believed to be carcinogenic).
The first grain in the food is Brewers rice - a low quality grain and by-product. Corn is another problematic grain that is difficult for dogs to digest and thought to be the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. We prefer not to see this used in dog food. In it's gluten form, it is also a waste product for which the AAFCO definition is "the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm". Corn appears twice on this ingredient list.
The use of wheat is a significant negative: wheat is believed to be the number one cause of allergy problems in dog food. This is another ingredient we prefer not to see used at all in dog food.
Beef tallow is a very low quality fat obtained from the tissue of cattle in the commercial process of rendering.
Beet pulp is filler and a controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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When lines connect! Breaking down a brickwall!
Get out the champagne the Owens Brickwall is coming down!!! It took two people working independantly then finally connecting our lines through the internet. Just like the meeting at Promontory Point we celebrated the extenstion of our lines!
I've been working on this line since 2001. In 2003, I believe it was, I made the connection which took me from Mattoon, Coles, Illinois to Bracken County, Kentucky. Looking at the other Owens family in the Bracken, Ky area I determined that my James D. Owens was likely related to them. As I've stated before his children shared some of the same names as the other Owens families. Most of the Bracken County, KY families were descended from John Owens 18th Century Indian Trader in Pennsylvania. His life story is very interesting, and many researchers have posted info about the family on the Internet. I could not make the connection using traditional sources.I've exhausted most of the resources available at long distance. I don't have access to the old court records which may contain more info on the family.
Last week I found a DNA website for the Owens family. I noticed that a group of men who tested descended from John Owens Indian Trader. Having just about exhausted all the records currently available I was thinking that DNA might be my best hope of establishing a more solid connection. I had looked for male Owens descendants before with no success. William F. Owens, my ggg-grandfather had 3 sons. I wondered if the oldest may have died in the Civil War? I gave up on looking for them. Someone posted a tombstone picture at Find-a-grave that I had requested last week also. I decided to use Find-a-grave to locate a possible descendant of William F. Owens. Checking the memorial for his Mother Nancy I found that someone carrying the name Owens left virtual flowers and provided additional info about the whereabouts of the family. I contacted her and received a goldmine of info on every member of William's family. I was going to ask whether she knew someone who would take the Y DNA test. I was so surprised when she said her husband had already tested and matched the descendants of the Indian Trader. I had noticed there was a newer entry at the Owens DNA site with no additional info. I had wondered if that person might be in my line? Yes, they were!
So why couldn't I locate these men when this person did? It has to do with name changes. George Owens was identified as Joshua in the US Census. I was looking for a Joshua. The ancestral line of the husband of my contact went back to the eldest of William and Nancy's children, James H. Owens. I was looking for a man by that name but his year of birth didn't match. As it turns out James Owens was in the Civil War. He was under age when he joined. He changed his name from James H. Owens to Jame H. Hicks. Hicks was his mother's maiden name. He also disappears from records any records until he marries in 1888 in Kansas. He permanently changed his year of birth from 1848 to 1845. I guess he worried that he wouldn't get veterans benefits if they found out he lied about his age. I would have not been able to make this connection between my James H. Owens of Illinois and the one in Kansas and Nebraska on my own. Only a person from that line could do that. So both of us working independently got our research to the point where such a connection could be made.
In 1870 Josephine "Josie" Owens was living in the household of my ancestor Mary E. Owens/Mason, her sister. I had used Josie's marriage record to identify their parents. So I knew her married name was Durham. The James Owens descendant's family had found his Civil War related records. He had been placed in a home for old soldiers and he identified his closest living relative as Josephine Durham. Along with the use of the name Hicks as an alias I now knew he was the long lost James H. Owens. This did not, however, establish a link with the family who lived in Kansas and Nebraska. An application for a pension in 1894 Nebraska pulled everything together. We now had a James H. Hicks alias Owens living in Nebraska in 1894 when their family was known to live there. The 1900 US Census Kansas gives his year of birth as 1845 and James H. Hicks alias Owens also stated he was born in 1845.
We still have more work to do on this line, but we've come a long way. It only took 12 years to get here!
2 comments:
- Sophia Preston said...
I'm so glad you are doing all this, because personally, I was lost! Still am to an extent. :)
- October 20, 2012 at 2:10 PM
- Annette said...
Thanks Sophia! I am going to take a look at the full pension file to verify James Owens in Kansas is our James Owens.
- October 20, 2012 at 6:44 PM
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Don't ask me to make you look good.
That question has fallen from the mouths of many well-meaning public officials and municipal employees I've interacted with since coming to work and report in Lawrenceburg.
Unfortunately for them, making public officials look good is not in my job description.
Not that making them look bad is. But I suppose in certain circles, that's debatable.
I sit with a notebook in a public room as the representatives of our city and county speak. Simple as that.
Kids' stomachs are grumbling, and so are critics of the new national nutritional standards for school lunch.
Although the new guidelines for healthier meals have been officially in place through the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 since the beginning of the school year, criticism flared anew last month about the new caloric limits for lunches.
High school students from Kansas complained about their apparent hunger through a medium sure to spread their message virally — YouTube.
Editor's note: Carson Tarter is a freshman at Anderson County High School in Melanie Valdivieso's composition class. Her personal narrative assignment appears here with her permission.
For the past three years my whole life has revolved around riding and taking care of my first pony, Luke.
I never dreamed that I'd have to sell my best friend.
Trust is becoming as rare as floppy disks these days.
Both are relics for a future museum. I envision the working title: "Things Americans Once Used and Threw Away."
Other exhibits will showcase print volumes of the dictionary, instructions for dinner etiquette and glass milk bottles.
Trust in anything — churches, media, banks, government, school districts — is becoming harder for people to commit to.
Right before checking into an insane asylum, I hit the open road.
Some people meditate. Contort themselves into yoga pretzels and sailors' knots in an effort to relieve stress.
I drive.
Sanity, for me, is found in the silence behind the steering wheel.
Both my hands grip the wheel at 10 and 2, freeing my mind to wander into the dark corners of things I don't want to and need to think about.
My dogs are city slickers.
There, as painful as it is to admit, I've said it.
Me? Uh-uh. No way. I'm not a city slicker and, despite some recent unsettling realizations to the contrary, I can prove it.
It became obvious that my dogs had succumbed to city life when I visited a local farm during my never-ending quest to find the perfect place to hunt deer. (Fact: City slickers don't hunt, although some of the posers will occasionally wear camouflage.)
When it comes to young people these days (as I wave my metaphorical cane at the hooligans of tomorrow), we squash dreams in order to snuff out the potential for entitlement. Spare their feelings, spoil the child.
Want to be an astronaut? Talk to NASA about sending another shuttle into space.
Want to be a ballerina? The odds are definitely not in your favor.
Despite the odds, students who dream of doing bigger, better things have something in common — passion.
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Ever considered smoking some meth or snorting a little oxy?
I haven't, and aside from a desire to avoid being a junky there's one major reason why: I'm petrified of ending up in jail.
Until the past couple of years, I had the misguided, or perhaps naïve, notion that hard drugs like meth, coke or prescription pills would lead to a decade or two behind bars.
This year Anderson County High School juniors took the ACT test. This is the third year that the scores have been consistently leveling out at 18.3, which is below the national average of 21.1, and the state composite scores of 18.8.
Other counties have scored higher than Anderson. Some of those are Franklin at 19, Spencer at 18.7, and Shelby at 18.7.
It was a day like any other workday.
I woke up around 6 and was messing around the house, getting ready . . . and the phone rings.
"Something's wrong with your daddy," Mama said.
After talking to her a few seconds, I found out he was hurting in his back. I could hear him over the phone, groaning. She had already called my younger brother, Bertram, who lives up the road from them.
"I'll call an ambulance," I said and hung up.
After calling 911, I called her back and Bertram was there.
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It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that judge-elect John Wayne Conway gave his opponent in November's election the heave-ho as highway supervisor.
Chip Chambers, who opposed Conway, didn't exactly endear himself to the cagy political veteran by posting numerous videos on his website that picked apart Conway's 20 years as a magistrate.
Whether it's fetching unsweetened tea from Mickey D's (my wife won't let me drink sweet tea; she says I'm already too sweet), or meat in the grocery store (no salad stuff, thanks; I only eat things that eat salad) folks love to ask me to predict the outcome of next month's judge-executive election.
I have no idea why. Were I able to predict future events, instead of using this keyboard to pound out words I'd be using it to trade stocks and futures while eating pork chops and sipping tea on a tropical island.
Staff columnist Shannon Brock says she recently noticed the difference between being in "college shape" and "real world shape."
For her column, see this week's Anderson News, available on newsstands across the county
Subscribe online or by calling 502-839-6906.
Letter writers Raymond C. Drury and Jackie Robinson each submitted a letter in support of judge-executive candidate Donna Drury.
Letter writers Brad Martin, Darrell and Shirley Bunch, Ray Woodyard, and Matthew M. McWilliams each submitted a letter in support of Sheriff Troy Young.
Letter writer Naomi Hedden says newly paved roads are music to her ears.
For their full letters, see this week's Anderson News, available on newsstands across the county.
Unaffected is not a word I would normally use to describe myself, but some aspects of this job require me to be just that.
Take for instance a structure fire Monday night. Sitting at my desk, almost ready to go home, I heard the dispatcher call the fire out on the scanner.
When packing up my things, I tossed the camera bag over my shoulder thinking I'd get a few photos before I went home.
Columnist Cheryl Steenerson provides tips to enjoy apples all winter long.
For her full column, see this week's Anderson News, available on newsstands across the county.
General Manager Ben Carlson explains that when it comes to your home, neither a drip nor a drop is beautiful.
For his full column, see this week's Anderson News, available on newsstands across the county.
Give Conway a chance in November
To the editor:
I'm taking this opportunity to thank the many kind people who have opened doors for us during this campaign for the Nov. 2 general election.
Now I'd like to ask a question: If computers, Facebook, YouTube and Topix could be weighed on the left hand, and experience, common sense, honesty and integrity could be weighed on the right, which hand would get your vote?
The right hand will get my vote every time. I consider [judge-executive candidate] John Wayne Conway to be that right hand.
We get so much information nowadays about staying healthy, some great, life-saving as a matter of fact. But do you ever feel so completely bombarded with so many day-to-day health tips from TV, the internet, magazines and even well-meaning friends, that it seems a bit much?
Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of meeting Maralyn Lewis and her mother, Ammiegail Simpson.
Maralyn is 8 years old with curly red hair, pale skin and a beautiful smile.
While we talked, I discovered that Maralyn loves watching shows on Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. She also loves to sing and wants to be a singer when grows up so she can buy a house with chandeliers and get her mother a maid.
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The Wizards got a tough blow today, as Martell Webster went under the knife to repair a herniated disc in his back. From the team itself:
The Washington Wizards announced today that forward Martell Webster had successful microdisectomy surgery yesterday to repair a herniated disc in his lower back. He will begin the rehab process immediately and is expected to miss approximately three to five months before resuming basketball activity.
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OAKLAND — Laid in a pink casket adorned with flowers and Hello Kitty balloons, slain 8-year-old Alaysha Carradine inspired a mournful outpouring of love at her funeral Tuesday.
A great-grandmother recalled her chattering vibrancy. A best friend, 8-year-old Erin Burgess, remembered their dreamy predictions about how much more exciting life would be when they both turned 10.
About 200 people crowded an Oakland mortuary to memorialize the loquacious girl who was gunned down at a friend's July 17 sleepover.
"You will never be forgotten," the girl's mother, Chiquita Carradine, said in a tearful eulogy Tuesday, as family members helped brace her. "You are my angel, my guardian angel. I pray to you now."
Even in a city already wracked by 56 homicides this year, Alaysha Carradine's horrific death has hit a deep nerve. She was spending the night at a friend's house when a gunman fired into the Dimond district apartment, fatally shooting the girl and injuring two other children and a grandmother.
Dozens of donors raised more than $5,700 for the funeral in an online campaign.
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The pastor at Berkeley's Abundant Life Christian Center Fellowship called on police and community members to seek justice for the girl.
"If they can get together to rally for Trayvon (Martin)," the Florida teen whose slaying sparked protests in Oakland and throughout the country, "they can rally for this baby," Jordan said. "So that her death is not in vain."
Mayor Jean Quan and the city's police and fire chiefs were among those attending the Tuesday funeral in the chapel of the McNary-Williams-Jackson Mortuary on Telegraph Avenue. Police continue investigating the homicide but have not publicly identified any suspects.
Family members and close friends grieved over what all described as a senseless death. They also celebrated the short but spirited life of a girl known for her singing, dancing and the sweet and caring demeanor she shared with friends, teachers and her little brother, Travion Pamon.
Born on June 28, 2005, in Monroe, La., to parents Chiquita Carradine and Marvin Eleam, Alaysha Carradine moved with her family to the Bay Area shortly before entering the first grade at Stege Elementary School in Richmond.
Her mother has said they moved to Oakland's Dimond district several years ago after a months-long search for a safe place to live. Alaysha would have entered the third grade this fall at Fruitvale Elementary School.
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We've all heard this before: that atheism is a religion or a belief, sometimes with the aside that it takes more faith to be an atheist than to be a believer. Sure, the logic is warped (big surprise!), but that isn't my point here.
What I want to do with this post is gather the classic comebacks we have employed to pull believers' pants down about this whole atheism-as-belief BS. Such as - If Atheism is a religion then:
You get the idea. So, what can we add to this list? The more, the merrier!
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Beyond the cleverness and pithy retorts, we can say this: the fundamental idea of religion isn't faith per se, but worship of an identified and personalized being - that, is the god-figure. Faith that I'm a swell guy or that tomorrow I'll win the lottery - well, that's also a sort of faith, but it is not a religion, because there is no centralized object of worship. Even a strong and abiding faith that sustains us in moments of emotional vulnerability isn't necessarily a religion. For it to be a religion, there must be an object of worship, and a general and vague recourse to "the great unknown", or to "fate", is not worship.
Your point is well-noted. Theravada Buddhism, in large measure, in fact is NOT a religion, precisely because there is no personified object of worship. Certainly, there is a "religious fervor" of devotion to some metaphysical cause, and we can argue whether this devotion is any less sincere (or less generously, any less fanatical!) than that in the Abrahamic religions. But I would opine that this form of Buddhism is not a religion per se.
Likewise with the various "religions" where people congregate to chant, to follow rituals and so forth, but where there is no god-figure serving as receptacle of their fealty.
To be sure, the lack of an object of worship does not make the associated creed somehow worthy of endorsement or rational in its principles. But it is precisely the worship of a god-figure that gives religion is religiousity - namely, the surrender of self-affirmation and self-respect in favor of some abstract being.
Another good example is Communism, as practiced in mid-20th century totalitarian countries. Devotion to Communist principles, whatever those may be, was fanatical indeed. The ritual, the grotesqueness and obsequiousness was not any less outrageous than in American evangelical Protestantism. But however lovely the "great leader" may have been, he was not worshiped as a supernatural being. And therefore it wasn't a religion.
lol! If Atheism is a religion then: it is a non-prophet organization.
I like Alain de Botton's suggestion of a "religion for atheists" or Atheism 2.0 .
Atheism, as usually practiced, fails to meet social and emotional needs, while religions excel at seeming to do so.
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Those who are without a church affiliation and seldom, if ever, attend are often described by church members as being irreligious, unfaithful, self-centered and a couple of dozen other equally unflattering adjectives. But there are at least three problems associated with such a hasty judgment, as a recent survey of the unchurched done in Charlotte, N.C., seems to point out.
The widely respected Barna Group of California recently completed this survey by asking the simple question, "Why don't you go to church?"
Barna, which has conducted research for such national organizations as the Disney Channel, Focus on the Family, VISA, and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, came up with some very revealing information. What they discovered ought to compel church members not to judge so much as to reflect, and not to condemn those who don't condemn those who don't attend church, but to ask themselves what they are doing that discourages outsiders from coming.
The problem with making snap judgments concerning the unchurched is, first of all, that these judgments are incorrect; second, they keep us from looking more objectively at ourselves, and third, they deflect from what should be the Church's mission of concentrating on real evangelization.
For starters, the Barna group discovered that 74 percent of those who don't attend church say they don't because they see no value in it. They often reported that they could connect with God as easily, if not better, on the golf course as they could in a worship service.
There is an extremely important point to be made here. These people gave as their reason for non-attendance, not that they were atheists or agnostics, but that they believed in God, yet didn't think that they could nurture their belief very well in a church. This verdict would be similar to McDonald's discovering that people wanted hamburgers, but didn't think McDonald's was a place to get them.
A very strong second reason given by the unchurched was their perception that churches have too many problems. Sixty-one percent saw this a major problem. Is the reputation of the Church among the unchurched a reputation in shambles? These non-attenders often reported viewing churches and their members as being either inflexible, hypocritical, judgmental, or just plain mean. Division and discord are deemed as being more present in churches than in other groups. As one man in the survey said, "I've got enough problems in my life. Why should I go to church and get more?"
A third reason why people don't attend church — and this appeared on 48 percent of the lists — was that they simply don't have time. The business community has begun to recognize the fact that time has replaced money as the main currency of society. Rather than asking, "How much does this cost?" people are more prone to ask, "How long will this take?"
Sundays have become, for millions of people, the only day to "play." Since many church services are scheduled from 11 a.m. until noon, in the minds of the unchurched that takes up their morning as well as their early afternoon and it becomes too high a price to pay for something many regard as having "no value."
Forty-two percent of those in the survey listed, "I'm simply not interested" as one of the major reasons for non-attendance. This perhaps may be the most difficult of all categories with which churches must deal, since it is not a matter of the church attempting to make adjustments in activity or image, but rather one of attempting to generate interest when it is apparently not there. We sympathize with the elementary school teacher attempting to get Johnny excited by math when his mind is on baseball.
Forty percent of the people surveyed mentioned their feeling that churches were too money-oriented and basically more interested in their wallets than in them as persons. The recent scandals involving televangelists seem to underline this concern, and what has happened with media religion seems to have been projected to the local congregation on Main Street.
Still another significant number surveyed perceived religion as being boring and irrelevant. This response seem to corroborate the lead item response that they saw no value in church attendance. Interestingly, only 12 percent of unchurched people said they did not attend because they didn't believe in God. While many in the Church have assumed that the unchurched have rejected faith itself, this does not seem to be true. Many claimed to be open to spiritual things, but have closed themselves to institutional expressions of spirituality. For the most part, it is not God they have rejected; it is the Church.
If the Charlotte survey is any indication of what the unchurched population is thinking — and there is no reason to doubt that it is a typical slice of society — then the Church is left with a curious recipe of both good and bad ingredients. The good news is that the overwhelming majority of those outside its walls have not rejected God, but the bad news is that they continue to reject the way it is representing God.
To be sure, churches face an uphill climb, but not an impossible one. If they are willing to take to heart the information gathered by a nationally respected polling agency, they at least have the foundation on which to build. Laying the groundwork for more effective ministry involves a number of adjustments which include changing our stereotypes of the unchurched, placing a greater emphasis on the spiritual, striving to be more flexible in compromising difference, and looking for more creative ways to achieve relevancy in presenting spiritual truths. While the Gospel may not be irrelevant, apparently the churches' methods of presenting it are being seen by others as being that way.
Program changes begin with attitude changes. If churches are willing to alter their attitudes, they will have taken the first major step toward possible recovery of at least a portion of the population which describes itself as being alienated from their sanctuaries.
DR. DICKSON has spent 53 years as a Lutheran pastor, college professor, and writer. He lives in Hickory, N.C.
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Entering the priesthood or religious life can be a special challenge for a middle-aged person, both in meeting the demands of the vocation and finding a seminary or religious community willing to accept older applicants. But some Catholics, often because of a conversion or change of circumstances in their lives, feel the call in their 30s or 40s and have gone on to have successful lives as priests and religious.
Our Sunday Visitor recently spoke with a brother, a sister and a priest who began their vocation later than the norm, and they reflected on the blessing of their new lives.
Diocese of Lincoln, Neb.
Father Kelly is pastor of St. Wenceslaus Church in Bee, Neb. — the first resident pastor in 40 years — and head of the philosophy department of St. Gregory the Great Seminary in nearby Seward, Neb. He was ordained in 2005 at age 42.
He was born the 13th of 14 children in a strongly Catholic family in Chicago, but his father relocated the family to Ireland in 1975 after the Roe v. Wade decision. He returned to the United States in high school. He said, "It was clear that Our Lord was calling me to the priesthood for a long time, but I was like Jonah. I went the other way."
He "attempted to serve the Lord" in a variety of other fields, including as an engineer, in the medical field and as a teacher. Father Kelly continued, "That was great, but Our Lord wanted all of me."
Growing up in a large and happy family, his biggest challenge was giving up on the idea of having children of his own.
Father Kelly earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Notre Dame and began teaching at a Jesuit university in San Francisco. He noticed that many students would address him as "Father" when he was not — many of the priests at the school did not wear clerical dress — and that when students would come to him with their problems, "what they really needed was to go to confession. The kids were asking for something from me that I could not give."
He entered the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, then the Dominicans, and ultimately decided on the diocesan priesthood in Lincoln, Neb. He said, "I've never regretted that decision. I've received many wonderful blessings."
Lincoln is known for doing well for priestly vocations as compared to other dioceses, but there is still a dearth, he said. Most Lincoln priests minister to two or more parishes: "There's always room for more laborers in the vineyard."
He advised older persons interested in the priesthood or religious life: "It's never too late, but start now. Life is too short to keep saying 'no' to Our Lord. Tell him 'yes,' and let him, through his mother, show you how to fulfill his call."
Eudist Servants of the Eleventh Hour
Sister Viola, 73, is superior of the Eudist Servants of the Eleventh Hour. She lives in San Diego and crosses the border each day to work in the infamous La Mesa Prison in Tijuana. Sister Viola entered the community at age 68 after her husband of 50 years died.
Sister Viola is from Denver and is mother of four grown children. When she was widowed, she wanted to devote the remainder of her life to missionary work and had a particular interest in helping migrants. She learned about the Eudists, a community founded by Mother Antonia Brenner (1926-2013).
Mother Antonia was a divorced mother of seven grown children who left a wealthy Beverly Hills lifestyle in the 1970s to devote herself to ministering to those in dire poverty in La Mesa Prison. Prison life in La Mesa is rough by American standards, and inmates must rely on outside support to survive. Poor prisoners have difficulty in obtaining food, clothing and other essentials, even a bed on which to sleep. The Eudist sisters minister to the spiritual and material needs of the poorest prisoners, reminding them, as Sister Viola said, "That Our Lord loves and cares for them."
Sister Viola's children were not happy when she announced her decision to join the community, but came to accept that decision. When she arrived in Tijuana, "I knew this was the work I was meant to do."
The 19 Eudist sisters in the community rise at 4:30 a.m. for prayer and their morning routine. Sister Viola must be at the prison at 7:30 a.m. and spends much of her day there. It's a physically demanding schedule for a person her age, she admits, but "I'm used to working hard. I've worked hard my entire life."
The Eudists are specifically interested in women age 45 and older for their community, and they make year-to-year commitments. The woman best suited to the life, Sister Viola believes, is "someone willing to give up the lifestyle she has and give it to the poor and the sick. She has to be willing to say 'There is no more me; I am at the service of Our Lord and my brothers and sisters.'"
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Brother Ezekiel (James Brennan) has professed final vows in the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross in Chicago. He joined the community seven years ago at age 46 and has found it to be "a wonderful life, one of prayer and coming closer to the Lord."
Brother Ezekiel grew up in the Chicago suburb of Riverside, where he attended Catholic schools and had an interest in music. He moved to New York and pursued a career in acting. He recalled, "I was starting to have success in my career, but I fell into a dissolute life."
In his early 30s, he returned to Chicago and joined a Presbyterian church choir. "I stood out with my long hair, but I was right at home with the Brahms and Beethoven music we sang," he said. He returned to Catholicism and pursued a vocation to the priesthood. He found the priesthood "respectable, and I wanted respect."
He quickly realized the priesthood was not for him, but after reading Thomas Merton's "The Seven Storey Mountain," he decided he wanted to enter religious life. Because of his age, past lifestyle and depression, which he has to control with medication, many religious communities would not accept him. He visited communities across the nation, but was rejected everywhere he applied.
After repeated rejection, he worked nine years in a nursing home, giving up on the idea of religious life. He noted, "I'd put a year of my life into applying to a community, and when I was rejected, it hurt. It killed me."
A nursing home resident told him about a new community of Benedictines that had established a monastery only 20 minutes from where he lived in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. The Monastery of the Holy Cross, he discovered, is devoted to prayer and sustains itself by operating a bed-and-breakfast for visitors who were interested in participating in their life of prayer, as well as selling caskets and running a gift shop. They were founded 25 years ago and currently have 10 members.
Brother Ezekiel spoke to Brother Brendan, the community's founder, and found an instant connection. He was open about his past life, as well as his eagerness to enter religious life. Brother Ezekiel entered with three younger men in 2007.
Today, he lives the Benedictine motto ora et labora ("pray and work"). He rises to pray at 3:30 a.m. and devotes several hours a day to prayer. He also tends to the duties of running a bed-and-breakfast: cooking, cleaning, chopping wood for the stove, caring for the grounds and greeting guests.
It is hard for a middle-aged man to submit to the will of a superior. He noted, "Your dreams are not your own. You may want to do one thing with your life, but you must give over your will to what the community wants."
But Brother Ezekiel is happy with his home in the community. He said, "I was ready for a life of study and prayer. I wasn't happy with my life outside. It's been wonderful, giving myself to something much greater than myself."
Jim Graves writes from California.
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PEORIA, Ariz. -- Mariners radio broadcaster Aaron Goldsmith is starting his second season with Seattle and offered his thoughts on the coming season in a conversation with MLB.com in advance of Opening Day.
MLB.com: Aaron, you've been in camp watching the Mariners all spring. What have you seen, and what have you liked?
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MLB.com: Aaron, you've been in camp watching the Mariners all spring. What have you seen, and what have you liked?
Goldsmith: There's a lot to like so far this spring for the Mariners. I think everyone kinda knows you have to say that with a little bit of a grain of salt. It is Cactus League play, after all. But the wins have been there for the Mariners; the performance by the starting rotation has been there for the most part as well. The bullpen has looked solid and has been healthy, and we're seeing a lot of big offensive performances so far this spring. We all know Brad Miller has been scorching the Cactus League. Dustin Ackley, Justin Smoak, they've been looking good as well, as has Michael Saunders. So by far, there have been more good things than bad things for the Mariners this spring.
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Goldsmith: I think my pick to click this year, and there are a lot of guys to choose from, I'm going to go with Michael Saunders. I think this is the season that we see Michael really put everything together. Last year he had that shoulder injury in April against the Astros at Safeco that really derailed him. He had a rough month of May and was limited in April. I think Michael is one of those guys that has all the tools -- we know he can run, he can hit, he can throw, he can field. He's the most versatile outfielder the Mariners have. So I think Michael is the type of player that if everything comes together, if he clicks this year, it's going to mean big things for the Mariners.
MLB.com: One guy you haven't even mentioned yet that I think could have an impact on this team, Robinson Cano. What have you seen from this guy this spring with his impact on everything, and what do you see going forward?
Goldsmith: Well, if we didn't know already, I think it's safe to say at this point, Robinson knows how to hit. He's had the most impressive offensive performances we've seen in a lot of ways as far as consistency in spring. Brad Miller has had all the extra-base hits, the total bases, the home runs, the triples. He's been electrifying. But Robinson is a guy who just gets up there and, whether he's missed a couple of days because of a root canal or five days going back to the Dominican for some personal issues, the guy doesn't skip a beat. What we've talked about on the broadcast a lot with Cano is that he's so good offensively, unfortunately it almost overshadows his defense. This guy has won two Gold Gloves, and you wonder if he was more like a .270 hitter if somebody would say, 'Man, this guy is really good at second base.' But because he hits well over .300 with a lot of pop every year, it's kind of like, 'Oh yeah, he plays second, too.' But when you get to watch him every day at second base, it's really impressive, both the arm strength and just his overall ability to field.
MLB.com: One of the benefits of being a radio guy, you get to sit down with the skipper and get his thoughts one on one every morning. What are your impressions of Lloyd McClendon this spring?
Goldsmith: You know, I've talked with some of the guys about Lloyd and just what they think of him this spring, and I think Kyle Seager kind of summed it up better than anybody. He said there's a sense of quiet, calm intensity with Lloyd McClendon. He's one of these guys who, you know he's competitive and he really understands the urgency to win in Seattle. Which I think strikes all of us pretty quickly with Lloyd. He's not a yeller and a screamer, but he's pretty intense. He's calm, quiet, but pretty intense. To me, that's what makes Lloyd so unique. And I'm really excited to see how this transitions into April. Because obviously you can win a lot of games in the Cactus League and it means nothing long-term. It means something right now, but in terms of the standings, Lloyd will be the first to tell you, 'Hey, it's the Cactus League.' So how will his demeanor and how will these wins and losses stack up come Opening Day against the Angels and down the road from there?
MLB.com: With Opening Day coming up, Aaron, for all these players, a year ago you were a rookie coming up out of the Minor Leagues with your first shot at Major League play-by-play coming with the Mariners. What do you remember about Opening Day last year, your nerves and everything there, and how much different is it this year with a year under your belt?
Goldsmith: You know, I was so nervous last year for the charity game against the Padres [in Spring Training] because that was my first time on the radio with the Mariners. And of course we had 25 or 27 Spring Training broadcasts that I could kind of work the nerves out. So I was nervous for Opening Day last year against Oakland, but I actually wasn't as nervous as I was for that charity game against the Padres. That's the biggest Spring Training game I'll ever go through in my life; there's no doubt about it. But it was a very exciting Opening Day last year in Oakland. It wasn't maybe the most scenic place to begin your broadcasting career, at the Coliseum in Oakland, but nonetheless it was huge for me, and I had such a great time. Rick [Rizzs] is the best. There's not a better guy to work with in the Major Leagues. So I can't wait to get things going with Rick and [producer] Kevin [Cremin] and the rest of the guys here for Year 2."
MLB.com: And now that you've had this gig for a year, what's cooler? Is it better to hang out with the writers that get to cover the team every day, or to hang with the broadcasters?
Goldsmith: You know, the writers, they know what's going on. They've got the inside scoop. But when you're with the radio crew, you're never going to miss a meal. I don't know. The writers, you guys are so busy blogging and tweeting, I say, 'Guys, we've got to get some carbs and protein in us. What's going on? Let's eat.' You guys are so tied up, you're here so early and so late. The radio guys, we do a lot of work from home, we roll in here, we do the broadcast. We show up early, of course, especially Rick. So I've got to stick with the broadcast side on this. But, hey, not to take anything away from the writers. You asked me to do this, after all, and I owe you one now.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog.