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Today's guest post comes to us from one of my favorite bloggers. Mason Slater is an MA student at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, a freelance writer, and a publishing consultant. I had the pleasure of meeting Mason and his lovely wife Melinda when I was in Grand Rapids for the Festival of Faith and Writing. I love how this guy thinks! He's smart, thoughtful, humble, and wise.
Mason blogs at MasonSlater.com, where he writes about the latest news in theology, Christian living, and publishing. I've been following for several years now, and am always interested in the conversation there. Mason recently moved his blog, so be sure to re-subscribe!
The Bible and Books About Dinosaurs
by Mason Slater
After years of research, and quite a bit of agonizing, I'm finally able to offer this small pronouncement.
I no longer believe that there is any inherent conflict between the Scriptures and the scientific account of human origins, by which of course I mean evolution.
Admittedly, that someone you've probably never met is able to affirm a scientific theory which most of the Western world takes for granted may not seem like that big of a deal.
But it is for me, and I imagine my story is not all that unlike many of yours.
I grew up in a conservative evangelical home. As best I can remember my parents never made a point to bring up Creationism or Evolution, but they didn't have to – the subculture did it for them.
Over time a young boy who loved dinosaurs and fossils began to sense those things were dirty, that the books he was reading were looked on with suspicion. At first I wasn't sure why, but soon I learned that these books taught things about the world that disagreed with the Bible.
Because I loved the Bible more than my books about dinosaurs, it wasn't long before those books found themselves gathering dust on my bookshelf.
That evolutionary science and Christian faith were incompatible seemed as apparent as that every autumn would lead to another cold Michigan winter. With that assumption firmly implanted, my young self was one day faced with a crisis. While talking with my mom she made some passing mention that my father believed in evolution.
I was shocked, terrified even.
Terrified because I thought this meant dad might not be saved. So, after arriving home from a long day at work, my father was confronted by his twelve-year-old son who proceeded to try and convince him how important it was that he believed what the Bible said about God making the world.
I'm sure I was not a terribly convincing young theologian at that point, but I'm also sure dad could see what it meant to me, so he agreed with me and the issue was never raised again.
Though it wasn't long before I made my peace with Evolution not being an issue of salvation, these crisis moments ensured that I would wrestle for many years with the ways my faith seemed to clash with science.
By the time I graduated from high school I had read many Creationist books and had the debates time after time, and was no doubt obnoxiously sure of myself.
Then college hit, and the more widely I read the less sure I became of my easy answers.
A Biblical Studies major as an undergrad, I expected to find theologians offering a thorough repudiation of godless Darwinism, what I found was quite the opposite. There were of course theologians who were outspoken Creationists, but plenty of theologians who I had come to deeply respect saw absolutely no contradiction between biblical faithfulness and the science of evolution.
This was exciting, freeing even, but also deeply frustrating.
See, I still cared more for the Bible than my books about dinosaurs. And, try as I might, I just couldn't see how to make the two compatible without doing violence to the Scriptures I valued so highly.
As I continued to research I could see more and more massive holes in the Young Earth Creationism I had grown up on, but with no better option I became essentially agnostic. I knew I was no long a traditional Creationist, but I couldn't really bring myself to throw in with any other position either.
Enter John Walton.
Last winter I read Walton's The Lost World of Genesis One and it changed everything. Or, rather, I knew that it could. I also knew I wanted to believe what he was saying, so I was a bit suspicious of my motives for embracing his argument. It made perfect sense, but did I just think that because of all sorts of subconscious motivations?
So I took some time to ponder it, and this summer I re-read The Lost World of Genesis One and had the chance to hear Walton speak about his argument in the book. This led to this post, and a follow up.
Walton's suggestion? In the ancient world the idea of creation was not about material but function. So that, in all the ancient creation myths, the thing that is created is order, things are named and given roles and a place in the world. How the "stuff" that things are made of came into existence was simply not a concern to the ancients.
If that's true, and Walton makes a very good case for it, here is the way it cashes out: Genesis 1 is about functional origins not material, the original audience would have understood it as being about how order was created out of chaos, not how matter came from non-matter.
So the Bible takes no particular side in the debates we have about Evolution or the age of the earth, that Story is about something else entirely.
And suddenly I don't have to choose between the Bible and those books about dinosaurs.
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Media shrug at Boston blunders
The inaccurate report by CNN and other news organizations about an arrest in the Boston bombing case was arguably one of the most flagrant errors on a story of major national consequence in years.
When the news organizations later corrected their mistakes, there seemed to be something missing — any big shows of contrition, or even a sense of the magnitude of the error.
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It fell to Twitter and the merciless mockery of Jon Stewart, who devoted much of "The Daily Show" to skewering CNN's John King, to call out the media for their failures.
( WATCH: John Stewart slams CNN on Boston reporting)
In an earlier era, many news veterans told POLITICO, a wrong report on a story the whole world was watching would have produced major repercussions — groveling apologies from reporters and editors, journalism seminars on the dangers of letting rumor outpace fact, and maybe even a few firings at the outlets involved.
In a new media era, many journalists — and perhaps many in the audience as well — seem to accept that information on a big story is fluid and fragmentary, and are ready to move on without pausing long for either apology or explanation, other than to blame their sources.
"Clearly there was confusion or some misinformation," King told viewers. During more than 25 years at The Associated Press and CNN, King fashioned a reputation as one of his generation's most dogged reporters.
( Also on POLITICO: FBI releases photos of 2 'suspects')
As of Thursday afternoon, Fox News, CNN, the AP and The Boston Globe had still not apologized for incorrect reporting more than 24 hours earlier. The AP said Wednesday that a suspect was in custody. King and then Fox said an arrest had been made. The Globe tweeted that a suspect was being taken to the courthouse.
"It may be less momentous when you make a mistake because there's so much news coming and it's so fast that the next report just overtakes the last one," said David Westin, president of ABC News from 1997 to 2010. "It used to be you would go on the air and make a formal retraction."
( PHOTOS: Boston Marathon bombing and aftermath)
These days, an error brings ridicule and scorn — but little clamoring for disciplinary action or public pressure for internal reviews. Many in the industry believe the next news bulletin simply replaces the error.
"The sands cover over the footprints very, very quickly," said Westin.
"There was a time when, rightly or wrongly, we thought we had a handful of news sources that were authoritative," he added. "It puts a huge responsibility on the shoulders of the consumer of news to sort through and figure out what is true."
And in an age of vanishing media mea culpas, it fell to Stewart to enforce standards.

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Just a couple of decades ago, a field covered the area in Pudong that now boasts a wealth of luxury hotels, banks and high-end shopping centres. Bund Boulevard, winding along the banks of the Huangpu River, is an excellent place to admire the neon-lit night-time skyline of Shanghai. The buildings along the boulevard date back to the British colonial era in the 1800s.
Bund Boulevard also features the highest quality restaurants of Shanghai; a city known for its excellent cuisine. You should also keep in mind the tea rooms and golden temples of the city. In fact, be sure to attend the China Shanghai International Tea Expo if you're visiting in May.
When the weather is good, Jinshan City Beach is the place to go to play beach sports, while traditional Chinese style can be admired at the Yuyuan Garden. Shanghai's shopping is among the best in the world, so be sure to bring along an extra suitcase!
If you're planning a family trip to Shanghai, you'll find plenty of great things for people of all ages. Here are some ideas when you fly to Shanghai with children.
Shanghai Disneyland – A family favourite, you can enjoy various rides and attractions, snap photos with Disney characters and marvel at the parade and firework show.
Shanghai Ocean Aquarium – Boasting the world's longest underwater tunnel, this huge aquarium is home to many fascinating aquatic species from all over the planet.
3D Magic Fun House – Immerse yourself in art and get lots of great photos of your family in fun 3D scenes.
Hangzhou - A city in China that can be reached by bullet train. This historical province is mostly a farming community and has many natural attractions, including the World Heritage-listed West Lake.
Shanghai World Financial Center - This tower has the highest observation deck in the world. A glass elevator takes you to the top of the 100-floor structure and provides panoramic views of the city.
South Bund Soft Spinning Material Market - Some of the best tailors in the city have shopfronts here and will tailor-make garments in less than 24 hours.
Riverside Promenade - A riverside walkway along The Bund with views of the city's skyline and architecture.
The Bund City Sculptures - Examples of classical, Gothic, Roman and Baroque-European architecture alongside the futuristic cityscape.
Suzhou - A major city in China that can be reached in a few hours. The city is built on canal lines and has lots of green outdoor spaces, temples and historical attractions.
Zhouzhuang - A quaint rural town in Jiangsu province. Zhouzhuang has an intricate canal system that runs through every part of the town.
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Seafood - Fresh seafood is a staple of the Chinese diet. You'll find dishes such as steamed or buttered crab and smoked fish slices on most restaurant menus.
Poultry - Chicken and duck are the most popular meat choices. Chicken is slow cooked until the meat is tender enough to fall off the bone and is usually served in a sweet, sticky sauce. Duck is pan-fried or roasted on an open flame to make a crispy skin and then served in slices alongside rice, or shredded and served with pancakes.
Steamed buns - These snacks are made of dough that is stuffed with either a vegetarian filling or a pork or poultry filling. The bun is steamed in a bamboo steamer until very tender. The buns are either served alone or in a soup or broth. There are hundreds of varieties to try and these can often be picked up at markets or street vendors for an easy snack.
Desserts - Shanghai residents have more of a sweet tooth than those from the rest of China, so there are many more dessert options on menus. Options can range from fruit platters to sweetened, sticky rice or a sweet stuffed pastry.
Tea - Most restaurants will serve black tea free of charge when you sit down to meals. Tea is a cultural highlight of visiting China and you can get the best cup of tea when you attend an authentic tea ceremony.
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Bus - The system of buses in Shanghai is very extensive and includes nearly 1000 bus routes through the city. Lines 1-200 serve downtown Shanghai and are often best suited to travellers. Additional routes numbered 201-299 are used during rush hour to avoid overcrowding on buses. Special night lines numbered 301-399 offer transport around the city in the evenings and late into the night.
Metro - There are 15 metro lines in and around Shanghai, so often this is the most convenient way to travel within the city. There are stops at or in close proximity to every attraction and commercial area of Shanghai. Peak times are between 07:00-09:30 and 16:30-19:30. If you are travelling on the metro during these times, expect it to be very cramped and crowded and be prepared to push through the sea of people to get off at your stop.
Train – The Shanghai maglev train is a fast train that serves the airport. The journey takes just 8 minutes. The bullet train is a high-speed vehicle that operates from Shanghai to other provinces in China.
Ferry - Shuttle boats and ferries operate between Pudong New Area and the Puxi region.
The best time to visit Shanghai is generally said to be autumn, when temperatures are pleasant and the weather is moderate and fairly dry. Spring is also a popular time, with nice weather and widespread celebrations for Chinese New Year. Reserve your accommodation and plane tickets to Shanghai well ahead of time if you plan to experience the vibrant New Year festivities.
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We operate direct flights to Shanghai from Helsinki, with a flight time of a little under 09h. UK to Shanghai flights with Finnair take around 12h, including the short transit time through Helsinki. Stopover times vary on all routes, but you'll find plenty to keep you occupied while you wait and, conveniently, all transit services are in the same terminal building at Helsinki Airport. We have flights to Shanghai from many destinations worldwide, including Zurich, Warsaw, Munich and Stockholm, as well as from domestic airports in Finland such as Vaasa and Oulu.
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Cott, a history professor at Harvard, is director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard. The library is home to the papers of the late, great Julia Child, who would be 100 years old tomorrow. For her centenary, the library is sponsoring a symposium Sept. 21, free and open to the public. The day-long forum will focus on three "sites" that she inhabited.
Q. Tell me something people don't know about Julia Child.
A. Her address was 103 Irving St. in Cambridge, very near Savenor's, where she shopped. This is something I just learned: at some point, she signed her signature phrase, "Bon Appetit," in the (wet cement) sidewalk outside Savenor's, with her initials. In reconstructing Kirkland Street, they have put red markings around that piece of the sidewalk so it will be preserved as a historical marker.
Q. Why is the symposium divided into three parts?
A. It made sense to me for us to feature certain elements of her life, her times, her places rather than focusing directly on the food itself. She really is a figure in American social history, not only a recipe designer. She's kind of a force.
Q. Talk about those three sites.
A. The first is France, obviously. That's a focus on the period of time after World War II when she married Paul Child. It's about what France was then and how she learned what she learned. Cambridge seemed an obvious thing. She was here for a long time and has many friends who remember her. It's a larger look at what it meant to have her in this community.
Q. And her television life is the third angle?
A. Her impact on television is important. She made it such an important genre. We'll have her former producer here and he's going to talk about how food had been shown on TV before Julia. He's going to show some clips of earlier TV personalities, of whom there were not many and none of whom are known today.
Q. What will people learn about the essential Julia?
A. I hope they will get a much more holistic sense of her as a personality, what her grit was, what her aims were. My sense of her is that she had tremendous persistence and determination to pursue what she thought she was good at or should be good at. It took real fortitude on her part to become the kind of cook she became. She had to face a lot of male French resistance when she first trained, and her book took at least 12 years to write.
Q. Did you ever use a recipe from her iconic cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking?" Many of those recipes are pretty intimidating.
A. Yes, I did. I like her boeuf bourguignon and I loved her recipe for onion soup, but I got tired of spending 30 to 40 minutes stirring onions.
Q. Why do you think Julia had such lasting appeal?
A. Many people think — and this makes sense to me — that she made cooking fun . . . and I think that affected and infected many people, that spirit. They saw they could regard cooking in a really creative way and have fun even if they made mistakes. There's that infamous scene of her dropping a whole fish on the floor.
Q. When her influence was strongest, in the '70s and '80s, what was her message about food?
A. There are two angles to how she complicated cooking for most Americans. On the one hand, she really changed Americans' taste and what they looked for in good food. She educated American palates in very positive ways. On the other hand, there are people who argue that her complications of cooking moved in a direction against feminism.
Q. How so?
A. Because they tended to require that women, if they were the cooks in the family, stay in the kitchen a lot longer. I think that's far too simple. What she spawned has brought many more men into the kitchen, too.
Q. Will the symposium offer any of her dishes?
A. At the close, the reception will offer food not by Julia, but in the spirit of Julia.
Forum is open to public but preregistration is required at www.radcliffe.harvard.edu.
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This fact sheet provides basic information about how federal employment discrimination law applies to religious dress and grooming practices. A full-length question-and-answer guide is available at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/qa_religious_garb_grooming.cfm.
In most instances, employers covered by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 must make exceptions to their usual rules or preferences to permit applicants and employees to follow religious dress and grooming practices. Examples of religious dress and grooming practices may include: wearing religious clothing or articles (e.g., a Christian cross, a Muslim hijab (headscarf), a Sikh turban, a Sikh kirpan (symbolic miniature sword)); observing a religious prohibition against wearing certain garments (e.g., a Muslim, Pentecostal Christian, or Orthodox Jewish woman's practice of wearing modest clothing, and of not wearing pants or short skirts); or adhering to shaving or hair length observances (e.g., Sikh uncut hair and beard, Rastafarian dreadlocks, or Jewish peyes (sidelocks)).
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More than 150,000 people may hear more about ASHA's Listen to Your Buds campaign at this week's 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. This marks ASHA's fifth consecutive year as a CES exhibitor, and the ASHA Public Relations team couldn't be more excited to spread the word about listening safely and preventing noise-induced hearing loss.
The Listen to Your Buds exhibit will be in the heart of the CES Digital Health Summit. And new this year, ASHA joins the show's MommyTech Summit to connect with influencers, mommy bloggers, key children's health and technology media and more. We'll convey how Listen to Your Buds can help parents help young people use personal audio technology safely. As you probably well know, the parent blogosphere is more powerful than ever and growing fast. This is an increasingly important audience for our Listen to Your Buds campaign and outreach efforts.
The time has never been riper for a safe listening message. Spend a day with a toddler, elementary school student, tween or teen – or just walk around the mall, stand in line at Starbucks or stroll down the street – and you can't help but see how kids are more connected to personal audio devices than ever before. Headphones have become a fashion item. The latest color iPod is in the hands of a six-year-old. Teens are at the gym listening to music. And this past holiday season, personal audio technology items were among the hottest gifts around. Now, in the wake of technology gift-giving and increased daily technology time, parents should monitor their child's usage and volume levels and model safe listening behaviors – and the tips at www.listentoyourbuds.org can help.
We know even minimal hearing loss can affect children's social interaction, communication skills, behavior, emotional development, and academic performance. Some parents are now realizing this, too. Eighty-four percent of parents are concerned that misuse of personal audio technology damages the hearing of children, according to the results of an online poll commissioned by ASHA last May. Parents also show overwhelming support for hearing screenings for tweens and teens—71% for 10- to 11-year-olds and 67% for 16- to 17-year-olds—according to a University of Michigan Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health released just last month.
ASHA's exhibit booth in the Living in Digital Times area has information about hearing loss prevention, warning signs of hearing damage, and how to find a local ASHA-certified audiologist using ASHA's ProSearch. ASHA member and Las Vegas audiologist Dr. Daniel Fesler, CCC-A and Buds Coalition Musician Oran Etkin will be on hand to talk with attendees.
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), who puts on the CES each year, is among the Buds' dozen dedicated sponsors; we joined forces in 2007. Recently, CEA President and CEO Gary Shapiro highlighted just how important the Buds message is. "As a longtime supporter of the Listen To Your Buds youth campaign, CEA represents companies that create audio technologies for listeners of all ages," says Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of CEA. "We promote products, like noise-canceling and sound-isolating headphones, that help minimize outside sounds, and volume-controlled headphones that give control to parents of young children. New innovations are still to come that will help us practice and teach safe listening so that we can all listen for a lifetime.'"
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I'm curious if the term localization in ring theory comes from algebraic geometry or not. The connection between localization and "looking locally about a point" seems like it should be the source for the notion of localization. It seems plausible, but it seems like we would have had to wait until Zariski defined the Zariski topology for the connection to become apparent. That seems hard to believe given the amount of work done in commutative algebra before 20th century, especially given the importance of localization in commutative algebra.
Then this raises the question: Where and when was the term 'localization' first used to describe the adjunction of inverses, and does it originate from algebraic geometry or from somewhere else? Was the notion of localization used regularly with a different name before it was given this name?


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I was recently thinking about the 10th birthday of WordPress. That got me thinking about presents 🙂
What do you give a WordPress fan for their birthday?
Seems I am not the only user that has this thought from time to time because the interwebs are loaded with gifts for fans of WordPress
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Picking up where I left off on my post The Beginning...
I started my job at a children's hospital as an RN. I loved it, even though those first few months were extremely challenging and every day I walked into work feeling like I knew nothing. Meanwhile, Haiti and its people, especially its children, continued to rest on my heart.
In October of that fall I received an email from my trip leader to Haiti saying that she'd been extremely burdened for the boys we'd visited and she'd been visiting them frequently when she visited the Haitian girl she and her husband were adopting. During one of these trips she learned that these boys were being abused and neglected by the man who had supposedly been caring for them. She, along with another couple, named the Manasseros (who'd met the boys on their own mission trip right after ours), flew down to Haiti to help the boys. When they arrived at their "home" they found all the boys walking down the street with what little they owned, starving and exhausted. The man abusing them had been thrown in jail, but that left the boys on the streets because the rent for their home had been left unpaid. They put all the boys in a truck, fed them, and drove around all night looking for a place that would take them. Eventually they found an abandoned church where they moved the boys and over the next few months found a couple of godly Haitian men to care for them. Meanwhile, these two couples were back in the states, raising support to move their families to Haiti to oversee the care of the boys and start a ministry called Child Hope International (with Maison de Lumiere being the home for the boys). My trip leader, Summer, wanted to know if I'd like to travel back to Haiti with her and her sister during the upcoming summer. I was thrilled and quickly agreed to go.
So, it was with much joy that I met up with Summer and her sister Kyle in Miami, along with Rhonda, a hilarious woman from my first trip (Rhonda and I continue to meet up in Haiti almost every year, usually unplanned), and a group from Rhonda's church. We dropped our luggage at the same hotel from the year before and drove over to the new boys' home. We were welcomed by a group of excited boys, twelve in number. The remainder of the boys who'd been living with the American man were older and had moved out, returning to the streets or to programs for older kids. That week we played board games, introduced the boys to play-doh, learned to dance (Haitian-style), peeked in on them as they attended school for the first time, worshipped together, and played a very confusing game of Sardines (most of the boys didn't understand the rules). Summer, Kyle, a new friend named Meleesa, and I decided to spend one night at the boys' home. One of us tried to enter the bathroom but was stopped short by an enormous cockroach blocking our way to it. This was before cockroaches became my roommates, bathroom-mates, and kitchen-mates years later and I learned to be-gudgringly co-exist with them. No bathroom usage was going to occur with that thing in our way. Hours (yes, we were very girly girly) of laughter and attempts to coerce each other into killing it ensued. Eventually one of the other woman killed it by throwing a sandal at it. But we left it in the hallway as no one had the nerve to actually move it- because it surely would rise from the dead. I was so creeped out by the thought of things crawling on me at night, that I slept with pants on and my sandals on my feet. Yes, I am ridiculous.
The next day we drove to the beach with the boys and the team. Swimmers the boys were not. Outside the water, they were tough and independent. Inside the water they became little boys, needing love and safety. Summer and I decided to stay in Haiti an extra few days, while her sister and the team left on their scheduled date. We took our stuff over to the boys home and camped out with the cockroaches.
For the next few days Summer and I traveled around Port au Prince with some of the boys, looking for their family members. We wanted to reunite these kids with their parents and families (some had not seen them in years) and needed permission from their parents to keep them in the boys' home. It was a beautiful but sobering time, watching the kids see their parents and siblings and neighbors after years of being apart. As far as I could understand, we found each family just by word of mouth. The boys had some idea of where they had grown up so we headed out in those areas, walked around a bit, then eventually a neighbor, relative, or childhood friend recognized them. Each time when they were recognized, people gathered around and began announcing their presence. By the time we arrived in front of their parents, crowds of people had gathered. Summer explained to each parent where their child had been, where they were now living and what MdL was doing for them. She asked each child if they would like to stay with their parents, but all shared that they wanted to stay at MdL. Each parent agreed that they would like their child to be raised at MdL. We gave them information about how to contact their children if they wanted to see them and then traipsed our way down through the hills, led through the rocks and the mud by the boys. At one point I remember sitting in a truck and the words, "I want to move here," came flying out of my mouth. I meant them, but the thought seemed so crazy and not like me, that I considered trying to grab the words and putting them back in my mouth. A few days later we bid a tearful goodbye to the boys, wondering when we'd be able to return.
Again, I left Haiti wondering what my role in the future there would be. I could be a nurse there. But me, really? The girl who hates dirt, creepy-crawling creatures, and being hot?


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TORONTO — That was Gregg Zaun's message to Boston's Eric Hinske, who was teammates with Toronto's catcher on the Blue Jays from 2004-2006. Last Tuesday, Hinske fouled off a pitch that broke Zaun's right hand during a game on the road against the Red Sox. Zaun made sure to call Hinske after the fluke incident.
"I knew he was really concerned," Zaun said on Monday. "My wife and his wife were text-messaging back and forth and I knew he felt bad. Eric and I are very close still and I felt bad for him, because I knew he'd feel bad about it. I just let him know that it's part of my position and these things happen."
Zaun had his right thumb broken during the first inning of that game — a 10-3 win over Boston. Toronto's catcher remained in the game for the rest of the first and even had an at-bat in the second inning, when he grounded out to short. During that trip to the plate, Zaun could only grip the bat with four fingers because he had lost all strength with his right thumb.
"I just pretty much didn't want to admit that it was pretty bad," Zaun said. "But I knew something was fairly wrong when I took pushed on my thumb on the spot and it made crunching noises. I knew that that wasn't real good.
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Zaun tried to take his place behind the plate during the second inning, but after catching one warm-up pitch from Roy Halladay, the catcher wasn't able to throw the ball back to the mound. It sailed over Halladay's head and Zaun removed himself from the game.
On Wednesday, Zaun visited a hand specialist in Baltimore (Dr. Thomas Graham) and then underwent surgery to repair his hand on Thursday. He had two screws inserted into his thumb during the operation. On Tuesday, he's scheduled to have his cast removed, and he'll begin wearing a removable splint.
"There was a small glimmer of hope that it wasn't going to require surgery," Zaun said. "But when they started talking about the fracture being displaced, and if they let it heal that way it could cause problems down the line with arthritis and sheering off the cartilage in the joint and things like that, it was an easy decision."
Zaun is hoping to return to the Blue Jays six weeks post-surgery, which would be around the second week in June. He figures that it'll take a month for him to return to baseball activities and then another two weeks or so to get back to full strength. Toronto manager John Gibbons said Zaun is a hard worker and might be able to return that quickly, but the team will make sure he's good and ready before activating him from the DL. That could mean six weeks is a very optimistic proposition.
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With Chacin on the 15 day DL, does Towers get 1 or 2 more start chances? Does Janssen get moved to the rotation only to go back to the pen once Chacin is back? Does Vermilyea get called back to fill the hole in the pen? Or do they bring up McGowan or Taubenheim for a few starts?
Gibbons said tonight that it would be someone from Triple-A, but he wouldn't say who. I think it's fair to speculate that it will be McGowan, but that's not for certain. Gibbons said it wouldn't be someone from the bullpen, which rules out Towers or Janssen.
If last year is anything to go by, it will depend a lot on who has had enough rest to make Thursday's start. In this case, since Thursday is McGowan's regular day to start in Syracuse, I'm betting on him. In the meantime, I wouldn't be surprised to see Vermilea or someone else show up in the bullpen to fill the empty spot until Thursday.


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AUSTIN, Texas -- University of Texas officials were planning a pay raise for women's track coach Beverly Kearney before she was abruptly suspended.
According to documents released by the school Friday, women's athletic director Chris Plonsky wrote president Bill Powers on Sept. 24 requesting the raise and calling Kearney a key mentor and leader.
A month later, school officials ordered the contract removed from the agenda for an upcoming regents meeting. Plonsky suspended Kearney with pay on Nov. 11 to investigate issues within the program that the school has not disclosed. Kearney has not responded to attempts to contact her at her home for comment.
The documents in Kearney's personnel file were released to The Associated Press under a public records request. The file includes several glowing job reviews signed by Plonsky.
Kearney has been at Texas 21 years and has won six national titles. Her current contract includes a base salary of about $270,000 plus incentives for winning championships, as well as bonuses for endorsements and her work conducting the school's annual minority athlete symposium.
The contract changes school officials were considering would have paid her $397,000 in 2012-2013, plus a $25,000 longevity bonus. Kearney's compensation would be up to $475,000 in minimum salary plus bonuses by 2017.
"This is a significant package and will place Beverly among the top three compensated track coaches in the nation," Plonsky wrote to Powers, noting that Kearney's teams rank among the best on campus in graduation rates. "I believe Beverly should be among the highest paid Olympic sports coaches in the nation."
Emails between University of Texas officials show the contract was supposed to be placed on the consent agenda for the regents' November meeting. But on Oct. 16, Patti Ohlendorf, Texas vice president for legal affairs, told Powers' staff to "pull it back. We may need to make some changes."
By Oct. 22, an email from Powers' staff to Ohlendorf said Plonsky had said in a telephone call there was still "some research to do" before submitting the contract.
None of the emails detail what changes or research had to be done or indicate a specific problem with Kearney or her track program.
Texas announced Kearney's suspension on Nov. 12, disclosing no details of what officials are investigating.
Although Kearney has been employed at Texas since 1993, the personnel file released by the school included only 29 pages and no performance reviews prior to the 2006-2007 academic year.
In Kearney's 2010-2011 evaluation, the most recent available, Plonsky gave Kearney a near-perfect review, rating Kearney "Outstanding" and called her "a gift to UT."
The personnel file included a 2000 letter reprimanding Kearney for making improper phone calls to a recruit, an NCAA violation.
Texas also released 36 pages of correspondence between the school and the NCAA about the women's track program. It included a self-imposed penalty for a secondary NCAA violation over text messages sent from an assistant coach to a recruit in the fall of 2011.
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Jensen, Nelson named to MVC Scholar-Athlete teams
Junior Sarah Nelson and senior Ally Jensen were named to the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete teams for women's basketball on Tuesday, March 12. The Scholar-Athlete teams are voted on by the league's sports information directors.
Nelson was selected to the MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team for the second consecutive year, while A. Jensen earned Second Team honors.
Nelson, who also was selected to the Scholar-Athlete First Team last season, majors in pre-health sciences and finance. She currently sports a 3.7 GPA and equally excels on the court, scoring 12.1 points per game and leading the Jays with 7.9 rebounds per contest. The forward is adept at finding her teammates as well, collecting 104 assists. She is the top rated post player in assist-to-turnover rating in the NCAA at 1.86, overall Nelson ranks 46th in the country.
A. Jensen, who carries a 3.65 GPA in nursing, is second on the team with 65 three-pointers this season and ranks fifth in Creighton histoty with 213 treys in her career. The senior guard is fourth on the team in points per game at 7.9 and is third in rebounding at 4.1 per game.
The No. 2 seeded Bluejays (23-6) are preparing for their MVC Tournament quarterfinal game on Friday, March 15 at 6:05 pm against the winner of the first round game between No. 10 Southern Illinois (4-25) and No. 7 Evansville (9-20). That game will be played on Thursday at 7:05 p.m.
The criteria for the scholar-athlete team balloting parallels the CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) standards for Academic All-America voting. Nominees must be starters or important reserves, have played at least 75 percent of a team's games, and must carry at least a 3.20 GPA (on a 4.0 scale).
Student-athletes must also have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at their institution (true and redshirt freshmen are not eligible) and must have completed at least one full academic year at the institution.
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This would be where I walked off, quickly calling to those of my friends who hadn't yet seen the con that we were late and had to get moving. One of our group was actually sorry or dumb or whatever enough to give him money and in return got a little book that reads like a cult recruitment book. Probably because it was.
So this guy is there all day, on the centerpiece of the United States' culture and history giving people little books saying things like "The Key to Life is a Consant High," "We should all have intercourse all the time" and "Meditation is the Key." Not only is he recruiting for a cult, he's getting money before they join like a begger for his cause.
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AMERICA REVEALED episodes include (all working titles):
· "The Great American Breadbasket"--How America keeps pace with its insatiable appetite; who decides what food is produced; and how pastures and prairies turned into the biggest food machine in the world.
· "The American Dynamo"--How America propels itself through energy, including the extraction of valuable ore and oil; the creation of electricity through water, wind and nuclear power; and the intricacies of energy distribution.
· "America in Motion"--How America moves, whether the transportation mode is a bicycle on a neighborhood sidewalk, a family car on the mammoth interstate highway system or air traffic moving above the clouds.
· "Made in America"--How American industry creates, whether it's a simple cardboard box, a sleek new car, a jumbo jet or a tiny silicon chip, and how supply and demand, manufacturing and assembly are interconnected.
AMERICA REVEALED is a multiplatform series with extensive web, mobile and educational content. Before, during and after the broadcast, PBS viewers will be able to view and personalize extensive material from the series as well as contribute their own original content. For teachers and students, a wealth of research, graphics, videos and archives will be made available to align with the classroom curriculum.
AMERICA REVEALED is a production of Lion Television. The executive producers are Nick Catliff and Tony Tackaberry. The executive in charge of production is Ruth Johnston.
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With offices in London, New York and Glasgow, Lion Television is one of the most successful independent production companies in the U.S. and UK. They have produced programming for PBS, MTV, Fox, History, E!, Bravo/NBC, TLC, Discovery Channel, Discovery Health, Animal Planet, Style, History Channel, Planet Green, MSNBC, CBS, A&E, HBO, VH1, Court TV and National Geographic, among others.
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|March 11, 2012 05:16 AM EDT
It isn't very often - no, wait, it is completely unique, having never happened before - that I write to each and every one of my LinkedIn contacts simultaneously. But as the proverb goes, "circumstances alter cases."
The "circumstance" that causes me to risk Web-wide ire at my misuse and abuse of Reid Hoffman's gallantly unspoiled business tool is the arrival of the 365th day of survival since being operated on for pancreatic cancer. One entire year! Never has a year taken so long, never have 365 days seemed more like 1,365. But a year it is, and given the givens it deserves to be marked in some way. This is my way.
Worry not, I am not going to hit you up for money. (Even though the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network could most certainly always use it.) I am not even going to hit you up for emotion.
Nope. Far worse than that, I am going to hit you up - briefly - for attention. Because, to be brutally blunt, it isn't at all clear what kind of timeline anyone lives on once pancreatic cancer rears its ugly head; and so my resolution today is to make hay while I can - or, as the Hindus apparently put it, to turn the mill while there is still sugarcane.
The chances are that you will know someone who has been diagnosed with cancer, perhaps even with pancreatic cancer. If so then, like my wife and children the day I was diagnosed in a hospital in faraway Sarajevo (pictured below), you probably headed straight to Google...and were startled by what you found.
Koševo Hospital, the university hospital of Sarajevo in Bosnia
Few diseases, I suspect, return search results quite as gloomy as pancreatic cancer. A typical one is as follows:
Pancreatic cancer has a dismal survival rate...
or this
overall survival is dismal - 20 percent after one year and only 4 percent after five years
I mean, I am no statistician, and neither were any of my four kids, but these "survival rate" stats read, back then, less like a glimpse of hope and more like a death sentence.
But then when the heck did anyone ever rely on statistics, right? Besides, what matters is how early the tumor is found (earlier = smaller = better), whether it is deemed to be operable, and how well the surgery goes. There don't seem to be any stats for those lucky enough to have undergone a Whipple operation - the life-saving, if radical, surgical procedure that, 365 days ago today, was how I spent my morning.
I have already written briefly about the experience of being both diagnosed with the deadliest of all the cancers and spared/saved from it all within the space of three weeks. I had a stab, too, at trying to sum up what it is like, after the Whipple, to be prescribed follow-up chemotherapy for seven long months. None of these posts was very well written, but the intent was just to share an experience, in case might help provide some kind of insight either to those who had worse luck than mine, perhaps even to those who fared better in similar circumstances...and most especially to the rest of you who have been lucky enough not to one day, just three months after completing your third New York Marathon, be told completely out of the blue that you've got the deadliest of all the cancers. Remember to say a brief 'thank you' tonight in your prayers!
Here's how it went down 365 days ago in Copenhagen University Hospital (Rigshospitalet), which is where I had the Whipple procedure - in which, as one fellow pancreatic survivor recently put it, "Everything around the pancreas that can be removed, cut, whacked, chopped, is."
Rigshospitalet, the university hospital of Copenhagen in Denmark
Reassured by the fact that around thirty of these operations are performed each year by this same team of surgeons, I remember one year ago today smiling first at my wife, who was right there beside me as they prepped me for the op, then at the anesthetist whose job it was to put me under...and saying a private little prayer in my head, before oblivion took over.
There's something curiously daunting about going to sleep in full possession of your innards, but with the certain prospect of waking up with your inventory of bodily organs severely depleted.
The lion's share of my pancreas, all of my gall bladder, a goodly portion of my stomach, and an assortment of small-intestine-removal later...I did indeed wake up. And what a relief it was to find that 1. I was alive and kicking and 2. that I was in no kind of pain - just "downsized" internally. In fact I was now significantly less complicated under the hood!
Departments of Surgical Gastroenterology are probably not famous for being fun places to hang out, but if you have to for one reason or another - including this Whipple operation, which is one of the most complicated they do - I can certainly recommend the incredible team at Copenhagen's Rigshospital.
Recovery from a Whipple is an especially brutal process because the basic trick is to do it just as fast as humanly possible, getting back onto one's feet almost immediately, even if only to stand up. Other tricks include repeatedly saturating one's system with oxygen via special breathing exercises that have been shown to speed up the post-operative healing process...even though the last thing you instinctively want to do, when your midriff has been more or less sliced into two, is to breathe deeply. (Trust me on this!)
365 Days Ago Today - midriff complete with mid-rift!
Whipple patients typically lose 10% of their body weight in the pre- and post-operative period. It has taken an entire year to put even half of that back on! You might think that it every teenage schoolgirl's dream, but I am no teenage schoolgirl and I can tell you, nothing is stranger than finding that none of the things you ate before are going to help you put weight back on...and that instead you have to become a fat-chaser, a scavenger on the lookout for calories wherever you can find them.
I failed miserably, for at least the first three months. Putting butter on my bread, ignoring most vegetables as having insufficient protein for the amount of room they took up in my tummy, these sorts of changes seem simple - but they are not! I adore, sorry past tense, I adored, salads. But lettuce leaves and spinach leaves and suchlike are a thing of the past, once the part of the pancreas that produces enzymes is tossed into the surgical waste-bin. Because there's nothing to help digest them...which means basically that they get stuck, and it is excruciatingly painful as well as deeply frustrating.
The pancreas is of course where your insulin is manufactured too. The after-effects of Whipple surgery differ according to how much or how little of the pancreas is left by the surgeons, but in my case all I can say is, though incredibly lucky to be left with at least a bit of it, the process of eating say an orange or a banana seems to have been undermined forever. (Guess what my two absolute favorite fruits were? I guess one should never take ANYTHING for granted. I wonder how many bananas and oranges I scoffed over the years without ever really giving it a thought; whereas now, those two tastes are almost foreign to me, I can hardly remember either of them.)
Worries over dietary changes and internal rearrangements were pushed firmly onto the back burner the day, on the very point of leaving hospital and being declared a resounding success from a surgical point of view, I was told that seven months of chemotherapy was going to be needed too. Belt and suspenders. Pancreatic cancer is like the worst kind of serial killer, and no one was intending for me to take any chances.
So I had survived the disease. Now all I needed was to survive the cure!
As I say, I already wrote about what it's like, after the Whipple, to be prescribed follow-up chemotherapy for seven long months. That was at the mid-way point. Since my 189 days of chemo ended, my overall health seems from the outside enviable - and probably is, at least to almost everyone but me, who feels it has been disappointingly slow, unexpectedly erratic, and very little different from during chemo itself. Energy levels remain fluctuating rather than steady, sleep patterns likewise, and concentration is a word that seems almost to have tumbled out of my dictionary for good.
The ugly question naturally reared itself: if the Whipple surgery went so well (and it did, the surgeons were 100% adamant about that), why wasn't I by now back to Marathon form, both professionally and personally? And the answer will come shortly...courtesy of the bloodwork and the scanning techniques that Rigshospital once again is bringing to bear on this onetime athlete's body of mine. Cross your fingers; certainly I am crossing mine on this anniversary of anniversaries. One thing is sure: it isn't for want of trying - I have been trying once more to use running as my health barometer, and really have tried again and again and again to get back my running Mojo - just as, professionally, I have sought to regain my Cloud Mojo.
But it appears that convalescence is not only a question of mind over matter. Sometimes one needs "a little help from one's friends" - including, in this case, from Copenhagen University Hospital's brilliant oncologists - who understand the nuances of X-ray computed tomography!
Once they've advised me how best to proceed from here, I shall let you know (more succinctly next time, I promise!) how the future trajectory is looking. Hopefully the current little setback will be put into context and the overall prognosis will turn out to be simply Cloudtastic ;-)
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How to activate your new Gmail account
Activating your new account
Your activation email has been sent to your OLD TU email account. Follow the link provided in that email to activate your new Gmail account.
IMPORTANT: You will receive a confirmation email stating Your Thomas University Google Email Account is ready.
After you receive the account confirmation email and complete the confirmation process, be sure to do the following:
- Use your NEW password to activate and log in to all your TU accounts, including Blackboard and Hawklink.
- Use this link to access your NEW TU Gmail account: http://mail.student.thomasu.edu (The TU email link on the home page goes to your old TU email account for now)
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Health savings accounts are used to save money for future medical expenses. Discover how these plans work.
This orginal article was written By Mayo Clinic Staff
Health savings accounts (HSAs) are like personal savings accounts, but the money in them is used to pay for health care expenses. You — not your employer or insurance company — own and control the money in your HSA.
The money you deposit into the account is not taxed. To be eligible to open an HSA, you must have a special type of health insurance called a high-deductible plan.
HSAs and high-deductible health plans were created as a way to help control health care costs.
The idea is that people will spend their health care dollars more wisely if they're using their own money.
Like any health care option, HSAs have advantages and disadvantages. As you weigh your options, think about your budget and what health care you're likely to need in the next year.
If you're generally healthy and want to save for future health care expenses, an HSA may be an attractive choice. Or if you're near retirement, an HSA may make sense because the money can be used to offset costs of medical care after retirement.
On the other hand, if you think you might need expensive medical care in the next year and would find it hard to meet a high deductible, an HSA might not be your best option.
Your employer may offer an HSA option or you can start an account on your own through a bank or other financial institution. To qualify, you must be under age 65 and carry a high-deductible health insurance plan.
If you have a spouse who uses your insurance as secondary coverage, he or she also must be enrolled in a high-deductible plan.
This high-deductible health plan must be your only health insurance — you can't be covered by any other health insurance.
However, having dental, vision, disability and long-term care insurance doesn't disqualify you from having an HSA.
As its name implies, it's a health insurance plan that has a high deductible — the amount of medical expenses you must pay each year before coverage kicks in. These types of plans are becoming increasingly common. Businesses are more likely to offer them as their only plan or one of the limited options they provide.
While the deductible is high with this type of plan, the premium (the regular fee you pay to obtain coverage) is typically lower than it is for traditional plans.
High-deductible plans don't start paying until after you've spent at least $1,300 (for an individual) or $2,600 (for a family) of your own money on health care expenses.
You can use your HSA to pay deductible expenses, as well as copays and some other health care expenses that are determined by the individual HSA.
Not all high-deductible plans work the same. For instance, plans may pay for preventive services, such as mammograms, before the deductible is met.
It's critical to carefully review the plan's coverage details, including the out-of-pocket maximum — the limit on how much you would have to pay out of pocket for medical expenses in a year.
The Internal Revenue Service sets the contribution limits for HSAs. In recent years, the limits have been about $3,300 for individuals and about $6,600 for family coverage.
Yes, your employer can contribute to your HSA. But the total of your employer's contribution plus your contribution still must be within the contribution limits.
Yes, but there are a couple of key differences. One difference is the amount of unspent money you're allowed to roll over each year.
An HSA allows you to roll over the entire unspent amount, whereas a flexible spending account (FSA) allows you to roll over a maximum of $500 per year.
Another difference is that the money you put into an HSA is yours and you can take it with you if you switch jobs or retire. You can't take money from an employer-sponsored FSA with you if you quit or change jobs. Finally, it's important to know that in most cases you can't have both an HSA and an FSA.
It can be challenging. Right now it's difficult to get reliable information regarding the cost and quality of treatment options, doctors and hospitals.
Your employer or health plan may offer some Web-based tools or a phone number to call for some basic information.
The hope is that as health savings accounts and other consumer-directed health care options become more widespread, access to information about cost and quality will expand.
Yes, but if you withdraw funds for nonmedical expenses before you turn 65, you have to pay taxes on the money and a 20 percent penalty. If you take money out after you turn 65, you don't have a penalty, but you must still pay taxes on the money.


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So I was looking for stats on how many atheists were once theists of some type or another (still haven;t found it-- so could use some help) and I found this page.
I thought it was interesting in the fact they try to keep Christians aware of logical fallacies..
I know how we feel about religion already, what I'm wondering are your views on this primer for converting atheists...
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All hail Joe Pesci!
I'm sure it can be purchased. I think the better question is how much would it cost.
I particularly saw some ray of hope in this part:
"Be knowledgeable about Christianity. If you are a Christian and you believe that the Bible is the direct word of God, then have you read most of it and the Gospels? If not, you may find the person you are trying to convert is better versed in the Bible than you. Remember that atheists live in a world that is mostly religious. They've had to defend their beliefs much more than a Christian who lives in a mostly Christian society."
Who knows, we might get some new atheist recruits!
"A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism."
-- Donald Morgan --
I have seen satire whiz past so many xians that I wonder if they understand English.
This article's advices seem intended to educate xians away from xianity; it's as subtle as any satire I've ever seen.
If you need a Second for that, pick me, pick me, pick meeee!
For Eucharist, could we feed each other doritos and smores?
First of all, the "wikiHow" article proceeds with the unstated assumption that we atheists are just misguided folk who need to see the truth. There seems to be no awareness that faith and truth are not synonymous.
Secondly, most of what is prescribed could just as well be a guide for atheists to convert theists; but of course, the authors don't realize that, because, since they "know" the truth already, they believe that the process they prescribe will lead logically to theism. In other words, they make the fallacious assumption that what they consider rational discourse will naturally convert an atheist. Yeah, right!
Thirdly, the article lacks consistency. On the one hand, it suggests that a close examination of logic and science will lead to the "truth;" on the other hand, it quotes the Bible to make an argument. If the Bible held the "truth," there would be no necessity to bring science or logic into it. And vice versa. The fact that they use both tactics, which are 100% incompatible, hints at desperation. The author says, "Realize that human theories are not evidence whether God exists or not." In point of fact, human scientific theories are powerful evidence that God does NOT exist. There is no scientific theory that points to even the possibility of God - NONE!
The author uses the word "ideal" to describe what he accepts as the perfection of the Earth. The Earth - PERFECT? Far from it. If it were perfect, 99.99% of all the species of life that ever existed would not be extinct. Species, as we speak would not be daily becoming extinct. And the few surviving species that exist today would not be struggling so pathetically to survive. The evidence strongly suggests, they won't. WE won't! Not my idea of "perfect."
At one point, the author says, "human brains work with faith, opinion and many other things than just intellectual/theoretical logic." What he is saying, of course, is that faith and opinion are of equal validity with science when judging what is true. Actually, science is a method of searching for truth. Faith and opinion are lazy ways of avoiding that search.
I have been confronted by just about every imaginable strategy to get me to accept the concept of God or gods, and none of them has made a dent. At the same time, although I've never consciously attempted to convert anyone to atheism, I still caused, through intellectual osmosis, I guess, three friends to seriously question the validity of their theism, simply though the process that this article lays out.
Bottom line: this approach is pretty much what I confront when J.W.'s come 'a callin'. And it is an utter failure as a strategy with me, as I'm sure it is with all true atheists.
I love it when christians try to convert me. I especially like it when they use the method prescribed in the article as they are at least intelligent enough to realise that frontal assaults will not work.
I, however, go on the offensive, without offence of course, and question their faith and beliefs a lot harder than they question my knowledge and understanding of the universe, using similar methods. The question I usually start with is 'Do you really believe the story of Adam and Eve? About talking snakes and a piece of fruit that we buy in the grocery store making us self aware? God makes Adam from clay then makes Eve from one of his ribs, what's that all about?' The answer is usually no, thankfully, and that's when I really go to town on why they believe any of it, pulling apart religious commands, miracles and inconsistencies until they either give up or begin to see the truth for what their bible really is.
A couple of years back a man was calling door to door after school time but before parents got home from work, talking to teenagers about religion. I had a few days off work to finish some decorating and answered the door. The man asked if my children were in, asking for them by name. He was in his forties and I immediately became suspicious. My daughter was 17, my son 16 at the time.
He explained he was spreading the word of god and so I invited him in to talk with all of us as I wanted to hear what he had been saying to my children. I will not go into the whole charade but my children were almost busting a gut trying not to laugh by the time the very flustered and red faced missionary almost ran from my house. I was very polite and discussed everything in a very calm and collected manner. I did raise an eyebrow at a few of the things he said and asked "You really believe that? Are you sure?" a few times.
He had called before and my son knew him, he sometimes gave sermons at his school. My son was 5' 10" and a brown belt at ju jitsu at the time so I was not overly worried they had let him talk to them previously, but they had not been able to get him off the doorstep the last time he had called. He obviously thought he had a chance and called to talk to them again...he never called back after that though. Still, it cheered up my afternoon and I went back to painting with a lighter heart.
Actually, I miss Betty and John, my two Jehovah's Witlesses, who stopped coming by, Betty was kinda cute, in a religious sort of way --
well if the Christians all start learning how to do brain surgery so they can safely remove the part of the human brain responsible for logic, rational thinking, curiosity and free/individual thinking, then they might have something going for them.
Brain surgery seems hardly needed, all the 'higher functions' can be compromised by just simple 'under use'.


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Can I buy a boat directly from you?
Can I buy parts or optional accessories from you for an older boat?
Can I get Mooring or Seat covers from Avalon for my older boat?
What trailer is best for my pontoon?
There are two types of trailers for pontoons. The first is a scissor type trailer that goes under the deck. This trailer is best when you want to pull the boat out, transport it short distances, and then put it on the ground. It is also best if you launch your boat at a very shallow ramp. The disadvantage is the fact that it has a narrow wheel base. This makes it more prone to tipping if too tight a turn is made. It also tends to exaggerate bumps in the road. This type of trailer cannot be used for triple pontoon models.
The second type is a float on trailer. This trailer is best for transporting the boat long distances. It spreads the weight of the boat along bunks that the pontoons rest on. It is easier to load and unload with this trailer. The disadvantage is that it sets the boat higher off the ground. This creates wind resistance during towing. It can also make launching from a shallow ramp more difficult.
The float on is the most widely used type.
Can I use my Tahoe pontoon boat in salt water?
Any boat exposed to saltwater can be affected by the salt. However, to minimize the effects of saltwater on our Pontoon, the following preparation and maintenance should be followed:
Preparation –
If you plan to use your boat in saltwater all portions of the boat that will be submerged must be painted with an approved aluminum anti-fouling paint. This service is provided by your dealer or by someone recommended by your dealer. There is an extra charge for this service.
In some cases you may need to have zinc anodes added to your boat to prevent electrolysis. Electrolysis is a deterioration of the metal caused by stray electrical current interacting with the saltwater. Ask your dealer whether he recommends zinc anodes. There is an extra charge for this service.
If you trailer your boat and use it in Saltwater anti-fouling paint on the bottom of the pontoons must be applied to be sure that the pontoons have a barrier between them and the bunks. If anti-fouling paint is not used corrosion can occur at the point the trailer bunk meets the pontoon. The application of antifouling paint is a service provided by your dealer or by someone recommended by your dealer. There is an extra charge for this service.
Maintenance –
After each use the entire boat must be washed down with freshwater to remove salt deposits. Allow the boat to dry before covering it with the mooring or seat covers.
Cover your boat WHEN DRY with seat covers or a mooring cover to keep salt and weather off of your boat. Since most salt water areas are very humid and hot it is imperative that the boat be dry before it is covered. If you cover it wet you WILL see mildew develop.
If you Trailer you MUST flush the saltwater from in between the bunks and the pontoons. This does not prevent corrosion of no anti fouling paint is applied.
A yearly inspection for corrosion or deterioration of the electrical connections is recommended. Avalon & Tahoe does NOT warrant saltwater corrosion.
Some dealers add additional saltwater resistant materials to our boats to make them even better suited for saltwater use. These specially equipped models may have a sticker called "Saltwater Series". However this does not make them Saltwater proof nor keep salt water from affecting them to some degree. Even these models must have all of the above described preparation and maintenance to minimize the affects of salt water.
Saltwater use should be confined primarily to bays and inlets. A pontoon is not made to be an ocean going craft and as such can only be used in the ocean if conditions are similar to an inland lake and only close to shore.


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The Outreach Committee is responsible for involving all the downtown's stakeholders, getting everyone working towards a common goals, and driving the volunteer-based Main Street program. The fundamental organizational structure consists of a governing board and standing committees. Volunteers are coordinated and supported by a paid program director as well. This structure not only divides the workload and clearly delineates responsibilities, but also builds consensus and cooperation among the various stakeholders.
MEETINGS: The Outreach Committee meets the second Monday of the month from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Howell Main Street DDA Office, 118 W. Clinton St. These meetings are open to the public.