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Members of Arizona's congressional delegation are seeking answers from the Department of Homeland Security on why Customs and Border Protection spent about $15 million for housing in the former mining town of Ajo, Ariz.
At a town hall meeting Tuesday in Tucson, in response to questions about the housing, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said, "It's disgraceful." Asked by a constituent how it could be justified, he replied, "It can't. It can't be; and people should be fired."
As The Arizona Republic reported Monday, CBP paid more than $600,000 each to build 21 modest homes for its personnel in Ajo, a small southern Arizona town where similar-size homes typically cost less than $100,000. CBP also paid more than $2 million to buy 20 park-model trailer homes and lease land on which to park them. The housing project opened in February.


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I was asked to submit evidence to the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee for its Inquiry into the effects of the Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011. Here is the paper I submitted which is now published on their website
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It is now a more or less open secret that the Coalition Government is engaged on Spending Review 2013 – a year earlier than if they had stuck to the SR 2010 "plan A".
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So, what is happening with Spending Review 2013 and is it going to happen at all? All sorts of rumours are flying about – in the absence of any clear statements from government.
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With most economists now forecasting that Britain will officially re-enter recession in Q1 2012, the Chancellor will be under immense pressure by the time of the Budget on 21st March to at least be seen to be doing 'something' about the economy.
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So, Britain is officially in a "double-dip" recession, just. In reality this is both more and less serious than it sounds. It is more serious because we are still a good 4% of GDP lower than we were at the start of the financial crisis in 2007. And that is probably between 10% or more below where we would have been if not for the banking crisis.
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text: UF Named Facilities Albert A. Murphree Hall Honoree Albert A. Murphree As the University of Florida's second president, Albert A. Murphree significantly contributed to the university's early development. Murphree came to UF from West Florida Seminary, which changed its name to Florida State College for Women and is known today as Florida State University. He graduated from the University of Nashville with a bachelor's degree in 1894 and spent many years teaching mathematics at various high schools and small colleges. Once Murphree arrived in 1909, he immediately set to work reorganizing the university into four areas of study: the College of Agriculture, the College of Law, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering. Murphree sought to mold the university into a cohesive whole and was an advocate of faculty participation in the areas of curriculum, student affairs, public relations and professional and civic organizations. According to historical accounts, Murphree was said to have known every student by first name. Murphree was known as a dedicated leader. He was involved in the Florida State Teacher's Association, the National Education Association and served as vice president for the National Association of State Universities and president of the Florida State Educational Association. In 1924, he was nominated to run for president of the United States by William Jennings Bryan, but he quickly declined the nomination.Murphree passed away in office on December 20, 1927, but his legacy lives on at the University of Florida. Facility History Murphree Hall was built in 1939. During the Great Depression, architect Rudolph Weaver built the hall in the same collegiate gothic style as its neighboring dormitories. Murphree Hall is among the buildings constituting the University of Florida Campus Historic District, a historic area added to the National Register in 1989.In 2005, major renovations to Murphree hall were completed. The engineering firm for the renovation was Moses and Associates, and the contractor was Charles Perry Construction, both of Gainesville. Renovations included the installation of new central air conditioning, plumbing, bathrooms and windows. Walls and ceilings were painted, and new furniture and window coverings were added. Click here to visit Murphree Hall virtually through UF's campus map


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I will buy this car off of you TODAY. whats your price and location???
Ya maybe j should have started reading before posting :banghead:
Anyone have pics of said Porsche's? Can't wait to get down there! We leave in 10 hours👍
A couple of people that I talk to that are already down there said that the cops are pulling people over and impounding their cars for the smallest things like excessive camber, loud exhaust, window...
Fdubb that's all you buddy, you should grab it and bring that thing to h2o this year:laugh:
holy **** this game is still going! Wish I could get back in but my 20th is currently undergoing a major surgery...I'll be ready to play when someone says ur 3/2/G with 500hp;)
i have replaced numerous forks in both the 5 and 6 speed trannies.it is not easy to do. but if u are capable of taking things apart and putting them back together (and they work) you can do it. when...
mbq's are ok, but if u want a full range of sound, Kicker is ur best bet, there product quality aside sound quality is by far superior to any other brand. but thats if u are talking about mid/hi...
looking good bro...
definitely not a 337 i think i see a sun roof!!! someone should text him and tell him his an idiot!
wow nobody? i must be the only idiot doing this setup:o
does anyone know of any viable diy write-ups for either the discharge pipe or SMIC? installing one right now... and well...ya im asking for help:mad:
i have a set if u dont find thm at the dealer
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Re: Canceling square roots with Simplify
efarr wrote:
> Hello,
> Try typing in the following in a new session of Mathematica (I'm currently
> running ver 3.0 under WinNT).
> Simplify[ Sqrt[b^2]*Sqrt[1/b^2] ]
> It seems like the b's should cancel, and I should get 1. Why don't I? Is
> there any workaround?
> Thanks very much
> Everett G. Farr
The expression needs not to be equal to 1 for
complex values of b:
In[1]:= Sqrt[b^2]*Sqrt[1/b^2] /. b->I
Out[1]= -1
To get the simplification anyway you can use
PowerExpand, which uses the transformation
(a^b)^c -> a^(b*c).
In[1]:= PowerExpand[Sqrt[b^2]*Sqrt[1/b^2]]
Out[1]= 1
However, you need to keep in mind that the
transformation is not correct in general, so
the results obtained using PowerExpand may not
be correct for all values of parameters.
In Mathematica 4 you can get the simplification
by telling Simplify that b is real.
In[2]:= Simplify[Sqrt[b^2]*Sqrt[1/b^2], Element[b, Reals]]
Out[2]= 1
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We are in the process of remodeling two bathrooms, master bath and a hall bath. The master bath was done first, the installer did not really clean the tiles while he grouted on a Friday, and did not return until the following Weds so the grout was dried on. Below are pictures of what it looked like before they cleaned it (this is all I had at work with me.) It took 2 1/2 days of scrubbing and 3 bottles of acid to fix. From what I've read, this would have likely weakened the grout but I don't really understand what that means.
The issue at hand: The wall that has the shower head in the Master Bath is shared by the Hall Bath, which is where they began working 7 days ago. They demo'd everything, the house shook several times, and then put in a new tub that was a very tight fit and they had to actually shave some of the wall studs to get it in. Two days ago we noticed that the corner of the Master Bath, pictured below, has several cracks. We think the cracks came from the movement of the wall and work being done in the Hall Bath.
The contractor wants to caulk the cracks. I'm concerned about this, I feel they should remove the grout (when they're done with the hall bath) and redo it.
I would sincerely appreciate any advice and recommendations on our insistence that they re-grout and opinions on the state of the grout after the acid applications, thank you in advance.
Master Bath: One long crack runs down this corner, the hall bath is on the other side of the wall on the left (behind the toilet.)
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A crack runs most of the length of the bench, and there are small cracks up the corner.
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You always use caulk when there is a "change-un-plane". This means the vertical corners the benches, the niches, the floor. Don't let him use caulk over the grout. The grout must be removed first. You can buy grout that matches all color caulks and in your case you should be using "sanded" caulk which is also available in all grout colors.
Kind of a cheap shot on his part but I think you're okay.
While I was camped on my post with my fingers crossed that someone knowledgeable would respond the project manager showed up to discuss with my better-half. We had spoken this morning to the crew working on our hall bath, and it may have been just trouble communicating. The project manager is going to remove the grout from all of the "change-in-plane" areas and caulk it with sanded color-matched caulk.
Thank you Bud, for responding! I feel better knowing what you put on here, and what he said, match. I've read many of your posts while I was poking around looking for advice and I appreciate you taking the time to give me some feedback.
Unfortunately I see a lot of tile installations where the installer terminated a field of tile with only a raw edge of the tile. No excuse for that, none what-so-ever. There are too many ways to do it right.
I even saw that had been done on one of Dean Johnson's programs that aired a week or three ago. Pitiful, just pitiful.:)
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Hi Mamas. I just kind of need a place to vent I guess.
Lately I have been getting comments from people about how I dress my 12 month old son. The comments are basically that I dress him too much "like a girl."
One person even went so far, today, to tell me that one day my son might look back on pictures and be embarrassed.
DS doesn't wear anything ruffled or with lace. He doesn't wear clothes that say things like "Daddy's little girl." But does he have a pink onesie? Yes. It's unisex, and it has an elephant on it. When I show it to him he giggles and says "ell-eeeee."
He also has a pair of light purple pants with fireflies on them that I sewed for him before he was born (and before we knew whether it was a boy or girl). He also has a sunhat that I made that's multicolored polka dots. It was the sunhat that got the "he might be embarrassed later" comment.
I don't understand this at all. My son is not aware of social constructs of gender. He doesn't know pink means female and blue means male. I dress him in what's cute and what we buy from consignment shops and the goodwill store. I think he looks adorable no matter what he wears. I don't know, maybe if I dressed him in taffeta dresses it would be one thing. But a sunhat? Are you kidding me?
I asked this person just what I was supposed to put him in, and his response was "A Brewers hat. That way you can start him on his path to be an all-star." UGGGHGHHHH. Yes, that's right. Because boys are sports heroes. All of them. Duh.
So I just said, "While I'm at it, why don't I get him a hat with penises and scrotums all over it so he can know for sure and everyone else can know for sure that he's ALL MAN." The response was "I'm not being sexist, I'm just saying he'll be embarrassed whne he's older." Whatever. I just said "That's sexist garbage and it's about your hangups, not my son's."
Do any of the rest of you deal with this nonsense? You dress your girl too male or you dress your boy too female?
BTW, here's a picture of the offending hat.
"The Mothers are the brave ones." - Call the Midwife
Who are these people? So RUDE!! I'd be inclined to write them off as someone whose opinion merits consideration and carry on. That hat is adorable.
Mama to F (3/09) and S (3/11); and never forgetting my babe gone too soon (4/10).
Good heavens. My son is five and still chooses to wear a dress to parties most of the time. And nobody has ever said anything like that to me. That hat is adorable. So is your ds. Don't let people and their weird hangups get to you.
@Vancouver Mommy - You're awesome. My nephews both liked wearing dresses during dress-up time at daycare when they were toddlers. My brother (their dad) was so upset about this, he asked the daycare teachers to no longer allow his boys to wear any female dress-up clothes.
So sad and so ridiculous. More parents should be like you and let their kiddos be free. :)
"The Mothers are the brave ones." - Call the Midwife
We dressed my son the same way. Color is for everyone.
@Vancouver Mommy - You're awesome. My nephews both liked wearing dresses during dress-up time at daycare when they were toddlers. My brother (their dad) was so upset about this, he asked the daycare teachers to no longer allow his boys to wear any female dress-up clothes.
So sad and so ridiculous. More parents should be like you and let their kiddos be free. :)
Thanks! My ds feels that parties are fancy and none of his regular clothes are fancy enough. A while ago he rifled through all his dresser drawers, looked at me and said "I must have outgrown all my dresses!". Last party we went to there was a little boy the same age who was actually transgendered. He and his parents were so happy to see another little dude in a dress!
Um, that is ADORABLE.
Well said! Love that.
"The Mothers are the brave ones." - Call the Midwife
I can definitely relate. Our issue is more with the length of my son's hair (he's 2 and we haven't cut it) although he has his fair share of "girl" colored clothing (and a pair of awesome pink sandals!)
I constantly get asked if he's a boy or girl. In fact, on a recent plane trip, a woman started cooing, "oh, she's so cute!" and my son was dressed in a navy blue shirt with a truck on it and khaki cargo shorts. It amazes me that long hair is so strongly associated with femininity. It doesn't bother me or my DH when my people question my son's gender, but I do wonder if it will start to bother my son as he gets older.
My brother often dressed up in girls clothes as a kid and once even decided to wear a sparkly blue dress to a wedding when he was 3. My parents didn't try to convince him otherwise and didn't bat an eye at the party. I remember one of my dad's colleagues saying to him, "I thought your last one was a boy?" and my dad simply said, "He is," and left it at that. To this day, I'm proud of my parents for not shaming my brother. --And my bro turned out to be a very manly man :)
I don't think there's anything effeminate about a pink shirt or a cute polkadot hat, the people around you suck. Not that wearing effeminate clothes should not be an issue, but at least you'd be pushing a gender norm and stretching people's ideas if they actually were girly clothes, and it would make more sense that you might get the odd comment.
I know what you mean, I hate that my little pumpkin is getting so much sexism piled on her at such a young age, it's everywhere! The other day DP was making vroom-vroom noises with DD and this woman heard and said "Must be a boy's boy!". I feel like something like that happens every time we step out the door. A funny story, though, once DD was wearing all pink for once in her life and this guy started lecturing me on how my "son was going to end up being a sissy b/c I dressed him in pink". He said, "I know it's old fashioned, but it just isn't right to dress your son that way". I didn't correct him, I just said "Oh, it's OK, sometimes he likes to get in touch with his feminine side".
The hat is super cute (and I agree with a pp - color is for everyone). The comments you're getting are really ignorant, but it sounds like you're handling them so well. I admire that you're standing up to it without letting it get you down.
My dd wears a lot of unisex clothes and has shorter hair. She's called a boy in public fairly frequently, but now that she's 2.5 and more verbal, she just corrects people if she feels like it. A few days ago at the park, feeding the ducks, another mom brought her younger daughter over and kept saying, "Come feed the ducks with this little boy," "This little boy has bread to share," etc. My dd just turned to her and calmly said "I'm a girl," and gave her a piece of bread.
Now that she's older she also has more input into what clothes she wants to wear. Sometimes she picks stuff that's more "girly" in color or style, sometimes not.
Watch the first five minutes of the classic Free to Be You and Me. So awesome.
"I don't know who I am! I'm a baby, I haven't been anybody yet!"
"The Mothers are the brave ones." - Call the Midwife
I did dress her in boy clothes, but I thought I was going more gender neutral. They were hand me downs so most I wouldnt go out and buy, but being used they were so soft and comfy. The outfit in the picture was an olive corduroy overalls with a matching stripe shirt.
Dd didn't help by not growing hair till she was 2.
I knew I was borderline when I had to buy shoes and found I needed plain white, otherwise the girl shoes would look out of place with the "neutral" outfits
I try to get gender neutral stuff for my kids. BUt haven't had any rude comments yet. Keep doing what you are doing, it is so much easier if you have gender neutral stuff when you have the second kid and they happen to be a girl...
i like the grammar police response.
"you dress him/her like a girl/boy"
response: "that's funny. i'm pretty sure i'm a woman."
Is it getting lonely in the echo chamber yet?
We get a lot of comments from my parents as well as my partner's parents about 'how girly' or 'why do you dress them like girls so much' about our two little boys. I just say they are perfectly good clothes and there's no reason they can't wear them. My parents especially have a problem with teething neckalaces on the older boy. They say its too girl (and that he'll get hurt by it). Whatever! Colors are for everyone.
The two boys have one older sibling of each gender and so they have all kinds of clothes waiting for them to wear. Lots of pinks and purples and flowers (that both their older brother and sister have worn) as well as lots of stuff with trucks and bugs and animals on them.
I fully plan to let them wear what they want as they get older. We let both of the big kids pick out their clothes as they wish and as long as they match somewhat and are in clean clothes, there's no harm done!
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I get it from my FIL about their hair. Harumph. One of the boys has hair that is *harder* to tame when it's shorter, so I like it at a sort of "unkempt bowl cut" length. Still toddler boy style, just not the buzz cuts my SIL's boys get. I worry he'll over hear some day. :( FIL does it teasingly, but it still really bothers me.
Mama to twin boys, Oct-'09 and baby girl, Apri-'12!
Our two boys (6 and 4) both love the colour pink and have had quite a lot of pink clothes, including some pink and white sneakers (that always seemed to get everyone's attention....) Recently a little girl told my oldest that he must be a girl because he had a pink umbrella. He didn't miss a beat and told her that she should get herself a new pair of eyes. Way to go!
It's been interesting as DS1 has gotten older. He is quite indignant about this whole colour thing and totally gets that it is their problem and not his. I really admire this as I was a very conformist child. So, I guess we're getting some personal development mileage out of it.
We're expecting another baby any day now and I'm already overwhelmed by the pink/blue thing. My MIL is a bit annoyed that we don't know the gender because it means she can't buy any clothes. It's all so ridiculous!! It's just colours....
PP - I love his hat!
Happy mama to DS1 (2006), DS2 (2007) & DD (2012)
I love that hat. My oldest boy is only 3 but the whole gender ideals/bias annoy the heck out of me. My son can wear his hair long, rock pink sandals and take a ballet class and my DD can white water kayak, skateboard, rock climb and snowboard better then most grown men. What is wrong with that? Apparently a lot according to many people. Eh, ignore them. People will ALWAYS have issues with how others parent, if it isn't hat then it is something else.
Aw, I wish my daughter was more like that. I dressed her in boy hand-me-downs and lots of gender neutral stuff as a baby, and she was often mistaken for a boy back then. And THEN, somehow she started always choosing pink. Pink pink pink. Oh, how I hate pink. Some days she is just one big monochromatic pink blob. It makes me feel like I didn't do well enough shielding her from gender stereotypes. I think that's why it bothers me.
My dad mentioned to me that people think DS is a girl at the park sometimes because of his amber necklace and GN clothing. He was sharing an observation, not making a judgement (thank goodness). My response was, "Eh, people can think what they want. It doesn't really matter to me if others think he's a boy or a girl. He seems happy enough with the way he looks."
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I have pictures from when I was about that age dressed in very obviously "boy" clothes and I turned out fine. I did ask my mom one time why she put me in boy outfits and she said she just put me in what she thought was cute. Good answer, I think! I WAS cute in them!
I dress my DD in boy clothes a lot, because they fit her body type better (long and lanky and the girl's clothes are cut short and show too much IMO). I also keep her hair short for practical reasons. Oh, and her name is "Charlie". No one even bats an eye.
I don't think the hat is "girly" at all. Even if it was, your son will not have life-long damage from it. That's just silly. Just learn to ignore people. My DS always wore boy clothes, but when he got to be about age 3 or 4, he decided he LOVED girl things. I just let him play with what he want. We did get some comments, but oh well. He's 7 now and still loves Hello Kitty and will wear girl pajamas, even when he has friends over. If I let people get to me, I'd have gone crazy by now!
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Pretty decent!
My suggestions: Taking them at a different time of day might help. When the sun is that intense, the contrast from shadows can be a bit overpowering.
Try desaturating just a bit in some of the really colorful ones, and play with the temperature in 4&5.
If #2 was taken in that same spot at night, it would rock.
Driving on a more open road (not surrounded by trees) will make the motion pics better - as it is right now, there is almost too much to look at and be distracted by - especially the reflection of trees in the windshield.
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Field to Table, Inc. is an Arlington-based, non-profit organization dedicated to building communities throughout Northern Virginia through the encouragement of healthy eating. The organization is part of the nationwide "locavore" movement, which encourages people to reestablish their relationship with the land and purchase from local farmers and food preparers. The emphasis is on nutrition, taste, quality and freshness in what we buy, not on the misguided values of mass production, long shelf life, and long-distance transportation that drive so much of what is sold as food in the United States. We strive to bring residents a convenient, varied blend of local producers of fruits and vegetables, baked goods, dairy products, flowers, and specialty foods that focus on improving the nutritional experience and overall health of the community.


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Apple's GarageBand has proved to be a success on the Mac in the past, and with the introduction of the iPad 2, Apple released GarageBand for iOS. On Tuesday, Apple updated GarageBand for iOS to include the iPhone and iPod touch, so all iOS users can make music on the go.
The version available previously on the iPad is now a universal application and can be downloaded to multiple devices under the same iTunes account. Apple also released a statement about the updated application, saying:
GarageBand on iPad has been a big hit and we think customers will love using it on their iPhone or iPod touch," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "The innovative Multi-Touch interface combined with Smart Instruments makes it easy to create great sounding music, even if you've never studied music or played an instrument before.
New features of the updated 1.1 Version of the Application brings not only iPhone and iPod touch support but a number of other small features, including the ability to:
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LED bulbs have been gaining popularity in recent times, with many companies and research labs coming up with new breakthroughs in the design and form of the energy-saving product.
Hong Kong-based Nokero has developed a solar powered LED bulb (above) which draws all its power from small solar panels mounted on its sides. The N100 bulb is housed inside a rainproof case with a battery that can light the bulb for up to four hours. Nokero plans to introduce this bulb to under-developed regions and would price it at around $6.
Another unique LED bulb that came up this week is designer Jurgen Honold's 'Bulled Classic' which is designed to improve the heat budget of the LED bulb by emitting light evenly on all sides. It contains eleven individual LED modules spread across 'heat sinks' to ensure even heat absorption. Bulled Classic will debut in the market this fall.
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okay my period is due today, so i already took a pg test,hoping it would come out positive. But it is still neg, it is the 2nd one i have taken, i am sorta feeling the pg symptoms, well the same symptoms i had with my first child(he was stillborn). but the only thing i am not really having is the vomitting. so idk why my period is not here already, i hope i am pg.that would be amazing. oh yeah, why would it say negative? (i had to take 3 my last pregnancy, and the one at doc said neg too, but the 3rd one said positive with last child)


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At night I often hear a calm, familiar voice beckoning me from the sea below, but when I creep from my cave and peer downward onto the moonlit rocks, I see no one. My aged eyes can barely distinguish the craggy shoreline from the rushing water during the day, much less at night. But I know if He is there I will see His radiance piercing the darkness. So I look, I always look.
During the day I sometimes mistake the faces of my fellow prisoners for those of my slain brethren. Briefly, my heart leaps, but I know not to call out to them. I know it is only the mind of an old man, and perhaps his heart, that is yearning, longing, hoping. I am the last of those chosen by my Master. For many years I have been the last. I know not why.
On this island, my place of exile, I am surrounded by rock. I sleep within it. I lay my head upon it. I etch crosses and scripture into it. I bend my bare and faulty knees to it and pray. This island is both hell and paradise. For it will always be a prison of Roman making, but yet, the sturdy ground, the dancing sea, the whispering wind, and the boundless stars beneath Heaven are of my Lord's making. And that comforts me.
West of my cave here on Patmos is a wall of rock that stands against the crashing Aegean Sea. I look upon it and smile. It reminds me of Simon Peter.
"Oh Lord, how Peter became that Rock You desired!"
Immovable, resolute, steadfast in the faith became Simon Peter. I think back to that day long ago when Peter and I stood before the vicious Sanhedrin. Waves of insults and threats crashed down upon us, but Peter denied nothing. He proclaimed the Messiah to those hypocrites. He spoke without fear. Peter took the truth to the temple, to Jerusalem, and then to hostile, distant lands.
"Oh Lord, he proclaimed You until he was called to be with You."
From my cave a trail climbs up the mountain. It takes a considerable amount of time for this worn, earthly vessel to reach the peak. I withdraw there not to be alone, but to be with my Lord. That trail leading to the summit reminds me of Andrew.
"Oh Lord, how Andrew loved to bring others to You."
I remember Andrew bringing his own brother, Peter, to Jesus. It was as if Andrew knew his boisterous sibling would be vital to the Lord's kingdom. Quiet, humble Andrew brought both Jews and Gentiles, often by the hand. I remember like yesterday my Lord feeding the giant multitude by the sea. When everyone doubted, Andrew simply led to Jesus a boy carrying two fish and a few barley loaves. Through Andrew our Lord fed thousands.
"Oh Lord, that trail is my Andrew because it leads me to You."
I often stay in His presence on that peak until sunset. And then, before His created light dips beneath the waters, I think of my brother. The sinking sun and its twin reflection remind me of James and myself. So alike we were. We burned with passion to follow our Lord and naively we yearned to be first in His kingdom.
But then we learned. We learned to be mirrors of His truth, His grace, His glory, and to reflect His light into the darkness. James, my good brother, was the first after our Lord whose earthly body was broken. It took a Roman blade to silence the gospel trumpeting forth from his mouth.
"Oh Lord, how quickly You must have embraced James' glorified body!"
I miss my brother. I miss all my brothers in Christ. I cling to memories while yearning for my time in the land of my Lord. So I wait, and I wonder for what purpose I am still here.
"Oh Lord, it is I, John whom you loved. Lord, I long to do Your will. If my purpose on this earth be done, take me. Let me break bread with You and my brothers once again. I long to laugh and cry and fellowship with those I loved so dearly."
"Lord, if You require more of me in this realm, use me. Reveal Your will. Impart my purpose. Send a revelation Lord."
"Oh Lord, my body grows weak but the Holy Spirit within pulsates like joyous thunder. I am forever your humble servant. Amen."
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Nadine Burke Harris is a San Francisco pediatrician who refuses to believe that poverty and poor health inevitably go hand in hand. She's the CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness. Working with a pediatric clinic across the hall, the center serves mostly low-income families living in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.
"I think what we hear a lot about in the media is that Bayview has one of the highest rates of violence, of homicide, and certainly that's true," said Dr. Burke Harris. "But Bayview is a community of families."
In 2007, Dr. Burke Harris co-founded the clinic in a location nearby, motivated, she says, by a Kaiser study examining what happens to adults who had repeated exposed to trauma as children. She explains that the study took 10 adverse experiences into account:
Physical, emotional or sexual abuse; physical or emotional neglect; a parent who had mental illness or was substance-dependent or incarcerated; exposure to domestic violence; or parental separation or divorce.
Dr. Burke Harris says these traumas, or what she calls "toxic stress" can take 20 years off people's lives. The good news, she says, is that identifying that toxic stress early in life can help prevent many of the negative impacts on health and behavior.
"Kids don't need to end up in school failure," Dr. Burke Harris said. "They don't need to end up in juvenile hall. They don't need to end up with worse asthma and diabetes and ultimately leading to heart disease for something that we can identify and treat when they're two- and three- and four-years-old."
Now, parents and their children are all carefully screened at the center, and referred to the appropriate services. These can range from crisis intervention to biofeedback and mindfulness training, things she says "some people would think of as crunchy granola, where there's actually good science and good data that say it helps heal the immune system."
Dr. Burke Harris is on the front lines of a scientific theory that measures Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), and sees them not just as a cause of physical illnesses like heart disease, stroke or cancer. They can also lead to impaired brain development and interfere with a young student's ability to learn.
"Behavior is the canary in the coal mine. For a child to sit still in a classroom, pay attention and learn — that is their primary job," said Dr. Burke Harris. "When they're not able to do that, it's a recognition that there's something that's not going right."
At a time where more and more young people are being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder — Dr. Burke Harris believes inaccurately — that recognition is important. In her experience, the undesired behavior is much more likely to be caused by repeated exposure to trauma.
Understanding that has made a huge difference to Lotti Titus, whose grandchildren are patients of Dr. Burke Harris.
"Their mother was incarcerated and their father was on death row," said Titus. "They were angry, and they felt sad, and all these emotions where they needed some professionalism to step in."
Titus says her family got exactly the care they needed. She says the community appreciates so many things about Dr. Burke Harris, not the least of which is her warmth, love and respect.
"Some doctors aren't approachable because they're doctors," said Titus. "She's just really a down-to-earth person."
Dr. Burke Harris was born in Jamaica and came to the U.S. at age 4. She and her four brothers grew up in Palo Alto. Her mom was a nurse, and her dad was a biochemist.
"Typical parents see their kids throwing paper airplanes at each other and say 'Stop that, you'll put an eye out,'" said Dr. Burke Harris. "My dad would be like, 'Let's measure the wind resistance of the airplane and calculate gravity.' He was that guy."
All that early exposure to science led her to study medicine at U.C. Davis. After adding a Masters degree in public health from Harvard, she gravitated toward pediatrics in the southeast section of San Francisco, where health disparities are everywhere.
A few years ago her focus on the correlation between stress and disease caught the attention of the Tipping Point Community, a nonprofit that funds anti-poverty programs in the Bay Area, including the Center for Youth Wellness. CEO Daniel Lurie thinks Dr. Burke Harris is a "rock star." He was struck, he says, by her intelligence, charisma and an unwillingness to settle for the status quo.
"When you put all of those things together, it's an incredible combination that you just do not see very often," said Lurie.
It would seem that the sky is the limit for Dr. Burke Harris. At age 38, she could write her own ticket. So why is she here, in a relatively small clinic in one of San Francisco's poorest neighborhoods?
"The families here in Bayview need people who are on the top of their game," Dr. Burke Harris said. "Because they oftentimes have the least resources, I believe that they need the highest quality services. That's what I'm here to do."
Dr. Burke Harris' work has been noticed by Gov. Jerry Brown. Earlier this year, she was also appointed by Hillary Clinton to advise Too Small to Fail, a national initiative helping kids five and younger thrive in the 21st century.
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We are approaching the 100-year anniversary of the First World War. What will we remember? Not usually remembered are those who opposed the war and spoke out against it. But they, too, were part of the story. And one of the most prominent was a woman born 130 years ago who grew up in western Manitoba.
Francis Marion Beynon was born in Ontario on May 21, 1884. In 1889, she came to Manitoba with her family, settling on a farm near Hartney.
Francis followed in the footsteps of her older sister Lillian, who taught school in small Manitoba communities like Chain Lakes and then became a journalist in Winnipeg. Francis was also a rural school teacher before moving to Winnipeg in 1908. She first worked in the advertising department at Eaton's. In 1912, she got the job as women's page editor of The Grain Growers' Guide.
Beynon's regular feature at The Guide was "The Country Homemakers." In one column, she listed in-demand items her readers could make to earn extra money. Her suggestions: "first class pickles, mincemeat, head cheese, Christmas puddings and cakes, kitchen aprons, and sets of hemmed dish towels."
With her recipes, household tips and family advice, Beynon mixed in ideas supporting women's rights. Issues included women getting the vote, property rights and freedom from spousal abuse.
Those pre-war years in Winnipeg were a golden age for feminism. In the city with Beynon was her sister Lillian Beynon Thomas, an assistant editor at the Manitoba Free Press. Also there was author and activist Nellie McClung, pioneering physician Dr. Mary Crawford, and Free Press agricultural editor E. Cora Hind. Just imagine the conversations!
The solidarity of the women's movement was shattered by the First World War. As the conflict progressed, most feminists became avid supporters of the war effort. Influencing women were loved ones enlisting and news (as well as propaganda) about enemy atrocities. Beynon was among the few who questioned the war.
Beynon was especially at odds with Nellie McClung. One dividing point was religion. Beynon had a radical, social justice, pacifist understanding of Christianity. She viewed organized religion as oppressive — contributing to harsh child raising in the home, exploitation in society and war in the world. McClung, on the other hand, was more conventional and came to see the war as not just a patriotic duty, but as almost a religious crusade.
The two women also differed over conscription. Beynon argued that Britain should cease its imperialistic intentions before any more Canadian men were sacrificed for the British cause. But McClung wanted men drafted. Additional troops would help those — like her own son — who were already serving in the trenches.
Beynon attracted negative attention from the authorities; she even had her phone tapped. By 1917, her situation had become unsustainable. She was forced to resign from her job at The Guide. She moved to New York City, joining Lillian who had gone there earlier.
In 1919, while in New York, Beynon wrote "Aleta Dey," an autobiographical novel. The book describes her childhood in western Manitoba; her musings about society, religion and politics; and her falling in love with a man who goes off to war.
Today, Beynon and her novel are largely forgotten. But one person who wants them remembered is local playwright and Brandon University English and creative writing Prof. Dale Lakevold. A couple of years ago he adapted "Aleta Dey" into a play.
My wife and I were fortunate enough to see "Aleta Dey" in Brandon. It was a powerful performance — wonderfully written, directed and acted.
Beynon's story is compelling because it "anticipates a lot of the 20th century," Lakevold told me. "Aleta Dey" is "a groundbreaking novel that led the way for other writers from the Prairies and across Canada."
After "Aleta Dey," Beynon vanished into obscurity in New York. She never married, but remained close to Lillian, who moved back to Winnipeg in the 1920s. During a family visit to Winnipeg, Beynon died on Oct. 5, 1951. She is buried in Brookside Cemetery.
Issues that Francis Marion Beynon championed a century ago are still current. When our nation is at war, can we support our troops while debating the war itself? Can we have freedom of speech? Can we have electronic communication free from surveillance?
Above all, can women and men have dignity and equality: on the farm, in the city, and as citizens in the community?
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After the way her season started, Hannah Harley is relishing the chance to redeem herself. She didn't necessarily expect it, but she's making the most of it.
A sophomore pitcher for the Point Park University softball team, Harley has been the most consistent starting pitcher for the Pioneers over the past three weeks after she and the team both got past rocky starts.
Harley has won each of her past six starts, and she is tied for the team lead with seven wins.
The latest outing in that stellar stretch came Wednesday as she improved to 7-2 on the season with a complete-game win in Game 1 of a doubleheader against West Virginia Tech.
She gave up five hits and one run in seven innings.
Her current run is a far cry from the first three weeks of the regular season, when Harley struggled in both of her first two starts and owned a 7.64 earned-run average after her first four appearances.
She gave up 21 hits and 18 runs (16 earned) in her first 14 2-3 innings of the season.
"I had a really bad start. There's no sugarcoating it. I did not do well," Harley said matter-of-factly. "And so from there, you really have to lower your expectations, like maybe I won't pitch this year. And then, when you get your chances, you just kind of have to go and do what's asked of you. It's tough to expect anything. I was expecting only a chance. And I'm doing better with those chances now than I was at the beginning of the season."
That's for sure. In nine appearances since March 27, she has given up 12 runs (10 earned) in 44 innings for an ERA of 2.05. In six of those appearances, she allowed one or no runs.
Harley has 45 strikeouts in 58 2-3 innings on the season and ranks second on the team in both categories. Her ERA for the season is a respectable 3.10 despite the early struggles, she has yielded 17 walks and opponents are hitting .249 against her.
As a freshman last year, Harley held her own, even if she was "terrified" at times.
She went 3-4 with a 4.33 ERA and ranked third on the team with 12 appearances, including six starts. She logged 42 innings and learned some valuable lessons.
"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is just as vital," Harley said.
"And this year, I have a lot more confidence on the mound than I did last year. You're up there as a freshman against these huge girls that know how to rip a ball, and you're a little terrified. This year I have more ability to place the ball where I want to … so that's been a huge difference."
And the reason behind that is because Harley has a much-improved curveball this season.
"I spent a lot of time on my curveball," she said. "That's been my go-to pitch for strikeouts, both inside and outside. It's got enough break that it works in both locations, and it's been working. My screwball has been helping too, because if you put the screwball in, then throw the curve out, it keeps the batter really guessing as to what to do."
Point Park has gone 12-6 since March 27, and Harley has six of their wins. The Pioneers (18-14) are 11-7 in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and sit in third place with less than two weeks of the regular season remaining. They have put themselves in good position to make a deep run into the conference tournament.
"I want to take the conference," Harley said, adding after a brief pause, "so badly."
LAINA WALKER (Muskingum College, softball): A sophomore infielder, Walker has struggled to find her groove at the plate while seeing limited action for the Fighting Muskies.
A graduate of now-defunct Elderton, she has appeared in 10 of Muskingum's 30 games. She's batting .125 (2-for-16) with one RBI. In the field, she has a perfect fielding percentage in 17 chances this season.
In her first action since April 9, Walker got the start at first base in the second game of Thursday's doubleheader against Mount Union. She went 1-for-3 with her first double of the season.
A Division III school, Muskingum is 18-12 (9-5 conference) and sits in second place in the Ohio Athletic Conference standings with four conference games remaining.
TOM SUPINKA (Dickinson College, golf): Supinka has played in three of the Red Devils' 10 events this season, including two this spring season.
He has carded four rounds with a season scoring average of 86.8. An Indiana graduate, Supinka shot a season-best round of 84 on March 12 in a dual-match win over Gettysburg, the Red Devils' spring season opener in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
A week later, he posted an 86 at the Dickinson Spring Invitational and finished in a tie for 11th, though he was competing individually, meaning his score didn't count toward the team tally. He has not competed since then.
In five tournaments this spring, Dickinson has finished in the top five in team standings in four of them.
MELANIE HILLIARD (Mansfield, track and field): A freshman middle-distance runner, Hilliard has quickly established herself as one of the Mounties' top 800-meter runners. On March 21, she ran a personal-best time of 2:28.54 to take eighth place at the Shamrock Invitational in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
A Purchase Line graduate, Hilliard still needs to drop some time to hit the qualifying mark of 2:23.00 for the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship meet.
During the outdoor season, Hilliard has also competed in the 1,500 and appeared on the Mounties' 3,200 relay.
During the indoor season, Hilliard ran the 800, 1,000 and 500 individually and made appearances on the Mounties' 1,600, 3,200 and distance medley relay teams. Hilliard was part of the 3,200 relay team that took first place at Cornell's Kane Invitational on February 1 with a time of 9:57.19.
JORDAN MESORACO (Clarion, baseball): The younger brother of Cincinnati Reds catcher Devin Mesoraco, Jordan is a designated hitter and backup first baseman for the struggling Golden Eagles who has seen action in 15 games, including 11 starts. He is batting .175 (7-for-40) with a pair of runs scored and no RBIs and an on-base percentage of .233.
The Punxsutawney graduate shows signs of heating up, though. He had his first multi-hit game of the season on April 9 when he went 2-for-3 against Bloomsburg, which started a string of three straight games with a hit for him.
Coming off a 4-40 season, Clarion is 7-21 and in last place in the PSAC West.
WENDI WALSH (Pitt Titusville, basketball): A graduate of United, Walsh is a guard for the Panthers. Statistics from her freshman season were not available, and coach Kyle Krepps didn't respond to the Gazette's requests seeking stats. The Panthers went 11-15 this season.


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Ave Maria! Fans crowd courts for an angelic greeting
WOMEN'S tennis is more interesting than men's, right? The contests are closer, there's no Roger Federer winning everything. That's why a huge crowd pushed and shoved each other to watch Maria Sharapova practise yesterday because her tennis is so interesting.
The tall, blonde Russian lives in the US and is the highest-earning female sports star in the world. Last year she earned $US1.7 million in prizemoney from playing as world No. 5 but she also earned $US20 million for advertising drinks, phones, watches and shoes. And she's pretty all right.
At about 188 centimetres tall, aged 20 and slender, but also icy as a Moscow night, on court anyway, no man or woman with an ordinary life can ever dream to know anything of her real self away from the court like all these men and women and children watching her hit a few balls around with coaches yesterday in the backblocks of Melbourne Park, three hours before her demolition of fellow gorgeous Russian Elena Vesnina, who weighs less but is not as tall.
These people, ordinary people, ticket-buying people, will never know anything of Sharapova. They'll see pictures and watch footage and probably check out the stuff to do with her undies on YouTube and, perhaps if they're lucky, catch her in the flesh like this, in her dour grey training T-shirt and pinky-white tennis shoes with "Maria" emblazoned on the back.
But that's it. That's all they'll get. The nature of celebrity is distance and the crowd is eight deep around the practice court, with people even peering over from neighbouring courts. It's crazy, more so because she doesn't acknowledge anyone.
There's a real hubbub, people are saying her name over and over and a lot of the time the only view is of hairy arms stuck up in the air holding cameras. All these people maybe 500 are clamouring and ogling and she's feigning total obliviousness. Strange. But it gets stranger.
Men start wolf-whistling. Women start whispering about how her skin looks terrible and it's true, her skin's not the best this tournament, but she didn't win in two sets yesterday because of her skin. People stare as if she's some kind of exhibit (which in many ways she is), then start moaning about her. "She's not grunting now," scoffs one man behind me, who says he can't afford tickets for the arenas where she actually plays, so this is as good as it gets. "She only grunts in matches," he says. "Bloody disgrace."
The accepted wisdom around this year's Open is that Sharapova who won Wimbledon at 17 and has been a semi-finalist or finalist here for the past three years has been usurped in the babe stakes by Serbian player Ana Ivanovic. Well, Ivanovic, who is also 20 and is ranked 4th, is delightful, no doubt. Her little blue Australian Open tennis dress is just tremendous. But the general population must decide these things and Ivanovic practised yesterday too and only 200 people turned up.
Ivanovic wore a T-shirt that said "No Time for Love". The "o" in "Love" was a tennis ball, meaning her sport is her lover. Which must be a great disappointment to many but, still, women's tennis remains, at this time, the presence of Rafael Nadal notwithstanding, more interesting than the men's.
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Executive Producer Rich Affannato (Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher, Silence! The Musical) presents the new Funny or Die short film "I'm Will Ferrell", conceived by and starring Alet Taylor (LA Ovation Award for Best Actress, TV's First Family) with special guest starring appearances by international sensation David Hasselhoff (Baywatch, Knight Rider) and Emmy-nominated comedic actor Fred Willard (Waiting for Guffman, Anchorman). The film is directed by John Baumgartner (Hard Pill, Sunday in the Park with Crazy), and is written by Alet Taylor.
Check it out below!
"In her quest to create the perfect pitch for Funny Or Die, Alet may or may not have scored a meeting with Will Ferrell. Having finally obtained the all-important, career-defining pitch meeting with Will himself, Alet discovers her road to Internet stardom involves human sacrifice. Even David Hasselhoff and Fred Willard, despite their powers of comedy, might not be able to save the day. Or the pitch. Will there be a sequel? Rest assured, Alet will attempt to eliminate the playing field in her RELENTLESS PURSUIT to stay in the spotlight."
"I'm Will Ferrell" is produced by Affannato Productions, Fraugirl Media, Sandy Payne, Andy Taylor, Sam Kite, Patrick Robert Kelly, Bobby Traversa, and Allyson Rice. Stuart Ross serves as consulting producer.
Alet Taylor (Starring, Conceived by, Written by) was most recently seen as Hillary Clinton in Clinton, The Musical at The Signature Theater in NYC. She won the 2013 LA Weekly Award for her portrayal of the "Buck" in Justin Love, earning an Ovation Nomination for Best Actress. The Producers (National Tour, Vegas). LA: ICT'S God of Carnage (Annette), Cabrillo's Guys and Dolls (Adelaide). TV: THE FIRST FAMILY (Linda). www.AletTaylor.com
David Hasselhoff (Guest Star) is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as "The Most Watched TV Star in the World" thanks to starring roles in both "Knight Rider" and "Baywatch."
Born in Baltimore, MD, David's first professional job came on the CBS soap opera, "The Young and the Restless," playing Dr. Snapper Foster. Six years and 850 shows later he was lured to PRIMETIME TV by NBC President, Brandon Tartikoff, to star in the now legendary "Knight Rider" as Michael Knight leading him to a People's Choice Award for Most Popular Actor. 24 years later, the show is still playing throughout the world. In 1989, he headed the cast of "Baywatch," and after being cancelled by NBC, it was acquired by Hasselhoff and the producing PARTNERS for first run syndication at which time he became one of the executive producers and TV history was made. "Baywatch" ran for 11 years and is still viewed in 140 countries by over one billion viewers every week...making Hasselhoff the most watched TV star on the planet. Along the way Hasselhoff appeared in feature films such as Adam Sandler's Click, the SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS movie, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Layover, Legacy, HOP and recently starred in the Lifetime TV movie, The Christmas Consultant where he played an endearing, loving, "over the top" sentimentalist named Owen; a total departure from his iconic characters on Baywatch and Knight Rider. His remarkable musical career took off in the late 1980s when he recorded the album, "Looking For Freedom" for BMG Germany at the end of the Cold War. The song became an anthem for East and West Germany and remained at the top of their charts for 8 weeks. The album went triple platinum in Europe and Hasselhoff was named "Most Popular and Best Selling Artist of the Year." He has since garnered over 40 gold and platinum records worldwide. In 1989, he sang "Looking For Freedom" from atop the Berlin Wall to over one million people during the New Year's Eve German Reunification Celebration. In 2011, he was asked to perform the song again atop the wall to ring in the New Year. In 2000, Hasselhoff made his long-awaited Broadway debut in the hit musical, "Jekyll & Hyde" which was also filmed by Broadway Television Network to air on HBO Signature, and is available on DVD from Image Entertainment. He went on to make his West End debut in London as Billy Flynn in the long-running musical, "Chicago", and starred in the Las Vegas production of Mel Brooks' hit musical, "The Producers". His portrayal of the flamboyant Roger DeBris and the 'singing Hitler' proved to be an audience knockout and received rave reviews from Mel Brooks himself. David was also honored with the International Star of the Year Award for Outstanding Contribution to Global Entertainment by the Bollywood Awards, the 'Oscars' of India. In addition, he was awarded the Comeback Star of the Year Award on the VH1 Big in '06 Awards