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Conference seeks to help Mormons with same
For one, North Star president hoped more than 40 sessions at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, spread across Friday and Saturday, would provide support and resources for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints who experience same sex attraction and desire to live in harmony with the church teachings, doctrines and values.
Another goal for the conference titled Home in the Gospel of Christ was to spread a message to Mormons and others that many Tom Savage Jersey Latter day Saints who experience same sex attraction maintain their faith and membership, though North Star has no official tie to the church.
want them to know there are other options, options consistent with the church teachings, and there are lots Tom Savage Authentic Jersey of happy, healthy people choosing them. People don see them (in the church) because they blend in. If that an option you want, we want to provide resources to help you do that in a happy, healthy way.
There also was an underlying need to attract enough people to the event to make a second conference possible.
By the lunch break Friday, he felt confident those goals would be achieved.
goal was Whitney Mercilus Authentic Jersey to (break even), he said. think we barely did that this year. Early on we thought we might face a big debt, but we been blessed. We built it, and they come.
Nearly 350 people registered for the event by last week deadline, and another 75 joined via walk up registration Friday or Saturday. Those numbers allowed Mansfield to start planning an annual spring conference.
Part of the draw this weekend was a slate of five keynote speakers with BYU ties: Robert L. Millet is an emeritus professor of ancient scripture; Camille Fronk Olson, a professor of ancient scripture; Jonathan Sandberg, a marriage and family therapist and professor in the school of family life; Wendy Ulrich, who has taught at BYU and is a past president of the Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists; and Mansfield, who is teaching adjunct classes at BYU while working on his dissertation.
Millet, Olson and Ulrich wrote chapters for Mansfield 2011 book, of Hope: Latter day Saint Perspectives on Same Gender Attraction.
That book has grown into a major online project that along with its first conference have become North Star chief efforts at outreach. There are now about 55 video essays on the site. Each is expensive, Mansfield said, and the group is seeking financing for them.
Mansfield said the biggest demographic at the conference was men, followed by family about 150 parents or other loved ones of those experiencing same sex attraction. The next largest group was spouses, followed by healthy group of ecclesiastical leaders, local level LDS leaders seeking resources to help those in their congregations. Mansfield estimated about www.texansonlineprostore.com/WOMENS-JOHNATHAN-JOSEPH-JERSEY.html 40 50 ecclesiastical leaders attended the conference.
The LDS Church doctrine on chastity is that sexual relations Whitney Mercilus Limited Jersey are to be restricted to a marriage relationship between a man and a woman. Mansfield, who has described himself as inescapably gay, first remained celibate, then later married a woman.
an organization we very explicitly and unapologetically sustain the church and church leaders, gospel principles and the Proclamation on the Family, he said Friday.
Home in the Gospel of Christ had added meaning as a conference because it was North Star first texansonlineprostore.com/WOMENS-DUANE-BROWN-JERSEY.html major gathering since Evergreen International, a similar group that held conferences annually for many years, closed its doors and was incorporated into North Star.
Evergreen began as group seeking to help gay Mormons through reparative therapy. North Star does not take a position on changing or diminishing same sex attraction or what it has called gender identity incongruence.

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He’ll head up the offensive team meetings, staff meetings and give it a little direction when I’m focused on other areas."I asked Turner about sophomore tight end Jonnu Smith. me, it’s amazing what he did last year as a true freshman, all the things we asked him to do dplaying tight end, playing fullback, splitting him out as a receiver, going in motion, all the things we asked him to do in the running game and the passing game. It’s amazing how he handled it, emotionally and mentally. He’s a great young man.""The good news is, hopefully, he’ll have a little more help around him. We won’t have to put so much on his shoulders."Turner said he was happy with the depth on the offensive line, wide receivers and secondary and most concerned about the lack of depth on the defensive line.The running back position will be by committee. Last year transfer from Bowling Green, Anthon will be a walk on. That hit to the knee sophomore Silas Spearman took in the spring game looked worse than just a "tweak." Indeed, Spearman knee remains ouchy. "I think he’ll be OK," Turner said. "Shane Coleman had a great spring. Hopefully, he can continue.""We’re not going to have one feature guy. It’ll be a lot of guys playing. Whoever’s hot, keeps going."players came in slacks and a polo shirt in school colors with logo. The preseason Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, Marshall quarterback Rakeem Cato and defensive lineman James Rouse, wore suits.The players decided their attire on their own. Rouse said he saw players at other conference Media Days in suits and thought it looked nice. But, also, he said, it symbolizes the "all business mentality" Marshall wants to adopt once official practices start.The Thundering Herd, upset losers to Rice 41 24 in last year conference title game, rank not just as the overwhelming conference favorite, but are considered a possible undefeated BCS buster. see ourselves as a good team," Rouse said. "We working hard to prepare ourselves for each game. Right now, we just worried about Miami of Ohio, the first www.texansonlineprostore.com/WOMENS-KAREEM-JACKSON-JERSEY.html game. We have to take care of business there before we (start thinking about the season)."Cato said, "I think we have a good chance to have a great season. I love our team right now. I think we have a good shot to win it all."If FIU receivers didn dribble more passes against FAU than former Owls point guard Ray Taylor dribbled basketballs for FIU last year, the Owls wouldn have beaten FIU to become bowl eligible. And they didn go to a bowl. Neither besmirches FAU remarkable achievement in refusing to let its season get dragged into the Death Star trash compactor muck head coach Carl Pelini and defensive coordinator Pete Rekstis resigned amid illegal drug use allegations, Pelini always has denied he used illegal drugs. When Pelini tried to withdraw his resignation, he was fired. He later accused athletic director Pat Chun of dishonesty and desiring his own choice of football coach.Whatever the truth of that mess, it could been the final torpedo in a season that stood at 2 6 after Pelini last game. Instead, helped by closing against Southern Mississippi, New Mexico State and FIU, the Owls won their last four games. Senior tight end Alex DeLeon said he never stopped during the season to think about the wackienss surrounding the coaching situation."I can’t control that," DeLeon said. "The only thing I can control is being a leader for our team."Oh, and, much like FIU, FAU doesn like Western Kentucky. When I asked DeLeon and senior linebacker Andrae Kirk for a conference rival aside from their obvious geographic rival, both pointed to Western. The Hilltoppers beat FAU in FAU Stadium first game. Also, Kirk said, Western ground bound offense under previous coach Willie Taggart made for physical games against another team with more than a few Florida players.Both players politely declined to mention that Western under Taggart could be cocky, yappy and a wee bit nasty, especially in victory. they forgot after a year separated from the Hilltoppers.WESTERN KENTUCKY this is a very different Western than the one FIU and FAU left back in the Sun Belt for a season."Coach Taggart, he’s the one who helped get the program on its feet and transition to Division I A," junior defensive end Gavin Rocker said. "Coach Petrino came in and led us to our best record since we’ve been there. Coach Brohm, there hasn’t been too much of a difference between he and Coach Petrino because he was the coordinator under Coach Petrino so it’s been a smooth transition. He’s a players’ coach. You can tell he cares about us."When Taggart headed back to his native area to coach South Florida, Western jumped on Bobby Petrino and he brought a staff that included offensive coordinator Jeff Brohm. Yes, he the brother of Brian Brohm, quarterback of Petrino best teams at Louisville, and was his brother quarterback coach at Louisville.Now, with Petrino back in Louisville after serving his penance for his Arkansas indiscretions, Jeff Brohm takes over. Instead of winning games 14 7 old school Big Ten style, Western won them 34 31 or 35 26. Brohm offense set 18 single season school records and averaged 458.5 yards per game. TENNESSEE STATEConference USA East Division could also be called C USA Immigration Naturalization. Four of the five teams that jumped from The Sun Belt to C USA the last two academic years FIU, FAU, Middle Tennessee, Western Kentucky are in the East. They be joined by newbies Old Dominion and, next year, Charlotte."Conference USA is, top to bottom, more competitive," Middle coach Rick Stockstill said. "There’s a lot of great individual players in this conference. There’s a lot of great coaches in this conference. I think the facilities are at a higher level than the Sun Belt Conference schools. The professionalism and the organization of Conference USA is at a higher level than the Sun Belt."If everything a step up, logic says program budgets must increase also. Or, should increase."I think we’ll see that this year," Stockstill said. "We had to pay an exit fee to leave the Sun Belt and we had to pay an entry fee for Conference USA, too. The money that we’ll receive from Conference USA I don’t think we’ll see the rewards of that until this year. With the bowl tie ins, the TV packagres, the money you get is head and shoulders above the Sun Belt."Middle returns four running backs and one backup quarterback who had 100 yard rushing games in 2013 and eight starters on a defense that allowed 26.2 points per game. What they don return quareterback Logan Kilgore. FIU beat only one FBS team Southern Mississippi. Southern Miss beat only one FBS team last year UAB. Change that. Southern Miss STOMPED UAB 62 27 in the season closer.

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The Boston Red Sox 2004 season was the 103rd Major Baseball season for the Boston Red Sox franchise. Managed under Terry Francona, the team finished with a 98 64 record (three games behind the New York Yankees in the American East Division). The Red Sox played in Fenway Park to a local attendance of 2,837,294 fans.
They clinched the AL cheap nfl jerseys wild card to assure a berth in the 2004 post season. They swept the Anaheim Angels in the first round to enter the ALCS against the Yankees for the second straight year.
Trailing 4 3 in the 9th inning of Game 4, they embarked upon an unprecedented (the first of such in Major Baseball history) comeback from a three game deficit to defeat the New York Yankees in the series. After the ALCS, the Red Sox swept the Cardinals to win their first World Series since 1918 (86 years).[1]
Road to a championship
The regular season started well in April, but through midseason the team struggled due to injuries, inconsistency and defensive woes, and fell more than eight games behind New York. A bright point came on July 24, when the Red Sox overcame a five run deficit as Bill Mueller hit a game winning home run to right center off Yankees closer Mariano Rivera. The game also featured the infamous brawl between Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez and Red Sox catcher and captain Jason Varitek.
Red Sox General Theo Epstein shook up the team at the MLB trading deadline July 31, trading the team’s wildly popular yet often hurt and disgruntled shortstop, Nomar Garciaparra, to the Chicago Cubs,[6] receiving Orlando Cabrera from the Montreal Expos and Doug Mientkiewicz from the Minnesota Twins in return. In a separate transaction, the Red Sox also traded AAA outfielder Henri Stanley to the Los Angeles Dodgers for center fielder Dave Roberts. With valuable players like Cabrera, Mientkiewicz, and Roberts in the line up, the club turned things around, winning twenty two out of twenty five games and going on to finish within three games of the Yankees in the AL East and qualifying for the playoffs as the AL Wild Card.
Main article: 2004 American Division Series
Boston began the playoffs by sweeping the AL West champion Anaheim Angels. The Red Sox blew out the Angels 9 3 in Game 1, scoring 7 of those runs in the fourth inning. However, the Sox’ 2003 off season prize pickup Curt Schilling suffered a torn tendon when he was hit by a line drive. The injury was exacerbated when Schilling fielded a ball rolling down the first base line. The second game, pitched by Pedro Martnez, stayed close until Boston scored four in the ninth to win 8 3. In game three, what looked to be a blowout turned out to be a nail biter, as Vladimir Guerrero hit a grand slam off Mike Timlin in the top of the seventh inning to tie it at six. However, David Ortiz, who was noted for his clutch hitting, delivered in the 10th inning with a game winning two run homer over the Green Monster. Curt Schilling pitched with the torn tendon sheath in his right ankle he had suffered in Game 1 of the Division Series against Anaheim, and was routed for six runs in three innings. Yankee starter Mike Mussina had six perfect innings, and held an 8 0 lead. Despite the Sox’ best effort to come back (they scored seven runs to make it 8 7), they ended up losing 10 7. In Game 2, already with his Yankees leading 1 0 for most of the game, John Olerud hit a two run home run to put the New York team up for good. The Sox were soon down three games to none after a crushing 19 8 loss in Game 3 at home. In that game, the two clubs set the record for most runs scored in a game. At that point in the history of baseball, no team had come back to win from a 3 0 series deficit (in fact, only the 1998 Atlanta Braves and 1999 New York Mets had ever gotten as far as a Game 6).
In Game 4, the Red Sox found themselves facing elimination, trailing 4 3 in the ninth with Yankees superstar closer Mariano Rivera on the mound. After Rivera issued a walk to Kevin Millar, Dave Roberts came on to pinch run and promptly stole second base, this being what many consider the turning point in the series. He then scored on an RBI single by Bill Mueller which sent the game to extra innings. The Red Sox went on to win the game on a two run home run by David Ortiz in the 12th inning. In Game 5, the Red Sox were again down late, this time by the score of 4 2, as a result of Derek Jeter’s bases clearing triple. But the Sox struck back in the eighth, as Ortiz hit a homer over the Green Monster to bring the Sox within a run. NFL Jerseys China Then Jason Varitek hit a sacrifice fly to bring home Dave Roberts, scoring the tying run. The game would go for 14 innings, capped off by many squandered Yankee opportunities (they were 1 for 13 with runners in scoring position). In the top of the 12th, the knuckleballing Tim Wakefield came in from the bullpen, without his customary "personal catcher", Doug Mirabelli. Jason Varitek, the starting catcher, had trouble with Wakefield’s tricky knuckleballs in the 12th: he allowed 3 passed balls in the 13th. The third and last of those gave the Yankees runners on second and third with two out. The Red Sox were spared, however, as Rubn Sierra struck out to end the inning. In the bottom of the 14th, Ortiz would again seal the win with a game winning RBI single that brought home Damon. The game set the record for longest postseason game in terms of time (5 hours and 49 minutes) and for the longest American game (14 innings), though the former has since been broken.
With the series returning to Yankee Stadium for Game 6, the improbable comeback continued, with Curt Schilling pitching on an ankle that had three sutures wrapped in a bloody (red) sock. Schilling struck out four, walked none, and only allowed one run over seven innings to lead the team to victory. Mark Bellhorn also helped in the effort as he hit a three run home run in the fourth inning. Originally called a double, the umpires conferred and agreed that the ball had actually gone in to the stands before falling back in to the field of play, which was apparent to the television audience but angered Yankees fans. A key play came in the bottom of the eighth inning with Derek Jeter on first and Alex Rodrguez facing Bronson Arroyo. Rodrguez hit a ground ball down the first base line. Arroyo fielded it and reached out to tag him as he raced down the line. Rodrguez slapped at the ball and it came loose, rolling down the line. Jeter scored and Rodrguez ended up on second. After conferring, however, the umpires called Rodrguez out on interference and returned Jeter to first base, the second time in the game they reversed a call. Yankees fans, upset with the calls, littered the field with debris. The umpires called police clad in riot gear to line the field in the top of the 9th inning. In the bottom of the ninth, the Yankees staged a rally and brought former Red Sox player Tony Clark, who had played well against the Red Sox since leaving the team, to the plate as the potential winning run. Closer Keith Foulke however, struck out Clark to end the game and force a Game 7. In this game, the Red Sox completed their historic comeback on the strength of Derek Lowe’s one hit/one run pitching and Johnny Damon’s two home runs, including a grand slam in the second inning off the first pitch of reliever Javier Vzquez, and defeated the New York Yankees 10 3. Ortiz, who had the game winning RBIs in Games 4 and 5, was named ALCS Most Valuable Player.
Major Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey are the three professional sports that feature best of seven games series in their playoffs. Coming back to win a seven game series when down by three games has only been accomplished by four teams in the history of the MLB, NBA, and NHL. The 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL) came back from being down by three games to the Detroit Red Wings to win the 1942 Stanley Cup. The 1975 New York Islanders (NHL) did the same when they came back to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1975 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals. During their Cinderella run to the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals, the Philadelphia Flyers (NHL) came back from three games down to defeat the Boston Bruins to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. No team in the NBA has ever accomplished such a comeback and the Boston Red Sox are the only team in Major Baseball history to ever do so.
Main article: 2004 World Series
The Red Sox faced the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2004 World Series. The Cardinals had posted the best record in the major leagues that season, and had previously defeated the Red Sox in the 1946 and 1967 Series, with both series going seven games. The third time would be the charm, however, as the momentum and confidence Boston had built up in the ALCS would overwhelm St. Louis. The Red Sox began the Series with an 11 9 win, marked by Mark Bellhorn’s game winning home run off Pesky’s Pole. He later on said that he "just did what he needed to do." It was the highest scoring World Series opening game ever (breaking the previous record set in 1932). The Red Sox would go on to win Game 2 in Boston (thanks to another sensational performance by the bloody socked Schilling). The Red Sox won both these games despite making 4 errors in each game. In Game 3, Pedro Martnez shut out the Cardinals for seven innings. The Cardinals only made one real threat in the third inning when they put runners on second and third with no outs. However, the Cardinals’ rally was killed by pitcher Jeff Suppan’s baserunning gaffe. With no outs, Suppan should have scored easily from third on a Larry Walker ground ball to second baseman Bellhorn, who was playing back, conceding the run. But as Bellhorn threw out Walker at first base, Suppan inexplicably froze after taking several steps toward home and was thrown out by Sox first baseman David Ortiz as he scrambled back to third. The double play was devastating for St. Louis. The Red Sox needed one more game to win their first championship since the 1918 World Series. In Game Four the Red Sox did not allow a run, and the game ended as Edgar Rentera (who would become the 2005 Red Sox starting SS) hit the ball back to Keith Foulke. (This was the second time that Rentera had ended a Series, as he had won it for the Marlins seven years prior in the 1997 World Series.) After Foulke lobbed the ball to Doug Mientkiewicz, the Sox had won their first World Championship in 86 years. The Sox held the Cardinals’ offense (the best in the NL in 2004) to only three runs in the last three games, never trailing in the Series. Manny Ramrez was named World Series MVP. The Red Sox won Game Four of the series on October 27, eighteen years to the day from when they lost to the New York Mets in the 1986 World Series. In fact, it came 18 years to the day they lost their last World Series game, as they would sweep the 2004 series.
The Red Sox performed well in the 2004 postseason. From the eighth inning of Game 5 of the American against the Yankees (a tie) until the end of the World Series, the Sox played 60 innings, and never trailed at any point. This was only the fourth World Series ever played in which the losing team had never held a lead.
To add a final, surreal touch to the Red Sox championship title, on the night the Red Sox won, a total lunar eclipse colored the moon over Busch Stadium to a deep red hue. The Red Sox won the title about eleven minutes before totality ended. Many Red Sox fans who were turned away due to no tickets for the game were allowed to watch the final inning from the confines of Busch Stadium after being let in free of charge.
Fox commentator Joe Buck famously called the final out, saying:
Back to Foulke. Red Sox fans have longed to hear it: the Boston Red Sox are World Champions!"
The Red Sox held a parade (or as Boston mayor Thomas Menino put it, a "rolling rally") on Saturday, October 30, 2004. A crowd of more than three million people filled the streets of Boston to cheer as the team rode on the city’s famous Duck Boats. The parade followed the same route the New England Patriots took following their victories in Super Bowls Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002 and Super Bowl XXVIII in February.
Following their 2004 World Series win, the Red Sox replaced the dirt from the field as a "fresh start". They earned many accolades from sports media and throughout the nation for their incredible season.
Pitcher Derek Lowe said that with the win, the chants of "1918!" would no longer echo at wholesale jerseys Yankee Stadium again.[8]
The Patriots win in the Super Bowl meant the Red Sox World Series win made Boston the first city to have Super Bowl and World Series champions in the same year in 25 years, when the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XIII, followed by the Pirates winning the 1979 World Series.[9] The Patriots winning Super Bowl XXXIX in the ensuing offseason made Boston the first city to have two Super Bowl and one World Series championship over a span of 12 months since Pittsburgh in 1979 1980.[9]
After the Bruins won the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, which made Boston the first city to win championships in all four sports leagues in the new millennium, Dan Shaughnessy of The Boston Globe ranked all seven championships by the Patriots, Red Sox in 2004 and 2007, the Celtics in 2008, and the Bruins and picked the Red Sox win in 2004 as the greatest Boston sports championship during the ten year span.[10]