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Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, visited USA TODAY this morning and said he expects action soon on two top SEIU priorities: health care reform and a bill that would make it easier for workers to form unions. (Click the video at right to watch the interview).
SEIU, with 2 million members in health care and other fields, is the country's largest and fastest growing union. Stern said its top choice for Health and Human Services secretary is Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
Even without an HHS secretary, Stern said, President Obama's team is working on health reform and the Senate Finance Committee is due to take it up in June. "We're talking about real action, really soon," he said.
Stern also said there are 60 senators who either support the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) or would vote to cut off a filibuster. He said he expects action by August.
The bill, known as "card-check," would let employees form a union by checking off cards rather than holding a formal election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board. Conservatives and business groups are adamantly opposed to it.
Several House and Senate Republicans today are announcing a bill they say will "guarantee workers' rights to secret ballot elections and create a firewall against the undemocratic 'card check' legislation soon to be introduced by Democrats." We'll keep you posted.
Update at 1:20 p.m. ET: The Secret Ballot Protection Act was introduced by GOP Reps. Tom Price of Georgia, John Kline of Minnesota and Buck McKeon of California, and Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina. They say it "guarantees the right to a secret ballot to workers deciding whether to unionize."
Update at 4 p.m. ET: A business group called the Workforce Fairness Institute called on Stern to name the "SEIU 60" -- the 60 senators he says support cloture or the card-check bill. "We doubt his claim," said executive director Katie Packer.
Keep reading for more about the politics of card-check and the role of unions in a downturn.
Stern said opponents spent more than $10 million last year to try to defeat senators who support the EFCA, and it was "a total wipeout." He also said union members can opt out of unions by checking a card so they should be able to opt in that way as well.
The card-check bill would put more money in workers' pockets, help America "re-create its middle class" and restore balance to a system in which company brass make billions while wages sink for others, Stern said.
As for the role of unions in a downturn, Stern said workers should be partners with their employers in both good times and bad. As an example of the latter, he cited California workers who recently worked out an arrangement with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on furloughs and spending cuts.
Stern's union supported disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and one SEIU official was mentioned in connection with a federal corruption investigation. Stern said he has "no reason to believe anyone did anything wrong."
He also said that while he is sorry about the way Blagojevich's career ended, he is not sorry about past SEIU support for him. He said Blagojevich helped child-care and health-care workers in his state, including allowing child-care workers to get health care, training and work supplies.
Asked if Blagojevich's Senate appointee, Democrat Roland Burris, should resign in light of changing versions of how he got the appointment, he replied, "Sen. Burris has to think hard about what he needs to do here because there is an integrity issue."
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Message from an older generation
As a child growing up in the terraced flats of urban Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1950s, I played out every evening, exploring building sites, jumping puddles, playing football and 'Knocky Nine Doors'. My mum tells me that the most effective sanction she could use to ensure my good behaviour was to threaten to keep me indoors.
Of course, in those days there were few cars in our area and less awareness of the 'stranger danger' that worries parents nowadays. In addition, it seemed that the neighbours didn't mind us occasionally knocking on their door and running away or kicking our ball into their backyard and climbing over their wall to retrieve it. I often reflect on the good fortune that enabled me, with friends, to build an igloo that half covered the road and stayed there for a good few weeks one winter, and that gave me parents who allowed me to roam increasingly further from home as I grew more confident in my ability to find my way back.
It wasn't until I had my own child that I realised just how lucky I had been. While he was young, I could take him to parks to play, accompany him on trips to the school playground in the evening to practice riding his bike and let him play in the back yard and lane with friends. It wasn't until he reached those middle years of childhood, when he wanted to roam further afield, that I noted the changes in society that were putting up barriers for his play.
Living on a busy road, with the nearest park some distance away, and the local youth clubs closed due to funding cuts, he and his friends took to playing in the nearby cemetery where there was a large expanse of grass surrounded by tall trees. Unfortunately, the cemetery was overlooked by flats several storeys high, enabling an elderly resident to spot the young lads and report them. Soon the police were called, and my son returned home, barred from playing in the cemetery again.
Undeterred, he and his friends extended their search to play and found a very large, derelict house which they started exploring in the evenings. I didn't know where he was playing, but he always came home (almost) on time, a bit mucky but quite happy. One day, he told me he'd been playing in a derelict empty house which seemed to be used by the local homeless for drinking sessions, as there were signs of fires having been lit on the floorboards and empty cans lying around, and my parental instinct to panic took over. Fortunately, I thought before I spoke, and this is what I thought: he could be in danger there, but he's now 12 and should be able to look after himself. He's told me what he's doing, and that means he trusts me, so I shouldn't betray that trust or I may never get it back. The house presumably belongs to someone, but it's not boarded up and it seems easy to gain access, so the owners can't be checking on it very regularly. He's not going to maintain an interest in going there much longer, as he's growing up and his thoughts will turn to other things. I used to play on building sites which were also private ground, but I never got caught or perhaps no-one cared. He's been honest enough to admit that he's been going somewhere that he knows he shouldn't.
Having gone through this thought process, my first words to him were, 'I understand your need to play, I used to do similar things when I was your age, but if the police bring you home one evening I'm going to deny all knowledge of you going there, look shocked and promise to them that I'll ground you for a week.' He didn't fall through a ceiling or get caught by the police, and in a few days made his own decision to find somewhere else to hang out with his friends.
So what's the point of the story? The world is a different place now – neighbours used to keep a friendly, informal eye on children in their streets, playing out was a natural and frequent occurrence which people didn't seem to mind and, unless there was damage done, the police were rarely involved. We should remember this as we get older and dismiss our inclination to grumble at the shrieks and giggles of children outside our windows. We need to recognise that, inherent in children's play, is the need to explore which often leads children to go places that aren't so child-friendly, where perhaps they should not be. But this is all part of growing up, a vital contribution to children's development which far outweighs the occasional dangers they encounter and, as parents and grand-parents, we should recognise that those shrieks and yells are signs of the younger generation learning the skills they need to survive in today's society while having the fun that all children should experience.
Lesli Godfrey is Strategic Lead for Playwork and the Children's Workforce at SkillsActive
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Great blog Lesli – it must have been so difficult to keep your parental paranoia in check when your son confided in you. Good for you.
This is so true. There was a time when all of these things were simply considered as a rite of passage in childhood. Now they're considered "crimes."

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You can create an org.apache.sling.commons.json.io.JSONWriter instance to invoke Adobe CQ OSGi bundle operations and display data within a JSP. A JSONWriter instance lets you define value and key methods to retrieve data. You can create an Adobe CQ component that uses a JSONWriter instance to submit data to an OSGi bundle operation and get back the results. You can then display the results in a JSP. That is, you can dynamically display data based on user input.
For example, consider the OSGi bundle that uses web services to return weather information. (For information about this OSGi bundle, see http://scottsdigitalcommunity.blogspot.ca/2012/05/creating-adobe-cq-bundles-that-consume.html.
Note: The OSGi bundle that returns weather data uses web services to expose various operations that return weather data. To follow along with this development article, you must create the weather OSGi bundle by following that article.
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" BUFFALO, N.Y. — For many Ontarians, Buffalo is a popular gateway for cross-border shopping, but tourism officials there are keen to entice visitors to explore the city's many other attractions.
Chief among them is its excellent collection of historic architecture that includes works by Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan, and Eliel and Eero Saarinen, plus one of the largest collections of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings outside Chicago. All this amidst a beautiful parks system, designed by noted 19th-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead.
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During promotional duties for his show "Anger Management," Charlie Sheen made his way to the "Late Show with David Letterman" on Tuesday (January 15).
The 47-year-old actor puffed on a smoke while throwing his hands up in front of the awaiting photographers, sticking to his notoriously wild ways.
Once again creating controversy, Charlie Sheen used a homophobic slur while at a club opening in Mexico over the weekend.
The 47-year-old actor was attending the grand opening at the El Ganzo Hotel to introduce the evenings musical acts when he made the slip.
He must be in the holiday spirit lately because Charlie Sheen is the man behind another notable donation.
The 47-year-old actor recently gave $75,000 to a 10-year-old Hermosa Beach resident who is battling Childhood Rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of cancer that affects the muscle tissue. Charlie wrote the check after have a conversation with the girl's father, which led him to learn about her troubling condition.
Creating buzz for Charlie Sheen's return to the big screen, the trailer for "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III" was released on Saturday.
Written and directed by Roman Coppola, the film follows a graphic designer whose world falls apart when his girlfriend leaves him.
With four successful spoof movies under their belt, the Weinstein Company is pleased to tease fans with a new still from "Scary Movie 5."
The new image features Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen in bed together, which is frightening given that their offspring would likely devour the world in a matter of minutes.
After talks began to possibly work on the project, Lindsay Lohan has officially signed on to join the cast of "Scary Movie 5."
According to E! News, the 26-year-old actress will be joined by fellow partier Charlie Sheen for the Dimension Films installment.
Making his media rounds, Charlie Sheen paid a visit to "Jimmy Kimmel Live" in Los Angeles last night (July 19).
The "Major League" stud showed some love to his fans before heading inside to discuss his crazy life with host Kimmel, including his new show "Anger Management" and new movie "Machete Kills."
He's thrilled about his new show "Anger Management," and last night (July 16) Charlie Sheen visited "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" for a promotional appearance.


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Daniel Hai and my visuals at the Guy Manoukian concert in Beiteddine on August 9th, 2009 moved the audience, and the press. Article here. The concert went great, over 4000 attendees (full house), very high energy in the audience and great feedback! Pictures soon.
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Let's cut to the chase in the Massachusetts/Microsoft brouhaha over office document formats. One possible outcome: Microsoft Office gains support for the OASIS OpenDocument format, either from Microsoft or from the open source community. Another outcome: Microsoft tweaks its Office XML licensing to conform to the definition of openness that governments are rightly insisting on.
I predict that one or the other of these outcomes will come to pass. Ideally they both will.
When the format debate is over, some critical issues will emerge from the fog. From my perspective, for example, both Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org Writer are archaic solutions to the real needs being articulated by the likes of Massachusetts and the European Union. Both are conventional applications that, whether free or not, impose a heavy download, installation, and support burden on the people who use them.
If effective communication within and among governments and citizenries required these big guns then we'd have to find ways to accommodate them. But it just isn't so. A mere fraction of the power of these multihundred-megabyte behemoths suffices for basic communication; the rest is overhead. Software delivered as a service through the Web -- simple, lightweight, and universally available -- is clearly the better way forward.
The format debate also presumes an archaic mode of information exchange: e-mail attachments. We work this way because it's a habit our Web technologies don't yet enable us to break. There's no doubt in my mind, however, that online forms will continue to transform our means of gathering information, that hypertextual XML will make page-oriented technologies such as PDF obsolete as a means of publishing it, and that blogs, wikis, and their successors will become our primary means of collaborating around shared information.
In theory, governments should mandate standards, not implementations. But in practice they mandate implementations all the time. Recently, for example, I renewed my passport. The procedure was less painful than a decade ago. While I grumbled at having to convert my digital data and images to paper and snail-mail them, at least I was able to use Acrobat to fill in and print the form.
Of course, if I wasn't an Acrobat user, I would have to become one. Then there's the sheer overkill of this solution. Gathering basic facts from citizens is a problem better solved by the simpler and more universal technology of Web forms.
Enforcing rules about the structure and validity of that information is something we do today in the back-end systems that receive and process form data. Increasingly we'll also be able to delegate to Web-based clients with next-generation e-forms capabilities. When we need to print those forms, we can run XML-to-PDF conversions, either server-side or client-side. But shouldn't government commissions focus more on what office documents are becoming than what they once were?
Once we have an open document format -- and given XML's protean transformability I don't much care which one -- perhaps we can move on to the real challenge. I expect that Web-based software can meet all of the key requirements that are driving this debate, and should do so in ways that are native and ubiquitous. Governments advocating on our behalf should expect no less.


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Where: Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Level 5, Wentworth Building, corner City Road and Butlin Avenue, University of Sydney
When: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-4pm, until February 12
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The exhibition title Radiography is the illegitimate offspring of the words "radio" and "geography". The linguistic mutation is well suited for a show that taps into the significance of space in the transmission of sound.
Radiography is part of Sculpture 2005, an annual festival of three-dimensional work.
It features three Sydney artists who tune into sound in their work.
The geography navigated by Simon Cavanough's installation The Demise of Failure is the landscape of the outdoor gallery space at the University of Sydney Union.
The artist has constructed a 24-metre scaffolding ramp that winds up to the roof of the Sculpture Terrace like a child's roller-coaster track. Beside the ramp is a pole with a megaphone hoisted on top. Thirty seats are neatly arranged facing the display. Everything about the installation tweaks the viewer's expectation of a spectacular event.
But the longer you wait for an announcement, the more your anticipation decays into scepticism. It turns out that, rather than being a flashy demonstration of technical prowess, Cavanough's sculpture is a celebration of redundancy and failure. The ramp leads nowhere and the speaker doesn't work, providing a viewing experience that is like the art-world equivalent of being "punk'd".
Also sculpting from speaker systems and scaffolding is Mark Brown. His Standard Blockage consists of two metal tubes clamped together to form a large X-shaped sculpture. Each end of the piping emits bursts of pulsating sound and glitchy audio crackle. Blanketed in soundwaves, the viewer no longer examines the sculpture from afar but is positioned within its landscape.
Alternatively, Allan Giddy's Postcard from Broken Hill consists of a large video projection of a dusty country landscape. Giddy has shot this dizzying footage from a speeding car, creating a blurred vision of the landscape.
It is accompanied by the revved-up sound of the hooning car as it maps out "doughnuts" in the dirt.
Giddy's installation is even fitted out with a stand of souvenir postcards featuring stills from the video.
The artist's second installation, You, comes charged with an unlikely sonic clash: a 1950s ballad and the crackling of truckie radio talk. A fragment of the swooning song has been slowed down and looped, providing the soundtrack for a video projection of an outback road steaming in the sun. A murder of crows gather on the tar, lunching on road kill.
Facing off with this mesmerising image is a satellite dish suspended from the ceiling.
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President Obama's Fiscal Year 2010Budget Request includes critical investments in a number of important health care programs. This Fact Sheet provides a summary of those proposed investments. Congress will take these recommendations under consideration, along with its own priorities, as it works to complete the Fiscal Year 2010 appropriations process in keeping with the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Resolution (S. Con. Res. 13).
President Obama's Budget Request responds to Americans' urgent need for health reform, establishing a deficit-neutral reserve fund of $635 billion, a down payment on reform legislation to reign in skyrocketing health care costs that American families now face and align incentives to give health care providers every tool necessary to provide quality health care to every patient. The Budget Request and the substantial investments in providing quality, affordable health care to all Americans made in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act(Recovery Act) (P.L. 111-5) demonstrate President Obama's and Congress' commitment to health reform.
Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans
Children's Health Insurance Program. The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provides health insurance to millions of children in families that earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to afford private insurance coverage. Earlier this year, Congress passed and the President signed the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (P.L. 111-3), which provides an additional $44 million over five years, allowing as many as four million uninsured children to enroll in this successful program. This is an important step to ensuring that the nearly nine million uninsured children in our country gain access to health insurance coverage. The previous President vetoed two bipartisan reauthorizations of CHIP, so President Obama's support and prioritization of CHIP, by signing CHIPRA and including full funding for the program in his Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Request, is a welcome change.
Medicaid. In Fiscal Year 2010, approximately 53 million Americans will rely on Medicaid for their health care needs. Medicaid is funded jointly by the federal and state governments. In the Recovery Act, Congress provided a temporary increase in federal funding for Medicaid, helping states respond to increased unemployment rates and more individuals qualifying for Medicaid. The Budget Request includes $1.5 billion in savings to Medicaid in Fiscal Year 2010 through legislative proposals that increase the rebates the Medicaid program receives from pharmaceutical manufacturers and increases efficiency and accountability within the program.
Medicare. Approximately 47 million Americans depend on Medicare for their health care. In stark contrast to budget proposals offered by the previous Administration, the President's Budget Request offers legislative and administrative proposals designed to align incentives toward quality health care, promote efficiency and accountability, and encourage shared responsibility. The Medicare legislative proposals, including incentive payments for the quality of care provided, policies to reduce hospital readmissions, bundled payments to support better coordination of patient care, and many others, contribute $520 million in Fiscal Year 2010 and $287.5 billion over 10 years toward health care reform.
Significantly, in keeping with recommendations made by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent panel that advises Congress regarding Medicare payment policies, the President proposes to eliminate billions of dollars in overpayments to private insurance companies that treat some Medicare beneficiaries through the private Medicare Advantage program. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that eliminating these overpayments would save taxpayers $157 billion over ten years. The budget proposes a competitive bidding system which will allow the market, not Medicare, to set appropriate Medicare Advantage payment rates.
The Budget Request also includes a proposal to increase payment accuracy and accountability, and provides a $125 million increase for Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC), for a total Fiscal Year 2010 investment of $1.5 billion. Included in HCFAC program is the Medicare Integrity Program (MIP), which, according to the Budget Request, returns $13 to the Medicare Trust Fund for every $1 spent.
Health Professions Workforce. The Budget Request includes $1 billion for health professions programs designed to increase the number of providers practicing in underserved areas. Included in this total is $169 million for the National Health Service Corps (a $34 million increase over the Fiscal Year 2009 level) and $263 million to address the nursing workforce shortage (an increase of $92 million) for the Nurse Loan Repayment and Scholarship Program and the Nursing Workforce Development programs
Community Health Centers. Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), including community health centers, migrant health centers, and health care centers for the homeless, provide primary health care and social services for Americans who do not have other access to care. In 2007, more than 16 million people received care through these health centers, 91 percent of whom have incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. In addition to the $2 billion investment in health centers made as part of the Recovery Act, the budget requests $2.2 billion to maintain health centers in Fiscal Year 2010.
Rural Health Care. The Budget Request includes $125 million to improve access to health care in rural areas, including $55 million for Rural Health Care Services, Outreach, Network, and Quality Improvement grants, $9 million for state offices of rural health, and $8 million for telehealth grants.
Indian Health Service. The Indian Health Service (IHS) and tribal partners provide primary care and behavioral and community health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives. The Budget Request includes $4.6 billion for the IHS, an increase of $454 million over the Fiscal Year 2009 level, and the largest proposed increase for the agency in 20 years. This request builds on the $85 million investment in IHS included in the Recovery Act.
Ensuring Safety and Advancing Public Health
Food and Drug Administration. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) protects the public health by regulating our nation's drugs, biological products, medical devices, food supply and cosmetics. The Budget Request includes $3.2 billion for the FDA, a net program level increase of $511 million over the Fiscal Year 2009 funding level. This includes $1 billion for food safety, a $259 million increase over Fiscal Year 2009, to give the FDA more of the resources it needs to address the food safety challenges facing the nation.
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness. As the country and the world respond to the H.R.1N1 influenza A virus, the Budget Request includes $584 million for pandemic influenza preparedness activities at the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), within the Office of the Secretary, and through the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (PHSSEF). This includes a $276 million one-time investment in advanced development activities to build vaccine production capacity and support next generation antivirals, among other activities. Finally, the President has requested $1.5 billion for pandemic flu preparedness funding in the Fiscal Year 2009 Supplemental Appropriations bill, which was approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 14, 2009.
Autism Spectrum Disorders. The Budget Request includes $211 million at NIH, CDC, and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for research, treatment, screenings, surveillance, public health, and support services for children and families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Chronic Disease Prevention. Chronic diseases are among the most prevalent, costly and preventable health problems, and investing in their prevention is a key component of health reform. The Budget Request includes $1 billion for Health Promotion, a $19 million increase above the Fiscal Year 2009 level. This includes $896 million for Chronic Disease Prevention, Health Promotion, and Genomics activities, and $142 million for Birth Defects, Developmental Disabilities, Disability and Health.
Mental Health and Substance Related Disorders. The Budget requests $3.5 billion for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a $59 million increase above the Fiscal Year 2009 level. SAMHSA supports recovery for people dealing with or at risk of a substance related disorder or mental illness, and supports state and local efforts to improve the availability of quality prevention and treatment services.
Investing in Scientific Research
National Institutes of Health. The Budget Request includes $31 billion for the NIH, an increase of $443 million over the Fiscal Year 2009 funding level, and builds on the $10.4 billion investment in the NIH Congress and the President made in the Recovery Act. This includes more than $6 billion to support cancer research, a first step in an initiative to double NIH cancer research funding over eight years.


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Fans of teams in the Gulf Coast League and Arizona League will see something new in extra-inning games this season. A rule that has been used in international baseball and has found its way into the 2017 World Baseball Classic, will have teams start the inning with a runner on second base to start any inning from the tenth inning on.
Joe Torre, the Chief Baseball Officer for MLB told Yahoo! Sports' Jeff Passan; "Let's see what it looks like. It's not fun to watch when you go through your whole pitching staff and wind up bringing in a utility infielder in to pitch. As much as it's nice to talk about being at an 18-inning game, it takes time."
For his part, commissioner Rob Manfred emphasized that MLB is being proactive and is "focused on points of delay in the game, where there's no action."
For games in the GCL and AZL this summer, the team at the plate will be able to place a runner on second base to start the inning. The new rule will make managers decide whether to bunt the runner over and from a practical point, figures to reduce fatigue over the length of a season. It may also allow teams from having to go through a bullpen in one game and having to overuse relievers.
Statistics show that a team with a runner on second and nobody out, has a 35% chance of scoring at least one run in the inning. Of course, if the visiting team scores in the top of an inning, the home team still gets an opportunity to re-tie the game or win in the bottom of the inning.
The specifics of the new rule haven't been completely hammered out yet, and there is time, since the AZL and GCL seasons don't begin until after the draft in June. It is believed that the minor league rule change will deviate somewhat from the international rule. In the minors, teams will start every extra inning with a runner on second, while in international baseball, the rule change doesn't go into affect until the 11th inning. At that point, teams start with runners on first and second and nobody out. The manager gets to pick two consecutive hitters from anywhere in the lineup to put on base to start the 11th inning, and the next hitter in the order then is the first hitter of the inning. In successive innings, the last two players to make outs in the previous inning start on first and second, with the first hitter being the next player in the order.
Just as MLB is doing, the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) tested the rule in the lower levels at the World Junior AAA Baseball Championships prior to instituting the rule in the upper levels.
Even if the rule is a success, it's likely that baseball won't include the rule in its major league rule book for years. Generally, plans as wide-sweeping as this are brought up through the minors so that when younger players finally reach the majors, they're accustomed to the rule changes and are more easily accepted at the major league level. For instance, the pitch clock is entering its third season in both Double-A and Triple-A baseball, but has yet to be instituted in the majors.
Technically, MLB doesn't need the blessing of the player's union to institute rule changes such as these, but they would be smart to work with the union to put something in that satisfies the wants of the commissioner's office and of the players. Some sort of compromise or common ground approach that works for both of them, and more importantly, for the fans.
Some thoughts on the idea...
As much as I love baseball, it does have to have a reasonable end to the game. Having seen Brock Stassi, a first baseman, pitch in the minors when the bullpen was emptied has actually been quite fun, but in reality, it's not a great idea, even if Stassi did strike out Mark Teixeira and has pitched pretty well in his limited opportunities.
Perhaps there could be a compromise. Start the tenth inning as usual, with no "free runner" on base. After that, put a runner on second, but have it either have to be a basic pinch-runner type move or have the last player to have made the out in the previous inning have to start at second base. If you want to have some fun, make the guy who is supposed to leadoff the inning start at second base. That would bring some interesting potential moves into the game. For instance, two outs, nobody on in the top of the tenth and you're the home manager. The visiting team has their number-two hitter coming to the plate. Do you intentionally walk him and face the three hitter with a runner on first, because of what might be the situation the next inning? If you get the number-two hitter out, then you've got a guy who likely has good speed on second to start the 11th inning, with the third hitter in the order coming up.
Of course, starting the inning with runners on first and second puts the team in the field in a bit of a bind, but also gives them a way out with a possible double-play ball. The odds of scoring at least one run in an inning with runners on first and second are approximately 23%, lower than the percentage of starting the inning with a runner on second and nobody out.
Baseball is a game of strategy, so if you're going to incorporate new rules designed to make the game quicker, why not add some strategy at the same time?
Baseball is also a game of tradition. While the NFL and NHL have incorporated rules changes for their overtime situations, baseball is a more traditional, old-school sort of sport. Those of us who love the game don't worry too much about speeding it up, and if we do, we'd like to see things like limiting the trips that the catcher or infielders can make to the mound to purposely "buy time" for a reliever to warm up. After all, if the manager is so smart, he should have had the guy up earlier, right?
There are definite advantages to changing how baseball deals with extra-innings, and speeding up the game, and especially quickening the pace of play all have their place and I get that. After all, the majority of fans at a game aren't those of us who are die-hards. Many are the more casual fan, with families and kids that have shorter attention spans and Mom and Dad have already filled them with food and blown the mortgage money on stuff from the team store for them. All us big time fans ask is that we be smart about these things.


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Start of 2,000 Years of Peace with End of Mayan Calendar
Good afternoon,
12.12.12 Meditation Marks Start of 2,000 Years of Peace
with the End of the Mayan Calendar
Tamaki Yacht Club, Auckland
The 12th of the 12th 2012 offers the opportunity for a meditation event like no other. Shekina – Centre of Change is providing a unique experience for spiritual alignment and connection with the earth at this significant time, as the Mayan Calendar draws to a close.
In preparation for 2,000 years of peace after the last 2,000 years of turmoil; master geometrician, reiki master, holistic counsellor and sound healer, Beverly Edwards will lead a powerful meditation and reflection that will plug into the earth chakra Uluru and call on the ancient wisdom of Lemuria to ignite and enlighten those who gather for the experience at the Tamaki Yacht Club in Auckland.
The evening event is being held nine days before 21.12.12, which is the end-date of the 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. The end of the calendar marks the beginning of a new era – a rebirth into a peaceful age.
"It's a time when many people will undergo a positive spiritual transformation. The meditation on 12.12.12 will allow participants to tap into the amazing energy and vibrations building during this crucial time in our journey as human beings," says Bev Edwards, who heads up Shekina – Centre of Change. "Tamaki Yacht Club has been specifically chosen for its beautiful energy and perfect positioning to enable us to unlock this energy – it's going to be a very powerful gathering full of the promise of peace and love."
"The more grounded and present you are in your life, the more light you can carry in your cells and the more light you can bring to the planet to help it, and others, to heal," says Bev. "You'll feel more anchored and safe to be present in your life; it's perfect timing to ground and align yourself as we enter a new age."
The evening will begin with the mesmerising, deep sound of the soulful didgeridoo and crystal bowl together with Bev's ability to bring through sound and language from the Ancient Elders of the Inner Earth Council, which will enable those who gather at the event to experience deep healing, clarity and transformation.
Biljana Knaap, a DIVINE healer will be activating the template of "The Ka_Rai Symbol", the female energy resent a culmination of the spiritual practices of the past. She will also activate "Ra_Man", the template for the new HUMAN; as the Star of David was for the old 3D Human, Ra_Man is the template for the new HUMAN – ONEness manifested.
This will be followed by Bev's powerful meditation and reflection that will plug into the earth chakra Uluru and call on the ancient wisdom of Lemuria.
"We will tap into the sacred energy contained
within Uluru, the base chakra of the planet and into the
library of information stored in the crystalline core at the
time of Lemuria," says Bev. "Now is the time to bring
forth the gifts we have been given, both for ourselves and
for all humanity as we remember our divine
At the 12.12.12 event, you will:
1. Create Heaven on Earth from a
place of unity
2. Refresh, recharge and nourish your heart, mind and soul
3. Access deeper yet restful states of concentration and focus
4. Balance and connect to yourself and others as we come into the full meaning of oneness.
"Working with Bev has helped me to awaken to the opportunities waiting at my doorstep and discover my life purpose. I've opened the door; I have walked through it and today is a new day…I wonder what kind of fun I am going to have!" - Dee Petit, Sassy Red
Time: 7pm for a 7:30pm start (includes supper)
Venue: Tamaki Yacht Club, 30 Tamaki Drive, Mission Bay, Auckland
Cost: $75 (includes supper)
Register at http://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2012/dec/121212
More information at www.facebook.co.nz/ShekinaHealing
Beverly Edwards
Beverley Edwards, a modern day shaman, heads up Shekina – Centre of Change, which focuses on
running meditational workshops to help people release fear and stress, tap into their true potential
as human beings, and connect with the planet and those around them.
She utilises the healing powers of
sound, sacred geometry and reiki as well as 20 years
experience in
teaching and group facilitation around the world. Bev comes with a wealth of knowledge and deep commitment to the growth and wellbeing of others and helps people to find deeper clarity and connection.
www.facebook.com/shekinahealing www.healingandmeditation.co.nz
Biljana Knaap
Biljana Knaap is a New Zealand based DIVINE healer, teacher, channel, vibrational medicine practitioner,
TFT certified practitioner, reiki master,
teacher and facilitator with 25 years of experience in the
The co-director of Natures Science Ltd, she is the primary developer of 13 Systems of Natural Health
with 36 individual products. www.naturesscience.co.nz
The date 21.12.12 is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. It marks the conclusion of a b'ak'tun - a time period in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar which was used in Central America prior to the arrival of Europeans, and closely associated with the Maya civilisation.
A New Age interpretation is that this date marks the start of time in which Earth and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 2012 marks the beginning of a new era – a 'rebirth' into a peaceful age after the conflict and turmoil of the current age.
12.12.12 is a particularly significant date in the
lead up to 21.12.12 because it is nine days from the 21st
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Eleven: a mystery
Who is Sam and what do his strange dreams mean? Why is the number 11 so important? When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and with the help of a new friend at school, he sets out to answer these questions.
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Million dollar putt
Assisted by his neighbor, Birdie, blind thirteen-year-old Ed "Bogie" Bogard will win one million dollars if he can sink a ten-foot putt in Hawaii's fifth annual Angus Killick Memorial Tournament.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
A plane arrives almost unnoticed at the airport. The only passengers are 36 babies. Thirteen years later, Jonah and Chip discover they are both adopted and were on that plane from nowhere. Ultimately they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
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My one hundred adventures
Twelve-year-old Jane Fielding lives an idyllic life with her poet mother and three younger siblings on a Massachusetts beach. But she wants this summer to be different. So she prays for a hundred adventures and gets fourteen, each teaching her a little about herself.
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Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
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Lord, Cynthia
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
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The big field
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Miss Spitfire: reaching Helen Keller
At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to teach six-year-old Helen Keller who was left deaf and blind since age two.
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Every soul a star: a novel
The lives of three young people, Ally, Bree and Jack intersect and transform against the backdrop of a total solar eclipse.
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On the wings of heroes
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Billy Creekmore
In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with his aunt and uncle. He enjoys his first taste of family life until he works in a coal mine and finds trouble there. When he joins a traveling circus, he begins a quest to find his father, his past, and his own true self.
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Overweight and unpopular Stanley is sent to a nightmarish correctional camp in Texas where he makes his first true friend.
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Wednesday wars
On Wednesday afternoons, during the 1967 school year when all his classmates go to religious instruction, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom. Together they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much about the world he lives in.
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Mysterious Benedict Society
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission. They must go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
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Emma-Jean Lazarus fell out of a tree
Quirky and logical seventh-grader Emma-Jean gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers with positive results.
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While she heals from a crippling accident, twelve-year-old Charley finds a wild dog and begins the long process of training him. This leads her to explore her feelings about her mother's death two years earlier.
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A Crooked kind of perfect
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So totally Emily Ebers
In a series of letters to her absent father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving cross-country, her parents' divorce, a new friendship, and her first serious crush.
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Apple has been sending out letters to residents who live in and around the area of the companys Campus 2 in Cupertino. They are updating the residents on build progress including on-site construction, roadwork, and utilities with construction beginning in April. The progress report lets nearby residents know what to expect from the site in the upcoming weeks.
The company has stated that they are planning to start earthwork on the Campus 2 site along with ongoing utilities and roadwork construction in April. Dan Whisenhunt, Apples senior director of real estate and development, touches upon a website set up in partnering with the City of Cupertino that has current and upcoming events that will affect road traffic in the note.
The letter dated March 27, 2014 from Apple states:
Final approval was given to Apple on the Campus 2 plans in November of 2013, even though Steve Jobs revealed it in 2011. Dubbed the spaceship by some because of the large circular main structure, it will hold about 12,000 employees with other buildings for presentation and meeting space.Dear Neighbor:
I wanted to update you on construction activities for Apple Campus 2. We are now wrapping up demolition of the old buildings on site as well as public utility relocation and roadway construction along Tantau Avenue and Homestead Road. We ran into some unforeseen underground conditions the delayed the utility relocation process, however we expect this work to be completed in the next few weeks.
I also wanted to let you know that, as Homestead and Tantau are reopened, Pruneridge Avenue will then be closed. We currently anticipate the Pruneridge closure by mid April, but it may be as early as April 4th if the weather holds. Please continue to monitor construction signage in the area for the specific day Homestead and Tantau will re-open Pruneridge and will close.
We expect additional work on portions of Tantau and Homestead in April and will continue public utility work on Wolf eRoad through the spring and early summer of this year. Once the utility work in the public streets is complete we expect less construction disruption as the vast majority of work will be directly on the project site. We are planning to commence earthwork and construction activity on site in April and currently anticipate occupancy in late 2016.
The City of Cupertino has established the Apple Campus 2 Construction Update webpage at www.cupertino.org/appleconstruction. The webpage provides information on vehicular, bike and pedestrian routes lane closure, construction timelines for various activities and other information. The website is updated each Friday so you can visit the website to learn about upcoming construction work.
As always please feel free to contact us if you should have questions or concerns.
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