Ross homers twice in Boston's 9-4 win over Braves

Boston Red Sox's Kevin Youkilis, foreground, tips his batting helmet as fans applaud in the second inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves in Boston, Sunday, June 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Boston Red Sox's Kevin Youkilis, foreground, tips his batting helmet as fans applaud in the second inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves in Boston, Sunday, June 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Boston Red Sox's Kevin Youkilis breaks his bat on a single in the second inning of an interleague baseball game against the Atlanta Braves in Boston, Sunday, June 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Boston Red Sox's Cody Ross, right, celebrates his two-run home run in the fifth inning of an interleague baseball game in against the Atlanta Braves Boston, Sunday, June 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Boston Red Sox's Cody Ross, right, celebrates his three-run home run that also drove in Boston Red Sox's Dustin Pedroia (15) in the fourth inning of an interleague baseball game against the Atlanta Braves in Boston, Sunday, June 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Atlanta Braves' Eric Hinske, right, watches his two-run triple in front of Boston Red Sox's Kelly Shoppach in the fifth inning of a baseball game in Boston, Sunday, June 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

BOSTON (AP) ? Cody Ross hit two homers and drove in five runs, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Atlanta Braves 9-4 Sunday in a game that likely was Kevin Youkilis' farewell to the Fenway Park fans.

Youkilis, a subject of recent trade rumors, was lifted for a pinch-runner after hitting a triple in the seventh inning. After the game, manager Bobby Valentine said general manager Ben Cherington told him "there is a situation brewing" before Youkilis' at-bat.

Youkilis was greeted with a hug from Nick Punto, who pinch-ran for him, and many of his teammates on the top step of the dugout.

The burley infielder, in his ninth season with the Red Sox, took his helmet off and waved to the crowd, blew a kiss and was urged to come out for a curtain call by his teammates before heading down the steps. He was given a lengthy standing ovation and the fans chanted "Yook."

The nameplate above Youkilis' locker was gone in the clubhouse after the Red Sox's the ninth win in 11 games. Boston completed interleague play with a winning record for the eighth straight season (11-7).

Jason Heyward continued his torrid June for the Braves, hitting a solo homer among his three hits.

Atlanta, which lost for the ninth time in 13 games, closed interleague play 8-10.

Aaron Cook (1-1), making just his second start with the Red Sox and first since going on the disabled list May 6 after sustaining a cut on his left knee covering home plate, gave up three runs ? two earned ? six hits and didn't walk or strike out anyone in five innings.

Braves starter Mike Minor (3-6) gave up three homers and allowed seven runs ? four earned ? in 4 2-3 innings.

Adrian Gonzalez added a solo homer for Boston, which won six of seven series against NL opponents.

Heyward is hitting .391 this month with five homers and 12 RBIs.

Cook filled-in for Clay Buchholz, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list Sunday with what Valentine called a "gastrointestinal issue."

The Red Sox jumped ahead with a four-run fourth against Minor. After breezing through the first three innings allowing just a pair of singles, Minor walked the first two batters in the inning. Ross then homered into the first row of seats above the Green Monster, making it 3-0. One pitch later, Gonzalez sliced a flyball into the Monster seats to make it 4-0.

The Braves capitalized on Cook's throwing error for a run during a three-run fifth. Eric Hinske had a two-run double into the center field triangle after Heyward and Andrelton Simmons singled. Juan Francisco then bounced back to the mound and Cook had Hinske off the bag, but threw widely past third to allow him to score to make it 4-3. Cook retired the next three batters, finishing his work.

In the fifth, Boston scored three unearned runs off Minor when Will Middlebrooks had a sacrifice fly and Ross followed with a two-run homer completely out of Fenway Park over the Monster, making it 7-3. Simmons had a throwing error on Kelly Shoppach's grounder to open the inning when he fired the ball into the Red Sox dugout.

Heyward homered off Matt Albers in the sixth.

NOTES: Valentine decided to give recently struggling DH David Ortiz (0 for 11 last three games) a day off with a left-hander starting for Atlanta. "He said he could probably use it," Valentine said. With Ortiz out, hot rookie Middlebrooks moved to DH and Youkilis was back at third. Youkilis was given a lengthy ovation when he came to plate the first time. ... Hinske started just his 20th game this season for Atlanta, and doubled and tripled his first two times up. ... Former Atlanta pitcher John Smoltz was on hand working the nationally televised game and spent time pregame chatting with players in the Braves' clubhouse. ... Braves 3B Chipper Jones, who had the day off, is hitting just .189 (7 for 37) since coming off the DL on June 10. ... Red Sox pitching coach Bob McClure was back with the team after missing two weeks with a family matter.

Associated Press

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In suburban America, middle class confronts poverty

America's middle class struggles as family members lose jobs, run out of savings and sink toward poverty. NBC's Lester Holt reports.

By Izhar Harpaz
Dateline NBC?

BOULDER, Colo. ??The small communities that dot the picturesque mountain landscape outside Boulder, Colo., conjure up an image from long before the great recession. Here the manicured lawns and expensive cars are a testament to the achievements of a fiercely independent and educated middle class; a 21^st century version of suburban bliss. But often these days, the closed doors of well-kept houses hide a decidedly different reality: hushed conversation about food stamps and Medicaid, depleted bank accounts and 401K?s, kitchen shelves stocked with groceries from food pantries.

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"It's this dirty little secret,? said Joyce Welch, a stay-at-home mother of three whose husband, a mechanical engineer, lost his job six months ago. ?Everybody is supposed to be able to buy the new car, supposed to buy the new house. And what we don't talk about is people who struggle, and they're struggling more and more."? The Welch family lives in Superior, a Boulder suburb that was listed by Money Magazine as one of the ?Top 20 best places to live in America? in 2011. Neighboring Louisville was ranked number one.

The evidence that times are rough for many suburban middle class families is not merely anecdotal.? For Dateline NBC?s upcoming special ?America Now: Lost in Suburbia,? airing Sunday, June 24th at 8pm/7c, Boulder County's Department of Housing and Human Services provided the number of Louisville and Superior residents that relied on public safety nets to make ends meet.? And while these affluent communities still boast some of the lowest poverty levels in Colorado, the statistics were nonetheless startling: since 2008 the combined number of families on Medicaid more than doubled, as did the number of people utilizing food assistance. ?Lafayette, another well-to-do suburb in East Boulder County experienced similar increases.?

And it isn?t just happening in Boulder County.? A 2011 study by the Brookings Institute revealed that for the first time in United States history there were more poor people living in the suburbs than in cities. The research, based on the most recent United States Census data, showed that a record 15.4 million suburban residents lived below the poverty line last year, up 11.5% from the year before, and? that ?by 2010, suburbs were home to one-third of the nation?s poor population?outranking cities (27.5 percent), small metro areas (20.5 percent), and non-metropolitan communities (18.7 percent)." ?

The Brookings Institute study?examined the percentage change of suburban poor populations between 2000 and 2010 in the 95 largest metro areas in the US. ?It found that in 16 of them the suburban poor population more than doubled during that time. The Denver metro area which includes some Boulder suburbs saw an increase of 96.4%. And while many of the suburban poor are newly arrived immigrants or transplants from the inner cities, a significant number are formerly middle class families who have fallen victim to the most recent recession. ? ?

The need for help may transcend any published statistics. Sarah Nelson, the program director at the Sister Carmen Community Center, a non-profit organization in Lafayette, Colorado, that provides financial assistance to low-income families in East Boulder County, said that Sister Carmen?s share of clients from Louisville and Superior rose from four percent in 2010 to a whopping twenty-two percent by the end of 2011. Many of these formerly middle-class families, Nelson said, have struggled under the radar and have not accessed public assistance programs: ?"Their resources are drained.? They've utilized all of their savings, all of their retirement funds.? Their unemployment's run out.? They've gotten as much help from family and friends as they possibly can.? And we're their last resort.?

Joyce Welch?s financial stress was exacerbated by the medical bills for one of her children, who suffers from a debilitating chromosomal disorder; the out-of-pocket costs of almost $30,000 a year had left the family with no savings. ?So she saw no choice but to turn to Sister Carmen for assistance. ?It was, she said, one of the most difficult things she has had to do in her life. ?To have to actually vocalize, ?I can't do the basics.? I have to have help.?? That is something that is just hard? I want to be able to do it on my own. I want to be the one to help others, not the one who has to ask for help.? ?But with her husband?s unemployment check as the family?s only source of income, Joyce has joined the at least three and half million suburbanites who have fallen below the U.S. poverty line since 2007. She did what she felt she had to do for her three children; sign up for Medicaid and Food Stamps. Sister Carmen offered to supplement her food shopping with monthly visits to their food pantry, so that Joyce could shift some money she would have otherwise spent on food to other important bills. Reluctantly, Joyce agreed.?

Boulder County?s Department of Housing and Human Services?has tried to reach out to struggling formerly middle class families like the Welches before they hit rock bottom. "Safety nets are historically built to try to catch people right before they hit the pavement,? said HHS director Frank Alexander, "if we can get people before they fall we can serve a lot more people in a lot better way and we don't have to just clean up the mess on the street."

According to Alexander, helping a family in need with their mortgage or rent payments may cost the county in excess of $10,000 in temporary ?front end? assistance, but if that money prevents homelessness and all its associated economic and social ills it can save the county much more than that. "We know that if a senior who's trying to live independently in the community ends up in a nursing home, that that shifts cost to $75-85,000 a year. We know that if a family's in a home and they get foreclosed upon, it costs us almost $80,000 as a community with that home being foreclosed upon.? And the interventions that we can do as a human service system with our community partners are much less costly.? The time duration is much more limited.? And the outcomes for the families and individuals are much better.?

Boulder County has signed up non-profit organizations like the Sister Carmen Community Center to be conduits for some of its front-end services. With the center?s help Joyce Welch and her family qualified for county rent assistance until August 2012, enough time, Joyce hoped, for her husband to find a job that will get the family back on their financial feet. ?But for now, she has begrudgingly accepted that she has become a new and different statistic of poverty in America.

?People like me are on food stamps. It?s people who want to go to work and can?t find work and don?t have an alternative,? she said, drawing an invisible square around her face, ?I am the face of food stamps in 2012.? I'm the face of Medicaid in 2012. I don?t like it, you know, I don't sit there and wanna scream it from the mountaintop.? But this is reality.? This is my reality.? This is the reality for more and more people in America."

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Watch the full Dateline report 'America Now: Lost in Suburbia' airing Sunday, June 24th, at 8pm/7c.

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College World Series: Gamecocks Erase Deficit Against Razorbacks, Advance To Final Series

OMAHA, Neb. ? The Arkansas bullpen's streak of scoreless innings ended at precisely the wrong time and cost the Razorbacks a spot in the College World Series finals.

Reliever Barrett Astin walked Adam Matthews with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, producing South Carolina's go-ahead run in a 3-2 victory Friday night and ended the streak at 26 innings.

The Gamecocks (49-18) will play Arizona in the best-of-three finals starting Sunday looking to win their third straight national championship.

Arkansas had won seven straight games decided by one run.

"South Carolina did a great job of manufacturing a run there late to win the game," Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said. "I just feel bad for our players. They fought hard."

Tyler Webb and Matt Price combined for seven innings of shutout relief for the Gamecocks, who are trying to become the first team to win three titles in a row since Southern California won five straight from 1970-74.

The Gamecocks beat Arkansas twice in three CWS meetings over five days after winning two of three against the Razorbacks during the Southeastern Conference regular season.

Arkansas had ended South Carolina's record 22-game win streak in the NCAA tournament with a 2-1 win on Monday. The Gamecocks forced a second bracket championship game with their 2-0 win on Thursday.

"I knew it was going to be tight and it didn't surprise me it ended up being a one-run game," Van Horn said. "Hats off to the pitchers, I thought they did a great job. I thought they filled up the zone all night long."

The Gamecocks erased a 2-0 deficit in the fifth, with Arkansas starter DJ Baxendale walking Christian Walker with the bases loaded to force in the tying run. Baxendale had a career-high five walks.

Matthews looked ready to swing on a 3-2 pitch from Astin in the seventh, but he held up as the slider dropped low and Joey Pankake trotted home for the go-ahead run.

It was the ninth walk issued by the Razorbacks.

Colby Suggs (7-1) took the loss for Arkansas (46-22).

Webb, who relieved Colby Holmes after the Hogs' first two batters reached in the third, allowed two hits in four innings.

Price (5-4), who gave up one hit and struck out five, pitched three innings to earn his record fifth career win in the CWS. Of his 48 pitches, 37 were strikes.

"Any time you get to the College World Series it helps your program," Van Horn said. "It's definitely going to help the confidence of the players in your program. Hopefully it helps build support among your fan base, and our fan base has been incredible."

Matt Reynolds drove in a run in the first inning to end a 0-for-15 slump. Reynolds had not had a hit since the fourth inning of the June 10 game against Baylor. It was the longest hitless drought of Reynolds' career. He drove in the Hogs' other run with a sacrifice fly in the third inning.

"Going to the College World Series has always been a dream of mine," Reynolds said. "We knew we had the team to do it this year. We went through a struggle midseason but we never gave up and we kept fighting, and I think we really jelled as a team early in the postseason. It's a bad feeling that it came to an end like this."

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.

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Treasure sailors: Summer Camp at Home week 3 | Tropic Home

Take the kids' fascination with pirates -- er, treasure sailors -- to have fun learning all week

Ahoy, mateys! Thar?s treasure to be found. The pirate craze doesn?t seem to be going away, and if your kids are as fascinated by swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas as mine are, you can capture their imagination and make a fun pirate-themed week of activities and learning this summer for Summer Camp at Home.

Of course, we are going to be good pirates.

A pirate theme is so easy for keeping kids occupied not only because they love it, but because there is so much pirate stuff and great pirate ideas out there for kids. I have really only scratched the surface in planning for next week, and I?m sure if you look for other ideas aside from mine here, you will find a treasure trove of them.

We?ve had two weeks out of school for my soon-to-be-kindergartener, and we are keeping busy! Sometimes it feels like we?re a bit too busy. I can?t keep up with my to-do list. (I can?t even blog!) But the good news? My boys never say, ?I?M BORED!?

Week 3 promises to continue with that.

- Language skills: We continue to read books, books, books! Here are some ideas for titles to look for ? you can find more at your local library: Henry and the Crazed Chicken Pirates by Carolyn Crimi; Archie and the Pirates by Marc Rosenthal; I Love My Pirate Papa by Laura Leuck; Pirate vs. Pirate by Mary Quattlebaum; and my personal favorite, Dirty Joe, the Pirate: A True Story by Bill Harley. Older children may want to write their own treasure sailor story.

- Math skills: This is a great week for early elementary kids to learn about money, especially coins (because coins can be gold doubloons!). They can match each kind of coin to its amount on a piece of paper. Older children can practice adding up coins or making change, and younger children can just practice matching the same coins together. If you can get some fake coins, kids will love playing with them. (Just make sure they aren?t a choking hazard for younger children.)

- Cooking: I?d love to make some yummy fruit pirate snacks and some veggie pirate ships.

- Music: My sons love listening to Sharky and Bones? album Jake and the Never Land Pirates from the Disney Junior show. My two-year-old especially loves the Tick Tock Croc song. Talk Like a Pirate gets stuck in my head every time.

- Field trip: When I first started planning for this week, I had hoped to find a boat tour of some kind that was safe and kid-friendly. (After all, we live in the Venice of America. How hard could it be to find a boat tour?) And then SCORE! I found the most awesome field trip of all: an actual pirate boat ride. We are going to sail the seas on the Bluefoot Pirate Adventures ship! My sons? are so excited. We have some friends coming with us, too. If you don?t have a pirate tour near you, maybe you have a nearby boat tour or a friend with a boat. Or maybe a children?s museum near you has a pirate exhibit. You could even visit a park with a lake and pretend you?re about to set sail toward a faraway island.

- Geography: Treasure sailors need treasure maps. Take this chance to try out mapping. Show kids how to draw a map of their room, or your house, or your backyard. Older children can add more detail to their maps, or map out your town or state.

- Craft: There are so many excellent pirate crafts. I found a lot of them at Disney: a paper tricorn hat, a compass and a beautiful treasure chest (or a printable Jake and the Never Land Pirates team treasure chest).

- Fine-motor skills: My five-year-old is working on his handwriting every day to maintain his fine-motor skills. His occupational therapist recommends lined paper to help him print properly (otherwise, his letters are six inches tall). You can buy a pad of lined paper and write words that relate to the theme each week, like we do, or even download handwriting lined paper for free. Cutting out pictures and shapes is good hand work, and so is playing with clay.

- Role play: Dress up as pirates with simple costumes, working together and taking turns in different roles to solve problems like getting away from the bad guys, or how to find the best spot to hide and bury treasure. Make a cardboard-and-foil pirate sword. Maybe you?d like to create a fun pirate T-shirt with an iron-on transfer?

- More: Last year, I organized a treasure hunt. I got some plastic ?gold doubloons? and a treasure chest from the craft store and planned to bury it at the beach. With some of our play mates, we visited a park nearby where a treasure map mysteriously turned up. The older children solved a riddle to get to the next stop to find the next clue. Then we drove to the next fun place for another clue. The beach was the last stop ? where the kids would have found the treasure, but a bad storm blew in and sent us all back home. Still a great idea for a fun outing with kids. I?d do it again this year if I didn?t have to prep for my little guy?s birthday party.

Feel free to share your ideas, too.

Make it a great week!

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Building Wealth for Building the Kingdom by Devin Thorpe

As part of the blog tour for Building Wealth for Building the Kingdom by Devin D. Thorpe, I have a look at the first chapter here on my blog.

Devin?s book is written for LDS families, but would be fitting for any reader with a high priority on family values. I recommend it highly.

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For a full schedule of the blog tour, click here. Author: Devin D. Thorpe
Release Date: January 2012
Publisher: CreateSpace
Genre: Non-fiction/Finance

Building Wealth for Building the Kingdom is a simple, practical guide to help LDS families organize their personal financial plans to meet their unique goals. The book provides simple answers to questions like:

How much should I be saving each month for my son's mission?
How much should I be saving each month for my children's college education?
How can I save enough to be able to retire while I'm healthy enough to serve a mission?

Avoiding tips on pinching pennies, the book focuses on opportunities to save thousands or tens of thousands of dollars by making smart moves with big decisions, like home and car purchases.

Mormon families will appreciate the gospel-centered, scripture-based focus on putting tithing at the center of a financial plan. Building Wealth for Building the Kingdom will help prepare families to enjoy the benefits of their labor while simultaneously contributing to the growth of Church.

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Devin Thorpe Chapter 1

About the Author

Devin D. Thorpe brings a broad perspective to financial planning, having owned and operated an investment-banking firm?which included an investment advisory business?a mortgage brokerage and having served in a variety of corporate finance positions.

Presently, Devin serves as a business professor at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China on behalf of Brigham Young University?s Kennedy Center China Teachers program. Previously, he served as the Chief Financial Officer for the multinational company MonaVie, listed in Inc. Magazine?s 2009 Inc. 500 as the 18th fastest growing company in America and, at $834 million in revenue, the third largest company on the list. Prior experience includes two years working on the staff of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee during Utah Senator Jake Garn?s tenure. He also served briefly in Utah State Government, working at USTAR under Governor Jon Huntsman.

He earned an MBA with focus in Finance and Accounting from Cornell University?s Johnson Graduate School of Management. He completed his undergraduate degree in finance at the University of Utah, where he later worked as an adjunct professor of finance. In 2006, Devin was recognized by the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah as a Distinguished Alum.

In the Church, Devin presently serves as a seminary and institute teacher along with his wife, Gail. Previously, he served as a counselor in a stake presidency, a counselor in a bishopric, ward executive secretary, young men?s president, assistant scout master, three times as an assistant ward clerk, and in more elders quorum presidencies than he can count.

Devin ran his first marathon in 2011, finishing in 4:35.

You can reach Devin via email at bw4bk.tumblr.com.

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Obesity stigma can follow by you even when you're slim ...

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Losing weight is often a momentous moment in any woman?s life, but it seems that other people don?t revel in that glory.
A new study has revealed that even when a woman loses a significant amount of weight, her friends, family and colleagues will still think of her as fat.

Even if you?ve gone from a size 20 to a size 12, the stigma of obesity never quite leaves you, say scientists, who stress that other people may still label you as greedy and lazy.

The unfair stigma was identified by researchers at Manchester University, along with their counterparts at the University of Hawaii and Monash University in Melbourne. Using volunteers to assess the outward appearance of women, some of whom had previously been fat, the scientists identified a definite obesity-related negativity. Even when the volunteers were complete strangers to the women being assessed, they still marked them down for having been fat before.

The 273 volunteers were asked to look at pictures of five women, all 31, and given notes about each. They then had to rate their attractiveness and asked if they liked them or not.

Of the five women, one had been slim all her life, another had been overweight all her life while the other three had previously been fat but had lost five stone to become a normal size.

Most volunteers regarded the woman who had always been slim as the most attractive, with the ones who had previously been obese but had lost weight lagging behind. Watching the volunteers, the scientists recorded that they also made negative comments about these women and had what they called ?fat prejudices?.

The researchers pointed out that the obesity stigma was so ?powerful and enduring that it may even outlast the obesity itself.?
They also highlighted how we as a society need to address our attitudes to obesity; after all, encouraging the obese to lose weight for their own health should be a positive thing.

Said Dr Kerry O?Brien from Manchester University?s School of Psychological Sciences: ?Many people who are perceived as ?fat? are struggling in vain to lose weight in order to escape this painful social stigma.

?We need to rethink our approaches to and views of weight and obesity. Given the great number of people who may be negatively affected by this prejudice, obesity discrimination needs to be reduced.?

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