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To: Solon who wrote (46923)	2/20/2014 11:33:46 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 69300

A proud moment indeed! Jennifer Jones skips Canada to gold in women's curling Justin Piercy - Thursday Feb. 20, 2014 11:06 ET Winnipeg rink's perfect Olympic run ends Canadian drought Jennifer Jones beat Sweden to win gold in women's curling on Thursday in Sochi. (Jim Young/Reuters) Jennifer Jones and her Winnipeg rink finished their juggernaut-like run in Sochi on Thursday, and will leave Russia as Olympic champions. The Canadian team of Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer and Dawn McEwen beat Sweden's Margaretha Sigfridsson 6-3 in the women's curling gold-medal final, capping off an undefeated Olympic run of 11 straight victories. It was the first time a team had gone unbeaten in the Olympic tournament and was also Canada's first gold medal in women's curling since the late Sandra Schmirler won in Nagano in 1998. A measurement in Canada's favour in the eighth end and a trio of misses by Sweden in the ninth sealed the win for Jones. Defensive game The teams traded tough singles over the first two ends before Canada got the hammer back. After blanking the third end, Canada capitalized on a missed double takeout by Sweden’s Maria Prytz to score two. Prytz, who throws skip stones for the Swedes, came up short on her last rock, leaving one Canadian stone on the 12-foot. That gave Jones an open draw to the button, scoring the double for a 3-1 lead. In the fifth, some misses by the Canadians gave Prytz a shot at scoring four, but Jones dodged a bullet by only giving up two and the tie. Canada kept the hammer into the eighth, where a measurement was needed to determine that Jones salvaged a single to take a 4-3 lead. Messy 9th end for Sweden It seemed that everything that could go wrong did go wrong for Sweden in the ninth end. Sweden's Maria Wennerstroem, throwing second stones, had her final rock pick up debris, opening up a pair of takeouts by Lawes. That, coupled with a miss by Christina Betrup, left Canada lying three with skip stones remaining. An in-turn raise by Prytz only gave Sweden second shot rock before Jones' last shot of the end drew onto the button. Prytz’s final chance to salvage a point evaporated when her attempt to knock Canada off the button nicked her own stone in the four-foot, giving Canada a steal of two and a three-point lead heading into the final end. From there, Canada simply ran the Swedes out of rocks, and the Canadian celebration was on. olympics.cbc.ca

To: Solon who wrote (46923)	2/20/2014 5:39:49 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Have Christians lost the culture war? (more whining from Fox Snooze) foxnews.com “Sadly, Christians have often wimped out and grown silent instead of being bolder for the Gospel,” he said. “Christians get subdued into thinking they’re not supposed to rise up. Christians have slowly given away their impact on culture by becoming more and more worldly instead of confronting the culture to become more and more godly,” he said." More Godly,well who's fault is that... more Godly like pope greg? <heh> The religious right has had nothing but opportunity, evry kind of press, platforms & soapboxes to make reasoned contributions to society's dialogues at large in the last 100yrs. They make fools & hypocrites of themselves, constantly whining, always picking the wrong sides of issues, lie, conflate, insinuate, then wonder why the world distrust moves on without them. Least we don't have to worry about locusts & plagues now....