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The majority of the Aurora City Council meeting on Tuesday night will be used as a budget work session in preparation for the new fiscal year.
City administrator Marlan Ferguson has proposed that the city's property tax levy remain the same at 0.324 cents per $100 of taxable valuation. Council members have the flexibility to decrease it to 0.307018, but Ferguson said he recommends against that because the extra funds could go toward paying for the aquatic center currently under construction.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A pastor was killed inside her Anadarko church four years ago, and the case is yet unsolved. Though it no longer dominates conversations, a religious leader says, her death did play a role in his decision to acquire a concealed-carry permit and to sometimes arm himself during church services.
The nude body of Carol Daniels, 61, was found inside Christ Holy Sanctified Church on Aug. 23, 2009. An autopsy report said her hair had been burned and her head was nearly severed. There have been no arrests.
"It helped motivate me to get a conceal carry license," said Rev. Brian Ball, who said he sometimes carries his weapon during his sermons and regularly carries it when he is alone at Oakridge Community Church. Daniels was killed three blocks away, and he was conducting services at the time of the slaying.
"I try not to publicize it, honestly, and very few people have asked. I try to conceal well," Ball said.
Daniels' mother, 85-year-old Charles Etta Dunlap, said one thing that has not been discussed is that her daughter's purse and briefcase were missing from the church.
Dunlap said she has heard nothing from law enforcement in several months.
"I haven't heard a thing, not one single thing," she said. "No one seems to be doing anything."
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica Brown said she could not comment on the purse and briefcase.
"Any part of our investigation is considered confidential," she said, noting that the case remains open. She wouldn't say whether any suspects have been identified. Anadarko police referred questions to the OSBI.
Dunlap said the only clue that her daughter provided before her death was that two people would often come to the church when she was there.
"Two men she said would come to her church all the time. One would sit in the back and one would go to the piano and she told them they would have be saved or he couldn't come and play her piano anymore," Dunlap said. "I never asked her what their names were or anything, and that has bothered me ... I often wondered about those two people."
Daniels lived in Oklahoma City and traveled about 60 miles each Sunday to her church — about a block from the Anadarko Police Department — just in case a parishioner showed up for a sermon or for help.
Dunlap said she's confident the crime will eventually be solved.
"I'm sure that it's going to be revealed sometime," she said, "because I've got a feeling that person is going to confess."
The small church was razed and stone monuments honoring Daniels stand on the site.


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Two of the Jersey Shore towns most vulnerable to ocean breaches say the vast majority of oceanfront residents have signaled their intent to sign easements which would allow for a federal beach replenishment project to commence.
Holdouts in both municipalities could face legal action for holding up the project, however.
"We're down to five or six to go," said Mantoloking Mayor George Nebel. "I didn't expect to be this far along at this point."
Nebel said two homeowners in his small barrier island town have indicated they would not be signing easements.
In neighboring Brick Township, Mayor Stephen C. Acropolis said most of the township's beach associations - which control access to much of the oceanfront - have indicated they, too, would sign easements allowing for dune maintenance during a replenishment project.
Brick Township also has about 35 private oceanfront homeowners.
"We're talking to those people," said Acropolis. "I've talked to several of them on the phone and they said they have no problem signing the easement."
In Mantoloking, more than 120 residents have signed easements.
The easements allow federal government contractors access to small slivers of private residential property in order to build out protective dunes and maintain them once they are in place. In some communities, oceanfront residents have refused to sign the easements, saying larger dunes would block their view despite the protection they provide. Still other homeowners have argued that the easements could be used to build boardwalks and amusement parks in their backyards, though the easements express that they are only valid for dune maintenance.
The federal government has committed to funding a beach replenishment project between Manasquan and Barnegat inlets, but only after the easements have been signed.
Since Superstorm Sandy, the pressure has been on oceanfront residents to sign the easements, since ocean breaches have been blamed for causing extensive damage to barrier island neighborhoods as well as neighborhoods in mainland Brick Township after water rushed into Barnegat Bay and flooded lagoons on the western shore.
Acropolis has even suggested mainland residents sue oceanfront owners who do not sign easements, since they put mainland residents at a higher risk of flooding.
The two mayors have said both towns may impose deadlines for oceanfront owners to sign.
Nebel said a deadline will come "soon."
"I have great patience, and my patience is wearing very thin," said Chris Nelson, a Mantoloking resident who is serving as the borough's special counsel for storm cleanup issues.
Borough attorney Edwin J. O'Malley Jr. has already begun drawing up legal papers in reference to the matter, Nelson said.
"If you don't want to sign, then, well, you'll be litigating against the borough," said Nelson.
Acropolis said Brick Township is looking into its own deadline, and its attorney would file an amicus, or "friend of the court," brief in support of any action Mantoloking decides to take against its residents who do not sign the easements.
The project's timing may also hinge on the easements coming through in short order.
"We think we can move it very, very quickly if we have the easements in," said Nelson. "The remaining holdouts may get a call from Governor Christie, which would be interesting."
Sandy, Nelson said, provided proof that beach replenishment works - specifically on Long Beach Island, Ocean County's southern barrier island, much of which has been replenished.
"Look at Harvey Cedars, Long Beach Township, where they had replenishment ... the houses are still standing there and the dunes are still in good shape," he said.
But even if the easements are eventually all signed, there still may be issues getting the project off the ground, said Acropolis.
"The Army Corps hasn't said, 'if you have all those easements in place by a certain date, we'll start on the beach,'" he said.
In other words there is no set date on which the project will potentially begin, making it harder to set deadlines.
Acropolis did say that he favors petitioning the federal government to wait for the new dunes to be built before the federal government releases its final flood maps for both barrier island and mainland neighborhoods, saying the protective barrier could lessen flood zone determinations.
"They're going to come out with these new FIRM maps before this project may even be built," said Acropolis. "Down in Louisiana, they still don't have FIRM maps, seven years later [after Katrina]. That means their insurance wouldn't have gone up for six or seven years. They have to do that here."


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SUNBURY — As expected, the 52nd meeting of the cross-river rivalry between Selinsgrove and Shikellamy featured plenty of intense action on both sides of the ball.
But after starting the season with a pair of losses, the Braves had a little extra to prove against the Seals, who have dominated the series in recent years.
Shikellamy staked out to a two-touchdown lead at the half, and the Braves' defense did the rest to pull out a 14-7 Heartland-I victory over Selinsgrove on Friday the 13th at Shikellamy Stadium.
"After the way the first two weeks have gone, the kids have held their ground at home. All week (us coaches) felt the kids had a great week of practice," said Shikellamy coach Todd Tilford. "The kids were still frustrated by the way things have gone. I said we have to cut out the mistakes and keep on believing. The kids kept on plugging away and they earned the win against a real good Selinsgrove team.
"It's easy to doubt yourselves when things don't go so well, but to get a win over a great Selinsgrove team should improve our confidence and set the tone for the rest of the season," added Tilford
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ERIE, Pa. — Betty R. Burkett, age 88, of Erie, Pa., died Monday, April 29, 2013, at the Golden Living Center in Erie, PA.
She was born August 3, 1924, in Oil City, Pa., a daughter of Clarence and Bertha (Neubauer) Wilson. She was a graduate of Titusville High School.
A former resident of Andover, Ohio, Mrs. Burkett lived in Erie for the past two years. She attended Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Andover for many years; and she attended Curves in Andover until she was 83 years old when they closed in 2007. Mrs. Burkett enjoyed gardening and canning. She will be missed for her loving smile and laugh by all her family and friends.
Mrs. Burkett married Neal F. Burkett on June 22, 1946. He preceded her in death on Feb. 26, 2001. She is also preceded in death by her son, Randall J. Burkett in 1984; her granddaughter, Tammy Burkett; three brothers, Russell, Wilford, and Robert Wilson; and three sisters, Dorothy Toth, Beulah Laughery and Helen Schiewe.
She is survived by two daughters, Gail A. Tatalone of Erie, Pa. and Karen M. (Donald) Wauchope of Tuckahoe, N.Y.; one son, Bradley T. (Robin) Burkett of Abilene, Texas; her daughter-in-law, Noreen Burkett of Allen Park, Mich.; seven grandchildren, Brian, Stephen, Melissa, Sarah, Joshua, Dominick and Joseph; four great-grandchildren, Riana, Roman, Sean and Secilia; and one sister, Dolyne Hasbrouck of Titusville, Pa.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10 a.m., Friday, May 3rd, at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Andover, Ohio. Burial will follow in St. Catharine's Cemetery in Titusville, Pa.
Calling Hours will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, May 2nd, at BAUMGARDNER FUNERAL & CREMATION SERVICE, 134 Prospect St., Andover.
Memorial contributions can be made to Catholic Charities, 4200 Park Ave., Ashtabula, Ohio 44004 or to the charity of your choice.
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Some medicine stinks, but it'll cure in the end.
This is what millions of mothers say to their small children for them to down that spoon full of cough syrup. What doctors tell obese patients to talk them into exercise and more broccoli. And it's the line that many Republicans and conservatives right now are trying to use—to convince us that austerity is the key to solving the fiscal cliff and America's broader problems, too.
The line works for Mom, but it shouldn't for Congress. It hasn't in Britain.
For a clear-headed explanation of why massive spending cuts would likely injure the U.S., not fix it, look no further than Adam Davidson's New York Times Magazine piece on Adam Posen, a 40-something who, until very recently, was a key British government economist (and the only American to serve in that capacity). Posen would regularly speak out against the U.K.'s massive austerity program—set to last until at least 2018 if Prime Minister David Cameron keeps his job—and the damage it has wrought on the economy.
Brits have something much like our Federal Open Market Committee. It's the Monetary Policy Committee. Posen served on that nine-member body until earlier this year. Frequently, in his tenure there votes come back as 9-1—Posen as the lone disenter. He was no fan of Cameron axing the government's budget.
What has British achieved through its austerity? Since Cameron took office in spring 2010, unemployment hasn't budged much past 7.9%. Consumer confidence declined further. And gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services, is below the level when Cameron assumed power.
A quite damning case against austerity, you might reckon. And you might think the same thing would happen here in America if we decided to opt for that sort of thing. Because, if you want people to keep buying anything more than basic everyday necessities at Wal-Mart, and want them buying tech gadgets from Apple and Microsoft, and shopping at Kroger's and Whole Foods, cutting a much-relied-on lifeline—government spending and assistance—makes little sense. It's less about whether you like that the government gives hand outs and more about how great the damage would be if that stopped.
If it did, it would sap demand. That's what Posen found in the U.K. He diagnosed Britain's ailment as a lack of demand, not a supply problem as British conservatives had argued: Britain, they said, was simply fundamentally less capable. It's important to understand the contrast between these opposing mindsets:
It was a subtly (but crucially) different way of looking at the problem: the country was not truly less capable. The problem was not one of supply, Posen suggested, but rather of demand. Workers were not less productive than they used to be. They merely needed some help from the government and the central bank—rather than budget cuts—to close the output gap.
America faces a similar demand problem. In the last month alone, consumer sentiment, by at least one measure, experienced the greatest monthly plunge since the height of the financial crisis. Consumer spending, the key driver of the U.S. economy, this year had outpaced business spending. (Corporate America seemed more finely attuned to the eventual showdown in Washington, D.C. By some estimates, some half a trillion in business cash is on the sidelines.) Consumers are now flagging, too.
Now, before you dismiss Posen and his demand-side solution to our problems, understand something. He is not some silly crackpot. He is a highly intelligent, roundish bald man—a Harvard-educated economist whose analysis of Japan helped that country end its Lost Decade in the early 2000s. There, he found that the Japanese central bank needed to print more money, and that the government needed to embrace a spendthrift nature. It worked.
The Times Magazine writer who profiled him, Davidson, minces no words about whether Posen's Keynesian-driven theorems can find a place in America: "Doing neither stimulus nor austerity—which is basically what's happening in the United States—isn't working, either. So, [Posen] says, let's try stimulus, even if we don't know for sure it'll do the job."
What Posen offers is a different prescription for achieving better health. One that won't sting as much.
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I suggest, Mr. Brown, that you read the first few chapters of William Shirer's book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". The Weimar government could have stabilized Germany's finances in the early 1920′s, but in the chaos of the times, found it easier to simply print money and let the German mark collapse, bringing financial ruin to many German households. The US appears to be heading for finacial chaos as well. Only time will tell if the country can save its democracy.
We, the US, are a war weary state burdened down by heavy debts and by unfunded obligations to our wounded (mentally and physically) veterans and to our old people.
As Herbert Hoover once said, "Blessed are the children, for they shall inherit the national debt."
Before you start limiting government spending on Social Security and Medicare benefits for Jews of modest means, maybe you should tell the rich Jews on the Forbes 400 list that it is their responsibility to subsidize Israel, if they so choose.
Several commenters have made the crowding out argument – That when govt spends less money there is more left in the private sector, and that govt borrowing crowds out private borrowing, forcing interest rates up.
This ignores a few things.
First, there is plenty of money in excess reserve in the financial sector. A trillion dollars more or less. There is no shortage of loanable funds.
And, government spending all goes to the private sector in the form of salaries and payments to suppliers.
And, many private industries are, in effect, creatures of government (the military industrial complex being the most obvious example.) If govt spending slackens, so does employment among military contractors, road builders, etc. IOW, a cut in government spending is the same thing as a cut in private sector spending.
Short form: Austerity can't possibly work in a slow economy.
It really doesn't take a Harvard educated genius to figure out demand was lagging. I'm pretty sure a close look at Britain's GDP should tell what markets are floundering there and that tells you what needs to be fixed.
I am glad Mr. Posen has told the British that. I know the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was on "Meet the Press" or something of that nature, may have been Morning Joe. He thought things were going along swimmingly.
The idea either country can go broke is wrong, well, there's always one way and it's simple, but would not happen. Given what's happening in every country that's trying austerity, it's time to cut it out. It's simply economic self-flagellation to perform penance for spending money.
Krugman has been saying this from the start. He has also made fun of the inflation fantasy and confidence fairy neither of which matter without basic demand. Supply does not drive a market, it follows the market. Companies are job destroyers and job deniers until demand makes them against their every instinct create jobs. Demand drives a market. Nobody wants it, no market, duh.
ECONOMY 101 (unknown to Republicans): Cutting spending does not provide growth !


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Congolese refugee Justin Semahoro Kimenyerwa thought he was close to bringing his sister and brother's families over to St. Louis. They'd already escaped genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo and lived as refugees in Kenya. After five years, Kimenyerwa's family was preparing for the final st ... More >>
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Blunt agrees. Bin Laden is dead.U.S. Senator Roy Blunt yesterday viewed the photos of Osama bin Laden taken after Navy SEALs killed the al-Qaida leader this month in Pakistan. In a statement yesterday, Blunt said the pictures leave no doubt. "The pictures were conclusive, along with the DNA evid ... More >>
Osama bin Laden died yesterday following a U.S. raid in Pakistan.Well, that only took 3,519 days. What began on September 11, 2001, and grew to become the biggest manhunt ever known to mankind ended yesterday in a suburban compound deep inside Pakistan. That's where an elite team of U.S. military ... More >>
Will his death create more violence?The State Department has issued a worldwide travel advisory for Americans following the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of U.S. forces yesterday. For now, at least, it's unclear what bin Laden's death might mean for al-Qaida, the terrorist group he helped ... More >>
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Last month, it was rumored that The Avengers 2 would involve the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) being deemed too dangerous to live on Earth and he would get shipped into outer space. From there, Hulk would get a solo Phase 3 movie based off Greg Pak's comic book arc Planet Hulk. In the comic, Hulk becomes enslaved on the planet Sakaar, is forced to participate in gladiatorial games and eventually becomes a hero of the rebellion against the Red King. Then the rumor continued that The Avengers 3 would have Hulk and his subjects returning to Earth and wreaking havoc, which would be based on Pak's World War Hulk storyline.
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Is all meat created equal?
It's a good question. The simple answer is no--not by a long shot.
Most of the meat available to consumers at traditional grocery stores is raised on
large-scale industrial feed lots. These profit-centered operations often confine large numbers of animals in close quarters, administer hormones to speed growth for quicker turn around to harvest, and feed inexpensive GMO grains laced with antibiotics to prevent the spread of disease. Commercially grown GMO feed crops, primarily corn and soy, are also heavily sprayed with pesticides. In turn, chemical residues accumulated in the fatty tissues of meat animals who eat them are likely passed down the food chain to consumers.
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Many enlightened consumers want to make more ethically-based choices about the meat they buy. They are concerned about supporting both humane husbandry and sustainable agriculture practices which place a high value on quality of life and land.
But the grocer's meat counter can be confusing, especially since words like natural, farm fresh, and even organic in reference to meat animals does not necessarily equate with humane husbandry.
The parameters are much more straight forward when applied to produce. If labeled organic, shoppers know they are getting fruits and vegetables grown without the use of synthetic fertilizers or chemical pest control.
Yet with regard to meat animals, semantics are deceiving. Consumers are led to believe that buying meat labeled "organic" equates with a high standard of animal welfare, which is not necessarily the case. In reality, the organic label may indicate livestock were simply fed a diet of certified organic grains, rather than raised in quality living conditions. An animal can legally spend its entire life in a feedlot setting without access to free-range or grass, and still be labeled "organic" by virtue of the feed it is given.
So what can consumers do to insure the meat they buy has been raised humanely? Follow these simple guidelines to make ethical eating choices:
- Avoid conventionally raised meats.
- Shop direct from the source at local farmers' markets. Ask questions about the farm's philosophy and husbandry practices. Find out if you can visit. Many ranches offer tours affording patrons an opportunity to see where their food comes from.
- Patronize specialty grocers like Whole Foods Market that are committed to selling meat sourced from sustainable farms where animal welfare is a priority.
- Look for meats labeled grass-fed, pasture-centered, free-range, and cage-free, as well as organic. Not only do the animals lead a quality life, their meat is higher in nutrients like omega-3 fatty acids.
- Purchase meat bearing one of the following certifications:
*Certified Humane Raised & Handled; a label which insures animals have been treated humanely from birth to slaughter. The stated goal of this program is to "improve the lives of farm animals by driving consumer demand for kinder more responsible farm animal practices." Standards for certification are stringent, and include quality of life enhancements like providing ample space, adequate shelter, fresh water, a healthy diet of quality feed free of added antibiotics or hormones, and gentle handling to reduce stress. Confinement to cages and crates is prohibited. Producers with this certification are also held to a higher standard for slaughter practices. Visit www.certifiedhumane.org for more information.
*Animal Welfare Approved certification assures the most rigorous and comprehensive standards for animal welfare have been applied. This certification is only awarded to family farms who place the highest value on each animal's comfort and well-being. Applies to multiple species, and is based on best practice and research in collaboration with scientists, veterinarians, and farmers. Visit http://www.animalwelfareapproved.org/standards/ for detailed standards.
*The Global Animal Partnership rating program; a progressive, five tiered system of animal welfare practices, developed by ranchers, scientists, retailers, and animal advocates, which outlines species specific standards for humane treatment. The higher the rating, the better the quality of life (rating 1 represents minimal welfare standards with a 5 rating as the highest benchmark). Uses third party certification companies to independently audit farms and assign ratings. For specific details on thestandards of each rating level, visit http://www.globalanimalpartnership.org/the-5-step-program/. *Whole Foods Market uses the Global Animal Partnership rating system to rank meats sold in their stores.
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Battling brothers, clashing coworkers, and more fierce rivals from all over the tattoo community are taking their beef all the way to the camera to show the world who's the winner on Ink Master Rivals.
Cut from the competition for attacking Chris Núñez, Kyle makes one last appearance to share his side.
After months of grueling hard work, Sausage, Matti, and Scott reveal their 35 hour master canvases to the judges and all of America to see.
Emotions erupt as the artists finally reveal their true feelings on the controversies and eliminations from the season.
Victory has never felt so good for Scott Marshall as he triumphantly claims the title of 'Ink Master' and snags the $100,000 cash prize.
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Halo makes a monstrous mistake at a critical point in the competition while Scott finally reveals a chink in his armor.
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A former Terre Haute mayor injured in a Sunday car crash remains hospitalized at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
Judy Anderson, 72, is recovering from injuries sustained in a wreck in Putnam County that claimed the life of her husband, Brent.
No condition update was available for Anderson as of Tuesday afternoon, according to a hospital spokesman. She was listed in good condition on Monday.
The Andersons were westbound on U.S. 40 near Reelsville when their Lincoln Town Car went off the north side of the highway and struck a makeshift cargo trailer and a tree. Brent Anderson was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy on Monday revealed that he had a heart attack before driving off the road.


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On Pro Football
Hector Longo
---- — FOXBORO — Bill Belichick, of all people, brought it up on his weekly mandated radio address, how Sunday's comeback reminded him some of the "Snow Game" in the 2001 playoffs with Oakland.
Great minds and all that, it's all I could think about as I left Gillette Stadium Sunday.
Tuck rule, Jermaine Wiggins, Adam Vinatieri and the crazy swings — right on deadline Saturday night mind you — that playoff thriller with Oakland was one for the history books, as was Sunday's wild affair with New Orleans.
"Sorry if you had to rewrite some of those stories there at the end," joked Bill Belichick after the game.
For the record, it was nothing compared to the sheer chaos that night at the old Foxboro Stadium.
We all know the history.
The Pats, sparked by that AFC Divisional victory, went into Pittsburgh and stunned the Steelers in the AFC title game and then pulled off one of the great Super Bowl upsets ever over the St. Louis Rams.
Could Sunday's win ignite the 2013 Pats in a similar fashion? And can New England carry that fire the distance? Don't discount either premise.
Here's why:
1. Tom Brady — For a minute, ignore the numbers, good or bad, and zone in on Brady and his well-documented body language.
Is he depressed about Gronk or his lack of receivers? Has it been some kind of mid-life thing, coming up a bit quicker than expected?
Brady just hasn't been himself. The team is winning and he's pounding rookie receivers or Julian Edelman for missing a route or dropping a ball. That's not Brady. This is a guy who loves to play the game and clamors to win at all cost.
We hadn't seen that till Sunday. Buoyed by the confidence of that comeback, maybe he'll be a bit bolder and more brash. I just see the real Brady awakening there. You get the feeling he'll be the best player in the game over the second half of the year.
2. Devin McCourty — McCourty is the total package as far as NFL defensive backs are concerned. Big and athletic, fast, nimble, and man does he have the ego to match. For a former corner, demoted to safety, he sees nothing but Pro Bowl-bound when he looks in the mirror.
Lately, McCourty has lost the edge, though, the defense mechanisms are down. He speaks confidently, openly and honestly, like a leader on this defense.
For years now, I've called for character, true character, to be found on this defense. It says here that McCourty is supplying it.
McCourty has few fears now on the football field. As he said Sunday night, he trusts the guys he's back there with. Clearly, that confidence is contagious back there, just as in past years the childishness has. McCourty has matured, and this secondary has too. Now, just let them play and don't worry about the consequences.
3. Rob Gronkowski — Gronkowski's extended leave has galvanized the locker-room. That's the positive of that. Of course, they are in unison, railing against Gronk and his desire to continue summer vacation nearly into November.
Listen to Belichick. Every time Gronk's name has been brought up, he immediately uses some version of the phrase "needs to be cleared medically first."
You don't think Brady was looking to jam the football into Michael Hoomanawanui (4 catches) on Sunday without a purpose do you.
Gronk is going to have to earn his teammates respect back when he returns, but know this football team right now is on a mission, whether it's with him or without him.
Quick look aheadat Jets
Was the New York coaching staff paying attention? You have to wonder what Jets' offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg is thinking as he implements this week's game plan for Sunday's Meadowlands matinee with the Patriots.
You have to like the idea that New York could attempt to exploit the Pats on the run, especially if Jerod Mayo joins Vince Wilfork and Tommy Kelly on the sideline.
The New Yorkers ran the ball well against a healthier Pats front seven in the teams' earlier meeting here at Foxboro. You have to wonder if they are serious enough to try it again.
Geno Smith's 15 of 35 with three interceptions last time should provide a heck of a clue.
While the schedule eases off here on the Pats, it is a pretty pivotal time. Beat the 3-3 Jets this week and find a way to knock off Miami here at Gillette a week later, and the AFC East is basically sealed.
That should be plenty of motivation for an already jacked-up Pats team that has been instilled by oddsmakers as an initial four-point favorite.


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Almost a quarter of the country is protected within a park or reserve, and of these most tourists visit the 'big three' in the north: the plains of the Serengeti, famous for the annual migration of about two million wildebeest; the adjacent Ngorongoro Conservation Area with the magnificent Ngorongoro Crater; and Mt Kilimanjaro National Park, which encompasses Africa's highest mountain. Other attractions, including the massive Selous Game Reserve in the south, can be difficult or expensive to get to, and are less visited as a result.
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Northwestern has hired two new coordinators, naming Mick McCall to run the offense and Mike Hankwitz the defense under head coach Pat Fitzgerald.
McCall replaces Garrick McGee, who resigned earlier this month. Hankwitz follows Greg Colby, who was fired.
McCall spent the past year as Bowling Green's offensive coordinator, directing a spread offense that averaged over 400 yards per game.
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This is best criticism of reason as a solution to the problem of evil, especially our own sin. I think this is also a good commentary on those of us who struggle philosophically (not merely as a practical matter) with Romans 7.
I've broken up the text with a bit of commentary. In each passage I highlight a few phrases that seem most important. Effectively he proves that reason has not been, nor can it provide, the answer.
First on the nature of reason's mastery of desire (that is, what it would mean to freewill if reason mastered desire through reason):
Our choice is usually mistaken from a false view of our advantage. We sometimes choose absolute nonsense because in our foolishness we see in that nonsense the easiest means for attaining a supposed advantage. But when all that is explained and worked out on paper (which is perfectly possible, for it is contemptible and senseless to suppose that some laws of nature man will never understand), then certainly so-called desires will no longer exist. For if a desire should come into conflict with reason we shall then reason and not desire, because it will be impossible retaining our reason to be SENSELESS in our desires, and in that way knowingly act against reason and desire to injure ourselves. And as all choice and reasoning can be really calculated–because there will some day be discovered the laws of our so-called free will–so, joking apart, there may one day be something like a table constructed of them, so that we really shall choose in accordance with it. If, for instance, some day they calculate and prove to me that I made a long nose at someone because I could not help making a long nose at him and that I had to do it in that particular way, what FREEDOM is left me, especially if I am a learned man and have taken my degree somewhere? Then I should be able to calculate my whole life for thirty years beforehand. In short, if this could be arranged there would be nothing left for us to do; anyway, we should have to understand that.
Then on to the nature of reason and its limitations:
You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots. Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning (some things, perhaps, it will never learn; this is a poor comfort, but why not say so frankly?) and human nature acts as a whole, with everything that is in it, consciously or unconsciously, and, even if it goes wrong, it lives.
So then he turns hard against reason's mastery for a very particular case:
But I repeat for the hundredth time, there is one case, one only, when man may consciously, purposely, desire what is injurious to himself, what is stupid, very stupid–simply in order to have the right to desire for himself even what is very stupid and not to be bound by an obligation to desire only what is sensible. Of course, this very stupid thing, this caprice of ours, may be in reality, gentlemen, more advantageous for us than anything else on earth, especially in certain cases. And in particular it may be more advantageous than any advantage even when it does us obvious harm, and contradicts the soundest conclusions of our reason concerning our advantage–for in any circumstances it preserves for us what is most precious and most important–that is, our personality, our individuality. Some, you see, maintain that this really is the most precious thing for mankind; choice can, of course, if it chooses, be in agreement with reason; and especially if this be not abused but kept within bounds. It is profitable and sometimes even praiseworthy. But very often, and even most often, choice is utterly and stubbornly opposed to reason … and … and … do you know that that, too, is profitable, sometimes even praiseworthy?
Now he proposes a better understanding of human nature based on our disparity between moral compass and life (I just love the line about being an ungrateful biped which seems to fit with our problems arising through failing to give thanks):
Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. But that is not all, that is not his worst defect; his worst defect is his perpetual moral obliquity, perpetual–from the days of the Flood to the Schleswig-Holstein period. Moral obliquity and consequently lack of good sense; for it has long been accepted that lack of good sense is due to no other cause than moral obliquity.
Let's get some history:
Put it to the test and cast your eyes upon the history of mankind. What will you see? Is it a grand spectacle? Grand, if you like. Take the Colossus of Rhodes, for instance, that's worth something. With good reason Mr. Anaevsky testifies of it that some say that it is the work of man's hands, while others maintain that it has been created by nature herself. Is it many-colored? May be it is many-coloured, too: if one takes the dress uniforms, military and civilian, of all peoples in all ages–that alone is worth something, and if you take the undress uniforms you will never get to the end of it; no historian would be equal to the job. Is it monotonous? May be it's monotonous too: it's fighting and fighting; they are fighting now, they fought first and they fought last–you will admit, that it is almost too monotonous. In short, one may say anything about the history of the world–anything that might enter the most disordered imagination.
But what can we NOT say about history (and about human nature itself):
The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. The very word sticks in one's throat. And, indeed, this is the odd thing that is continually happening: there are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to be, so to speak, a light to their neighbors simply in order to show them that it is possible to live morally and rationally in this world. And yet we all know that those very people sooner or later have been false to themselves, playing some queer trick, often a most unseemly one.
What does this mean? What are we saying, but that in our ingratitude we ruin ourselves.
Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself–as though that were so necessary– that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.
How far will man go to prove that he is not merely the keys of a piano? (Here is the triumph of the stupidity of man.)
And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point! He will launch a curse upon the world, and as only man can curse (it is his privilege, the primary distinction between him and other animals), may be by his curse alone he will attain his object–that is, convince himself that he is a man and not a piano-key! If you say that all this, too, can be calculated and tabulated–chaos and darkness and curses, so that the mere possibility of calculating it all beforehand would stop it all, and reason would reassert itself, then man would purposely go mad in order to be rid of reason and gain his point! I believe in it, I answer for it, for the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!
Back to freewill:
You will scream at me (that is, if you condescend to do so) that no one is touching my free will, that all they are concerned with is that my will should of itself, of its own free will, coincide with my own normal interests, with the laws of nature and arithmetic. Good heavens, gentlemen, what sort of free will is left when we come to tabulation and arithmetic, when it will all be a case of twice two make four? Twice two makes four without my will. As if free will meant that!
And now from me: So then we are ungrateful, impossibly so. There is no other condition for us but to be an ungrateful biped who, to prove himself that he is not a piano-key will deliberately do something harmful to himself, to others and even the whole world. Reason cannot meet this. Even if reason could be made to meet it, we would simply abandon reason so that we might continue to do it.


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Who are the protagonist and antagonist?
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If this is meant to be a general exploration of the topic, definition of terms would be essential here. The protagonist is the central character or figure in a work. It is usually through their eyes or their perception that the author wants us to understand the central conflict of the work. The protagonist is sometimes likable, and sometimes demonstrates behaviors that are not entirely likable, but they are our "guides" for lack of a better term. For example, in the drama Oedipus by Sophocles, the protagonist is the lead character for whom the title of the play is derived. The antagonist is someone who, in their name, "antagonizes" the protagonist. They are the individual against whom the protagonist is set against. The antagonist "opposes the hero or protagonist in drama." For example, Abigail Williams in the antagonist in Arthur Miller's work, The Crucible. She operates as the antagonizing force to John Proctor, who is the drama's protagonist. In distilling both characterizations, I would look for the central conflict in the work in question and which characters stand on which side of said conflict.
I don't know if you are asking for someone to identify the protagonist and antagonist in a particular piece of literature, or if you are just asking for the definition of the terms. If you would like someone to help you find who they are in some work you are reading, you need to identify that work for us so we can help you.
If, however, you are just looking for definitions, a protagonist is not simply the good guy, and the antagonist isn't just the bad guy. They often take on those roles in literature...but since a good character has shades of good and bad, we can't just give them white or black hats.
A protagonist is the character whose struggle we are following during throughout the plot of the story. The antagonist is the person/thing that gets in the way, or tries to block the protagonist from reaching his or her goal.
Conflict is generally thought to be at the heart of engaging literature and drama. For conflict, you need a clash. Thus, the protagonist goes head to head against the antagonist. This importance of conflict in tragic literature was first recorded by Ancient Greek scholar, Aristotle.
This clash need not necessarily be between two people. There can be a number of antagonists who the protaganist must deal with. Society can be an antagonist. Even, the protagonist's own weaknesses or doubts can be a form of antagonist. Where there is conflict in literature and drama, there is a protagonist and antagonism. Sometimes, people, society and the self can all be antagonisms, such as in The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger.
Thus, it can be said that the protagonist is the main character of the book, and the antagonists are all the impediments who s/he faces. Most works tend to have one main antagonist or "nemesis" which gives the narrative a sense of personal contest. In The Catcher in the Rye, however, although Holden conflicts against a number of people, it is ultimately society as a whole, as seen through the prism of his own mental problems, that are his antagonist.
The protagonist in a piece of literature is the main character. Oftentimes, this will be the "good guy" with the noble purpose, but this really doesn't have to be the case. The antagonist, on the other hand, is the individual in opposition of the protagonist. Again, this is commonly considered the "bad guy" but that is not always necessarily true. The central conflict of the story will be between the protagonist and the antagonist, so that is one method to identify which out of the many characters are the protagonist/antagonist, though it will not tell you really which is which.
protagonist is the good guy. and the antagonist is the bad guy, who is against the protagonist.
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By Tom Vartabedian
The Haverhill Gazette
---- — I know a good calendar when I see one, much the same way I do an organization or institution in my city.
Around the holidays, I get my annual call from Suzanne Davis at the Friends Shop of the Haverhill Public Library. Like a robin heralding spring, she chirps her song: "The calendars are in. We'll have one set aside for you."
This ritual has been going on for 26 years, ever since the first calendar made its debut as a brainchild of library special collections curator Gregory Laing, who saw something intimate in history.
Greg was the best contact any newspaper reporter could have. Anything you wanted to know about the city's past would be his pleasure. If he didn't have the information on the tip of his tongue, he'd find it in a flash.
I can hear him now.
"Greg, when did the Massachusetts Editors & Publishers Association have that reunion on the shores of Kenoza Lake?"
"Give me a second. Why yes. That would be 1870 — right on your birthday."
"What? Sept. 30? How did you know that?"
"You told me once. It stuck."
Yes, Greg was Haverhill's encyclopedia of knowledge and many of his pearly gems found their way to these library calendars over time. Credit the Friends with keeping the relay of time running. With 15,000 images to choose from in the Special Collections Room, I would say there is no end to this marathon.
It's like having your own special collections library in the comfort of your home, had you collected the calendars all as keepsakes. I have. I glance at them from time to time and see the visages of our tremendous city.
What I wouldn't give to go back a hundred years and stroll our downtown, admiring those halcyon days of yesteryear. Or tour the insides of our old high school or see Bradford College in its heyday. Haverhill was introduced to me through marriage, so I didn't know and appreciate its fine points as I was growing up. Still, it has always held its charm and antiquity for me. Sad to say, I find a lot of that personality missing now.
This year's calendar brings much of it back, as you turn the pages of time with a cover shot of Chase's Wharf when steam-powered vessels navigated the Merrimack River. Having attended school in the 1940s in Somerville, I do recall the ice wagons making their deliveries to homes and businesses. Every community had them. The size of your card in the window would show how large a cake of ice you wanted.
Also shown are images of the old Groveland Street School, Walnut Square Park and Monument Square in the 1890s; a view of upper Washington Street in 1865; Tilton's Tower and the Pilling Block in 1882 after it had been restored following the great fire.
This year marks the 140th anniversary of the Haverhill Public Library, unwavering in its service to the community. Despite some troubled economic times, it has remained strong.
Combing its various collections is like going on a scavenger hunt. You never know what you'll find, whether books, music or videos, a computer class or children's puppet show. Here's my drift. Much of these services are provided by the Friends and their benevolent ways. The Friends Shop may very well be the best kept secret in town, with bargains galore and a virtual treasure trove of merchandise.
The gift shop and calendars are but two pine cones on the tree. Since 1956, the Friends have also staffed book sales and provided cultural programs. They've been a ray of sunshine after the storm. Any funds collected go toward the purchase of new books, computers, printers, software, museum passes and furnishings. They support an adult learning center, the George Washington statue renovation and landscaping around the building.
On a personal note, both my boys became Eagle Scouts after performing their community service projects at the library under Greg Laing's tutelage. One son documented the 10 oldest homes in the city. Another upgraded information about the city's infrastructure.
As for myself, a visit each week to the library brightens my day. People like Sara Jaffarian donated the reading room where you first walk in. Others have also stepped up with their kindness and generosity.
I only wish the city had the funding to keep this place more humanized as opposed to mechanical. A staffing shortage has led to greater automation at the checkout counter. I would rather encounter a courteous smile than a brazen machine that putters its response to me.
It scares me to think that there are so many books in a public library and not enough people to dust them. Any support they can get, physical or monetary, will help preserve one of this city's most important landmarks.
Photographer and writer Tom Vartabedian is retired from The Haverhill Gazette. He contributes this regular column.


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LONDON (AP) — Defender Joey O'Brien scored his first Premier League goal in the 48th minute, giving West Ham a 1-1 tue with Stoke on Monday night.
Jonathan Walters put the visitors ahead in the 13th minute off Glenn Whelan's corner kick as defenders focused their attention on 6-foot-7 forward Peter Crouch.
O'Brien tied the score when he turned in Gary O'Neil's low cross along the 6-yard box.
West Ham (5-3-4) remained in seventh place, missing a chance to climb into fifth, Stoke (2-3-7) is 14th.
ROME (AP) — Pablo Osvaldo converted a penalty kick in the 71st minute after a goal-line assistant intervened to overturn the initial decision by the referee and Miralem Pjanic scored in the 86th to giveg Roma a 2-0 win over Torino in the Italian league.
Pjanic scored on a shot from the edge of the penalty area that deflected in off a defender,
Torino coach Giampiero Ventura had been ejected after the penalty kick for arguing.
Roma moved into sixth place, 12 points behind Serie A leader Juventus.
Torino remained three points clear of the relegation zone.
Carlos Vela scored twice in a three-minute span to help Real Sociedad rout Rayo Vallecano 4-0 in the Spanish.
Vela scored from 6 yards in the 31st minute, then added his fifth goal of the season in the 33rd from outside the penalty area. Mikel Gonzalez scored in the 61st and Gonzalo Castro in the 77th minute.
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WASHINGTON, April 27, 2010 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA's Forest Service will contribute $500,000 in 2010 to the "More Kids in the Woods" program for projects that promote active lifestyles and connect kids to nature.
"If we are going to put an end to childhood obesity, we must promote healthy, active lifestyles and encourage our kids to get off the couch and go outside," said Vilsack. "Our "More Kids in the Woods" challenge not only promotes physical activity, it fosters environmental awareness and stewardship among young people as we face critical environmental challenges, such as the effects of climate change. "More Kids in the Woods" helps kids make the connection between healthy forests, healthy communities and their own healthy lifestyles."
The contribution will be leveraged with $1.5 million in donations and in-kind services from partners. The "More Kids in the Woods" challenge is a cost-share program in the Forest Service's long-standing Kids in the Woods program that involves thousands of partners who contribute their time, energy and resources to help us connect kids and families with our natural world.
The Forest Service selected 21 projects for funding from more than 130 high-quality agency proposals created to promote environmental stewardship through innovative, hands-on activities. All "More Kids in the Woods" projects are designed to spark curiosity about nature and promote understanding of the role of the nation's forests and grasslands in providing clean, abundant water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and recreation. Project partners are committed to helping children develop a love for the land that will enable them to meet the conservation challenges of the 21st century through healthy lifestyles choices and natural resource careers.
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This is the fourth year the Forest Service has matched funds and in-kind contributions from partners for "More Kids in the Woods." Partners include local, state, and federal agencies and American Indian tribes. Project activities include summer camps, after-school programs, and wilderness expeditions. The challenge-cost share will serve more than 15,000 children throughout the nation, including under-served and urban youth.
Promoting active and healthy lifestyles is a priority of the Obama Administration. First Lady Michelle Obama launched the Let's Move! campaign to end childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight. The campaign has four primary tenets: helping parents make healthy food choices, serving healthier food in schools; improving access to healthy, affordable food; and increasing physical activity. The Administration has introduced its plans to improve school meals, introduced a financing initiative to reduce food deserts, implemented new research tools that detail local food environments and health outcomes, including grocery store access and disease and obesity prevalence, and announced a broad range of public/private commitments to solve America's childhood obesity epidemic. Learn more by visiting www.LetsMove.gov.
In order to combat the childhood obesity epidemic, the Obama Administration is working to increase the opportunities for exercise and physical activities through partnerships like "Fuel Up to Play 60" which brings together the NFL, National Dairy Council and other partners to encourage physical activity and eating nutritious food through sports clinics, appearances, and public service announcements.
The mission of the USDA Forest Service is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the nation's forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations. The agency manages 193 million acres of National Forest System land, provides stewardship assistance to non-federal forest landowners and maintains the largest forestry research organization in the world. For more information, visit: www.fs.fed.us
USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice), or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).


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(Update at 2:15 p.m.) Rep. Robert Dold (R-Kenilworth) wants to make change to some parts of the Affordable Care Act and retain other provisions in the wake of today's United States Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to uphold the law.
"We need to put in place provisions we've talked about and repeal some of the others," Dold said today. "I consider the doctor-patient relationship sacrosanct and nothing should come in between that."
Among other things, Dold wants to get rid of the Independent Patient Advisory Board, a 15-member panel created by the Affordable Care Act charged with finding Medicare savings.
Dold wants to retain the provisions allowing people under 26 to remain on their parents' coverage and those that prohibit an insurer from withholding coverage from a person because of a pre-existing medical condition. One of Dold's biggest concerns is the cost of health care.
"I have seen health care costs for my employees rise over 44 percent in the last two years," Dold said. "This bill fails to improve the quality of health care and it fails to reduce the cost of health care for the American people."
, on the Affordable Care Act.
(Earlier at 11:55) fears today's United States Supreme Court decision upholding President Obama's Affordable Care Act will threaten the country's economic recovery, according to a statement issued by his office.
Kirk called for repeal of the law. He wants to replace it with reforms that will foster competition in the insurance industry and give people more options purchasing protection.
"The health care law threatens our economic recovery by raising taxes, imposing new regulations and creating a drag on the economy," Kirk said in the statement. "Congress (should) replace it with common sense, centrist reforms that give Americans the right to buy insurance across state lines and expand coverage without raising taxes."
(Earlier: 10 a.m.) Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) called today historic with the decision of the United States Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act considering it the most significant law Congress has passed in the last 50 years.
"The law ends insurance industry abuses in the health system, improves Medicare and Medicaid for seniors and the disabled, and covers millions of uninsured Americans," Schakowsky said in a prepared statement.
According to Schakowsky, more than 86 million Americans have already benefitted from the new law including 6.6 million people under 26 who can remain on their parents' existing coverage. She thinks it should be a start not a finish.
"This positive decision by the nation's highest court in the land should resolve any doubts that Congress can and should act to ensure that Americans get the health care they need at a price they can afford," Schakowsky said. "It will allow us to move forward and maintain our commitment to real health care security."
The Court's decision means when the law is fully in place in two more years, people can no longer be denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. "No longer will families be bankrupt because someone gets sick," Schakowsky said. "People with mental illness will get the care they need."
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Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the Court's liberal wing of Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor to uphold one of the President's signature accomplishments.
This means all provisions of the law including the individual mandate requiring all Americans without health care to purchase it will take effect.
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Sometime in March 2014, an adult actress hopes to make one small step for porn and one giant step for pornkind.
Coco Brown, 34, who, using that name as well as "Honey Love," has starred in porn epics like "Big Booty Bomb 2," "Sugarwalls Slop Shots" and "It Don't Matter, Just Don't Bite 5" is now in the Netherlands training to become the first adult star and the fourth African America woman to take the journey into that final frontier.
Brown, who is based in Germany, said the opportunity to go where no porn star has gone before is being provided by SpaceXC, a private company in the Netherlands attempting to make private space travel viable by Spring of next year.
"I was at a luncheon in Berlin and I was specially invited and they were talking about going into space," Brown told The Huffington Post during a recent interview at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. "It's that simple."
Brown is paying $100,000 for the privilege of being one of the first private citizens into space and, for her money, she will go up about 62 miles above the Earth surface.
If she passes the training, that is.
"I have to do Zero G gravity training," she explained. "That's where an aircraft takes you up 30,000 feet and then drops like it's going to have an air crash to about 15,000 feet. Then you have zero gravity. They do it at certain intervals and then levels off being dropped and then you feel different types of gravity."
The way Brown explains it, there are three different types of gravity that astronauts in her situation could experience: Martian, Lunar or Zero G.
"She already did this training and did very well," Van Pelt told HuffPost by email, adding that the company has no problems with a porn star being one of the first people on their spacecraft.
"We see no benefit, no loss," Van Pelt explained. "It's great to have people join us from all kinds of industry. We make space accessible for everyone."
Before Brown gets the OK, she will have to complete training on a Desdemona Simulator, which can simulate G-forces up to 3Gs, and the Albatross Jet, an aircraft that engages in maneuvers that duplicate the climb, weightless phase and re-entry of space, only last 30 minutes.
Brown may be the first porn star to go into space, but she won't be the first one to have Zero Gravity sex. That dubious honor belongs to Silvia Saint and Nick Lang, who, in 1999, did a 20-second zero gravity intercourse scene for a film called "The Uranus Experiment Part Two."
The scene was accomplished by flying an airplane to an altitude of 11,000 feet and then doing a steep dive, according to Space.com.
Although Brown will be going much higher, she has no plans to use her flight to, uh, go boldly where no one has gone before by attempting any kind of sex 62 miles above the Earth.
"Trying to have sex in space is a little difficult, especially if you're going to do Zero G," she said. "You just really don't that much control. People have to learn how working in no gravity functions before you do a porn there."
That doesn't mean she's going to be all business entirely.
"We have gear that we have to wear, but I'll see what I can do up there," she told Creative Loafing. "Maybe I'll pop my boob out and take a photo of it with the Earth in the background."
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that if Coco Brown makes it into space, she would be the second African-American in space. She would actually be the fourth, after Mae Jemison, Stephanie Wilson and Joan Higginbotham.
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The Multicultural Center was officially opened August of 2009, and is located across the street from the University Union. The center is home to the Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center, Casa Latina Cultural Center, and Women's Center. The center is unique in that it is the first building on Western's Macomb campus to be constructed under green standards, including a grass roof. Being located in one central location gives the three centers, Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center, Casa Latina Cultural Center, and the Women's Center, a chance to enhance their goals of educational, social and cultural programs, and resources that will help to focus the campus community's awareness and appreciation of ethnic and gender diversity. In addition to the three areas previously mentioned the Multicultural Center houses the following facilities, which are available and must be reserved in advance through one of the Centers.
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