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William "Bill" R. Cass, 77, Kansas City, died Monday, March 18, 2013.
William "Bill" R. Cass, 77, Kansas City, died Monday, March 18, 2013.
Private funeral services will be held under the direction of Cremation Society of Kansas and Missouri, 5561 NW Barry Rd.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to St. Jude's Children's Hospital. Online condolences may be left at www.kccremation.com.
Bill was born April 19, 1935, in Goldsberry, son of Henry and Helen (Ratliffe) Cass.
He was a former member of the Lions Club and owned and operated Bill's Barber Shop, Bucklin. He was also a former member of Godsberry Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Rosella; children, Rose and David Olson, Louise Barnett, Robert Cass and Vincent and Susan Wolf; three sisters, Mary Stewart, Marge Beale and Doris Thomas; seven grandchildren, Krissi, Thomas, Misty, Ki, Jeb, Holly and Brady; and six great-grandchildren.


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J W Slauson and Brock Arend both tallied three points, leading the Norse to a 2-1 victory over St. Mary's University tonight in Winona, Minn.
Arend (3) scored the first goal of the evening at 45:27 assisted by Slauson (3). St. Mary's Matt Graber (3) evened the score in the 67th minute. Slauson scored the game winner at 88:46 assisted by Arend (1) and James Garcia-Prats (5).
The Norse dominated throughout the match out shooting the Cardinals 23-6 and also had a 10-1 advantage in corner kicks.
Tommy Breen, who made his first start this season, turned away three shots on goal en route to the victory.
Tonight's match was the fifth against a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) opponent in the past six matches. The Norse (5-3-0) will return to action tomorrow night when they will host Waldorf College under the lights at 7:00 p.m.
Questions? Contact David Blanchard, post_to_results, 563-387-1586

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Your Colorado legislature convenes today for the first regular session of the 68th General Assembly. Legislators will join new Gov. John Hickenlooper to do the public's business and must complete their work by May 11 to comply with the 120 days voters have provided them to do their work.
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The History of Baldwin Park Unified School District
As of September 1882, the first school house was built on the southeast corner of North Maine and Los Angeles Avenues in 1884. It contained two rows of double seats, a central aisle leading to the teacher's desk, and a heating stove at the north end. Mr. Frazier was the first teacher. In April 1888, The Vineland School District was established according to county records. The first Board of Trustees took office on July 1, 1888, and elected Miss Jessie Washburn to teach the district school that fall. The building was sold in 1890 and moved to another site for a private residence. The district built the second school in 1890 and hired two teachers, Miss Ellen Lang and Miss Venna O. Finney. The second school house was relegated to the past in 1912. It later became a private Japanese school and stood as a landmark until it caught fire on September 5, 1936, and burned to the ground.
On January 10, 1910, Baldwin Park, then known as Vineland, joined the Covina Union High School District. All high school students went to Covina until Baldwin Park School District unified in the early 1950s.
In 1912, a larger school was built and it was named Central School. It was completed in 1922.
In 1914, the community of Vineland changed its name to Baldwin Park, and the name of the district was officially changed to Baldwin Park School District.
Another school was started in 1924 and it was completed in 1927. Margaret Heath had been a teacher since 1906, so in 1924 she was appointed principal of the new school and John Hampton Watts was appointed the district's first superintendent. Upon Mrs. Heath's retirement in 1930, the school was named in her honor.
Central School, built in 1912, was sold to the City of Baldwin Park and a new Central School was built in 1952 at a different location.
Heath School, built in 1924, was torn down and a new Heath School was built on the same site in 1954. As the district continued to grow, Kenmore, the third school, was built in 1939. It is in full operation today. During the 1940s, the three schools in the district adequately housed the elementary grade students of Baldwin Park.
After World War II, growth to the area continued throughout the 1950s and 1960s, so new schools were built accordingly. The last new school, Olive, was built in 1968, although quite a few relocatable classrooms have been added to the elementary schools, the adult school, and the continuation high school.
Today, there are 13 elementary schools, 4 junior high schools, 2 comprehensive high schools, one continuation high school, an adult school of 5,000, and a Children's Center. The district (k-12) has grown from 14 students in 1884 to 13,000 in 1982.


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The Delaware Youth Center is now offering the NTSI's (National Traffic Safety Institute) six hour New York State Driver Safety Course.
- The Delaware Youth Center is now offering the NTSI's (National Traffic Safety Institute) six hour New York State Driver Safety Course.
The next class will be held on Saturday, April 13 from 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
The course is sponsored by Catskill Hudson Bank and Roche's Garage. Registration and advance payment of the $40 fee ($35 for DYC members) are required to secure a seat. Limited seating available, so register now.
Interested participants may download the flyer and registration form at www.delawareyouthcenter.org/events or may call Creighton Drury at 845-887-4120 for more information.
Doors open at 8:30 a.m. To receive credit for the course, participants must arrive on time and complete the full six hours. Upon completion participants will receive a 10 percent reduction in auto liability, no-fault and collision insurance premiums each year for three years.
Participants must be the principal operator of a vehicle and a NY State driver. Pennsylvania drivers may be eligible but should check with their insurance company.
A subtraction of up to four points on the operator's driving record may also be achieved.
Lunch will be provided for an additional fee of $7. The Youth Center is located at 8 Creamery Road in Callicoon.


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What is twerking and why won't Courier-Post columnist Danny Henley be doing it?
Like many writers, I find myself walking a fine line when it comes to word usage. Should I use a complex word or phrase when something simpler could be used?
A case in point, a former Courier-Post publisher objected to my use of the phrase "mill and overlay" when writing about street/highway projects. Consequently, in subsequent stories I would explain that the city or MoDOT was preparing to "remove the old driving surface (mill) and repave it (overlay)."
And while simpler terms are typically best used, that doesn't mean I'm not open to adding new words to my vocabulary arsenal. That's why I'm always interested in the latest words that have been added to the Oxford Dictionaries.
Here are some of the latest words that were added last month:
Jorts - shorts made of denim fabric. (In my day they were called cutoffs.)
Emojis - a small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, etc., in electronic communication. (Think smiley face in an e-mail).
Selfie - pouty self-portrait typically taken with a smartphone. (Talk to my teen-age daughter.)
Dappy - silly, disorganized or lacking concentration. (Close cousin to an "airhead.")
Digital detox - time spent away from Facebook and Twitter. (What about e-mail?)
Girl crush - an intense and typically non-sexual admiration felt by one girl for another. (Not qualified to comment.)
Vom - to be sick. (I'm thinking created by someone so busy throwing up he or she couldn't get the word "vomit" out.)
Food babies - a protruding stomach caused by eating a large quantity of food and supposedly resembling that of a woman in the early stages of pregnancy. (Please don't ask when I'm due.)
Fauxhawk - a hairstyle in which a section of hair running from the front to the back of the head stands erect, intended to resemble a Mohawk haircut. (A waste of good hair.)
Geek chic - the dress, appearance, and culture associated with computing and technology enthusiasts, regarded as stylish or fashionable. (More than a pocket protector.)
Phablet - a smartphone having a screen which is intermediate in size between that of a typical smartphone and a tablet computer. (Don't have one. Probably never will.)
Babymoon - a relaxing or romantic vacation taken by parents-to-be before their baby is born. ((I thought it was what you got when a toddler lost its diaper while bending over.)
Twerk - To dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and low squatting stance.
While I didn't see it, an example of "twerking" was recently given by former Disney child star, Miley Cyrus, during MTV's Video Music Awards show.
It just seems like yesterday I was coming home from work to find my daughter, Anna, watching Cyrus, then known as Hannah Montana, on the Disney Channel.
Now 20-year-old Cyrus wants to show the world that, for better or worse, she's "grown up." That's what prompted the scantily-clad Cyrus performed a couple of tongue-wagging, foam-finger-waving "twerk" dances before millions of viewers.
While Cyrus may have brought the word "twerk" to the forefront, according to Oxford Dictionaries, the term "twerking" actually originated in the '90s, back when Cyrus was a little girl and "twerking" might have resulted in her being spanked.
Oxford Dictionaries' Katherine Connor Martin said "twerking" is most likely "an alteration of work, because that word has a history of being used in similar ways, with dancers being encouraged to 'work it.'"
"The 't' could be a result," she added, "of blending with another word such as twist or twitch."
"Twerk" is certainly a word I'll rarely, if ever, use and an act I'll never perform, even in the privacy of my own home. Why? I know how long it takes old muscles to heal. Plus even if I were limber enough to "twerk," what male wants to hear his wife laughing hysterically at him?


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Huskers Seventh after Day One at NCAAs
Columbus, Ohio - With one day of competition under their belts, the Nebraska rifle team is sitting in seventh place overall at the NCAA Championships. The Huskers fired a 2,297 on the smallbore range on Friday at Ohio State University. Defending national champions TCU led all teams in the first day of competition, posting a team score of 2,317.
Nebraska was paced by a career-high effort of 583 from Denise Martin, enabling the freshman to break into NCAA smallbore finals. Martin earned a fifth-place finish in finals, posting a 680.9 overall. Martin's national finish on the smallbore range is the highest for a Husker since Kristina Fehlings earned fifth overall at the 2006 NCAA Championships.
The Huskers will wrap up the NCAA Championships tomorrow with team air rifle competition and individual air rifle finals. The first air rifle relay is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. CST (8 a.m. EST), with individual finals completing the day at 12:45 p.m. CST (1:45 EST).
Nebraska at NCAA Championships
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Columbus, Ohio
Smallbore: 2,317
Denise Martin: 583 (Final: 680.9)
Katelyn Woltersdorf: 576
Janine Dutton: 570
Sunny Russell: 568
Kelsey Hansen: 568
NCAA Championship Standings
(after smallbore)
2. Alaska-Fairbanks: 2,316
3. West Virginia: 2,316
4. Kentucky: 2,315
5. Air Force: 2,311
6. Army: 2,308
7. Nebraska: 2,297
8. Jacksonville State: 2,281


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Mikey's 54 Diner offers up great service at an affordable price.
If you're headed west out of Pratt and find yourself in Greensburg, hungry and looking for a good, affordable place to eat, here's my recommendation: Mikey's 54 Diner.
Mikey's has been in business since May 2012 and began serving breakfast from 7 to 10 a.m. a couple of months ago. In fact, it's the only place to purchase a full-service breakfast in town.
Breakfast prices are reasonable, with entrees ranging from $1.89 for biscuits and gravy to $5.49 for a full breakfast. Lunch is also a bargain. For vegetarians, you can buy a grilled cheese for $2.00 (a little extra for your choice of different cheeses). If you're a meat lover, you can sink your teeth into a bacon cheeseburger for only $5. Add your choice of fries at $2.50—whether Curly Qs, Onion Dippers, Sweet Potato Fries, or Fried Pickles—and you have a meal. The restaurant also features daily specials, like the homemade chili I enjoyed there recently.
Of course, if you're like me, you may want to include a malt or shake. Mikey's recently expanded its selection of flavors to include not only the standard vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry but also pineapple, butterscotch, cherry, real peanut butter, and marshmallow. It all hearkens back to the days of the Lunchbox, which used to offer essentially the same flavor options when it was open before the tornado.
Admittedly, I am not a huge hamburger fan but when I have a hankering for one I like it to be prepared like Mikey's does it: grilled bun and freshly cooked meat with a generous selection of fresh toppings on the side: onions, pickles, tomatoes, and even jalapenos if you like.
Perhaps the best thing about the restaurant is its service. You place your order at the front, using an order form if you choose, and before long it arrives at your table. The staff is friendly and, from my perspective, most of the customers are local. That is, I recognize many faces from the six years I worked daily in Greensburg at the Iroquois Center.
All in all, Mikey's is a good place to enjoy a tasty meal. The service is friendly and efficient, and the prices are affordable. Hats off to Terri Butler and her crew. Terri took over as co-manager in July, joining Nora Taylor (aka Mikey's wife). Conveniently located on the east side of Mikey's Convenience Store, the restaurant is open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily during the winter.


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Sociology professor Patti Adler will return to the University of Colorado next week, with some reservations, to resume teaching her controversial "Deviance in U.S. Society" class on the Boulder campus, she announced Thursday.
"After more than a month marked by trauma, turmoil and great emotional distress for my family and myself, I am proud to say that the University of Colorado has backed down from their initial position and is allowing me to return to teach this semester in the course 'Deviance in U.S. Society,'" Adler said in a statement.
CU-Boulder spokesman Bronson Hilliard confirmed that Adler will be returning to teach the course, but added that the university will not be apologizing to Adler. The professor and others have said that statements made by the university insinuated that she might have violated CU's sexual harassment policy.
"We stand by the statements we've made," Hilliard said. "Those statements were simply designed to articulate what we felt the issues were in this particular case. They were not designed to attack Professor Adler at any level and we don't believe they did."
Adler, who said she received a letter from College of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Leigh on Wednesday inviting her back to teach, said she doesn't feel entirely welcome at CU.
She voiced concerns that the administration may put a "plant" in one of her classes to file complaints about her. Hilliard, however, said the university is not going to "generate any artificial or contrived actions" against Adler.
"The faculty want me back," Adler said. "The administration, I bet they don't. They would probably rather I not come back. But because of the public outcry and the media coverage, they can't treat me as bad as they would maybe like to."
CU administration working out what informed consent for prostitution skit participation looks like
Classes resume Monday, and Adler's decision comes at the end of a nearly month-long controversy over a single lecture in the tenured sociology professor's long-running course on deviance.
The 500-person deviance class features a lecture about prostitution, which is presented as a skit performed by undergraduate teaching assistants.
After the skit was investigated by the Office of Discrimination and Harassment in November, Adler said she was told it was a "risk" to the university. CU officials later said they had concerns about students being coerced into participating in the skit and possibly being filmed without their consent.
Adler said the university gave her a choice between early retirement with an incentive, and a return to campus that would not include teaching her course on deviance.
In early December, Adler told her class that she would not return to campus after the winter break, causing an uproar among students who soon banded together to defend Adler.
Later, administrators said Adler could return to teach the course if it passed a review by a committee of her peers in sociology. When an ad hoc committee recommended that Adler be allowed to teach the deviance course, CU administrators said the sociology executive committee had to sign off on the course first before Adler was cleared to teach.
Once the executive committee gave Adler the nod, she weighed her options while consulting with Evergreen-based attorney Bill Finger.
The only change either committee recommended for Adler's course is that she obtain "full informed consent" from students who participate in the prostitution skit.
Hilliard said CU's administration will work with the Boulder Faculty Assembly to determine how Adler and all other faculty should go about getting consent from students in the future.
He said the administration also wants to better communicate with faculty members the role of graduate students and teaching assistants, using video and "captured media" in the classroom and the role of the Office of Discrimination and Harassment.
"The concerns about students entering into the role-playing that's inherent in the skit, we're on our way to resolving those with the informed consent process," Hilliard said. "What's important is that students understand they won't be penalized in any way if they choose not to participate in the skit and that they give their official consent for participation."
'Rosa Parks of sociology and academia'
Adler said she decided to return to teach her course on deviance on principle and because of the support she received from students, past students, fellow faculty members and national organizations. She said she felt like she had to come back to stand up for faculty members at CU and at other universities and their rights to due process and academic freedom.
She described returning to teach as a "moral victory," and said she felt a little bit like the "Rosa Parks of sociology and academia."
Though Adler wouldn't say how long she plans to teach at CU, she encouraged students to register for the spring semester deviance course because it "could be the last waltz."
In addition to the deviance course, Adler will also lead a course for teaching assistants on teaching sociology.
She also wouldn't speak definitively about any plans to take legal action against the school, though she didn't know if she had "the stomach" for a lawsuit, she said, which would be expensive and emotional.
In the last month, Adler's situation has attracted attention from groups such as the American Association of University Presidents and the Colorado chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Many groups and Boulder faculty members voiced their concern over how the university treated Adler, and said they felt Adler's academic freedom had been violated.
In her statement Thursday, Adler criticized the Office of Discrimination and Harassment for its "overreach," writing that schools and universities are quashing academic freedom and creativity for the sake of protecting themselves from exposure or fault.
"Universities and schools at all levels around the globe are increasingly sacrificing academic freedom as they become more concerned with risk and liability than with creating an environment in which creativity and ideas can flourish and students can be challenged to expand their horizons," she wrote.
Boulder Faculty Assembly chairman Paul Chinowsky said regardless of Adler's decision, the situation has raised questions about how processes at CU work.
He said the faculty and administration plan to work together to clarify any confusing policies and better inform faculty about the role of the Office of Discrimination and Harassment and to make sure that no "ambiguity" exists in the future.
Chinowsky added that one of the major concerns he's heard from faculty is how to balance their own concerns about academic freedom with the concerns of students.
"The one thing the Patti Adler situation did highlight was that there's a lot more questions than answers that faculty have and that of course makes people nervous," he said. "What do (faculty) not know? What do they just not understand and what is it that needs to be improved? We've got an agreement with the administration to work together on this."
Contact Staff Writer Sarah Kuta at 303-473-1106, firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter.com/sarahkuta.


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A bicyclist was injured about 6 p.m. Sunday while traveling north on the Mary Carter Greenway Trail in South Platte Park, just north of West Mineral Avenue. The person hit a barbed wire tied across the trail, about a foot off the ground, and was thrown off the bicycle.
The Littleton Police Department and South Suburban Parks and Recreation are investigating the incident as a serious threat to public safety. This type of behavior could result in charges of reckless endangerment and assault, as well as other criminal charges.
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The Brown Daily Herald, Brown University's student newspaper, has announced that the college's new health insurance plan will cover "14 different sexual reassignment surgery procedures starting in August."
Brown University Director of Insurance and Purchasing Services Jeanne Herbert confirmed the health plan change in an email to the newspaper. "We identified this as an important benefit for students to have access to," Hebert wrote.
Brown will join several other schools and healthcare providers around the country that cover reassignment surgeries. Hebert said the school's policy change was in line with "Brown's efforts to support all students."
Herbert added that the coverage will be funded through renewal rates paid for next year's student healthcare coverage. The total package of sexual reassignment surgeries, which includes hormone therapy, can cost up to $50,000. The Herald notes that the school's LGBTQ Center coordinator, Kelly Garrett, has been calling for the healthcare policy change for years.
Garrett said the procedures covered are "very standard and very comprehensive." Transgender students had formerly not been able to access sex reassignment surgeries while attending Brown due to the high cost, she added.
"I know people where it's taken them 10 years because they needed to save money," Garret told the newspaper. She said many doctors say the procedures are necessary but insurance companies exclude them from coverage because they view such procedures as cosmetic in nature. She noted that the change couldn't have been made without the help of student advocacy groups like GenderAction, a subgroup of Queer Alliance.
"Brown has joined a pretty small group of colleges that give full benefits for trans students," Maddy Jennewein, a member of GenderAction said. "I think it'll be a huge impact for trans students. This is a really great opportunity for them."
One transgender student lauded the healthcare change. "Like with anything, it depends on the person, but the fact that Brown is now offering these surgeries is life saving for them," Noah Lupica told the Herald. According to the Herald, Lupica himself went through his "first stage of surgery" when he was in high school.
Lupica added that the procedure had helped him "come into myself." He noted that all transgender cases are different but Brown's new policy will cover all of his needs.
For female-to-male surgeries, the plan will cover, mastectomy, hysterectomy, salpingo-oophorectomy, vaginectomy, metoidioplasty, scrotoplasty, urethroplasty, placement of testicular prostheses and phalioplasty. For male-to-female surgeries, the new policy will include orchiectomy, penectomy, vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty and labiaplasty.
Brown isn't the only college to cover reassignment procedures. According to the Human Rights Campaign, Cornell, Harvard, Stanford and Penn State all cover at least some sex reassignment surgeries as of 2012. Garrett noted that it hasn't been decided if the change would also cover Brown's staff, "The insurance plans are completely separate, so we're in the discussion," she said.
"I think we have a great reputation as a liberal school that attracts a lot of different students," Jennewein told the newspaper. "I'm glad our student policies are now up to par with the student body."
Located in Providence, R.I., Brown is an Ivy League school generally considered one of the most elite institutions of higher learning in the country. It accepts only 8.9 percent of applicants, making it one of the most difficult schools in the world for matriculation.


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Fall marathon season is almost underway -- and here is a selection of some of the most popular running shoes you'll see pounding the pavement in races around the globe.
Adidas Energy Boost ($150)
When Adidas unveiled the Energy Boost earlier this year, the company claimed it would "change running forever." The material replaces the industry-standard EVA foam with thermoplastic beads fused together inside the sole, providing energy and bounce to keep a consistent spring in your step, all the way through a long course.
Brooks Ravenna 4 ($110)
This lightweight, simple shoe, the fourth edition of the Ravenna, strikes a perfect balance of cushioning and pronation control.
Saucony Mirage 3 ($110)
This is the perfect shoe for runners looking for a lightweight option with a touch of stability. Saucony's update features deeper grooves to improve flexibility at toe-off.
Nike Flyknit Lunar1+ ($160)
One of Nike's coolest new technologies in years, this featherweight shoe features a knitted upper and is made from a seamless, one-piece construction that molds to the contours of the feet like a sock.
Puma Mobium Elite ($110)
Puma's Mobium technology was inspired by the natural expansion and compression seen in a cat's foot, which provides our feline friends with both cushioning and propulsion as they move. The sole of the shoe features "Expansion Pods" to provide cushioning and protection, as well as an elasticized band that runs in a figure eight around the sole, which adds extra spring.
Saucony Kinvara 4 ($100)
Saucony recently gave its popular Kinvara a modest update, only tweaking a few details to make this lightweight, cushioned trainer a bit stronger.
New Balance Minimus Road MR10 ($150)
For fans of barefoot running, New Balance's simple, sleek shoe facilitates mid-foot striking yet is sturdy enough to take runners the full marathon distance.


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I think it is very possible to mount eyes from underneath without showing any evidence on the outside of the mag.
Here is my experiment. I am sure i will up at some point and destroy a $100 body but it was donated to the cause by the Devil
And at this point I have proven it can be done, I just need to figure out how to drill the hole from the inside without a Dentist tool.
Ok here it is, moded and setting on a rail to show they are unseen.
And now for the porn!
More to come as I figure things out.


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Christopher "Corey" Leonzio wanted to open his new barber shop, Broad Street Barber Shop, in Middletown for several reasons.
Christopher "Corey" Leonzio wanted to open his new barber shop, Broad Street Barber Shop, in Middletown for several reasons.
The 28 year old has worked in Middletown before, and he said that he really likes the town.
He likes getting involved with the schools and local organizations, and he likes the atmosphere.
"I have a 1 year old girl and Appoquinimink is a great district, and I want her to be somewhere good," he said. "It's a family oriented town, and that's definitely somewhere I want to be."
Leonzio's new shop opened Jan. 15 in the Cricklewood Shopping Center on Summit Bridge Road here in town.
After graduating high school in 2002, Leonzio did one semester at Delaware Technical and Community College, but he said that college was not for him.
"I'm more hands on," he said.
In 2003 he graduated from the Hair Academy in Glasgow, and for a while, he has wanted to open his own shop.
"I've wanted to open a barber shop, and things just started working out," Leonzio said.
He has been cutting hair since 2002.
Leonzio has worked at U.S. Male on Main Street, where he said that he learned a lot.
"They pretty much set my standard as a barber," he said.
As well as traditional haircuts, Leonzio also can shave logos and other designs into hair.
"I can do any kind of logo," he said. "Whether its sports logos or tribal designs."
Leonzio learned how to trim designs into hair about five years ago. He has shaved NFL and Little League logos into boys' heads.
For now, Leonzio has one other employee on the books at the Broad Street Barber Shop, and another will be doing an apprenticeship under him in the future, he said.
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Solar Universe and Sunrun Form Partnership
Solar Universe Network, a top five consumer solar company in California, recently announced a strategic partnership with Sunrun that will make affordable solar accessible to more American homeowners. Consumers in six states can now opt for Sunrun's solar service through Solar Universe's vast network to avoid the high upfront cost of installing solar.
"This really changes the landscape," said Joe Bono, CEO of Solar Universe. "Along with our local reach we can now offer our customers a superior alternative to grid power that is less expensive."
One of the biggest barriers consumers face in entering the solar market is the high upfront cost. The average cost of a solar home installation is estimated at around $30,000. The partnership between Solar Universe and Sunrun removes the barrier by allowing more local communities access to low-cost payment options, such as little or nothing upfront.
Sunrun removes upfront costs because the company owns and maintains the system on a customer's roof. Homeowners pay for the solar power produced by the system at rates that are less than their local utility rates.
"Solar is becoming more widespread because more families now realize it's a smart financial choice to use a solar service like Sunrun," said Sunrun president and co-founder Lynn Jurich. "The highest adoption rates in California are in median-income zip codes, and this partnership with Solar Universe will allow us to continue that growth."
The new partnership will service homeowners in California, Arizona, Hawaii, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Oregon. For more information visit www.solaruniverse.com or www.sunrunhome.com.
Joe Miller is the executive vice president of channel and sales for Solar Universe.
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Minor mishap
Sault Police were called to Ashmun just north of W. 8th Ave. shortly after 1 p.m. Monday for a minor fender bender.
According to reports a vehicle was stopping in the roadway when it was clipped from behind by a second.
All of the occupants escaped unscathed and police concluded their investigation without issuing any citations.
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The American Baby Boomers are an amazing generation. This cohort brought significant cultural changes and attitudes, some for the greater good, some not so much.
Among the many credits of the Boomers are that they became the generation that doubled the divorce rate, and as such, have created a whole new understanding of "midlife" marriage. As this group continues to age, their impact on relationships continues, not only in the proliferation of ED medication commercials, but in redefining later-midlife marriage.
Prior to the Boomer generation, it was a safe assumption that any couple nearing or experiencing retirement were in a long-term marriage, often with 40 years or more to their credit. That fact has become more and more of a rarity.
Much as someone suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder must count things, academics just can't help themselves and must categorize and explain. So when confronted with the recent novelty of longer-term, later-midlife marriage, marriage scholars attempt to define and describe how this anomaly could occur.
A disclaimer: Jim is an academic, so he can empathize with the marriage scholars. At least, that is the explanation we are falling back on to explain his compulsion to ponder this issue in print.
Although we typically attribute our sources, since we are going to poke fun at this week's source, we've decided to leave it as an "unnamed source close the social sciences academy."
In a not-so-stunning conceptual model for understanding these couples in later-midlife marriages, authors in a respected social science journal recently published that there may be multiple pathways to explain these freaks of nature (our words).
One of their working hypotheses is that couples who make it that long may have made it through life fairly unstressed, therefore storing up more tolerance for the difficulties of later-midlife (such as retirement, health issues, caring for aging parents or boomerang children). Oh.
Another hypothesis is that some couples may experience stressors early on in their marriage and they developed heightened coping mechanisms that serve them well later on. Wow.
Is it just us or are these conclusions somewhat obvious? One might speculate that if a couple made the remarkable achievement of making it to later-midlife, that they either had past problems in life, or not, and that having these problems, or not having problems, might impact their relationship.
We should not be too snarky given that this was in a respected scholarly journal, but the article did not exactly provide the secret answers to long-term marriage.
So for our stunning conclusions this week: Boomers are changing how we understand life. And sometimes, the academy can be really dull.
James Burg, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Indiana University-Purdue, Fort Wayne. His wife, Audora, is a freelance writer. You may contact them at email@example.com
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The American Baby Boomers are an amazing generation. This cohort brought significant cultural changes and attitudes, some for the greater good, some not so much.


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Overview of early Christianity
From a counter-apologetics standpoint, having a basic understanding of early Christianity is invaluable. Particularly the origin of the gospels and their historical reliability, as the supposed truth of modern Christianity is more or less completely dependant on these factors. It is very easy to be deeply bogged down in modern metaphysical apologetics by transcendental smoking mirror arguments, and semantic tricks about ontology. Instead keep in mind where Christianity actually originated. What exactly is Christianity based on? What exactly are Christianity's original claims? Are these claims historically reliable and/or verifiable? If not, everything else that follows is more or less nullified. This page is meant as an overview to tie together the relevant third party articles of greater depth on this fairly large subject.
The Gospels and New Testament
There are 27 books of the New Testament. Starting from the four gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John, which are usually considered the cornerstone of the new testament, teachings, and life of Jesus. These are followed by a collection of additional books attributed to Paul of Taurus, Luke the Evangelist, and a number of others.
One of the first things to notice, is that the best current historical consensus, concludes that the four main Gospels (and indeed several of the other books) were in fact not written by those people commonly attributed to them. The four gospels are all internally anonymous, and there are no original signed copies. The names of the four apostles were not attributed to these texts until the late 2nd Century CE, and as late as the 4th Century CE in the case of Mark. The body of the texts themselves were also written many years after the events they claim to report. Mark, the earliest of which, is estimated to be written no sooner than c. 70 CE. A full 40 years after the purported death of and resurrection of Jesus, which more or less precludes any notions the gospels were written by the apostles, or any other first hand eye witnesses of Jesus. Furthermore, it is worth noting this is not a fringe belief of a few "atheist extremists". Even some standardised bibles such as the NIV actually make note of these facts on their relevant title pages.
Synoptic Gospels and Q
The gospels themselves can be divided into two groups. The synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. And the non-synoptic gospel of John. The word synoptic means "Seen together". Refering to the consistencies of these three books with each other. Upon deeper inspection though, it appears as though the books are not merely consistent, but in fact directly based on each other with large slabs copied word for word, bringing further into question the idea that they would be true eye witness accounts. Why after all would an eye witness rely so heavily on a third party account. Originally it was though that the first book was that of Matthew, but now it is thought that the first book was actually Mark, written no earlier than c. 70 CE. Then from Mark and a second hypothetical document named the Q Document containing a list of quotes supposedly attributed to Jesus or perhaps simply a collection of Greek philosophies such as the Golden Rule, were used for the basis of writing Matthew and Luke between c. 70-100 CE.
The gospel of John is Non-Synoptic, quite obviously meaning it is not seen as being together (consistent?) with the other gospels. It's origin is dated later in the the 2nd Century CE, and it differs radically in its content and claims from the other three gospels. These inconsistencies range from small details such as the date of the last supper to larger details such as Jesus performance of miracles, exorcisms, and his stance on old testament Judaic law.
Paul of Taurus and Luke the Evangelist
Much of the rest of the New Testament is attributed to Paul of Taurus and Luke the Evangelist. Perhaps more than anyone, Paul is attributed as being the founder of the early Christian church and the propagation of Jesus' teachings. However, by their own accounts, neither Paul or Luke actually met Jesus face to face. Paul himself claimed that he only saw Jesus in a vision while traveling on the road to Damascus.
The remaining books of the new testament are supposed to have been written by a number of other people including John the Evangelist, Peter, and James the Just. Though as with so many of the other books, the general consensus is that most of these books were not in fact written by those commonly attributed to them.
Extra-Biblical Accounts
Perhaps the biggest short coming of the New Testaments reliability, is that there are absolutely no extra biblical contemporary accounts of Jesus or the extraordinary events of his life. Basically everything we know about Jesus' life, we know from the four gospels. The same four books that make fantastical claims of miracles that completely defy our current understandings of physics, chemistry, biology, history, etc. We can find no third party accounts anywhere to verify or even come close to supporting these claims.
When pressed on the issue, apologists often cite two passages of Josephus, an early Jewish historian, as being extra biblical contemporary evidence of Jesus. Unfortunately for the apologists, Josephus was not born until after the purported life of Jesus and is not a contemporary at all. The passages themselves coming from 'Antiquities of the Jews' not published until c. 94 CE. Over 60 years after Jesus' death. At best the passages really couldn't tell us much more than what the late first century Christians at the time believed about the Jesus. Furthermore, Josephus was an Orthodox Jew which is altogether inconsistent with the passages claims that Jesus was the Messiah. Whilst perhaps not being an outright forgery, even decent Christian scholars will admit that the passages were at the very least tampered with probably some time in the 4th century by Christian scribes.
The other major early non Christian historian that apologists often cite is Tacitus, Though his testimony fails on many of the same grounds that Josephus does. He was not born until after Jesus' death thus he was in no way a contemporary of Jesus. The account cited in Book 15 of the Annals was not published until c. 116 CE. Many years after the life of Jesus and in no way a first hand account. Additionally, the paragraph itself mentions that at this time there was a religious group identifying themselves as Christians, causing problems within the Roman empire, and nothing more. It says little about Jesus or the veracity of the claims surrounding his life and divinity, and even if it did, it would only be reliable so far as telling us, that this is what early 2nd Century Christians believed.
Lack of Other Evidence
Whilst some may make the argument that its not surprising we don't have a great deal (or any as the case my be) third party evidence surrounding an itinerant Jewish preacher in a backward corner of the Roman empire, there are additional concerns that further bring the reliability of the gospels into question. The first of these concerns is the supernatural claims of magic and miracles. Jesus bringing Lazarus back from the dead. Spontaneously healing the blind. Walking on water. Spontaneously turning water into wine. Pre cognition. Exorcism. Death and resurrection. Etc. Whilst a theist will claim that the miracles are part of Jesus divinity and consistent in context, we have no reliable documented accounts that such things have ever happened or are even possible with in the reality we observe. The claims completely defy our current understanding of physics, chemistry, biology and medical science. In short they are not consistent with reality and further question the nature of the gospels reliability. The second concern is that the gospels make several grandiose claims that if true should have been documented by third party sources. An example of this is the mass exodus in the Roman empire with everyone having to return to their place of ancestry for an empire wide census. This is not recorded anywhere outside the gospel of Luke. Another example is towards the end of Matthew were the dead rise from their graves and walk through theww streets of Jerusalem seen by many people. Once again there is no documentation to be found anywhere of this outside the gospel o Matthew. On a geopolitical scale, these were not insignificant events by any stretch of the imagination. If these events were even remotely true we should expect to find at least some third party documentation or record of their happenings in otherwise detailed Roman and Jewish annals. Instead we find nothing.
Further Textual Corruptions
A further issue surrounding the biblical historical reliability is that there are known forgeries and edits that were added many years after the original writing. Any decent standardised bible such as the NIV will point out that the last few passages of Mark are not in the oldest copies of the manuscripts that we have. They were added some time later in the mid 2nd Century. However these known forgeries are still included in the bible cannon and some denominations such as Pentecostal churches largely base their teachings on these known forgeries.
What exactly is Christianity based on?
These claims are based souly on a collection of books in the second half of the Christian bible called the new testament. Specifically the four gospels that claim to provide a first hand account of Jesus' life.
What exactly are Christianity's original claims?
The basis or core original claim of Christianity is that at the start of the 1st Century CE there lived a man named Jesus. Jesus was the divine son of god and performed many spectacular supernatural miracles, good deeds and teachings throughout his life. He was betrayed by one of his own apostles and put to death by the Romans, where his blood sacrifice and resurrection supposedly cleansed humanity of all sin.
Are these claims historically reliable and/or verifiable?
On inspection, the four gospels that provide the core understanding of Jesus' life not only appear to have not been written by the apostles that are attributed to them, but they were misleadingly not written by any first hand eye witnesses of Jesus at all. They were all written many years after the purported life of Jesus, by people who had never met him. In the case of John as late as the early 2nd Century CE. The rest of the new testament is made up of parables by people like Paul of Taurus and Luke the Evangelist who by their own admission never met Jesus during his lifetime and never witnessed the events and miracles claimed in the gospels. As such, even within the context of the bible itself, there is no first hand account of Jesus' existence. There are no extra-biblical contemporary accounts confirming any of the claims about Jesus in the new testament. The two best examples apologists cite are Josephus and Tacitus who were in fact not contemporaries of Jesus at all, and who's references to Jesus range from the misleading fact that they can really only tell us about what Christians of the time believed about Jesus, and in the case of Josephus, obvious forgery done by later Christian scribes. Furthermore, the Gospels make several grandiose claims of spectacular events such, as the dead rising from the graves and walking through the streets of Jerusalem or a mass exodus in the Roman empire with everyone having to return to their place of ancestry for an empire wide census. If these events were even remotely true we should expect to find at least some third party documentation of their happenings in otherwise detailed Roman and Jewish annals. Instead we find nothing. There is no reliable evidence within or outside of the bible, to support any of the claims about Jesus or the spectacular events of his life.
Epilogue on the Historicity of Jesus
It seems clear from the evidence presented in the gospels, new testament books and third party sources, that there is simply not enough evidence to say that Jesus existed as anything more than myth or legend. That's not to say he didn't exist at all though. As the saying goes, "No smoke without fire". In much the same way that the King Arthur myths may have been based on a real man, it is all together possible, perhaps even likely, that around this time there was an itinerant rabbi named Yeshua who roamed the country side preaching and may have even run into some kind of trouble and been put to death by the Romans, but this is pure speculation, and certainly not the Jesus of the new testament who performed many fantastic miracles, healed the sick, walked on water, and was the son of god through death and resurrection. There appears to be no empirical evidence that such a man ever existed.


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Okay, kids, listen up. Today we're going to talk about those books you dropped off last week. No, I'm not going to tell the world about those magazines. That's your business (and mine, since they turned out to be too smutty for eBay, and I have been banned from trading there again until I stand in the city square on three consecutive moonlit evenings crying "Unclean! Unclean!")
I want to talk to you about what they were packed in. Now, I completely understand that your place isn't like mine. Not everybody lives in a room decorated with cardboard boxes of all sizes and shapes. It's unfair and I feel sorry for you, but we need to come to an understanding.
I'm particular. I like books packed in boxes that will hold them and offer some protection. Barring that, I like nice, sturdy shopping bags with two (count 'em, two) handles. That's what I mean when I say in the directions "boxes or bags". It's amazing what a variety of results this has produced, but I have become jaded now. I am currently quite bored with books that are packed in:
Banana Boxes: I've spoken to you about these: the great big cardboard boxes with a big square hole in the bottom. Please do not pack books in boxes with holes in the bottom. This should be Rule 1. And anyway, they're too wide to haul around conveniently. (The same sort of box is often used for melons, or lettuce. Don't be fooled. I don't like those just as much.)
Detergent Display Boxes: Or whipped cream or chocolate syrup or any other kind of grocery store display box which is missing one or more sides. You should not pack books in boxes without four sides. This ought to be Rule 2. (I had books donated in a box once that had just four sticks of cardboard at the corners, and no sides at all. My, didn't we laugh! But gin was cheaper in those days.)
Computer Boxes: If the box was hard to pick up with a computer in it, it will be heavier when filled with books. I KNOW it's efficient to use a big box, but be reasonable. And no, it doesn't make everything all better if you use the box the air conditioner came in but fill it only halfway.
Shoe Boxes: If you're giving me a bunch of miniature books or tape cassettes or CDs, I see the point. And I know I asked you not to put books in really big boxes. But if you have send me eighty books all packed in shoe boxes, I am going to conclude more things about you than that you just have a lot of shoes.
Boxes You Can't Bear To Part With: Oh, you want the box back, do you? Well, just wait right here while I find another box and repack everything you've brought in that…oh, you have six more and you want all those back, too? How kind of you to come on a rainy day when it won't be so hot while I work.
Broken Plastic Storage Containers, Boxes With Bottoms Only Folded Together Instead Of Taped, Boxes That Have Been Sitting In The Garage And Which You Last Used To Haul Tomato Plants To The Garden, Boxes That Have Been Sitting In The Basement And Are Turning Blue-Black At The Corners, Boxes That Have Been Sitting In The Attic And Have Bats Hibernating In Them, Boxes That Have Been In The Storage Locker So Long You've Forgotten About That Live Ammunition At The Bottom, Boxes That….
Tell you what, kids. Let's talk about the BAGS I don't like some other time.


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Another great article. Adequate protein is also essential. It's easy to get enough protein if you eat animal products. If you go vegan you have to put a bit more effort into getting enough.
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Over break, I hope to hit level 80 in World of Warcraft so I can actually start digging into the high-level Cataclysm content. I'm about to hit 78 and I've been doing mostly quest marathons mixed in with some random dungeons. Queuing as a healer makes that go by so quickly.
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Growers looking for marketing options are in luck. The specialty foods sector is going nuts, or even chestnuts, which was one of the products on display Oct. 24 at Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center in Portland.
Consumers are looking for natural, locally-produced food that has a story to go with it, preferably a family farm tale, panel members said during a seminar. Although chiefly discussing emerging beverages, panelists said specialty foods of all kinds have done well even in a weak economy. About 60 people attended the event, many of them looking to break into or make a bigger dent in the retail market.
Ron Tanner, a vice president of the New York-based Specialty Foods Association, said sales of specialty food products grew 22 percent nationally from 2010 to 2012, while all products grew 4 percent. Specialty foods – loosely defined as national brands need not apply – is an $86 billion annual industry and now accounts for 10 percent of retail food sales, Tanner said.
Shoppers at stores such as WholeFoods and New Seasons are willing to pay more for "purity," he said.
"The less you can process it, the better," Tanner said. "And consumers do love to hear the story for the product. Let them know about the people behind the product."
Examples of that were on display at the seminar. On a table outside the meeting room were bags of chestnuts branded as "Oregon Colossals" and packages of stevia leaves, grown in California and Oregon. The herb is an alternative sweetner.
Other displays included packages of "Popped Wheat Berries" made by Wheat Springs Bakery in Condon, Ore. The bakery is side business of the Bates family wheat farm on the Columbia plateau.
Such snack products are among the hottest specialty foods, Tanner said. Others include bakery goods, chocolate items, convenience meals and processed fish, meat and eggs, he said. Among specialty beverages, the top selling are alcoholic drinks such as beer, wine and spirits, hot beverages, juice drinks, ready-to-drink coffees and teas, and bottled water, Tanner said.
The specialty beverage sector holds considerable growth potential, Tanner said. While 60 percent of refrigerated dips and salads are specialty foods, they make up only 3 percent of beverages sold.
Another panelist, Portland bartender and distillery owner Ryan Csanky, said he began using local fruit purees in his mixed drinks to match what was going on in the kitchen at Wildwood Restaurant, which spearheaded the local food movement. He began making his own vodka, then his own gin as an "explosion of creativity" took place.
In 2005 there were 25 craft distilleries nationally, Csanky said. Now there are 60 to 70 in Oregon alone, and about 300 nationally.
"Portland is one of the places that drive trends throughout the country," he said. "You don't have to buy garbage that's filled with corn syrup, artificial flavors and preservatives."
John Boyle, a buyer with New Seasons markets, said buyers of the store's "grab and go" beverages base their purchases on type, flavor, packaging, recyclability and seasonality. Price is the least important factor, he said.
At New Seasons, which specializes in upscale, local and organic products, craft beers are as strong as ever, local ciders are doing well and $10 to $15 wines appeal to "younger buyers who love cool stories," Boyle said.
The Food Innovation Center is part of OSU's Extension Service. Its mission includes helping growers diversify by making and selling specialty foods.
Diversification can take unexpected turns. Mint growers Mike and Candy Seely of Clatskanie, along the Columbia River west of Portland, experimented a few years ago with selling small vials of oil at farmer's markets. Then they began making mint patties, and the candy took off.
They've built manufacturing space on the family farm, hired a graphic artist to redesign their packaging and now sell at mainstream grocery stores.
"We've got 19 people working for us right now," Mike Seely said. "Things are going really well."


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Red Sox - 100 000 000 - 1 3 0Tampa Bay Rays - 2008 AL Champions.
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Lester was good (7-6-3-0-8, 107), but Garza -- named the MVP of the series -- was better (7-2-1-3-9, 118).
Dustin Pedroia lined a home run to left in the first -- 6th pitch of the game -- and David Ortiz followed with a walk. Garza retired the next two Sox and outside of hitting FY in the third and walking him in the sixth, no other Sock reached base until there was one out in the seventh.
By that time, the Rays led 3-1. Lester did set down the first nine Rays batters, but a two-out double from Evan Longoria in the fourth tied the game and three straight hits to open the fifth -- Willy Aybar double, Dioner Navarro single, Rocco Baldelli single -- gave Tampa Bay a 2-1 lead. Aybar donged to start the seventh to give the Rays a two-run lead.
Boston tried to rally. After Kevin Youkilis popped to shortstop to start the seventh, JD Drew walked on four pitches and Jason Bay singled. After a mound visit from Joe Maddon, Garza -- working slowly -- got Mark Kotsay to fly to right and then struck out Jason Varitek on a changeup in the dirt.
In the eighth, Alex Cora batted -- Tito was not very Assassiny tonight -- and grounded to shortstop. Jason Bartlett did not charge the ball and it clanked off his glove for an error. Maddon went to the bullpen -- repeatedly. He used four relievers in the inning. Dan Wheeler allowed a single to right from Coco Crisp but got FY on a routine fly to left. JP Howell came in and got Ortiz to ground to second (on seven pitches) and Coco was forced. Chad Bradford fell behind Yook 3-0, battled back to a full count, and walked him. Then David Price came in and struck out Drew on a 1-2 check swing.
Price -- who began the year in the lowly Florida State League -- came back out for the ninth. Jason Bay (cbbfbf) walked, but Price struck out Kotsay (ffbbc) and Varitek (bsfbs). Jed Lowrie pinch-hit for Cora and grounded a 0-1 pitch right to Akinori Iwamura, who grabbed the ball on a high hop and raced to second for the Red-Sox-season-ending force.
The Rays and Phillies will play Game 1 of the World Series at the Trop on Wednesday night.
Jon Lester / Matt Garza
The Globe reports that the Red Sox are "sticking with the idea that Alex Cora hits hard-throwing right-handers better than Jed Lowrie". Cora went 1-for-3 against Garza in Game 3.Red Sox Rays
Crisp, CF Iwamura, 2B
Pedroia, 2B Upton, CF
Ortiz, DH Pena, 1B
Youkilis, 3B Longoria, 3B
Drew, RF Crawford, LF
Bay, LF Aybar, DH
Kotsay, 1B Navarro, C
Varitek, C Baldelli, RF
Cora, SS Bartlett, SS
I checked their 2008 splits and have decided to not freak out.
Against Power Pitchers***
Cora .302/.377/.415
Lowrie .200/.333/.259
Against RHP
Cora .266/.378/.363
Lowrie .222/.308/.344
Here is a handy chart of how many pitches each reliever has thrown in the series:
Bullpen Pitches Thrown***
Red Sox 1 2 3 4 5 6 TOT
Okajima 4 28 28 32 92
Masterson 5 18 39 15 18 95
Papelbon 12 18 38 8 76
Lopez 1 26 27
Delcarmen 20 28 17 65
Timlin 23 31 54
Byrd 47 47
Rays 1 2 3 4 5 6 TOT
Howell 12 23 20 25 23 103
Balfour 21 19 25 18 83
Price 3 12 15
Bradford 24 14 38
Miller 8 6 1 15
Wheeler 48 33 81
Jackson 14 25 39
Fact: Tampa Bay is
The Red Sox have won nine consecutive ALCS elimination games. Tonight, they go for #10.
Kevin Youkilis:
It's amazing. It's really amazing the games we play, and how much fun it's been. When we're all old and our children are all grown up, we'll sit around and meet up and talk about games like the game the other day. It's a wild ride, and we're very spoiled.Jonathan Papelbon admits he's "pretty beat up". His fastball was only 92-93 mph last night.
For me, in these things, if I don't have my A-plus fastball, I'd better have my A-plus mental approach and my A-plus headset. My head was right tonight.Hideki Okajima threw two scoreless innings last night -- the third time he has done so in this series.
From Josh Beckett's post-game interview:
Josh, you struggled in the postseason thus far, but tonight you looked like the Josh Beckett of 2003 and 2007.Also: Post-game Q&As from Maddon and Francona.
I don't know really if that's even a question. ...
The Clifford Floyd at-bat in the fourth --
Some of his friends call him that. ...
Joe Maddon:
We've got one more shot. We can truly teach ourselves a lesson. We can do something that will make an imprint on us for a long time.You sure can, Joe, and you will, but it's not going to be the good kind of imprint.
Evan Longoria makes no sense:
In my opinion, there'll be less pressure on anyone. We'll throw it out there and have fun. I think there was more pressure when we were up 3-to-1. There was pressure on us to end it. Elimination games are always pressure-packed. You feel you have to win them, and in that situation you start to press. Now it's back to 0-0, and we'll come out and play the way we've been playing all year.Dood, this is an elimination game! So start pressin'!
They're the World Series champs. You've got to take it from them. They know how to win. They stay poised in tough situations. That said, it's going to happen [tonight].Sean McAdam, Herald:
The Rays had spent the off day Friday swearing up and down that, nope, there wasn't going to be any sort of carryover effect from Game 5, and yep, they had already forgotten all about it and seemed almost offended by the line of questioning.***
Crushing loss? What crushing loss?
But defeats like Thursday's don't wash off in the shower. They stay with you. ...
The cracks are starting to show now. Arguably the best defensive team in the league during the season, the Rays have withered in the field in the last two games. ... The bullpen, so critical to the team's magic this season, suddenly looks vulnerable. ...
Game 7 comes tonight, the game the Rays didn't want. They have whiffed on two chances to put the Red Sox away for good and tonight they get their last chance.
It worked in 2004. It worked in 2007. It'll work in 2008.
One game. One win. That's all.


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"Love the Christian, hate the delusion." They don't like hearing that, I can say with certainty.
Quote from: jetson on December 23, 2012, 12:54:16 PM"Love the Christian, hate the delusion." They don't like hearing that, I can say with certainty.I've always despised that Christian trope, "Love the sinner, hate the sin", because it is nothing more than weasel words disguising their hatred for the person. A sin is an act so saying, "hate the sin", is really saying, "hate the way you act".Perhaps a better returning slap would be to say, "Love the Christian, hate the behaviour". That would sharpen the point, though I doubt many Christians would recognise the parallel.
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
Have never used that phrase personally but most every time I hear it the context is... I really like/care for this person I wish they could just stop "objectionable behavior". And I guess I don't see how that's a bad thing to say
More than that, though, there's the psychological aspect. If one's goal in communication is to change behaviour rather than get someone's back up, it helps not to tie that person's ego to the act itself. Some distance, even just perceived distance, between the person and his or her action, softens the blow to his or her ego, and makes it more likely that the comment will be well-received.
As a side-note, why does it now say that you only have 3 posts?
"Love the Christian, hate the delusion."
Yes, I've heard the theory and I guess some people may rationalise the criticism as not being about them as a person.
However, more often than not, I've seen the person whose behaviour is being criticised take it as a personal affront. They don't seem to pause to consider the subtle nuances of the wording.
That aside, when their homosexuality is labelled an abomination, I think most homosexuals would take that as a personal affront as well because one is criticising their identity as a person.
I had a very similar quote/picture show up on my newsfeed as well - complete with the billion likes. I think that in a time of tragedy most people are simply searching for answers, for comfort. And a sense that "this" won't happen to them. They seek some kind of exceptionalism solace that because THEY are TRUE believers, that Christ will spare them and their loved ones from such an atrocity. Believing in that magical being up in the sky insulates them from the true horrors of humanity. "The Gawd" - Completely impressed you took that to Facebook. I haven't yet really revealed my heathenest self - I left that option blank and refuse to participate. I'm still in chicken shit territory.
I think the perception/stereotype of an "atheist" makes it hard for people to accept
I thought Darth Vader (with James Earl Jones' voice) was the face of atheism? Boy, did I have it wrong!-Nam
Apparently god's not terribly concerned with protecting kids in schools that happily do allow him in, either. Just ask the Amish of Bart Township, PA.
And for the record I like Aaron Ra... Carl Sagan would look like a regular dude to me if he didn't take all those pics with weird backgrounds. But I'll definately add the BAA into my resources for people that need that sort of thing to urge along their progression. Same with Asa Phillip Randolph et al. From what I understand there was a huge backing from atheistic blacks for MLK Jr.


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While we've been paying attention to the unfolding horror of the latest war in Iraq, a homegrown tragedy has been taking place in Ferguson, Missouri, a racially mixed suburb of 21,000 that is directly north of St. Louis.
On Saturday, an unarmed black man, 18-year-old Michael Brown, was shot multiple times and killed by police, who so far have declined to explain exactly why they fired on Brown. Witnesses say Brown had his hands up when police opened fire.
The shooting provoked mass disturbances and looting in Ferguson on Sunday and Monday, with stores ransacked and police in riot gear lobbing tear gas and shooting rubber bullets to disperse crowds. At 1 a.m. Wednesday, police shot and wounded another man who had pointed a weapon at them.
Community leaders in Ferguson are working hard to cool tempers and restore civility to a changing suburb with a small town atmosphere and a history of good race relations.
One of those leaders is the Rev. Steve Lawler, formerly of Rockford and an old friend of mine. Since 2001, he's been rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Ferguson. We talked by phone about the unrest as well as about Ferguson's history.
"Ferguson is the first suburb north of St. Louis. It began in the late 1800s and grew a lot after World War II with the growth of the aviation industry, particularly at McDonnell Douglas," Lawler said.
Ferguson is about two-thirds black, but historically the town has been interracial, Lawler said.
"There's been a really great connective tissue here. This is a multiracial community," he said. The town doesn't feel like a typical suburb, with no character and endless strip malls.
"Driving through it, you'd see it has its own identity, its own downtown, its own churches, a Lions Club, a farmers market and a Fourth of July parade that is bigger than the one in St. Louis."
So, it would seem that Ferguson is the last place where such violence would take place.
"If you'd have asked me to pick the 25 (most dangerous) places in metro St. Louis, I wouldn't have put Ferguson on the list," Lawler told me. "I certainly haven't heard concerns about this sort of tension; it came as a complete surprise."
Because of that aviation boom in the 1950s, Ferguson became a town noted for small but affordable houses, something like you'd find in Rockford's Rolling Green.
"These were great little houses, but more and more they're not owner-occupied," Lawler said. "Also, St. Louis has some city and county schools that lost accreditation, so students are transferring out."
The combination of not enough jobs, people moving in and out, and questionable schools has created instability.
Sunday's and Monday's violence "is like a kick in the gut," Lawler said. "Our community was picking up speed."
Lawler and other leaders hope that Ferguson's strong community spirit can help people work through the recent difficulties to restore peace — with justice for the aggrieved family. The Justice Department and the FBI are investigating even as local police refuse to identify the police officer who killed Brown, citing death threats.
Meanwhile, Lawler and other clergy members have been out and about, "having prayer meetings, responding to nuts and bolts of what happens in the community, talking to people and working with groups and seeing how we can respond to their concerns."
"Monday night, the NAACP conducted a really good meeting. We're working with neighborhood associations, making sure elderly people are safe in their homes." St. Stephen's pantry, which typically buys food from a local grocery supplier, was forced to shut down because the store where it gets its groceries was closed Monday because of the disturbances, reported KSDK-TV5 in St. Louis.
In addition to serving as rector at St. Stephen's, Lawler, who attended Rockford Jefferson, has an organizational consulting business and teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
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True love comes to various people in various ways.
For Ray Robinson II and Michele Dupey, it came with a call from the New York Times in 2009 asking Michele if she knew how to get a hold of Ray.
Dave Anderson, a reporter, had dug out an old press release Dupey had sent four years earlier about an appearance Ray was supposed to make at the Jersey City Public Library promoting his book Pound for Pound, about his famous father, boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.
However, a snowstorm had forced the library to close early and cancel the appearance and the book signing never occurred.
A resident of San Francisco then, Robinson was in New York at the time. But he was only there for two weeks, so Dupey didn't actually get to meet him until four years later.
Dave Anderson from the Times had come across the library's press release while doing research on a story about the elder Robinson, and contacted Dupey to find information.
"Fortunately, I don't get rid of emails and I went back and found his and contacted Ray," she said.
"When I was disabled, I thought nobody would want to be with me." – Michele Dupey
Long distance but lots of love
Robinson was living in California at the time, but the contact started again through an exchange of emails.
That was in January 2009, but it soon became clear they were connecting in other ways. Flirtations led to serious attraction and the desire to meet up with each other.
Robinson came east for the Thanksgiving holiday.
"It took us 10 months to meet," Dupey said. "I never thought I would be involved in a long-distance relationship."
He said what attracted him was the fact that Dupey was intelligent and quick, and that appealed to him.
"She was also available and interested," he said.
During those two weeks in late 2009, they traveled around the area, visiting places where Robison had grown up, went to a New Jersey Devils hockey game, and got to know each other.
"I laughed more in those two weeks than I have in a long time," Dupey recalled. "Ray and I got along from the get-go, and it felt as if we knew each other for years. Meeting in person confirmed what virtual communication indicated and I couldn't be happier."
But there were still obstacles.
She was skeptical after years of Hudson County's political agendas. She knew he had kids on the west coast and figured he would want to be with them.
But they had more in common than not. Both were divorced. Both had a good sense of humor and a desire for a quality life. Both were impressed by their talks and how much they shared, not just on a superficial level, but deep down they had a real rapport. Both had disabilities as well; she was in the process of seeking hip replacement therapy and he suffered from MS. Both walked with canes.
"When I was disabled, I thought nobody would want to be with me," she said.
Both came to realize this was not an obstacle. "I thought this was good. She looked perfect to me," said Robinson.
Dupey was set to graduate from her library studies program at Rutgers University in 2010 and Robinson came to the graduation ceremony in the spring.
Two-and-a-half months later, she went to California to visit him.
He came back the following winter. Robinson had only expected to stay one week, but extended his stay.
"That was the winter of the zillion snow storms, so he couldn't leave," she said.
At that point, she had to go to hip replacement surgery and did not see him for three months. Then in June 2011, she went to San Francisco. They maintained their long-distance relationship.
"Then he came here," Dupey said. "I picked him up at Newark Airport. He intended to stay here with me but didn't say."
They hinted at marriage, but didn't get serious about it until Robinson needed to renew his New Jersey ID in June 2012, and the clerk asked why they didn't just get married.
In a rush of details, they eventually did, although even that wound up having a slight hitch, since one of the witnesses could not attend and they drafted the photographer to serve in that role.
Six months later, they live in Bayonne as a married couple, doing the day-to-day things married couples do.
What did they find in all of this?
"Trust, honesty and love," Robinson said.
"Ray brought me out of my shell," Dupey said. "He gave me license for me to be me again."
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Courtney MacArthur stood in the crowd on a curb, mesmerized by the power and the grace of the women on wheels. She held hands with her two young children and then reached out to take the information sheet. That moment changed her life, she said.
By the time MacArthur, 29, moved to Longmont in 2011, she knew she needed to launch a league -- the Boulder County Bombers -- here to support her newfound derby habit and to benefit other Boulder County women.
"I worked out. I did Pilates and stuff. But I had to force myself to go," she said.
"And when I watched my first (roller derby) practice, I saw the girls actually laughing. They would mess up and they would laugh about it, even though they had been going, going, going for two hours and were red-faced."
But the sport's appeal goes beyond fun and fitness to help women find more freedom, said MacArthur, aka Bev O'lution 9. That the sport came back with a vengeance in 2001 after trailing off in the 1970s speaks to that, she added.
"Is it something post-feminism? I don't know, because it's (attracted) women who are not necessarily aware of that philosophy," MacArthur said. "But the time was obviously ripe because roller derby has pretty much exploded all over the U.
Fashion reflects the first level of a derby girl's freedom. Women who might otherwise dress modestly or feel self-conscious about wearing Spandex think nothing of wearing fishnet stockings, hot pink booty shorts and matching pink leopard-print tops.
"It's easier to skate wearing Spandex or booty shorts. So it's an excuse to wear that," MacArthur said, laughing.
Besides encouraging bold fashion sense not tolerated in too many other places, the sport also pushes women to rumble and take the kinds of tumbles many more men took as boys, she said.
MacArthur suspects that plenty of girls grew up as she did, without participating in organized sports and learning how to crash and recover on the rink, the field or the court. Roller derby makes up for that in an overdrive sort of way by calling women to a hair-raising venture: roller skating counterclockwise in a pack of 10 players who hit top speeds upwards of 20 mph.
During a bout, each team puts four blockers and one jammer out there. In two 30-minute periods, those teams try to get the jammer to lap the pack as many times as possible through strategies and moves -- such as hip flips, pushes and whips -- that show off the sport's entertainment value.
A pace line of Boulder County Bombers women practicing at the so-called Bomb Shelter -- the 10,000-square-foot Longmont warehouse at 455 Weaver Park Road -- can look elegant. But these gals slip in mouth guards, buckle helmets and strap on knee pads and other protective gear before setting wheels on the 7,000-square-foot flat track. Old mattresses cinched by nylon straps to pillars in the center of the rink also protect against the inevitable crash or sliding pileup.
This explains why Boulder County Bombers volunteer coach J.D. -- aka "Johnny Danger" -- Hemminger, describes roller derby as a "mosh pit on wheels."
But giving women an opportunity to play with tight margins attracts the members and builds confidence right along with muscle, said Hemminger, 28, who is married to MacArthur.
One new Longmont derby girl summed up her sense of the sport in a word: attainable.
"I learned how to roller skate as a kid," said 31-year-old Nichole -- aka Alood -- Johnson. "But when I went to my first bout, my partner said, 'You can't do that! You'll get hurt!' But I was hooked. And the sport fed my drive to do something that I saw others doing and to believe that I could do it, too."
MacArthur likes to think that the league she created out of her own need to develop a can-do attitude now helps other women by forgoing tryouts in favor of what she calls the newbie program.
This program, offered about every six weeks, welcomes women who have never roller skated or participated in any organized sport to learn beginner and intermediate skills in phase one and phase two trainings.
Last Saturday, MacArthur met a group of women to teach phase two skills. Women of all shapes and sizes practiced passing skills to move up in the pace line. During a break, everyone caught their breath, gulped water and wiped runny noses while MacArthur used humor to continue teaching the basic technique.
A chuckle went up among group members who eventually will settle into one of the league's three skills-based teams to compete at home at the Boulder County Fairgrounds and away.
However thrilling it is to master roller derby skills and rumble to win, that never is the end game, MacArthur said.
"One of the biggest lessons I learned after joining roller derby is how to communicate with other women," she said. "Here, instead of competing against each other, we're really learning how to work together, to come together to make it work, really. It's woman-centric and all about accepting each other, even when we mess up."


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How to navigate and find Apps in the Firefox Marketplace
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The Firefox Marketplace offers you two ways to find apps, you can browse for new apps or you can search for them.
If you want to search for the name of the App that you are looking for you can:
- From the home screen, tap on the magnifying glass and write your search keywords.
- In any other page, type your search keywords at the top of the screen.
The search function allows you to explore apps using their name or specific keywords. For example, if you search for "game" you can find the list of all the available games.
If you decide to browse the Firefox Marketplace to see what's available, you can do so by selecting one of the 6 categories at the bottom of the Home page. Each of them will show you a list of apps that you can download.
You can reduce the selection of apps by taping on the "Filter" button and selecting the topics that you are more interested in.
It possible to customize the view to show screenshots of the apps or show more apps without scrolling. To do so, press the button.


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Directed by Terry Russell & Tracy Burklund
Special performance by the SWC Symphony Orchestra
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