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The cookie rally is a great way to get psyched up for Girl Scout cookie season, have fun with other girls, and set your goals for this year's cookie program. We will have exciting door prizes at each rally, and all participants will receive a 2013 Cookie Rally Patch. All grade levels are welcome to attend.
Date: Saturday, January 5, 2013
Location: CRCE, University of Illinois campus
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Fee: $8 per girl, $4 per adult
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Richard spent the 2007 season as the offensive line coach at Navarro College under current Lamar head coach Ray Woodard.
The Bulldogs ranked third nationally in total offense (444.6 ypg), fourth in rushing offense (250.5 ypg) and 16th in passing offense (194.2 ypg), while scoring a school-record 428 points (35.7 ppg) in 2007.
Offensive lineman JaMarcus Webb was named first team All-America by the NJCAA and running back Tyrone Ross ranked 13th in the nation in rushing with 1,079 yards and eighth in touchdowns with 12.
All five of his starting offensive linemen signed Division I - FBS scholarships during the February 2008 signing period.
In 2006, Richard was the assistant head coach and offensive line coach at South Lenoir High School in Deep Run, N.C. following a year at Blinn College in Brenham, Texas. While at Blinn, the Buccaneers ranked 24th in the nation in total offense with 344.8 ypg.
He also has made stops at the University of Central Oklahoma, Tarleton State University and Trinity Valley College. At TSU, he was a student coach under current Lamar offensive coordinator Todd Whitten.
He enlisted in the Marines from 1992-96 and served tours of duty in Okinawa, Japan and Cherry Point, N.C. before going into private business for two years. Richard earned his bachelor's degree from Tarleton State in 2003 and his master's from Central Oklahoma in 2005.
He played football and baseball at West Brook and was a member of the Bruins' 1991 gridiron squad that was ranked as high as No. 3 in the state.

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Elizabeth Williams, 83, died Friday, Feb. 22 at her residence in Viper.
She was born Sept. 2, 1929, in Perry County, the daughter of the late Andy Williams and the late Sarah Farler Williams. She was also preceded in death by her special beloved nephew, Harold Dobson, two brothers, and six sisters.
She was a life-long resident of Perry County, a retired cook with the Perry County Schools, was affiliated with the Beatty Branch Church of God in Christ Jesus Name, and loved spending time with her family and grandkids.
She is survived by her devoted daughter and son-in-law, Lydia Combs and husband Ray of Viper; sister Oma Eldridge and husband Earnest of Indiana; loving and caring grandchildren Andy Ray Combs, Crystal Gail Melton and husband Wallace, and Cindy Elizabeth Combs; great-grandchildren who were special angels, Daniel Jakob Melton and Kristian Danielle Melton; very special family Ellen and Tracy Dobson, Jessica, Matthew, and Elaina Jade Chandler.
Funeral services for will be conducted on Monday, Feb. 25 at 11 a.m. at the Engle-Bowling Funeral Home of Hazard with Jason and Alonzo Shepherd and others officiating. The interment will follow in the Adams-Lewis Cemetery at Stratton located at Viper.


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He's honored to even be considered.
Sony has offered the villain role in the Spider-man reboot to Rhys Ifans. You may remember him as the slovenly roommate in Notting Hill, or a lot more things if you're British. No word yet on exactly which villain he'll be playing though. I'm getting a Green Goblin vibe from him, but I suppose he could also be Venom with the right black unitard. If Ifans does in fact play Green Goblin he already has experience creating his own aviation contraptions.
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The Next Level Fastpitch Academy is a fastpitch pitching training program for all ages and abilities. Pitching is the most specialized part of the game and we are here to help you to achieve success in this part of the game. From beginners to the most advanced - we are here to help you to reach for that Next Level of your game!
As of now we have 6 instructors. Myself, Brent Hawkins, I am here for fastpitch pitching instruction. My purpose is to work with girls in fastpitch from the beginner to the most advance pitchers. This is my one and only concern! I am an instructor who loves to teach. For the new pitcher my goal is to introduce correct technique in relation to game pitching as well to incorporate the overall philosophy of pitching. For the advance we are here to reinforce previous techniques and to introduce new pitches and new concepts concerning pitching. I believe in using drills with actual pitching to reach the pitchers individual goals. I am committed to help take the athlete from a level of potential ability to realized ability. This is not an overnight journey. This process will be a slow, steady, and constant improvement in each phase of learning how to pitch. You must be willing to let me take the time to instill the correct pieces of pitching to reach the highest level. I firmly believe that the style of pitching and the type of pitches the pitcher will learn here will give them the necessary ingredients to succeed. As an added part of my lessons that will happen along the way the girls will have fun and we will have some laughs. This will encourage the girls to want to work harder to achieve their desired results. I will become personally invested in each and every girl's level of achievement. Someday when they are finished with their pitching I will feel like a part of our "family" is leaving.
My goal is simple – I want every pitcher to reach a higher level of success through our pitching method. I will measure all of the pitcher's success by the process of results! This is a long journey that everybody must participate in. Results will cumulate in their high school senior year and for some of the ones their collegiate days!
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I seem to often find myself at the angry disciplinary end of a chat dialog with a neophyte austerian theoretician. My positions, though they seem contrary relative to my adversary's, are really just pointing out that the preference for no government and no taxes is not rooted in any quantitate point-your-finger-at-it type evidence. Their assurance is supported by nothing other than hand-waving. It's just a feel good mental massage type religion.
The interesting question is whether those adversaries invest their retirement funds in accordance with their extreme confidence of the no gov/tax belief. Probably, if they have any money to invest. So it's safe to assume that most of them will ultimately need a great deal of assistance from a big government.
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Men's Soccer Win in OT
The Ohio Christian Men's Soccer program continued to make progress in the '08 campaign by beating Appalachian Bible College 1-0 in an exciting finish to a tough fought game. The Trailblazers (6-0-0) controlled the ball much throughout the game but could not find a goal against a tough, spirited ABC defense. "They played hard and came to win. My hat goes off to them", mentioned Coach Murton. Appalachian Bible College goes to 0-5-0 and 0-3-0 in the region. "It just shows how competitive the region is. We are on top of the region and they ignored all that and came to play", added Coach Murton.
The win places OCU #1 in the region with a 4-0-0 record in the region, and places OCU as 1 of only 2 teams in the Nation that are undefeated in the NCCAA D2. When asked about the turn around, Coach Murton added, "I hope we're not sitting on what we've accomplished. We enjoy the fruits of our labor after the season is done, not while it is still going."
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The Rice Price Spike of 2007-2008 (Optional)
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This Thanksgiving, I thought about all the movies I'm thankful for. These aren't just movies I like. These are movies that by all accounts should not exist at all, yet somehow they persevered through development, studio notes, critical derision and often box office failure, yet exist for eternity thanks to some filmmakers' determination. Even in the last 10 years, there are 12 movies to relish on Black Friday morning when everybody's up early shopping.
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
10 years later, the South Park series has gotten profoundly far by addressing social issues like Terry Schiavo. Still, in its day, the movie took meta to a new level. Trey Parker and Matt Stone made a movie about the controversy that would ensue over their own movie. The kids sneak into an R rated movie where they learn to swear, so their parents protest the movie, ultimately declaring war on the country that produced it. It's also a rockin' musical with songs about f***ing your uncle. Something tells me the Paramount brass was looking the other way when this slipped through.
For now, this only exists in my memory, although Starz has aired it as the theatrical double feature with trailers. There is no Planet Terror. There is no Death Proof. There is only Grindhouse, an ode to being outrageous. Two of Hollywood's most powerhouse independents put together their ultimate double feature of awesome. They played with way more Weinstein money than they had any right to given the source of inspiration, but now we get machine gun amputees and helicopters chopping zombie hordes. The reason Death Proof works in this format is that if you've ever been to a grindhouse double feature, you know the second film is the low rent sidekick to the first, the one that pads out its running time with talking because they only have one money shot. And Death Proof has a better money shot than any real grindhouse movie.
Charlie's Angels
Look, The Matrix was groundbreaking, provocative and awesome. It was about time someone brought wirework martial arts to America. But Hollywood took it way too seriously after that so someone needed to take the piss out of "serious" martial arts. Letting the hot babes of a Charlie's Angels remake do it was awesome, and the fight scenes are pretty damn good. Add to that the blatant sexual ogling and it was a huge party. It's well reported that the studio wasn't happy with what they were getting. You know what happens when the studio does get what they want? Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
The Big Hit
A personal favorite of mine, this movie came out exactly at a time when it defined me personally. I was having some trouble with the ladies (not much has changed), so to see an action movie about a guy paralyzed by the fear that a woman wouldn't like him was awesome. I'm not talking about the remorseful hitman in love type of movie like Grosse Point Blank (another favorite of mine but for commonly acknowledged brilliance). This was a batsh*t crazy expression of insecurity via Hong Kong action. In this guy's world, returning a videotape of King Kong Lives to the video store requires running from a flipping car and kung fu'ing it out between the rental shelves. They did Hong Kong style action before The Matrix and comedy action before Rush Hour brought it to the states. There's Jewish in-laws in the middle of a shootout and a character obsessed with masturbation. Check it out.
The Myth
Almost any Jackie Chan movie defies existence itself. Especially his Hong Kong movies, where he doesn't have American insurance standards to rein him in. Somehow, in his mid-50s, Jackie Chan can still come up with sequences that blow my mind. All of The Myth is good, but one scene in particular would be worth 10 mediocre Rush Hour sequels. Jackie and the bad guys find themselves on a conveyor belt stuck with glue. Every time part of them touches the belt, their limb gets stuck. Chan constructs a breathtaking, hilarious, tension-filled fight as the players move closer and closer to a chopping blade. Thanks to The Myth, this sequence exists forever.
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Now, who could get away with overtly making one big inside joke? Will Smith has a lot of fans, but I don't see anyone greenlighting a movie that's all ID4 and MIB references. Somehow Kevin Smith got the Weinsteins to fund a movie that was purely a love letter to his own fans. Centered on characters that nobody outside of his circle would know, the story requires that you know what has happened in Smith's four previous films and remember all the specific jokes from it. Of course, I follow those films intimately, so I'm right there. And actually, 8 years later this movie still holds up.
Across the Universe
Here's my highbrow entry for this list, but I've felt this way ever since I saw it. After reported battles and recuts with the studio, it seemed the Beatles musical was unreleasable. Its perfunctory exhibition revealed why. Despite a catalog of guaranteed soundtrack hits, Julie Taymor did not make the movie Joe Roth wanted. He probably wanted the Mamma Mia version of Beatles music, not a surreal anti-war drama with abstract visuals. Somehow Taymor got away with it, and though she did not get it in 4,000 theaters, the movie exists.
Crank: High Voltage
I don't know if Neveldine/Taylor are going to get to make another movie, but they sure blew their wad in the best way on their third (though it was released before Gamer, you can tell it's the natural evolution.) Crank was crazy, but only action movie crazy. Yeah, Jason Statham can keep going and not get hurt because he's the hero. High Voltage just breaks every rule imaginable. It cuts to a Japanese monster interlude, it flashes back to young Chev Chelios on a talk show and it ends with a blatant F U to the audience. I can't even believe the things they got Amy Smart to do for this anarchy, but I'm sure glad to have it on my shelf.
Rocky Balboa/Rambo
These were both total gifts to the fans. We wanted to see our iconic '80s heroes one more time, and Stallone did what it took to bring them back for us. It was so nice of Stallone to take HGH just for us, so he could do Rocky and Rambo at 60. That was for us. He got himself all jacked and did the training montages, the boxing fights, ran through the jungle and blew people limb from limb. The fact that Rambo actually has a legitimate political message without ever breaking the ultraviolent jingoistic slant of the franchise is brilliant. Thank God he's not done yet.
Live Free or Die Hard
Again, I wanted to see another Die Hard. I wasn't satisfied by With a Vengeance. So big bald Bruce came back to fight a fighter jet with a Mack truck. At least they realized that the only way to pay proper homage to the original, a film that's so perfect it remains suspenseful no matter how well you have it memorized, was to just get crazy. It's really expensive to blow up freeways and crash trucks into jets. I can't afford to do that. Hollywood has to do that so I can pay my $10 share. I really appreciate that they did that for me. Thank you.
Snakes on a Plane
I still love those motherf***in' snakes on that motherf***in' plane. I stand behind this movie. It was the highest concept movie ever, which is what movies should be. Just take an idea so ridiculous that it sounds funny, and do it. They made it work. You watch and it make perfect sense that a drug lord put snakes on a plane and they got loose and bit people's private parts until everyone trampled each other to death. So what if the hype backfired. It's actually pretty awesome.
Shoot 'Em Up
Seriously, anyone who knows action movies should worship Michael Davis for coming up with the cleverest sequences in film history. What, are peopl hung up on you can't shoot props for yourself to jump and roll from or survive head-on car collisions? This is a movie. It's not supposed to be real. As long as it's awesome, do whatever the hell you want! This movie has sequences that I imagined as a kid and thought nobody would ever get away with doing in a movie. Clive Owen launches himself through his windshield to get leverage on the bad guys and take them all out. Then he came up with stuff I'm just not creative enough for. This is the essence of what every movie should be. Come up with a creative solution for conflict, unbounded by "reality" because the very idea of a movie is fantasy. The world might not be ready for it, but when they are, Shoot 'Em Up is there.
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Mary Shomon has an amazing workshop at the Open Center called Hormone Balance After 40. If you are in NYC and over 40 it is a very informative and detailed lecture given every three months about how thyroid, adrenal and sex hormones can all be impacting your health. So much of the information can be helpful to everyone even if you aren't a women over 40. According to Mary Shomon, an author who has 10 books on hormones and health, many of the symptoms that women experience which are thought to be menopausal symptoms are actually related to low thyroid function.
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Here are some highlight from the lecture:
- On statins (cholesterol lowering medications) and antidepressants, the insert of these medications suggest that thyroid evaluation should be done before taking medication. Although doctors routinely treat high cholesterol and depression with these cholesterol lowering medications and antidepressants a thorough thyroid evaluation should be done first.
Doctors often test only TSH and then say that your thyroid panel is normal, but a thorough Thyroid panel should include:
- TSH- level should be between .3 and 3.0
- Free T4-storage thyroid hormone (the "cake mix"--needs to be activated or baked ie turned into T3) level should be ABOVE the 50% of normal (if range is 1-10 level should be 5)
- Free T3- actual thyroid hormone that can be used by body. Level should be ABOVE 75% of normal range (if normal is 1-10 then you should be 7.5 or above)
- Thyroid Antibodies - proteins that attack the thyroid gland
- Reverse T3 - measuring sidelined T3 that is unavailable to body
- Ferritin - stored form of iron (normal range is 20-100 but optimal is 60 or 80 if you need to lose weight)
- Vitamin D - normal range is 20-100 but want to see 60 0r 80 for women who want to lose weight. Get blood level to determine supplementation for this critical hormone. Some doctors suggest 5,000 a day for people whose blood levels are low. There is a once a week prescription for people who levels don't respond to daily supplementation of 50,000 iu per week. Ask your doctor about this. Watch CBS News Watch about the importance of vitamin D.
Adrenals should also be evaluated. There are alternative tests for cortisol (long term stress hormone) and adrenaline (short term stress hormone.) Chronic stress forces body to pump out these hormones and burns out these two small glands. Only alternative doctors will do proper tests. Mainstream doctors only recognize diseases of these glands.
For perimenopause/menopause symptoms:
For perimenopause/menopause symptoms:
- Synthetic hormones should be avoided.
- Bio-identical hormones should be LAST RESORT and transdermal are safest.
- ALL HORMONE SUPPLEMENTATION has risks associated with it.
Recommended dealing with symptoms as you would deal with puberty--you just go through it, realizing it will not last forever. It is a temporary state that is a normal part of aging It is NOT A DISEASE. It is NOT AN ILLNESS. Also, "M&M's" (Royal Maca and Melatonin) to get through the symptoms you encounter...
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Defending the Sanctity of Traditional Marriage, One Wife at a Time
Eduardo Moisés Peñalver June 6, 2010 - 11:32am
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I gather, from the recent document that the U.S. bishops sent to Congress, that there would be no problem hiring Mr. Limbaugh (or Mr. Gingrich) in a Catholic institution.Where there would be a problem hiring someone who happens to be gay or lesbian, whether that person is in a longterm committed monogamous relationship or otherwise.Something about the disparity in the current rules governing whom the church chooses to welcome and whom it chooses to turn away from the table is deeply troubling to me.
I think that, in the interest of charity, and out of respect (if not for him certainly for his partner), better to let this pass over in silence.Besides, the bigger question for a Catholic site is, is divorce and remarriage wrong? Is monogamy part of natural law or even divine law? Should the Church continue to proclaim the indissolubility of marriage for every single Catholic wedding?
The problem with the attempted jab is that I don't know if Rush Limbaugh has made "traditional marriage" part of his repertoire. You'd have to give me evidence, as in quotes, of Limbaugh going off on the many-married or divorced as a scourge of American society in order to buy your point. I've listened to him quite a bit over the years, in the car, and I don't recall him ever even talking about it. Citations?
From Greenwald, Rush in 2009:Look, we found another Obama oddball. Obama's nominee to become commissioner for the equal opportunity employment commission is Chai Feldblum. She's an outspoken gay rights activist, Georgetown University law professor, and she has praised polygamy and contended that traditional marriage should not have privileged status.
Mark,Rush Limbaugh, July 16, 1996:
Marriage is simply the way humanity has discovered that it is the best way to build a building block of an orderly society and sustain it. Thats all it is. It is also the means by which you produce legitimate offspring. And Iand Ivewhatever else Barney and his mate do, they cannot do that. And thats the soul purposenow look, were devaluing marriagea lot of divorce. Got to fix that. There is way, way too much illegitimacy in this country, and its leading to the crime rate. This business of the gay marriage is nothing more than a money grab, in my opinion, so people can get on the welfare rolls or the benefit rolls, in state offices and otherand other places.
So far, Barney Frank's relationships have produced the same number of children as Rush Limbaugh's marriages. None.
And Elton John sang at Rush's wedding. Go figure.
Ewwww? Are we still in high school, er...grade school?
I think history shows that big fat rich guys with heart trouble have always been able to attract a series of ever younger women to marry. Years ago, my anthropology prof suggested that younger women are often attracted to power and security over looks. Many December-May marriages are very happy. I hope Rush's marriage is among them.I also hope Rush's radio show gets cancelled due to lack of interest because the public has wised up to his idiotic vitriol. But I'm not holding my breath.
Rush, a charlatan if there ever was one, is laughing all the way to the bank. As another famous opportunist said: "A sucker is born every minute."
Mark, I have to say--with all Christian charity--that I grow a little weary of your puerile (and often sexist) ad hominems.To my way of thinking, your remark about high school or grade school comes dangerously close to a line that has more to do with demeaning someone personally, and at an exceptionally nasty level, than with fostering useful conversation.As did your remark to Ann Olivier back on July 5, 2009, "I dont think you have any idea how catty comments such as those come across to people who do not share your admitted bias."Or your characterization of the statement of the lesbian couple whose child was denied admission to a Catholic school in Colorado on April 17: "How insular, how quaint, how convenient, howhigh school-ish."I have to say, it strikes me as exceptionally high-schoolish to engage in these types of ad hominem slurs, which seem to target, in particular, women. Or men you lump into a beta-male category.
So, is Rush Limbaugh a Catholic? Why is his remarriage of particular note for a Catholic journal of opiniomn?
William--There are two Marks on this thread, so you may be mixing and matching inadvertently. Can't say I agree with you in any case, but the irony is that my last post actually came to the aid--in a very small way, granted--of a damsel in distress. Further, I think it's unlikely that someone named Eduardo is a woman.Let's go Flyers!
I can understand why the Rush Limbaugh fans are so upset to see him criticized. After all, Limbaugh never criticizes anyone else. He should be afforded the same courtesy.
There are two Marks on this thread, so you may be mixing and matching inadvertently.The quotes William Lindsey was criticizing were all those of Mark Proska. I don't believe he has mixed up the two Marks.
Mark, of all the disgusting, juvenile, sexist, racist, perverted and down-right rude comments I have had the misfortune of ever reading, I think your most recent post is amongst the most offensive. How anyone in their right mind could type something so profoundly rude, something indicating such a lack of culture or something so stupid is beyond me. I am amazed such a comment could be permitted to be posted and have slipped passed the sensors.Of course I am talking about your post on June 6th, 2010 at 6:43pm. A day that will go down in infamy like December 7th 1941, November 22 1963 or September 11th 2001. To cheer for the Philadelphia Flyers is a sin against the spirit. Something unforgivable even by God's standards as the Latin Vulgate clearly indicates (Mt 12:32) " Et quicumque dixerit verbum contra Filium hominis remittetur ei qui autem dixerit contra Torontonium Acer Folium non remittetur ei neque in hoc saeculo neque in futuro"
Is monogamy prescribed by divine or by natural law? Oddly enough, Scripture never condemns polygamy -- which was rife at least from the time of Lamech and his wives Adah and Zillah. Aquinas held polygamy to be compatible with natural law (making an obscure distinction between primary and secondary natural law).
David, thanks.You're right, my remarks were directed to Mark Proska, who obviously recognized that I was addressing him.I had seen that there were two Marks on the thread, but assumed readers would know which of the two I was addressing, since I cite the remarks that one Mark made about high school behavior.
Joseph:That is true. However, scripture was written in a profoundly patriarchal mindset and even if we accept it as revelation patriarchy and all, Christ seemed to have a different view. On the so called "natural law" argument, I met a woman from Nigeria where polygamy is still practiced. She said to not believe the propaganda about polygamous marriage. She was speaking to a bunch of us over lunch, including women, and asked them to simply imagine their husbands going off to sleep with another woman in the same house!!! Puleassse she laughed. I guess it depends on which nature is making the law - and the answer historically is obvious.I am not sure divorce and remarriage though is always wrong, Still, I wonder about divorce
It's not surprising that Rush is a hypocrite like the rest of us.
Thank you for your reply, Mark Proska.Of course my comment was intended for you. It cited phrases that appear in your posting and not in the posting of the other Mark.I think perhaps you didn't read my comment carefully, since you missed its final statement that you seem to reserve these dismissive rhetorical tactics for both women and men you apparently regard as beta to your alpha.To repeat (we teachers, retired or otherwise, have the bad habit of doing this, to make points clear): I don't find your dismissive one-liner, with its slur intended to juvenilize another poster, helpful. I find it, in fact, juvenile. Not only do you trade in a slur in what you say, but you say nothing else. No analysis of the point being discussed. No commentary on the narrative line of the posting. Just a dismissive one-liner designed to make a personal comment about the author of this posting.I am only one poster here, and I have no proprietorial role in maintaining this blog. And I'm only a sporadic and occasional poster, though I read Commonweal threads daily. I may well not speak for other readers here. Speaking for myself, I'd say that I come here to listen to serious, respectful conversation that tries to move the discussion of real issues forward.I don't come here to hear the kind of territory-marking, alpha-male rhetorical one-liners that I can find at any right-wing political or religious website I want to seek out.These one-liners, and the dismissive rhetorical tactics they employ to put some categories of folks in their place, seem entirely unhelpful to me, if it's moving discussion forward that we're seeking. Disagreement I welcome and applaud. But the one-liners and dismissive slurs? They're high-schoolish, as far as I'm concerned. Like calling someone a nerd, and imagining you've really said something significant . . . .
"Should the Church continue to proclaim the indissolubility of marriage for every single Catholic wedding?"Yes.
Eduardo Penalver: "Ewwww. "Mark Proska: "Ewwww? Are we still in high school, ergrade school?"William Lindsay: "Mark, I have to saywith all Christian charitythat I grow a little weary of your puerile (and often sexist) ad hominems."Wow.Eduardo doesn't provide further explanation of his "Ewww", so we don't know if it is the sight of Rush Limbaugh with his hands on the bare shoulders of a woman young enough to be his daughter that induced that verbal gag reflex - or possibly Rush is capable of causing that all by himself.There are a lot of things that induce the "Ewww" reaction in various people, from changing poopy diapers to confronting a plate full of brussels sprouts to (if it may be said) imagining gay marriage ("Ewww" may be the major reason that homosexual marriage is still not permitted in most jurisdictions.) Our "Ewwws" need to be examined, and sometimes overcome. Just a thought for the day.I'm with Jean - I wish them well. (And thank you, Adam, for your flawless theological dissection of Mark Proska's unfortunate heresy. It is difficult to think of a better example of the persistence of evil than the Philadelphia Flyers, whose resilience resembles that of the cockroach after a fumigation, and their exacrable goon, Chris Pronger, who would look great in a Blackhawks uniform.)
Someone with Admin privileges really should do this magazine and blog a favor and delete this entire juvenile post. Moronic.
William--I take your comments to me in the same spirit as some of the comments I make--hoping to inspire a higher level of discussion on the blog, while recognizing that, blogs being what they are, it's best to allow for a fair amount of slack. Nevertheless, I'm sorry you find some of my comments unhelpful. Hopefully this one will be less offensive--at least it's longer!Adam--Thanks for the laugh. You really had me going. As you can see elsewhere, your post was only a slight exaggeration! My Latin is not what it used to be--in fact, it was never what it used to be--so I can only guess that you may be a Maple Leafs fan, perhaps with ties to Chicago? The Flyers are down, but not out. We've come back from the dead before in these playoffs (so maybe the Holy Spirit is actually on our side?), I'm hoping we can do it one more time. Thanks again for the comic relief, and injecting a measure of sanity. George--I generally don't find the "patriarchal mindset" argument very compelling, but in this case I think you may have a point. At the risk of sounding sexist (to some), it's refreshing how a woman's common sense can cut through a lot of male-induced gobbledygook. Your story of the Nigerian woman reminded me of Dr. Johnson's "just kick a stone" retort to Bishop Berkeley.Jim--Chris Pronger in a Blackhawks uniform? Ewwww!
Stop picking on poor Rush. I'm writing from California, where some of my very best friends have been married four, five, even six times. True love is hard to find these post-Vatican II days.
Back in my high school days, a friend of my younger brother used to say that he always told a prospective girlfriend, "You're the only girl I've ever truly loved."At least Mr. Limbaugh has some money to toss into his relationships, er, marriages :)Oh, the money, show me the money.
Joseph, prospective girlfriends might have agreed to a "date" after the delivery of the "you're the only girl I've ever truly loved" line, but I doubt that many of them really believed it. It's that "truly" that's the dead giveaway.
Mark Gordon, thanks for making your point about Elton John performing at Mr. Limbaugh's wedding clear. I thought that was where you were going. And, of course, that's my point: that the issues about which we're exchanging one-liners and slurs deserve open, honest, serious discussion. Which goes beyond the one-liners and rhetorical alpha-dog territory-marking tactics.I'd also note that today's juvenile and eeew may turn out to be tomorrow's taken-for-granted and what's the fuss about. People who are told that their viewpoint is beyond the pale--juvenile, not worth discussion, catty, high-schoolish--just don't stop talking, if they're committed to that viewpoint.I've just finished reading Daniel Mark Epstein's comparative study of Lincoln and Whitman, and am reminded all over again by that study of how abhorrent--how unthinkable and repugnant--many people once found the thought of interracial marriage.Talk about a taken-for-granted yuck factor: in fact, when Stephen A. Douglas chose to play that card before the 1860 election, it almost cost Lincoln the election, because a large majority of Americans took for granted that interracial marriage is not natural. As Epstein notes, had it not been for Lincoln's strong sense of a "guiding moral principle," which the opportunist Douglas lacked and which was evident in Lincoln's debates with Douglas, Douglas would almost certainly have had the upper hand.And, of course, the "discussion" of that issue of miscegenation in many journals of the day was entirely at the level of insinuation and slurs. Do a quick google search for illustrations used in the American press in the past to play on people's "natural" aversion to interracial marriage, and you'll quickly see the juvenile on full display, there for all the world to see.Our own juvenile past as a nation . . . . Which some of us seem unable or unwilling to shed now, when it comes to the discussion of current controversial issues where some of us take for granted "natural" yuck factors every bit as much as people of the past often did when interracial marriage was on the table. And where some of us want to prevent any discussion at all by throwing up rhetorical bars to the discussion from the outset--and then ridiculing anyone who notices and asks for serious consideration of those rhetorical bars and whether they're legitimate.Fortunately, that juvenile tactic of marking serious discussion of a subject off-limits eventually lost ground when it came to the question of interracial marriage (and of the abolition of slavery), no matter what tactics were used to thwart serious, public, honest discussion of the issues.Mind you, neither the discussion of abolition nor of interracial marriage took place in churches and their institutions to a great extent, despite the professed commitment of churches and their institutions to respectful analysis of controverted moral issues. It took place largely outside the churches, except for the significant and ultimately decisive handful of engaged and prophetic religious communities that openly advocated first for abolition and then for interracial marriage.As Epstein's book reminds me, most people of faith and churches were, in fact, hardly in the vanguard of the movement to abolish slavery or to protect the right of people to marry across racial lines.Though we like to take credit for this today.Nor were they by any means in the vanguard of serious, open, significant discussion of these issues. The important conversations--the honest and open ones that moved beyond insinuation and slur and hidden rhetorical tactics to disallow some voices and perspectives: those took place, with these major moral discussions of the past, largely outside the communities of faith and their institutions. Or rather, they took place on the margins of communities of faith rather than at their center--on the margins where there was an opening to freer and more invigorating conversation because on the margins, people of faith were willing to open their closed intraecclesial conversations to secular movements that dared to push against the boundaries with which many people have faith had become altogether comfortable.I'm sorry to learn that this is not the kind of discussion quite a few of us consider worth having, on this particular thread. And so I'm sorry to have intruded on a discussion that seems to be occurring according to ground rules other than those I had understood were at play when the discussion began.
To be clear, God is not responsible for creating a separate personhood based upon ethnicity or ancestry for we are all Men and Women, called to be oriented towards The Will of God.
Its not surprising that Rush is a hypocrite like the rest of us.Brian,If you had inserted a comma after hypocrite, I might be able to agree with you. I suppose we are all -- to some degree and at some point in our lives -- hypocritical. But without the comma, it reads to me as if you are saying we're all peas in a pod. That certainly isn't true. Rush Limbaugh, by reason of his position, has the opportunity to be a hypocrite on a very grand scale, and he takes full advantage of it.
Eduardo, to be clear, perhaps you or someone at Commonweal should write a defense of Traditional Marriage least it appear from the continued displaying of the "Homosexuality and the Church" article on this web site, that Commonweal is promoting a homosexualist agenda which denies The Truth of Love.
Far be it for me, a Leafs fan, to come to the defense of a Flyers fan. I think it is equivalent of an Thomist coming to the defense of a Augustinian or an Aristotelean defending a Platonist (or worst Plotinus) but I felt that I needed to add some levity to the conversation because William Lindsey's reaction to a comment that was rather innocuous seemed excessive.I cannot help but feel that your comment must have struck a particular chord with Mr. Lindsey that is best illustrated by Jim Pauwel's comments on homosexual marriage and the 'ewww' factor. I hardly think 'ewww' constitutes a legitimate philosophical argument, but I did think that Mark's use of it illustrated the absurdity of dismissing a lifestyle based on such prejudice or taste. Additionally, it is a rather astute observation to simultaneously point out some hypocrisy on the left when they dismiss arguments against homosexual marriage as homophobic (read: eww) yet engage in their own form of emotional dismissal (ewww).I think the root issue here, as with nearly all discussions concerning marriage, is the problem of definition and the particular views concerning the origins and purpose of marriage, the role of 'love' in marriage (a rather recent phenomenon), the nature of sex etc. I've always been intrigued by the arguments concerning marriage that move beyond the simple static view because as a Catholic and historian I cannot help but feel that Matthew's gospel which attempts to show a continuation between ancient Israel and the Church results in a more complex (and complete) ethics. Not that I am particularly in favour of may-december marriages, divorce, polygamy or homosexual marriage, but dismissing them off-hand indicates a certain Euro-centric ahistorical view of the marriage dynamic that is not conducive to deep discussion. I recall studying in the seminary where there were a number of seminarians from Southern Sudan (Dinka people). They were the first experience that I had encountered concerning polygamy and it helped me to see that perhaps some of our societal traditions are rather hinderances to the spreading of the gospel message as we tend to confuse our cultural traits with the foundation of the faith.But this reminds me of the trouble the Jesuits got in in China by adopting Confucian (or according to the Franciscans Confusing) dress. Is it not possible that at least some of our 'gut' reaction is more a product of our culture than anything intrinsic to the faith?
Sorry Jim if my above statement comes across as disagreeing with you. Rather, I was trying to second what you said but I'm not convinced I succeeded.
Just to make abundantly clear what I thought was already obvious to everyone by now, my "Ewwww" had nothing to do with Elton John or his sexual orientation. Rather, it was a response to the author's "Ewwww", in describing the picture of a young woman he linked to. You don't have to like Rush, but to describe his wife to be as "Ewwww" is, in my view, reminiscent of behavior one finds in high school (or grade school). Nevertheless, even if misinterpreted, the over reaction to it was revealing, in its own way.
Thanks, Mark Proska, for the clarification.I was clear from the outset about what you meant when you focused on the eeew in Eduardo P.'s posting--and not at all on the issue to which the posting drew attention.Just as I am very clear about why you and your cronies here immediately changed the subject to jock talk. Sort of reminds me of that movie--title and actors long forgotten--when two macho men woke up cuddling each other, not realizing they had ended up in bed together.And immediately jumped out of bed blustering on about the Yankees.You marked the territory plainly and well with your remark, and you set the boundaries of discussion and the tone of the discussion very adroitly with it, indicating who's permitted to talk, whose opinion counts, and what may be discussed. So how about them Yankees?
J.M.J.Adam, no doubt, some of our societal traditions are hinderences to the spreading of the Gospel message of authentic Love. However, if it is true that from The Beginning, we are called to Holy relationships with one another in communion with God, then it cannot be true that the role of Love in Marriage is a rather recent phenomenon. It is through the Spirit of Love that we exist. To deny The Spirit of Love is very serious.
"I recall studying in the seminary where there were a number of seminarians from Southern Sudan (Dinka people). They were the first experience that I had encountered concerning polygamy and it helped me to see that perhaps some of our societal traditions are rather hinderances to the spreading of the gospel message as we tend to confuse our cultural traits with the foundation of the faith."I used to correspond with a person who had done missionary work in Africa. He was somewhat critical of the line from the Eucharistic Prayer, "Lord, you are holy indeed, the fountain of all holiness". His view was that the people among whom he worked had no experience of fountains, so the imagery was lost on them; but they all know what a well is, so he suggested, "the well of all holiness".
I took the original "Ewww" to be, not an overall abhorrence (good word, William) of May-December romances, but specifically of Rush Limbaugh, the fountain of all unholiness, being able to entice romantic emotions in a nubile young woman. (I would think that, among certain demographics, another common reaction to that photo has been, 'That lucky bastard').It seems that, by and large, John Edwards' peccadilloes didn't provoke the "Ewww" response among liberals. That data point suggests that there is more at work here than a visceral reaction to May-December.
Re John Edwards: Are you kidding me? First, his fling was with a woman who wasn't that much younger -- although one might be confused about that given the immaturity of her behavior (she was at least 40). Second, I don't know anyone, liberal or conservative, who isn't aghast at what Edwards did -- that is, when they aren't simply sad at what impact his behavior must be having on Jack and Emma. Edwards and Limbaugh are both narcissistic jerks (would use other term but NSFW); but their hypocrisy turns on different means and flouts different proclaimed values. It's true that Limbaugh might not be Catholic, but he (like Newt Gingrich, etc.) has aligned himself with a party that has made a fetish of promoting conservative family values -- except for when their own members decide they would rather live a different way, and that's okay, like the wizard of Oz, "because because because, because of the wonderful things he does." Which is to say, so long as you agree with me and scratch my back, I'll drop my principles when it comes to you. It's a sad commentary on the authenticity of your values, or your integrity as a person for dropping them so fast when they are challenged by the conduct of your friends. Indeed, they begin to look rather pretextual, not like real values at all.
"I hardly think ewww constitutes a legitimate philosophical argument ... I think the root issue here, as with nearly all discussions concerning marriage, is the problem of definition and the particular views concerning the origins and purpose of marriage, the role of love in marriage (a rather recent phenomenon), the nature of sex etc.I think that's true about definitions and origins, at least in forums like this.To continue a line of thought that William has developed with his miscegenation example: as I've stated, I think the "Ewww" factor explains a good deal of opposition to homosexual marriage in the body politic. That is not to say that there aren't serious arguments against homosexual marriage, but frankly I doubt whether most opponents in the electorate are familiar enough with them to be able to explain them or use them in a serious discussion. "Ewww", as William pointed out, is a powerful political weapon, and I think it probably suffices for a lot of the electorate these days.
Barbara: let me suggest four other off-the-top-of-the-head examples: Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinski; Mark Sanford/Argentinian bombshell (whose name I don't think I ever learned); Eliot Spitzer/absurdly overpriced hooker (ditto on the name); Wilbur Mills/Firecracker (also Argentinian?)All of these instances induce the drop of the jaw, the shake of the head, the slap to the forehead. As you say, "aghast" just about sums it up. But do any of them induce the "Ewww" reaction the way the Limbaugh photo does?Not sure what the point of all this is, except that Limbaugh is special. That's probaby enough from me on the visceral.
Jim, perhaps you don't know the right liberals. Or perhaps their reactions went far beyond "ewww." Mine did. And even as I write this I realize I'm being suckered into defending the notion that liberals have moral sensibilities that might result in "ewww" moments about their friends as well as their enemies.Side note FWIW before I leave: That "ewww" deserves some parsing along gender and other demographic lines.My girlfriends had "ewww" moments re Rush's marriage--ironic since most of us are married to guys roughly Rush's age. For us the "ewww" has very little to do with the physical aspects of the relationship (though all of us feel our husbands are much handsomer than Rush thanks to years of our feeding, grooming, and dressing), and more to do with the notion that any woman of any political persuasion would be willing to listen to that blowhard morning, noon, and night. After two or three decades of marriage, one cannot hang on the beloved's every utterance for hours on end. When one of those political diatribes starts, even one we agree with, most of us look at our watches and give 'em 10 minutes, tops. Then we excuse ourselves to go do the dishes or tidy the bathroom.
Jim, thank you--and yes, you took my point precisely about the eeew factor (or yuck factor, to use term that pops up constantly in media discussions of homophobia). At the risk of boring Rita further, I'd like to make one comment about your valuable analysis.You say, ". . . I think the 'Ewww' factor explains a good deal of opposition to homosexual marriage in the body politic. That is not to say that there arent serious arguments against homosexual marriage, but frankly I doubt whether most opponents in the electorate are familiar enough with them to be able to explain them or use them in a serious discussion. 'Ewww', as William pointed out, is a powerful political weapon, and I think it probably suffices for a lot of the electorate these days."Exactly so. And that's why I was hoping we could move the discussion beyond a response that was equivalent to eeew, even as it slammed the use of that term.If we don't talk at a level that transcends those gut-level reactions, we don't get anywhere. Not anywhere meaningful.And if anyone doubts how powerful the yuck factor has been in our discourse about interracial marriage in the past, I'd propose having a look at the illustrations accompanying this posting at Kepler's Tarheel Lutheran website: http://tarheellutheran.blogspot.com/2006/10/coming-up-next-harold-ford-e... are just a smattering of pictures from fliers and newspapers of the 19th century, seeking to play on people's "instinctive" and "natural" yuck response when faced with the thought of interracial marriage.Fortunately, we've gotten well beyond that point (or have we?), and I think we have done so because we've been willing to talk beyond the initial impressions, and to move beyond slur and slander as a justifiable way of conversing.
Maybe the difference between Edwards et al. and Limbaugh is that, the former failed to live up to their self and/or public image whereas, very evidently, Limbaugh has made a lifestyle choice that most of us find rather revolting. There's no drama or sorrow in Limbaugh's serial divorce and remarriage. I put Larry King in the same category, except that he isn't as much of a sanctimonious blowhard. It's not just the chasm between the public and the private -- it's the complete oblivion to the fact that one's private life needs to be in any way synchronous with one's profession of values, which therefore appear to be all for show.
Part of me thinks we're all on candid camera (I have a guess as to who's playing the role of Alan Funt), but assuming this is all legitI don't see how Rush's marriage is inconsistent with what some people call "conservative family values." Isn't one of those values that a man and woman in love get married, rather than "live in sin"? So where's the hypocrisy?
Mark Proska, not to belabour the obvious, but traditional marriage is lifelong. Four marriages, the first three ending in divorce, seems more like serial polygamy than traditional marriage. I do not know what attitudes Mr. Limbaugh or his wives brought into his marriages, but if they regarded them as a contract to be dissolved at will, that's not the traditional view. William Lindsey, I respect the serious points you and others were making. My comment was intended to be humorous, I am sorry if it came across as dismissive. I should have added an emoticon~! :)
Rita--Agreed, but in that case, the problem is not with the marriage now, it's with the divorce then. I was more disappointed by the 3rd divorce than the 4th (and hopefully lifelong) marriage. By the 3rd marriage, he was financially set, to say the least. Guess money can't buy love.
Rita, thank you. And I did not intend to be dismissive, either. I truly do think I often try people's patience on a thread like this, by posting a number of times and at length. I don't want to be intrusive.Yes, emoticons help, don't they? The problem with wry humor in online communication, I've found to my consternation when I've tried it, is that people don't have the facial and other body-language cues to know you're being ironic, sarcastic, or wry.I also agree with your point about Mr. Limbaugh's traditional marriages. I'm surprised at the lack of historical awareness of many of those for whom serial monogamy of one man with one woman has become the norm, even as they resist a single marriage or union for a gay couple.Until fairly recently in Christian history, divorce and remarriage was unthinkable. Now people engaged in serial monogamy continue to hold their pattern of marriage up as traditional as they combat gay unions or marriages, never appearing to realize that their marriages would have been regarded as completely non-traditional and immoral a few generations back.
Mark, there was no fourth divorce; this is the fourth marriage. Interesting comment though; do you think that the last divorce was more reprehensible because he was rich by that time? If so, does that mean that poverty or relatively modest finances are a valid reason for divorce? Or perhaps I misread you and you can clarify.I don't know if there's a problem with the current marriage (though you say there's not). He's not Catholic, and so not likely to go through annulment procedures to determine whether any of the previous marriages were valid. However, given that I believe society is more stable when people find ways to stay together despite differences and strife, so I hope marriage #4 works out.
About the Author
Eduardo Moisés Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the subjects of property and land use law.


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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius / Barbirolli, Baker, et al
2 CD / Warner Classics / 2000-01-25Works: Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38
Performers: Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Borg, Kim; Lewis, Richard [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Barbirolli, John
"As with all Barbirolli's Elgar recordings, its dramatic impact remains startling and fresh. Richard Lewis and Kim Borg deliver richly characterised performances in the male...continue...


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A Message From Terrence J
Today is a new day. A new opportunity to follow your dreams. Take advantage of this blessing. Take that leap. Whatever your dream is, you have to step towards it. The more steps you take the more the universe will conspire to assist you…
If you want to run a label, quit your job at the bank & intern at a label. If you want to be a doctor, apply to school today, etc. I wanted to act, so every week I go to acting school for 14 hours, study film & actors, read about projects, etc. Once I took steps, roles came.
A girl replied, how can I pay my bills if I quit my job to follow my dreams? – when following your dreams you will be temporarily inconvenienced. Tyler Perry was HOMELESS years before becoming a MILLIONAIRE. Only you can determine the amount of sacrifice your dreams are worth.
Before 106 I had a job making 30k but I wasnt happy. I quit. Moved to NY, worked small jobs to get by, & lived on @FredWhit FLOOR 8 MONTHS! I just meet so many people that want to reach their goals & then complain when it sounds hard! Go watch Pursuit of Happiness
Everybody has a different story. U may have kids, mortgage, bills, etc. But God is powerful. There is always a way to follow your dreams!
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By Beverley Rider | Photograph by Tommaso Sartori
She inspired everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Rei Kawakubo, but Line Vautrin's early days weren't so promising. Born in 1913, the sculptor, jeweler and designer started out as a greeter for fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli. With her fiery personality, Vautrin lasted only a few days. Still, Schiaparelli influenced her later creations, and Vautrin opened her first boutique in Paris when she was 25. During World War II, Vautrin's "little somethings" in the form of jewelry, gilded boxes and accessories were popular with Parisian women, whose determined elegance became a form of resistance to the Nazis. In 1950, the "queen of buttons" invented a new type of resin, which she heated, carved and twisted to create sensual shapes. Her famous convex mirrors were then formed by encrusting small pieces of colored glass or resin into these frames. By the '60s, she had developed a devoted clientele that included Brigitte Bardot and Ingrid Bergman.
David Gill, the London gallerist, has been pivotal in introducing the work to a new generation including Kawakubo, founder of the Comme des Garçons anti-fashion clothing line, who gave a selling exhibition of Vautrin's jewelry in Tokyo in 1990. Vautrin died in 1997, and soon "prices for her work began to explode—increasing tenfold by 2007," says James Zemaitis, head of 20th-century design at Sotheby's. A piece now costs $10,000 to $100,000. Her dreams of the elements and mythology shine through in some of her work, which often focused on stars and constellations. Vautrin called them her miroirs sorcières or "witches' mirrors."
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I do 7-8 Tri's per year and LOVE these shorts. My only complaint is that the legs are a little long but thats really a personal preference. I read the earlier review from someone with "large thighs", apparently not like mine because these fit like a glove, if you look at the pictures like the reviewer says you will notice that in my opinion the person being photographed has VERY small thighs. The thing is Swimoutlet is one of the best companies in the world and if you don't like how they fit, return them.
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Wayne levies pass by wide margins
WAYNE — Three levies on the election ballot in Wayne County passed during Tuesday's general election, according to unofficial returns counted at the Wayne County Courthouse.
The levy for the county's fire departments passed with a result of 7,026 to 3,146 votes. The levy for the libraries passed with a result of 6,652 to 3,291 votes. The levy for the Wayne County Health Department passed with a result of 6,679 to 3,326 votes. Each item was voted on separately. Results are unofficial with 36 of 36 precincts reporting.
The excess levy election items were for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2013; July 1, 2014; July 1, 2015; and July 1, 2016, for the purpose of providing additional funds for the payment of current expenses by the order of the Wayne County Commission, according to wording from the official ballot.
The additional levy in cents for each $100 of assessed value on Class I, Class II, Class III and Class IV property is as follows: $0.85, $1.70, $3.40 and $3.40 for fire departments; $.021, $0.42, $0.84 and $0.84 for libraries; and $0.17, $0.34, $0.68 and $0.68 for the Wayne County Health Department.
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Lunardi Earns All-American In Two Sports
Susquehanna University's pitcher/outfielder John Lunardi '09 earned a spot on the 2009 D3baseball.com All-America team on May 20.
That was the second All-America honor for Lunardi during the 2008–09 academic year. He landed on the D3football.com All-America second team as a safety this past fall before earning this third-team honor as a utility player in baseball.
Lunardi, the 2009 Landmark Conference Player and Pitcher of the Year, earned first-team all-Landmark honors the past two seasons as both a starting pitcher and an outfielder.
He pitched the 14th perfect game in NCAA Division III history this past season and then hit two home runs the next day to earn national recognition from USA Today and Sports Illustrated. He is currently ranked seventh in Division III in lowest earned run average (1.60). As a tri-captain of the 2009 Landmark regular-season champions, he led the conference in lowest ERA and lowest opposing batting average (.193). He also tied for most wins (seven) and least walks allowed (nine) and tied for second in batters struck out (51). He broke the Susquehanna career record this season in runs scored (127) while also leading the team with a .415 batting average, a .517 on-base percentage, a .695 slugging percentage and eight home runs. His 42 runs in 2009 tied for the team lead.
Lunardi had an outstanding defensive season as well, committing just one error in 121 fielding chances and helping to turn four double plays.
During the 2008 football season, he led the Liberty League and ranked second in Division III in passes defended per game (2.10). He also intercepted five passes for 72 return yards and made 61 tackles (34 solo), including one for a loss, to make the all-Liberty first team as a defensive back.
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Next Sunday's concert will be lots of fun! See if you can hear the sounds of horses' hooves and the bullwhip of the cowboys in the Colorado premier of Circle the Wagons. In honor of the season, we have a special treat for you- musical and culinary! Come and enjoy!


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Apple Developing Lyrics Display for iPhone
AppleInsider reports that Apple has filed a patent on technology used to dynamically display text, such as song lyrics, in a motion perspective. The text would scroll or otherwise move across the display, adapting to user interaction. Hmm...sounds a bit like CoverFlow, doesn't it?
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Apple Developing Lyrics Display for iPhone
Yeah, but in the meantime, you can't view all the lyrics you've added to your iTunes library since the introduction of that function for the 5G and the nano. I'm really disappointed to learn that I can no longer view all my song lyrics on the iPhone. I hope they don't do that with the next gen iPod!


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Now that Federer is fresh off his Wimbledon win, I'm newly inspired to head out in the sweltering heat, brush the dust off my tennis racquet, and work on a killer serve -- all while wearing a cute tennis skirt of course. Want to avoid double-faulting on tennis deals? Check out these tips on how to save money on your game:
Mid-summer is a great time to purchase your tennis shoes, racquets, and accessories as stores unload their closeout models. For example, Sports Authority is offering a closeout model of this Wilson tennis racquet for $50, and Dick's Sporting Goods has this Prince tennis racquet for $52.
If you're like me, you also go through tennis balls in a hurry. They lose their bounce or I lose them over a fence! Many tennis experts say that the average player can't tell the difference between the cheap tennis balls and the high-end ones ones. However, if you go with ultra-inexpensive "3-for-$0.99" type balls, you'll be stuck buying new ones after 1-2 uses. The best route are the middle-of the-road tennis balls that average around $2-$3 per can, like these Wilson Championship balls.
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Got the helmet today, bought it because of the price and because it might fit my odd head. Kask helmets are pretty roomy and fit rounded heads way better than anything i had tried before. Since I got the blue color i did not pay that much either.
The helmet is comfortable right out of the box, still need to try it riding but the 1st impression is super positive. Well finished, not heavy, really nice helmet.
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Posted by Charming_Karl on 12/11/2014
OK, I have just two issues with Number One: that they are only open on the weekdays, and they tend to overdo it on the msg. Otherwise, this is decent classic NYC Chinese food. Egg rolls? Mmm. Wide noodles? Oh yes. Shrimp with Lobster Sauce? That too! My wife and I have had several good dinners there - the dining room is usually empty in the evening, but I gather the restaurant is a big hit for takeout/deliveries.
Posted by anonymous on 08/10/2012
I work in the area near little house and usually order ahead to pick up.... every time i do so it seems like an ordeal just to pick up food. I call and place my order and always request NO seafood in the eggrolls because im allergic and every time i end up tossing out my food because instead of pork fried rice they put shrimp fried rice then the lady at the front dictates to me that was what i ordered... never returning and neither are my office staff
Posted by LC on 11/07/2011
Been ordering dinner from this place for almost 10 years. One of my favorite delivery places in the Financial district.
Posted by Anonymous on 03/01/2011
they remember your address based on telephone #, so your order is fast and efficient (whoever answers knows english well too). also delivery is quick and the food is very good. my fav: steamed dumplings (great sauce), wonton egg drop soup, beef n broccoli combo (good egg rolls!) Enjoy.
Posted by Neha on 08/23/2010
The food quality wasn't as good as other people have claimed. I was disappointed by the service. We waited for more than 45 minutes and finally we had to take the food to-go. All three of us didn't enjoy our order. We would not repeat this place and not recommend it to anyone else.
Posted by Eddie on 07/19/2010
Best Downtown Chinese
Posted by Anonymous on 04/01/2010
I've been going to this place for a while now and I have to say the food is great. The prices are decent and the service is good as well. I love the shanghai rice cakes dish which is not often served in chinese restaurants unless they specialize in shanghai cuisine so its nice to have that option.


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Names Floated As Stevens Weighs Retirement
Lecturer in law Thomas Goldstein is quoted on the short list of potential candidates for the U.S. Supreme Court if Justice John Paul Stevens decides to retire this year. Bill Mears of CNN reports:
Justice John Paul Stevens is expected to announce by month's end whether he will retire from the Supreme Court, sources close to him tell CNN. His departure after nearly 35 years on the bench would give President Obama another opportunity to shape the nation's highest court.
Stevens, who turns 90 on April 20, has told colleagues he wants to decide soon -- for his own peace of mind -- but also to give the White House time to select a replacement and for the Senate to confirm the nominee.
"There isn't an immediate candidate who could give them just as much the second go-around," said Thomas Goldstein, a prominent Washington lawyer and founder of Scotusblog online. "There isn't a candidate who has Justice Sotomayor's personal history and also her ethnic background. But I think that the model for the administration is probably the same -- get someone in there who doesn't generate a lot of political heat against you and is a relatively easy person to confirm."


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After rescuing hundreds of birds from horrible deaths, a Midland woman has finally gained an ally in her war on open oil pits.
Pipeline leaks, unplugged wells, toxic drilling materials, and a virtually unregulated oil industry are leaving a legacy of polluted groundwater.
Texans used to litter like crazy; now the state's get-tough-on-trash policy is cleaning up their act.
The B-1 bomber costs too much and does too little—so who wants to keep it alive? The people of Abilene, whose economy could take a direct hit if the Pentagon pulls the trigger.
By pooh-poohing sentimentality and focusing on profits, Houston funeral home mogul Robert Waltrip is making a killing.