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The Spokane County Sheriff's Office warns citizens once again about telephone scams circulating through the Spokane area.
For the past several weeks, the Sheriff's Office has received multiple complaints of individuals calling, identifying themselves as Sheriff's Office employees and telling people they have missed jury duty and that if they don't provide payment over the phone, they will have a warrant issued for their arrest.
The GreenHouse Community Center, which had its main transportation rig stolen last week, recovered the converted 1996 ambulance on Thursday.
The vehicle was found on the outskirts of Coulee City, Wash., after a passing motorist
spotted it in a roadside field. The ambulance was missing the large vinyl GreenHouse logos. Instead, the sides of the vehicle had been spray painted with graffiti.
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Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Services (SCRAPS) continues to investigate an animal cruelty complaint on property on the outskirts of Deer Park last week.
SCRAPS investigators, who did not disclose the address of the farm, seized a horse, two sheep and a pig. The animals were taken to a veterinarian for treatment.
Carolyn Michaele Trueblood of Deer Park passed away on March 21, 2014.
Carolyn was born Aug. 10, 1942 in Big Timber, Mont. Carolyn was known for her fine arts painting. Her paintings were shown in numerous galleries throughout the nation. She was also an excellent art instructor and teacher and will be remembered by her many students.
Carolyn was the oldest of four children and helped raise her younger brothers.
Kay Oiland, 78 years of life, went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on March 18, 2014, at her Deer Park home.
Kay was born on March 13, 1936, in Havre, Mont., to Tom and Lucy Wells. She was the second child and only sister to her three brothers.
Raised in Polson, Mont., Kay graduated from Polson High School in 1954. She later attended Kinman Business School in Spokane.
After graduating from Kinman, Kay began working at Jenson Byrd where she met her future husband, Dean. They were married on Aug. 24, 1956, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and settled in Spokane.
Lorraine Amaryllis Ball, 84 years of life and beloved wife, mother, sister, daughter and friend, went home to be with the Lord on March 16, 2014.
She was born in Spokane in 1930. She was a longtime resident of Clayton, who graduated from Deer Park High School in 1948.
She and her husband, Donald Ball, owned and operated the Clayton Drive In (home of the Clayton Burger) and a dairy farm for many years.
Mildred Louise Vinton of Deer Park died on Jan. 27, 2014, at the age of 90.
She was born on March 3, 1923, in Goldendale, Wash.
Mildred was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 3067 Auxiliary.
She enjoyed doing her "fancy work," which included knitting, crocheting, quilting, toile painting and hand embroidery.
The number of retailers in Washington illegally selling tobacco to minors is high for the second year in a row.
An annual report that tracks illegal sales shows about 15 percent of tobacco retailers sold tobacco to minors in 2013 — that's about the same as it was in 2012. As recently as 2009 the rate was much lower, at about 9 percent.
The Riverside soccer team, unleashing a dominating attack, handled the Deer Park Stags 4-0 on Monday in the season opener for both schools.
The Rams, who out shot the Stags 11-6, jumped out to an early lead on a penalty kick by Oliver Robstad at the 24-minute mark. They increased the lead to 2-0 before halftime on a goal Robyn.
The Rams added goals by Brandon Suhr and Tillman Spindeidrier in the second half while their defense, anchored by goalkeeper Wyatt Hagehann kept the Stag attack bottled up in their own end.
Kelli Hughes, no stranger to royalty duties, was crowned the 60th Miss Deer Park in ceremonies in Deer Park High School's Ken Fisher Performing Arts Center on Saturday evening.
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It wasn't all that long ago that Damian Lillard and Jimmer Fredette were just a skip pass away from each other, one playing at Weber State, the other at BYU.
Now they're not in the same solar system.
The casual college friends are casual pro opponents, their careers having taken vastly different paths. Lillard, of the Portland Trail Blazers, is on track to become the league's Rookie of the Year. Fredette isn't even sure whether to unpack. His Sacramento Kings, who lost 98-91 in overtime to the Jazz on Monday, are the most unsettled team in the NBA. Most reports have them moving to Seattle next season.
"We don't worry too much, don't talk about it, we don't listen to what's going on, we just worry about what we're doing on basketball floor," Fredette said. "That's all we can control now. We have no idea what's going on behind scenes or anything, we just focus on a game-to-game basis."
That part isn't going terribly well, either. The loss to the Jazz was their 13th loss in their last 17 games.
At the same time, Fredette's career continues on the same course as it has. He plays for a team of rapid-fire individualists, bent on getting their shots, so to speak, before the Kings leave Sacramento. Coach Keith Smart seems convinced Fredette is a situational player. Fredette appeared in the closing seconds of regulation and overtime against the Jazz. He was in there just in case.
The rest of the game he was there on occasion.
Fredette was met upon entry with the usual mixture of cheers and boos by Jazz fans — with the cheers eventually winning out. But he missed all five of his shots and turned the ball over three times in 13 minutes.
That's how Fredette's nights go. Sometimes he'll get in for half a game, as he did in Saturday's season-high 23 minutes against New York. But the game before that he logged only four minutes.
Earlier this month, Fredette went back-to-back games without leaving the bench. He has logged more than 15 minutes just 18 times in 50 games. His struggle to grow into an NBA point guard has been stalled partly by such talented guards as Isaiah Thomas and Aaron Brooks, Marcus Thornton and Tyreke Evans, and partly by Smart's assertion that Fredette doesn't yet know when to take his shots and which shots to take.
"I just try to be more aggressive offensively, my mindset is lot better," he said. "I'm doing a better job overall."
Three nights earlier at ESA, it was a different story. Lillard, the former Weber State guard was in town with the Blazers. He has started all of the Blazers' games this year, Fredette none for the Kings. Lillard finished Friday's game against Utah with 26 points in 40 minutes. Fredette has played just 311/2 minutes in three games against the Jazz this year, making 4-of-13 shots.
Lillard is on the rise, with a franchise that loves him, blending easily into his team and position. Fredette is on a team where he really doesn't fit. It was obvious on Monday that he hasn't mastered the point guard spot on both ends of the court.
The past week in Utah provided a glimpse into the disparate worlds of Fredette and Lillard. The former tries to keep an upbeat attitude, the latter has attitude to burn.
Though he's too media savvy to say it, Fredette is hoping to be more than a decoy in the clutch.
Two years ago, Fredette was the college player of the year, Lillard a modestly noted guard at Weber. But now Lillard is drawing rave reviews. In two games against Portland this year, Fredette has scored 14 points and played 38 minutes. In those games Lillard scored 32 points and played 74 minutes. Overall Lillard is averaging 39 minutes a game, Fredette 14.
The only area where Fredette is doing better is where he made his name — from outside the arc. He is sinking nearly 43 percent of his 3-pointers, compared to 36 percent by Lillard.
"I talked to (Lillard) a little bit in college and a little bit now; he's obviously having a great year and doing great things in Portland," Fredette said, "so I'm happy for him."
Thus it was business as usual for Fredette on Monday. The Jazz won, Fredette played, but had no major effect. Meanwhile, Lillard scored 21 points and got six assists in 38 minutes against Minnesota. That's how it goes most nights, as the gap between the two players grows. One has found his place. The other, just like the Kings, is hoping for a good place to nest.
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West Virginia may be known in popular song as "Almost Heaven," but it's a state that's seen more than its share of hell.
A vicious gunfight in the streets of a small town, two men assassinated on the courthouse steps in front of their wives, coal company stores designed as much to strip away miners' dignity as to provide life's essentials, the deadliest battle on American soil in the 20th century — they're all part of the story of the Mountaineer State.
It's a history that's been largely expunged from textbooks and purged from the memories of the state's citizens, but it came to life in June during the inaugural run of Doug Estepp's West Virginia Mine War Tour.
Estepp, the grandson of a West Virginia coal miner and a self-taught historian, conceived the idea of a bus trip as a way of telling the story of a bloody war that pitted union miners against private armies hired by mine operators. Raised in Mingo County, the site of the shootout that became known as the Matewan Massacre, Estepp said he didn't discover his hometown history until he attended West Virginia University.
"In my opinion, it's been actively suppressed," said Estepp, 51, who started Coal Country Tour as a way to share his heritage.
The three-day tour took my wife and me, along with about 30 others, through parts of West Virginia that few tourists visit, stopping in the poorest counties of one of the most scenic but impoverished states in the Union.
We started early on a Thursday morning in Charles Town, W.Va., less than two hours from Baltimore and set off from there to Beckley in the southern part of the state. It would take more than four hours to reach our destination, so Estepp broke up the tedium and set the stage for the stops to come by screening John Sayles' 1987 movie "Matewan," a fictionalized but compelling Hollywood treatment of the events leading to the bloodbath on the streets of that town.
"It doesn't show half of the brutality that went on down there," said Estepp.
Like the movie, the tour itself comes with a point of view that is heavily pro-miner and anti-coal operator. While the subject could fascinate those of any political stripe, Estepp's take on that history and choice of itinerary are more likely to appeal to watchers of MSNBC than Fox News.
The first stop was the Exhibition Coal Mine and museum in Beckley. The museum, which depends heavily on coal company sponsorship, presents a sanitized version of West Virginia history — not surprising, given the industry's concerns about its image. But the stop was worth it for the tour, which gave a group of city slickers a glimpse of the conditions in an underground mine of the early 20th century.
The tours aboard a train car are led by retired miners, and on our trip 125 feet below the surface our group had the good fortune to be shown around by Roger Jarrell, who has more than 28 years of experience in the mines.
Jarrell explained the procedure for setting off explosives, including the cry of "fire in the hole," and why miners actually did carry canaries into the coal mines. The cheerful 58-year-old also put in a good word for the four-legged inhabitants of deep mines.
"Everybody loves rats. Rats are a coal miner's friend," Jarrell said. If he were to see rats scampering his way, he explained, he'd know the roof was about to fall or there was smoke in the mine.
After returning to the surface, the group got back on the road to the tiny crossroads of Scarbro, where stands one of the few remaining examples of the company store to whom the miner in "Sixteen Tons" owed his soul.
The Whipple Company Store is an amazing period piece and architectural marvel owned and turned into a museum by retirees Chuck and Joy Lynn, who saved it from demolition in 2006.
Joy Lynn explained that the store owned by coal baron Justus Collins was run under strict rules enforced by guards from Baldwin-Felts, a company reviled by union miners as a provider of "gun thugs" for the coal operators. The miners couldn't spend cash at the store, only company-issued scrip. There were strict rules on where miners could or could not stand. And the front steps were intentionally designed to be steep –– so the guards could easily knock down any miner whose attitude they didn't like.
Behind many of the artifacts on display are stories of the miners' lives. Lynn held up a metal container — taller than the ordinary lunch buckets toted by most miners — and explained that it was a "boy bucket." She said that when a boy age 8 and up lost his father in one of the mine's all-too-frequent accidents, he would have to take his place or see the family evicted. The top compartment was where the boy's mother would tear a scrap from the family Bible, which was believed to represent the spirit of the dead father protecting the boy.
The next day's travels took us to Blair Mountain, where 10,000 to 15,000 armed union miners faced off with coal company operatives and sheriff's deputies in strongly anti-union Logan County in August 1921. The five-day fight, the casualty total for which has been estimated in the hundreds, ended only when the U.S. Army moved to intervene on the side of the operators.
That all-but-forgotten site, where both sides used machine guns and the pro-company forces dropped bombs from planes, has re-emerged as a battlefield in a contemporary fight over history and the environment.
Coal operators, with support from the state's political power structure, have Blair Mountain in their sights for coal extraction by means of a controversial technique known as "mountaintop removal" — a form of strip mining that flattens peaks and fills in valleys. The plan has sparked the wrath of history buffs, who believe it would destroy an important historical site, and environmentalists, who consider mountaintop removal the most destructive form of coal mining.


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This fire was suspicious from the beginning yet our community overlooked that and rose to the occasion to help this family. I commend Pleasanton for their generosity. As the facts begin to unravel, is anyone who helped this family upset? I sure would be...
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Is that $74,000 a typo or was this some sort of inside deal? Obviously the home is (was) worth $1 million or so.
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NO that $74,000 price tag in NOT a typo according to public records! And the house is worth $948,000!
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Yeah, we all come to it for different reasons. Some like the action, others its the Sci-Fi, or its characters and stories. Being different is not a crime, in fact its one of the things that Star Trek (including the new film) in all it's incarnations embraces.
I think the beauty of Star Trek in a lot of ways is that it appeals to so many different people.
And yeah, at times we don't always get along. Words get exchanged, a few phaser blasts and maybe the odd photo torpedo.
I can be a right sarcastic bugger at times I know.
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To me Star Trek works best when all its ingredients are working together, at times that doesn't work, someone put too much salt in, or not enough spice, or forgets the gravy and adds the prawns instead. It's a complex recipe and the chefs can't get it right all the time, but then again when the recipe isn't right for me, it is right for someone else.
And that is okay, it's okay for Star Trek, like us, to be different.
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Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) - Brandon Crawford, Hunter Pence and Pablo Sandoval each belted solo home runs as the San Francisco Giants got past the Colorado Rockies, 5-1, on Wednesday.
San Francisco went to its bullpen early after Matt Cain exited with a right hamstring strain following his three hitless innings of work. Yusmeiro Petit (3-1) held Colorado to two hits over the next three frames, and four other relievers kept the Rockies' bats relatively quiet.
"We couldn't get things going," Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado said. "We didn't hit balls hard."
Jhoulys Chacin (0-3) gave up three runs on four hits and two walks over 5 2/3 innings to remain winless for Colorado, which had won three of four coming in.
The NL West-leading Giants used the long ball to bounce back from dropping the opener of this three-game division series in walk-off fashion.
Pence took Chacin's first pitch of the fourth into the bleachers in left- center, and it stayed 1-0 until the Giants put two more up in the sixth.
Sandoval launched a two-out, opposite-field blast, and Michael Morse followed with a double to end Chacin's outing. Nick Masset was greeted by a run-scoring double off the bat of Hector Sanchez, who was making his second straight start in place of the injured Buster Posey.
Crawford took Matt Belisle into the second deck in right an inning later, and Morse's RBI groundout in the eighth made it 5-0.
The Rockies, who were down to their last strike on Tuesday and won 5-4 on Nolan Arenado's two-run double, tried to put together another rally by putting their first three runners on in the eighth.
Santiago Casilla limited the damage, however, by getting Michael Cuddyer to ground into a run-scoring double play. Troy Tulowitzki flew out to strand a runner on third.
"It was a good bounce back win after a tough loss," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
Cain retired nine of the 10 batters he faced, the only blemish coming in the
second when he plunked Justin Morneau ... Posey has missed two straight games
due to nerve irritation in his lower back ... This is the sixth time this
season San Francisco hit at least three home runs ... Rockies outfielder
Carlos Gonzalez left early with left index finger inflammation and is day-to-
day ... Thursday afternoon's rubber match features the Giants' Tim Hudson
going against Rockies lefty Jorge De La Rosa ... Colorado has not lost a home
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Report: Patriots sign ex-Chiefs OG Waters
The Patriots shored up a position of need, signing free-agent OG Brian Waters on Saturday, according to a report by ESPN.
Patriots release S Meriweather, WR Tate
In a surprise move, the Patriots have released SS Brandon Meriweather.
Patriots cut LB Brown, seven others
The Patriots began roster cuts on Friday, releasing eight players, including LB Ricky Brown.
Giants rally to beat Patriots
Rookie Da'Rel Scott ran a fake punt 65 yards for a touchdown and Derrick Martin returned a fumble 11 yards for a score as the Giants beat the Patriots 18-17 on Thursday night.
Patriots put Cannon on non-football injury list, claim Molden
The Patriots placed fifth-round OL Marcus Cannon on the reserve/non-football injury list and claimed former Texans CB Antwaun Molden.
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PFW associate editor Kevin Fishbain believes the Patriots will get over their recent playoff struggles and win Super Bowl XLVI.
Free-agent RB Maroney acquitted on marijuana charge
Former Patriots and Broncos RB Laurence Maroney was acquitted on a misdemeanor marijuana charge in St. Louis.
Falcons add S Sanders
The Falcons agreed to terms on a one-year deal with former Patriots S James Sanders Tuesday night, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported.
Mayo wins Patriots' community service award
All-Pro LB Jerod Mayo has been recognized as the 2011 New England Patriots Ron Burton Community Service Award winner.
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In a move that caught many off guard, the Patriots reportedly have told SS James Sanders they are releasing him, opening up spots on their depth chart for younger players.
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Kafka completed 4 of 7 passes for 35 yards with two INTs and was sacked once in Sunday's 29-16 loss to the Giants.||||||| Kafka could start against the 49ers if Michael Vick is out. After a solid effort last week in Atlanta, he was much worse against New York.
Kafka completed 7 of 9 passes for 43 yards Sunday in the Eagles' 35-31 loss at Atlanta.||||||| Kafka could start in the home opener against the Giants if Michael Vick is out. If that is the case, monitor the health of the Giants' beleaguered secondary before deciding whether to start Kafka, who looked good in Atlanta.
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Women's golf in 11th after opening round of the Xavier LPGA Invitational
A tough golf course and equally tough weather conditions took its toll on the JU women's golf team in the opening round of the Xavier LPGA Invitational.
Junior Gaia Olcese shot a six-over par 78 to lead the Dolphins as JU posted a 38-over par, 326, to sit in 11th place after the first round.
Campbell leads the 13-team competition after shooting a 10-over par, 298, to hold a six-shot lead over Louisiana-Monroe. North Dakota State's Amy Anderson, one of the top amateurs in the country, shot a two-under par 70 to hold a two-shot lead in the individual competition.
"When the weather gets tough, you have to keep your focus on the game and we didn't handle it well today," said JU head coach Ashley Prange. "This is another learning experience for our young team as we continue to grow each day."
Freshman Natalie Schmett carded a nine-over par, 81, to sit in a tie for 39th topping fellow freshman Jessica Welch by one shot, with Welch in tie for 45th at 10-over par.
Senior Morgan Jackson shot a 13-over par, 85, to tie for 54th while Allison Cornell carded a 23-over par, 95, to sit in 72nd place.
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12:56pm Wednesday 31st October 2012 in News By Rene Gerryts
A PLEA for government money to help fund the re-opening of Beaminster Tunnel has fallen on deaf ears.
Dorset County Council faces additional costs of around £2.3 million to make the Tunnel safe and re-open the A3066.
It asked the Department for Transport for money but was told by Parliamentary under secretary of state Norman Baker that the council would have to use its own budget to meet the cost, saying it would be unfair on national taxpayers to give additional funds to Dorset.
Dorset County Councillors will be discussing options for repairing the tunnel at their cabinet meeting on November 7.
The tunnel has been closed since July 7 when a landslip killed Rosemary Snell and Michael Rolfe.
Their bodies lay undiscovered for ten days.
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3:02pm Wed 31 Oct 12
stench says...
If they had correctly maintained the bridge, may be this tragic incident would never had occured...
3:13pm Wed 31 Oct 12
Dorset Boy says...
stench wrote:Landslips caused by Mother Nature have no bearing whatsoever on the council
Surely is the Council's place to fix?
If they had correctly maintained the bridge, may be this tragic incident would never had occured...
4:38pm Wed 31 Oct 12
Huey says...
5:16pm Wed 31 Oct 12
Isosceles says...
No, it was the olympics (:o))
5:22pm Wed 31 Oct 12
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6:49pm Wed 31 Oct 12
kildare43 says...
snowleopard wrote:He's laughing up his sleeve with Norman Baker in their club because they gave " national taxpayers money " to fund the buses for Charlie's little Poundbury, Public school pr...s
So where is the MP Mr Letwin on this matter?
7:25pm Wed 31 Oct 12
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8:25pm Wed 31 Oct 12
malkie says...
wessex-andy wrote:It's DCC Highways Dept that are responsible for the roads. The WDDC ofices are nothing to do with this & the finance is from a completely separate budget.
Sorry, bur the new WDDC offices in Dorchester take priority over all else.
8:39pm Wed 31 Oct 12
annotator1 says...
The tax now gets lost in the central fund!
If, the banks of the tunnel had been maintained and replanted when old shrubs and trees died off, mother nature would quite possibly have looked after itself.
Who knows!
A sad loss of lives.
9:10pm Wed 31 Oct 12
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cj07589 says...
Fred Kite wrote:Yeap spot on, if it was a foreign tunnel the government would find the cash somehow. Nevermind eh so the corrupt European fiddling union is about to recieve a £1.2billion increase over the next two years and the miserable so-and-sos cant be bothered to assist the citizens of its own country. Its downright dsgraceful really!
What's Letwin doing on this, nothing as usual, but his government will find the money to blow up then build new bridges abroad.
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Cynthia Peters
live in a progressive diverse neighborhood where pre-schools stock copies of
"Heather Has Two Mommies," but even where this love-makes-a-family
consciousness has a strong voice, it does not seem to translate into how we talk
to our kids about sexuality and reproduction.
my family and family of friends, there are mixed-race lesbian couples, mixed
race straight couples, single mothers with children – some adopted, some not.
There are lesbian biological Moms with offspring fathered by friends,
aquaintances, and sperm bank donors. And there are straight couples – some with
biological offspring, some with stepchildren, and some adopted.
was in this context that my then 6-year old ran up to me one day and said,
"Mom. Maddy and I are having a fight. She says you have to have a man and a
woman to have a baby, but I say you don't. Who's right?"
a tricky question. Barring developments in cloning, divine intervention, and
parthenogenesis, you do need a sperm and an egg to make a baby. But after that
it's pretty much up for grabs. Just about anyone who wants to have a baby can
have one or get one in any number of ways.
leads to the question of how we talk to our children about reproduction. It
seems that when children start asking questions about sex, we reply with the ins
and outs (!!) of heterosexual copulation. Sex equals reproduction. Sex therefore
is intercourse between heterosexuals who want to make a baby. Or at least that
would be how it appears to most unsuspecting elementary school kids who start
asking questions about sex, where babies come from, and that sort of thing.
my daughter got the "straight" answer about reproductive sex, she
thought about it for a long time, and then said, "So, you mean you did that
with Dad to make me?" I nodded. "And you did it again to make Sila?"
I nodded again. Long pause. "Do you think you'll ever do it again?"
she had absorbed something of the meaning of reproductive sex, but not much
about sexuality. Without overwhelming our children, we need to differentiate
between reproduction and sex. We need to reinforce the fact that families can be
chosen and created in all sorts of ways. And we need to introduce some language
for talking about our capacity for sexual pleasure and expression – bodily
experiences that are not related in the slightest to passing along our genes.
are some ways we could do this and why does it matter?
start with, let's toss out the vagina/penis paradigm. In today's liberated
language, we think we're doing well when we explain the central gender
difference in the following way: boys have penises and girls have vaginas.
Indeed, it is a step in the right direction that we've moved beyond the
old-school language that gave boys an attribute, and girls the absence of one,
as in: Boys have a penis and girls don't. But since when is the vagina the
defining feature of female genitalia? It certainly plays a key role in
reproductive sex, but the clitoris is of much more interest for other reasons.
Yet you don't hear enlightened little children mention it too often. Any little
girl who's out of diapers certainly knows about it, but she doesn't have a name
for it, and the peculiar silence around it (we name all of our children's other
body parts, after all) makes it seem verboten.
let's think again about those stuffy old diagrams that our high school gym
teacher used to teach us "the facts of life." Were they really so bad
after all? Didn't they accurately communicate what has to happen between a sperm
and an egg in order to set those cells multiplying? We laughed at those diagrams
because they revealed nothing about sexuality, and that was what we really cared
about. In some circles, liberals tried to bring pleasure into the equation.
Another positive step forward, I guess, sort of like "vagina" entering
the lexicon, but here's the problem: if you marry the concepts of pleasure and
reproductive sex, then how do you explain the other 90 percent of sexual
kids and teens have experienced some version of their own sexuality – most of it
not related to procreation – yet we talk to them about sex only in procreative
terms. Confusing at best. At worst, sexual feelings are cloaked in secrecy and
we share no language with our children for talking about them. So bring back the
charts that explain the mechanics of where babies come from. Throw in explicit
information about birth control as appropriate. And then figure out
age-appropriate ways to talk frankly to kids (and listen openly to them) about
pleasure and sexual expression. Allow words and concepts like masturbation,
pleasure, sexuality, sensuality, gay, lesbian, and bisexual -all of which don't
have much to do with reproduction – to be part of family and community dialogue.
If we don't, we cede the discussion to marketers (mostly) who fill the airwaves
and our consciousnesses with images of straight male sexual aggressors and
passive female receivers of male attention.
last thought: Thanks to feminism, we have come a long way, baby. But patriarchy
and heterosexism live on in our language and our ways of conceptualizing
important human interactions like sex and sexuality. Take, for example, the
seemingly progressive, sex-positive kids' book entitled, "Where Did I Come
From? The facts of life without any nonsense and with illustrations." The
following excerpt from the section called, "The beginning of a baby,"
gives all sexual agency to the man. The woman is a willing receptacle. "The
man loves the woman. So he gives her a kiss. And they hug each other very
tight." After some more details about the man developing an erection, we
hear that he now wants to get as close as possible to the woman so he decides to
put his penis in her vagina.
that's just great. Read this book to a little girl and you've communicated to
her a very neat synopsis of a woman's role in life and in sex: Men have really
powerful urges, which women must accommodate.
need to remember the power of language: if kids (especially girls) don't have
words to describe the parts of their bodies that give them pleasure, then we are
robbing them of the tools they need to communicate about and be agents of their
sexuality. If we don't distinguish between reproductive sex and sexual pleasure,
we are relegating all forms of sexual expression (besides heterosexual
intercourse), to the unknown and not-to-be-talked-about margins. If we don't
explicitly find healthy ways to talk about sex and sexuality with kids, then we
leave it to Disney and beer commercials to define the parameters of sexual
expression. And if we try to bring a progressive, sex-positive feel to the
question of "Where babies come from," then we are associating sexual
pleasure uniquely with reproductive sex; we are not honoring the manifold ways
children and adults experience sexuality; and we are bypassing a more realistic
explanation of how families create themselves.


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A Waterloo man was arrested Thursday after allegedly assaulting another man at a business in Dike.
Duane Pedroso, 27, of Waterloo, was arrested just after 7 a.m. Thursday and charged with willful injury, a class D felony, according to the Grundy County Sheriff's Office.
Police say Pedroso allegedly assaulted Alexander Barnes, 23, of Waterloo, at Delta McKenzie Targets in Dike earlier Thursday morning.
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On Monday, during the kickoff of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference being held this week in Washington D.C., Microsoft announced that it would be releasing a version of its Windows Azure cloud computing platform that can be run as part of an appliance offering.
The appliance name may be a bit misleading though -- Microsoft's Azure Appliance is not your standard single server appliance. The appliance configuration is best geared for internal deployments of around 1,000 servers or so, said Bob Muglia, president of the Microsoft server and tools business.
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"Our initial [deliveries] of the Windows Azure to our first four customers will just be under a thousand servers" each, he said. The company could scale future deployments down to smaller offerings, though at a certain point it would become more economical for an organization to use the Azure services offered by another provider.
"Windows Azure is designed to run on thousands of nodes at a time. Its core value is survivability of node failures and you need to have a significant number of nodes beneath it," wrote Forrester analyst James Staten, in a blog post about the offering.
In a press conference following the announcement of this technology, Muglia revealed a bit more of how Azure would work, though Microsoft is still sorting out many of the details, such as pricing and whether there will be numbered versions.
The appliance version will contain copies of Windows Azure, Microsoft SQL Azure and a set of configuration tools and will be run on large packages of servers and supporting equipment. Dell, Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard all pledged to offer versions of this appliance, built on their own hardware.
Once settled in the data center, the appliance will be connected to Microsoft's own instance of Azure. "We will maintain a flow of new software down to all of the appliances so they will be kept up to date," he said, adding that the customer will retain control over factors such as when to apply updates and which services to deploy.
Muglia said that while the company will make available its hardware specifications for the Azure appliance software package, Microsoft doesn't expect it to be as widely implemented as Windows Server, which was designed for as wide a range of server hardware as possible.
"One of the things that allows [Azure] at the scale that we do is to automate many of the processes that today are done by hand. In order to do this automation, we have to have a fair degree of understanding of the hardware environment. So there will be a more limited set of hardware we support," Muglia said.
In terms of making the Azure services compatible with Microsoft stand-alone software products, "Our goal is to make Azure as compatible as we realistically can. Now the cloud environment does bring differences, particularly in dealing with scaling out as a fundamental attribute of the application, which means some applications will need to be modified as they become a truly native Azure application," he said.


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On the starting lineup … "Don't know who is going to start yet. Don't know, still trying to figure some stuff out. What I'm tinkering with is combinations. I'm trying to figure out, when these guys are in together how do we play, when that group is in together how do we play. That's what we are trying to do."
On impressions from different lineup combinations … "None really, I'm just trying to watch tape to see what I am comfortable with and all those kind of things. We just have a long way to go. Defensively, we are just awful right now. We don't stay in front of anybody. We have guys stopping left and right and thinking it's OK or not my man, it wasn't my man, stuff like that. I watched tape of Michigan State and Northwood and you have two teams that play every bounce of the ball that are moving and helping and helping the helper. The greatest thing about playing a team like this, the No. 1 team in the NAIA and a team that was down six the Michigan State at half that made nine threes, has some post-up game, has a really quick guard, is that the weaknesses or the things that we are not doing well will be glaring. As much as I don't like to play a team this good, this early, this is going to be great for this team because the more I'm watching tape, the more I'm seeing that they have to change and they have to understand that it has to be a habit."
On the team being more versatile than in years past … "It may be, put five guys and they got it rolling and leave them out there for eight minutes before you do anything, let them get their run through and then make a couple substitutions, call a timeout. But I don't know before we start playing. That's the other thing with playing Maryland and Duke, you open up your schedule with those kind of teams, even Transy (Transylvania), who have all the seniors. This team that we are playing tomorrow has all seniors and we are going to be playing all freshmen. You're going to see it. Maryland and Duke, they are going to exploit every weakness we have. Now you come back and show the tape and say if we want to win these are things we are going to have to do and let's go. We just have a long way to go."
On playing the two big guys together … "Oh, you'll see it tomorrow; we started playing them and just wanted to get those two comfortable. What I like about it is, they were talking to each other on the court, Willie (Cauley-Stein) was saying to Nerlens (Noel) and they were talking, that's what you want. You want a team of guys that are talking to each other, that are looking after each other, that have each other's back. Who are those five, I don't know. But we'll stick different combinations, but you know, I've told you many times, for me it doesn't matter who starts, it's who is going to finish. I may be starting guys based on the fact that I just think this is the best way to start the game or what the rotation is going to be but when you look at my teams it is who is in the game those last five or seven minutes, that's who really matters. So we'll see."
On what he likes about playing the big guys …"We went to it with Alex (Poythress) and the other team got three offensive rebounds right away, so then why am I playing you three? What are we talking about here? What I like, is we're so long, I just told them a simple thing, if Nerlens is out on the floor you get in the lane, I don't care where your man is. If you're out on the floor, Nerlens you get in the lane. So you're always going to have someone like seven foot standing near the goal and then you tell the other guys, make them drive. How about that for genius basketball?"
On Kentucky having 21 players in the NBA …"Pretty good stuff, guys are playing well. I'm so happy for Eric Bledsoe; you have 15 teams trying to trade for him. They love Brandon (Knight) in Detroit. I'm proud that our guys go in the league and are prepared. Here's the thing, after two years someone will say, 'I'm not responsible after they have been in the league two years. The guy goes in as rookie of the year and plays well, unless I'm trying to coach that team and my team...' Well our jobs and what we're trying to do is prepare these guys for that, their dream, and life after basketball, both of those. I'm proud of that. My biggest thing is, when I watch them play I want to see that they are having a ball when they are playing like they did here. The hard thing is, if you're on a team that is losing it's hard to have joy but you still control it, you control your own joy, no one else does, you do. I saw Darius (Miller) and Anthony Davis on the sideline, not on the court, going nuts when they were playing, they were waving towels, high-chesting, high-fiving guys, running out on the court. My thing is, if they lose games, you still have to have that if you are ever going to reach your potential as a team and as a player. That's what I got on DeMarcus (Cousins) about, I said, 'you have to have joy, man. You can't be playing mad and mean, you have to have fun playing this game.' We have a bunch of good guys."
On Northwoods' coach Rollie Massimino …"He called me and said, 'I'd like to play in an exhibition game, the reason is, we won our national title in Rupp Arena and I haven't been back and this is my last year of coaching, would you play us?' I said sure, now I didn't know his team would be this good, I may have just said, 'why don't you just come in and watch one of our games, how about that?' But I'm happy for him. Think about it, he was in the final game of the NAIA Championship, I don't know if there is anyone that has won an NCAA Championship and an NAIA Championship. I think there have been a couple that has won the NIT Championship and the NCAA Championship."
On if he is having fun …"Yeah, it's just, I'm tired, I'm beat down. Every moment you're trying to think of ways, how do I get guys better, I'm having more individually meetings than I've had collectively since I've been the coach here already. What are we in, 21 days of practice but that's what this team needs and that's fine. I'm here for them, sometimes I have to do a little bit more, sometimes I can do a little bit less, depending on the team. I like my team; I think we will be good in time. It's kind of scary, I know you'll say, us getting dinged is not the worst thing. I'm telling you, for these guys to understand let's get back down to this, you have to listen, you have to create habits, you don't have it right now. Nobody is going to foul out, I already called them. We don't have enough time so I play next week for real so if a guy has nine fouls, remember DeAndre (Liggins) had nine fouls, he almost had a triple doubles, he had 10 points, nine assists and nine fouls. It's not because I want them to foul, because I know they are going to charge, I know they are going to reach, I know they are going to leave their feet because those are their habits right now. Well I can't have, OK now you can't play anymore this exhibition game. I can't do it or we have to be in scrimmages instead of exhibition games."
On the players knowing it is going to take patience and hard work …"I think it's more hard work than patience. It's more of a focus on what you're doing than patience. It's more taking care of your body, getting your rest, taking care of business off the court, no distractions; let's go we don't have time for that. That's what is going to get us to where we want to go. The one guy that is going to have to have patience is me, and that will only go so far with me, I know. Like I said, I like our team, I like our personnel. Kyle Wiltjer has gotten way better, Ryan Harrow is way better. The young kids are coming along and doing good. Jon Hood is way better, Jarrod Polson, way better. It's just, they're better, now getting out on the court against a team that is not going to stop until the possession goes, that will try to offensive rebound every ball, that will block you out if you don't do stuff. All those things will come to light in this thing. You're going to say, 'oh my gosh, he just turned his head and the guy went in and dunked on him. Oh my gosh.' If you watch the tape, there are many of those right now but when you're talking young guys that's what you have."
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Muslim parents and medical practitioners should understand Islamic customs surrounding the birth of a child. Here you can find information about birth rites, circumcision, breastfeeding, etc.
The choice of a marriage partner is one of the most important decisions a person will make in his or her lifetime. Muslims approach this decision with prayer, careful investigation, and family involvement.
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Islam is recognized as the fastest-growing world religion, particularly among western women. Those who embrace Islam are known as either "converts" or "reverts" to the faith, recognizing that each person is born with a natural faith in Allah and merely returns to it as an adult.
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The Prophet Muhammad once said that Muslims should "seek knowledge, from the cradle to the grave." Education is a life-long endeavor, and Muslim parents have many choices with regards to their children's education. In addition, most Muslims try to learn at least the basics of the Arabic language, although only 15% of Muslims speak Arabic as a native tongue.
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Islam gives guidance about all aspects of life, including matters of public decency. Islam has set minimum standards for personal modesty, which are reflected in the various styles of clothing worn among Muslims. While such standards may seem out-dated or conservative to some people, Muslims view these values of public decency as timeless.
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After producer Jim Jonsin told Yelawolf how impressed Eminem was with him, the Alabama MC traveled to Detroit to meet the man himself.
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Schottenheimer declines to interview with Bills
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on Mar 29, 2013 at 1:35 pm
PAPD originally described the perp as a tall skinny white male with a large scar next to his right eye. This mug shot fits the description pretty well. He is suspected of at least 2 armed robberies reported in Palo Alto, and apparently numerous crimes elsewhere in the Bay Area.
on Mar 29, 2013 at 2:08 pm
Vague accusations and depictions by race/ethnicity are an indicator of bias and low intelligence.
on Mar 29, 2013 at 3:22 pm
Most suspect descriptions in police press release releases are vague depictions by race/ethnicity (plus height and weight). Are you accusing the police of catching this guy by racial profiling?
on Mar 29, 2013 at 10:43 pm
Hunter Thompson, no relation?
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on Mar 30, 2013 at 2:51 pm
fear and loathing in palo. hunter thompson .
on Mar 30, 2013 at 6:34 pm
Anyone know what kind of guns this guy had? Were they legal or illegal? Would a better background check have prevented these crimes?
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Another scumbucket off the streets. THANK YOU all who were involved.
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Yet another hood off our streets. Congratulations to all persons involved in the arrest of this hood!
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Thanks to everyone involved for getting this creepy monster into jail to face justice!
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The location on the water front was nice, and it was an attractive hotel with a clean bathroom and comfortable bed.
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Somerset's Twenty20 campaign gets underway
Somerset begin their Twenty20 campaign on Friday evening at home to West Country rivals Gloucestershire.
The Cidermen have been runners-up in the competition eight times.
The match gets underway in Taunton at 5.30pm.
Dressage gold medallist Dujardin awarded OBE
Gloucestershire's Charlotte Dujardin has been awarded an OBE.
The dressage rider, from Newent, was presented the honour by Princess Anne at Buckingham Palace this morning. Dujardin won both an individual and team gold at last summer's Olympics making her just one of four British women to win two golds at the same Games. She said 2012 was a dream come true.
Relegation possible for cash-strapped Glos City
Cash-strapped Gloucester City Football Club faces relegation and eviction from the ground it uses by the end of the month unless it can settle debts. The Tigers owe three months' rent on Whaddon Road under their groundshare agreement with Cheltenham Town.
Unless they can pay by the end of March, the club will be relegated from Blue Square North in the Conference league. Gloucester chairman Nigel Hughes says the club has a total shortfall of around £40,000. More details here
Disappointing night for Rovers and City
Bristol City have lost 2 - 1 to Crystal Palace, making it their sixth consecutive away defeat. Bristol Rovers lost 2 - 1 at home to Rotherham United in League Two.
Bristol beat Rotherham 30 -20
In this afternoons Championship match, Bristol beat Rotherham 30 - 20.
Rugby: Gloucester lose to Wasps
Gloucester lost at Wasps 33 - 29 this afternoon, despite scoring four tries, including Mike Tindall's first in the Premiership for two years. However the losing bonus point moves them up to fifth.
Club record eighth win in a row for the Glovers
Yeovil Town won for a club record 8th time in a row. Bristol Rovers also won, Cheltenham drew and Bristol City lost in the Severnside derby.Read the full story
Bath 40 - 16 London Irish
Bath had a bonus point win over London Irish in the Premiership.
The home side scored four tries in a 40 - 16 win, with 17 points coming from the boot of Tom Heathcote.
FULL REPORT: Special Olympics preparations in Bath
Thousands of athletes with learning disabilities will descend on Bath later in the year, for the National Summer Games. It's organised by the Special Olympics GB, and like the Olympics, only comes round once every four years.
Today officials from the charity were given a preview of what Bath has to offer, as Tim Walsh reports.
O'Driscoll gets the better of his former club
There were wins today for both Bristol clubs and Yeovil Town. Swindon Town could only draw and Cheltenham Town slipped to defeat.Read the full story