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A Missouri Senate committee is expected to consider a bill eliminating the state's "prevailing wage" requirement.
The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Dan Brown, of Rolla, would eliminate the wage used by cities, counties and other government entities to pay for construction projects.
Missouri calculates an annual prevailing wage for various construction trades in each county based on surveys of wages already paid on jobs.
The committee is also scheduled to hear other labor proposals Tuesday, including bills that would ban the payment of union dues as a condition of employment. A Missouri House committee heard similar "right-to-work" legislation last week.

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Gov. Rick Scott, seeking to bring the court system more in line with his conservative outlook, has repeatedly rejected lists recommended to him by the Florida Bar of lawyers, screening candidates for judgeships.
Scott has rejected dozens of attorneys whom the Bar has nominated to serve on judicial nominating commissions, created decades ago to professionalize the bench and make merit and qualifications at least as important as political connections.
"He wants people with humility," said Scott's chief counsel, Pete Antonacci, "and he wants judges who will follow the law and not make it up as they go along."
The Bar said Scott's two predecessors, Charlie Crist and Jeb Bush, never rejected any of its nominees.
All 26 nominating commissions for the trial and appellate courts and the Supreme Court are composed of nine members. Scott appoints five members of his choosing and must appoint four others from lists provided by the Bar's Board of Governors, some of whom are liberal Democrats who did not support Scott's election.
The governor has rejected the lists 16 times and has never publicly given a reason and is not required to do so.
Scott has sent back so many Bar-recommended names that the group keeps a five-page spreadsheet to track them.
Lawyers who are registered Democrats, who are aligned with left-leaning groups or who promote themselves as trial lawyers appear to have little hope of gaining the governor's favor.
Scott's list of rejections includes:
• Benjamin Crump of Tallahassee, a criminal defense lawyer honored by the NAACP for his legal advocacy and who is best known for his firm's representation of the family of Trayvon Martin.
• Lynn Drysdale, a consumer-protection lawyer with Jacksonville Area Legal Aid who has testified before Congress in opposition to state laws that allow payday lenders to target military personnel.
• W.C. Gentry, a high-profile trial lawyer in Jacksonville who was a member of the legal "dream team" that successfully sued the tobacco industry in the 1990s. A former county school board member, he has generously contributed to Democratic candidates and has given money to Republicans, too.
• Tiffany Faddis, a trial lawyer, board member of the trial bar's statewide lobbying arm, the Florida Justice Association, incoming president of the Hispanic Bar Association of Central Florida and a registered Republican.
Antonacci said that lawyers with such backgrounds are more likely to have a "living constitution" view of the law as evolving and ever-changing, which he said is at odds with Scott's views.
He said he did not know what the Florida Bar's agenda was in choosing which lawyers to send to Scott, and he defended the practice of rejecting Bar names.
"The Florida Bar is not an accountable organization in any electoral way," Antonacci said. "The accountability in the process is with the governor."
A spokeswoman for the Bar, Francine Walker, said: "The Florida Bar respects that the governor can reject nominees it submits."
Deirdre Macnab, president of the League of Women Voters of Florida, criticized Scott's frequent pattern of rejecting Bar-supported lawyers.
"I believe it's unprecedented," Macnab said. "This is a pretty blatant example of politicizing the court, and citizens should be concerned. … It's disheartening."
Macnab serves on a statewide judicial nominating panel for federal judges and was appointed by U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, and Marco Rubio, a Republican.
Former Republican Sen. Alex Villalobos of Miami and president of Democracy at Stake, a bipartisan group that advocates an independent judiciary, said he regretted voting more than a decade ago to weaken the Bar's role in judicial selection. Prior to that, the Bar had three automatic slots on every JNC.
"That was a mistake," he said. "We're reaping what we sowed."
Antonacci said the pace of rejections is likely to quicken, because terms of 78 JNC members are scheduled to expire by next June. All 78 were appointed by Scott's predecessor and likely 2014 opponent, Crist.
Since becoming governor in 2011, Scott has appointed more than 100 judges statewide.
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Acting Editor in Chief Elizabeth Quill discusses how the natural world feeds our sense of wonder.
New research on the 1994 Rwanda genocide overturns assumptions about why people participate in genocide. A sense of duty, not blind obedience, drives many perpetrators.
Researchers acknowledge that there's no getting rid of ticks, so they are developing ways to make them less dangerous.
Copper for the ancient Iceman's blade traveled about 500 kilometers to his northern Italian home region.
Genetic studies reveal more secrets of the bizarre creatures known as tardigrades.
It turns out that thin films of copper don't lay flat, a discovery that has implications for computers and handheld electronics.
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Scientists have genetically modified chrysanthemums to be "true blue" for the first time.
A self-selected sample of 202 deceased football players, the largest to date, finds that the majority suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Global warming could force airplanes to carry a lighter load — and fewer passengers —on each flight.
Jupiter-mass planets without parent solar systems are less common than astronomers thought, a new study suggests.
Certain bacteria found on the penis raise the risk of HIV infection, a new study finds.
Dog domestication may be the result of just a few genetic changes, including ones that made canines more interested in interacting with people.
Australia may have said "G'day" to humankind thousands of years earlier than previously believed.
Scientists probe information retained by Maxwell's demon.
Clever birds may have evolved their own broad powers of apelike thinking about the future.
In mice, nerve cells in the prefrontal cortex influence whether an individual is dominant or submissive.
A distant object may be the first exomoon detected.
Scientists found evidence of a particle that is its own antiparticle.
For the first time in any animal, researchers elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV. Cows' antibodies could help with drug development.
Deep-sea tube worms can live decades longer than their shallow-water counterparts.
Scientists reveal a new twist on the unusual properties of spider silk.
An exquisitely preserved fossil shows that an ancient armored reptile called Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi wasn't aquatic, as scientists had suspected.
Today, scientists are still trying to improve steel.
As the cholera epidemic rages on in war-torn Yemen, basic hygiene is the first line of defense.
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A new TV documentary is a tender tribute to Voyagers 1 and 2, which launched 40 years ago and were the first spacecraft to visit the outer solar system.
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NCLB Update (http://www.nochildleftbehind.gov/)
On February 26 and 27, the nation's governors, educators, and business leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., to discuss strategies to transform America's high schools and restore the value of a high school diploma. The summit (http://www.2005summit.org/), sponsored by the National Governors Association (NGA) and Achieve, Inc., featured major addresses by Secretary Spellings (http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2005/02/02272005.html) and Microsoft's Bill Gates and resulted in two concrete initiatives. First, six foundations (Carnegie, Dell, Gates, Prudential, State Farm, and Wallace) announced a $42 million initiative to help states raise high school graduation and college-readiness rates. The NGA's Center for Best Practices will award and administer the grants through a competitive process open to all states. Second, 13 states (AR, GA, IN, KY, LA, MA, MI, NJ, OH, OR, PA, RI, and TX), which educate more than one-third of U.S. students, formed a new coalition committed to "significantly raising the rigor of high school standards, assessments, and curriculum to better align them with the demands of higher education and work." Achieve will report regularly on the states' progress. "Change is hard," the Secretary declared. "Getting every child to graduate high schoolis one of the biggest challenges our country faces. It's never been done. That's why there is push-back from both sides of the political spectrum. In Washington, when both sides attack you, it means that you are doing something right.... I look forward to working with you, the governors, and Congress to reach a solution together for our kids." For audio/video files, please go to http://www.nga.org/nga/legislativeUpdate/
Also, the summit produced a plethora of deliverables, including:
- The official briefing book (http://www.2005summit.org/files/
- "America's High Schools: The Front Line in the Battle of Our Economic Future" (http://www.2005summit.org/
en_US/pdf/economicbackground.pdf), investigating the relationship between America's high schools and challenges to our economy.
- "Rising to the Challenge" (http://www.2005summit.org/
files/pollreport_0.pdf), a survey of college students, high school graduates who went directly into the workforce, professors, and employers. (Nearly two in five college students say there are gaps between the education they received in high school and the "overall skills, abilities, and work habits that are expected of them today in college and in the workforce.")
A day later, Secretary Spellings praised the contribution Catholic schools have made to educating students across the country and encouraged them to become providers of supplemental educational services under the No Child Left Behind Act. Incidentally, Spellings is the first U.S. Secretary of Education to have a child currently attending Catholic school. (Her other daughter attends a public school.) For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2005/02/02282005a.html.
ED Reorganization
In a March 4 memorandum to Department employees, Secretary Spellings announced a new coordinating structure that focuses the resources of the agency on "the people we primarily serve and aligns our leadership with the results we all seek..." The details are still being worked out, but, in terms of the "big picture," several changes are underway. One change involves the portfolios of the Deputy Secretary, who will oversee all K-12 education policy (the No Child Left Behind Act, high school initiative, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, etc.), and the Undersecretary, who will oversee all higher and adult education policy (federal student aid, the Higher Education Act, etc.). Another change will create two new offices: Communications and Outreach and Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, each led by an Assistant Secretary who will report directly to the Secretary. The Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs' functions will be divided between the new Office of Communications and Outreach and the existing Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs.
Arts Education
Next week's "Education News Parents Can Use" broadcast (March 15, 8:00-9:00 ET) will feature teachers and community leaders who are dedicated to ensuring that all children have a chance to learn and explore the arts. Research shows that when students study the artswhether dance, drama, music, or the visual artsacademic performance improves in core subjects such as reading, math, and writing. This is especially true for students who are most at risk of struggling with their school work or of dropping out, including students with physical or learning disabilities and those with limited English proficiency. In addition, recent studies point to a direct connection between music and spatial reasoning and spatial temporal skills, which are key to understanding and using mathematical concepts. Ultimately, the arts help schools and school districts achieve their mission: to shape a nation of compassionate, creative, and productive citizens prepared to participate in a global economy. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/av/video/edtv/. (You can watch live and archived webcasts at http://www.connectlive.com/events/ednews/.)
ESTEME Week
The Education Department is partnering with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other federal agencies and scientific societies to sponsor activities for this year's Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (ESTEME) Week (April 11-16). Activities during ESTEME Week are an opportunity for the nation's schools to focus on improving math and science by:
- drawing attention to the many ways our lives are enhanced by scientific and technological advances;
- stressing how students can apply science and technology to benefit their community, their country, and their planet;
- emphasizing the importance of math and science education in this era of globalization; and
- highlighting how U.S. citizens benefit from scientists of diverse backgrounds and cultures working together to solve the complex problems of today.
The web site offers a list of specific activities for schools; colleges and universities; libraries; museums, parks, and zoos; business and industry; professionals; and other public agencies and community groups. For more information, please go to http://www.esteme.org/.
Note: ESTEME sponsors are partnering with the Newspapers in Education Institute to develop a special print supplement on ESTEME Week. The supplement will be published in several regional newspapers (including, locally, The Washington Times) and delivered to partner schools for classroom use.
Equity Assistance Centers
The Department is re-competing its 10 regional Equity Assistance Centers (EACs). EACs offer technical assistance to states, school districts, and schools who seek to resolve civil rights conflicts and promote equity and social justice. More recently, they provide resources and training in the areas of bullying, hate crimes, and racial prejudice. All public agenciesother than state education agencies or school boardsand private, non-profit organizations are eligible to apply; proposals will be read based on the region they represent (for a list of regions, see http://www.edgateway.net/pub/docs/eacn/home.html), with one award in each region. The deadline for applications is April 29. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/programs/equitycenters/.
Education for All
"We can all agree on the goals for Education for All," Secretary Spellings said during remarks at UNESCO's "Calling Higher Education to a Higher Calling" conference at Georgetown University. UNESCO's education campaign calls for, among other things, universal primary education by 2015; a 50 percent expansion in adult literacy; improved quality as well as access; and opportunity for "excluded and marginalized" populations. "[But] those objectives have special resonance to Americans," the Secretary continued, in light of our own education reform effort, No Child Left Behind. Its goals complement UNESCO's good work." Then, eluding to both NCLB's expansion into high schools and the international effort to reach the more than 800 million adults (one in seven worldwide) who still cannot read or write, the Secretary said, "I believe our higher education community is ready to make a real difference. [Colleges and universities] are our greatest ambassadors to the world. Half a million foreign students come...each year to study. They return home, passing their knowledge and experiences on to their families and countries. Many become leaders in their nations." "Like freedom, a quality education is worth fighting for," Secretary Spellings concluded. "In [UNESCO] Director-General [Koichiro] Matsuura's words, literacy 'enables [people] to make choices, to participate and to exercise their rights; in other words, to be free.'" For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2005/02/02282005.html.
K-12 Distance Learning
The National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) "Distance Education Courses for Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts: 2002-03," the first national survey to explore K-12 distance learning, provides nationwide estimates of the number of school districts and schools with students enrolled in distance education courses, as well as the number of enrollments in those courses. Moreover, it examines the reasons for having distance education courses, the instructional level of populations served, entities delivering the courses to students, and data pertaining to online courses. Some teasers: one-third (36 percent) of districts and nine percent of schools had students enrolled in distance education courses in 2002-03; approximately 45,300 students were enrolled in Advanced Placement or college-level courses through distance education in 2002-03; and a larger proportion of districts located in rural areas (46 percent) than in urban or suburban areas (23 and 28 percent, respectively) indicated that they had students enrolled in distance education courses. For more information, please go to http://www.nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005010.
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"Education and literacy are necessities in a world devoid of certainty but abundant with opportunity. Lives can be transformedlifted over time from poverty and chaos to dignity and independence. Education offers a ladder on which to climb and a foundation upon which to stand."
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (2/28/05)
Upcoming Events
Today, at 3:00 p.m. ET, the Technology in Education Programs Office is hosting, online, a technical assistance workshop to give potential applicants an overview of the focus and priorities of the Fiscal Year 2005 Ready to Learn, Ready to Teach, and Star Schools competitions. There will be a live Q&A session. For more information, please go to http://www.kidzonline.org/tepwebcast/.
NCES is sponsoring seven advanced studies seminars to demonstrate the richness of NCES databases and provide hands-on instruction on how to use the data properly and effectively. For more information, please go to http://nces.ed.gov/conferences/.
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A version of this blog was published on Thanh Nien Newspaper on February 1, 2013
|A painting by Ha Huyen Thuong, a lower-secondary student in Thai Nguyen, says "Corruption is an illegal behavior."
It's that time of year again. The time when a great Vietnamese Tet tradition of celebration gets subverted by firms seeking favorable treatment by public officials. In a new World Bank and Government Inspectorate survey on corruption* released in late 2012, the majority of firms said that they had presented gifts to public officials on the occasion of public holidays or festivals in the previous year: 44% of firms said they gave such gifts to the tax agency, and 20-30% gave to their sectoral regulators, banking and the local police.
Giving gifts to friends and family is a Tet tradition and a sign of personal respect between Vietnamese people. But why would firms give gifts to public officials?
Skeptics may argue that these holiday gifts are different from bribes, since they are clearly voluntary. It turns out that most bona fide bribes are also given voluntarily, albeit sometimes grudgingly. The survey, which covered 1,058 firms in ten provinces, shows this: 44% of firms had given gifts or money in their latest interaction with different state bodies, and the usual suspects led the list: taxation, sectoral administrative agencies, banking, traffic police, customs, and others. And for each of these agencies, more than 75% of those who paid said that it was initiated by the enterprise itself.
That does not mean that the officials who receive such gifts and payments are off the hook. Firms and citizens alike complain that officials make difficulties for them, and they feel they must pay. But the payments are given all too readily. More than half of firms say that when they encounter problems from state agencies, they give gifts or money to the officials in charge; 63% of firms say that informal payments "create unspoken mechanisms to get things done quickly." And indeed, from a short-sighted perspective the bribes may seem effective.
But firms take note: those firms that were quicker to bribe have not been doing better; they are actually growing more slowly than firms that don't pay bribes. Paying an extortionist only encourages more extortion, and making unofficial payments only feeds—"fertilizes" might be a better word!— the culture in which bribes are expected.
Seeking alternatives to bribery is a better business strategy: know the procedures and follow them without seeking shortcuts; know your legal rights and demand them; work collectively to push for transparency and administrative simplification. The surveys show that such policies work: Provinces with the most attention to openness and transparency (according to officials) had 40% less bribery (according to firms); provinces with the most attention to administrative reforms had 35% less bribery.
Working collectively is easier said than done, but some firms are up to the challenge. In 2007, the Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) and Intel signed an MOU agreeing to do business "ethically and within the bounds of applicable law, to act against corruption, bribes, kickbacks and any forms of abuse of power for personal interests …". The SHTP, with support from the Vietnam Anticorruption Initiative 2011 (VACI), has gone on to broaden the ethics base by inviting firms to sign a voluntary pledge to behave ethically, and by now twelve firms, half the number of occupants of the park, have signed such MOUs.
The regulation of gifts faces two problems. The law is not completely clear on which ones are illegal, and the provisions that do exist are not enforced. How big is too big? The laws provide rules for gifts that public officials or public agencies can give, but not for gifts that can be received by public officials. The absence of legal provisions governing behavior within the private sector exacerbates the problem.
According to media reports, these gifts can be substantial. One newspaper article about Tet gift-giving went so far as to say that companies give apartments, plots of land or "long-legged women" to bosses of agencies that help those companies.
Clarifying and enforcing the rules on gifts would pay off. The survey shows that bribes by firms were 50% less prevalent in places that more seriously implement other rules, such as those on entitlements, norms and standards. If the rules on gifts are similarly clarified and enforced, the ambiguity on which corruption feeds will be removed.
It is far too easy to point to shortcomings in the legal framework and make excuses for waiting. Just as the vicious circle of bribery is fed on both the demand and the supply side, the solutions can be found in both public sector reform and private sector behavior.
Tet is a time for celebration, not for corruption. Let the year of the snake be the year when the snake sheds its old, corrupt, skin to reveal a new skin of integrity.
* Corruption from the Perspective of Citizens, Firms, and Public Officials—Results of Sociological Surveys was released on November 20, 2012 by the Government Inspectorate and the World Bank and undertaken with support from UK-AID, and UNDP.
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Tell them Jim! Learn the lesson of America where corruption is non-existent and where everything works, perfectly. Show them we legalize corruption with former government officials becoming highly paid lobbyists, to write loopholes into laws. We apologize when involved with long-legged females, resign for a while and get back into the business of the people again.
Thanks for the comment. Every discussion of corruption must acknowledge that corruption is a global phenomenon, albeit one where the main challenges in one country may differ from those in another. As you sarcastically note, the US (and every country) faces its own challenges. But just because all have a disease, of different forms or at different stages, that doesn't mean that none should address the disease.
I think it is easier said than done especially when bribery is so rooted in people's daily life. Ordinary people have an ingrained belief that gifts buy them the quickness and results that they want. So many business, even foreign ones, would have to adapt to this notion in order for them to have success, even in the initial stage. How can you push for public sector reform and changes in private sector behavior without changing the fundamental belief first?


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We're enjoying jumping into April, and with it comes some fresh creative inspiration. This edition has 6 Attention-Grabbing Direct Mail Designs for those who thought that direct mail was dead A wonderful interview with Jon Sueda -- not to be missed, and revisiting the "selfie" and Ellen's now famous Oscar selfie!
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6 Attention-Grabbing Direct Mail Designs
In his book The Direct Mail Solution, direct marketing expert and entrepreneur Craig Simpson provides easy-to-follow solutions for creating direct mail campaigns that work! In this edited excerpt, the author reveals the nine things you should be looking for when choosing a printer for your direct mail campaign.
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All Possible Futures: An Interview with Jon Sueda
Curated by Bay Area designer and educator Jon Sueda, All Possible Futures features 37 projects from renowned designers Ed Fella, Experimental Jetset, Daniel Eatock, Martin Venezky, and many more.
The idea for the exhibition originated from Sueda's interest in showcasing the value of design projects that failed for any number of reasons, including being rejected by clients. The result is an exhibition of speculative design pieces that celebrate the questioning of boundaries regarding concepts, processes, technologies, and form.
Full story : By Christine Todorovich / Design Mind
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Raw Apple & Banana Sauce Recipe
I used to be an applesauce fanatic. During college I constantly bought those little cups of pre-portioned apple sauce servings. It seemed like a frugal option at the time. (And hey, I always reused the cups, so I figured that justified the purchase! :-)
But especially in the last year I've become very wary of extra ingredients (either for flavor, color retention, or longer shelf life) that are added to storebought canned & jarred goods. I was reminded of this when I stopped by the grocery store today to pick up a few things for my husband who has a bad bout of the stomach flu. I looked at the jar of unsweetened applesauce and I noticed while it didn't contain added sugar, it did contain erythorbic acid, a type of ascorbic acid or in layman's terms: manufactured Vitamin C. A food additive used to preserve color in canned goods.
Vitamin C is a really good thing. Especially when you are trying to build immune health! But to get Vitamin C in the form of an extremely processed food additive isn't the best way. I worry about how this additive was manufactured. What it was made from? Where did it come from? Will it be metabolized the same way that natural Vitamin C is in our body. I don't know.
I looked at the jar of applesauce and decided I could do better than that. How hard would it be to go home and throw a regular apple in the blender and make a raw applesauce without any super processed additives? It wasn't hard at all.
From now on when I need applesauce I won't be buying it in a jar. This was so easy to prepare and so delicious!
So often we choose what we think is the faster way to make food. The easier way. The way that's most convenient. Yet, so often it can be just as easy & convenient to make at home.
If you've never made a raw applesauce (which you could also just consider an apple smoothie!) I really suggest you give it a try. I love that you don't waste any of the apple. Simply remove the seeds & core and toss in the rest, skin and all! (Note: If you have a Vitamix - you lucky duck- just toss in the whole fruit!)
Voila... instant, raw, healthy, delicious, vegan, naturally sweet & gluten free applesauce!
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An "unrecipe" by: Carrie Forbes @ Gingerlemongirl.com
Free of gluten, dairy, soy, eggs, sugar, and a ton of other completely unnecessary things!
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3 large apples, any variety, preferably organic, cored & cut in large pieces
1 banana
1 pear, cored and cut into large pieces
1/2 cup water (may not be needed if you own a Vitamix)
1-2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
In your high-powered blender (or your Vitamix and I'm seriously jealous if you have one) add cut up apples, the banana, and the cup up pear pieces. With regular high powered blender: add water & blend with fruit. Blend on highest speed until smooth and the consistency of applesauce. Pour apple & banana sauce into a jar and stir in lemon juice. (The lemon juice will help to retain the light color of the sauce.)
Serve applesauce chilled with cinnamon sprinkled on top!
**In a Vitamix you MAY be able to leave out the additional water needed to help blend the sauce. In my high-end (but not a Vitamix) blender, I needed the water to help break up the fruit and blend into a smooth consistency.
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Ooh, I am absolutely going to be making this in the very near future! I'm planning a refined sugar fast starting in June, and lots of fruits are on my dietary agenda as a result ;-)ReplyDelete
Also, I just added this to my compilation page of recipes, if you don't mind. I'm new to the blogging world, and this is helping me keep track of all the tasty-looking concoctions I come across!
Sounds perfect! I actually have some overripe bananas and kinda ignored apples right now. Gonna make this! How long will it last in the fridge, do you think? A few days? Maybe I'll freeze some.ReplyDelete
I've never thought to put banana in it! This is the perfect baby food, too, you know. C. LOVES applesauce!ReplyDelete
abby - I SO meant to put in a sentence or two saying that mom's everywhere have been making this forever! :-) lololol! I'm glad you pointed it out!! I love apples & bananas together!ReplyDelete
Tasty Eats - Yes! Definitely freeze it for longterm storage. I've had mine in the fridge for about 4 days and it is still very fresh, but I will probably freeze whatever I don't use today!ReplyDelete
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Students can study anywhere they find an Internet connection. Photo: Microsoft Image.
The science classroom is changing! The students are the same. The instructor is the same. The course of study is the same. BUT, the learning is different! Welcome to Bio 141 and Anatomy & Physiology 142 via the Internet and the Virtual Highway.
The scenario described is happening. I presently teach 130+ gifted and talented high school seniors who are located in 39 different high schools, 15 school systems across 4000 square miles in Southwest Virginia. Actually, my students could be taking the class at home, in a hotel, while on a school trip or anywhere, they can find an Internet connection. I really do not know where they are, and they do not always know where I am.
What is a virtual school?
"Virtual Schooling can be seen as part of a larger phenomenon, eLearning—a concept that is increasingly used in the K-12 environment to describe not only distance teaching and learning, but also the general use of educational and information technology in support of teaching and learning."1 Virtual schools, with their mix of traditional content and technology, are attracting students. A Peak Group report of 2002 "anticipated annual student enrollment of over 1,000,000 by the 2004-2005 school year [in America]."2 According to a 2007 report from the North American Council for Online Learning, enrollment in K-12 online courses increased by 50% in some U.S. states, with 42 states offering either supplemental online learning courses, full-time online learning programs, or both.3
Virtual schools are not home schools (although home schoolers can and do participate); they are distance education schools run by the public school system, following state curriculum requirements and achievement standards. Instruction is web-based and given by certified teachers. Students complete assignments at home on their computer. In the U.S., some states offer a complete curriculum, while other states offer select distance classes in a variety of subjects.
A survey of 33 virtual schools in 2001 found that "access to an expanded curriculum was one of the most frequently stated objectives of virtual school programs."4 The survey also showed that virtual learning provides equitable access to high quality education to students who may have difficulty in a traditional school setting, such as students who are:
- from high-need schools, both urban and rural;
- lower achievers;
- from minority groups;
- from low-income families; and
- special needs students.
Why did we start a virtual school?
In the mid-nineties parents and educators in Southwest Virginia realized that the needs of gifted and talented high school juniors and seniors could not always be met at their local schools. Several factors contributed to the problem. The number one obstacle was the geography of the mountainous terrain, which made it impossible for these students to come to one physical location. This has also impacted the total number of students in the local high schools and prevented the students, who were capable of accelerated work, from taking classes with their peers. Along came the Internet, and the virtual school concept became the solution.
A. Linwood Holton Governor's School became a reality in the fall of 1998, and the school admitted its first student body. It is the first virtual school in Virginia and most likely the very first interactive one in the United States. We are currently celebrating our 10th anniversary, and our school is impacting the lives of our students very positively.
What are the challenges of a virtual classroom?
Teaching in the virtual classroom has had its challenges. The software had to have applications that accommodate audio, as well as video components. The technology required many financial adjustments for the school districts. The classroom sessions almost had to be choreographed. We were the first instructors teaching this way so every day during our first year we used the "trial and error" method. We had no one else's experience to draw from. But, we did succeed.
A typical day for my Anatomy & Physiology classes begins at 7:20 AM EST. This period allows students to take the class without interfering with their schedules in the individual high schools. Some of these students take the class from home. I am often greeted with "Mrs. Smith, my Mom just brought me pancakes." I assume they are eaten while I am lecturing. I have heard that some of the parents are quite amazed at the amount of anatomy they are learning from the lectures as they watch the students who are at home.
My first and last classes last 50 minutes, and they are completed in 2 semesters. I also have 90-minute classes that complete the course in one semester. All students receive 8 hours of college credit through the community college system in Virginia. The state pays for this opportunity. Many Holton Governor's School students enter college as sophomores.
In the virtual classroom, I communicate with my students verbally as well as with text chat. They can talk to the class, too. We can have group discussions that will allow several to speak and do presentations. I lecture using PowerPoint slides. With the synchronous web browser, I am able to take the class to any website that enhances the lecture. This also allows the class to quickly research new medical advances that are discovered. As a result, they are able to make this new information their own.
A power board, which is a virtual chalkboard, is helpful with the physiology portion of the course. I can give the floor to the students, and they can take the class to a website that they feel explains the topic we are studying. In other words, the technology keeps the students engaged during the entire class. I need to mention that our classes are archived so that students can watch the class later for reviewing purposes, or in case they had to miss class.
Software makes anatomy visualization possible, such as Argosy's Visible Body. Source: Software screenshot, Argosy Medical Animation.
Often, I am asked how laboratory activities are accomplished, which did present some problems at first. It was necessary to develop lab activities that could be done at home with proteins, different enzyme sources, detergents, milk, jell-o, contact lens cleaners, and even chickens. It is amazing what students can learn from a whole chicken. Several interactive lab activities can be done on the Internet. We use one that shows students how to isolate DNA. My students have five CD-ROMs that have video clips of physiological processes, diseases, case studies, and dissections. Especially helpful is the CD-ROM of the human body, which allows the students to study the body systems by dissections.
Each semester, I take my students to one of the medical schools in Virginia so they can apply what they have learned in class to real life. We have visited Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, where my students learn what it is like to be a medical student; they witness an autopsy; and they spend much time working on cadavers in the gross anatomy laboratories. This is the highlight of the course for my students—they get to be together and see each other too.
The big question I am asked is how teaching this course online compares with teaching it in the regular classroom and laboratory. The content of this subject requires students to be disciplined in their studies. My students have found that the addition of synchronous and asynchronous technologies makes the classroom even more enticing. This technology allows them to talk to people miles away by using a program on their computers. Here are some of their comments.
"Technology helps me learn new information faster and easier."
"Virtual labs are convenient and allow me to take my time."
"Technology allows feedback to be personal and speedy—a real positive."
"I can make new information become mine with technology."
"The opportunity to be in a virtual class that is really interactive while I am in high school will be very beneficial when I have regular online classes in college."
Is virtual schooling the next wave for education?
"Distance education finally brings democracy to education. It gives the student in East L.A. or Brentwood, or Martha's Vineyard, or Harlem, or Pakistan an equal opportunity to content curriculum and to people with many perspectives. …Students who learn with each other will learn from each other. Until now, the single biggest factor influencing the quality of education was where you live. …For the 21st Century it is not going to be where you live, but how you are connected."5
If you are considering implementing virtual schools or courses, Clark and Berge provide information that may help you in your planning (see "learnmore links" below). These two educators identified eight aspects of virtual high school organization:6
- funding;
- technology;
- curriculum;
- teaching;
- student services;
- assessment;
- policy and administration; and
- marketing and public relations.
My experience with "Virtual Reality" has been very positive. It is especially successful in the science classroom. There are no boundaries with the Internet. Learning becomes easy for all types of learning abilities. This is the future of education.
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Hundreds of Christian visitors were in Jerusalem Sunday to celebrate Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week.
"It's the holiest place in the world for Christians and it's important for me to come here at least once in my lifetime," Etienne Chevremont, a Parisian who attended mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, told The Associated Press.
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The hills of Araluen were alive with the sound of Steve Earle's Copperhead Road yesterday as Peter Crossing gave the pub jukebox one last solid workout before he and his wonderful wife Deborah set off from Canberra to Adelaide. The Crossings moved here 14 years ago, initially planning to stay for just a few years before returning to South Australia. Things turned out rather differently, and in the time the Crossings were in Canberra they made many new friends, people who will cherish memories of this charming, champion couple for the rest of their lives. Peter taught chemistry at Radford College, continued his fervent love affair with cricket, presented jazz and blues from "Down in the Basement" on ArtSound with an undeniable passion, wrote brilliantly pithy letters to the Canberra Times and became an committed contributor to the work of the Australian Society for Sports History. Beyond her own day job, Deb was a dedicated Les Mills disciple as a Body Balance instructor and took on a leading role with the Australian Republican Movement. They both deeply enriched and enhanced the lives of Canberrans.
Perhaps one of the nicest things about the Crossings was the way in which they took an active and quite genuine interest in the interests of others. In my case, I was touched that when they travelled anywhere - whether it be to Vietnam, the United States or just visits back to Adelaide - they took the time and trouble to find old typewriters and photograph them for me. These notably included Ngo Ba Thanh's battered Voss portable at the Hanoi Women's Museum and the Sholes & Glidden at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.
The very least I could do, as a way of saying thanks, was to present both the Crossings with 60th birthday typewriters, painted in "club" colours and suitably decorated. In Peter's case, the paper plate had the lyrics of Copperhead Road, Peter's favourite song. But the crowning glory was their determination that I should celebrate my 2014 QWERTY Award among friends at the Crossing home in Curtin. I was unable to get to Morgantown, West Virginia, where the actual presentation took place at Herman Price's Chestnut Ridge Typewriter Museum, but the Crossings ensured the achievement was properly recognised the next best way. They put on a night to be remembered.
I first met Peter soon after he arrived here. Back then my "One Hits Wonders" series was still running in the Panorama section of the Canberra Times and some Saturdays I included a quiz (with CDs as prizes). One poser I thought my legion of readers would find especially difficult to answer was: "Which single artist won a record six consecutive Record of the Year Granny Awards as a session musician for such diverse songs and acts as A Taste of Honey (Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, 1966), Strangers in the Night (Frank Sinatra, 1967), Up, Up and Away and Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The 5th Dimension, 1968 and 1970) and Mrs Robinson and Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel, 1969 and 1971)?" To my utter astonishment, I received a correct answer (Hal Blaine) within hours of the newspaper being published – from one Peter Crossing. "I have to get to know this guy," I said to myself. And I did get to know him. Much to my lasting delight and benefit. Positive feedback and encouragement provide the lifeblood for columnists, and over the ensuing years Peter and Deborah selflessly supplied those things in spades.
House sold, furniture moved, and many memorable farewells held, the Crossings left Canberra today. They will be very sorely missed.


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ALDS: Did umps make the correct call on Victor Martinez home run?
DETROIT â€" Major League Baseball will have expanded instant replay next season, which is good because the more calls that can be confirmed as correct, the better. The problem is that sometimes correct does not mean right, which is a lesson that Josh Reddick and the Oakland A's learned in their 8-6 loss to the Detroit Tigers in Game 4 of the American League division series on Tuesday.
The A's were nine outs away from wrapping up the series when Victor Martinez hit reliever Sean Doolittle's second pitch over the right field wall for a game-tying home run. The Tigers took the lead later in the inning, then scored three more runs in the eighth before Joaquin Benoit allowed things to get interesting in the ninth.
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Martinez's home run was the turning point, and it held up after video review.
"It changed the momentum for them, it changed the momentum for us, and they seemed to feed off that and built (on) it," Reddick said.
It was Reddick's leaping effort to catch the ball, and the fan leaning over the railing in right field who denied that attempt, that caused the review to take place. The ground rules in Detroit made the play tricky to judge.
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On Derek Jeter's infamous home run in the 1996 ALCS, a review would have been easy because Jeffrey Maier was reaching over the wall and interfered with Tony Tarasco's opportunity to make a catch. At Comerica Park, there is a railing above the wall that Thursday's fan was leaning over, but the fan was not over the wall. Where Tarasco's glove was under the height of the wall, Reddick elevated over the wall. And if a ball at Comerica Park strikes the top of the wall, above the yellow line, and goes over, it's a home run. Likewise, if a ball hits above the padding on the wall â€" the railing â€" it's a home run.
TIGERS FAN: "I was getting that ball no matter what"
The ball was clearly over the yellow line, so Tigers manager Jim Leyland was right when he said, "I was actually pretty relaxed because I saw the first replay they showed and I knew it was definitely a home run."
Leyland being right does not mean that Reddick was wrong in his assessment of the play: "I had no doubt that I was going to be able to catch that ball. Looking at the replay after the game, it was heading right for my glove. ... 100 percent. If fans aren't even close to the ballpark and where they can affect the ball in play, it completely changes the game, and it did."
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As Oakland manager Bob Melvin summed it up, "It looked like and Reddick's reaction was that he thought he could have potentially caught it. The explanation was it was over the yellow line and it wasn't fan interference even though I guess a fan touched it."
The replay system got the call correct, but Reddick still is right to feel wronged by the outcome. Baseball is the only sport where things like this happen. Football fields are ringed by copious amounts of open space between the field and the stands. Hockey has glass around the rink. Maybe a fan could interfere with an NBA game, but you'll never see Jack Nicholson trip LeBron James as he goes down the court for a layup.
"All you can look at it as is home-field advantage," Reddick said. "And it's absolutely frustrating a fan can change the outcome of a game."
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The problem in baseball stems from the fact that the ball is the most cherished souvenir there is, and it's free to anyone who grabs it. You can be a good fan, and know the rules on interference, but when that ball you've been hoping to catch for a lifetime is headed your way, instinct kicks in. It helped the Tigers on Thursday, but it would have played out the same way had it been Reddick hitting the ball. Just ask Steve Bartman, if you can find him after a decade of being a pariah in Chicago for costing the Cubs an out in Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS and receiving the blame for the Marlins going on to win both that game and, somehow, Game 7.
The best solution to this problem may actually come from Wrigley Field, although not the section where Bartman was sitting on that fateful night. Fans at Cubs games cannot interfere with potential home runs because the ivy-covered walls are topped with baskets that extend out at an angle, preventing fan-outfielder interactions aside from the occasional beer dumped on a head. Aesthetically, those baskets might not work in every ballpark, but it's a better solution than the plexiglass outfield walls that used to be at the Metrodome, and it's much better than having playoff games turn on plays that instant replay can get correct, but not right.


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'Homeland' producer Henry Bromell dies at 66
Bromell shared an Emmy and Golden Globe for his work on 'Homeland.'
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A representative for Henry Bromell, an executive producer for the TV series Homeland, says Bromell has died.
Bromell's longtime agent and friend, Peter Benedek, said Bromell died Monday at a Los Angeles area hospital. The cause of death may have been a heart attack, Benedek said Tuesday.
Last year, Bromell shared in Emmy and Golden Globe best-drama awards for Showtime's Homeland. In 1992, he won a Humanitas Prize for the TV drama I'll Fly Away.
The 66-year-old Bromell was "an immensely talented and prolific" writer and producer, Showtime said in a statement. His other TV credits included Northern Exposure, Chicago Hope, Rubicon and Brotherhood.
He is survived by his wife, Sarah, and sons William and Jake, according to his agent.
Funeral plans weren't immediately announced.
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. GRIDLOCK EASES ON CAPITOL HILL: A budget deal is reached that would avert about $63 billion in automatic spending cuts. It's expected to be approved by both houses.
2. WHAT THE VOLCKER RULE AIMS TO PREVENT: Designed to defuse the kind of extreme risk-taking on Wall Street that helped trigger the 2008 financial crisis, it would affect how big banks do business.
3. UKRAINE POLICE STAND DOWN AFTER PROTEST GROWS: Anti-government protesters claim victory after a showdown in which authorities scuffled with demonstrators in the capital.
4. NEXT STEPS IN MANDELA FAREWELL: The casket of the anti-apartheid icon, draped in the multi-colored South African flag, arrives at the seat of power in the country's capital for public viewing.
5. AMERICANS HOLD CONGRESS, OBAMA IN LOW REGARD: A new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of people would like to see their House member replaced, and 58 percent disapprove of the president's performance.
6. WHY OBAMA GREETING CASTRO MATTERS: Two presidents shaking hands usually isn't noteworthy, but when they are from nations that have been mired in Cold War antagonism for more than five decades, people pay attention.
7. URUGUAY'S CONGRESS OK'S GOVERNMENT-RUN MARIJUANA MARKET: The plan now awaits the signature of the country's president, who says he's convinced the global drug war is a failure.
8. SCIENTISTS PLAN TRICKY RENDEZVOUS WITH COMET: The European Space Agency is planning to land an unmanned spacecraft on a comet next year in an unprecedented mission.
9. FAMILY DISPUTES POLICE CLAIMS IN SHOOTING DEATH: The parents of a San Antonio university student shot and killed by a campus officer say the official account is inconsistent with their son's character.
10. WHO WON'T BE SKATING AT SOCHI: America's Evan Lysacek, the reigning Olympic figure skating champ, announces that a hip injury will keep him from competing.


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The Texas Legislature is paying tribute to the late Edmund Kuempel, a beloved state lawmaker.
Kuempel died from a heart attack two days after winning re-election to a 14th term in the Texas House.
Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, the second longest-serving House member, told colleagues: "I knew him not as a Republican – just as a great Texan and a great American – all of whom loved him."
The jovial Kuempel was known as a gentleman and statesman who built bridges between people and always looked for the bright side. He also kissed his female colleagues – daily.
But one morning, he forgot.
"We all lined up at his desk," Thompson recalled. "We told him, 'Edmund, we're angry with you this morning.'"
Kuempel fell on his knees and asked why he had angered them. When they complained about the missing kisses, Kuempel cheerfully responded: "I can remedy that."
Kuempel suffered a massive heart attack late in the 2009 session but recovered and survived another 17 months.
His son, John Kuempel, won a special election in December and now represents his father's Seguin-based district.


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I find it lamentable that so many people disagree with the conclusion arrived by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical letter Humanae Vitae without reading it and seriously engaging the points that he raises, especially in light of the fact that the predictions he made about the societal effects of making the means of birth control cheap and widely available are true, which causes many (including myself) to revere Humanae Vitae as truly prophetic. By prophetic I do mean accurately predicting the future like some kind of divine fortune-teller, but prophetically giving witness, like Jeremiah, to the natural and inevitable consequences of certain courses of action, thus requiring the prophet to tell people things they do not want to hear, often provoking virulent and even violent responses. In writing about the consequences that would naturally follow making methods of contraception cheap and widely available, Paul VI wrote that such a change
could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards. Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law. Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection (underlining emphasis mine)
On this basis alone dismissing the conclusions arrived at with no consideration for the solid foundation on which the Church's teaching in this regard is based strikes me as truly operating on the basis of preconceptions that either arise from or give rise to an ideology. Pope John Paul II courageously called the ideology to which this perfunctory and absolute rejection is part "the culture of death." It is certainly the culture of self first, the rejection of the kind of self-emptying love that constitutes the very heart of the one vocation to follow Christ, which is what makes marriage a truly Christian vocation. It always bears noting that what JPII proposed as the remedy to the pervasive "culture of death" was not a the "culture of life," but the "culture of love," which implies life and much more. Indeed, for Pope Paul VI to go along with the spirit of the age in this regard would've been an abject dereliction of his duty not only to preserve the depositum fidei, or even to transmit it, but to apply the Gospel, which, given the fallen-ness of the world in which we live, is always deeply and profoundly counter-cultural, to the issues of the day.
Nonetheless, the fact that Humanae Vitae is a very progressive statement about the positive nature of conjugal love gets lost in the political and ideological clamor that any mention of it inevitably enjoins because, as truth tends to do, it convicts consciences. After all, the letter begins with these very pastoral words:
The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator. It has always been a source of great joy to them, even though it sometimes entails many difficulties and hardships.Section 12 of Humanae Vitae is particularly relevant to what I want to convey:
The fulfillment of this duty has always posed problems to the conscience of married people, but the recent course of human society and the concomitant changes have provoked new questions. The Church cannot ignore these questions, for they concern matters intimately connected with the life and happiness of human beings
This particular doctrine, often expounded by the magisterium of the Church, is based on the inseparable connection, established by God, which man on his own initiative may not break, between the unitive significance and the procreative significance which are both inherent to the marriage act.
The reason is that the fundamental nature of the marriage act, while uniting husband and wife in the closest intimacy, also renders them capable of generating new life—and this as a result of laws written into the actual nature of man and of woman. And if each of these essential qualities, the unitive and the procreative, is preserved, the use of marriage fully retains its sense of true mutual love and its ordination to the supreme responsibility of parenthood to which man is called. We believe that our contemporaries are particularly capable of seeing that this teaching is in harmony with human reason
One thing that often goes missing, even among those who support the Church's teaching and endeavor to live by it, is that the various methods of Natural Family Planning (NFP) (which no longer includes the so-called rythym method and has not for decades) are not just natural means of contraception. When we teach it in this way the inevitable and understandable response is, "What's the difference between using, say, a barrier method (a diaphragm and condom, being sterilized) and a so-called natural method?" Well, if we are merely proposing NFP as an acceptable method of contraception, it is a distinction without a moral difference. Of course, not only are Christian couples not required to have every child they can possibly have, but that they have a moral responsibility to limit the number of children they bring into the world to the number they can materially support and spiritually and emotionally nurture. It is exactly in charting this course that the Church gives us sound moral guidance, which also leaves room for the wild unpredictability that real loves requires.
Living the Gospel in any aspect is always a matter of the heart, it always encompasses our intentionality, thus making it important not just to do what is right and good, but to do good with the intention of doing good, as a response in freedom. This means recognizing and embracing the inherent sacrifice this normally entails. The self-emptying sacrifices to which marriage calls us are no less and, in fact, are often greater than those that arise from priestly or religious vocations. In this realm the sacrifice takes two forms: parenting and seeking to master our sexual desires by working to develop the virtue of chastity and working towards to real intimacy in marriage, which is more spiritual than physical; enjoying having sex together doesn't seem to pose too great a problem for most couples, but praying together daily certainly seems to present issues. It seems that prayer, not sex, is the final frontier of intimacy!
It is easy to miss what Jesus teaches about marriage in the nineteenth chapter of the Gospel According to St. Matthew because He is also discussing celibacy and continence, becoming a "eunuch" for the kingdom of heaven. After His teaching on the impermissibility of divorce, Jesus' disciples say, "If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry." To which the Lord responds, talking directly about marriage, not celibacy and the continence to which it gives rise- "Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given" (verses 3-12- ESV). Of course, marriage as a vocation arises from Christ's teaching. It is a vocation because it is a sacrament. Not all vocations are sacraments, but all sacraments draw us more deeply into the divine life of God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, enabling us to heed to the one vocation to follow Christ.


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Kind of interesting Espn's Scott Burnside who has not written much of anything on the Isles for a while aside from a few quick blurbs praising Mr Wang's off-ice efforts and not the club's record beyond a blurb on the lack of scoring not being enough long term decided to unload on the Toronto Maple Leafs today here with twenty one losses but not the New York Rangers here even though they have twenty losses?
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Seems like a bit of a double-standard here by Mr Burnside and some subjective reporting.
The Ranger ownership has had more problems than the Leafs ownership off ice and spent ninety million dollars on two centers so Brandon Dubinsky can be a first line center for a large part of the first half of the season? John Ferguson has not gotten much fair treatment in Toronto from the media but how come Mr Burnside is not ripping into the Rangers management who are in last place at this time and Jagr's effort instead of half of an article where Jagr and Tom Renney tell their story with no criticism Mr Burnside reserved only for the Leafs?
Also fair to write going into the season Ranger expectations were higher than Leaf expectations or that's what Scott Burnside told us in his NHL preview where he picked them first in the East and first in the Atlantic back on September 29th here.
Every time the Islanders struggle on the ice or make a hockey move that's open to criticism Mr Burnside is among the first to rip the organization. I did not see the Islander players criticized in the past quoted in Mr Burnside's work as Jagr and Tom Renney were allowed here.
Why are these circumstances different?
A tale of two Scott Burnside's
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Kate Hudson With Baby Bingham in Toronto
Kate Hudson Jets Out of Toronto With Bingham in Her Arms
Kate Hudson carried her son Bingham through the airport in Toronto today. They caught a flight out of Canada after spending the weekend at TIFF. Kate made multiple glamorous appearances to support her film The Reluctant Fundamentalist. She chose a white Alexander McQueen gown for the premiere, which she attended with fiancé Matthew Bellamy by her side, and later changed into a sexy black Emilio Pucci number for a photocall with her costars. Kate's stint up north follows her visit to the Venice Film Festival late last month, though she did have time to hang with family in London in between her work obligations.
Kate will soon be in the spotlight for her small-screen work since her guest starring role on Glee debuts this Thursday. Kate sings Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez in the first episode — get ready with a look at all the pictures from Glee's season four premiere!


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