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In addition to the powers and duties set forth in any other provision of this code, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources has the following powers and duties:
(a) To develop and maintain a state plan which sets forth needs of the state in the areas of mental health and intellectual disability; goals and objectives for meeting those needs; plan of operation for achieving the stated goals and objectives, including organizational structure; and statement of requirements in personnel funds and authority for achieving the goals and objectives.
(b) To appoint deputies and assistants to supervise the departmental programs, including hospital and residential services, and such other assistants and employees as may be necessary for the efficient operation of the department and all its programs.
(c) To promulgate rules clearly specifying the respective duties and responsibilities of program directors and fiscal administrators, making a clear distinction between the respective functions of these officials.
(d) To delegate to any of his or her appointees, assistants or employees all powers and duties vested in the commissioner, including the power to execute contracts and agreements in the name of the department as provided in this article, but the commissioner shall be responsible for the acts of such appointees, assistants and employees.
(e) To supervise and coordinate the operation of the state hospitals named in article two of this chapter and any other state hospitals, centers or institutions hereafter created for the care and treatment of the mentally ill or intellectually disabled, or both.
(f) To transfer a patient from any state hospital to any other state hospital or clinic under his or her control and, by agreement with the state Division of Corrections, transfer a patient from a state hospital to an institution, other than correctional, under the supervision of the state Division of Corrections.
(g) To make periodic reports to the Governor and to the Legislature on the condition of the state hospitals, centers and institutions or on other matters within his or her authority, which shall include recommendations for improvement of any mental health facility and any other matters affecting the mental health of the people of the state.
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources has all of the authority vested in the divisions of the former Department of Mental Health, as hereinafter provided.
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources is hereby authorized and empowered to accept and use for the benefit of a state hospital, center or institution, or for any other mental health purpose specified in this chapter, any gift or devise of any property or thing which lawfully may be given. If such a gift or devise is for a specific purpose or for a particular state hospital, center or institution, it shall be used as specified. Any gift or devise of any property or thing which lawfully may be given and whatever profit may arise from its use or investment shall be deposited in a special revenue fund with the State Treasurer, and shall be used only as specified by the donor or donors.


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Re: Vacation plans this summerby cacharbe (Curate)
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My vacations usually stack up as a couple of long weekends with a few extra days off around the Christmas holidays. I try to structure them around holidays and the various weddings that always seem to sprout up during the summer months.
Most of my vacations are spent traveling to Wisconsin from Michigan so that my girlfriend can spend time with her family as well.
A couple dozen hours in the car is a small price to pay for harmony, and hey, I can always bring the laptop and code / play half-life when it's her turn to drive. She became more open to traveling with the laptop when she found that we could play a DVD and hook the sound through her car stereo to help her pass the time. *grin*
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Student or Learner
The following paragraph is a part of my application letter. It has been commented by two interviewers. Up to this moment, I cannot find the problem from where. Have anyone help me?
"For the whole, I enclosed herewith my resume for your kind consideration and I hope my solid experience would properly help myself to develop my career in this field. I would like to success your business if future great cooperation can be achieved. I look forward to being granted an interview, when I shall be glad to explain myself to you more detail. "
For the whole- the expression would be 'on the whole', but it doesn't fit here
I enclosed- I enclose
my solid experience would properly help myself to develop- my experience will help me develop (however, this doesn't fit in the context of an application)
I would like to success your business- success is a noun- I would like to contribute to your...
if future great cooperation can be achieved- delete the lot
when I shall be glad to explain myself to you more detail.- I'd say something like I am aailable for interview at your convenience. Should you require any further information... Thanking you in advance, I look forward to hearing from you


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The Phelps County Commission has rescheduled its night meeting for Rolla as part of its outreach effort for National County Government Month.
The night meeting in Rolla was initially scheduled for May 2, but will now take place Tuesday, May 7, at 7 p.m. in the Phelps County Courthouse Multi-Purpose Room, 200 N. Main St., Rolla.
The commission is holding meetings at night at various communities around the county to encourage attendance by residents who may not normally be able to come to commission meetings, which are normally held Tuesday and Thursday mornings.
The commission held its first night meeting this month Tuesday evening in Doolittle. Upcoming night meetings held by the commission will take place:
Tuesday, April 16, at 6 p.m. at the Edgar Springs City Hall, 555 Broadway St. in Edgar Springs,
Tuesday, April 23, at 7 p.m., St. James City Hall, 100 S. Jefferson St. in St. James, and
Tuesday, April 30, at 7 p.m. at the Newburg City Hall, 191 Main St. in Newburg.
The commission will not hold morning meetings the same day that a night meeting is scheduled.
All area residents are invited and encouraged to attend these evening meetings to express concerns or to offer comments to county officeholders.
For more information, contact County Clerk Carol Bennett at 573-458-6101.


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On a hot July evening, 32 people mill around in the stuffy living room of a Southeast Portland house. They are all strangers--in fact, they're not even allowed to talk outside of this room.
The guests, all but seven of them men, shuffle awkwardly around a water cooler. An elderly gentleman in an olive three-piece suit sits patiently as a ponytailed twentysomething girl in a sleeveless top chatters nearby, making liberal use of the word "dude."
They are all here for one reason: They want, desperately, not to be gay.
A goateed 27-year-old named Drew Berryessa calls the group to order. Smiling, he welcomes everyone to Portland Fellowship, Oregon's refuge for those trapped in a vicious spiritual war between their sexuality and their allegiance to God.
To the crowd, Berryessa is living proof that homosexuality can be overcome. Five years ago, Berryessa was a gay man who had never desired a woman. Today, he's married to one, and says he is free of lust for other men.
And it's all thanks to Portland Fellowship.
Berryessa--who is now a ministry assistant at the Fellowship--has had sex with a man but believes he was never really "gay." In fact, he explains, nobody is gay.
"I don't believe homosexuality is natural," he says. "I believe that I had an unhealthy need for male intimacy that formed during my childhood, and that was how it was being met."
Unperturbed by the political incorrectness of his words, Berryessa speaks with the calmness of a man accustomed to sharing intimate details of his life with congregations of people. Homosexuality is not an innate condition, he says, but a reversible psychological dysfunction that anyone can defeat--if they want it badly enough.
The group shifts uncomfortably. A fan whirrs in the background.
"Well," Berryessa announces. "Let's get started."
With a historic battle for gays' right to marry looming on the November ballot, Portland Fellowship may seem like a quaint, even anachronistic, organization--one that is so on the fringe as to be unworthy of attention. Perhaps. The 50 people who sign up annually for the fellowship's two-year "reparative" therapy program don't quite constitute an army of the faithful.
But the Fellowship's view that gayness is a matter of choice undercuts the very argument in support of gay marriage: that gayness is immutable, like race, and homosexuals therefore deserve every right heterosexuals have. Without that belief, some conclude, homosexuality is an indulgence--one that doesn't necessarily deserve a stamp of approval from the government.
Nobody at Portland Fellowship believes "fixing" one's queer yearnings is easy. The path to heterosexuality is a twisted one, and the first task budding straights undertake is that of tracing their gay desires back to their origins. In Drew Berryessa's case, he says he just lacked a strong father figure.
Berryessa's father, a chief in the Yakima, Wash., sheriff's office, disappeared after a messy divorce when Drew was 9 years old. His mother, a Qwest call-center worker, so wished for her three sons to disconnect from their father that she changed their last names and even suggested they change first names as well.
For five years, Drew didn't see his father once, though he lived a 10-minute drive away.
"He'd send birthday cards," Berryessa recalls. "And...he'd just send birthday cards. We got the child-support check every month, though."
With his mother working full-time, the 10-year-old Drew took on the role of homemaker.
"If we were going to eat, someone had to cook," he says. "I learned how to cook, to clean, to do yardwork. I'd walk to the grocery store if I needed to."
Berryessa says his housekeeping responsibilities stopped him from learning to play sports and relate with other boys. Instead, he bonded with girls and gossiped with them about TV shows and school.
Drew remembers the moment he first found himself attracted to other boys. He was in sixth grade, changing clothes in the locker room at his middle school after gym class, when he noticed that he felt drawn to the shirtless older boys.
"I'm a shorter guy, so I looked at that and wished I was like them," he says. "It wasn't like I was fixating on a penis, just older boys with their shirts off. When I discovered masturbation, that was the image I went with."
When Drew was 14, his mother shipped him to a Christian retreat on the Oregon coast. He immediately dedicated himself to the church, latching on to the idea that people would love and accept him despite his sin. Still, he was too petrified to breathe a word of his desires to anyone.
Berryessa was never attracted to women. He dated one girl in high school for two years without them so much as hugging--"I guess she should have known something was up," he says, laughing.
After high school, Berryessa traveled to Colorado Springs, Colo., to work in youth ministry with the Church of the Nazarene. The youth pastor he worked under, a "good old boy from Oklahoma," bragged that he used to spend his time beating up gays he came across in public parks.
"This pastor believed that people who struggled with homosexuality had demons inside them," Berryessa recalls. "What was I supposed to do? Yell 'Demons OUT'?"
The conflict between his faith and his sexuality worsened with his discovery of gay Internet porn. The guilt-sickened Berryessa shuttled back and forth between youth groups and the images on his computer until finally, when he was 20, his desires found an outlet; he befriended another man at his church in Yakima.
Though the two started as friends, after a few weeks they began spending nights together at the man's apartment. Soon, the two men were sleeping in bed together, groping, cuddling, and gradually working up to sex. Drew stayed with the man for three months, hiding his sexual exploits from those at his church.
Hounded by guilt and feeling empty, Berryessa cut off the relationship and never spoke to his ex-boyfriend again. Two more years passed before he confessed his desires for other men to his pastors. But there was hope for him yet. Within weeks, he moved to Portland and met Jason Thompson, the director of Portland Fellowship, who told him something that changed his life: With enough effort, he could stop being gay.
If Drew Berryessa is the Fellowship's pep squad, then Jason Thompson is its head coach. Officially the executive director, the 33-year-old minister does individual counseling, keeps in touch with the local churches who refer his clients, and manages publicity--including making appearances on television shows like 60 Minutes and Geraldo.
A good-natured man whose demeanor rivals Berryessa's in its placidity, Thompson says the mission of Portland Fellowship is twofold. Clients must learn to form healthy (read: non-sexual) relationships with same-sex peers, and they must reinforce their relationship with God. Only then will their gayness disappear, he says.
"I'd never argue with someone who believes they were born gay and is happy with it," says Thompson, who has been with the ministry almost since its founding in 1988. "I say, 'Great, have a nice gay life.'"
Still, he believes those people are just forming empty relationships to satisfy a psychological deficit; there's something lacking in this lifestyle, he says, and some gays know it.
"There are people out there who hate themselves for having gay desires, who are ready to commit suicide," Thompson says. "That's who we're here for: those who want to change.
"I know I'll sound kind of nuts for saying this," he continues, "but I almost feel like we're less judgmental than the gay community."
Berryessa, Thompson and the rest of those in the ex-gay movement have no shortage of theories about why people "choose the gay lifestyle." Thompson says more than 95 percent of those who enter his two-year program tell him they felt distant from their same-sex parent and close to their opposite-sex parent as a child. With nobody to teach them to be "manly" or "girly," they end up emulating the opposite-sex parent and never bonding with same-sex peers.
Another common factor Thompson sees--especially in women--is sexual abuse.
"What gets communicated then is that the woman's femininity is not acceptable," Thompson says. "There's a rejection of men as safe, so women connect with one another."
So how do they "cure" gays? In weekly meetings that are part worship, part group therapy, Portland Fellowship guides struggling men and women through the process of forming healthy platonic friendships with those of the same sex, overcoming memories of abuse, and reconnecting with God.
Thompson doesn't like to talk about success rates, because he says making somebody completely un-gay isn't the point of Portland Fellowship.
"Portland Fellowship exists to draw people into a closer relationship with God," he says. "A byproduct is that you regain the heterosexual orientation."
Portland Fellowship, and the ex-gay movement in general, is disproportionately male. Joanne McBride, Portland Fellowship's women's-ministry coordinator, thinks this is because lesbians struggle less with sexual addiction than men, and also have a better safety net.
"I think that women tend to be more emotionally dependent," McBride says. "The lesbian community has a strong support group that keeps them in the gay lifestyle."
Though the organization isn't political and doesn't offer an official opinion on gay marriage, its teachings have obvious implications in the debate.
"What the Bible says is that it is morally wrong to have sexual contact outside of the bounds of marriage," Thompson says. "Homosexuality is just one thing on a long list of that. Even if it's a heterosexual couple engaging in sex outside of God's plan, then it's morally wrong. I don't differentiate that from having sex with an animal, a dead person, a little boy; it doesn't matter."
Portland Fellowship is almost exclusively composed of people who come from religious backgrounds--those who were taught at an early age that the homosexual lifestyle is one of sin.
"In 15 years here at the ministry, I just don't know a whole lot of atheists who want to overcome homosexuality," Thompson says.
One Portlander who can attest to that is Zarah Dupree, a 49-year-old piano saleswoman who was in "the lifestyle" for 25 years until she had a born-again experience in 2000. Dupree, who suffers from chronic pain from a series of car accidents in the 1970s, says she went to a Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir performance in New York City and found that her pain had been lifted from her body.
Within a couple of years, she was attending Portland Fellowship's Tuesday-night meetings so she could pass on advice to those at her new church who were struggling with gay desires.
"If you talked to me 10 years ago and said I would be a born-again who was helping people come out of the lifestyle, I would have said you were crazy," she says.
Dupree had been a lesbian since her youth in the San Francisco Bay area, had gone to some of the first Gay Pride parades and was in a lesbian marriage for six years. But when God came a-callin', she left it all behind.
"I always felt that being gay was a choice," she says. "It's hard being gay. It's very liberating not to have to deal with all of that anymore. Jesus is my main man now. He fills every need I have."
Berryessa, Thompson, McBride and Dupree are convinced that Portland Fellowship's teachings work, so it doesn't faze them that virtually no one in the psychiatric community thinks the Fellowship is anything more than a circus act.
"There is really no evidence that reparative therapy works, and there's a lot of evidence that it doesn't," says Oregon State University psychologist Jennifer Connor-Smith. "People may stop engaging in homosexual behavior, but the therapy is unlikely to increase their desire for the opposite sex. They generally still have same-sex fantasies."
She adds, "It's not because they're out of touch with God that they have these feelings."
Connor-Smith says Portland Fellowship's claim that failing to bond with a same-sex parent can cause homosexuality has no scientific traction.
"Lots of kids grow up without a father, and there's plenty of evidence to show that it doesn't make a child more likely to be gay," Connor-Smith says. "In fact, having two gay fathers doesn't make you more likely to be gay either."
The dominant theory now is that homosexuality has at least some biological underpinning. For example, identical twins--who share 100 percent of their genetic makeup--are much more likely than non-identical twins to share a sexual orientation. And here in Portland, Oregon Health & Science University researchers earlier this year confirmed that gay male sheep have quite different brain structures than heterosexual sheep.
The science of sexual orientation is still more convoluted. Joseph Marzucco, a Portland sex therapist, points out a popular theory proposed by the famed sexologist Alfred Kinsey, which states that people are rarely completely gay or completely straight; they usually land somewhere in the middle. Hence, queer desires are more common than many believe.
"This is probably normal behavior, so why pathologize it?" Marzucco asks. "If you allow a person to practice their sexual orientation unfettered by negative public opinion, it doesn't cause any stress in their life."
Trying to de-gay a homosexual, Marzucco explains, is as pointless as trying to gay up a heterosexual.
"How about I give you 10 free visits and we'll see if we can make you into a gay man," he says. "You think that'll work?"
Stephen Simpson believes it doesn't. Until he was 34 years old, Simpson did time in a variety of reparative-therapy programs, wherein he tried to reconcile his homosexuality with his fundamentalist Christian upbringing.
"All I can say about it now is that it cost me a lot of money out of pocket," he says.
Now 48 and a software tester at ADP, Simpson believes his reparative therapy backfired. Though he has been fascinated with men for as long as he can remember, Simpson bottled up his feelings out of fear of the wrath of God. Having spent two decades in reparative programs, he feels he can say with authority that they only made him into an emotionally stunted, self-hating gay man--not a heterosexual. An ex-ex-gay today, Simpson believes that the only byproduct of reparative therapy is repression, guilt and psychological harm.
"The whole thing is founded on the false premise that there's some kind of damage that makes you gay, and that you can be healed from it," he says. "That's just not true."
Connor-Smith agrees. She says the problem for these ex-gays is more social than psychological.
"At some point, you have to pick," she says. "Do you want to express your sexuality, or do you want to be a part of a religious organization that doesn't allow you to do that?"
Back at the Portland fellowship meeting, the men and women gathered here have made the choice to battle their homosexuality and are striving to follow it through.
Flanked by Suzanne, his wife of six months, Drew Berryessa plays a video featuring Sy Rogers, a noted ex-gay speaker. The skeletal Rogers--whose flamboyant gestures suggest that his personal road to recovery must have been particularly long--tells the crowd what they can expect in their quest to defeat homosexuality.
"God's goal is not to make you into a heterosexual," he exhorts. "You will struggle until the grave."
In other words, there's no guarantee that staying the course will eradicate one's gay desires--one might only learn to control them. In the discussion after the video, the disciples speak vaguely of "struggle" and "sacrifice"; words like "gay" and "homosexual" are the giant pink elephant sitting in the corner, which no one wants to talk about.
At best, Portland Fellowship can help diminish this struggle, but its therapy doesn't seem to plant heterosexual desire where homosexual desire once was.
"I'll be as totally honest as I can be," Jason Thompson says. "Women don't sexually attract me. My wife sexually attracts me."
Berryessa echoes this sentiment. While he doesn't desire men, he says, he doesn't desire women, either--only his wife. The sight of Halle Berry climbing out of the water does nothing for him.
"I think that what some people perceive here is that we'll help replace one sexual lust with another, and that's not the case," Berryessa says.
At Portland Fellowship, this is what it means to be cured. If you're lucky, your homosexual desires will wane. But so will fantasy, lust and the trappings of human sexuality--for good or ill.
There is healing here, but what is healed isn't necessarily homosexuality.
Shocking Behavior
The "cure" for the common queer--1950s style.
Before there was God, there was insulin.
From the 1940s through the 1960s, a popular "treatment" for homosexuality wasn't spiritual conversion, but prolonged convulsions, brought on by electricity or, in the case of Phil Staley, insulin.
In many ways, Staley was your average Portland teen. He attended church, had a paper route, played football for Cleveland High and helped build a float for the 1958 Rose Festival parade.
But Staley was different in one big way: He was attracted to other boys.
His parents divorced when he was 12. Four years later, in 1959, his mother, concerned about a defiant teen who liked young men, shipped him off to the Eastern Oregon State Hospital in Pendleton.
The admitting doctor writes in Staley's medical records, which he obtained years later, that the 16-year-old wouldn't "mind his mother," had crushes on other boys and had been adopting "effeminate attitudes."
The diagnosis: schizophrenia "in remission." Treatment: insulin shock therapy.
Although less publicized than electroshock (think of Randall McMurphy in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), insulin therapy was used widely from the '40s to the '60s to treat schizophrenia (John Nash in A Beautiful Mind). Insulin is a hormone that maintains the body's proper blood sugar levels. In excess, however, it lowers blood sugar and leads to coma and convulsions.
Repeated insulin-induced comas were believed effective for treating schizophrenia. When Staley was admitted to Eastern Oregon, now a medium-security prison, homosexuality was often labeled a manifestation of schizophrenia.
At the hospital, Staley was subjected to "treatment" five days a week, for a period of 10 weeks. Every day, at 8 am, he was taken in his bathrobe into a room with up to seven other boys and strapped to a table. Insulin was injected into his buttocks.
Staley recalls that for the first few days, before the proper dosage was determined, he didn't enter a coma. "I was scared more than anything," he says, "lying there watching the other boys go into convulsions."
Eventually, however, he, too, would go into comas, followed by seizures, from which he awoke covered in sweat feeling weak and lethargic, intensely thirsty and hungry. It often took a glucose-filled hypodermic needle to rouse him. His records show that on four occasions staff worried that he might not wake up; he recalls a nurse once telling him, "We almost lost you."
The state hasn't compiled any data showing the prevalence of insulin-shock treatment in Oregon, or how often it was used for homosexuality. But Albert Baxter, a retired doctor who worked in Oregon state and county hospitals from the late '50s to the early '80s, says "We were using a lot of electroshock therapy [and] using insulin shock therapy...for people who were out of control and crazy." And, Baxter concedes, treatments were sometimes used for punishment.
Steley suspects that some of the other boys at Pendleton were also being treated for homosexuality/ schizophrenia, but he has never been able to confirm it. He was released from the hospital in 1961 and went on to be a bartender and emergency-room technician. He is still gay.
Staley, now 61, remembers his doctor at Pendleton saying, "If you want to stay homosexual, there's nothing I can do about it." ---EMILIE RAGUSO---
If Drew Berryessa looks familiar, there's a reason: When he was a Qwest employee last year, he starred in one of the company's national television ads. His photo also appeared in bills.
Portland Fellowship's program attracts about 50 people a year for three 10-week terms, at a cost of $150 per term.
Seventy-five percent of Portland Fellowship's funding comes from public support, through private and church donations.
To protect confidentiality and "keep everyone accountable," Portland Fellowship's members are not allowed to have any kind of relationship outside of the fellowship's building.
Portland Fellowship is an arm of Exodus International, a reparative-therapy umbrella group founded in 1976 that supervises 135 affiliate ministries in 17 countries.
In 1978, the two men who founded Exodus, Gary Cooper and Michael Bussee, fell in love and left their wives and the ministry behind.
By the late 1990s, Exodus' poster children were the Portland couple Anne and John Paulk--two ex-gays who married, wrote a book, and appeared in Exodus ads across the country as well as on the cover of Newsweek.
The Paulks declined to comment for this story.
Two other major groups preach the curability of homosexuality. One, Homosexuals Anonymous, is a 14-step program for shedding gayness.
The other prominent gay-cure organization, the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuals, is a small group of psychology specialists who disagree with the American Psychiatric Association's decision in 1973 to remove homosexuality from their list of mental disorders.


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In the United States, licensing standards for child care centers vary
by each individual state. General provisions for licensing address these issues:
Standards vary widely by each state. And how each state monitors and enforces guidelines also varies greatly.
As part of your research, find out which of your potential child care
providers are accredited or are in the process of obtaining accreditation by
the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the
National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC), and/or the National After School Association.footnote 1
Accreditation from these organizations helps ensure that a family or group
child care center meets basic quality standards, even if your state has lax
licensing requirements or enforcement.
Bauer NS (2011). Nonparental childcare. In CD Rudolph et al., eds., Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22nd ed., pp. 364-366. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Five years of bloggingMarch 26th, 2009 , by Suzanne
March 26, 2004 I posted my very first blog. We had just come home from my husband's father's funeral. I wasn't sure what people would think of me for blogging about food at a funeral. But the dilemma of how to follow the BTD when I'm in the home of friends or relatives was a big issue to me at the time.
I started the BTD in June 2003, so I hadn't even been on the diet a year when I started blogging. You have watched me grow and struggle and figure out how to make this diet work in my family. One of the reasons I like blogging is that it keeps me accountable. I believe that if my blog is to be interesting, I have to be transparent. I don't mind writing about my failures, but it's so much more fun to write about success. I'll admit that there have been moments when I have walked away from an avoid just so I didn't have to fess up on the internet.
I enjoy getting comments and I write back when I can. When we were moving I got hopelessly behind, and some of the e-mails I received during that time never got answered. I especially enjoy knowing when I have encouraged someone. The most amusing comments assume that I know Dr. D'Adamo and have some influence over him. People seem to think that I can fix a perceived conflict in the books, or correct a problem with the website. Ok, here's the truth. I have never met Dr. D. I have never even talked to him on the phone. We've e-mailed maybe 10 times in five years of blogging. Someday perhaps I will get to meet him. It would be fun to attend one of his conferences.
Sometimes I wonder if I will ever run out of things to blog about. Then I go to the dentist's office and get an ear full about controversial fillings or I start to plan a menu for DD's Type A roommate who is coming home with her. As long as everyday life is an adventure, blog topics are infinite.
Everything about my life, including the BTD and the blog, is interwoven with my Christian faith. Urging Christians to seek good health through the marvelous and unique way God created us is the motivation behind my blogging. I can remember 30 years ago when any interest in Health Food or nutrition was associated almost exclusively with the more liberal and free thinking elements of society. There was a time when people raised their eyebrows if I asked for brown rice or preservative free meat. That has changed a lot in recent years. Nutrition is much more mainstream. But I still find people at church to be suspicious of the health culture, and they really shy away when blood types are introduced into the conversation. I'm glad when something I say encourages anyone, but I'm particularly happy when I play a tiny part in opening cautious conservative eyes to the truth that God has given them tools to be more proactive in their health.
Personally, I don't understand their fears. God, who created the world and all of the creatures in it, created our bodies. It seems logical to me that the closer I eat food to the way that He made it, the healthier I will be. The more I understand how my body works, the better prospect I have of an active and productive life. I want my mind alert so that I can study the Bible. I want to feel good so that I can serve others. I don't want to waste money on medical care, and I don't want to waste time in a doctor's office. Of all the diets I have tried (and I tried a lot) the BTD has worked the best and the most consistently.
Two things about blogging give me a thrill. The first is when I get to encourage someone in the Christian Community to build their health. The second is when I can encourage someone in the Health Community to know Jesus Christ. The first five years have been fun, and I'm excited about the future.


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Honeywell Wifi FocusPro Programmable Universal Thermostat
About This Thermostat
|Yes (7-day or non programmable)
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Honeywell Wifi FocusPro Programmable Universal Thermostat - TH6320WF1005
Note: This thermostat requires a 24V "Common" Wire. It cannot operate on batteries
The newest addition to the Honeywell FocusPro line, the FocusPro Wifi TH6320WF1005 connects to your home's Wi-Fi network so you can control it via your smartphone, tablet or any web-enabled computer anytime from anywhere.
. Large, Clear Display with Backlighting current temperature, set temperature and time are easy-to-read and all are displayed on the home screen.
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Application - Up to 3 Heat/2 Cool Heat Pumps; Up to 2 Heat/2 Cool Conventional Systems
Dimensions (in.) - 3 9/16 in. High X 5 13/16 in. Wide X 1 1/2 in. Deep
Dimensions (mm) - 91 mm High X 147 mm Wide X 38 mm Deep
Comments - Large display size 5.09 sq. in.
Mounting - Horizontal
Electrical Ratings - 20 to 30 Vac
Frequency - 50 Hz; 60 Hz
Stages - Up to 3 Heat / 2 Cool Heat Pump or Up to 2 Heat / 2 Cool Conventional
Operating Humidity Range - (% RH)5 to 90% RH, non-condensing
Supply Voltage - 20 to 30 Vac
Switch Positions (System) - HEAT-OFF-COOL-AUTO-EM.HEAT
Switch Positions (Fan) - AUTO-ON
Sensor Element - Thermistor
Differential Temperature (F) - ± 1 F
Differential Temperature (C) - ±0.5 C
Color - Premier White
Programmability - 7-Day Program
Power Method - Hardwired
Terminal Designations - Rc, R, W (O/B), W2 (AUX/E), Y, Y2, G, C, K
Display Size - Large display size 5.09 sq. in.
Changeover - Auto/Manual Selectable
Setting Temperature Range (F) - Heat: 40 F to 90 F; Cool: 50 F to 99 F
Setting Temperature Range (C) - Heat: 4.5 C to 32 C; Cool: 10 C to 37 C
Cool Current - Y = 0.02 A to 1.0 A running, Y2 = 0.02 A to 1.0 A running
Heat Current - W2 (AUX/E) = 0.02 A to 0.5 A running; W = 0.02 A to 1.0 A running
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Victory in the ratings war is still some way off. But few wins are as sweet as Nine's last night, with more than two million viewers tuning into the first part of its blockbuster miniseries Howzat! Kerry Packer's War.
The first of two parts, dramatising the events behind the formation of World Series Cricket in the 1970s, drew an astonishing 2.09 million viewers nationally.
That result would have very slightly exceeded the market's expectation from the opener for a two-night miniseries in a congested digital environment.
Howzat! is a very personal victory for Nine. Its featured star is Nine's iconic former owner, Kerry Packer, played by Lachy Hulme, and the story of World Series Cricket is, to some extent, the story of Nine's coming of age as a network.
Nine's performance overall was helped by strong numbers for its new iteration of Big Brother: 1.36 million people tuned in.
That result gives some assurance that its softer numbers late last week were part of the weekly cycle - most weekday programs deliver softer numbers on Thursday and Friday nights compared to earlier in the week - and not a sign of some deeper malaise.
Ten, meanwhile, split the final Masterchef: All Stars into two segments, a main program and a winner announcement.
The program drew 802,000 viewers, lifting to an average of 1.06 million for the announcement of Callum Hann as winner. The winner announcement peaked at 1.25 million viewers.
Given the competitive environment of last night's schedule, that's a solid result for Masterchef: All Stars. Ten should be pleased.
Everybody Dance Now, however, dropped sharply to 385,000. It is stark confirmation, as if Ten needed it, that their audience has comprehensively rejected the show.
Seven's Kath & Kim: The Souvenir Editions - a series of Kath & Kim episodes which are essentially repeats with newly-filmed hosting segments - drew 909,000 viewers nationally.
It was the only Channel Seven show in the top 10 which was not a news program. (Seven's news drew 1.51 million, and its Sunday Night program drew 1.29 million.)
Top 10 programs last night
1 Howzat! Kerry Packer's War (9) 2,097,000
2 Seven News (7) 1,513,000
3 60 Minutes (9) 1,512,000
4 Nine News (9) 1,402,000
5 Big Brother (9) 1,365,000
6 Sunday Night (7) 1,289,000
7 Masterchef: All Stars, Winner (10) 1,060,000
8 Kath & Kim: The Souvenir Editions (7) 909,000
9 ABC News (ABC) 822,000
10 Grand Designs Revisited (ABC) 809,000


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In response to a Waukesha woman's killing by her abuser, a Wisconsin legislator plans to introduce a bill to prevent domestic violence offenders from owning guns while under a restraining order.
Rep. Garey Bies, R-Sister Bay, plans to introduce legislation this fall to force offenders under restraining orders related to domestic or child abuse to give up their firearms within 48 hours of the court's issuance.
Bies said the bill would institute a specific protocol for gun surrenders and is a reasonable and proven way to protect against domestic violence homicides.
A Waukesha woman's death at the hands of her boyfriend, who possessed a gun while under a restraining order for domestic abuse, motivated him to introduce the bill, Bies added.
Tony Gibart, public policy coordinator for End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin, said his organization supports the bill because it would help domestic abuse victims.
"This bill will give victims the peace of mind that their safety is being taken seriously," he said.
Current law states the domestic violence offender is required to surrender any and all firearms when a judge issues a restraining order for domestic or child abuse, but little follow up is done by law enforcement or the courts after the ruling, Bies said.
"Wisconsin needs to close this gap in our laws and provide a better opportunity to prevent the next domestic violence tragedy," he said.
He added he wants to make sure police and court procedures are strengthened under this law. A survey conducted by sheriff departments statewide found 70 percent of counties did not follow up to ensure offenders did not possess weapons in compliance with their restraining order.
Four counties participated in pilot programs that consistently used the court procedures to follow up with abusers, Bies said.
"[County residents] said the procedures made them feel safer, gave them peace of mind and enhanced their actual safety," Bies said.
Gibart said the bill is a simple way to reinforce the purpose and intent of a restraining order.
"It really takes a basic step to what needs to be done around firearm surrender," Gibart said. "It makes [the restraining order] more than a piece of paper."
Jeff Nass, president for Wisconsin Firearm Owners, Ranges, Clubs, and Educators, Inc., an organization charted by the National Rifle Association, said he believes the bill has "a lot of gray area" on the procedure in which law enforcement and courts would follow up with abusers.
Since the state does not require registration of guns, obtaining all the offender's firearms could be more difficult, Nass said.
"If the offender has more guns than they say, how do you prove it?" Nass said.
He said this bill could also harm innocent victims because if an offender ever filed a restraining order against the victim, victims would be left unarmed and less able to defend themselves.
The bill will be introduced to the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice. It is currently being circulated for co-sponsors.
Bies said the bill has gained support from both sides of the aisle and he hopes the bill will reach an Assembly vote by the end of this year.


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Bristol is synth emulation package for a diverse range of vintage synthesisers, electric pianos and organs. The application consists of a multithreaded audio synthesizer and a user interface called brighton.
- Over thirty emulators to mix and match
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Wonderful piece of application having a lot of assure.
fantastic project !
nice work. quick replies from the developer too. I'm not much for emulations of real synthesizers, but the variations from the originals and quirkyness of some of these sounds are worth investigating at the very least. Bristol is linux only. Otherwise you can buy the arturia series and run those on a bloated operating system, whichever floats your boat.
Hands down the best synth that I've found for linux. takes some tinkering and has a learning curve(but you should expect that if you're trying to use linux for music).


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A fatherless reform school kid, Steve McQueen joined the Marines, but was never far from trouble - until he found acting and the woman who would always love him. He was one of Hollywood's highest paid stars, and one of its most difficult. His rise to icon and the inevitable descent are told by those who watched it happen. Clips include: The Magnificent Seven, Love With the Proper Stranger, The Cincinnati Kid, The Reivers, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt. His life story is told with home movies and the recollections of his first wife, Neile McQueen Toffel; children Terri and Chad; actors Chuck Norris, Karl Malden and Don Gordon; and the directors, producers, agents and racing buddies who knew and understood him. Narrated by James Coburn.
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Luckily, using Skype isn't something that is likely to create vendor lock-in. So when a viable OSS alternative becomes available in the future, switching to it will involve about the same amount of effort as it would if that software had existed today.
So if the options are using Skype now and switching in 2 years (say), or using nothing for 2 years and waiting for something to come along, the former option seems more agreeable.
That makes no sense. Once something becomes a defacto standard it is nearly impossible to get everyone to switch to something else. Market share is everything. This is exactly how Microsoft maintains their monopoly. It is the reason the vast majority of
The reason Microsoft maintains a monopoly with Office is because its grip on the market perpetuates and expands due to proprietary formats. Skype deals with transient data, so the analogy to Office, or MP3, or GIF (or any other kind of file format) doesn't work.
I also don't quite understand your point about networking externalities. In fact, as I see it, because Skype sort of Just Works through firewalls and doesn't typically require any explicit configuration, any OSS product which also Just Works for
Yes, but the network effect doesn't invariably result in lock-in.
My point is that with something like Skype, you're dealing with transient data, the software itself requires very little configuration (and no configuration generally needed outside of the software [e.g. networking]), and usage of the software doesn't require a lot of training. The barrier to replacement is, compared to other examples, really fairly low.
All that's really required is that you agree with those you want to conference with to use a given piece of software, and then install it. This is an obstacle, but it's not a substantial one. Because this effort is roughly equivalent to the original effort of agreeing to use and installing Skype, the I disagree with the lock-in argument.
Nobody disagrees that the ideal situation is to use OSS if some viable candidate exists. If it doesn't, all I'm arguing is that using something like Skype -- if it provided the necessary capabilities (which apparently it doesn't, but that's moot for this discussion) -- is a sensible stop-gap. In this particular case, I don't accept that the implied alternative (use nothing while you wait for an OSS solution) is the best option. (Sometimes it might be.)
Network effects are a source of, but distinct from, lock-in. Lock-in can result from network effects, and network effects generate increasing returns that are associated with lock-in. However, the presence of a network effect does not guarantee that lock-in will result. For example, if the network is open there is no issue of lock-in.
I certainly agree that there's plenty of business value in using proprietary communications rather than resorting to inferior methods of communication.
However, proprietary communications protocols are text-book examples of how network-effect easily creates barriers to technological changes, which is a mild kind of lock-in. (Not the worst form, but certainly bad.)
Anyone around before rever
In fact, as I see it, because Skype sort of Just Works through firewalls and doesn't typically require any a explicit configuration, any OSS product which also Just Works for the same reason could be used without involving any networking changes.
You gotta be kidding me. Seriously. Have you ever tried to get Skype working through a firewall that does access control ? You have pretty much give the computer unlimited access to get Skype to work. (Unrestricted https = full access, since you can use to tunnel an
Well, you'd be hard pressed to find a firewall whose purpose was not "access control."
Perhaps you mean a firewall with a restrictive default outbound policy. In this case, of course Skype, like another other software of its ilk, will require special configuration. But the common case (for Skype's target audience) is restrictive inbound and permissive outbound.
I know Skype isn't FOSS, but the latest Linux beta for skype does video chat with windows.
I was pleasantly surprised when I tried it last week from my linux platform.
It also does n-way calls. And runs on Linux, Windows and Mac. Something to follow up on?
The last time I checked (about 2 days ago, admittedly, so maybe something has changed) a three way video conference did not work in skype. Maybe there is a way to make it happen that I'm missing, but I sure couldn't figure it out. If you have a link, I'd love to see it.
http://www.mebeam.com/ [mebeam.com] has a plug-in for GTalk that allows for multi-way video conferencing.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5qdp38 [tinyurl.com] (Link to the plug-in)
Also, for those in the science community, evo.caltech.edu is a nice Java-based collaboration tool.
Your definition of nice seems to differ from mine. Its of course much better than vrvs but it seems to have issues and doubly so for video. Its not reliable yet and sometimes if CMS and/or ATLAS are having a large meeting, grinds to a halt. Although to be fair it is rapidly improving. I have observed that (pulling number out of
Given that the support in Linux for video and webcams is so disastrously broken as it stands (largely the vendors fault for not providing APIs and driver details), what's needed first is to fix it so that all the common webcams (cheapo and expensive) "just work" -- both in standalones like Ekiga, aMSN, Pidgin, etc as well as in Flash-based browser applets -- and specifically work without slowing the system to a crawl or running at 4fps.
Once that's done, pe
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text: Latos only threw 57 pitches the other day. So even though he is on 3 days rest, it's not like he threw 110 pitches and is coming back in 3 days. I believe if we don't win Game 4, then we are done, no matter who pitches Game 5. I just don't see us beating Cain again. The guy is just so good.


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Release Notes: This release supports XML Schema 1.1, generates XML instances and schema documentation, lets highlights help you focus on the content you need to review, presents all the changes, comments, and highlights in a review manager panel so you can quickly inspect and manage them, quickly finds resources in the project by searching in their content or file paths, lets you edit, check in, or check out resources directly on a Microsoft SharePoint server using the Data Source Explorer view, and extends the API.
Release Notes: This version introduces a number of unique development features. It provides support for editing XSLT and XML Schema modules in the context of a main XSLT, or respectively a main XML Schema file. To improve XML Schema visual editing, it introduces a Palette view that allows you to create new schema components easily by dragging them from the Palette view into the diagram. oXygen now offers EPUB validation by integrating EpubCheck, editing and validation for specific EPUB file types, as well as a number of general enhancements for working with archive-based formats.
Release Notes: This version adds new features to the Author editing mode like the smart paste action that automatically converts content from Office suite applications or from a Web browser to DITA, DocBook, or TEI. The XML authoring was improved in areas like reference management, change tracking, and CSS rendering support. The API was extended to incorporate feedback from partners that integrate oXygen with CMSs or other applications.
Release Notes: This version improves the existing functionality, adds new features, and, most importantly, enhances the user experience. A lot of effort was invested in minimizing memory usage and improving general performance. The new version offers generic conditional text support for any XML documentation framework, including (but not limited to) DITA and DocBook. The new ePUB support allows you to change, extract, validate, and process data stored in ePUB files. These capabilities allow developers to pack files into ePUB and also process data from ePUB documents using XSLT or XQuery.
Release Notes: This version improves the XML authoring capabilities, the support for XML development, and also a number of core features. The visual XML authoring now uses schema information to provide intelligent editing actions that help keep the document valid and provide a better editing experience. The new compact representation of tags and the quick up/down navigation features improve the ergonomics and the usability.
Release Notes: This version comes with new features covering both XML development and XML authoring. These features include XProc support, integrated documentation for XSLT stylesheets, a new XQuery debugger (for the Oracle Berkeley DB XML database), MathML rendering and editing support, a smarter Author mode for an improved visual editing experience, and DITA 1.2 features.
Release Notes: This version adds a new, redesigned XML Schema diagram that allows visual XML Schema editing, a new XML Schema documentation engine supporting multiple output formats, new features in the Author visual XML editing mode, and improvements in the Outliner and content completion, and updates the database support.
Release Notes: One of the most important additions in this version is the bundling of the schema-aware XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor from Saxonica. This version comes with a large number of improvements, including a powerful new XML instance generator, better content completion offering proposals from included or imported XML Schema or XSLT modules, and a better integration of the Intel XML Software Suite. The support for commercial databases was updated to support the latest versions of MarkLogic 4.0, Oracle 11g R1, SQL Server 2008, DB2 9.5, and XHive 8.
Release Notes: This version adds as main feature the support for editing and processing resources inside ZIP-based packages, including Microsoft Office 2007 (OOXML) and OpenDocument (ODF) documents. There are various other improvements, a number of component updates, and fixes.
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Arsenal kept their hopes of top four place alive after seeing off a tough Fulham team, who were down to 10-men within 12 minutes.
A Per Mertesacker goal just before half-time was enough to see Arsenal earn all three points that has seen them jump above Chelsea into third, as they play Liverpool at Anfield tomorrow night.
The game started at a frantic pace with both teams getting the ball down well and passing it around, but after 12 minutes, the game looked like it was going to be all Arsenal as Fulham midfielder, Steve Sidwell saw a red card given from match official, Andre Marriner.
The Englishman had just come back from serving a suspension after being sent off against Queens Park Rangers and he needlessly lunged in on Mikel Arteta right under the referee's nose, who then had no choice but to send off the midfielder.
Despite being down to 10 men, the first goal scoring opportunity fell to Dimitar Berbatov, but Wojciech Szczesny easily saved his shot.
Theo Walcott then had a goal rightfully disallowed as he was in an offside position when striker Olivier Giroud passed the ball.
The first half was nearing it's end and it looked like Arsenal were going to be left frustrated after spending a lot of the game in Fulham's half, but after a Laurent Koscielny header across the goalmouth was turned home by Per Mertesacker, the Gunners had the lead they rightfully deserved.
It was in fact Mertesacker's third goal of the season, which means he has scored the same amount of goals as Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor and two more goals than Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck.
The second half saw Arsenal have 80% possession, but it was in fact Fulham who looked more likely to score.
For a moment, it did look like Fulham had pulled the game back but Stanislav Manolev's strike was also ruled out for offside. Another correct call from the match officials.
The game then ended how it started, with Marriner producing a red card and this time it was for Arsenal's Giroud after he went in over the ball, which was very similar to Sidwell's challenge.
Luckily for Arsenal, the red card came too late for Fulham to take advantage of and the game ended with the Gunners taking home the three points and jumping into third in the table.
After the game, Fulham boss Martin Jol said it shouldn't have been a sending off but was proud of his team's fighting spirit.
"I would not have given the red card [against Steve Sidwell] but I am not subjective. I think it was a mistimed tackle but he caught the guy. It wasn't his intention.
"It spoiled the game a bit but we fought like lions and had better chances than them. In the first half we did ever so well but conceded a soft goal," he said to BBC Sport.
As for Wenger, he was also full of praise for Fulham and believed his side turned off the style in the second half.
He told reporters: "We had a positive first half but in the second half we became sloppy with our passing and played with less pace to our game. You have to give Fulham credit; they are a good side and they played very well.
"It became hard in the second half. We played with the handbrake on and tried to keep the lead without taking risks. We didn't give them enough problems. We lost pace and quality."
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The Maryland volleyball team dropped a five-set heartbreaker to No. 14 North Carolina in front of a raucous crowd at Comcast Pavilion Sunday afternoon. Junior Ashleigh Crutcher led the offense with 25 kills, while Adreene Elliott and Mary Cushman added 14 and 12, respectively.
The Terps were excellent defensively, tallying 24 blocks – the second-most by an ACC team this season (FSU – 28). Freshman Ashlyn MacGregor tallied 12 blocks for the second consecutive match, while Emily Fraik had a career-high 10 blocks.
Maryland (13-17, 5-13 ACC) shined with its back against the wall, forcing a decisive fifth set after dropping the opening two sets. The Terps could not put the Tar Heels away, however, failing to capitalize on a number of match points. North Carolina pounced on its opportunity, winning the fifth set, 20-18.
The first set went continuously back-and-forth with 10 lead changes and 19 ties, taking the set to a 29-27 final score. Adreene Elliot was a perfect 5-for-5 on attacks, as Crutcher tallied eight kills of her own.
The second set began almost as a mirror image of the first, with the Terps taking their first lead at 7-6. The Tar Heels pulled away, however, taking the frame, 25-19.
Maryland responded from the intermission break with a vengeance, leading by as much as eight in the third set. After a flurry of set and match points between the two, Maryland finally took the set, 28-26, on a Hrebenach and Elliott block. The Terps then dominated the fourth set from the outset, 25-19.
Maryland wraps up regular season play next weekend at Virginia Tech Friday and at Virginia Saturday.


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POSSIBLE Test debutant John Hastings says workhorse pacemen Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus deserve ample opportunity to prove they should hold their places for the series decider against South Africa in Perth.
National selectors added Hastings, a Victorian bowling all-rounder, NSW's Josh Hazlewood and WA's Mitch Johnson to its squad, to complement reserve paceman Mitch Starc for the third Test, starting Friday.
While a decision to rest one of both of Siddle and Hilfenhaus, who combined to cover the mid-match loss of James Pattinson to injury at Adelaide Oval, would increase Hastings' chances of a Test debut, the hulking all-rounder said he was wishing his squad-mates a speedy recovery.
"If 'Sidds' [Siddle] is walking he's probably every chance to play at Perth. It's every fast-bowler's dream to play a Test at Perth so he'll be well and truly up for it," Hastings said on Tuesday morning in Melbourne, ahead of his departure for Perth.
"Hopefully these guys pull up [well]. They deserve [another] crack at South Africa, the deserve to finish the job and get a series win."
The call-up of Hastings, 27, came just a month after he led the Australia A pace attack against the Proteas in Sydney.
This time last year Hastings was recuperating from shoulder-reconstruction surgery. During that period he feared his fledgling limited-overs career for Australia for over, which he said has made his Test call-up more satisfying.
"It just goes to show that I've put in a lot of hard work and determination to get back. I'm really excited to get a chance," he said.
"Having a year off, you've got to get your body back into being hardened to bowl. Personally, I feel I've done all the work I possibly can to get my body where I want it to [be].
"There's no better time for me, if I get the opportunity, to step up."
Hastings had brief conversations with Australia coach Mickey Arthur and chief selector John Inverarity on Monday night. He said he expects further discussions once he arrives in Perth, but said he was capable of playing at the WACA Ground either as an all-rounder or a specialist paceman.
As Hastings enters the squad another Victorian, Rob Quiney, leaves it after failing in all three of his innings at No.3 in place of the fit-again Shane Watson. Hastings said the 30-year-old had been luckless in his first Test stint.
"He's in fantastic form. To go out there and nick two balls that's cricket . . . you can be so high and then you can be brought down in the space of two balls," Hastings said of Quiney.
"I'm sure he'll come back and he'll score a mountain of runs again, and hopefully he gets another chance."


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Dear Mr. President:
Your speech on the Middle East earlier today emboldens me to claim your protection as we set out to put flesh on your rhetoric. Fifty of your fellow citizens will be sailing on "The Audacity of Hope" to Gaza next month.
You spoke eloquently today about "times in the course of history when the action of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years." And you lamented "failure to speak to the broader aspirations of ordinary people."
We, the passengers and crew of "The Audacity of Hope," sailing to Gaza in June together with the 2nd International Freedom Flotilla, represent ordinary Americans determined to speak to the aspirations of the 1.5 million ordinary Gazans yearning to be free.
We will be delivering thousands of letters of support and friendship from other ordinary Americans who are persuaded, as Dr. King put it, that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
I write you for assurance of your support and protection as we try to embody your rhetoric. You emphasized that "the United States supports a set of universal rights," and that this US support is "not a secondary interest." It is, rather, "a top priority that must be translated into concrete actions."
Bold words. With respect to the situation in Gaza, though, perhaps you will agree that it hardly suffices to bemoan the fate of one "Palestinian who lost three daughters to Israeli shells in Gaza," who, as you put it, has a "right to feel angry."
That Palestinian and his dead daughters are four, but 1,400 Gazans were killed by Israeli forces in December 1998-January 1999 — and 1.5 million Gazans remain deprived of the universal rights of which you spoke.
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Gaza is a sequestered, crowded open-air prison, in which Israel keeps "inmates" at a subsistence level of existence. This amounts to the kind of collective punishment banned by international law and is enforced by an equally illegal Israeli naval blockade.
Many Americans have long been puzzled that you choose to exempt Gazans from your concern about universal rights, and have tired of waiting for a cogent explanation. So we ask you to look upon our voyage to Gaza as our attempt to implement your rhetoric about what ordinary citizens can do — not only to "speak" but to act to meet the broader aspirations of the ordinary people of Gaza.
On May 20, you will have an opportunity to inform Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of our intention to sail to Gaza next month. You have probably already been briefed on Israel's far-flung diplomatic and propaganda offensive to prevent our boat and the other boats of the international flotilla from embarking for Gaza.
Indeed, the Israelis may be emboldened by your lack of response to the killing of nine passengers, including an American citizen, on the 2010 relief flotilla and the wounding of dozens of other peaceful passengers. This year we expect you to speak up for us beforehand.
And please do not try to pretend that $3 billion of our taxes — our annual gift to Israel — cannot be translated into the kind of leverage that will spare "The Audacity of Hope" from harm at the hands of the "Israeli Defense Forces."
Finally, allow me to suggest talking points not likely to be included in your briefing papers. These points transcend rhetoric and spring from a faith heritage you share with Netanyahu. They deal with the doing of justice, the preoccupation of the prophets of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Before your meeting, have a look at what Isaiah says about "proclaiming liberty to captives and release to prisoners" and how Jesus of Nazareth repeats that, word for word, eight centuries later. Think about it, and be prepared to put justice above politics.
Please let us – and the world – know how the discussion goes.
Yours truly,
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Nolan Reimold's go-ahead, two-run double in the bottom of the eighth inning lifted the Baltimore Orioles to a 7-5 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the opener of a doubleheader.
Reimold added a solo homer, while J.J. Hardy smacked a two-run shot and Chris Davis tallied three hits and scored three times for the Orioles, who have won three of their last four games.
Darren O'Day (2-0) recorded the last two outs of the eighth to pick up the win, while Jim Johnson fired a 1-2-3 ninth to notch his seventh save of the year.
Andre Ethier belted a three-run homer for Los Angeles, which has dropped five consecutive contests.
Paco Rodriguez (0-1) served up a one-out double to Davis, the lone hitter he faced, before Ronald Belisario came on and walked Hardy and pinch-hitter Nate McLouth to load the bases. Reimold then reached out and slapped a double down the right-field line to plate Davis and Hardy.
"It was a pretty good pitch. If I tried to do anything else with it I would have rolled it over or been out in front," Reimold said. "That's the only place I could have done something with it."
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said Belisario left the ball up to Reimold.
"It looked like a pretty good pitch actually," Mattingly said. "It went down and away from him there and he shoots it down the corner."
The Dodgers jumped out to a 4-0 advantage after plating three runs in the first and another in the second.
Mark Ellis and Matt Kemp had consecutive one-out singles before Adrian Gonzalez flied out. Ethier, who had been hitting just .062 with runners in scoring position entering Saturday, cracked a first-pitch fastball onto the concourse down the right-field line.
Ellis lifted a sacrifice fly to left in the second.
The O's, though, struck back and took the lead after pushing two runs across in the home second, another in the fourth and two more in the sixth.
Davis led off the second with a single before Hardy scalded a first- pitch fastball into the front row seats in left.
Reimold's two-out solo shot in the fourth looked like a replay of Hardy's bomb as the ball again landed into the first couple rows in left.
Matt Wieters singled and Davis doubled to put runners on second and third to begin the sixth. Hardy lifted a sacrifice fly to right to plate Wieters before Davis scored on Steve Pearce's line-drive single to left to make it 5-4.
LA answered with a run in the visitor's seventh to knot the tilt as Ellis, who drew a leadoff walk, came home on a wild pitch following Matt Kemp's bloop single to right-center.
Game Notes
Dodgers starter Hyun-Jin Ryu surrendered five runs on eight hits and two walks over six frames, while Baltimore starter Jason Hammel allowed four runs on seven hits and three walks over six innings ... Baltimore was 2-for-5 with runners in scoring position.


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- Zhengzhou is home to what was once called China's largest ghost city
- Visitors are now slowing coming back, though many can't afford to live there
- Tighter government controls on housing market has failed to curb price climbs
- Government is building millions of low-cost housing to meet demand
Build it and they will come. That appears to have been the strategy for urban development in China over the last decade, during what has arguably been the largest and fastest urbanization of a society in modern history.
In Zhengzhou, the capital of central Henan province, this approach has had mixed results. Just a few years back, a new development zone, an adjunct to the main city, was labeled China's largest ghost city -- rows and rows of luxury apartments and office buildings sat empty on vast, deserted boulevards.
But now locals here say signs of life have sprung up and the city is growing.
On a recent national holiday, visitors flocked to a new park by the river. It was a remarkable green oasis of willow trees, ponds, fountains and man-made marshes surrounded by shining new towers of glass and steel.
Amid the greenery, several wedding couples posed in tuxedos and gowns for professional photographs, the brides pampered by make-up artists.
Among them were the Zhangs, newly-weds who traveled more than a hundred miles for this photo shoot.
Though they clearly appreciated their surroundings, they said they could not afford to live in the sprawling, newly-constructed district of Zhengzhou.
The same went for 25-year-old Li Cai Juan and her friends. Several years ago, she had an office job at a construction company that built some of Zhengzhou's rows of towers.
Now a school teacher, Li said, "The housing prices are too high here," in the newly constructed part of Zhengzhou.
According to the local statistics bureau, the average income per month in Zhengzhou is roughly $483 while property prices in the new district stand at $1,660 per square meter, and are expected to climb.
Amid growing unrest over swollen property markets, Premier Li Keqiang has made affordable property prices a pillar of his leadership. However, tighter controls on property markets, such as limitations on homes per person and higher taxes on transactions, have failed to rein in speculative buyers since they were first implemented in 2010.
The following year, as part of its twelfth five-year plan, the government vowed to build 36 million low-income housing units by 2015 in a bid to quell distressed homebuyers.
The rush to the cities
Demand for housing has followed the migration of workers from rural areas to cities where work is better paid and easier to find. In early 2012, for the first time in history, figures showed that more than half of the country's population live in urban areas.
The pace of urbanization has been staggering and the government is counting on it as a main driver of economic growth for decades to come.
"Currently China's urban population is a little over 700 million people," said Tom Miller, author of "China's Urban Billion."
"By 2030, we would expect it to be one billion. One in eight people on Earth will live in a Chinese city. So they still need to do a lot more building."
Miller predicts there will always be a huge demand for housing in China. The challenge will be making it affordable for the Chinese people.
Zhengzhou's population boom
According to city government statistics, the population in Zhengzhou grew by 30% between 2000 and 2010, and today stands at close to nine million people, roughly the same population as New York City (8.245 million in 2011), London (8.174, 2011) and Bangkok (8.281, 2010).
But the city appears to have physically grown even faster.
In an area nearly twice the size of San Francisco, entire new districts of towers have sprung where 10 years ago locals say there were empty fields.
Armies of construction crews are still hard at work. Dozens of new towers are in various stages of completion, even though real estate companies are still clearly struggling to fill some of the completed buildings.
On a street corner, two female university students distributed advertising leaflets to passing drivers and held up a "buy two floors for the price of one" deal for a residential housing development called "Harmony Building."
In the office of another real estate development company, a sales representative told CNN all of the units in neighboring residential towers had been sold. If so, nobody was bothering to maintain the grounds around the apartment buildings where knee-high grass and weeds grew between 30-story towers.
Speculators move in
Meanwhile, real estate sales appeared to be moving more briskly at the Zheng Dong Business Center, where visitors were greeted by football tables, plush velvet couches, a piano, wine and hors d'oeuvres arranged around giant illuminated models of an office park.
Upon arrival, a sales team escorted CNN into a cinema with 180 degree, IMAX-like screen that played an elaborate computer-illustrated film advertising five-star hotels, gyms, shopping malls, offices and restaurants that would one day populate the new development.
It would be another five or six years before this virtual city center would be completed, said a saleswoman named Song Lei.
Asked whether or not she expected there to be enough customers to fill the giant office park, Song said, "Altogether, probably not.
"There are some people buying office buildings for investment and there are others who are using it themselves," she explained.
Some of China's soaring real estate market appears to be driven by wealthy Chinese who prefer parking their money in property rather than in banks where interest rates remain the same as inflation. In less than one year, property prices in Zhengzhou jumped 14%, while the benchmark interest rate remains at 3%.
Two Chinese men who worked as contractors in the construction industry were finalizing a deal on the purchase of two offices in the Zheng Dong Business Center's still unfinished office park.
Both men said they owned multiple properties in the area, some of which were vacant.
"He owns 20 apartments here!" said one of the businessman's employees, laughing. "Come back after 10 years and have a look and it will be completely different," he said, when asked about Zhengzhou's "ghost town" tag.
The businessman, who asked not to be named, said he earned far better returns in real estate than from banks.
Miller said the buy-up of property in China is further encouraged by the fact that unlike many Western countries, there is no annual property tax.
"You pay transaction taxes when you buy a property, but once you've bought it you don't pay anything, which is remarkable," he said.
Build them and they will come?
Compared to China, "the history of urbanization in the West is different. Things happened at a much slower pace," said Behzad Yaghmaian, a political economist and author of "The Accidental Capitalist -- A People's Story of the New China."
"China is a huge country with the capacity to supply the world and now its own market. Things are bound to happen faster and with more mistakes."
The jury is still out on whether or not huge urban development projects like the new districts of Zhengzhou will become vibrant city centers.
But Miller challenges critics who quickly labeled Zhengzhou a "ghost city."
He said in the past few years city planners had constructed 14 new university campuses in the city, which he predicted would ensure a quarter of a million new residents.
"China is different because it has this very authoritarian power structure. Power rests in the hands of very few people, and that means that local government officials can take big decisions looking ahead 10, 15 years... and create something for a society that hasn't really arrived yet," Miller said.
"It's build them and they will come," Miller added, "and build it and force them to come. But of course there will be some big wasteful developments, white elephants, along the way."


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This course builds on the ballet vocabulary introduced in Fundamentals of Ballet, and furthers the student's study of line, placement and musicality. Students should expect more speed and complex movements with continued development of technique and style.
- Prerequisite: Previous ballet training or consent of instructor
- General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Creating in the Arts (To complete the Creating in the Arts credit in dance classes, students must satisfactorily complete two of THTR 181, 182, and 284 OR a student may repeat any one of these classes in order to fulfill the CA requirement.)
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Vote 'no' on Waterford parks millage
Opposing a park millage is not usually a popular stance but in this case it should be. Waterford voters have several times rejected a parks millage because they recognize that the parks in Waterford are doing just fine and that the millage was just a way to raise taxes. But that didn't stop the supporters of this tax from trying again this primary -- they argued on their website if they could just fool voters once and win a bare majority then parks employees could get pay raises and pay less for their healthcare and would have fewer responsibilities.
I love the parks, but you and I are taxed enough already and shouldn't have to repeatedly reject proposals to lavish taxpayer money on government employees. Together let's all vote 'no' on the Waterford Parks millage next month and then spend the next two years coming up with a better idea to keep our parks great than simply raising taxes.
Kyle McGrath,
Vote 'yes' Aug. 5 to reform personal property tax
I'm voting yes on the Aug. 5 ballot proposal to fully fund local services like fire and police by reforming Michigan's Personal Property Tax and replacing it with a Local Community Stabilization share.
My reasons are simple: First, Michigan's current tax laws unfairly double tax businesses, which means our local small businesses have less money to put into creating jobs and expanding.
Second, Michigan's system for funding local services, which depends on Personal Property Tax revenue, is unstable and unreliable. As a result, our police, fire, libraries, schools and ambulance services suffer.
State legislators from both parties have agreed that Michigan's Personal Property Tax stifles the economy. Most states in our region do not tax businesses on personal property, which shows just how outdated Michigan's law is.
A yes vote will keep the legislature's business tax reforms in place and create a reliable way to fund important local services.
Taher Rasheed,
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CHAMONIX, France (Feb. 3) - Bode Miller (Franconia, NH) came within .01 of victory in the first of two Audi FIS Alpine World Cup downhills in Chamonix as Klaus Kroell snagged the first Austrian speed win of the season. Swiss Didier Cuche finished third to snap a two-race win streak, but retained the World Cup downhill points lead as Erik Fisher (Middleton, ID) and Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley, CA) stormed into the top 15.
QUOTESBode MillerIt's tough. There's so many places where a hundredth can come or go. I didn't really have a great reach for the finish line, which I always try to do well. That's the worst place to lose it, right out of the start or right at the finish line.
Because everyone's so close together with the ability, and the courses seem to be easier - they're slower - there's less things that separate the field. A lot of these races are unbelievable close. That's a challenge in itself to really make sure that you stay focused and pay attention to the things that matter.
It didn't really feel exactly like my skis were running that well. I knew I got away with a lot of stuff at the top so I knew I'd be fast up there, but once I was on that bottom flat I kind of felt like I was losing.
It was really wet, kind of weird snow and when you hit that stuff, the skis go all over the place. It's kind of hard to tell what they're doing.
Sasha Rearick, men's Head CoachBode [Miller] skied amazing on the top. It was just awesome skiing. It will be interesting to see everyone else try that line tomorrow.
He also executed through the middle, which is definitely not his forte - the gliding and micro terrain - but he did a good job. He came out and charged.
[Erik] Fisher has had a great approach the last couple of weeks. He was out slalom training yesterday and has been skiing GS every morning. He executed some things really well today and it's good to see that momentum.
Step-by-step Travis [Ganong] is getting more comfortable and looking for his tuck more. He tucked a lot more today than he has in the past and it's starting to pay off.
I saw all the guys skiing with confidence and that's put them in a position to be competitive. It's great to have another downhill tomorrow for us to continue to build.
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Hope for Teddy
Dear readers, there is no denying it. The 2009 Washington Nationals are a complete embodiment of the new, hip and devastatingly adroit four-letter word dominating the interwebs. And that word is FAIL.
The Natinals' pitching is atrocious. Their defense is vomit inducing. Their front office is turbulent.
And, worst of all, Teddy Roosevelt still can't win a race.
But this is U.S. America, my friends. And in U.S. America, we U.S. Americans can do anything we put our minds to… well, anything except provide universal health care, halt military action in Iraq and establish a sound domestic economy, of course.
Yet I have faith in the future of this franchise. They can hit. The Zimmerman/Dunn centerpiece in D.C. provides a solid foundation. Indeed, there is hope.
Because if someone can take this:
And make this:
…then miracles are possible!
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(FREETOWN) - Organizers of the annual Freetown July Festival met recently to complete plans for this year's event.
The festival kicks off at 6 p.m. July 13 and finishes with a fireworks display starting at 10:30 p.m. July 14.
New to the festival this year are a costume photo booth and an expanded car show to include anything on wheels.
Additional highlights of planned events include a baby contest, tractor drive, cloggers, parade, Public Option classic rock band, corn hole tournament and clogging.
"The annual festival has a long running tradition in the Freetown community," Debbie Ridlen of the festival committee said.
"In keeping with tradition, the committee is planning food booths, ice cream, children's games and craft booths to offer festival-goers a fun family experience," she added.
Vendors interested in booth space may contact Janet Smith at 497-3168.
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Nintendo has modified its financial projections for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014. President Satoru Iwata cited disappointing holiday hardware sales, which contributed to the company's third consecutive annual loss.
The company's revised numbers include a shift from earlier projections of a 100 billion yen profit (about $958 million) to a 35 billion yen loss ($335 million).
"We failed to reach our target for hardware sales during the year-end, when revenues are the highest," Iwata said.
Nintendo is modifying its hardware sales projections in response. The Wii U's forecast has been slashed from 9 million units to 2.8 million. The 3DS performed better, but its sales projections are still being cut to 6.6 million units, from the earlier 8 million.
Iwata doesn't appear to be considering a resignation, telling reporters "There will be no major management shake-up in the short term." Last year, when Iwata broke news of disappointing financial results, he said that he felt "greatly responsible" for the circumstances, and there was talk that a repeat performance could be a sign that it was time for him to move on.
[Source Nintendo, Reuters]
Our Take (written by news editor Mike Futter):
It's no surprise that Nintendo missed the overly ambitious 9 million unit mark. When paired with the overshoot on 3DS numbers, a pattern of overestimation starts to emerge. Nintendo needs to start being realistic about the sales potential across the board. It might get a bump from ambitious forecasts, but the fall when it misses impossible goals is that much further. Something needs to change at Nintendo to give the Wii U more traction. Nintendo has rejected additional price cuts in the past, but right now, it's losing out on software sales (which have the best margins) due to a low install base.
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Nintendo has shown a startling disconnect to its customers this console generation. Strangely, the same is not true of the 3DS. Not sure what they are thinking.


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Summer is Here! Central Library will close at 6 pm on Thursdays and will be closed Sundays until September. Enjoy!
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Our state legislature is considering the elimination of personal property tax (PPT), a tax paid by businesses on industrial equipment. PPT is a critical source of funding for municipalities and public libraries.
The average public library receives 11% of its revenue from PPT, some libraries as much as 30%. KPL is at the average with about 11% of our revenue from PPT.
The decline over the past few years in property taxable values has reduced library budgets, including ours. As library users know, we eliminated bookmobile service, reduced hours at branches and law library, reduced staff by about 10%, and cut expenditures in most all budget categories.
If PPT is eliminated, it must be totally replaced by a guaranteed, stable source of funding if library services are to continue at even near their current level. Without a replacement, we will be forced to consider a further reduction in hours, closing branches, reducing or eliminating programming, reducing staff.
Library use is soaring. We had record breaking circulation of library materials during our summer reading games and strong program attendance. Our public computers are full during most open hours and library visits have increased.
The Michigan Library Association is lobbying on behalf of libraries. They are reminding our legislators the PPT is a critical source of funding for public libraries and if it is eliminated, it needs to be replaced. I urge you to contact your legislator too.
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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen helpfully illustrated the Democrats' attitude during an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday. After saying that no sacred cows should be spared when it comes to reducing the federal debt and avoiding the fiscal cliff, she said we should "take Social Security off the table."
"Social Security has not contributed to the debt and the deficits," Shaheen asserted. That is false. Social Security benefits payments have been greater than its revenues since 2009. Last year Social Security ran a $46 billion deficit. "Now, Social Security is sucking money out of the Treasury," The Washington Post reported in October of 2011.
Democrats want substantial tax hikes, paltry spending cuts and unsustainable entitlement spending left largely untouched.
This is what passes for fiscal seriousness on the eve of President Obama's second term.


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CHARLESTON – The Honors College at Eastern Illinois University has announced Sarah Schlund of Princeton a recipient of the Spring 2013 Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Research Grants.
Schlund received a grant of $500 for her research, "Puccinia marlae-wilsonlae and Claytonia virginica: A Pathogen's Tale." Schlund, a 2009 graduate of Princeton High School, is the daughter of Donald and Barbara Schlund.
In keeping with the university's mission to foster opportunities for student-faculty scholarship, the Honors College offers undergraduates the opportunity to apply for competitive funding to promote their research, scholarship and creative activities.


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What is the difference between a limit and a derivative?
I had previously thought they were the same thing, but certain problems, like the following make me think twice:
f(x) = x^2 - 5x - 2
For the above function, if I look for the limit using an intuitive method, such as looking at what y-value the function nears as x approaches a number (say x -> 3, for instance), I get ( -8). However, when I calculate the slope at x = 3, (using the average of secants left and right of (3, -8)), I get a slope of 1. If I check the derivative at 3,-8 for this function, I also get 1. If I take the limit in Mathematica, I get -8 (which agrees with my lazy, intuitive approach from the start).
So, it looks like the limit as x approaches 3 for f(x) = x^2 - 5x - 2 is -8, but the derivative is 1. These are two very different numbers, so it seems that limits and derivatives are also different concepts. What is the difference?


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Microsoft Is Banking On A Big Holiday Quarter
With Surface 2 tablets now on the market, and a coming wave of Windows 8.1 tablets and Windows Phone 8 smartphones headed for store shelves, Microsoft believes it's set up to have a booming holiday quarter.
Hood said Microsoft is pumped up about 8-inch tablets from Dell, Lenovo and Toshiba that will boast price tags of under $300. Microsoft is also "incredibly excited" about the Nokia Lumia 1520, a 6-inch device that marks Nokia's entry to the "phablet" market, Hood said.
"We are set up for a terrific holiday season. We will have a wide variety of Windows-based devices in market," Hood said on the call, according to Seeking Alpha's transcript of the event.


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