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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Doctor Murdered by Terrorists
Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita-based gynecologist who ran one of only two clinics in the state of Kansas that perform abortions, was shot outside Reformation Lutheran Church this morning.
The police have a suspect, Scott Roeder from Merriam, Kansas. (Merriam is a suburb of Kansas City, Kansas, neighboring the one in which I live).
Dr. Tiller has been shot at before: in 1993, the anti-abortion activist Shelley Shannon shot him twice, but he survived. His clinic is frequently picketed, and he's also been subjected to intense scrutiny by former Kansas attorney general Phill Kline, who seized the medical records of Tiller's patients to look for evidence of sexual abuse of underage girls --- this was seen by many people, including me, as a pretext to harrass Tiller and possibly close down his clinic, since an abortion clinic is hardly the only place one would look for underage rape victims, yet it seems to be the only context in which he mentioned this personal quest.
If I have anything substantive to say about this good, brave man's murder, it is this: There is no difference between the people who did this (and who bomb abortion clinics and stalk, harrass and murder doctors nation- and worldwide) and the Islamic terrorists who are supposed to be The Enemy.
None whatsoever.
16 comments:
- Gonzo said...
Gah, how horrible!
Thanks for the important clarification that these people are terrorists.
- June 1, 2009 at 2:32 AM
- Fleecy said...
Isn't it awfully contradictory to the "pro-life" cause to kill someone? I seem to remember a George Carlin quote on the matter. Something along the lines of (paraphrasing) "If you're not born yet, they're very concerned with you. If you're born, well... they don't care about you anymore."
- June 1, 2009 at 11:00 AM
- White Horse said...
It is the abortionist who was the terrorist.
There is absolutely nothing good or brave about people who murder babies for a living. If they were brave, they would become serial killers like anyone else, instead of finding a way to commit mass murder legally.
- June 1, 2009 at 11:07 PM
- White Horse said...
No, it isn't "awfully contradictory," though this is an illogical and selfish thing abortionists often say, which illustrates well their incredible arrogance. They think they should be allowed to kill (for selfish reasons) as many people as they like), yet suddenly decide it is horribly wrong for someone to kill (for selfless reasons) one of them.
Killing a mass murderer prevents them from going on to murder tens of thousands more times.
- June 2, 2009 at 12:27 AM
- White Horse said...
One major difference between the "Islamic Enemy" and the "people who did this" is that Al-Qaeda usually kill just anyone, at random, like abortionists do, but in this particular case, no innocent people were killed, only the perpetrator.
- June 2, 2009 at 2:04 AM
- kathleen said...
How true...a terrorist is a terrorist.I find it appalling that someone could be so arrogant-and self important in believing that they were justified in murdering this doctor.
- June 2, 2009 at 4:42 PM
- White Horse said...
I find it appalling that anyone could fail to recognize the actual arrogance and self-importance of people who think it is all right, and even admirable and brave, to kill thousands, but that if anyone tries to do it back to them, this is somehow a crime.
It is obvious that the person who kills thousands indiscriminately is the terrorist, not the person who tries to stop them.
- June 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM
- Clay said...
I think that all those who are against abortion, shouldn't have one. And they should mind their own business and let others make their own decisions. Because it's a FREE country, that is the only acceptable outcome, in the end.
- June 4, 2009 at 12:04 AM
- White Horse said...
It can only be a person's own decision to kill themselves. Killing their children can never be anyone's own decision. There are exceptions, like helping someone who actually wants to die, but an abortion is not such a case. It is not done for the sake of the victim but, like most other crimes, for the convenience of the offender.
A country where your mother is allowed to murder you hardly seems very free.
- June 4, 2009 at 5:04 AM
- Lindsay said...
I'm always torn when I get trolled --- do I ignore it and leave a bunch of questions hanging, do I delete the trollish comments and be a speech-suppressing meanie head, or do I engage with the troll and waste my time addressing very basic questions with a person who probably won't even accept my premises (let alone my entire argument!) as valid, and in the meantime make this blog even less of a feminist/autistic safe space than it already is?
There are no good answers.
- June 4, 2009 at 7:03 PM
- Macsen said...
To Lindsay
The problem with being a progressive person has always been attempting to answer such questions. I am assuming that you are talking about "White Horse"'s comments. The problem with these "Pro-Birth"fascists is that there is no way to reason with them. In their mind, the instant a sperm enters an egg, the resulting zygote becomes a "person" with a "soul". The reality that about 50% never survive never enters their obsessed mind. The fact that such a dim witted and fascistic view comes from a patriarchal religious women hating view does not matter to them. At a Pro-Choice demonstration, held as a counter to a "Pro-Birth" one, the "Pro-Birth" people screamed at us "Pro-Choice" people that we were violent murderers, and 2 people were injured - Me, kicked in the groin by a right-wing political candidate, and another guy, who had his nose broken by a Catholic Priest. We both refused to press charges, which turn out to be a mistake as the media reports on the incident was done in such a way as to make us "Pro-Choice" people look like we had caused the violence. White Horse fits the pattern of an unreasonable fanatic, and allowing such people to make their absurd comments just enables them.
The reality of the question is, should women have the right to control their own health care, and thus their own body. As a human ape, I demand that as the natural right for all my sisters, blood related (I have 5 sisters), or not.
Ultimately though, the choice to delete or not is yours.
- June 4, 2009 at 8:29 PM
- White Horse said...
The understanding that it is wrong to murder your children is just part of basic logic and morality. How bizarre to think of this as being "unreasonably fanatic."
- June 4, 2009 at 9:48 PM
- Lindsay said...
Because I can, and because I *DO* actually accept that abortion means letting someone die, I think I will engage with this troll.
(Clay has already started doing so, anyway, so I might as well help him out!)
Okay. First, even granting for the moment that abortion is just like, say, shooting somebody, it's more like killing someone in self-defense than it is like stalking and killing a stranger in cold blood. (This is especially true for the very late-term abortions Tiller performed, which are almost always done because a wanted pregnancy goes horribly wrong, endangering both mother and child).
Second, I would further argue that abortion is not so much a matter of killing as of letting die. The philosopher Judith Jarvis Thompson proposes a series of analogies here that help illustrate what moral principles are, and aren't, at stake.
- June 4, 2009 at 10:37 PM
- White Horse said...
It is not accurate at all to describe me as a troll.
Wikipedia defines the word as "someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevent or off-topic messages (....) with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion."
It is not my "primary intent" to provoke or disrupt anything. I am commenting on a blog, like everyone else.
A troll is not someone who does not second what the blogger writes.
- June 5, 2009 at 1:10 AM
- Clay said...
White Horse said...
It is not accurate at all to describe me as a troll.
Get lost, Billy, the jig is up. I think every blogger should go through their archives and delete every stupid thing you've ever said, but that would probably be too much trouble to go to for a wanker like you. But they could START deleting you, as of NOW!
- June 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM
- David N. Andrews M. Ed., C. P. S. E. said...
Billy, shut the fuck up. You are a troll, and you've always been one. Grow a fucking IQ. And leave the rest of us alone.
- October 18, 2010 at 5:03 PM


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In 1797, Napoleon conquered the "Sereníssima" Republic of Venice. Outraged with the excesses, he banned the Carnival and other festivities. In the 20th Century, Mussolini did the same. This city must really love partying!
Only over the last decades has Venice recovered its old statute with the revival of the traditions. Now with the added prestige of contemporary art.
Aside from the brazilian version, the Carnival of St. Mark's Square is the most famous in the world. Without the past wildness, but still a bit of hedonism and lots of theatrical pose. It lasts for about ten days on the period that antecipates Easter.
Masks are unequivocal stars. Millions arrive every year in Venice to attend the Festa delle Marie, a parade of disguises inspired by renaissance and baroque art. The highest point is the extravagant Gran Ballo delle Maschere, in one of the city's many palaces. Anyone with a proper mask may participate!
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Family Tree Maker Version 2009 is here. I have just installed the program and plan on educating myself in its use, and plan on sharing some of my learning's on this blog. The opening or Plan screen is below. There is a lot of information on this screen. I will try to indicate what information is here that may be important to others.
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This screen is the opening screen of the current file that I have opened. The Home Person, the Current Person is listed, along with the Date that the file was created, Last Saved, and Last Backed Up. Don't be confused by the Date the file was created, as it was created by Version 2008 and opened by Version 2009. This happened automatically upon installation of Version 2009, as expected.
What is obvious, is that a Back Up of this file be done soon. Once the file is backed up, that Back Up date will be updated.
There are some numbers on the screen to be pointed out, briefly, below:
1 - Is the list of files that have been opened, the Date when they were last opened, and the file this is currently opened. In this case, MasterFile is currently opened.
2 - Indicates the number of People or Individuals in the file, the number of Marriages, Generations, and Surnames included in the file, along with the Size of this File.
3 - A list of Tasks (or ToDo List) that has been entered in General or by Individual. This will be covered in more detail in another Blog Entry.
4 - The Web Dashboard indicates that I am logged into various online offerings at The Generations Network. There is a link to Log Off of these websites, if I so choose.
As the Plan Button on the Family Tree Maker Tool Bar has a different color, that is the screen that is currently opened. Other buttons will be high lighted in future Blog Entries.


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Well it's been quite a day.
I left for St. George early this morning. Kim and everyone else were planning to come down later in the day. I was making good time and I was feeling good about being a bit early. The car was running great. About three hours into the trip, the car started to lose power. Slowly, Slowly, I watched the speedometer fall until I had to pull over to the side of the road. And the car died. Smoke billowing out of the front and everything.
Though stressed, I just started to laugh. It just topped the cake. With everything going on, rolling out Family ChArtist this weekend in St. George and all sorts of other things that have happened the last couple of weeks that you wouldn't even believe, there was just nothing else to do but laugh. Perhaps it shows that we are on the right track when we run into problem after problem. Such is the life of a genealogy company.
After an hour wait, and being towed into the nearest city, the mechanic had "wonderful" news. The radiator cap was completely off and the motor was completely burned out. Apparently when Kim took the car in to have the oil changed last night, the mechanic there didn't put the radiator cap back on.
When I called Holly Hanson (Family History Expos) to tell her that I wasn't going to make it with some of the stuff she needed, she didn't hesitate. She immediately sent her wonderful husband Chris with the truck and the trailer, on a several hour trip to pick me up.
Now Holly was at the conference center organizing everything for the approximately 1500 people expected this weekend. The company that runs her website had complications this week and not only has the conference website been down the week before this conference, but all of the backups were lost and it looks like she has nothing to reconstruct from. At the very least you would have thought she would need the help of her husband this afternoon. But Holly is just that kind of person. She didn't even think twice. She just sent him off to rescue me. So I now officially nominate her for sainthood. She is already an angel.
Eventually everyone got to the conference center. Everything is set up to go and we are ready for a good night sleep. Wish us good luck. It can't get much more exciting.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Exciting days and angels, and late blog posts.
Posted by Janet Hovorka at 10:06 PM
2 comments:
- Sheri Fenley said...
LOL I thought this kind of stuff only happened to me! See you in Salt Lake in April.
- February 26, 2010 at 1:45 AM
- Mark Tucker said...
Wow! What an adventure. Glad to hear that you made it to the conference. Too bad about the car. Best wishes for a successful conference.
- February 26, 2010 at 9:25 AM
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First up, my card for this week's sketch at 2 sketches 4 U! The sketches are always fun to work with, and the design team did a fabulous job! Be sure to check them out!
Supply List:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Paper/Diecuts: Sassafras Lass
Rub-on: American Crafts
Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms (Kim Hughes "U R A Hoot" collection)
Ink: Staz-On & Clearsnap
Rhinestones: Glitz Designs
Corner Rounder: Marvy Uchida
"I *heart* U" Card
Supply List:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Ribbon: Michael's brand
Rhinestones: Doodlebug Designs (red) & Glitz Designs (green)
Stickers: Making Memories
Diecut Machine: Cricut Expression by Provo Craft (Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge)
Twine: Darice
Button: craft supply
And with the passing of December 1st, I am now able to post anything that was published in October issues. These were in the October issue of Cards Magazine.
Well, that is all I have for now. Going to go watch "Fred Claus" with my hubby...just came in our mailbox via Netflix. Enjoy your Wednesday night!
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Arranging a Funeral – What do you need to know?
This information can help you understand some of the decisions you will have to make when planning a funeral. It is not exhaustive, however, and many other areas will be discussed between you and your Funeral Director or Arranger during the period leading up to the funeral. It is a good idea to write things down as you think of them, as this will help in your discussions, especially at a time when you are likely to be very emotional and may not remember everything that is important to you and the person who has died.
Some of the key elements to think about beforehand will obviously be around whether the person who has died expressed any preferences or pre-arranged any elements of the funeral beforehand.
- Would they want a religious, semi-religious or non-religious ceremony?
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- Do you want to express their unique personality in elements of the ceremony?
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AUSSIE FLASHBACKS #1….(From The Zephyr Archives…Feb/Mar 2009)
I'd heard about Zoe, but until I met her, I thought my buddy Greg was just pulling my leg. After all, "taking the piss" out of Yanks is an Aussie pastime.
Several years ago, I met Greg Fewson, a farmer from Western Australia, who lived as far out on the edge of the wheatbelt as anyone can, and still have any hope of finding enough rain to make something grow. The Fewson Family created Halsham Farm almost a century ago, and through good times and bad, they have persevered.
Greg grows wheat and raises sheep on several thousand acres that he rotates from year to year—sheep shit is excellent fertilizer for winter wheat. So the sheep and the wheat have a symbiotic relationship. Scattered across the vast Aussie landscape are, of course, the creatures for which Australia is best known. The ubiquitous kangaroos.
On our first drive to Halsham, 85 kms east of Katanning, Greg told me about Zoe.
Zoe the joey.
She had simply shown up one day and decided to stay; Zoe adopted the Fewson family. I could scarcely believe what Greg was telling me but she was so comfortable at Halsham Farm that she often came inside the house and stretched out on the couch in the lounge room—just one of the kids—her enormous hind legs and thick tail dangling over the far end of the sofa. At night she'd even sleep on the bed between Greg and his wife. And she loved whole wheat bread.
As Zoe grew, however, her visits became less frequent and one day, she left and didn't come back.
Greg figured she'd found a mate and they'd never see her again. It was a logical assumption.
But two years later, in the middle of the night, and in the middle of nowhere—Halsham is miles from the nearest town—Greg was awakened by the sound of the sliding screen door in the lounge room. Before he could crawl out of bed and confront the intruder, he heard a hard thump on the mattress between him and his wife. He reached for the light switch.
It was Zoe.
Now full-grown but apparently unaware of it, Zoe had returned, even managing to unlatch the screen door in the process. She'd come to say hello, not to move back in. The next day she was gone again and sometimes Greg would go years without seeing her. She took a mate and produced a few joeys of her own, but managed to stay in the area.
Greg moved out of the house at Halsham and restored the old homestead, 20 kilometers north. The Halsham home sat empty for a few years until Greg heard I was looking for a place to settle for a few weeks. Gracious as always, he offered me the Halsham house…
"Everything's turned on, Jim. Make yourself at home."
A couple days later, I was hanging laundry on the clothes line in 100 degree heat when I saw something emerge from an old tattered and long abandoned trampoline, next to the house. I turned to see the blur of a roo coming right at me.
Scared me to death.
And then I thought….Zoe?
I spoke her name and she took two more hops and turned her head just so, to allow maximum ear scratchability. She almost moaned like a dog.
I finally came back inside and Zoe slept in the shade. That evening I went for a walk along the fence line. Though I'm not a runner by nature, I decided to pick up the pace a bit, only to find Zoe hopping effortlessly beside me on the far side of the fence. The damn roo wasn't even breaking a sweat.
Aggravated by my pace, she sped ahead and waited for me at the house. When I arrived, panting, a few minutes later, Zoe was lounging on the front porch. I knew what she really wanted. A few moments later, the Roo of Halsham Farm was taking whole wheat bread right out of my hand.
"Only two pieces, Zoe," I said, "or you'll bloat."
That was two years ago. Greg figured then she must be close to 15 and kangaroos in the wild rarely live past 18. But what a life she's lived—running free in the golden light of Western Australia, and never quite sure if she was a roo or one of us. Or both. I think she lives the best of both worlds.
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I recall 12/7 very well...stunning protography...great address to the nation, by FDR..."Yesterday, December 7, a day that will live in infamy..." Ain't it funny, how time drifts away?
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Hip, hip hooray! Thursday was our 100th day of school! We've been counting the days since school began. Each day we add a circle to our Counting Caterpillar. This year, we made a new AB color pattern every tenth day. We used a star to commemorate the 100th day. We've already decided to continue to add to the caterpillar each day to see how long it will be by the end of school. On Monday, we'll decide how we'll proceed with adding to him. I'll let them vote to see if the want to add colors randomly or if the wish to try a more complex pattern.
I asked each student to do a little "homework". We decided to make a 100th Day Trail Mix so they were asked to find one hundred edible items and count them with a family member to bring in to share. We put everything together and had the trail mix for snack. This year, we had an overabundance of small candies, and very little filler, so we had to add a little filler.
Eventually, it looked like this:
Our Morning Message was about our Hundredth Day. The students took turns circling or writing an "H" on the whiteboard.
We made these cute headbands from Making Learning Fun for the 100th Day celebration. In the background, you can see more of the patterning of the Counting Caterpillar.
We made a collage of 100 small items glued to the number 100 on construction paper.
Our Show and Tell Challenge this week was to bring in 10 of a small item that we could count together. I love the creativity of some of the "shares"!
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We illustrated what we thought we'd look like when we are 100 years old. One of my friends drew "peg legs" because "when you get old, your legs sometimes don't work no more. You have to get pegs like the pirates!" and another included a cane and eyeglasses. (The pictures were drawn in colored pencils and were too light to show up in the photos. ;( )We read the poem "100 Days of School" by Songs 4 Teachers. It's available on the abcteach website, but you can download it from here.
Here are some of our favorite 100th Day books:
Our "grand finale" was a pizza party. It always surprises me how much pizza 20 pre-k kids can eat!
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The Brahms Festival that San Antonio Symphony Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing has created with 19 artistic partners continues this week with SEVEN concerts featuring more fantastic chamber music and an evening of choral music.
San Antonio Chamber Music Society: Miró Quartet
Sunday, January 27 at 3:15 p.m.
Temple Beth-El
Program includes Brahms String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51
Miró Quartet
Daniel Ching, violin | William Fedkenheuer, violin
John Largess, viola | Joshua Gindele, cello
Music at the Museum XIII
Monday, January 28 at 6:30 p.m.
San Antonio Museum of Art
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Trio in A minor for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op. 114
Four Songs, Op. 17
F-A-E Sonata for Violin and Piano by Brahms, Schumann, and Dietrich
The Churchill High School Chamber Orchestra, Jason Thibodeaux, director
SOLI Chamber Ensemble: Ertan Torgul, violin | Stephanie Key, clarinet | David Mollenauer, cello | Carolyn True, piano
Mary Ellen Goree, violin | Allyson Dawkins, viola | Benjamin Westney, cello | Jeff Garza, horn
Katharine Caliendo, horn | Rachel Ferris, harp | Vivienne Spy, piano
(Fundraiser with concert, reception and silent art auction for the San Antonio Symphony League and San Antonio Museum of Art Docents) Call: 210-978-8121
TPR Presents: BRAHMS
Tuesday, January 29, 7 p.m.
Tripoint (3233 N. St. Mary's)
Texas Public Radio gives members and the public a taste of the Brahms Festival with a performance by SOLI Chamber Ensemble and Ballet San Antonio. SOLI and Ballet San Antonio will give a preview of their Brahms Festival performance the following week, exploring the legendary "love affair" between Brahms and Clara Schumann through music and dance. The short performance will be followed by a TPR Cinema screening of the film SONG OF LOVE, about the same subject.
Admission is FREE for Texas Public Radio members, with a suggested donation of $10 for non-members of TPR. Movie snacks (food, drink) will be provided at the event.
Camerata San Antonio in collaboration with the San Antonio Symphony
Thursday, January 31 at 7:30 p.m.
Christ Episcopal Church
String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18
String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36
Jun Yi Ma, violin | Bonnie Terry, violin | Allyson Dawkins, viola
Emily Freudigman, viola | Ken Freudigman, cello | David Mollenauer, cello
San Antonio International Piano Competition
Andrea Lam, piano
Saturday, February 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Ruth Taylor Recital Hall at Trinity University
Program will include Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118
Andrea Lam, piano
San Antonio Choral Society: The Choral Works of Brahms
Sunday, February 3 at 4 p.m.
Laurel Heights United Methodist Church
Geistliches Lied, Op. 30
Sanctus from Missa Canonica, WoO 18
Ave Maria, Op. 12
Der Fiedler, WoO 33
Liebeslieder, Op. 52
Bartók: Four Slovak Folk Songs, Op. 78
Britten: The Sally Gardens
Schubert: Ständchen, Op. 135
R. Schumann: An die nachtigall, Op. 103
Barber: Sure on This Shining Night, Op. 13
Jennifer L. Seighman, conductor | Dr. N. Seth Nelson, accompanist
Musical Bridges Around the World
Sunday, February 3 at 6:30 p.m.
San Fernando Cathedral
Sonata in E-flat major for Violin and Piano, Op. 120, No. 2
Two Songs for Alto, Viola and Piano, Op. 91
Sonata No. 1 in G major for Violin and Piano Op. 78, No. 1
Dr. Anya Grokhovski, artistic director | Carolyn Sproule, mezzo soprano
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Rose and the Enchanted Seven A young girl must battle an ancient evil for the survival of her kingdom, her family and possibly her very own life
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Having almost completed unpacking three tons of supplies brought from Earth aboard Endeavour and the Raffaello cargo module, the station and shuttle crews today turned their focus to packing up the cargo carrier and shuttle for the trip home.
When the day began, the crews had already completed unloading more than 4,600 pounds of food, clothes, supplies and equipment from Raffaello, about 95 percent of the module's total cargo. They also had completed moving the 1,000 pounds of station gear and experiments that were launched in Endeavour's cabin to the orbiting complex.
In repacking the cargo module and Endeavour with unneeded equipment bound for Earth, the crews have loaded more than 1,800 pounds of material into Raffaello, almost half the amount expected by the time the packing is completed. Packing of Raffaello and Endeavour will continue on Thursday. On Friday, Raffaello will be detached from the station and moved back into Endeavour's payload bay for the trip home.
In addition, Endeavour's crew – Commander Dom Gorie, Pilot Mark Kelly, Mission Specialists Linda Godwin and Dan Tani, and offgoing station crew members Commander Frank Culbertson, Pilot Vladimir Dezhurov and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin – assisted the new station Expedition Four crew in replacing most components of a station treadmill today. Expedition Four – Commander Yury Onufrienko and Flight Engineers Dan Bursch and Carl Walz – will use the new treadmill almost daily during their five and a half months aboard the station. The job went smoothly and the crews finished several hours ahead of schedule, loading the old treadmill parts into Raffaello to be refurbished on Earth and, eventually, reused. A third and final scheduled reboost of the station by Endeavour also was completed today. The three boosts performed during the mission, each accomplished by a gradual, hour-long periodic firing of the shuttle steering jets, have raised the station's altitude by a total of almost 9 statute miles. The station's average altitude is now about 241 statute miles.
On Thursday, the crews will continue maintenance work as well as packing, replacing a faulty compressor in a Russian air conditioner on the station. Although the new crew officially took over aboard the station on Saturday, a formal handover ceremony also is planned for the two station crews at 2:04 p.m. CST Thursday.
The crews begin a sleep period at 10:19 p.m. CST today and awaken at 6:19 a.m. CST Thursday. The next STS-108 mission status report will be issued about 7 a.m. CST Thursday or as events warrant.
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A new proposal could let the federal government regulate all navigational applications such as Google Maps, according to reports.
The apps would be overseen and regulated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, according to language in the Grow America Act, or "Generating Renewal, Opportunity, and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency, and Rebuilding of Infrastructure and Communities throughout America." Congress is supposed to soon look over the legislation that could greatly change how navigational apps look and work, according to InformationWeek.
The agency will oversee navigational apps whether embedded in a car dashboard or on a smart phone. This has lead to several critics from both the car and tech industry.
"They don't have enough software engineers," Catherine McCullough, executive director of the Intelligent Car Coalition, an industry group told the New York Times. "They don't have the budget or the structure to oversee both Silicon Valley and the auto industry."
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Humans have relied on their keen sense of sight in exploring their environment. The basic properties of light, color and intensity, convey a wealth of information about the source and intervening media, and remains at the core of modern astronomy. We will discuss how visible and infrared radiation, most relevant in the exploration of planets, are used in understanding their diverse atmospheres. Each atmosphere has a plethora of molecules that impart distinct signatures in their glow, and the interpretation of such observations can be complex. Nevertheless, it is an interesting enterprise spanning a range of science disciplines. What processes give rise to these signatures and how are they measured? How is the information disentangled? These questions form an interesting detective story! Recent examples of exciting science results from ground- and spacecraft-based observations of planets will be discussed in this context.
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In Minnesota, we feel our winters never end but when they do, we seem to jump into the heat and humidity of summer…and are extremely upset when we turn on the AC and feel a blast of warm air streaming from the vents.
Are you aware that without regular maintenance an air conditioner loses about 5% of its original efficiency per year? It won't take many years before your air conditioning unit may be performing as poorly as other models that are years older! With proper service, the lost efficiency can be restored.
If your car air conditioning isn't blowing as cool as it used to, or takes longer to cool off your car, you may need to have your system serviced. It is possible that your air conditioning system has a leak (refrigerant will evaporate after leaving the system) or one of its components have failed.
Sometimes the remedy for a poor performing automobile air conditioning system is a recharge of refrigerant (formerly known as Freon). Refrigerant is the life blood of your car's AC and should be checked to make sure pressure levels are within manufacturer's specifications. While the refrigerant in your car's AC system operates in a closed system, leaks do occur from time to time when seals weaken due to normal wear and tear.
Medi-CAR Auto Repair uses special air conditioning equipment that removes old refrigerant and adds fresh refrigerant. It's actually kind of like a dialysis machine for your car. Old refrigerant is dried and reused later after it runs through a process inside our AC recycler – but not on the same vehicle.
The majority of the time if you air conditioning isn't effective, it is due to a failure of the following components:
Compressor: The compressor is considered the core of your AC system. It is powered by a drive belt connected to your engine and pumps refrigerant vapor under high pressure to the condenser.
Condenser: The condenser changes the high-pressure refrigerant vapor to a liquid and then dissipates the resulting heat.
Receiver/Drier: The now liquid refrigerant moves to the receiver-dryer which removes any moisture that may have leaked into the refrigerant. Moisture in the system causes havoc, with ice crystals causing blockages and mechanical damage.
Expansion Valve/Orifice Tube: The pressurized refrigerant flows from the receiver-drier to the expansion valve. The valve removes pressure from the liquid so that it can expand and become refrigerant vapor in the evaporator.
Evaporator: The evaporator has tubes and fins similar to a car radiator and when the refrigerant is vaporized it absorbs heat from the air in the passenger compartment. The blower fan inside the passenger compartment pushes air over the outside of the evaporator, so cold air is circulated inside the car. On the 'air-side' of the evaporator, the moisture in the air is reduced, and the 'condensate' is collected and drained away.
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T.J. Lobraico's 'act of uncommon valor'
Sherman soldier honored for sacrificing his own life to save others
When his team set out from Bagram Airfield in eastern Afghanistan the night of Sept. 5, Staff Sgt. Todd "T.J." Lobraico Jr. took his usual place -- right up front.
As members of the U.S. Air National Guard, the group's duty was to protect one of the military's most crucial airfields, situated roughly 25 miles north of Kabul in a flat between the mountains of Afghanistan's Parwan Province.
And on Sept. 5 that meant loading nine airmen and a military K9 into a vehicle, driving into "hostile territory" and going out on foot.
"That evening a set of boots set out on foot patrol," the Rev. John Revell, chaplain for the Stamford Police Department, said during a funeral service held Friday for Lobraico, 22, of Sherman. "The boots of warriors walked off into what would become a night of infamy."
By then it had been just over two months since the New York Air National Guard's 105th Airlift Wing landed in Afghanistan.
Four months earlier, Lobraico had sat in classrooms, finishing up his latest slate of courses at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. After returning from his first deployment -- to Balad Air Base in Iraq from December 2010 to June 2011 -- Lobraico enrolled in the school's Justice and Law Administration program, another pace in his father's footsteps on his path toward a career in law enforcement.
But first he had to follow his father's legacy back to active duty with the 105th Airlift Wing.
By the last few weeks of the semester, Lobraico knew he would be returning to war but "he didn't let it show at all," said Tony Markert, one of Lobraico's professors.
"He never really let on that he was going off to another tour. He just took it. That was his job," Markert said.
So when the vehicle stopped on Sept. 5, Lobraico went to work.
As the team stepped out, Lobraico took his place at the head of the unit.
Moving forward, Lobraico had the military dog and its handler following behind him.
"As he rounded the corner while on patrol, the K9 signaled the impending enemy," said Lt. Col. Robert Tilli, wing chaplain for the 105th Airlift Wing, during his remarks at Lobraico's funeral.
Immediately, Lobraico pushed the dog and its handler to safety and took up a "strategic" position between his men and the enemy, Revell said.
"His act of uncommon valor allowed the rest of the team to take cover and lay down cover fire," he said.
But sacrificing his own safety for that of his fellow soldiers gave the enemy a shot at Lobraico. He was hit with small-arms fire.
Though his fellow airmen tried to get aid to him as quickly as they could, Lobraico did not survive his wounds.
"T.J.'s actions that were individually responsible for the saving of their lives," his team would later report, Revell said. "Each one is totally committed to honoring his life and sacrificial death by living out his example of honor valor and selflessness."
Revell said Lobraico has been nominated for a Bronze Star.
Eric Durr, director of public affairs for the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs, said awarding a Bronze Star comes only after a lengthy process during which a serviceman's actions are first documented then reviewed to determine his eligibility.
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John Marshall, John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture: Religious Toleration and Arguments for Religious Toleration in Early Modern and Early Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Series)(Cambridge University Press, 2006) is reviewed for H-Albion by William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University. Hat tip to H-Law.
Historians of religious toleration in the early modern period have hitherto been dependent on W. K. Jordan's four- volume The Development of Religious Toleration in England (1932-1940) and Peter Zagorin's recent How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West (2003). But Jordan focuses on England, whereas Marshall-- rightly--sees toleration as a European phenomenon; and Zagorin ranges more widely from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century, while Marshall seeks to pursue a more limited "moment" in the 1680s and 1690s. Certainly the second half of the seventeenth century was a high point of persecution which seems to have given way in a number of countries to toleration. It was also a period in which there were multiple persecutions and tolerations, depending on the moment. In England the Anglican state's persecution of Nonconformity in the Clarendon Code flipped over into the united Protestant resistance to Catholicism under James, followed by the Glorious Revolution and the Toleration Act. Persecutors and advocates of toleration were often one and the same. Charles II, whose tolerant Declaration of Breda raised such hope in 1660, advocated restricting the franchise to Anglicans when he was King, but also issued the short-lived Declaration of Indulgence in 1672, and died a Catholic. Similarly, James II was both an inflexible Catholic, intolerant of other religious views,and the author of the Declarations of Indulgence in 1687 and 1688; and Archbishop William Sancroft, who supported Anglican legislation against Dissent in the 1660s and 1670s, wooed Dissenters in 1688 to prevent the triumph of James II's Catholic policies. However insincerely, all three adopted the logic of toleration to pursue their own ends, suggesting perhaps that they recognized the internal inconsistencies of persecution.
John Marshall's ambitious and wide-ranging book sets itself a challenging task. Firstly, Marshall traces the impact of religious violence and considers representations of intolerance across France,Piedmont, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Britain. Marshall treats this intolerance as a backdrop to Locke's ideas of toleration, which justified resistance to rulers and extended rights to people--but only contingently. Marshall then considers the arguments for toleration, and shows the complexity of the multiple voices, some of which sought to justify intolerance as well as toleration. Above all those who advocated intolerance were preoccupied with heterodoxy and heresy and this impeded the growth of toleration, not just in religious matters but also in sexual mores and attitudes to those of other religions such as Muslim and Jews. By the 1680s and 1690s, however, Marshall claims that a small group of émigrés [sic] in the Netherlands developed ideas of universal religious toleration, the group included Locke and conceived an "early Enlightenment culture" which was complementary to the republic of letters which emerged at the same time. This early Enlightenment culture was in opposition to the Inquisition and drew on Christianity of the first three centuries as a precedent of tolerant Christianity. But there were limits to this early Enlightenment culture of toleration. As the works of Pierre Bayle and Gilbert Burnet show, Protestant tolerance did not comprehend Catholicism, nor did it embrace atheism or sexual libertinism.
This brief summary of Marshall's argument does not capture the detail with which he clothes the discussion.
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Europe can't seem to catch a break today.
Just take a look at all the latest headlines:
German industrial production data proved a major disappointment, falling 1.3 percent month-over-month, versus an expected 0.5 percent. Germany is a major exporter to the rest of Europe, and this is the latest sign that contractions in the periphery are starting to affect the European core.
Yields on Spanish bonds are at their highest levels since December, before the European Central Bank's first three-year long-term refinancing operation. Yields on the ten-year stand at 5.83 percent after rising more than 13 bps so far today. The spread between Spanish bonds and German bunds topped 400 bps for the first time since December.
The euro broke the floor the Swiss National Bank had imposed on the EUR/CHF exchange rate, falling below 1.2000.
French borrowing costs rose slightly in a bond auction this morning, with yields on the 10-year up to 2.98 percent from 2.91 percent in March. Those yields are up four bps in the secondary markets just under 3.00 percent.
Stocks are in the red everywhere. The DAX is off 1.08 percent, the FTSE MIB has fallen 1.49 percent, and the IBEX 35 is down 1.20 percent.


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Located in downtown Buffalo, N.Y., St. Michael's Parish draws the majority of its parishioners from the suburbs surrounding the city. The parish was founded in 1851 under the direction of the Jesuits and has remained so ever since.
Currently, St. Michael's community has about 280 households, and the parish supports a regional school in the area. Several of the Jesuit priests currently serving at St. Michael's are over the age of 80, and they remain apostolically active in performing sacramental ministry and serving the St. Michael's community.
St. Michael's spiritual outreach is primarily sacramental, offering three Masses a day and five on Sundays. The rectory is open daily for counseling and marriage preparation, and confession is offered every day, except Sunday. In addition, the parish presents the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in a 19th Annotation format each year for about 25 people.
The parish's outreach and support to the community includes Anointing of the Sick, and space is made available for two AA meetings a week.


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Now this is one pet we'd love to adopt!
During an interview with Australia's Herald Sun, Ryan Gosling revealed he doesn't understand the hoopla surround his chiseled physique, referring to his abs as useless pets.
Check out photos of Ryan Gosling"Anyone can get those if they work at it," Gosling said. "It's just a lot of exercising. And it's really quite pointless, because you go to a gym and you lift a heavy thing so a muscle grows, but the only thing the muscle can actually do is to lift that heavy thing."After a while they're like pets because they don't do anything useful. But you have to feed them and take care of them otherwise they'll go away. I feel a bit goofy having them, to tell you the truth", the Gangster Squad actor joked.


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But libertarianism is broader. While libertarians are economic conservatives (supporting, for example, free markets), they are social liberals. As my previous post may illustrate, I am frequently frustrated by the anti-intellectual demogoguery emanating from self-styled so-cons, to the point whereby I am often tempted to just state clearly that I, likely my former high school friend Colby Cosh, am a libertarian, full stop.
But while I would then have less of a need to elaborate on why I support a scientific, evidence-based, "intellectual" approach to resolving policy issues in general, fact is I am postmodern enough to NOT see Reason as the final touchstone in all realms. I see a need to circumscribe it to the instrumental realm, a project that's been described in more detail by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas.
It's the fact that in practice we could use more reason, not less, in our public debates that tempts me to endorse full-on libertarianism without qualification. But philosophically sophisticated arguments for social conservatism such as those described by Daniel Bell are compelling, or at least deserving of more attention.
Norms have value. People who believe some emancipatory effect will follow from the elimination of sexual norms are putting too much stock into theory (Reason, if you will) and not enough into the reality of human nature. The idea that youth, for example, will be more self-determined if traditional influences are removed is largely a fiction. What would replace it are other cultural influences. Undermine the norms generally endorsed by parents, for example, and you'll empower unreflective peer pressure, not individuals in idealized, abstracted isolation, and that peer pressure would generally serve the baser elements of social darwinism. What people are being emancipated to, in other words, is the prehistoric savannah where the contributions of potential Newtons, Einsteins, Vivaldis etc were undeveloped and unsupported. The point here can, and is, frequently taken too far. But there is a point, just as Nietzsche makes something of a counterpoint. What's missing is an intellectual curiousity about why norms like not running around in the nude arose in the first place.
The content of the norms is generally not so important as the fact they simply exist, in my view. Is one superior by virtue of being, say, white, male, and Protestant? No. But is it reasonable to consider that important? Yes. Whether it should be important may be debated, but where the social left goes most awry is on the issue of whether it is important. A religious revival might well do more to solve otherwise intractable social problems and improve human satisifcation than a new bureaucratic government spending program.
Which brings me to the uproar over Obama's invitation to Rick Warren. Rich Lowry identifies the "cultural left" as the "aggressor" in this latest flare-up in the culture war. I agree, and am futhermore reminded of why I'm not a libertarian. A libertarian might well be compelled to agree that Warren should be disinvited, which would be an extremely dogmatic stance that furthered a distorted view of the particular facts. Pastor Rick is not a hatemonger, and the efforts to paint him as such strike me as less loving, more "hateful" if you will, than what Rick Warren has been preaching and writing about his whole career. The activists here are looking to provoke a political showdown that Warren is not looking for.
I've argued elsewhere that gay marriage is not a libertarian issue anyway. I won't repeat the reasons here in detail, other than to say that the issue is unlike the decriminalization of homosexuality by going to positive "rights", namely the right to compel government action, as opposed to negative rights. Gay marriage is about normalizing deviancy, not about the right to deviate. Some readers may jump at my use of the word deviant here, saying its highly pejorative, but for what it's worth I am using the term as an entirely descriptive, sociological term.
This San Francisco pundit supported same sex marriage in the past but has since turned cold on the idea because of the intolerance exhibited... by SSM supporters.
The Left has won the culture war, and, at least in the near-term, its victory is irreversible. In social relations, the right to choose trumps all other considerations: to fornicate, marry, breed, abort, divorce, and abandon. That a single mother with six kids should opt for another eight because she feels like it captures the distilled essence of the cultural moment that we have entered.


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In a major victory for Wal-Mart and much of corporate America, the US Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the largest gender discrimination class action lawsuit in history.
In a 5 to 4 opinion, the justices reversed a lower court decision allowing as many as 1.5 million female workers to sue the nation's biggest private employer for back pay and punitive damages that could have totaled billions of dollars.
The decision makes it more difficult for employees and others to join together in a common lawsuit unless they are able to clearly identify a common injury, such as a company-wide discriminatory policy.
In a ruling on a secondary aspect of the case, all nine justices agreed that the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco erred in allowing the massive class action lawsuit to move forward on claims seeking back pay.
"The Supreme Court's ruling should surprise no one," said Anthony Sabino, a law professor at St. John's University. "Class actions are predicated on 'common questions.' A class of millions of disgruntled employees is just too vast to present a handful of questions that are fundamental to each and every one of them," he said. "This is especially true for employment decisions that turn on so many idiosyncrasies of individual workers and their managers."
'Far steeper road'
Marcia Greenberger of the National Women's Law Center called the ruling "a devastating decision undoing the rights of millions of women across the country to come together and hold their employers accountable for their discriminatory practices."
She added, "The women of Wal-Mart – together with women everywhere – will now face a far steeper road to challenge and correct pay and other forms of discrimination in the workplace."
The Wal-Mart litigation is not necessarily over. The female employees can file individual lawsuits claiming discrimination and seeking back pay. They could also break the massive lawsuit down into smaller, more focused lawsuits.
In reaching its decision, the high court rejected what it called "Trial by Formula."
Writing for five members of the court, Justice Antonin Scalia said that under federal rules of civil procedure the class action lawsuit again Wal-Mart should not have been approved because it lacked a single common question tying each employee's claims together for efficient resolution in a single trial.
"Here respondents wish to sue about literally millions of employment decisions at once," Justice Scalia wrote. "Without some glue holding the alleged reasons for all those decisions together, it will be impossible to say that examination of all the class members' claims for relief will produce a common answer to the crucial question why was I disfavored."
Earlier dissent is cited
Scalia quoted an earlier dissent in the case written by Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski. He wrote that members of the class "held a multitude of different jobs, at different levels of Wal-Mart's hierarchy, for variable lengths of time, in 3,400 stores, sprinkled across 50 states, with a kaleidoscope of supervisors (male and female), subject to a variety of regional policies that all differed…. Some thrived while others did poorly. They have little in common but their sex and this lawsuit."
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and three other members of the court dissented to that portion of Scalia's decision, saying they would have decided the case on narrower grounds.
Justice Ginsburg and her fellow dissenters joined the second part of Scalia's decision, holding that the Wal-Mart women's claims for back pay should not have been approved for class-wide litigation.
In discrimination cases seeking back pay, an employer has the right to raise individual affirmative defenses on a case-by-case basis to attempt to demonstrate that each challenged employment action was taken for legitimate reasons.
"The court of appeals believed that it was possible to replace such proceedings with Trial by Formula," Scalia wrote. "We disapprove of that novel project," he said.
Under an approach upheld by the lower courts, a sample set of class members would be selected to have their claims of discrimination and eligibility for back pay scrutinized. The percentage of claims determined to be valid would then be applied to the entire million-member class. With no further individualized proceedings, the amount the company would have been ordered to pay would have been determined by the number of valid claims multiplied by the average back pay award.
In striking down that approach, Scalia said: "A class cannot be certified on the premise that Wal-Mart will not be entitled to litigate its statutory defenses to individual claims."
The case stems from a 2001 lawsuit filed by three named employees on behalf of all current and former women who worked at Wal-Mart since December 1998.
The suit charged that women at Wal-Mart received lower pay and were promoted less often then men in comparable positions. It claimed that despite a corporate-wide policy prohibiting gender discrimination, the company allowed managers at the regional and local levels significant discretion in hiring and promotion. It also alleged that Wal-Mart maintained a corporate culture that fostered gender stereotyping.
At issue in the Supreme Court appeal was whether the lower court had properly certified the massive lawsuit as an appropriate case for a class action. Under court rules, class action lawsuits must satisfy certain requirements to prevent lawyers from attempting to use that form of litigation to by-pass due process safeguards in the civil justice system.
Class action lawsuits are justified in cases involving numerous individuals who have suffered a common injury that can be adequately represented in court by a few typical plaintiffs.
Patterns of discrimination
Lawyers for Wal-Mart argued that the number of potential plaintiffs in the class was too large to permit the corporation to adequately defend itself from charges that virtually every female employee faced illegal discrimination. The company's lawyers said employment decisions were not uniform across the company, with significant differences from region to region, store to store, and supervisor to supervisor.
The lawyer representing the female workers, Brad Seligman of Berkeley, Calif., has said the class action suit was warranted because Wal-Mart operated a centralized management system. A statistical analysis found patterns of discrimination were consistent across 41 regions, he said.
Voting with Scalia, were Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito.
Joining Justice Ginsburg in her dissent were Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.
The case is Wal-Mart v. Dukes (10-277).


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Ginger Molasses Cookies Recipe
Swapped at the SE Cookie Swap 2012 by Will Levitt.
Adapted from Sofra Bakery & Cafe and A Plum By Any Other Name (see Will's blog post here)
- Yield:Makes about 30 cookies
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- Pinch of ground ginger
- 3/4 cup canola oil
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 1 cup sugar, plus approximately 1/4 cup more for coating cookies
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoons finely diced candied ginger
Combine flour, baking soda, salt and spices in a medium bowl.
Using a stand mixer or an electric hand mixer, combine oil, molasses, sugar and eggs and beat for 15-20 seconds until combined (if using a stand mixer use the paddle attachment). Slowly add in the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Mix in the candied ginger using a rubber spatula, making sure the dry and wet ingredients are fully incorporated. Form the dough into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill for at least 2 hours.
Preheat the oven to 350. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Pour the 1/4 cup sugar into a small bowl. Remove the dough from the fridge and form into approximately 1 tablespoon sized balls. Coat the balls lightly in the sugar and place on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes. They will appear undercooked but will harden as they cool. Remove from the oven, allow to cool a few minutes, and transfer to a plate or drying rack. Repeat until all the dough has been used, about 30 cookies. They can be stored in an airtight container for 4-5 days, but let's be honest, they won't last that long.


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Rookie Hector Santiago allowed just one hit in seven shutout innings and Chicago beat Cleveland 11-0 before the White Sox were eliminated in the AL Central race when Detroit won the division on Monday night.
Santiago (4-1), who began the season as Chicago's closer, struck out a season-high 10 and allowed only Shin-Soo Choo's two-out single in the third.
With just their third win in 13 games, the second-place White Sox briefly kept their playoff hopes alive. But about an hour after the game, Chicago, which collapsed down the stretch after being in first place for 63 straight days, saw its chances erased completely when the Tigers won 6-3 in Kansas City.
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"It's always frustrating, but I told everyone we should walk out of here with our heads held high," White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski said. "Nobody thought we would so anything this year, but to be in it until October 1st and have a chance, we did everything we could. We don't have to look back and say we could have done this or we could have done that because at the end of the day, we gave everything we could and did everything we could possibly do.
"We were in the position we wanted to be in and it just didn't work out."
The White Sox scored four runs in the sixth off Corey Kluber (2-5), and added six in the ninth — four on Dayan Viciedo's first career grand slam to make it 11-0.
After lining up and slapping high-fives in the infield, the White Sox headed to their clubhouse aware that the Tigers were already leading the Royals by four runs.
There was nothing more Chicago could do. It was out of the White Sox's hands, and they ate their postgame dinners and watched helplessly on TVs in the clubhouse — several were tuned to the Chicago Bears' Monday night game against the Dallas Cowboys — as the Tigers wrapped up a second straight title.
A season of promise under first-year manager Robin Ventura had crumbled completely.
Santiago and Kluber were locked in a scoreless duel until the sixth, when the White Sox scored four runs on five hits — four coming with two outs.
Dewayne Wise bunted safely with one out, and stole second with two outs before Adam Dunn snapped an 0-for-18 slump by lining a base hit to center. Kluber then walked Paul Konerko before Alex Rios ripped an RBI double off the left-field wall, scoring Dunn to make it 2-0 and forcing a pitching change.
Pierzynski followed with a grounder up the middle off reliever Joe Smith that went off diving second baseman Jason Kipnis' glove and into center field as Konerko scored. Viciedo's single then scored Rios to give the White Sox a 4-0 lead and chance to breathe a little easier.
Santiago was never threatened by the Indians, who managed just three baserunners off the left-hander. Cleveland did not get a runner to second base off Santiago, who won for the first time in five starts.
Dunn added an RBI single in the ninth to make it 6-0.
The White Sox didn't seem to be feeling any pressure before the game. Players sat in front of their lockers, tapping away at the screens of their iPads or watching TV as if it was June 1 and not Oct. 1 with their season hanging by a thread.
Chicago's players, who had spent 117 total days in first place, seemed resigned to their fate.
"If it does become official, it's a huge disappointment," said starter Jake Peavy, who is scheduled to start Tuesday's game. "We feel like we let one slip away. It's extremely frustrating the way things have played out."
It was a monumental collapse for the White Sox, who led the division by three games on Sept. 17. Since then, they're 4-10 and now have to hope the Royals can somehow sweep three straight from the Tigers.
As for the Indians, they dropped to 2-2 under interim manager Sandy Alomar Jr., who hopes to become Cleveland's permanent manager.
"It'd be great. It'd be awesome," Alomar said before the game. "I played here many years. I'm very proud of this organization. They have treated me great. They brought me back. If it's the time, it's their choice. If it's the time, it's time. if not, there will be some other time."
Alomar took over last week when the Indians fired Manny Acta with six games left. Alomar, who served Acta's bench coach this season, will likely interview with the Indians by the end of the week. He and former Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona are the only candidates confirmed so far by the club, which has tentatively set up a meeting with Francona on Friday.


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by Tom Utescher
Just two points separated the top three teams last Monday at the 2011 Girls Inter-Ac League Cross Country Championships. Unfortunately for area fans, all of them hail from the other side of the Schuylkill. Academy of Notre Dame won its seventh straight team title with a total of 51 points, just ahead of runner-up Agnes Irwin (52) and third-place Episcopal Academy (53).
The home crowd at the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy course still had plenty to cheer about when the girls began to arrive at the finish line, as SCH ninth grader Jamie Costarino snagged second place overall for the Lions. She completed the five-kilometer (3.1-mile) course in 19 minutes, five seconds, becoming runner-up to Notre Dame senior Maria Seykora. The veteran for the Irish won in 18:44, setting a new meet record.
With her second-place performance, Costarino beat another strong senior for the Irish, Caroline Powers, as well as defending league champ Catie Skinner, a junior from Penn Charter. Powers was third in 19:15, and Skinner fourth in 19:29.
Seykora, the runner-up in 2010, has been on a mission this fall and would not be denied the Inter-Ac crown.
The Lions' Costarino was thrilled with her finish.
"I was nervous before the race, so I tried to just focus on what I wanted to do," she said. "My plan going into it was just to stay with Catie and Maria. I was a little surprised at how well I was doing."
Skinner has been suffering from a minor foot ailment, but wasn't making excuses, saying "it was just a bad day."
The junior from Mount Airy is also the defending champion of the Pa. Independent School Championships, and will be looking to retain her title this Saturday at Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park. She's turned in some strong performances this fall, and has proven she can handle the hilly course at Belmont. Even with a disappointing effort at Inter-Ac's, she's likely to be a force to be reckoned with at States.
Last Monday, SCH's Costarino made an important move a little before the halfway mark, passing Skinner and Powers as the leaders climbed out of a gully on the St. Martin's golf course.
"I ran the course on Friday and it was a mess, but it dried out really well," the ninth grader related. "In the last part of the race I didn't want to blast too much to try and catch Maria. I wanted to keep my place and not burn myself out."
After the top four came the Episcopal Academy leader, junior Georgia Wassall (19:58), and the top runner for Agnes Irwin, senior Vivian Hastings (20:07). Following them were EA upperclassman Kristin Greenwood (seventh; 20:16), and Irwin seniors Christina Wusinich (eighth; 20:25) and Kate Alden (ninth; 20:27). Notre Dame junior Siobhan Dougherty rounded out the top ten in 20:31, and Germantown Academy's lead runner, senior Christina DeRusso, secured 11th place in 21:04.
Penn Charter was fourth in the team standings with 113 points, even though injuries had sidelined three regular varsity runners, including the Quakers' number two, junior Ani Schug. One of the best Penn Charter performances this month was given by coach Renee Skelly. Just over a year after giving birth to her first child, she decided to try her hand (or should we say feet) at marathon running. In her debut at that distance on October 9, she won the Steamtown Marathon in Scranton, Pa. in a time of two hours, 50 minutes and 58 seconds.
At the Inter-Ac meet, the next Charter runner after Skinner was junior Heidi Zisselman, placing 17th in 21:40. Also scoring for the Quakers were senior Shi Kuang (25th; 22:41), junior Caitlyn Farrell (30th; 23:14) and senior Emma Cataldi (37th; 24:00).
The GA runners who followed DeRusso into the scoring column were freshman Kelsie Hermance (28th; 22:56), junior Bridie Lawlor (29th; 23:05), senior Amanda Logan (31st; 23:32) and freshman Morgan Reese (32nd; 23:38). The Patriots were the fifth-place team with 131 points, while Springside Chestnut Hill was sixth with 149 and Baldwin School seventh with 169.
SCH was competing without junior Maddi Hinchey and sophomore Sarah-Chen Ogorek, who were both hobbled by injuries. It was another junior, Kelsea Brewer, who was the next Lion across the line after Costarino, turning in a time of 22:56 for the 27th spot. Caroline Canning, a sophomore out for the team for the first time this fall, was 33rd in 23:43, and the SCH score was completed by a pair of seniors who finished in tandem, Emily Davis (43rd; 24:50) and Toni Hall (44th; 24:51).


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