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Crime Tracker: A Sneak Peak At Life Inside A Gang; KHQ's Kalae Chock Reports
Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:09 PM EDT
Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:09 PM EDT
by Kalae Chock, KHQ Local News Reporter -
SPOKANE, Wash. - The destruction caused by gangs in Spokane is evident. Law enforcement says much of the drugs, violence and crime taking place in the area is often connected in someway to gangs.
Society sees the effects of their actions, but understanding why a person would choose to join a gang and take part in their destructive ways is much more subtle. Kalae Chock sat down with two Spokane gang members to try and understand the reasons behind their decision to live life inside a gang.
Both men have lived more than half their lives as gang members. One of them, who is now 30, founded his gang when he was just 14. The violent actions of his group of friends led to the formation of an official gang. He began selling drugs and at his peak made as much as $5,000 in a week. Years later, he recruited a 13-year-old boy, his brother and their two cousins. The new members were jumped into the gang, getting beat by 5 adult men for 90 seconds in order to be officially initiated.
The men say they found unity from fellow gang members. They say they gained acceptance and love; something they didn't have at home. The gangs original member says he recruited boys just like him, who came from abusive, violent families. Both men say failure to receive love and acceptance at home led them straight to the streets where they found what they were looking for.
However, along with the love and acceptance came trouble. The men saw friends shot, some friends died, and many others ended up in prison. Both men have a long wrap sheet of violent criminal acts and have been convicted of felonies.
Today, the men are hoping Spokane Pastor Shon Davis will help them turn their lives around. Pastor Davis lived the same life as these men, growing up on the streets of Los Angeles and getting shot in gang violence two times by the age of 18. He is now dedicated to helping these young men find a way out of the gang life just like he did 25 years ago.
While these men have given up their life of crime, completely giving up their gang identity is another story. They've lived almost a decade and a half as gang members. Now, they want to become productive members of society. At the same time though, they fear leaving the only family they've ever known behind.
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04/03/2005: "Baaad Mutha Superior"
Yesterday Michelle "Wife of Joseph, mother of Jesus" Malkin published a
list of writers whom, in her almond-shaped eyes, had disrespectful of
the memory of the Pope by penning articles which relied on facts rather
than religious dogma.
Personally, I would've loved to have been on that list, rubbing shoulders
with the likes of Chris Hitchens; and, as an Atheist, you might that I
wouldn't have anything nice to say about the late Carol Wojtyla (who was
also known by his "street name" of Pope John Paul II). On the contrary,
there are plenty of nice things that I can say about the man: he was one
of the few religious leaders who were perfectly OK with the idea of
Evolution; he was opposed to the death penalty; he publicly apologized for
the Catholic Church's collusion with the Nazis, before, during, and after
WWII; he forgave the shithook who shot him; and he stood firmly
against the US invasion of Iraq (he would later chastise Bush, to his face,
about the Abu Ghraib scandal).
Sure he was also an intolerant, inflexible, ideologue who had willingly
chained himself and his followers to an outmoded belief system and had a
hand in helping pedophiles avoid prosecution; but, as far as intolerant,
inflexible, ideologues who willingly chain themselves and their followers
to outmoded belief systems and had a hand in helping pedophiles avoid
prosecution go; he wasn't too bad.
As I've pointed out on numerous occasions, I have a huge soft-spot in my
heart for the Catholic Church (and for the Greek and Russian Orthodox
Churches as well as the Coptic Church). I've spent years reading everything
I can get my almond-shaped hands on about the Catholic Church. I never
cease to be amazed by how much more I, an outsider, know about Catholicism
than people who grew up within the Church do. For example, my wife, though
not a practicing Catholic, was raised by a Catholic family in the most
Catholic of all places - South Philadelphia - yet had no idea that St.
Christopher had not been a Saint since Woodstock.
I even have a favorite Pope (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, AKA Pope John XXIII)
and a least favorite Pope (Eugenio "Stinky" Pacelli, AKA Pope Pius XII);
this is why I feel uniquely qualified to pick the next Pope; or, failing
that, to at least pick the color of the next Pope.
Let's make this official
I, Rodney Anonymous, speaking for closet Catholics everywhere demand that
the next Pope be Black.
First of all, while there are tons of Black Saints (St. Martin DePorres,
St. Peter Claver, Saint Katharine Drexel, and St. Darnell the Smooooth),
there hasn't been a Black Pope since Pope St. Gelasius I who died in 496.
Yeah, Whitey has no problem with handing a Black parking attendant the
keys to his car, but when it comes to the keys of St. Peter
Secondly, and - in my book, at least - most importantly is the kick that
the rest of us will get from watching working class Irish-American and
Italian-American Catholics take their marching orders from a brother. Many
members of these two groups are notoriously bigoted (while many others,
in a strange paradox, are often incredibly liberal and tolerant) despite
the fact they themselves are not White.
Now it may come as a shock to many Catholic Americans of Italian or Irish
heritage to lean that they are not White, but everybody has to face the
music sometime: unless, of course, that music is "Dixie"; in which case,
feel free to turn your backs.
So why aren't Shamus and Tony White? Well, they fail the Triple-K/Double-C
Test. This test simply states that if you can't join either the Klan or
most Country Clubs, you are not White; so stop checking that box
on forms, OK?
And if all of that doesn't convince you that the next Pope should be black,
this will: wouldn't you love to the Popemobile totally pimped out with
really sweet rims an' shit? I know I would.
Real questions and answers
from the Ayatollah's official website
Today's Question
Is caviar of sturgeon fish halal or haram?
Answer: If sturgeon is known to have scales (even by origin as some
say), there is no obejction in eating the caviar and the fish itself would
also be subject to being halal. If it is not known as a fish to have scales
but sold by muslims, who do not consider unscaled fish to be halal, there
would be again no objection in eating it.
[You guys live in the middle of the fuckin' desert; are fish really that
big of an issue? - Ayatollah Anonymous]
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He stared in Peak Practice, The Devil's Tattoo, Lady
Audley's Secret, Ultimate Force, and Hornblower: Mutiny
None of which are porn films !
He fronted the greatest band of all time
Happy birthday to ...
Jamie Bamber who turns 32 today.
And Social Distortion's Mike Ness turns 43.
anastaurow - impale
If the above word looks like ippojshit to you,
then you need to go here
and download the SPIONIC font for either MAC or PC. Dude.
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Steve Kite and Daniel Lewis took over-all big-fish honors with a giant largemouth bass weighing 8.50 pounds and earned them $270.
Carter Day and Ron Willerson won the biggest spot award with a spotted bass weighing 1.79 pounds and earned them $90.
Allen Lewis and Brad Ferguson won the biggest smallmouth award with a smallmouth bass weighing 4.66 pounds and earned them $90.
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Attention: The M-Audio Black Box is class-compliant in Mac OS X which means that you get basic audio Input- and Output functionality by simply connecting the device to your computer and without installing any driver. However, some additional features are only available once the provided Mac OS X driver has been installed on your computer. This document describes how to install this driver in order to access the advanced functions as described in the Black Box manual. The available M-Audio driver is also needed if you intend to use the Black Box with Pro Tools M-Powered.
Do not connect the Black Box to your computer yet! The driver installer should be run first!
1. Download the latest M-Audio Black Box driver for Mac OS X from the M-Audio driver download site and save it to your desktop.
2. The file you are downloading is in "Disk Image" (extension "dmg") format. This means that once the download is complete, your Mac should automatically launch the file and create a virtual drive on your desktop - you will now see two new icons on the Desktop.
Immediately after this, the following finder window will open automatically.
3. If this is the first time you install an M-Audio Black Box driver on your system, please skip to step 7 of this guide now. If a Black Box driver was previously installed on your system, it has to be removed before you can successfully install the new driver. Please double-click "M-Audio Black Box Uninstaller" and follow the instructions on screen.
4. When prompted, enter your administrator name and password to continue with the driver removal.
5. Restart your computer to complete the driver removal.
6. After your computer is fully restarted, double-click on the downloaded Disk Image (dmg) file. This will bring you back to the content of the virtual drive and show you the same two icons (M-Audio Black Box.pkg/uninstaller) displayed further above.
7. Double-click the file named "M-Audio Black Box.pkg". The driver installation starts and displays the message below. Click "Continue".
8. Click "Continue" in the welcome screen of the installation program.
9. The following screen will give important information about the driver you are installing. Click "Continue" after you are done reading this document.
10. Carefully read the license agreement, then click "Continue".
11. Click on the "Agree" button to continue.
12. Select the hard drive you want to install the driver to. A green arrow will appear over the selected hard drive. Then click "Continue".
13. Click "Install" - the driver files will be copied to your computer. .
14. You will have to enter your Administrator name and password. Click "OK" once your done.
15. A message will appear informing you that the computer needs to be restarted at the end of this installation. Click "Continue Installation".
16. The installer informs you that the software (driver) was successfully installed. Click "Restart".
17. Don't connect the Black Box to your computer while it is shutting down. Wait until your computer is in the process of starting up, then connect your Black Box to an available USB port on your computer and connect its' power supply. Alternatively, you can wait until the computer is fully started and power up the Black Box then.
IMPORTANT: Connect the Black Box directly to your computer! Do not use a USB hub or USB port on your Apple Keyboard.
Your Black Box is now ready to be used.
18. Connect outputs 1 and 2 of your M-Audio Black Box to your (amplified) speakers, mixer, or other amplification device; or connect your headphones to the headphone output jack so you can hear the output of the device. Connect an electric guitar to the Black Box's guitar input jack.
Once you have completed the installation procedure above, a new "M-Audio Black Box" icon is placed in System Preferences. Click this icon to launch your Black Box's control panel. If you have completed both the software and hardware installation properly, a message "A device is connected. Settings will be applied to it immediately." will be displayed on the bottom of the Black Box control panel.


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Initially the UN Spacy knew very little about the ASS-1, even after 10 years of study. The spacecraft was an interstellar warship of some kind and contained a great deal of advanced technology that was far beyond what humanity had even speculated. Furthermore, the ASS-1 contained accommodations for what seemed to be two different humanoid races; one human-sized, and one over 50 feet (15 m) tall! The advanced technology (called Over Technology) was therefore used to develop weapon systems capable of combatting a race of giants, eventually leading to the Variable Fighter and Main Battle Robot combat mecha.
Following the end of Space War 1 Earth formed an alliance with the Zentraedi, and Zentraedi minister Exedore Formo was able to provide more clues as to the origin of the ASS-1. The crashed ship was one of a class of fold-capable battleships used by the Inspection Army, a force of protocultures who engaged the Stellar Republic in a galactic civil war which eventually led to the destruction of nearly all protocultures in the galaxy. The Inspection Army were actually protocultures whose minds were controlled by the Protodeviln, a race of super-powerful beings possessing trans-dimensional powers. Although Exedore referred to the ASS-1 as a "late model" battleship, most stellar archaeologists feel that the design of the fortress pre-dates the emergence of the Protodeviln and the mental takeover of the Inspection Army forces, as ships later used by the Protodeviln in the UN Spacy/Varuta war differed greatly from the ASS-1's original design.
Assuming that the ASS-1 is one of the original battleships used by the Inspection Forces and not a reproduction, the ship would be between 350,000 and 400,000 earth years old. The history of the ship between the fall of the Inspection Army and its crash-landing on Earth is a mystery. When the ship arrived at Earth it was being pursued the Zentraedi Vrlitwhai Fleet, which had been tasked with finding any remaining traces of the Inspection Army forces and eliminating them. The Vrlitwhai Fleet detected traces of the ASS-1's defold reaction and came to Earth to investigate. Upon the fleet's arrival the ASS-1/SDF-01 automatically opened fire on them, leading to the start of Space War 1. Whether the ASS-1 was being used by descendants of the Inspection Army or another humanoid race somewhere in the galaxy prior to its crash on Earth is unknown.
During the UN Spacy's Zentraedi Factory Satellite recapture operation in July, 2012, Vrlitwhai Kridanik's flagship detected a spacewreck of a ship very similar in design to the original ASS-1. Although Captain Misa Hayase argued for investigating the wreck at the cost of delaying the mission, Vrlitwhai decided to ignore the ship, fearing that it may be a trap set by rogue Zentraedi forces. A UN Spacy task force dispatched later to salvage the ship failed to find the wreck after extensively searching at and near the coordinates Vrlitwhai reported. The location of the wreck (if it even still exists) is currently unknown. Since 2012 no UN Spacy colony missions or combat fleets have reported encountering any craft (wrecked or otherwise) similar to the original ASS-1.
Notable Ships of Class:
(1) Forward 1/3 of Ship (Heavy Particle Cannon) 10,000 (2) Middle 1/3 of Ship (Crew Quarters, Landing Bays) 15,000 (2) Rear 1/3 of Ship (Main Engines, Engineering) 20,000 (3) Command Tower 5,000 (3) Sensor Array (behind Command Tower) 1,000 Left Weapon Cluster 5,000 Right Weapon Cluster 5,000 (4) Main Thrusters (6) 5,000 each (4) Secondary Thrusters (12) 500 each (4) Maneuvering Thrusters (48) 50 each Heavy Laser Cannons (4) 1,000 each Secondary Beam Turrets (8) 750 each Retractable Laser Turrets (100) 75 each Airlocks/Access Hatches (150) 200 each Armored outer hull (per 40ft area) 300 Interior walls (per 20ft area) 20 (5) Energy Barrier 100,000
Although this system was nearly destroyed in the crash of the ASS-1, UN Spacy researchers were able to study and reverse-engineer the system, eventually leading to the development of the Pinpoint Barrier System that is now standard on most UN Spacy spacecraft and fighters. The engineers also succeeded in rebuilding the shattered barrier generator onboard the SDF-01, but unfortunately due to a flaw in the system the barrier overloaded during its first use, completely destroying the North American Ontario Quadrant. Because of this disastrous mishap and other problems the omnidirectional barrier system has not been approved yet for general use on UN Spacy spaceships.
Unknown. The below numbers are estimates based on the assumption that the Inspection Army used Zentraedi mecha for combat like most protoculture military forces did. It is not known whether protocultures of the Inspection Army themselves engaged in combat, and if so whether they used mecha or not.


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CHANTILLY, Va., Feb. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Sciences International Corporation (DSIC), an advanced technology provider of security and detection systems, today announced that The Honorable Jayson P. Ahern, former Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs & Border Protection, was appointed to the company's Advisory Board, effective immediately.
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Ahern, is a Principal with The Chertoff Group, providing strategic consulting services on homeland and border security management and global commerce and supply chain matters.
In 2010, Ahern retired after 33 years of federal service to both the U.S. Customs Service and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Throughout his four decade CBP tenure, Ahern progressed through every rank in the field and held numerous senior leadership positions. At the time of his retirement, he had served for nearly a year as CBP Acting Commissioner and was responsible for securing, managing and controlling U.S. borders. Ahern's primary focus was keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the U.S.
"We are honored to have Jay Ahern join the Decision Sciences Advisory Board," said DSIC President & CEO Dr. Stanton D. Sloane. "Jay's wealth of experience overseeing the security and protection of our nation's borders will be a great asset to DSIC as a provider of a revolutionary security detection system for borders, ports and critical infrastructure around the world."
Ahern has received numerous awards and recognition for his service to the U.S. including Recognition as a Distinguished Executive for his service to government, the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding service and contributions toward global maritime security and the Secretary of Homeland Security's Gold Medal. The Gold Medal is the highest award for service awarded by the Department of Homeland Security and recognizes exceptional leadership or service resulting in the significant improvement of homeland security.
"I have dedicated my entire career to the protection of our homeland," said Ahern. "This new advisory role enables me to continue working on ways to bring effective solutions to the market that can help reduce threats across our borders. I look forward to working with Decision Sciences in helping to improve the safety and security of global commerce."
Ahern holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University. He was a career member of the Senior Executive Service and senior executive fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
For additional information on Decision Sciences, visit www.decisionsciencescorp.com.
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Decision Sciences is a security and detection systems company based in Chantilly, Virginia, that brings together hardware and software development, systems integration and cutting edge science to improve the safety and security of global commerce. Based on technology originally invented by scientists at the renowned Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Multi-Mode Passive Detection System was then developed with considerable private sector investment and expertise. MMPDS is a totally safe, effective and reliable automated scanning device for quickly detecting unshielded to heavily shielded nuclear and radiological threats as well as explosives and other contraband. Critically, MMPDS satisfies the 100% scanning requirement recommended by the U.S. 9/11 Commission and later enacted into law by the U.S. Congress.
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Author Tana Amen is a registered nurse, and the wife of Dr. Daniel Amen, founder of The Amen Clinics and "The Daniel Plan", a weight loss program created for Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. Tana Amen, whose interest is primarily nutrition, states that she created her plant-based, anti-inflammatory Omni Diet as a way to manage and successfully overcome health issues she herself was suffering from, including severe digestive problems, chronic infections, and thyroid cancer.
The Omni Diet: The Revolutionary 70% Plant + 30% Protein Program to Lose Weight, Reverse Disease, Fight Inflammation, and Change Your Life Forever is a 6 week nutrition plan designed to detox you, get you healthier, cause you to lose 12 pounds in two weeks, and convince you irrevocably that you must, and you can, eat this way for the rest of your life. Amen instructs on what she deems healthy food, and what is not, specifically highlighting nutrient dense foods that feature in her diet, calling them "Omni Nutripower Foods." The diet consists of organic fruits and vegetables, grass fed beef, free range poultry, wild caught fish, beans, whole grains and nuts. It is dairy free with the exception of organic eggs, and bans sugar, vegetable oils, and all refined and processed carbs and other foods. The book contains 126 recipes (Amen has published two cookbooks as well), though bear in mind that many of the recipes contain a large number of ingredients, and may be unwieldy and or too time consuming for some people.
Amen advises that for the Omni Diet to work, you must commit to at least 5 lifestyle changes in the first two weeks. These are her first five:
At least twice weekly you must drink a green smoothie.
Weight training at least one day a week.
Share your goals with a friend or family member, so you'll stay accountable.
Twice a week, go to a sauna to detox.
List 5 things you are grateful for each day.
Amen also advises that regular exercise is a crucial component of success on the Omni Diet, and she provides a suitable exercise plan in the book for those who don't already have a preferred method, or plan in place.
Be advised that while Amen recommends dietary supplements like fish oil as a component of the diet, and that is solid advice on its own, she does so within the context of hawking her husband's rather expensive line of supplements as the preferred choice. That aside, what you have here, overall, is a nutrition plan that mimics most other clean eating guidance widely available today (what we at Dietreviewpost call a "Whole Foods Diet"), peppered with some impracticalities (go to a sauna twice a week?) and some Saddleback Church-style good intentions thrown in for good measure.


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I fell in love with a boy who had to sneak out of his house to see me. I say "boy" not because we were teenagers breaking curfew. Shane and I were grown men, consenting adults who had been seeing each other for several months. We had everything: chemistry, passion, heat. But only when we got behind closed doors.
While other symbols have waxed and waned in popularity, the rainbow flag certainly has staying power. Above and beyond the radical origins of the flag, however, one force more than all others has worked to cement the rainbow flag as the symbol for the gay rights movement: capitalism.
Logically, the answer is simple: Don't get involved with someone who isn't willing to be seen with you in public. And in a perfect world, I think that's what I would have done before I allowed myself to become the "secret boyfriend." But as anyone who has ever been in love will tell you, sometimes logic goes out the window.
Had I been given the option when I was HIV-negative, I don't know for sure that I would have chosen PrEP. My decision would have depended on key factors (as it does now for those who have the choice). That said, I would have wanted the chance to have a choice. That much I do know.
Creationism is not about the dinosaurs in the ark, it's not about the weird chronology, it's not about the tortured explanations of geology and biology. Creationism, in short, is not about science at all.
Today the Supreme Court is scheduled to discuss seven petitions from five different states urging it to decide on the constitutionality of state laws excluding same-sex couples from marriage on a nationwide basis. No one knows if it will decide whether to take any of the cases at this time or defer its decision until a future conference this fall.
I admire my son's outlook. He views himself as an individual first, as we all are, and he's chosen how he wants to be identified, as we should all have the freedom to do.
I won't love them despite their sexuality, and I won't love them because of it. I will love them; simply because they're sweet, and funny, and caring, and smart, and kind, and stubborn, and flawed, and original, and beautiful... and mine.
I'd like to present a thought experiment with two different questions posed by two different judges during oral arguments on the legal right of gay couples to marry. Their inquiries relate to whether it is constitutionally permissible to deny gay couples the right to marry because of purported concerns relating to the welfare of children.
As gay and bisexual men, it can be overwhelming -- and in some cases, downright exhausting -- to keep HIV at the front of our minds and on the tip of our tongues. But talking about it, with a friend, a doctor or a potential partner, can ease our anxieties and potentially change our thinking and our actions for the better.
How do you win a war when the people who are supposed to be fighting it have become complacent? While an HIV diagnosis may no longer be a death sentence, there are still 50,000 new HIV infections in the United States every year -- and it will stay this way unless we actively stop it.
If HHS makes these designations, community health centers and other safety net providers will get access to desperately needed federal funding to reach out to LGBT people and provide them with culturally competent and affirming preventive care.
Forgive me if I'm not popping the champagne. In reality, this is nothing more than a publicity ploy to quiet critics some of whom, by all accounts, are buying it hook, line and sinker.
A new survey from Pew shows that support for marriage equality has dropped five percentage points since the start of the year, but there's no need for gay and lesbian couples to panic -- at least not yet.
Between both our sons' adoptions, I can't count the number of times we uttered, "Well, that's just not fair." Such as when a birth mom chooses the heterosexual couple that just finished their application after your two-year wait.
For this Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, let's remind ourselves of all we have lost in the thirty-three years of the epidemic. But let's also remember all we've gained, how we've grown as individuals and a community, and why we have so much to live for.
Athletes have the power to inspire. When we have role models -- men who are basketball, soccer and ice hockey players, women who are triathletes, beach volleyball players and runners -- we can become more comfortable, confident and safe in how we identify and who we feel free to become.
For those of us who came or were coming of age during the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, our experiences were shaped by this epidemic that was devastating our country and taking countless lives.
This week I talked with my new wife, Marilyn Rosen, a symphony booking agent, about our recent marriage, which took place at Scullers Jazz Club before an intimate gathering of 80 friends and family members.


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Baseball is a silly game. Red Sox-Yankees games, especially, are silly — and once in a while, they are fantastically silly. This was the case almost constantly in 2003 and 2004, or so it seems through the mists of nostalgia, but the much-hyped, capital-R Rivalry has been quiet for years now, with precious little of the riveting tension it used to have.
Leave it to Alex Rodriguez to bring at least some of that back, the one guy every sports fan is so unbearably sick of hearing about and reading about and being force-fed opinions about. Even while news was breaking of yet another facet of A-Rod's involvement in the Biogenesis case, he was taking another Sunday night slog and making it, if nothing else, memorable. Oh, right: This is why everyone cared about him in the first place.
He had some help, of course, from Red Sox starter Ryan Dempster, who threw at Rodriguez in his first time up in the 2nd inning — and missed, so he threw inside again; and again; and finally, on the 3-0 count, Dempster nailed him in or near the ribs. With the caveat that one never truly knows what is going on in the mind of another person, it would take staggering mental gymnastics to watch that sequence of pitches and not conclude that Dempster was throwing at Rodriguez on purpose. (According to one reporter, this was not even some sort of Bold Stance Against PEDs, but rather premeditated revenge for Rodriguez having "snubbed Dempster at a public event," which, if true, has to be one of the saddest reasons for a beanball in baseball history.)
Girardi was furious — and when Joe Girardi is furious, you can see his entire skull. He shouted things at Dempster that cannot be printed here, though it doesn't take sophisticated lip-reading skills to discern them if you are so inclined. Umpire Brian O'Nora promptly ejected Girardi, rather than Dempster, and warned the benches, though not before they had already cleared for some intense and indignant milling around the field.
In the end, the Red Sox had more cause to be angry with Dempster than the Yankees did; hitting A-Rod kicked off a two-run inning that eliminated Boston's lead, and Dempster went on to relinquish another lead in the 6th inning, giving up a total of seven earned runs in a 9-6 Yankees win.
The biggest of those seven earned runs, of course, came from Rodriguez, who, after grounding out in the 3rd, faced Dempster again in the 6th and knocked one far over the wall. At 446 feet, it was the longest home run hit by any Yankee this season.
Rodriguez yelled something as he rounded the bases — the words were harder to make out than Girardi's earlier tirade, but the sentiment behind them was fairly unmistakable. When he crossed the plate, he came to a full stop and pointed to the sky, effectively trolling Fenway Park, Major League Baseball, the sports media and the world.
The Red Sox, in their own nod to the rivalry's good old days, brought the tying run to the plate against closer Mariano Rivera, but the game ended, after much held breath, with a harmless flyout.
The Yankees are not really in the playoff hunt anymore. They are only six back from a wild card spot, but there are five teams ahead of them — younger teams, mostly, up-and-comers who are less likely to fade down the stretch than this creaky bunch. (It's not the distance, it's the traffic.) They are close enough, however, that they can't quite give up, not entirely, not yet.
More than that, though, Sunday night's game took on its own momentum. It had very real playoff implications, as every game does, for the Sox (who are holding down a slim one-game lead in the AL East), but it also had an energy that had nothing to do with that — at least for Yankees fans. It had some of that old fire, in ways that few Yankees games have had in this mostly lost season.
This version of Alex Rodriguez is vastly more trouble than he's worth, no doubt — earlier in the day Brian Cashman told reporters that he is "not comfortable" even speaking to the team's third baseman, and Rodriguez in turn told reporters, "Put the mic down. I'm not talking about sh*t." For at least this one at-bat on this one night, though, you remembered what all the fuss was about in the first place.
The guy's knack for drama is much less excruciating when it is applied to baseball. Remember baseball?


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The Ohio Legislature passed House Bill 59, the Omnibus Budget Bill, in June. The bill directs school districts and the Ohio Department of Education to allow home educated students to be "afforded … the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities offered at the district school to which the student otherwise would be assigned during that school year."
HSLDA Attorney for Ohio Affairs Mike Donnelly said the law has already created some problems.
"We have already dealt with a number of school districts who said they would not change their policy and were telling homeschoolers they would have to enroll to participate," he explained. "This is clearly contrary to the legislative intent of the law, and the OHSAA's new policy also supports our view that no enrollment of any kind is required. We expect that there will be some issues as this new law is implemented. HSLDA's policy is that where equal access laws exist we will work with our members who have issues with discriminatory enforcement."
Previously, Ohio did not have any laws specifically addressing the issue of a homeschool student's participation in public school activities, leaving each district free to come up with its own policies. Under the new law homeschoolers will have access to extracurricular activities at the public school to which they would otherwise be assigned.
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I recently purchased a beautiful journal from a local bookstore with plans to turn it into a guest book. We've had many out of town guests come through our doors and stay with us this past year and when I tried to recall the exact dates I found myself blanking.
I thought it would be a good idea to have our guests leave us messages in an attempt to have a journal full of memories years later. It was surprisingly quite difficult to find a standard "Guest Book" at the bookstore. Most are meant for weddings and are adorned accordingly. I finally settled on the journal pictured and we added the "guests" ourselves. We've already gotten so much joy from the three friends who recently came to stay with us and signed it. It's a really great way to preserve many memories!
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i love this idea.
Such a great idea - tempted to do this for myself!
You really have people over to your house whose names you don't know or who aren't even memorable? Unless you're regularly having huge house parties I don't see how it would be a problem to remember who you have over.
the people who come over to our house are close friends who we tend to see on a regular basis. It would feel silly to ask them to sign a guest book.
We only have people sign it who are staying with us as out of town guests. We have relocated several times over the last few years so most people are flying in from all over to visit. And yes, unfortunately we have had so many guests that the months have been blurred on when they were here. Maybe I can blame it on my pregnancy brain! Also, we might have the occasional house guest who stays at our house while we are out of town. All good reasons to try and preserve a few nice words from the people you love!
I think it is a wonderful idea!
One of my very good friends goes one better on the guestbook idea. She has a large blank canvase hanging on her entryway wall just behind where the front door opens. Every guest signs it the first time they come over to the house. It's a great visual piece and over the years she has all sorts of different signatures with personal notes, drawings and the like. She even had a pizza delivery boy think it was so neat, he wanted to sign it, and she let him! Several of the people have passed on and it makes for a special keepsake. Once it is filled she can simply cover it with a protective coating and hang a new one!
We did this last year because living in Manhattan, we get a lot of guests. The only problem was, I just wanted guests to date it and sign their name and my roommate pressured people into writing lengthy entries. It resulted in people feeling like they had to write us epic thank you notes in the book instead of just a quick and fun way to preserve a memory. When the roommate moved out, I trashed the guest book idea because it made both me AND my guests uncomfortable.
I did this with an old typewriter. It sits by the doorway, and when friends/family come over they type a little note.
I know of someone who takes a picture of every one who visits her home, and hangs all the pictures together in a prominent place. I think it's so dear.
My parents bought a lakehouse when I was small and they received a guest book like this as a gift. Since it was a sort of vacation home, they would allow friends to use it when we didn't...needless to say, the book filled up with warm fuzzy messages and funny stories...it's truly a treasure, especially now that the lakehouse has been sold!
@nwatrous - The author said they wanted to remember dates and events, not that they couldn't remember the people.
Personally, I have the memory of a goldfish and photos, journals and - sadly enough- Facebook posts are things that help me remember when I otherwise would not. I can remember a friend coming, I can remember things we did, but six months to a year later, I couldn't tell you what week they were there.
I can completely understand the appeal of this for someone like me or someone who lives in a great city where out of town friends frequent or host a lot of couch surfers.
Not for me. I like to make sure my guests feel like they are home. You don't sign guestbooks at home. Maybe for a special event party or something, but not for general visitors or my occasional overnight guests. (I don't care if I can't remember details like dates. I'm not somebody's alibi!)
Loving kbizzle's typewriter idea!!!
Yeah, I dunno. I think it's kind of weird. If someone asked me to sign their guestbook at their personal home, I'd think they were a little off. Maybe if you were renting out your home or doing a home exchange or something but not for a regular private home.
It's just too odd and awkward to me.
I think it depends on who you are and what type of friends/family you have! I know that I wish I would have had something like this growing up at my house for family gatherings.. many of my family have passed on, but i KNOW they would have written something fun, sweet, special in the book. I think it is determined on what type of person you are. I dont think family and friends would think it was weird if I had one.
I think the problem is that as a guest, you would feel obligated to sign the book (especially if the host makes the effort to point it out) and guests shouldn't ever feel obligated to do something or put in an awkward position that might make them feel uncomfortable.
Maybe if it was something really wacky and that was your personality, it would work, like signing the wall or something (though to me that's reminiscent of a tacky slummy bar than a home).
I have to say, this strikes me as a bit pretentious...unless you run a bed and breakfast out of your home.
Most overnight guests are visiting for an event --a football game, a holiday, a wedding, a new baby, a graduation, a concert. When you have friends and family from all over the world and they visit it is fun to mark the date and go back and remember later -- same as you do with a photo album, except I can never get my pics printed let alone into an album. We usually write something together with the date and a sketch or saying that will instantly help us recall the fun of time spent with good friends and family. What could be weird about that?
I think it depends who you are. My friends wouldn't think this was pretentious because they know I'm a bit soppy and a total archivist. They're probably surprised I don't have one already.
anthropos, I'm with you. I think this is a little weird. What does the host expect the person to say in the guest book? "OMG, you are SO WONDERFUL. YOU are fabulous. THANK YOU for letting me stay here. THANK YOU THANK YOU." Umm, just fishing for compliments or what's the point of the guest book? Don't worry, I'll send a thank-you card and flowers. No need to force a guestbook on me.
@ArchDaring EXACTLY! How could you possibly not feel awkward? It's like serving someone a piece of your homemade cake and then hovering over them expectantly with your eyebrows raised as if to say, "Well? Isn't it GREAT? Tell me how great it is!"
this is a good idea :)
I wouldn't do this because storing the old books would be a pain. Also, unless the guests wrote something really special, I wouldn't go back and just want to reread their names and when they were at my house. My husband and I decided not to have a guest book at our wedding for these reasons. If anything, I just save the thank you note if it contains a really moving message.
I like the idea. My best friend's mother gave us a guest book when we bought our house, and I thought it was such a cute idea. I just keep it in the guest room, so if someone wants to sign it, they can. Why would you force them to?


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Brian Rolston retired Tuesday after a 17-year NHL career in which he played for five teams and helped the New Jersey Devils win their first Stanley Cup. The 40-year-old forward from Flint, Mich., did not play this season after splitting time with the New York Islanders and Boston in 2011-12. As a rookie he helped the Devils win the Cup in the 1994-95 season. He also played for Colorado and Minnesota and completed his career with 342 goals, 419 assists and 761 points. His top offensive season was 2005-06 with the Wild - 34 goals and 45 assists. ''Getting the chance to play the game I love for 17 years has truly been a dream come true,'' Rolston said in a statement. ''My career has taken me to many great places where I had the privilege to play with some exceptional teammates and in the best league in the world. ''The memories of all my experiences will certainly stick with me for the rest of my life. I am grateful for the overwhelming support of my...
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