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By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Spirituality is intrapersonal. It's a liberating and uplifting awareness. It nurtures personal growth. It inspires more conscious perceptions. But when personal spirituality is organized into a religion, an institution is produced and, as all institutions, it then produces a hierarchy who concoct dogma that has nothing to do with spirituality and everything to do with maintaining social and political control.
The Roman Catholic Church lied about and covered-up decades of child abuse by priests. When finally exposed, they responded by banning "gay priests." But as Kathryn Conroy, assistant dean of Columbia University's School of Social Work, pointed out in a New York Times piece following the Vatican's ban on "gay priests":
What is forgotten in all of the hysteria about priest sexual abuse is that pedophilia is about a sexual attraction to children (most often, regardless of their sex) and about access. …
Reliable studies show that pedophiles (those adults who sexually abuse children) are overwhelmingly heterosexual. In fact, homosexuals are statistically underrepresented as those who sexually abuse children. …
Further, women have far lower rates of sexually abusing children than men do. So if the church were really serious about protecting children from sexual abuse by priests, gays would not be excluded from the priesthood and ordination would be extended to women.
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But the Church isn't really interested in gender equality or protecting children. Its only interest is protecting itself, which accounts for the decades-long cover-up and the scapegoating of gays. Consider these examples from the Philadelphia district attorney's report on sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests:
An 11-year-old girl was repeatedly raped by a priest who took her for an abortion when she became pregnant.
A teenage girl was groped by a priest while she lay immobilized in traction in a hospital room.
A sadistic priest enjoyed having children play the roles of Jesus and other biblical characters in parish Passion plays. He made them disrobe and whip each other until they had cuts, bruises and welts.
Moreover, the Church doesn't seem interested in real people at all. Again, their prime directive is maintaining dictatorial social (and political) control through their anti-human dogma.
The 300-year Unholy Inquisition and the subsequent wholesale slaughter of the native peoples in the "New World" are part of the Church's bloody history. One would have thought they'd have learned from their inhumanity to humanity. They didn't. Dogma first, people second.
In the 1980s – when Africa was experiencing a terrible drought and a devastating famine – Pope John Paul II, replete in his papal splendor, addressed a huge crowd under the blazing hot African sun.
As the television cameras panned out, viewers saw a sea of people, mostly women, most with a child on each breast, many with older children at their feet. All the children were fly-covered, emaciated and had grotesquely distended abdomens: the marks of famine, the omens of death.
"His Holiness" was preaching against birth control. Was JPII saying "God" likes to see suffering and dead children? It was difficult to read any other message into his dogmatic pronouncements.
Pope Benedict XVI recently continued his predecessor's ignominious, hypocritically tradition:
Vatican City – Pope Benedict spoke in support of Christian marriage and traditional family values Sunday [October 8, 2006], urging couples to resist modern cultural currents inspired by hedonism.
"May Christian couples build a family that is open to life and capable of handling, united, the many, complex challenges of our times," Benedict said as he delivered his traditional Sunday blessing from his window overlooking St. Peter's Square.
"There is a need for families who won't let themselves be swept away by modern cultural currents that are inspired by hedonism and relativism,'" the pontiff added.
"Hedonism and relativism": the pontiff said that while wearing his gaudy, hedonistic robes and vestments of gold, silk, fine linen and, no doubt, the high-priced Italian designer leather shoes he seems so fond of.
"Hedonism and relativism": the pontiff said that from the balcony of what, relatively speaking, can only be called his palace, the Vatican.
Hypocrite, n. One who [professes] virtues that he does not respect…
– Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Benedict has repeatedly damned the love of two adults who wish to validate their monogamous, family-building commitment to each other through the state-sanctioned civil union called "marriage." He seems to believe the Church can dictate to civil, secular governments: "Pope Tells Canada To End Gay Marriage," "Pope Assails Gay Marriage Ahead Of Visit To Spain," "Spain's PM Tells Catholic Church To Keep Out Of Gay Marriage Debate." The pope has consistently been told by national governments to butt out.
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, a Catholic, has supported a proposed law that would conform to court rulings in defining marriage as a union between two people, rather than a man and a woman.
"As prime minister of Canada, he has the moral responsibility to protect the equality of Canadians," spokesman, Thoren Hudyma, told the Globe and Mail newspapers in explaining that Mr. Chretien's duty was to the public, not his Church.
– AP, July 31, 2003
In Belgium, where three-quarters of the population is Roman Catholic, the Flemish Christian Democrats who voted in favor of the law [legalizing same-sex unions] said the issue boiled down to supporting all kinds of families. "For us, what's important is sustained relationships," said Luk Vanmaercke, a party spokesman. "We do not want to exclude gay couples from sustained relationships. On the contrary, we want to encourage them to take that responsibility too." …
"It's the Vatican's good right to make statements like this [opposing marriage equality], but here in the Netherlands, we have separation of church and state,'" said Kathleen Ferrier, a spokeswoman for the largest Dutch conservative party, the Christian Democrats.
– AP, July 31, 2003
Not surprisingly, more and more people are seeing that "That marriage 'fence' excluding gays isn't protection, it's bigotry." Nevertheless, scapegoating and condemning gay people are the pope's forte. But the Vatican is not the most homophobic organization. That distinction belongs to an evangelical Protestant organization: the Traditional Values Coalition headed by Rev. Louis P. Sheldon.
Sheldon's and the TVC's unbridled hatred of gay American is nothing short of legendary, as are their bogus claims and vile attacks. One of their favorites is that gay men and women have a clandestine underground network dedicated to preying upon children in order to "recruit" them into homosexuality.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson recently exposed rabid Republican Lou Sheldon – a Jack Abramoff beneficiary – and the TVC's anti-gay "bunk" in relation to the Mark Foley scandal:
One of the central tenets of anti-homosexual doctrine is the notion of "recruitment" – that adult gay people lure young people into homosexuality as a way of increasing their numbers. The most extreme anti-gay activists perceive a full-fledged conspiracy. The Traditional Values Coalition, a group whose homophobia can only be called rabid, goes so far as to claim that, after being enticed into sexual acts, the "young 'initiates' into the strange world of homosexuality are to be trained to reject the moral beliefs of their parents."
This is complete bunk, of course – most new research has tended to support the idea that homosexuality is more a matter of nature than nurture, and in any event the notion of an organized "recruitment" drive is far beyond ridiculous.
Mr. Robinson's truth-telling obviously lubricated lying Lou who asserted "research and news reports over the past decades show clearly that homosexuals molest children at far higher rates than do heterosexuals."
Wrong again, as usual. To reiterate Dr. Kathryn Conroy statement, "reliable studies show that pedophiles … are overwhelmingly heterosexual. In fact, homosexuals are statistically underrepresented as those who sexually abuse children" [italics added]. Furthermore, according to a new study in Pediatrics: The Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, children are at greater risk for sexual abuse by their parents than the fictitious marauding groups of organized homosexuals Sheldon claims are lurking everywhere just waiting to pounce.
Not surprisingly, Sheldon retaliated by citing articles from Joseph Farah's WorldNetDaily, an outlet that regularly features articles by Pat Buchanan, Jerry Falwell, and David Limbaugh. WND is also very fond of articles claiming Armageddon is near. One of WND's most recent offerings was "Why liberals channel Lucifer."
Can the ultra-conservative evangelical Christian Right really be confused about why young people are rejecting and abandoning them "in droves"? From The New York Times article "Evangelicals Fear the Loss of Their Teenagers":
Despite their packed megachurches, their political clout and their increasing visibility on the national stage, evangelical Christian leaders are warning one another that their teenagers are abandoning the faith in droves.
Life – especially for a teenager –
should be celebratory, not filled with the doom and gloom, fire and
brimstone evangelicals love to rain down on everyone, including their
own kids. As the muse Serendipity said in the 1999 film Dogma, some Christians – especially bible-thumping,
everything-is-a-sin, we're-right-all-others-are
Dogma n, [L dogmat-, dogma, fr. Gk, from dokein to seem] 1a: something held as an established opinion; esp: a definite authoritative tenet. B: a code of such tenets <pedagogical ~>. C: a point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds. 2: a doctrine or body of doctrines concerning faith or morals formally stated and authoritatively proclaimed by a church.
"From dokein to seem… established opinion… a point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds... formally stated and authoritatively proclaimed by a church" [italics added].
Dogma is the unsubstantiated opinion of someone or some group that must remain as is despite ever-changing social, cultural and political realities. As one definition in the OED put it, dogma is "an imperious or arrogant declaration of opinion" which uses itself as its source of authority: a perfect description of sophistry, irrationality and the ultra-conservative Christian Right.
So what did the evangelical elders blame for the teens' mass exodus?
Certainly not themselves or their message of intolerance, hate and bigotry:
I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.
– Randall Terry, currently a Republican candidate for the Florida state senate
Certainly not their own hysterical preaching that everyone who disagrees with their extremist agenda is innately evil and the cause of all the world's evils:
The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.
– Pat Robertson
I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way – all of them who have tried to secularize America – I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen. … [God allowed] the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve."
– Jerry Falwell on the cause of the 9/11 attacks
Certainly not the preposterous anti-knowledge, pro-ignorance claims made by prominent leaders of the evangelical Christian Right:
The Bible is the inerrant...word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc. [italics added]
– Jerry Falwell
They blamed "a pervasive culture of cynicism about religion, and the casual 'hooking up' approach to sex so pervasive on MTV, on Web sites for teenagers and in hip-hop, rap and rock music." Ho-hum. How predictable.
Perhaps these self-righteous evangelical leaders should take a closer look at themselves and their "morality" that was so well represented by Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart and, of course, murder advocate Pat Robertson.
The law-and-order judicial hero of the ultra-conservative leaders of the Christian Right is Antonin Scalia.
Most Americans do not want persons who are openly engaged in homosexual conduct as partners in their businesses … as teachers in their children's schools...
– Antonin Scalia in dissent of the Lawrence v. Texas, June 2003
He, like they, do not believe that every American deserves civil rights, a concept the vast majority of America's youth have grown up with and consider "a given." Perhaps that's another reason they're leaving the ultra-conservative evangelical fold. They see through the sanctimonious veneer of its leaders to the bigotry beneath.
Randall Balmer, professor of American religious history at the Barnard College of Columbia University, recently asked a poignant question:
Where's religious right's outrage now?
Where is the "moral majority" when we need it?
In 1979, Jerry Falwell formed an organization called Moral Majority, part of a larger initiative to register politically conservative evangelicals who would bring their "Christian values" into the public arena. The mobilization of these voters, who became known as the religious right, contributed, perhaps decisively, to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Ever since, the leaders of the religious right have been unsparing in their pronouncements on everything from abortion and welfare reform to Mideast policy and homosexuality.
But on the defining moral issues of our day, the war in Iraq and the Bush administration's use of torture against those it has designated as "enemy combatants," these "voices of morality" are strangely silent.
The war in Iraq claims more than a hundred civilian casualties a day and consumes $250 million daily in taxpayers' money – funds that presumably could go toward rebuilding Iraq or New Orleans, hunger relief in Africa, or the revitalization of public education, especially in neighborhoods mired in poverty. And yet, although the Bush administration led us into war under pretext – the supposed al-Qaeda connection and weapons of mass destruction – leaders of the religious right have yet to question the morality of the war in Iraq.
Professor Balmer was correct, mostly. Syndicated columnist Molly Ivins pointed out a notable exception: "Rev. Louis Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition is so in favor of torture he told [John] McCain that the senator either supports the torture bill or he can forget about the evangelical Christian vote. I'd like to see an evangelical vote on that one. I don't know how Sheldon defines traditional values…" [link added].
Like other leaders of the Christian Right, Sheldon defines them politically and given the money the TVC, James Dobson's Focus on the Family, Tony Perkins' Family Research Council and their affiliate organizations have to spend, they "bought" quite a few politicians to push their "values" agenda. The Mark Foley scandal exposed that and the Republicans' fraud, as Eugene Robinson noted:
It's possible that the Mark Foley scandal could finally end the phony, trumped-up "culture war" that the Republican Party has so expertly exploited all these years…
The Republicans wouldn't be where they are today – in control of the White House and all of Capitol Hill – if they hadn't portrayed themselves as the stalwart defenders of moral standards and painted Democrats as a bunch of anything-goes libertines. Republicans promised social and religious conservatives that the values they treasure would not only be respected but written into law. …
It was a political masterstroke, but it required creating and sustaining an illusion – that Republican officeholders themselves not only talked the talk but walked the walk, that in their own lives they adhered to these deeply conservative moral standards. Human nature being what it is, there was no way this illusion could be sustained.
So for a party that crusades against gay marriage and welcomes voters that consider homosexuality a sin or a disease, headlines about a gay Republican congressman lusting after underage male congressional pages are a problem. The emerging outlines of a coverup – allegations that the Republican speaker of the House, or at least his aides, got wind of Foley's little problem months or years ago – are an even bigger problem.
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. went straight to the point in his commentary "'Values' party's lack of shame: The GOP sells itself as morally better. Inaction on the Foley matter shows what a joke that is."
But "values guru" Lou Sheldon has a suggestion: get rid of all the gays in the Republican party…
the Republican Party needs to discuss how should it should [sic] deal with homosexuals inside the leadership of the Party Liberal Republicans constantly talk about the Republican Party being a "big tent open to everybody."
As radical homosexuals have been welcomed into "the big tent," it has become a less welcoming place for religious conservatives and a dark and dangerous place for children.
Today, Republicans need to take a long and hard look at what they have done by welcoming homosexuals into the GOP. Republicans need to make a simple choice between the innocent children and radical homosexuals who prey on them. [italics added]
Lou Sheldon and the TVC are notorious for twisting already perverted stereotypes of gay and lesbian Americans and then using them as scare tactics. For a more thorough analysis of this political strategy see "America's New McCarthyism: Homosexual Stereotypes, Myths, and the Politics of Fear," Popular Culture Review, 16:2 (August 2005), 83-115.
The politics of fear and divisiveness have dominated America since George W. Bush was appointed president. It's no secret that the leaders of the evangelical Christian Right pull the strings of their puppet president and other faith-based, values voting Republican politicians.
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Joseph Farah said:
Not too many comments, huh?
I see you haven't received many comments to this article. Let me be the first. I only discovered it because Google automatically sent it to me because my name appears in it. So, let me get this straight: You pull two headlines out of WND's database of more than 50,000 and those are representative of what our site is about?
Perhaps your notions of "tolerance" and "diversity" mean no Christian editorialists should be permitted to have their views expressed. That's not the way we feel here at WND, where we aspire to present the broadest spectrum of opinion on the Net -- from Ellen Ratner and Maralyn Lois Polak on the left to Pat Buchanan and David Limbaugh on the right. Atheists contribute and even Christians!
Isn't that outrageous?
Richard Kastelein said:
Joseph, Paul Sperry was your Washington Bureau Chief at one time if I do recall. Until he wrote Bush is a Liar... then I watched him rocket down the masthead at WND into oblivion. Note: that was his last editorial for WND.
Now - it's a couple of years later and it's acceptable to bash Bush around a little, you've taken the liberty of tossing in a couple of progressive' liberals to give a faux appearance of being balanced. You are about as balanced as a unipedal kangaroo.
The Senior Editor of this website, Chris Floyd, is also a columnist at Lew Rockwell - which is hardly a bastion of commies now is it?
jon said:
poor reasoning...
A modicum of research into the woefully misnamed "pedophilia" scandal that rocked the Catholic Church should have informed you that the majority of the proven cases of sexual abuse by Catholic priests were instances of ephebophilia, or the sexual attraction of an adult for an adolescent, not a child. And, needless-to-say, ephebophiles display strong homosexual characteristics, as in the case of Rep. Foley. Besides, that Catholic seminaries have been hotbeds of homosexual activity for some time now is nothing new, making it quite plausible that the new pope sees the dire need to reform the manner in which seminaries are run as irrespective of the ephebophilia scandal. You don't seem to consider this point of view at all, going on to sloppily lump the Catholic Church's 2000-year-old teachings on homosexuality and contraceptives in with the wholly unChristian opinions of the likes of Falwell and Robertson on the issues of war, gays, feminists and the like. The Catholic Church of recent memory has ceaselessly appealed to warmongers to end war; to racists to end racism; to death penalty advocates to limit or even end capital punishment, etc. Admittedly, it has not always done so, but Rome still exhibits a willingness to dialogue over these and other issues that the neocon pseudo-Christians like those you've listed above (and that includes some American-Catholics like Scalia, who are sadly more American than Catholic) are never likely to demonstrate. That they don't should have nothing to do with your breezy editorializing on the concept of "dogma", but unfortunately, you've let it.
Richard Kastelein said:
I don't buy into the Catholic moral superiority you are trying to paint here for a number of reasons... but the main is, as a reporter in St. Maarten in the 90's, I worked closely with some reporters from the Hartford Courant to hunt down Laurence Brett, a serial PEDOPHILE priest (some of the boys he raped were prepubescent) who was shipped out of the US and hidden in the Caribbean by the Catholic clergy. Well, we found him - living in a small village chock full of expatriate families with lots of kids around. He escaped and someone is still paying his bills somewhere. I would guess that to be...? Cardinal Egan. The Village Voice outed Egan not long ago - providing some reason perhaps for his coverups.
jon said:
That that has ANYTHING to do with the concept of "oppressive" religious dogma is a non sequitur, and I imagine you know it. Simply put, the "hard truth" is that your article could stand a rewrite. Unless, of course, your point truly is to gratuitously smear the approximately 1.5 billion Christians in this world and the tenets of their faith. But I'd like to think better of you, Dr. Seesholtz.
jon said:
I posted a comment before I clicked on your Village Voice link and I am sorry I did so: the article was a gem, and I think it quite nicely makes a good point for me.
from the Voice:
"The [law]suit [against Cardinal Egan], now pending in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, was filed on December 13 by Bob Hoatson, a 53-year-old New Jersey priest considered a stalwart ally among survivors of sexual abuse by clergy. Hoatson, the now-suspended chaplain for Catholic Charities in Newark, is suing Egan and nine other Catholic officials and institutions, claiming a pattern of 'retaliation and harassment' that began after Hoatson alleged a cover-up of clergy abuse in New York and started helping victims.
"But that's not all his lawsuit claims. Halfway through the 44-page complaint, the priest-turned-advocate drops a bomb on the cardinal: He alleges that Egan is 'actively homosexual,' and that he has 'personal knowledge of this.' His suit names two other top Catholic clerics in the region as actively gay Albany bishop Howard Hubbard and Newark archbishop John Myers."
Hmmmm. What we have here seems to be a good, orthodox Catholic priest who, as "a stalwart ally among survivors of sexual abuse by clergy" and the ex-chaplain of a charitable organization is bringing legal action against what he says is a homosexual clique of abusers and their enablers within the clerical higher-ups and has been punished for it. How that possibly squares with your editorial about the (hetero?) Catholic hierarchy--presumably orthodox, as your target is the idea of Christian 'dogma'--scapegoating innocent gay clerics simply strains your argument all the more. For as the Village Voice seems to suggest, it is quite the opposite: The allegedly gay cardinal, bishop, and archbishop are ENABLING the abuse or its coverup while "harrassing" and "retaliating" against the good (hetero?) Christian priest.
Seems the pope's wanting to do something about the 'velvet mafia' in the Church isn't a matter of scapegoating at all, but simply good housekeeping...
Richard Kastelein said:
Jon - admin is not mel
I made the comment not Mel. And I still don't buy into the fact that you see 'lumping' Catholic Priest boy lovers into an article called the Politics of Religion as being inappropriate somehow.
Richard Kastelein.
Anitra Freeman said:
Humanity, not ideology, is the problem
People who get power try to maintain it, and often abuse it. That is whether we are Catholic priests, government officials, newspaper editors, influential bloggers, or university professors. The fault, dear Brutus, is in ourselves, not in our gods.
There are many Catholics, even priests, and many other Christians, pastors, Muslims, imams, people of all religions, who are just and egalitarian and compassionate. There are people both theist and atheist who do not present themselves as one of the Righteous Few battling an unrighteous world.
Any personal beliefs, whether we call them "spirituality" or "religion" or "chocolate," can become an excuse for submerging our intelligence and conscience and common humanity in a groupthink Crusade. Any set of beliefs can be used to strengthen and support our intelligence and conscience and common humanity.
Mel, I applaud you for exposing the hypocrisy in extremist Christian crusaders. But to identify such faults with any particular church or religion is to both cut ourselves off from potential allies and blind ourselves to the same faults elsewhere -- including in ourselves.
We are all human beings struggling with the Old Monkey Within, who says, "Our Tribe is Best, we get all the bananas!" We need to love the best in all, even our opponents, in order to overcome the worst in all, even ourselves.


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Wayne Taylor's pinch-hit, three-run home run in the top of the eighth inning helped the Stanford baseball team stay alive with a 10-7 win over host Indiana in the NCAA's Bloomington Regional on Sunday.
Stanford (33-24) and Indiana (44-14) will meet again for the regional title Monday at 2:30 p.m. (PT).
The Cardinal trailed 6-4 when Taylor sent Jake Kelzer's pitch over the left-center field wall.
Stanford added three insurance runs in the ninth, including Zach Hoffpauir's RBI triple.
Hoffpauir and Austin Slater, who extended his hitting streak to 21 games, each had three hits.
Indiana led the entire game until Taylor's blast, jumping ahead with a three-run first.
Hoffpauir and Brant Whiting hit back-to-back solo home runs for Stanford in the second inning.
A.J. Vanegas (3-3) earned the win after throwing a season-high 51/3 innings of relief.
Earlier in the day, Stanford beat Youngstown State 12-4 in a loser's bracket game.
The Cardinal's Brett Hanewich (4-4) allowed one earned run and three hits in seven innings, and Danny Diekroeger went 3 for 4, including a three-run homer, against the Penguins (17-38).
College rugby
Cal culminated its unbeaten run through the Collegiate Championship with a 24-21 victory over Kutztown to become back-to-back 7s champions in Philadelphia. The Bears overcame an early 7-0 deficit with three unanswered tries. Senior captain Seamus Kelly had a team-high six tries in a three-day, six-match effort. Kelly immediately left for Houston to join the U.S. national team for its match against Scotland on June 7.
College crew
The Cal men's crew won the national title in the second varsity eight and third varsity eight en route to a runner-up team finish at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship in West Windsor, New Jersey. Cal had 188 points, four behind Washington at Lake Mercer. In the first varsity eight race, Washington won, followed by Brown and Cal. Stanford was 13th overall, winning the varsity eight "C" final.
College golf
Junior Patrick Rodgers won the 2014 Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year Award, the Golf Coaches Association of America announced. He is Stanford's second Nicklaus recipient, joining Tiger Woods (1996). Rodgers had six collegiate victories in 2013-14 and tied Woods' all-time Stanford record for career wins (11).
Horse racing
Tiz Kissable rallied to win the $31,185 turf feature at Golden Gate Fields. Ridden by Dennis Carr, Tiz Kissable beat Tacit Approval by three-quarters of a length. Trained by Tim McCanna, Tiz Kissable paid $4.40 as the 6-to-5 favorite and finished one mile in 1:38.45.
Wire services contributed to this report.
bloomington regional
Stanford 12, Youngstown State 4, YSU eliminated
Stanford 10, Indiana 7
Stanford (33-24) vs. Indiana (44-14), 2:30 p.m.

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EVANS, Ga. (AP) -- A Columbia County jury found a 24-year-old man guilty of murder today in the 2001 stabbing death of the husband of Ashley Smith, the woman who was credited with helping to capture Atlanta's courthouse shooting suspect last year.
Corey Blaine Coggins was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Mack Smith was stabbed in the heart during a brawl in August 2001 at an apartment in Martinez, an Augusta suburb.
Smith's widow never had to take the stand in the trial and was in the courtroom when the verdict was announced.
Ashley Smith was living in suburban Atlanta in March 2005 when she said courthouse shooting suspect Brian Nichols forced his way into her apartment after the shooting rampage that began at the Fulton County Courthouse.
Nichols let her go, then peacefully surrendered to authorities.
Authorities credited Smith's calm dealings with her captor in causing his surrender.
The attention she received last year for her role in Nichols' capture renewed interest in her husband's killing, and the case was reopened last March.
Coggins was one of two people charged in the stabbing.
Charges of felony and malice murder against 23-year-old Barry Keith Tabor Junior were dropped yesterday for lack of evidence.
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Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Lee (Browder) Harris, 67, of Loco are scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, November 17, 2012, at the Praise Assembly of God Church of Comanche with the Rev. Wade Peyton officiating assisted by her sons, Kevin and Kendall Harris. Interment will follow at the Ringling Memorial Cemetery at Ringling with Pastor Warren Harkins officiating.
Services are under the care and direction of Alexander Funeral Home of Ringling.
Mary was born November 27, 1944, at Waurika to the late Mr. Haskell Jack Browder and Mrs. Mary Melissa (Groomer) Browder. She departed this life Wednesday, November 14, 2012, at Oklahoma City.
Mary was raised in Claypool attending school there until it was consolidated with Ringling. She graduated from Ringling High School in 1962 and then attended college at Southeastern Oklahoma State University of Durant. There she received her Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education with a minor in physical education. She furthered her education at Midwestern State University of Wichita Falls, earning her master's degree in special education.
She and Mr. Ronald J. Harris were united in marriage on May 26, 1972, at Ardmore. Mary was a teacher and counselor all of her working years. She was mostly employed for public schools in Texas and Oklahoma and retired from Fox Public Schools in 2006. She was currently employed for Tri County Coop as a psychomertist where she visited several public schools in the area. She loved to travel and visit with her grandkids and was a devoted member of the Praise Assembly of God Church of Comanche.
Ronald preceded her in death on January 3, 2008. Also preceding her in death were her parents; and a grandson, Caleb Harris.
Survivors include her daughter, Kimberly Harman and husband, Kent of Loco; sons, Kevin Harris and wife, Felicia of Mt. Pleasant, Texas, and Kendall Harris and wife, Jennifer of Bronx, N.Y.; brother, Bill Browder and wife, Jimmye Kay of Durant; sister, Martha Jo Foster of Wichita Falls, Texas; grandchildren, Kyle, Kayla, Noah, Josh, Anna, Jayden, Devon and Grayson; and numerous other family and friends.
Pallbearers are Noah Harris, Josh Harris, Kyle Harman, Monte Martin, Kenny Foster, Donald Foster, Terry Fletcher, Mike Adkins and Jeff Adkins.
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Gary Phillips' new story on gentrification, Bicycle Cop Dave, which he is writing (with Manoel Magalhães as artist) is unlike any other webcomic I have read (and for those of you reading this interview at work, it is a mature webcomic [meaning not safe for work {NSFW}]). Phillips, a longtime community activist and successful mystery novelist, has teamed with FourStory (a housing advocacy site "supporting fair living conditions for everyone") on this project. I interviewed Phillips a number of years ago in connection with Angeltown at Vertigo, so it was a pleasure to catch up with him through this email interview.
Tim O'Shea: Given the nature of Bicycle Cop Dave, would it be fair to say you are a community activist on some level?
Gary Phillips: Yes, as Sarah Palin tried to punk on last year, I was once a diligent and dreaded community organizers. I've also been a business rep for a union, the political director for an electoral campaign and the state director for a political action committee. Certainly in some of my prose work, from my first book Violent Spring, a mystery set after the '92 riots (or civil unrest depending on where you are on the political spectrum) to my recent Freedom's Fight, about black soldiers in WWII, a certain amount of social-political stuff infuses my work.
But, and this is a big, but as it were, there's a reason I mostly write crime and mystery stories and not tired-ass, long-winded nonfiction polemics. I like my characters twisted, bent and strange doing all sorts of mischief, and not trotting out their soap boxes to jump on to give a spiel and harangue.


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I recently installed the demo pro version of QCAD (Version 188.8.131.52) for evaluation purposes, but later found that the community version was available for install on my Ubuntu 10.10 system. That community version (Version 126.96.36.199-Free-1) is now installed. Although it is less functional than the demo version, it is not limited to 10 minutes contiguous use. Therefore I wish to delete the demo version.
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Busy day for NFL firings
Published: Monday, December 31, 2012 at 4:14 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 31, 2012 at 4:14 p.m.
SAN DIEGO — By lunchtime Monday, seven NFL coaches were looking for work.
With the regular season ending the day before, the firings came at a furious clip and within a two-hour span the following were sacked: Andy Reid in Philadelphia, Lovie Smith in Chicago, Norv Turner in San Diego, Pat Shurmur in Cleveland, Romeo Crennel in Kansas City, Chan Gailey in Buffalo and Ken Whisenhunt in Arizona.
Though he also had a losing record, New York Jets coach Rex Ryan held onto his job while general manager Mike Tannenbaum was let go. Jacksonville fired its GM, Gene Smith, and coach Mike Mularkey could go soon, too.
The Chargers and Browns made it a clean sweep. San Diego dismissed GM A.J. Smith along with Turner. Cleveland fired GM Tom Heckert along with Shurmur.
Reid was the longest tenured of the coaches, removed after 14 seasons and a Super Bowl appearance in 2005 — a loss to New England.
Smith spent nine seasons with the Bears, leading them to the Super Bowl in 2006 — a loss to the Indianapolis Colts.
Turner went 56-40 with the Chargers, the third team to fire him as head coach. San Diego won the AFC West from 2006-09 — he was 3-3 in the playoffs — but didn't make the postseason the last three years.
Gailey was dumped after three seasons with the Bills; Shurmur after two; and Crennel had one full season with the Chiefs.
Reid took over a 3-13 team in 1999, drafted Donovan McNabb with the No. 2 overall pick and quickly turned the franchise into a title contender.
He led them to a run of four straight NFC championship games, a streak that ended with a trip to the NFL title game. But the team hasn't won a playoff game since 2008 and after last season's 8-8 finish, owner Jeffrey Lurie said he was looking for improvement this year. Instead, it was even worse. The Eagles finished 4-12.
"Andy Reid won the most games of any head coach in Eagles history and he is someone I respect greatly and will remain friends with for many years to come," Lurie said. "But, it is time for the Eagles to move in a new direction. Andy leaves us with a winning tradition that we can build upon."
Shurmur went 9-23 in his two seasons with the Browns, who will embark on yet another offseason of change — the only constant in more than a decade of futility. Cleveland has lost at least 11 games in each of the past five seasons and made the playoffs just once since returning to the NFL as an expansion team in 1999.
"Ultimately our objective is to put together an organization that will be the best at everything we do," Browns CEO Joe Banner said. " On the field, our only goal is trying to win championships."
Crennel took over with three games left in the 2011 season after GM Scott Pioli fired Todd Haley. Kansas City will have the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft as a result of having one of the worst seasons in its 53-year history. The only other time the Chiefs finished 2-14 was 2008, the year before Pioli was hired.
"I am embarrassed by the poor product we gave our fans this season, and I believe we have no choice but to move the franchise in a different direction," Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said in a statement.
Gailey, the former Dallas Cowboys coach, compiled a 16-32 record in his three seasons in Buffalo, never doing better than 6-10.
"This will probably be, and I say probably, but I think it will be the first place that's ever fired me that I'll pull for," Gailey said.
Smith and the Bears went 10-6 this season and just missed a playoff spot. But Chicago started 7-1 this year and has struggled to put together a productive offense throughout Smith's tenure. His record was 81-63 with the Bears.
Along with Whisenhunt, the Cardinalsh also ousted general manager Rod Graves, who had been with the franchise for 16 years. He'd been general manager since 2007.
The housecleaning by Cardinals President Michael Bidwill, son of team owner Bill Bidwill, followed a season that saw the team start 4-0 but lose 11 of its last 12 to finish 5-11.
The 50-year-old Whisenhunt had more wins than any other coach in Cardinals history, going 45-51, 4-2 in the playoffs. He had a year worth about $5.5 million left on his contract.
Of the team's three winning seasons the past 28 years, two came with Whisenhunt as coach.
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Getting better with age (The Cincinnati Post)
Whenever players discuss Roger Federer, there's usually a qualifier. Something like, "Well, he's the No. 1 player in the world for a reason" or "That's why he's the best ever" or "Roger was just being Roger." Something along those lines.
Ask James Blake about his opponent's recent play that, before Federer beat him 6-1, 6-4 for the Western & Southern Masters title Sunday, could be characterized as decent but not Federer-like.
"He," Blake said," is still No. 1 in the world so he's still doing something right."
Ask Lleyton Hewitt, who was dispatched by Federer in the semifinals about how the world's No. 1 plays important points extremely well. "That," Hewitt said, "is why he's one of the greatest players ever."
Federer lives up to billing (Cincinnati Enquirer)
Imagine if Roger Federer had to dust off all his tennis trophies.
Wisely, the world's No. 1 player protects them in the office-sized trophy room of his residence in Oberwil, Switzerland. "I got that problem solved by having them behind glass," Federer said, "so you don't have to dust them off all the time."
Federer collected a 50th ATP trophy to put behind glass Sunday in a 6-1, 6-4 victory against James Blake that took all of 66 minutes to complete the finals of the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters.
The match displayed the pinnacle of a transformation Federer underwent here in five matches at the Lindner Family Tennis Center. Federer used up a lot of breath in post-match interviews this week, telling reporters how difficult of a time he was having "reading" the court. Anyone could beat him here, Federer asserted. Lleyton Hewitt, Blake, Nicolas Almagro - they all had Federer shaking in his Nike tennis shoes.
"Look," Federer said Thursday afternoon following a two-set victory, "there's many good players in there who I feel I can lose to at any time."
Federer finds form and 50th career title (The Age)
ROGER Federer described his Cincinnati Masters victory on Sunday as the perfect preparation for his bid for a fourth consecutive US Open title.
A day after his torrid semi-final win over Australia's Lleyton Hewitt, world No. 1 Federer crushed American James Blake 6-1, 6-4 to win his 14th Masters Series title and 50th career singles crown.
Little more than a month after lifting a record-equalling fifth consecutive Wimbledon, the 26-year-old now he turns his full attention to the US Open, starting next week.
Career title No.50 boosts Federer's US Open bid (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Roger Federer says his Cincinnati Masters victory on Sunday was the perfect preparation for his bid to win a fourth consecutive US Open title.
The world No.1 crushed American James Blake 6-1, 6-4 to win his 14th Masters Series title and 50th career singles crown.
In the past three years, Federer's preparations for the US Open have been hit by either an early loss or withdrawal from one of the two Masters Series events on the hardcourts in North America. This time, he reached the final in Montreal, losing a third-set tie-breaker to Novak Djokovic of Serbia, before winning in Cincinnati.
"It's been my best summer here," Federer said. "[In the past], I've won a tournament and then either lost first or second round, or then I didn't play, and then I won Cincinnati.
Federer fifth-youngest to win 50 tourneys (Xinhua)
Swiss tennis star Roger Federer attained another milestone Sunday, becoming the fifth-youngest to win 50 tournament titles by defeating American James Blake 6-1, 6-4 in the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters.
At age 26, he became only the ninth overall in the Open Era — since 1968 — to win so many tournaments.
"It's not a goal I set for myself in my career, but it's definitely a nice number to get to, especially in terms of titles," Federer said. "It's really a lot, you know, so it's great."
Sampras' slam record Roger's next target
If you believe Roger Federer, his pursuit of Pete Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam titles happened almost by accident. This was not a kid who grew up dreaming of tennis stardom: Fascinated by basketball, Federer says, he decorated his bedroom with posters of Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal.
If you believe Federer, he is not "too obsessed" with getting the better of Rafael Nadal, no matter what it takes. Federer did, after all, give his on-court nemesis a ride on a private jet from last week's tournament in Montreal to this week's tournament in Ohio after learning that Nadal was having trouble finding a suitable commercial flight. Yep, there they were, thousands of feet above the earth, Roger and Rafa, chatting with their girlfriends over a sushi lunch, like any pair of wealthy pals. Would McEnroe have done that for Connors? Would Woods for Mickelson?
Federer hits 50 at just 26 (Allentown Morning Call)
He's fifth-youngest tennis player to win 50 career tournaments.
Roger Federer raised both arms triumphantly when his ace finished it off. After years of having everyone else's number, he had a special one of his own.
Fifty for Federer.
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i'm so proud of being your fan. i'll always remember the happiness and great tears of yr great victories ...Thank you a lot for all good things you have done. You make my world more exciting~~~I'll support you forever
i'm so proud of being your fan. i'll always remember the happiness and great tears of yr great victories ...Thank you a lot for all good things you have done. You make my world more exciting~~~I'll support you forever
Dear Roger,
You are on the path to be the Best-ever tennis of the history.And may be in another 100 years, there is no achievements as you've done.
There is no body can play tennis like you. A lot of titles, many tennis rec
Good Luck with your next BIG SLAM...US OPEN...Hope to see you in person in play at the Flushing Meadows
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In 1994 Matt left Manchester to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Here he met many like minded musicians that have made an impact on the London Jazz scene. They included Tom Cawley, Gareth Lockrane, Orlando Le Fleming, and, perhaps most significantly, Tenor Saxophonist Osian Roberts. It Has been with Osian that both Matt and Steve have continued to work most closely, playing many gigs together and recording on Osian's record label 'Hard Bop Records'.
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From 2004 to 2009 Matt lived in New York, Playing and working with many great musicians including Frank Basile, David Wong, Joe Magnarelli, Jeremy Pelt, John Colianni, Adam Birnbaum, Frank Wess, Bob Cranshaw, Cedar Walton, Peter Washington, Joe Cohn, Dmitri Bayevsky, Harry Allen, Sean Smith, Jay Leonhart, Sacha Perry, Anita O'Day, Mike Karn, and Earl May amongst others. He performed at many venues in NYC including The Iridium, Smalls, Fat Cat, The Rainbow Room etc. and, with the John Colianni Trio, on the TV show 'After Hours' on MSNBC.
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Here is the video of the brother of Providence guard Xavier who storms the court after his brother his hurt. If you look closely he walks down the aisle over the bench and then on the court without anyone stopping hi,. This could have been worse.
that guy needs to relax. his brother got accidently poked in the eye or hit on the nose. Accidents happen in sports.
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I think the Dunkin Doughnuts center will beef up secruity after this incident. Why is God's name would u go on the court to protest that. I am sure he looks like an idiot after seeing the foul was neither intentional and not the opposing player fault.
he must have been drinking that irish dunkin donuts coffee.
Did you know that is the only arena where you can get a doughnut and a beer at the same concession stand.
You would know that fact Marion. Yet here is the article about the brother and his past troubles
Yeah it's an embarassing incident, but sports venues can't possibly be secure from idiots like this. That's why you see so many running onto the baseball or football fields.
In a lot of arenas, the area right behind the bench is used for fans filing to and from their seat. Right up until he stopped behind the bench and jumped over, there was no reason to think he wasn't just going to get some nachos.
If they're going to beef up security, they need to just station a man with a billy club right behind the bench. Otherwise I'm not sure what all you can do.
i guess people didnt expect this at a college bball game. Every time i watch the nfl there are security guys who stand by the field and just watch the fans and have no idea whats going on on the field.Thats how its gotta be done.
Its sad that sports have got to a point where you cant go to a game with out getting searched or having security guards protecting the court/field. You cant even go to a high school game with out there being cops there. Go to an eagles game and you get felt up at the gates cause they think every one has a flare gun in their waistbands. This is getting rediculous.
Thats horrible that it comes down to that. It seems like this heighten security ruins the whole aspect of watching the game.
i Agree, they are seperating the fans from the game, not saying fans should get invovled but the fans need to feel like they are part of the home team.
As long as fans know not to cross the line. That movie "The Fan" with Robert DeNiro and Wesley Snipe was the case of a fan becoming too obssessed. One of Benecio io Del Toros first films fyi
Sounds like you might you like that movie. Is that what you do to Anfernee? did you still Big Pennys' kid? Is that why your name is lil penny because you are obsessed with the hardaways? You are starting to scare me LP
no i am just a fan. Like that Cherokee Parks poster we had ...rip
Cherokee never dies. I am back to dominate once again. That kid that ran on the court is my third cousin. Hes done that before in one of my 7th grade aau games.
Seems like he has a history then. Someone needs to give this guy the old steve austin stunner
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I was reminded at a meeting this week about how one of our fellow West Virginia cities worked together many years ago to define the major projects to benefit their community....
The leaders of Parkersburg lack vision and enthusiasm for their community. Parkersburg and the MOV as a whole offer little for companies or businesses to locate there. Anytime someone, like the mayor, has an idea to revitalize the area folks line up as naysayers resulting in a city of shabby old crumbling buildings and houses.
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The mid Ohio Valley city of Camelot close to the historic city of Marietta!! Oh, if it were only possible in 2023!!!
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1. When examined in detail, Irving's claim that Hitler acted against antisemitic excesses by his followers during the putsch of 1923 dissolves into thin air. He misrepresents the document on which he relies, he embroiders it with outright inventions, and the document itself turns out to be evidence from a source so biased as to have no credibility at all. He completes this by skewing a genuine source so as to give a misleading impression of Hitler's attitude towards another attack on Jewish property which he himself ordered and justified in his testimony before a court of law.


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Move over "Jingle Bells" — there's a new traditional holiday tune in town: DMX's rendition of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
Asked if he would "do the honors of spitting" the classic Christmas song during a recent visit to Power 105.1, DMX happily obliged, launching into festive a capella performance of "Rudolph" sung entirely from memory.
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For the first time in school history, the Heritage High girls basketball team is headed to the North Coast Section Division I championship game.
To do it, the Patriots had to beat the biggest Division I heavyweight of them all -- Berkeley.
The task was no problem for the defensive-minded Patriots, who dominated the three-time defending champions in the second half to post a 65-40 victory in Wednesday's semifinals.
"It's nice to know we can do it playing a powerhouse like (Berkeley)," said Heritage coach Dan Swan. "It means we can play against anybody."
No. 1 seeded Heritage (24-4) now faces Monte Vista for the championship on Friday at 6:30 p.m. at Saint Mary's College.
Some early Heritage mistakes combined with some hot shooting by Berkeley senior Rachel Howard kept the score close throughout the first half. But as soon as the second half started, the Patriots turned the game into a rout.
Sabrina Engelstad scored five quick points in the Patriots' 11-0 run out of the break, and Berkeley (18-11) trailed by double-digits the rest of the way.
"We were nervous, we were throwing the ball all over the place, it just took us awhile to get going," Swan said. "We were doing some uncharacteristic things that we hadn't done all year. As soon as we settled down (it changed). Our defense is our best offense sometimes."
Berkeley also had trouble matching up with Engelstad, a 6-foot-3 Saint Mary's College-bound center, who finished with 11 points and 15 rebounds.
Sydney Berry had a team-high 16 points for Heritage while Lexi Campbell added 14.
Howard paced Berkeley with 22 points. She hit four 3-pointers and scored 12 of Berkeley's first 14 points.
Berkeley, which has played in the last two Division I state championship games, will still advance to the NorCal playoffs. Though they qualify for the Open Division, the Yellowjackets will probably not be selected after the NCS semifinal loss.
The win was Heritage's 16th straight. Earlier this season, the Patriots won their first league championship by going undefeated in the Bay Valley Athletic League.
Monte Vista 47, Amador Valley 33: The third time was the charm for the visiting Mustangs (23-5), as they avenged two previous losses to the Dons (19-9) this season to advance to their first NCS Division I championship game since 2009.
"They beat us two times before. We just wanted to get back at them," said Monte Vista sophomore Amanda Daily, who came off the bench to score 11 of her 13 points in a pivotal second quarter for the Mustangs. "Everybody just came together."
Near the midway mark of the second quarter, a basket from Courtney Seams closed Monte Vista's lead to 13-12. But the Mustangs outscored the Dons 16-5 the rest of the quarter and led by double digits the entire second half.
Defensively, Monte Vista focused on stopping Alysse Ketner, who had scored 17 points in both of Amador Valley's victories over Monte Vista this season. Using a box-and-one, the Mustangs limited Ketner to two field goals and six total points.
However, Seams kept her team in the game with her inside play. The junior scored a game-high 23 points, including 11 field goals.
But the Dons were unable to cut substantially into the Mustangs' lead in the second half. Madi Burroughs scored all nine of her points in the second half for Monte Vista, including six in the final period. Lily Wissinger joined Daily for team-high scoring honors with 13, including 10 in the first half.
"That's what's great about this team -- it's so deep," Monte Vista coach Ron Hirschman said.
Then he said about Amador Valley "That's a great team over there. They just caught us on the wrong night."
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SAN JOSE -- The Earthquakes signed defender Jason Hernandez and midfielder Sam Cronin to new contracts the team announced Wednesday in developments that end most of the offseason questions for the MLS Supporters' Shield champions.
The Quakes have almost the entire roster that went 19-6-9 in the regular season signed for 2013. The biggest question left is English striker Simon Dawkins, who played in San Jose for two years in loan deals with Tottenham Hotspur. Dawkins wants to return to MLS but it depends how much the Hotspurs might demand in selling his rights.
Hernandez and Cronin started regularly during the Quakes' record-setting season for points (66). They were defensive mainstays who helped San Jose reached the Western Conference semifinals where the Quakes were eliminated last week by the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Hernandez, 29, and Ramiro Corrales are the only Quakes left from the team that re-entered Major league Soccer in 2008 as an expansion club. Hernandez ranks among the club's top 10 all-time in games played (123), minutes played (10,847) and games started (122).
"They've been nothing but good to me," he said. "It's a long marriage for MLS."
Terms of the deal were not disclosed per league policy.
"He's a great leader on and off the field and we hope to keep him here for the rest of his career," general manager John Doyle said in a statement.
Hernandez entered MLS in 2005 with his hometown team in New York before playing for Chivas USA for two seasons.
"You can always count on his work rate and his veteran presence both in the locker room," coach Frank Yallop added in a statement.
"Coming in as part of the expansion draft to where we are now, it doesn't even seem to be the same lifetime," Hernandez said. "To still see some of the same faces and feel like you've been part of building something that will be great years to come is something special."
Hernandez understood the balance between trying to make more money elsewhere and staying at a place where he is happy.
"If you want to be part of this, perhaps you can't get as much as you can on a free market," he said. "In my experience it's all about being happy and being here we're happy. The money takes a back seat to being part of something that is successful."
Cronin, 25, had a career-high six assists and one goal while starting 30 games this season. The central midfielder scored a game-tying goal against the Galaxy in a 4-3 comeback victory at Stanford Stadium in June. He formed a strong partnership with Rafael Baca in the midfield, helping fortify the defense while pushing the ball forward.
"Sam has been a very consistent player for us over the last three years," Yallop said. "He's a player that perhaps doesn't get as much credit for what he does, but he's been a key player in the middle for us."
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NEW YORK (AP) — The 64-year-old woman who swam from Havana to Key West has passed the halfway mark in her marathon Manhattan swim to benefit victims of Superstorm Sandy.
Diana Nyad started her 48-hour swim Tuesday morning in a 40-yard pool set up in Herald Square. Her aim is to raise money for people still struggling a year after Sandy.
As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, Nyad had been in the pool for more than 24 hours and had raised more than $56,500.
Last month, the native New Yorker became the first person confirmed to have swum from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.
She told The Associated Press on Monday that one of her swimming companions in Manhattan will be a dog named Roscoe that survived Sandy's floodwaters.
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First, make sure you know how to connect your hose to the outlet at your tank; errors here can create a big problem. Use the right clamps and you are half way there. Next, direct your sewer hose from the tank to the connection offered by the campground. To maintain your angle, use one of the many tools we carry. They are all designed to provide downward momentum for any material entering your hose.


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How do you collaborate?
Thingiverse has become a hopping place with mashups, derivatives, and collaborations galore of late. 1 2 In particular, Pattywac's recent team design challenge has prompted several groups to work together on some pretty cool projects.
As an online-community Thingiverse is a place for sharing ideas and digital objects. It has also come to be a place for collaboration. If you don't live near a hackerspace or have access to sophisticated tools, you can always ask for help or feedback on Thingiverse. Even if you don't have a 3D printer, a lasercutter, or even tools – you can probably still fire up OpenSCAD, start working on a project, and see your imagination realized.
If you've got access to a computer and an internet connection there's no reason to wait. You can start making things right now with the help of people all around the world. What are you waiting for?
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AUSTIN (November 26, 2012)--Gov. Rick Perry appointed his chief of staff, Jeffrey Boyd, to the Texas Supreme Court Monday.
Boyd will join the state's highest civil court Dec. 3 and finish a term that expires at the end of 2014, replacing Dale Wainwright, who resigned Sept. 30 to join Bracewell & Giuliani LLP in Austin.
Boyd became Perry's chief of staff last year and was previously the governor's general counsel.
"He has earned my confidence, and the confidence of those he has worked with in all his endeavors, because he has a brilliant legal mind, he is committed to preserving the rule of law, and he strives every day to live a life of fairness, integrity and compassion," Perry said in announcing the appointment.
"I know he will bring this same commitment to the Texas Supreme Court, and we will all be better for it."
In 2004, Perry named his then general counsel, David Medina, to the Supreme Court.
Medina lost a re-election bid in the Republican primary in July.
The general counsel helps the governor review death-penalty cases.
Perry has overseen 253 executions and commuted one sentence, granting life in prison to a death row inmate who drove the getaway car during a robbery and murder.


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Gay bishop documentary 'Love Free or Die' released on DVD
Gene Robinson, an Anglican bishop from New Hampshire, is the first openly gay and partnered person ever to be elected to the role of bishop.
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Man tries to rob Wells Fargo bank branch in Uptown
A man tried to rob an Uptown bank Saturday afternoon but didn't make off with any cash, according to authorities.
Katherine Chaumont, spokeswoman for the FBI's Dallas division, said the man walked into the Wells Fargo bank branch at 2611 Cedar Springs in Dallas about 1 p.m. He showed a handgun and demanded cash, but he fled the scene.
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The electronics manufacturer will receive another 20,000 robots before the end of 2012
Foxconn plans to replace 1 million of its human factory workers in China with robots, and the first 10,000 have already been installed.
At least one Foxconn factory in China has received 10,000 robots for the purpose of replacing human workers. These robots, which were manufactured in house and are called "Foxbots," are capable of doing simple tasks like lifting, making selections and placing items where they belong. They will act much like assembly line robots.
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Last year, Foxconn President Terry Gou said he wanted to replace 1 million factory workers in China with 1 million robots. This was likely due to the number of problems Foxconn has had with human employees over the years.
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Foxconn gave employees a pay boost earlier this year and is cleaning its act up slowly but surely to comply with audits.
But it seems Foxconn just doesn't want to deal with human employees at all anymore. While it will take a long time to replace all 1 million workers with 1 million robots, the electronics manufacturer will receive another 20,000 robots before the end of 2012 -- bringing its total to 30,000 for the year. Foxconn hopes to continue increasing this number over the coming years.
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The thing about Communism...
I know that China is not exactly pure communism, just as the US is not exactly pure capitalism, but in a future society of automated labor communism has a distinct advantage in that it does not require people to work in order to have a flowing economy. The whole idea of communism is that those on top who 'know better' control the distribution of wealth and dictate the standard of living for the masses. In a future world where there is a high level of automation this works because the people do not need to work for the country to have an economy. Those who are motivated and want to have the perks of the 'working class' can get their education and get a job. Those who do not want to work can sit on their collective butts and twiddle their thumbs because the gov't would have the resources to afford them a decent minimum standard of life with even a minimal workforce being productive. Not saying I am for communism (I rather dislike top-down authority structures), but they will have that advantage when moving from a worker based economy to an automation based economy.
The problem with straight capitalism (and the reason it is not practiced in the real world) is that the minute you cannot work then your personal money supply dries up, and then you cannot provide for your basic necessities of life for you and your family. But even here in America we practice a form of socialism where we afford people a minimum standard of living (though it is a broken system right now... but that is another issue).
As things become more automated there will be less need for workers, but the standard of living for those without work will rise. It will never rise to the point of those who are gainfully employed, but it will make it to where you will not have to worry about what you will eat, or if you will have a roof over your head, or have heat in the winter, or even basic health care. Not saying it will all be sunshine and rainbows, but there is no reason for it to have the stigma of the 'welfare society' of the past.
The problem right now is that we are in an odd transition, similar to that of the beginning of the industrial era. We have some economies that rely on a labor force which can easily, or soon, be replaced by machines. The issue is not if the people being replaced will have their basic necessities taken care of (because we are compassionate enough to provide that). The issue is going from the pride of being self sufficient, to being reliant on society. This is something that Americans are greatly divided on. I think it is a largely generational thing. My parents generation was all for working at the same place their entire lives at one company. They want/need to be told what to do, and find security in that. Meanwhile, much of my generation (and I include myself in this) would absolutely love to have more automation, and that higher minimum standard of living. Not because I want to sit on my butt and twiddle my thumbs all day, but because I want to spend more time at home with my kids during the day while they are growing up (something my parents did not have the option to do because they both had to work full time for both economic and psychological reasons). I also would love to have it because it would free me up to do whatever I want to do. I am a highly motivated person, and if I have more free time then I would spend it learning and doing things rather than just watching TV all day, and I think a lot of people (though certainly not all) of my generation are similar to me in this.
The trick is structuring this transition so that it does not disrupt the life plans of the people who did not see this shift coming (like my parents). They saved a ton of money in various investments which have lost value due to inflation and the recent collapse/correction/Armageddon of the economy, and will only lose value in the future (tell me what happens to the stock market when more than 50% of the people in it are forced to sell stock due to the structure of their retirement plan... ya, that will not be pretty). They did everything 'right' by the rules of their parent's world, and what they were taught, but it does not work in this 'brave new world', and if we jilt their generation as they retire over the next few years then we should feel ashamed as a society.
RE: The thing about Communism...
I think you should read judge dredd if you want to see what the world you describe will turn out to be like. The world is judge dredd is a workerless one like you describe.
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Most speakers assume that because they have a mic and a nice outfit on, that the audience will pay attention. But you might be competing with some interesting co workers at their table -- or a delicious trout almandine. So, quickly (in a few sentences) let your audience know the core premise of your speech, and make it compelling so they have an idea why you're on the stage speaking -- instead of bringing them more Diet Coke.
Here is where you talk about the audience's favorite topic: THEM. Without offering any solutions yet, you make the audience aware that they have a problem - because people don't change unless they are in pain. And as you talk about the problem, your focus needs to stay on how it relates directly to your audience, so avoid using I, me, and my: instead use you, us, and we.
(This is a tough step, so if you need additional guidance, check out my blog: How to Open Your Act or Speech.)
Go into a little more detail about the core premise of your speech, as the audience probably wasn't really listening yet at the beginning. Tell them the results they're going to get from your speech, but still don't give them the specifics. You want people to build up an appetite for your information.
Begin to tell your story/stories about how you've helped someone else go from mess to success, using the same techniques you're going to share with your audience. (This is your "credentials story.")
Once your audience has bought in and is eager to get started, they're ready for a specific action step. It should be something that they can do that's simple - and since the emphasis is on doing - focus on the verb. In a short speech, it can be simply "create...", "go to...", "learn more about..."
In a one-hour speech, I usually have at least three action steps, and each step has its own story about how it works to make it memorable. (In professional speaking this is often referred to as the "take away.") In my TEDx talk, I had just one.
Once you tell people they need to DO something, the natural inertia some audience members have may kick in -- and cause them to start questioning whether or not they really want to pursue your ideas. (It's sort of like the "buyer's remorse" when someone decides on a new car and the salesperson has to remind them of the unpleasant part where they have to PAY for the car.)
It's useful at this point to re-sell your audience by sharing a "heart story" -- which is a personal (and emotional) example of how your ideas have helped change your own life, in your own personal journey from mess to success.
This is the final call to action for the audience, where you lead with a simple action verb ("think about..." "discover..." "imagine...") to inspire your audience and motivate them to get started now -- rather than someday.


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The aorta is the largest artery in the body. It begins at the heart and runs through the chest and abdomen. Sometimes the walls of the aorta weaken and bulge in one area. An aortic repair is a surgery to create a support for the weakened area.
This procedure is done to:
If you are planning to have an aortic aneurysm repair, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
Your doctor will likely do some or all of the following:
Talk to your doctor about your medications. You may be asked to stop taking some medications up to 1 week before the procedure
Leading up to your procedure:
General anesthesia
will be used. You will be asleep.
Depending on the location of the aneurysm, blood flow may need to be passed to a heart-lung machine. The machine will temporarily do the jobs of the heart and lungs.
An incision will be made over the area of the aneurysm. This may be in the abdomen or chest. The aorta will be clamped off above and below the aneurysm. The aneurysm will be opened and cleaned of any debris. The graft will be sewn into place to reconnect the 2 ends of the aorta. The tissue of the aneurysm will then be wrapped around the outside of the graft.
When the graft is properly in place, the clamps will be released. This will allow blood flow to resume through the aorta. The incision will be closed, using either stitches or staples. The area will be covered with a sterile dressing.
Some aneurysms can be repaired without a large abdominal incision. Instead, punctures are made in the arteries in the groin. Not all patients are suited for this procedure. Your doctor will discuss your options with you.
You will be brought to a recovery room after surgery. You will be monitored there for any negative effects from the surgery or anesthesia.
1 hour to a few hours
Anesthesia prevents pain during surgery. The incision will cause some pain after the surgery. Talk to your doctor about medications to help you manage the pain.
The usual length of stay is 4-7 days. Your doctor may choose to keep you longer if complications occur.
When you return home, do the following to help ensure a smooth recovery:
Recovery takes about 6 weeks. If you had symptoms from your aneurysm before the surgery, you may notice some improvements in your health. You may find you have more strength and less swelling in your legs. You may also have lower blood pressure, improved energy, and absence of pain from the aneurysm.
After you leave the hospital, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs:
In case of an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
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Aneurysm repair. The Texas Heart Institute website. Available at:
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Would the Fourth Time Be the Charm for a Parental Notification Law in California?
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again.
If nothing else, you have to admire the persistence. A newspaper publisher in California is proposing a ballot measure that would force teens to notify their parents prior to having an abortion. And this would be his fourth attempt to make it law.
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The first measure, Prop. 73, would have redefined abortion in the state Constitution as "the death of the unborn child…." That wording disappeared from 2006's Prop. 85. For 2008's Prop. 4, backers came up with a politically appealing official title—"Parental Notification, Child and Teen Safety, and Stop Predators Act"—and the short title "Sarah's Law." Sarah, they said, was a teen who got pregnant by an older man, had an abortion without her parents' knowledge, contracted an infection and died. Planned Parenthood's opposition researchers did some digging and found out that Sarah was really Jammie Yanez-Villegas who lived in Texas and was impregnated by her common-law husband—meaning she wouldn't be subject to any parental-notification law, let alone one in California.
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Of the two petitions currently in the signature-gathering phase— both with the same title as Prop. 4—one version requires a 48-hour waiting period between notification and when the abortion can be performed; the other version doesn't.
According to the report, the last time the measure was proposed it was only narrowly defeated.