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The Arrowhead boys basketball team has shown it needed very little time to implement a championship-caliber defense, even if the offense hadn't yet fully found a groove.
Still undefeated after a 75-52 win over resurgent Kettle Moraine on Friday, it appears the offense has clicked into place. That's potentially bad news for everyone else.
The Warhawks shot a blistering 60 percent in the first half and 57 percent for the game, and Arrowhead improved to 8-0 while dropping the Lasers to 6-2.
"We have a lot of kids that can score the basketball, it's just a matter of getting them in the right spots as coaches and giving them an opportunity to do that," Arrowhead coach Craig Haase said. "Sometimes, it takes a while to figure it out offensively when you don't have a lot of practices, but I think our guys are coming around. It's as deep a team as we've had, and the hardest thing for me is trying to play them all."
Haase has said the team needed an adjustment period, with the vast majority of players part of the state championship football team that played into the first week of the season. But they're 4-0 in conference and appear completely in sync.
Junior post Billy Hirschfeld, an All State football player who possesses superior inside strength, finished with 18 points.
"With my size down low compared to their big men's size, I knew I would get the ball a lot," Hirschfeld said. "Our guards were making plays. … I've got that rhythm back now for basketball."
Kenny Finco scored all 10 of his points in the first quarter, and Jackson Abresch added 13 points.
"Our goal is to get to the rim as much as we possibly can," Haase said. "When we do that, we can find guys down low, find Billy or Kevin (LeRoy) in the paint. I thought both those kids really finished well around the basket tonight. Kenny gave us a good lift dropping 10 to start. It was one of those nights where everything seemed to be clicking."
The host Lasers, looking for a chance to reaffirm their strong early-season record against one of the league's top teams, didn't look lost at all despite the lopsided score. To the contrary, the team shot 47 percent, picking up 23 points from Paul Miller and taking a number of aggressive cuts.
"The first half, I thought we were on our heels a little bit and then we got aggressive in the second half," KM coach Brad Bestor said. "Arrowhead has more than one guy that's aggressive and we really had one guy for a while, and that kept us somewhat close in the first half. In the second half, we had a lot more guys playing aggressively. We had a lot more effort in the second half, but we just dug ourselves a huge hole."
Arrowhead took a 7-0 lead and built that lead to 17-6 in the first quarter.
"Give them a ton of credit, because they made shots," Bestor said. "It wasn't like they were wide open shots."
The Lasers were held to just four offensive rebounds and were outrebounded for the game, 30-13.
"They have a lot of guys who can create, a lot of guys who can shoot," Bestor said. "They have guys you need to help off on, but you can't because the guy you're guarding can shoot. It creates a tough situation for the defense."
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In my experience with those who
wrestle with conversion to Roman Catholicism—at least those who have professed faith in the gospel—the driving theological issue is authority. How can I be certain that what I believe is true?
The gospel of free grace through the justification of sinners in Christ alone moves to the backseat. Instead of the horse, it becomes the cart. Adjustments are made in their understanding of the gospel after accepting Rome's arguments against sola scriptura. I address these remarks to friends struggling with that issue.
Reformation Christians can agree with Augustine when he said that he would never have known the truth of God's Word apart from the catholic church. As the minister of salvation, the church is the context and means through which we come to faith and are kept in the faith to the end. When Philip found an Ethiopian treasury secretary returning from Jerusalem reading Isaiah 53, he inquired, "Do you understand what you are reading?" "How can I," the official replied, "unless someone guides me?" (Acts 8:30–31). Explaining the passage in the light of its fulfillment in Christ, Philip baptized the man, who then "went on his way rejoicing" (v. 39).
Philip did not have to be infallible; he had only to communicate the infallible Word with sufficient truth and clarity.
For many, this kind of certainty, based on a text, is not adequate. We have to know—really know—that what we believe is an infallible interpretation of an ultimate authority. The churches of the Reformation confess that even though some passages are more difficult to understand than others, the basic narratives, doctrines, and commands of Scripture—especially the message of Christ as that unfolds from Genesis to Revelation—is so clearly evident that even the unlearned can grasp it.
For the Reformers, sola scriptura did not mean that the church and its official summaries of Scripture (creeds, confessions, catechisms, and decisions in wider assemblies) had no authority. Rather, it meant that their ministerial authority was dependent entirely on the magisterial authority of Scripture. Scripture is the master; the church is the minister (for helpful definitions, see page 30).
The following theses summarize some of the issues people should wrestle with before embracing a Roman Catholic perspective on authority.
1. The Reformers did not separate sola scriptura (by Scripture alone) from solo Christo (Christ alone), sola gratia (by grace alone), and sola fide (through faith alone). As Herman Bavinck said, "Faith in Scripture rises or falls with faith in Christ." Revealed from heaven, the gospel message itself (Christ as the central content of Scripture) is as much the basis for the Bible's authority as the fact that it comes from the Father through the inspiration of the Spirit. Jesus Christ, raised on the third day, certified his divine authority. Furthermore, he credited the Old Testament writings as "Scripture," equating the words of the prophets with the very word of God himself, and commissioned his apostles to speak authoritatively in his name. Their words are his words; those who receive them also receive the Son and the Father. So Scripture is the authoritative Word of God because it comes from the unerring Father, concerning the Son, in the power of the Spirit. Neither the authority of the Bible nor that of the church can stand apart from the truth of Christ as he is clothed in his gospel.
2. Every covenant is contained in a canon (like a constitution). The biblical canon is the norm for the history of God's saving purposes in Christ under the old and new covenants. The Old Testament canon closed with the end of the prophetic era, so that Jesus could mark a sharp division between Scripture and the traditions of the rabbis (Mark 7:8). The New Testament canon was closed at the end of the apostolic era, so that even during that era the apostle Paul could warn the Corinthians against the "super-apostles" by urging, "Do not go beyond what is written" (1 Cor. 4:6). While the apostles were living, the churches were to "maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you" (1 Cor. 11:2), "either by our spoken word or by our letter" (2 Thess. 2:15). There were indeed written and unwritten traditions in the apostolic church, but only those that eventually found their way by the Spirit's guidance into the New Testament are now for us the apostolic canon. The apostles (extraordinary ministers) laid the foundation, and after them workers (ordinary ministers) built on that foundation (1 Cor. 3:10). The apostles could appeal to their own eyewitness, the direct and immediate vocation given to them by Christ, while they instructed ordinary pastors (like Timothy) to deliver to others what they had received from the apostles.
3. Just as the extraordinary office of prophets and apostles is qualitatively distinct from that of ordinary ministers, the constitution (Scripture) is qualitatively distinct from the Spirit-illumined but non-inspired courts (tradition) that interpret it. Again, therefore, Scripture is magisterial in its authority, while the church's tradition of interpretation is ministerial.
To accept these three theses is to embrace sola scriptura as the Reformation understood it.
This is precisely the view we find in the church fathers. First, it is clear enough from their descriptions (e.g., the account in Eusebius) that the fathers did not create the canon but received and acknowledged it. (Even Peter acknowledged Paul's writings as "Scripture" in 2 Peter 3:16, even though Paul clearly says in Galatians that he did not receive his gospel from or seek first the approval of any of the apostles, since he received it directly from Christ.) The criterion they followed indicates this: To be recognized as "Scripture," a purported book had to be well attested as coming from the apostolic circle. Those texts that already had the widest and earliest acceptance in public worship were easily recognized by the time Athanasius drew up the first list of all seventy-seven New Testament books in
Second, although the fathers also acknowledged tradition as a ministerially authoritative interpreter, they consistently yielded ultimate obedience to Scripture. For example, Augustine explained that the Nicene Creed was binding because it summarizes the clear teaching of Scripture. (3)
Roman Catholic scholars acknowledge that the early Christian community in Rome was not unified under a single head. Paul, for example, reminded Timothy of the gift he was given when the presbytery laid its hands on him in his ordination (1 Tim. 4:14). In fact, in the Roman Catholic-Anglican dialogue, the Vatican acknowledged that "the New Testament texts offer no sufficient basis for papal primacy" and that they contain "no explicit record of a transmission of Peter's leadership." (4) So one has to accept papal authority exclusively on the basis of subsequent post-apostolic claims of the Roman bishop, without scriptural warrant. However, there is no historical succession from Peter to the bishops of Rome.
As Jerome observed in the fourth century, "Before attachment to persons in religion was begun at the instigation of the devil, the churches were governed by the common consultation of the elders." Jerome goes so far as to suggest that the introduction of bishops as a separate order above the presbyters was "more from custom than from the truth of an arrangement by the Lord." (5) Interestingly, even Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges that presbyter and episcipos were used interchangeably in the New Testament and in the earliest churches. (6)
Ancient Christian leaders of the East gave special honor to the bishop of Rome, but they considered any claim of one bishop's supremacy to be an act of schism. Even in the West such a privilege was rejected by Gregory the Great in the sixth century. He expressed offense at being addressed by a bishop as "universal pope": "a word of proud address that I have forbidden....None of my predecessors ever wished to use this profane word ['universal']....But I say it confidently, because whoever calls himself 'universal bishop' or wishes to be so called, is in his self-exaltation Antichrist's precursor, for in his swaggering he sets himself before the rest." (7)
Nevertheless, building on the claims of fifth-century Roman bishops Leo I and Galsius, later bishops of Rome did claim precisely this "proud address." Declaring themselves as Christ's replacement on earth, they claimed sovereignty ("plenitude of power") over the world "to govern the earthly and heavenly kingdoms." At the Council of Reims (1049) the Latin Church claimed for the pope the title "pontifex universalis"—precisely the title identified by Gregory as identifying one who "in his self-exaltation [is] Antichrist's precursor." Is Gregory the Great correct, or are his successors?
Though inspired by God, Scripture cannot be sufficient. It is a dark, obscure, and mysterious book (rendered more so by Rome's allegorizing exegesis). An infallible canon needs an infallible interpreter. This has been Rome's argument. The insufficiency of Scripture rests on its lack of clarity. It is true that the Bible is a collection of texts spread across many centuries, brimming with a variety of histories, poetry, doctrines, apocalyptic literature, and laws; however, wherever it has been translated in the vernacular and disseminated widely, barely literate people have been able to understand its central message. Contrast this with the libraries full of decretals and encyclicals, councilor decisions and counter-decisions, bulls and promulgations. Any student of church history recognizes that, in this case, the teacher is often far more obscure than the text. It's no wonder Rome defines faith as fides implicita: taking the church's word for it. For Rome, faith is not trust in Jesus Christ according to the gospel, but yielding assent and obedience unreservedly simply to everything the church teaches as necessary to salvation. There are many hazards associated with embracing aninfallible text without an infallible
interpreter. However, the alternative is not greater certainty and clarity about the subject matter, but a sacrifice of the intellect and an abandonment of one's personal responsibility for one's commitments to the decisions and acts of others.
Those of us who remain Reformed must examine the Scriptures and the relevant arguments before concluding that Rome's claims are not justified and its teaching is at variance with crucial biblical doctrines. A Protestant friend in the midst of being swayed by Rome's arguments exclaims, "That's exactly why I can't be a Protestant anymore. Without an infallible magisterium everyone believes whatever he chooses." At this point, it's important to distinguish between a radical individualism (believing whatever one chooses) and a personal commitment in view of one's ultimate authority. My friend may be under the illusion that his decision is different from that, but it's not. In the very act of making the decision to transfer ultimate authority from Scripture to the magisterium, he is weighing various biblical passages and theological arguments. The goal (shifting the burden of responsibility from oneself to the church) is contradicted by the method. At this point, one cannot simply surrender to a Reformed church or a Roman church; one must make a decision after careful personal study. We're both in the same shoes.
Most crucially, Rome's ambitious claims are tested by its faithfulness to the gospel. If an apostle could pronounce his anathema on anyone—including himself or an angel from heaven—who taught a gospel different from the one he brought to them (Gal. 1:8–9), then surely any minister or church body after the apostles is under that threat. First, Paul was not assuming that the true church is beyond the possibility of error. Second, he placed himself under the authority of that Word.
The frustration Reformation Christians have with the state of contemporary Protestantism is understandable. I feel it every day. Yet those who imagine that they will escape the struggle between the "already" and the "not yet," the certainty of a promise and the certainty of possession, the infallibility of God's Word and the fallibility of its appointed teachers, are bound to be disappointed wherever they land. As Calvin counseled on the matter, Scripture alone is indeed sufficient: "Better to limp along this path than to dash with all speed outside it."
Michael Horton is the J. Gresham Machen professor of apologetics and systematic theology at Westminster Seminary California (Escondido, California), host of the White Horse Inn, national radio broadcast, and editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. He is author of many books, including The Gospel-Driven Life, Christless Christianity, People and Place, Putting Amazing Back Into Grace, The Christian Faith, and For Calvinism.
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James Petruccio knocked in the game-winner as St. Charles edged Holy Child 5-4 in a Catholic Youth Organization Small Fry B contest. Frank Bavaro was the winning pitcher.
In A action, Jordan Fox struck out 13 and Pete Laperuta doubled home the go-ahead run in Sacred Heart's 6-4 win over St. Teresa's.
John Gavin and Anthony Brognano hurled St. Teresa's to a 4-0 Bantam A victory over St. Joseph Hill Academy. Danny Brown supplied the offense.
Anthony Kraker struck out nine and Anthony Nardulli banged out three hits as Modell's downed Dr. Glenn 4-0 in a Mid-Island LL National test.
Mateo Gil (three hits, three RBI, HR) and Chris Esposito (3 three hits) powered PJD Imaging to a 9-8 Major win over Jimmy Max. Joseph Tucker slugged a solo homer for Jimmy Max.
Gold Star Post got nine Ks from Anthony Iglesias to defeat West Shore Inn 8-3. Joe O'Rourke canned four RBI.
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Winning pitcher Mike Flynn, James Cunningham, and James Durkin teamed for three doubles and six RBI in Jimmy Max Twins' 6-0 Major decision over the Schardt Padres.
The Senior Minor Nationals topped the A's 12-2 behind the homer of Scott Laverty and the four RBI of Anthony Mangini. Eric Laverty earned the win with three shutout innings.
In SI Federation 12-under play, the Rapid Rascals downed the Sluggers 12-7 behind the pitching of Justin Stetter. Andrew Jackson bopped a HR and Anthony Marsillo accounted for four runs.
Vincent Zappulla allowed an unearned run and Ryan Clements drove in the go-ahead run as Eastern Flooring registered a 2-1 South Shore LL Major decision over the Knights of Columbus.
Sean Farley threw a no-hitter with 12 strikeouts and Sean Kennedy hit the go-ahead run in Doc Campbell's Cougars' 3-0 win over Perciballi Container in Verrazano BRL 13s play.
Daniel Jaime hurled a 10-strikeout, two-hitter as CB Contracting tripled VFW 6-2 in a West Shore LL Major tilt. Mike Rondinelli had two hits and four RBI.
Mike Ryan was the winning pitcher with seven strikeouts and Robert Piccolo, John Tranchino and Roberto Randazzo had two hits apiece as the Black Sox (South Shore) topped Country Awards (Mid-Island) 7-2 in BRL Interleague action.
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Opening tracks "Hard Row to Hoe" and "The Girl Who Wept Stones" establish the energy (copious) and prevailing tone (angsty), while eight-plus minute epic "House of the Dying Sun" builds from a slow-sliding, Paris, Texas-type opening to something approaching transcendence by way of fury. That fury is evident as well in "The Battle of New Orleans", and there is swagger by the ton in "Too Old to Die Young", "Dead & Gone", and "The World's Longest Hot Dog" (featuring the immortal line "Freaktown is where I'm from"). There's even a little nod toward sensitivity in "Old Angel Midnight", but maybe the less said about that, the better.
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Commissioners are expected to vote today, Sept. 4, on whether to continue to operate the shelter without routine euthanasia, a policy they enacted in mid-July.
County Veterinarian Michele Koan has told commissioners that policy is resulting in overcrowding and inhumane conditions for cats and kittens at the shelter.
Dozens of supporters of a no-kill policy at the shelter have turned out for today's meeting, including Linda Wallace, who asked commissioners not to reverse course.
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In 2003-2004 Ray Petro and some friends decided to open the indoor bike park because they wanted a place to ride during the off-season.
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Hours before Alex Rodriguez was to face a media throng in Tampa, Brewers slugger Ryan Braun was standing by his fellow University of Miami alum from more than 2,000 miles away.
While expressing regret for what he called Rodriguez's "mistakes," Braun refused to denounce the fallen Yankees star.
"Everybody makes mistakes, and I'm not the type of person that's going to change my opinion about who he is just because he made a mistake," Braun said. "I wouldn't just disassociate myself with somebody just because he made a mistake. I don't think anybody is perfect, and I don't think he's ever pretended to be perfect."
Braun first met Rodriguez on a recruiting trip to Miami in 2001, the same year that Rodriguez, according to his in his first interview on the subject, began taking banned substances. The story that Rodriguez allegedly tested positive for steroids broke via SI.com on Feb. 7, but New York reporters did not get their first opportunity to grill Rodriguez on the subject until Tuesday.
Because Brewers hitters took the field at 11:30 MT for batting and fielding work, just as Rodriguez stepped behind the microphone, Braun would have to wait to see the exchange in replay.
"It doesn't do me much good to say anything bad about anybody," Braun said earlier in the morning. "It will be interesting to see what he has to say. I will say that I think he's done everything that he should have done [since the story broke] and the best thing he can do is come out, admit to everything and be completely honest. The situation will die a lot faster if he tells the whole truth."
Was he surprised by events of the past two weeks?
"I don't know if I would say I was surprised," Braun said. "I feel like it was so rampant, so prevalent, in baseball during that time period that not much surprises me anymore. If anything, I was surprised he got caught, that it came out this long after he supposedly did it."
For the record, Braun said he has never been tempted to use performance-enhancing drugs.
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Sports Media Watch has released the list of the 50 most-viewed sporting events so far in 2013.
The Syracuse men's basketball game versus Michigan in the Final Four on April 6 did very well on the list, rating as the 16th highest sporting event watched so far in 2013.
Syracuse-Michigan received a 10.2 rating and had 17.1 million viewers.
The 10.2 rating places the SU-Michigan game higher on the list than the Rose Bowl (9.4), Daytona 500 (9.9), Kentucky Derby (9.7), the final round of The Masters golf tournament (9.4), the Major League Baseball All-Star game (6.9), and several NBA Finals games.
As expected, football is king of the ratings mountain so far in 2013. Every single event in the Top 10 was an NFL football game. No.11 was the BCS national title game between Alabama and Notre Dame (15.1).
The Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens is the No.1 event on the list with a 46.8 rating with 108.6 million viewers in the U.S.
The first non-football event to appear on the list is at No.12, which is Game 7 of the NBA Finals between Miami and San Antonio (15.3).
While they didn't make the Top 50, Syracuse-Indiana (5.1) in the Sweet 16 and Syracuse-Marquette (4.6) in the Elite Eight were also events that were noted for drawing good ratings.
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*If you were going to take a member of the football team into a dark alley, how often would you pick...the punter? But as they just told us on ESPN Regional, Pitt Punter Dave Brytus dabbles in mixed martial arts in his spare time. So let the record show that he can kick:
A) The Football
B) Your butt
*Disaster averted as a dropped kickoff by Mike Holmes is grabbed by Holmes and he takes a knee in the end zone.
*Pitt is kept out of the end zone as Darrell Strong drops a one-handed catch attempt with :38 left, but put a 32-yard FG gives Pitt a 10-3 lead just before the half.
*Let the record show that Nick Chesnut actually made a play in this game. Nice pass breakup in the front corner of the end zone.
*Ladies and Gentlemen Dan Marino! His advice to Pitt to get back on top during a sideline report..."win". Did he get that tidbit from Jim Hofher?
*Pitt is fired up now as Andrew Robinson has been throw around on SU's drive following the Pitt TD. Now we know why Andrew's mom wouldn't let him play football until high school.
*Touchdown Pitt! 17-yard pass to the corner of the end zone to ODerick Turner. 7-3 Pitt.
Turner's foot was about 2 inches inbounds as he leaps over Nico Scott for the catch. Unreal.
Jim Hofher tells us the big kick return helped set up the TD. Thanks Jim.
*Almost on cue, that is followed by a big kick return by Pitt. *Sigh*
*And finally...some points! SU leads 3-0 on a 36-YD FG by Shadle
*The over/under for this game is 47. Hope you didn't have the over.
*My 1-year old daughter just pointed at the TV and said "ahhhsaywhatsooogo". I think she wants Robinson to pass more.
*This sideline reporter is really nervous. Must be the huge crowd at Heinz Field
*Be back in a few minutes. My 1-year old is giving me the "give me lunch, Dad" look. My wife sure picked a good time to go shopping. *Sigh*
*With Pat Bostick looking like he may be getting in a groove, this might or might not be a good time to mention that Syracuse is last in the country in pass sacks.
*Here is a question. You know those Liberty Mutual commercials they are showing during the game where everyone is doing nice things for each other? If SU keeps losing, Greg Robinson better hope Daryl Gross is inspired by those commercials to do a good deed and keep him on.
By the way, those commercials have officially replaced the Chevy "This is our Country" ads as the most annoying on TV.
*Nice punt by Rob Long out of the end zone after Syracuse can't escape being buried in their own territory.
*It's been that kind of season for Pitt. They go for it on 4th and Goal and they get stuffed. Syracuse has to build on this momentum. Nice job 'D
*Nice to see we don't have the only "late arriving" crowd in the Big East
*Am I the only one who thinks that Jim Hofher is as good as a broadcaster as he is a coach? That is not a compliment by the way.


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Author: karmakode
Date: Sep 23, 12 at 9:09am (PST)
Subject: Clock Errors
I have recently been experiencing a problem with the time on my laptop, and have no idea how to fix it. I can reset the clock just fine, but when the computer is off or asleep, time doesn't move forward. I have already tested the CMOS battery, and there are no problems with it. Has anyone else seen anything like this?
Author: Pedigree
Date: Sep 24, 12 at 12:36am (PST)
Subject: re: Clock Errors
Though you have tested the battery, have you tried replacing it? Might want to try cleaning the terminals of the battery port as well.
Author: karmakode
Date: Sep 25, 12 at 1:45pm (PST)
Subject: re: Clock Errors
i have replaced the battery, and checked the port, and am still getting errors. the time doesn't change on it's own, and everything else is working fine. i tried synching it to an internet time server multiple times, and got an error message saying it failed, without telling me why.
Author: karmakode
Date: Oct 2, 12 at 6:27pm (PST)
Subject: re: Clock Errors
The lack of help angers me...*bump*
Author: Freeze
Date: Oct 3, 12 at 2:55pm (PST)
Subject: re: Clock Errors
Well, clock errors are fairly rare and most of the time changing the battery does the trick.
Firstly go to Date and Time in Control Panel and go to Internet Time. Press Change settings... and see if "Synchronise with an internet server" is checked and that it syncs with time.windows.com
Other then that, there is a trick which synchronises your clock on an interval;
First make sure your Windows Time service is running by going to Start > Run.. and type
then locate the service Windows Time and put it on automatic start.
Now type in Task Scheduler and open it.
Find the Microsoft / Windows / Time Synchronization branch and click Create Task...
Give the new task a name and set the new task to run as the LOCAL SERVICE user. Set it to run with highest privileges and to be configured for your OS version.
Set the task to run daily at the time you want. I suggest 1:15am as it's 15 minutes after the default Synchronize Time task.
The task will have two actions. Make sure they end up in the right order. The first action does the same as the original Synchronize Time task and ensures the Windows Time service is running. The second action makes the actual time sync happen.
Set the first action to start a program, which is %windir%\system32\sc.exe with arguments start w32time task_started
Set the second action to start a program, which is %windir%\system32\w32tm.exe with argument /resync
Turn off the setting which makes the task only run on AC power. The task is very brief so there's no reason not to run it when on battery power.
Set the task to start only if a network connection is available. Set the task to run as soon as possible if its schedule is missed.
To test that the task actually works, manually mess up your clock's time and then right-click the task and select Run. Your clock's time should be corrected.
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But you didn't have to be bundled up in the crisp Rocky Mountain air to soak up such acts as Pretty Lights, Porter Robinson and STS9. In fact, thanks to the more than 1,230 Instagram photos aggregated by Portland startup Stublisher, you could peek in from the comfort of your laptop or smartphone.
"We're building out a piece of the social graph," says Stublisher co-founder and chief executive Kyle Banuelos, referring to the term that recently gained currency with Facebook's introduction of its social graph search. "How are you connected to people with whom you've shared experiences?"
A quick look at the Stublisher platform offers a sense of its range and usability.
Users can find photo galleries of various music, sporting and other events, including those taken at the Cadillac Golf Championship, the South by Southwest festival, and last week's Alabama Shakes concert in Portland. Click on a gallery and a scroll of unedited Instagram photos unfurls.
Banuelos says Stublisher's platform allows users to freely share photos with people they don't know, prompting an introduction and possibly further dialogue between strangers.
Like a lot of social media platforms, Stublisher's appeal is equal parts social idealism, preciousness and the urge to record our lives for public consumption.
But the platform is also gaining business traction, Banuelos says.
Stublisher was founded in July by Banuelos, Chief Product Officer Billy Vinton and Chief Technology Officer Zachary Collins, and has raised a tad under $100,000 from various investors, including the Portland Incubator Experiment. Banuelos says the music industry presents Stublisher with the chance to master its technology as well as cement a user-base and revenue model before moving to new spaces.
Music acts and festival organizers, he says, really want comprehensive photo diaries of their events for their websites because the photos are a connective tissue to fans and the public. But producing them requires staff and resources most don't have.
Stublisher can offer to customize and edit these photo albums for music acts, festivals and other event organizers. Banuelos says the startup is pre-revenue but has already offered its services for free to numerous artist management companies, digital strategists and ticket brokers as a way of building up a future revenue network. Some of these include Vector Management, which used Stublisher at a Kings of Leon concert, and Ticket Cake, which partnered with Stublisher when it sold tickets to events at the Sundance Film Festival.
Entrepreneur and business consultant Pinky Gonzales, who has invested in the startup, says Stublisher is also exploring advertising.
"Each photo represents a content block where you can have an ad or video," Gonzales says. "But the strategy is to have an ad or something related to the event or musician, not a random banner ad. It could be merchandise or a similar event sometime in the future."
The three founders are very much products of the social network era. Banuelos and Vinton are 23; Collins is 18, and a high school senior in Holland, Mich.
Banuelos, who attended the University of Oregon but did not graduate, first got the idea for Stublisher after wondering why he and others held on to ticket stubs from music concerts.
"It's really about an emotional experience," he says. "What happened at them?"
Through a friend, Banuelos met Collins, who had already started and sold a Twitter-based website business called Twtbase.com. The two began talking long-distance about a business idea revolving around music events and then built an early version of Stublisher before applying to the Portland Incubator Experiment in June.
Vinton, the son of local animator Will Vinton, then joined the two.
Banuelos says he's aware of the competition -- Songkick, Vivogig and Venueseen fulfill similar or related needs. How does Stublisher find its niche?
Jacqueline Jensen, founder of Ticket Cake, which worked with Stublisher at the Sundance Film Festival, says that even though the startup is still refining its platform, it should immediately customize some aspects of its photo gallery, such as creating links from posted photos.
"Ideally, someone will go to an event page and see the photos but wonder what's happening the next night and will be able to follow a link to purchase tickets," says Jensen, who intends to work with Stublisher in the future. "But (at Sundance) people were landing on the page without a call to action."
Chris Teso, founder of the successful Portland social commerce platform Chirpify, says the young startup should first build and master what it does before thinking heavily about revenue.
"For any community or marketplace to be successful it needs network effects," says Teso, who's checked out the Stublisher website but is not deeply familiar with the startup. "The value of their product is entirely dependent on the number of others using it. Only at a certain scale does it become valuable. So, what is their plan to achieve scale as fast as possible?"
Banuelos says he couldn't agree more. Stublisher, he says, is actively looking into other sources to pull shared photos, including Twitter and Vine, a video app that was purchased by Twitter.
"We have opportunities to monetize what we do," Banuelos says. "But right now, we're focusing most of our efforts on the user experience. How do we create a platform that is welcoming to the public? We're trying to figure out a unique way of doing that."
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Sacred Heart is holding baseball and softball registration for players from pre-K to eighth grade. The dates are Feb. 5 (11-2 p.m.); Feb. 9 (7-9 p.m.); Feb. 12 (12-3 p.m.) and Feb. 16 (7-9 p.m.). Call 718-815-5483 or 917-690-4322.
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The Richmond County softball league is now accepting teams for its Saturday and Sunday men's dirt and co-ed leagues. There are 12 sponsors available for the Saturday men's and co-ed teams on a first-come, first-serve basis. Call Steve Benis at 718-229-0333.
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The Cops & Kids high school basketball league is looking for boys' teams (ages 14-17, with six to eight players on a team) to compete on Wednesday nights from 6:30-10 at the St. Adalbert's gym. The league will begin on Jan. 26 and run through April 2. The league is also looking for teams for its high school girls' division, which plays its games also on Wednesdays at the same site beginning at 4:30 p.m. There is no cost for the league. Call 646-246-4293.
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By Chuck Poulsen
One last report from Mexico, although this story has a connection to Canada and the U.S.
I have developed a condition called edema. When it hits, my face swells up like a pumpkin and my lips look like I'm Bozo the Clown. I know what you are thinking: "That's because Poulsen IS Bozo the Clown." No more straight lines for you.
There is no cure for edema and once you get it, it will reoccur.
There is, however, a treatment.
The gold standard is an injection of Decadron (dexamethasone). That's a powerful corticosteroid.
An attack of edema was coming on so I went to the local "farmacia" in Mexico.
I bought a vial of Decadron, a syringe and some Prednisone tablets as a two-day follow-up.
Mrs. Poulsen, a nurse, shot me in the butt with the Decadron.
When I get back to Kelowna, I'm going to ask the nursing department at UBCO if it's prescribed practice for a nurse to giggle when she is causing a patient pain.vial
The Decadron pretty much resolved the problem overnight. It will surpise you to know – and bring deep-furrowed frowns to the foreheads of Canadians doctors – that I bought all of this without a prescription.
The only medications that require a prescription in Mexico are narcotics.
If my Kelowna GP, Doctor Goldfinger, is reading this, he may resort to a second cup of coffee although I think he's only allowed one. He has subtly indicated to me in the past that I should stop self medicating.
I think buying meds without a prescription is OK in emergencies, and when the patient has had enough experience to understand the procedure.
For instance, Dr. Goldfinger explained Decadron to me this way: "That stuff will turn your bones to dust if you use it too long." It's for use only in an emergency.
Here is the more important issue: The cost in a Mexican village drug store for an 8 mg. vial of injectible Decadron, a bottle of 10 mg. Prednisone pills and a syringe was: $6 Cdn.
Here is another example: A doctor, who also owns the pharmacy, gave us some Valium for the Mexican dog we are taking back to Canada. We'd prefer that the mutt doesn't create a terrorist-like incident on the plane. Mrs. Poulsen and I will probably need it too. Cost: $2.
In Mexico, the government is the largest buyer of medications and sells them to drug stores at cost. The government dictates the price, not the pharmaceutical companies.
There are buses full of Americans coming across the border to Mexico to buy cheap meds. There are also buses full of Americans coming to Canada to buy cheap meds, although not as cheap as in Mexico.
The Canadian government also has price limits on how much the pharmaceutical companies can charge.
Over the last ten years, pharmaceuticals have been at the top of the most profitable industries in the world.
The drug companies say they have lowered their prices in Mexico because of "international income inequalities."
Wait a moment, I have to shed a tear over their concern for the poor.
OK, that didn't take long. If you don't believe what the drug companies say, neither does the Research Service of the U.S. Congress.
Their researchers make an obvious point: The drug companies are selling in Canada and Mexico because they make a profit, and that includes research and development costs.
An American here told me that the U.S. is subsidizing the drug prices in Canada and Mexico.
If Americans have a problem with drug costs, it's their own fault for letting free enterprise run out of control, like their banks.
Higher taxes because of high drug costs, as well as the money the drug makers lavish on politicians, are two reasons why Obama can't get a decent health care bill past his own Democrats in congress.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- An immigration lawyer has agreed to take the Davis family's case.
Two-year-old Jessica Davis and her father, Travis, had to leave her mother, Aminata, behind in Africa when they came to the U.S. in August to seek better medical care for Jessica.
Travis Davis, who is from Mexico, N.Y., and his daughter were able to get into the country because they are U.S. citizens. But they had to leave Aminata, 22, behind as they waited out the long immigration process.
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[Intro: 2pac]
Turn it up loud
Hahaha, ahahaha, hey man
You a little sucker for love, right?
Word up, hahahahaha
[Verse 1: 2pac]
I shoulda seen
You was trouble right from the start, taught me so many lessons
How not to mess with broken hearts, so many questions
When this began we was the perfect match, perhaps
We had some problems but we workin at it, and now
The arguments are gettin' loud, I wanna stay
But I can't help from walkin' out just throw it away
Just take my hand and understand, if you could see
I never planned to be your man it just wasn't me
But now I'm searchin' for commitment, in other arms
I wanna shelter you from harm, don't be alarmed
Your attitude was the cause, you got me stressin'
Soon as I open up the door with your jealous questions
Like where can I be you're killin' me with your jealousy
Now my ambition's to be free
I can't breathe, cause soon as I leave, it's like a trap
I hear you callin' me to come back, I'm a sucka for love
This song is the perfect Song of how LOVE can lead you blind & the strength of it. Look here's how the story goes (Told By Lil Mace)…
The first verse is him talking to his girl about how he never even meant to be her man but he ended up falling for her anyway. He wanted to leave her because things had gone from great to bad and he decided to leave her because of her jealous ways. She thought he was cheating on her when really he just wanted to be a good man to her but her ways wouldn't let her believe it. So ultimately, he decided to leave her but he couldn't stay away for long because he was so trapped by love that he couldn't leave even if he wanted to. So in the end of the first verse, she doubted 2pac's love for her which drove him away. But since he is such a sucker for love, when he leaves he just can't let her go because he's in love so he's goes back to her.
The 2nd verse is how 2pac's ex told him that she was pregnant and that he was the father. An obvious lie, but he tried to keep it true to her and pick up where he left off but he just couldn't get over the suspicion of her cheating on him. So 'Pac was constantly doubting his self and the way that she acted. He thinks that she is fooling him just to keep him there. As soon as his girl starts to get phone calls he believes that all of his suspicions were right and that she really was cheating on him. So instead of confronting her about the calls he just decides that she IS cheating and chooses to just disappear from her life. He did that because he felt so used by her and used by love that he realizes once he knows that she's been cheating that he got played by love and it blinded him to go back to her. He was so ashamed of getting played by love that he was sure that he would never let it happen again. In the end of the 2nd verse 'Pac doubted her love for him which drove him away because he felt ashamed that he got played by love and became a sucker for it.
The 3rd verse is Pac talking to his ex about the current relationship that she's in. She is now in a destructive relationship with a man that beats her and doesn't treat her right. He reminds her of what they had before everything started to turn bad. He tells her of all the good things that they had like how he gave her a better life but she threw it all away when she cheated. Even he knows that he was blinded by love and trapped by her, he even admits it. She tells him that she has a man but it's okay if they get back together but she made no move to leave her man and just leaves Pac waiting for an answer to whether or not they could have another try at their relationship. He tells her that all he wanted to do was take away all of her pain, take care of her and treat her right because he is in love with her. All Pac needed was her faith in him and that he would handle all of her problems and show her love. So in the end of the third verse Pac just wants to make his ex happy and give her the life and love that she deservers, but she doubts Pac's love and doesn't put faith in him which keeps her from getting them back together.
So, no matter how much 2pac got played by love he chose to seek it and never give up trying even when was sure that he would give up. He was led blind by love but still chose to follow it. That's why the hook is perfect for this song, the verses are perfect for this song and the production is perfect for this song.


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Lakeshore pulled out a 10-8 victory over Thomas Pump Thursday evening thanks to a four-run inning in the bottom of the sixth that gave them the lead for good.
Thomas Pump opened the game with two runs in the opening inning, but the Titans responded with four runs of their before adding two more in the third to take a 6-2 lead.
Their lead still wasn't safe, however, as Thomas Pump answered with two runs in both the fifth and sixth innings to tie the game.
But Lakeshore's big fourth inning gave them the cushion they needed to secure the win, despite Thomas Pump coming through with two more runs in the final inning.
Cody Doucette picked up the win in relief and also tied with four others for the team lead in hits with two. Zack Bergeron drove in a team-high three RBIs and Nathan Faciane followed with two while finishing 2-for-2 with two walks.
Cannon White was charged with the loss for Thomas Pump while Saige Watkins led his team in RBIs with three.


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He first dreamt that Max was sucking him off using those perfectly soft lips only to reciprocate the action moments later. Then Max was riding Bravo's cock in front of the hotel suite's gigantic window with the entire city behind them. Bravo finally finished nailing Max after he had him on his back, and just after they kissed one last time, Bravo's eyes opened. Was it really all a dream?


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Canal Days Saturday August 6, 2011 in DeWitt
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Syracuse, N.Y. -- Sabrina Williams sits in an aging house in a tired neighborhood on Syracuse's South Side. She looks tired herself. In fact, she appears utterly exhausted.
Williams, sunglasses hiding her eyes, sits at a table in a dimly lit, smoke-filled living room that is sweltering. She doesn't say much and when she speaks it's mostly to replay the events of the last week.
Williams' 22-year-old son, Lavon Spaights, was fatally shot Tuesday outside a house at 115 Shonnard St. It's the second time in a month gun violence has ravaged her extended family. Spaights' twin sister, Lavonda, lost her boyfriend, Martin Paulk, in early January. It was the city's first homicide of the year.
"My son was a sweetheart," Williams says as she puts a Newport out in an ashtray and takes a sip of juice. "If he sees you, he's going to give you a hug."
Friends and family have packed into the house and a steady stream continues to file in and hug and kiss Williams. They tell her they're sorry and they can't believe what has happened. They tell her it never should have happened.
Spaights, who family and friends called "Booter," was a singer in the group "Destine for Greatness" which he started with friends and family members. His mother punches a button on a stereo and fills the room with a song Spaights recorded shortly before he died. He wanted to go to Onondaga Community College to study music and business, Williams said, motioning to a portrait on the wall of Spaights and her other children.
Spaights' girlfriend Shanijah Gainey called Williams at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday before the shooting. The couple was in an argument and Gainey often called Williams to defuse the situation or pick her son up and give him a ride.
Police said Spaights was shot just before 11 p.m.
At one point during the argument with her boyfriend, Gainey called her cousin. She called him to help "defuse the situation" with her boyfriend, Gainey said in an interview with The Post-Standard. Police said the argument between the couple was apparently heated, but not physical.
"What happened between Shanijah Gainey and Lavon Spaights was verbal," Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler said at a news conference. "She didn't say at any point that it escalated to anything physical -- her desire, as she put it, was to get him out of her residence."
Gainey's cousin drove to the house with three men, including 29-year-old Sean Hunter. Williams knows Hunter and used to give him rides when he was younger, she said. Gainey said Spaights and Hunter got into a dispute, but that it wasn't violent.
"They weren't arguing," Gainey said. "There was no yelling."
While Gainey's cousin asked her what had happened, Spaights called his mother, possibly for a ride.
He asked where she was. Then Williams said she heard people tussling on the phone and a shot rang out. A few seconds later another shot. Then the phone went dead.
Police said that's when Hunter pulled out a .22 caliber handgun and shot Spaights at point-blank range. Spaights was struck once in the back by a bullet that lodged in his heart, according to court paperwork. Police recovered a shell casing from a second bullet, though that projectile has not been found.
After he was shot, Spaights fled to the Midway Express Market, at 380 W. Onondaga St., and collapsed. Gainey reached her boyfriend there a short distance from the site of their argument.
A few minutes after the phone call with Spaights went dead, Williams got another call from her son. He was at the Midway Express Market and slowly bleeding to death.
"I'm just screaming 'Please Booter baby tell me where are you?'" Williams said.
Hysterical, Williams called 911. She later made her way to the hospital where her son was pronounced dead.
Police arrested Hunter after a lengthy standoff in Salina Wednesday night. Syracuse police detectives tracked Hunter to a girlfriend's house on Roosevelt Avenue. Hunter eventually surrendered to a SWAT team. He faces murder charges.
Police are still searching for the murder weapon.
Williams and her family openly contradict Gainey's telling of events and question her motives. Even a detail as straightforward as how long Spaights and Gainey were together - Gainey says three years, but Williams says it would've been two years in May - is up for interpretation.
One thing Williams and her family are certain of: Gainey is to blame for Spaights' death.
"You [Gainey] wanted something to happen," Williams said. "Why wouldn't you call me and say 'Can you come get Booter?'"
"Any other time you would've called me, so you knew something was going to happen."
Gainey said in an interview that she felt guilty for placing a call that led to her boyfriend's death.
Police have said their understanding of the shooting is based on more than their interview with Gainey. Spaights did not have a firearm, and police said there's no indication that his fight with Michael Gainey -- Shanijah Gainey's cousin -- would have turned violent without Hunter's intervention.
Williams is still sitting in the living room of the old house on the South Side, but she keeps replaying things over in her head. She still has five other children -- ages 24, 22, 16, 14 and three - to think about. But right now all she can think about or talk about is her son Booter.
Someone hands her a cough drop. She unwraps the cough drop and pops it into her mouth. She fiddles with the wrapper, staring at it and not looking up and still trying to make sense of things. Spaights' funeral is a week away. The funeral home wanted to have it sooner, but Williams had them move the date because it would have landed on her other son's 24th birthday.
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Welcome to the New Orleans Zephyrs vs. Colorado Springs Sky Sox in-game blog.
We'll be updating throughout the game. Just hit your refresh button for the latest news.
Game halted by rain
The game was delayed by rain with Colorado Springs batting with one out in the seventh, adn the Zephyrs leading 3-1. The delay started at 1:18 p.m., and the tarp was off by 1:43 p.m.
Play will resume shortly.
Z's lead 3-1 when rain halts play in seventh
The game was delayed by rain with Colorado Springs batting with one out in the seventh and the Zephyrs leading 3-1.
Zephyrs lead 3-1 after five innings
The Zephyrs snapped a 1-1 tie with a two-out rally in the fifth, taking a 3-1 lead.
Dave Matranga singled, his third hit of the game, and scored when Brett Carroll lined a double over the head of center fielder Mike McCoy. John Lindsey singled home Carroll.
Zephyrs shortstop Gookie Dawkins and second baseman Andy Gonzalez handled the ball quickly when Eric Young Jr., one of the fastest runners in the PCL, hit into a double play to end the Colorado Springs fifth.
Sky Sox tie score in fourth
Colorado Springs made the score 1-1 in the fourth.
Mike McCoy led off the inning with a bunt single, the first hit against Zephyrs starter Clay Hensley, and Matt Miller followed with a single to left. McCoy advanced to third when Matt Murton flied out to deep left center and scored when Dan Ortmeier flied out to deep right.
Matranga's homer gives Zephyrs lead
Dave Matranga hit a homer with two out in the third to give the Zephyrs a 1-0 lead.
Zephyrs pitcher Clay Hensley didn't allow a hit in the first three innings. The only Colorado Spring base runner was Jonathan Herrera, who walked with one out in the third. Pitcher Esmil Rogers sacrificed, but Hensley retired Eric Young Jr. on a grounder to second to end the inning.
Rogers allowed two hits, both by Matranga, in the first three innings. Matranga reached on an infield single with one out in the first.
Right-hander Clay Hensley (6-3, 3.95 earned run average) will start for the Zephyrs, and right-hander Esmil Rogers (1-3, 6.75) will start for the Sky Sox.
Hayden Penn, who allowed two runs, one earned, and two hits in 5 2-3 innings Sunday but strained a side muscle while batting, long-tossed before the game Monday and said he's good to go for his next start.
"I got up today and ran,'' Penn said. "It was fine.''
Penn had a no-hitter going until Matt Miller homered on a 3-0 pitch with two out in the sixth.
"Breaking ball was good, heater command was good,'' said Penn, whose ERA dropped from 5.44 to 5.02. "Overall, it felt pretty good. I came down here trying to get myself right. In the last four or four starts, I'm starting to get in a little groove, hope to keep it going.''
Penn, who began the season with the Marlins after being acquired in a trade with Baltimore, came to New Orleans in mid-June. In his last four starts, he pitched 24 2-3 innings, allowing 11 hits and eight earned runs.
On Tuesday night, the Zephyrs begin a four-game home series against Salt Lake. Zephyrs right-hander Matt DeSalvo (0-0, 0.00) will make his first start for New Orleans since being signed by the Marlins as a minor-league free agent. He pitched a scoreless inning in relief Friday against Colorado Springs. Right-hander Dan Denham (9-8, 5.34) will pitch for Salt Lake. Game time will be 7 p.m.


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Gordon Hartley Carlson died Oct. 30, 2012 at St. John's Mercy Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. Internment will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis.
Mr. Carlson was born April 15, 1924 in Chicago, Ill. He served in the Eighth Army Air Corps during World War II as a Flight Engineer on B-24 Bombers earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medals among others.
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Mr. Carlson's ready smile, quick humor and practical advice were counted on by those who knew him. He was deeply committed to his faith, his family and proud of being "100 percent American with Swedish parts". He was preceded in death by his parents, J.V. and Emma Carlson; and his siblings, Judith Anderson, Ralph Carlson and Kenneth Carlson.


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Nieto, Belén and Novales Cinca, Alfonso and Rubio, Gonzalo (2011) Why do variance swaps exist? [ Documentos de trabajo del Instituto Complutense de Análisis Económico (ICAE); nº 06, 2011, ] (Unpublished)
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Official URL: http://eprints.ucm.es/12520/
This paper studies the determinants of the variance risk premium and concludes on the hedging possibilities offered by variance swaps. We start by showing that the variance
risk premium responds to changes in higher order moments of the distribution of market returns. But the uncertainty that determines the variance risk premium –the fear by investors to deviations from Normality in returns- is also strongly related to a variety of risks: risk of default, employment growth risk, consumption growth risk, stock market risk and market illiquidity risk. Therefore, the variance risk premium could be interpreted as reflecting the market willingness to pay for hedging against financial and
macroeconomic sources of risk. We provide additional evidence in support of that view.
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What: Nonconference game.
When: Friday, 7 p.m.
Where: Cloverleaf High, 8525 Friendsville Road, Lodi. Call 330-302-0315.
Records: Keystone 1-0; Cloverleaf 0-1.
About Keystone: The Wildcats had little trouble in Week 1, as they earned a 51-6 victory over Monroeville. Keystone was able to show off its offensive weapons, as C.J. Conrad had 166 yards of total offense and a touchdown, while Tyler Polen ran for 100 yards and two touchdowns. If they keep producing, Keystone could jump out to a 2-0 start in 2014.
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